http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net Silicon Valley Media and Technology Commentary by Lynne Jolitz 2009-10-19T19:45:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/298 A toddler is snatched by TSA officials from a weeping helpless mom in the middle of a busy airport and wisked away. Nobody helps. Nobody cares. A horror for any parent. But is this story true? Is our civilization so depraved and cowed that government...... Lynne Jolitz 2009-10-19T19:45:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/297 Sun Microsystems is gone. It is no more. It has met its maker. It is pushing up the daisies. Given Sun's long sad decline and incredible mismanagement, many are probably happy to dismiss it as a has-been that never actually did anything - grave danci...... Lynne Jolitz 2009-07-17T18:41:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/296 It all started when one person asked a very simple question: Why can't we reduce packet drops throughout the network during congestion events (thus reducing the impact of RTT) with a more intelligent network that is able to refer back to caches of su...... Lynne Jolitz 2009-02-22T22:22:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/295 Berkeley Professor Emeritus and Nobelist Charles H. Townes spoke at a small lunchtime gathering today at the SETI Institute, and as a Berkeley physics alumna I just had to see him again. Some might have expected less given his advanced years, but I m...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-09-10T22:32:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/294 Judy Estrin and I have both been around in Silicon Valley. I was at Symmetric Computer Systems soldering the first five motherboards for the 375 while she was at Zilog with Bill Carrico (who was the product manager for the Z80). Paul Baran, a great i...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-09-08T00:17:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/293 The desperation for eyeballs on news websites has led to a lot of "People" styled columns, especially in the NY Times. But I just couldn't resist commenting on the "Who's Smarter: Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg?" column, if only because I know somethi...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-05-29T19:31:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/292 Sand Hill Road envies RAMBUS. Oh, they don't envy them their lawsuits, precarious business model or turbulent management structure. But they do envy them their ruthless monopoly of the high-speed DRAM market. RAMBUS successfully competed against the ...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-25T16:52:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/291 Jim Gray was lost at sea a year ago, but he is not forgotten. His family has joined with UC Berkeley, the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society to hold a day of technical sessions in his memory on Saturday, May 31, 2008 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley....... Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-22T20:09:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/290 Well, SCO got a big Valentine's treat last week - a $100M potential investment by the very politically-connected Stephen Norris Capital Partners (an equity firm) and their "partners from the Middle East" to lift the firm out of the morass of Chapter ...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-20T22:35:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/289 Stanley Fish of the NYTimes today explored the "hate Hillary" movement, something that he said he was reluctant to do "because of a fear that it would advance the agenda that is its target", in other words, embolden Hillary haters into sending him mo...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-04T20:55:00Z