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Troubleshooting the monitor problems I had today got me into a kind of “digital nostalgia” frame of mind. Specifically I’m thinking about the differences between today’s computers and the machine’s I started out on.
Just touching [...]
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Ever since the “format wars” between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray ended a while back with Blu-Ray coming out on top, lots of people have been pretty much assuming that it’s now safe to go ahead and start buying Blu-Ray equipment and titles without having to worry about some other format coming along [...]
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It’s amazing sometimes how far things have come in technology. I remember a time back in the early 1970’s when the first digital calculators came out. Texas Instruments built most of them, HP followed soon after and then there were more. Progress was slow at first, a simple [...]
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Here’s a question that I’m sure is going to get under the skins of some… Why bother with Anything made by Apple?
Once upon a time there was a young genius by the name of Steve Wozniak who built the first Apple Computers in his garage. He had a partner by [...]
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Here’s something that looks like it fell right out of a James Bond movie. It’s a “Secret Agent Pen Camcorder”. That’s right. A pen that contains a video and an audio pickup. It records Mpeg4 video and sound in an .avi container on 1GB of flash memory [...]
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There was a time that I couldn’t imagine living in a rural area. Life outside the “big city” was unimaginable. I figured that since the city had everything it only made sense to stick close. Moving to a rural setting would mean a loss of access to a lot [...]
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It’s interesting or even a bit ironic that this BBC News article shows up when it does, in time for the Iron man movie. With the advances being made in robotics these days and the fact that they’re showing up everywhere from robotic vacuum cleaners to steam cleaner and lawnmowers.
Sooner [...]
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I just read one of those kinda annoying “surveys”. This one showed up on Network World. According to something called “an Accenture survey”, 12% of the people who responded to the survey in the US and UK have connected through an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot.
Without going into a whole round [...]
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Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, Sears, Kmart, and Wal-Mart have all been hit with fines totaling $6.6Million dollars for failing to put notices near analog-only sets warning customers that the sets have analog only tuners and will require converter boxes to receive broadcast signals after February 19, 2009.
I realize that retailers [...]
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That’s right. This time the rebellion wasn’t insurgents with Iranian supplied weapons & training. Instead, it was a robot. Essentially a high tech bomb disposal / robot that’s been fitted with a 5.56mm M249 machine gun.
The Register quoted Kevin Fahey, US Army program executive officer for ground forces [...]
