August 2008
3 posts
Bill C-61
Canada’s Bill C-61 is an even-worse version of the United States’ DMCA.
For more information, http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ is a reasonable starting point. I rolled up my sleeves and had a go at http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=3570473&file=4 which is relatively readable.
Here’s the letter I just posted (yes, on actual paper, in an envelope!) to...
Braid
Braid is very cool. I often enjoyed reading The Inner Product in GDMag, but always got the impression Jonathan was a little “ivory tower”. Turns out, I don’t know shit. Congrats to Mr Blow! (just grabbed the full 360 version: it’s fantastic).
floating point
Floating-point tends to chafe my ass. I was thinking perhaps I’d try to really understand it. These look interesting:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/goldberg91what.html
http://www.cant.ua.ac.be/ieeecc754.html
http://fluorescence.fjfi.cvut.cz/~adamek/nm/ieee754.pdf
Only way to understand something is to implement it though…
[Update]: even better by the looks of it:...