Unless you’ve developed Macromedia Director titles, you may not know that their runtime license requires content developers to give Macromedia two copies of every Director-based title. (Similarly, Apple’s license requires two copies of every title that uses QuickTime.)
Internet Archive is an amazing site that’s the home of the Wayback Machine — an archive of the [...]

David Pogue wrote a good “Where’s HDTV?” interview with Gary Merson (senior video editor for The Perfect Vision magazine, and author and publisher of the HDTV Insider newsletter) for the New York Times.
The three major networks are broadcasting the vast majority of their prime time shows in HDTV. This week, for example, CBS will broadcast [...]

The much-reviled “Palladium” — a reference to items, generally passed from one person to another as gifts, that are believed to protect the the lives of those who carry them — is now the generic-sounding and much-reviled “next-generation secure computing base”.
Since Microsoft is apparently going the security-through-obscurity route even with the name, I hereby give [...]