Archive for December, 2005
The song, to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” goes like this: My bones proclaim a story of incompetent design Another interesting Wired Magazine article. Update 8: Sleepy-Eyed Dunkin’ Donuts Actor Vale Dies - Forbes.com Michael Vale, the actor best known for portraying sleepy-eyed Fred the Baker in Dunkin’ Donuts commercials, has died at age 83. Wired Magazine’s interesting article on “The 50 Best Robots Ever”. Best codec for Screen capture content (benchmark) - MySchizoBuddy Training videos of applications have become the norm. Instead of learning through book, we now learn by watching videos of how to do a particular task. Which is more intuitive and effective, we learn best by watching. However, to follow that path is riddled with codec hell that play only in particular players and technicality. It is a mess. Here I will try to clear some of the problems. What to use? Where will it play and in What player will it play? What to use for which delivery method etc. Obviously I will also provide a benchmark for it, Some people love numbers.
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A trundling, talking, sexually confused robot that will look after your housePosted by: Mr. O in UncategorizedBest quote from the article : It may be the quirks that makes Wakamaru so fascinating. “One day I found him watching TV, which we never anticipated. Then sometimes he would start dancing. You never get bored because you never knew what he would do next,” says Mr Ishihara. Welcome to MusicBrainz! - MusicBrainz.org: MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your MP3 collections. I have been playing with iEatBrainz which works pretty well. MusicBrainz.org has links to software for Mac, Win, & Linux. zelda twilight princess gameplay - Google Video Video of new Zelda game. Soon you’ll be lucky if your electronic device plays music or movies. A Wired news article, ‘Shop ‘Til They Lock’, talks about how “many consumer electronics firms are hobbling their own devices to protect themselves from (RIAA) potential lawsuits.” There are still a few fighting the trend, one being Neuros Technology. However, the article continues, “Last Friday, the House Judiciary committee introduced a bill (www.publicknowledge.org) that would require all digital devices that can output to or record from the analog hole to adhere to two specific DRM signals.” Thus legislating away the rest of our fair use rights not already lost via DCMA (The Digital Millennium Copyright Act). See what the DCMA is doing to Patricia Santangelo, a single mom with five kids, Mom Fights RIAA Suit Solo. What will you do with your extra second? Leap Second-Time Service Dept., U.S. Naval Observatory Sent to me by a car buff. Trying to persuade him to post his car knowledge here and continue to diversify our contributor group.
Computers come in many different flavours, but apparently that ain’t enough for everybody. Case modding - the modification of a computer chassis - has become a big hobby for thousands of enthusiasts around the world. Who is snooping on my email? For all the paranoid geeks out there like me. |
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