The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.This is must reading for 2007.
Publish a Comprehensive Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
Thought you might be FIRST to do this? Er, NOT. Peter Gutmann pens this probably true and palpably provocative prognostication:
Wonderfully wOrganize the wUltimate Worldwide Widgetbox
Widgetbox › The Ultimate Directory of web widgets for WordPress, TypePad, MySpace and other blogs and web pages.
Integrate feeds, flakes, social networks, stumbles, trails, and everything 2.0
Or, as Prez GW, says, "Adaptive Blue? Well, it ... it ... you know ... like ... it SENSIFIES the web for that it makes SENSE again, yo'." adaptiveblue - the web your way.
Free Online Comprehensive MULTI-Scan for Virus and Malware
Some old firsts are worth repeating; and VT was first or near first of its kind. Upload a file via the web to have it scanned by 30 of the most powerful and reliable AV scanners. VIRUSTOTAL.
STOP THE PRESSES! Stumble Upon Video
I've been a huge StumbleUpon fan for as long as I can recall, but this takes stumbling to a whole new level. If "video is the new literacy," as B.J. Fogg believes, then as just reported at Mashable!, you're officially too late to stumble into creating the best EthernetTV browseable library, to date. Bad news aside, you are no too late to check it out; in fact, this method of exploring the videosphere could very possibly become the TV of the next few decades.
Re-Universalize Universal Messaging for Web 2.0++, Social Networks, Blogs, Feeds, etc.
It's not just IM anymore; it's blogs, social networks, web 2.0 widgets, and more. The alpha universal remote is called Trillian Astra Alpha.
Sign up to be an alpha tester. 
Chart the course of post- Moore's Law chip design
Whoa. Just back from the most recent Palo Alto Colloquia over at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center.Dr. Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University, is an extraordinarily articulate man of humble demeanor, possessed of some of the most noble goals in this segment of industry. "We have two synergistic goals: We wish to understand how brains work; this will enable us to replace damaged neural tissue. And we want to build computers that work like brains; this will enable us to increase computational power a million fold."
Reliance upon abstraction as the primary means of managing circuit complexity is approaching the boundaries of its useful limits as, "Nanoelectronic technology promises to cram a trillion transistors onto a 1 cm2 chip." Nature provides instructive alternatives for managing such complexity.
A couple of pivotal conceptual breakthroughs that caught my attention:
- Don't morph neural circuits into silicon, morph the rules that build the circuits.
- Once a chip leaves the fab, no circuit changes are possible. Softwires make post-production self-configuring circuits possible.
At least, that's how I understood the talk.
Create a personal library-quality catalog
LibraryThing beta: "Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things."Now taking wagers as to how long before acquired by Google Books.
Make Inconvenient More Convenient
As the adage goes, "If wishes were horses, then dreamers would ride," and this entry would strictly adhere to our posting guidelines. Fortunately, the guidelines clearly state that we are free to arbitrarily modify or fecklessly ignore them to suit our fancy; hence, it is too late to be first to articulate this excellent strategy, but not too late to actually DO it! Tragically, this strikes me as one the many great ideas which fall into the category "makes way too much sense for the bureaucracies involved to ever implement." Still, in keeping with our supremely sardonic mission to dash the hopes of the perpetually undaunted it's well worth repeating.
Voice + Blog + Phone + Embed player widget thingie
If you've seen an earlier RELIABLE implementation of Snapvine.com, let me know so credit accrues where it's due.
