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Man, I love technology! Even if it’s decades before they can levitate anything bigger than a quarter, just the thought of things like this, or the “invisibility cloak” that the same people came up with the theory for a little while back, interests me to no end.
I love computer hardware. Especially the pace of improvement in it. I’m referring specifically to notebook hard drives. About a year ago, when I bought this laptop, the most capacious internal notebook hard drive available was a 120GB 5400RPM drive. I opted for the smaller but faster 100GB 7200RPM model. But last night, I was …
I tried. I really did. I gave it more than a week, but at the risk of turning Geek Drivel into the latest battleground in the editor holy wars, I found that I just can’t stand the venerable and much-venerated editor known as emacs. I’m sure that emacs aficionados will say that a week simply …
Oh, lovely. Microsoft falsely accuses twelve thousand people of piracy over the weekend, and considers it nothing but a “glitch.” If my company had a “glitch” like that, we’d likely be out of business come Monday. I hadn’t noticed the problem here, but that may have something to do with the fact that only two …
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Teenagers apparently think that e-mail is only for us old fogies.
JoelOnSoftware (an ex-Microsoft employee) posted an absolutely scathing commentary on Vista and Office 2007’s packaging yesterday, along with a devastating comment on Vista itself: I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply …
“Firefox can block ads, so we’re blocking anyone using Firefox from seeing our pages at all.” Priceless. Nevermind the fact that the User Agent Switcher extension means that Firefox can appear to be any other browser, easily bypassing this kind of block. I can understand why people would want to do this, but they’ll need …
The explanation has been posted: it was all Microsoft’s fault. 😉 This will not affect my use of Skype. It’s a great money-saving tool, but I always have a backup. [Correction, it wasn’t Microsoft’s fault, they just caused it. 😉 ]
Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. — Philip Greenspun Including Common Lisp. — Robert Morris I’ve been working on a top-secret, ultra-hush-hush project for my company for several years now — so secret that I can …
Those of you who know GoddessJ and myself personally, also know that GoddessJ has a hereditary eye problem. That’s why I’m so interested in vision technology stories, like this one. Of course, I’d be interested in this one regardless, because this kind of enhancement technology is also used in many science fiction stories, and even …
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