October 2009
94 posts
Chicago wouldn't be a Beijing-style Olympic host:... →
Would somebody please explain to me how in the hell can ANYONE justify spending up to $100 million dollars just for the privilege of spending close to $4 billion (yes, with a “b”) to run the Olympics from Chicago?
Are things so peachy in Chicago that they can afford to spend $100 million just to compete? And where the hell are these $4 billion coming from? Why not just say fuck the...
September 2009
56 posts
Slashdot Technology Story | Mozilla Slams Chrome... →
They are just pissed off because Mozilla didn’t think about it first.
Slashdot News Story | Mainstream Press "Cringes"... →
Dumb asses are playing right into Microsoft’s hand. There is no such thing as bad publicity. Microsoft is brilliantly getting everyone talking about Windows 7. Yes, the commercial sucks horribly, and people won’t stop sharing it to EVERYONE. Give it another week and I dare you to show me one person that uses a computer and hasn’t heard about Windows 7.
Crispy Gamer | The 60-Buck Dilemma →
The article misses a very important part of the pricing: the platform license.
You can’t sell a game for ANY platform without permission from either Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo. If you decide to open a game company tomorrow, when your game is ready you can’t simply press DVDs and send them to Best Buy. Instead you need to make a deal with each platform owner so you can produce the...
What Network Neutrality Is REALLY About →
Fantastic op ed on the current barrage of FUD campaigns against network neutrality.
Why won’t the US Attorney for CO prosecute Stolen... →
This is simply revolting. This piece of shit blatantly presents himself as a combat decorated and wounded US Marine, and then goes on to harm the efforts to support our veterans, and he is not even going to be prosecuted? Isn’t Colorado a military state?
You couldn’t pull this kind of bullshit in Virginia, that’s for sure. The Attorney General here (Bill Mims as of February...
Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon →
Can’t they better spend that energy in making Firefox not suck so hard on Windows and OSX? Firefox is a RAM whore! Why not fix that first and then worry about making the menus pretty?
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Amazon... →
Bullshit.
Amazon caught a lot of heat for the way in which they handled the Orwell fiasco. Not only did they refund the money and lost a lot of goodwill, but even after offering us bribe money (thanks for the $30, you guys rock!) people are still bitching about their rights and whatever other cumbaya bullshit.
Now people are bitching because the self publishing process for the Kindle is harder....
Tooth helps restore desperate woman's sight →
This is one of the weirdest procedures I have ever ran into, but it does make sense. They took her tooth and part of her jaw, machined it and added a lens, then implanted this into her chest to allow them to bond. The finished unit was then implanted into her eye.
The Leica M9, one for the marketing textbooks →
This is just awesome. You can buy a full-sized sensor camera, with brand new technology, for less than $3000.
Or you can buy the Leica M9, with a 10-15 year old sensor design, on a mechanical design that hasn’t changed much in decades, for $7000.
There is no doubt whatsoever about the value of the rangefinder platform, or the use of a fully manual digital camera. But is it really worth...
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“Researchers have developed a device that can automatically identify autistic...”
– Technology Review: A Device to Spot Autism Early
“What could Barack Obama do to help Massachusetts? He owns a 14-room, 6500 square...”
– Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » President Obama: Please take your Aunt Zeituni off our hands
Fantastic essay by Phil Greenspun. He even offers to pick her up at her public housing, drive her to the airport, buy her a ticket and arrange for a friend to pick her up at the airport.
WatchU.S. Condemned For Pre-Emptive Use Of Hillary Clinton Against Pakistan
Oh, the horror.
What does one trillion dollars look like?
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Pretty cool visual aide to help us grasp how big a figure a trillion dollars actually is.
bold what's true.
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I‘ve never watched Titanic. I’ve never read Pride and Prejudice. I’ve never been drunk. I’ve never played Laser Tag.(and I got PAID, courtesy of the US Army) I’ve never skipped in a public place. I’ve never sung at an inappropriate moment. I’ve never cried...
3D-Sound mit simplen Kopfhörern bei →
This is an extraordinary demonstration of how realistic 3D sound can be even with a pair of simple headphones. It is just a matter of smart sound mixing. I was blown away, towards the end I kept turning my head thinking there was something standing behind me.
What format did you start listening to music on?
I wanted to say 8-track, but it was my cousin’s The Jazz Singer original soundtrack so it doesn’t count. The first I owned was a K-Tel record, first (1983) in a series of top-10 hit records marketed in Latin countries, “Llena tu cabeza de rock” (fill your head with rock).
A-side:
1 MEN AT WORK • Down Under
2 BILLY JOEL • Allentown
3 TOTO • Rosanna
4 JOURNEY •...
Where do you get your favorite sandwich?
My favorite is Cafe X-Press (http://www.cafe-xpress.com) in Bethesda, MD.
All of their sandwiches are incredible, they are very affordable and the staff is very fast. Even when it is very crowded you can expect to be in and out of there in just a few minutes.
My favorite is the Manhattan, Hot pastrami & corned beef topped with cole slaw, melted Swiss cheese and Russian dressing on a...
Sure, pick it up at the counter!
I am done wasting money on Apple keyboards. They are shit. They have been shit for years, and the current generation is no different.
The only good thing I can say about the current generation of Apple keyboards is that the chassis is indestructible. That’s about it.
Today my second Apple bluetooth keyboard died on me. Once again it was just out of the return window, so my only recourse...
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Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users →
We now have:
Mozilla products checking for weak versions of Flash, to “protect” users.
Chrome isolates processes by tab and by plugin, which usually means Flash.
Ask any Firefox power user (a power user is defined as anyone that knows what Firefox is and knows what add ons are for) for his most popular add ons and the answer is probably going to be “AdBlock Plus and Flash...
Amazon Offers To Return Pulled Orwell Ebooks →
I am one of the people affected by the deletion of the Orwell books. That said, the first thing they did was to refund the cost of the book, followed by a few apologies.
Now they offered me either:
A fresh copy of the book (properly licensed this time I hope) at no cost. Or
A $30 Amazon gift certificate. Or
A $30 paper check.
I gladly accepted the $30 Amazon gift certificate.
Now, one...