Top the Largest Freefall Formation
More sky firsts. In February 2006, the World Team broke the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) Largest Freefall Formation record, with 400 skydivers linked together thousands of feet above Thailand. Fuggetaboutit. Survive direct contact with the vacuum of space
From Ebullism at 1 Million Feet: "Could an astronaut ever suffer direct contact with space, bleed out into the vacuum, and survive? In fact, one already has. Posting to sci.space, Gregory Bennett wrote:
'Incidentally, we have had one experience with a suit puncture on the Shuttle flights. On STS-37, during one of my flight experiments, the palm restraint in one of the astronaut’s gloves came loose and migrated until it punched a hole in the pressure bladder between his thumb and forefinger. It was not an explosive decompression, just a little 1/8 inch hole, but it was exciting down here in the swamp because it was the first injury we’ve ever had from a suit incident. Amazingly, the astronaut in question didn’t even know the puncture had occurred; he was so hopped on adrenaline it wasn’t until after he got back in that he even noticed there was a painful red mark on his hand. He figured his glove was chafing and didn’t worry about it…. What happened: when the metal bar punctured the glove, the skin of the astronaut’s hand partially sealed the opening. He bled into space, and at the same time his coagulating blood sealed the opening enough that the bar was retained inside the hole.' (41)"
'Incidentally, we have had one experience with a suit puncture on the Shuttle flights. On STS-37, during one of my flight experiments, the palm restraint in one of the astronaut’s gloves came loose and migrated until it punched a hole in the pressure bladder between his thumb and forefinger. It was not an explosive decompression, just a little 1/8 inch hole, but it was exciting down here in the swamp because it was the first injury we’ve ever had from a suit incident. Amazingly, the astronaut in question didn’t even know the puncture had occurred; he was so hopped on adrenaline it wasn’t until after he got back in that he even noticed there was a painful red mark on his hand. He figured his glove was chafing and didn’t worry about it…. What happened: when the metal bar punctured the glove, the skin of the astronaut’s hand partially sealed the opening. He bled into space, and at the same time his coagulating blood sealed the opening enough that the bar was retained inside the hole.' (41)"
Sky Jump Auckland
THERE'S NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT - A WORLD FIRST!
"Skyjump is a whole new way of falling off things. Jumpers wear a "flying suit" and full body harness. They are then clipped to the jump cable by professional Jumpmasters and simply "step off"! The cable drum rotates as the cable feeds out, causing air resistance against fan blades on the end of the drum. This means Jumpers are effectively riding on a cushion of air. Jumpers fall very quickly until near the ground then decelerate to a safe landing speed. Ground rush is awesome!"
Or, if Auckland is inconvenient and you desire an equivalent effect, just go out and start a new job ... or make that new hire which YOU know is right, even if the team is a little freaked out. It's always back to risk/reward, isn't it? Especially if you want to be first or Stay First, in anything. Onward!
"Skyjump is a whole new way of falling off things. Jumpers wear a "flying suit" and full body harness. They are then clipped to the jump cable by professional Jumpmasters and simply "step off"! The cable drum rotates as the cable feeds out, causing air resistance against fan blades on the end of the drum. This means Jumpers are effectively riding on a cushion of air. Jumpers fall very quickly until near the ground then decelerate to a safe landing speed. Ground rush is awesome!"
Or, if Auckland is inconvenient and you desire an equivalent effect, just go out and start a new job ... or make that new hire which YOU know is right, even if the team is a little freaked out. It's always back to risk/reward, isn't it? Especially if you want to be first or Stay First, in anything. Onward!
Unfungle Mungled Computers : : Pay Only if Happy
Debuggler is a documented case of damned brilliant branding. For those interested, the rationale for the name is instructive, as well.If followed by happy customers, and sustainable profits, that could be a first. Debuggling is surely one of the more challenging and emotionally hazardous jobs in the world, for it is not easy to leave customers with warm fuzzy feelings when solving one issue only reveals another; as is too often the case in this thankless trade. It's a bold idea to do this online with the pay only when happy policy.
Make Re-usable Printer Paper
New York Times: "[A] notable change in the role of paper in modern offices, it is increasingly used as a ... display [device], rather than storage. Documents are stored on central servers and personal computers and printed only as needed; for meetings, editing or reviewing information." Xerox Seeks Erasable Form of Paper for Copiers.
Mete out Wireless Digital Death by Subscription Pricing Bloat
Cingular Wireless is all over it. See the "Services" tab on the target page. A textbook case from the famous movies, "A Paradigm Too Far." If Cingular bought McDonald's, you'd soon see per-fry pricing. 
Create a Product or Company-Specific Tagspace
Say it isn't so! Microsoft with a first? Certainly, for diversified global companies supporting hundreds or thousands of products and services, an internal tagspace makes a ton of sense. Could this rougue band of Beta Microsloths have actually done this first? Check out Microsoft.com Tagspace and let me know if you've already seen this elsewhere. Ten Servers That Changed The World
Ah, this makes for a great Too Late entry. Call it the Too Late Hall of Fame, some of the greatest ideas we all wish we would have had in time to act upon them and gain a competitive edge. History certainly has a way of humbling world-changing breakthroughs, doesn't it? Most of these accomplishments are taken completely for granted today and yet their collective influence is nearly immeasurable.Ten Servers that Changed the World | The Remarketer.
