Besides the humorous and enlightening marketing lesson, this article points out a mental quirk of our species: the reward you get from something isn’t as important to your happiness as the amount of effort you had to put into getting it. I have perfectly sound and logical business reasons for always tackling the hardest programming …
I’m not really sure what these guys are trying to accomplish. Those of us who want wireless network security already use it. Those who don’t use it generally either don’t care or truly don’t want it. There are a pair of high-rise apartment buildings across the street from one of the stores that my wife …
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Nothing I can really add to this. Everything from Scooby Doo to hard science fiction has played with the idea of a way to talk with animals… though I’ve always wondered just what they’d have to say that would be so interesting.
I recently stumbled across a very funny parody site called The Content Farm. Extra funny if you’ve run across real content farms (they constantly steal Geek Drivel entries, so I see more than my fair share), but good even without that. (An as-yet-unidentified content farm, stealing and mangling one of Geek Drivel’s articles, has apparently …
I thought that the graphics in the Final Fantasy movie, ten years ago, were pretty realistic, and you could tell by the skin tone of some of the characters that it wasn’t real. But take a look at the video on this page… that’s damn realistic! I don’t know if the gameplay has the same …
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As a rule, I don’t put profanity in code comments. It’s unprofessional, if occasionally tempting in the extreme — especially after spending eight hours trying to work around an API or operating system bug to get your widget working on that last 5% of machines, only to find that it still fails. Apparently a lot …
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Trash in low orbit is a real and growing problem. Japan’s idea is one of several solutions being explored; I’ve also heard (didn’t save the link, sorry) that the US is planning to try a ground-based laser. (When will our race learn to pick up after themselves? 😉 )
Wow, newspapers are really getting desperate. I just got another call from a newspaper telemarketer (yes, yet again). When I said that I still wasn’t interested in a newspaper, he asked where I got my news, so I told him from the Internet. So far, no different than every other time these guys have called. …
Hey, we were raised on video games. And we never stopped playin’ ’em. 🙂 (And happy World IPv6 Day!)
If you’re a science fiction fan, this will give you quite a chuckle, I guarantee it. 🙂