Create an AI Travel Agent
Basically, that's what Rearden Commerce has done, here. The Rearden Personal Assistant is trained to meet not just your basic travel needs -- planes, cars, and hotels -- but to manage every aspect of business travel and entertainment (T&E) logistics from shipping, to off-site parking, town car service, sporting events, dining, and even web or audio conferencing. This is absolutely the closest thing to an AI Travel Agent, to date. Without so much as a second thought, the RPA keeps you 100% compliant with your company T&E policies and guidelines. No wonder AMEX jumped on the opportunity to roll it out first, under the AXIOM label. So, anyway, if you thought you could be first to roll out Travelocity+Expedia+Orbitz 2.0, sorry, but you're TOO LATE. World's First Underwater Post Office
While I'm fairly confident -- in the most incompetent sense of the word -- that millions of you were clamoring to implement this particular full immersion impracticality; once again, alas, thou art Too.Late. Provide tools to manage your online identity
Finally, the answer to Who Owns YOU, Online? may be YOU!
NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT! WELL DONE!
Sure, there will be refinements and improvements over time, but this is the absolutely essential first step!
Scaleable, Secure, Anonymous VoIP
at jangl - freedom rings.
From the site: "Jangl provides two-way privacy, which means we protect the privacy of both people in a relationship at all times, for both placing and receiving calls. And Jangl is different because we give you a unique 10-digit phone number for each relationship - so you place, receive and manage calls the same way you have done all your life. You can screen calls with caller ID since you know exactly who is calling, add the number to your mobile phone contacts, and use all of the features of your mobile phone like personal ringtones, returning calls from the received calls list, and more. And we make it easier and more reliable to end a relationship — you can completely turn off any single number and the relationship ends with it, without affecting any of your other relationships."
From the site: "Jangl provides two-way privacy, which means we protect the privacy of both people in a relationship at all times, for both placing and receiving calls. And Jangl is different because we give you a unique 10-digit phone number for each relationship - so you place, receive and manage calls the same way you have done all your life. You can screen calls with caller ID since you know exactly who is calling, add the number to your mobile phone contacts, and use all of the features of your mobile phone like personal ringtones, returning calls from the received calls list, and more. And we make it easier and more reliable to end a relationship — you can completely turn off any single number and the relationship ends with it, without affecting any of your other relationships."
Hack a Freehand Gesture UI
Oh, you SOOO wish you'd just bypassed all the complexity and hacked this nifty little demo! Too late!
Open up a Can of Whup-Ass on the Foxies
In this special Election 2006 entry for TOO.LATE, Salon clearly got the jump on hounding the bloated big-mouth morons on Fox news. All night long, the Foxies apparently tried play as if this were "just a standard election", but at every turn, slapped themselves silly. For your entertainment, some excerpts from a highly entertaining Salon article:
Sherrod Brown, was described by Hume, with evident distaste, as a "true-blue liberal" and an "out-and-out liberal." Some point was being made there, but since it seemed to contradict the running theme that only conservative Democrats were winning, it never became clear.
Barnes insisted that "there was no ideological component" to the GOP's ever-worsening defeat, and that the widely despised Iraq war was not an ideological issue. That sounds smart until you think about it. In plain English, I think that means: Absolutely everyone has finally grasped that the president is an idiot.
Republican campaign honcho Ken Mehlman, always a graceful bullshitter, "We're seeing a number of different races that are sending different signals," and, "It's going to be a long and interesting evening." Then he started to talk about bipartisan cooperation, which is something only the losers are interested in.
Moving along briskly to the so-called left of the spectrum, Malkin announced that Ned Lamont's defeat by Lieberman had "really opened up some fissures in the Democrat Party. There's a lot of cannibalism out there among liberals." Is that so, Michelle? I can't say I'm surprised; they are liberals after all. But tell me, who gets to eat Al Sharpton?
Below the speaker-presumptive were a few likely chairs of major committees: Charles Rangel, Alcee Hastings, John Conyers and Henry Waxman. These people were variously described as highly liberal (Rangel and Conyers), ethically challenged (Hastings) and overly aggressive (Waxman). No one on the show observed that the folks in the picture were a woman, three black guys and a Jew. (At least not out loud.)
By the next hour under Shep Smith, Fox had totally dropped the mode of lamentation and moved on to a new message: Let's end this partisan bickering and get stuff done! It's time for new ideas! Change! Competence! Like I said earlier, it's the message of those who just got a can of whup-ass opened all over them.
"This is sort of a standard election," Kondracke said crossly in summing up. "There's always something in the sixth year [of a president's tenure], whether it's Watergate or Vietnam or a recession." Yeah, Mort. There's always something. Here's the something this year: That big plan for a permanent Republican majority? It crawled out into the Iraqi desert, rolled onto its bristly back and died.
Amplify, Skew, and Distort a Harmless Hobby Into Heinous Felony
It's NOT too late for someone to hold this dipshit accountable for making such idiotic court rulings seem legitimate. In Is Your Neighbor Scamming on Your Wi-Fi? we find out that those tech-savvy leaders in Florida called war driving a third-degree FELONY. A FSCKING FELONY, PEOPLE! The author goes on to ask if there are other "victims" of wardriving. Please, if it hasn't already happened, somebody get this Samilijan clown on Slashdot and DIGG and bury this stupidity once and for all.
Hype Web 2.0 into Dotcom 2.0
Too late, you've long missed out on the most Mashable of the mayhem. Social Networking Ads: $2 Billion by 2010. Oooh, Orkut, yeah, that's SOOO hip and cool; pour in another several billion.
Friggin' NOT!
Besides, there's no room for another $2 Billion in online ads, didn't you pay attention when Google said the internet is all filled up and you'll have to start surfing the latest new technology -- newspapers!?
Friggin' NOT!
Besides, there's no room for another $2 Billion in online ads, didn't you pay attention when Google said the internet is all filled up and you'll have to start surfing the latest new technology -- newspapers!?
Fill The Entire Internet
Yep! You heard right! THE INTERWEB is officially all fulled up! Yepper, FULLY FULL FULL FULLED ALL THEY WAY UP, Y'ALL.
From now on, you'll have use newspapers, post-it notes, recycled toilet paper ... anything but interweb space, because the internet is all filled up. Must have been all that code bloat in beating Microsoft for desktop apps.
Please. Nobody actually believes this bilge, do they?
In other words, YOU are the value of sites like YOUtube, but A.) YOUtube is only the tip of the so-called social web iceberg, and B.) nobody has the first clue as to how to aggregate and position the amorphous, fragmented, collective YOU as an attractive brand for advertisers when YOU are a constantly shifting and undulating population of increasingly diverse and distributed human beings publishing stuff all over the place at rate that no average PhD monkey could have ever imagined.
RedOrbit - Technology - Google Tests Plan to Take Ad Overflow to Newspapers
From now on, you'll have use newspapers, post-it notes, recycled toilet paper ... anything but interweb space, because the internet is all filled up. Must have been all that code bloat in beating Microsoft for desktop apps.
Please. Nobody actually believes this bilge, do they?
Google, so successful that it doesn't have room on the Internet to accommodate all its advertising clients ... "This is money that our advertisers would spend with us if we had the online inventory for them to spend it on," said Tom Phillips, Google's director of print advertising.WTF?! If we had the inventory? How can there be a limit to the amount of advertising space on the internet? Answer: There can't be. My bet? What's happening is that the strongly-branded space (as are all the "good" domain names) is more or less spoken for and Google has no other idea how to capture the Power of the People as the final frontier for content creation and value.
In other words, YOU are the value of sites like YOUtube, but A.) YOUtube is only the tip of the so-called social web iceberg, and B.) nobody has the first clue as to how to aggregate and position the amorphous, fragmented, collective YOU as an attractive brand for advertisers when YOU are a constantly shifting and undulating population of increasingly diverse and distributed human beings publishing stuff all over the place at rate that no average PhD monkey could have ever imagined.
RedOrbit - Technology - Google Tests Plan to Take Ad Overflow to Newspapers
Stop Google from Taking over Desktop Publishing
Um, that would be yet another big, TOO.LATE, thanks to the one-stop shop at docs.google.com. And with sites like Buy.com offering incentives, Google Checkout may well bump off PayPal, as well. Not that PayPal has been doing anything to help its own cause.
Define an objective linguistic grammar that comprehensively & precisely describes the nature of subjective experience
WHAT!? An assignment for which it is NOT Too Late!?
Anathema!
So, get to it, SUBGENIUS! Finally, something you can get to work on and prove your innate individual superiority once and for all as you lead the rest of us bumbling morons From Molecule to Metaphor.
Anathema!
So, get to it, SUBGENIUS! Finally, something you can get to work on and prove your innate individual superiority once and for all as you lead the rest of us bumbling morons From Molecule to Metaphor.
Design a blogging feature for OneNote
Being first to THINK and first to DO are definitely two different things. While the former is clearly prerequisite to the latter, it's the latter that ultimately counts.Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog : Design a blogging feature for OneNote.
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