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Many of you will say what's betamax. For the uninformed pleas read below. "The Betamax ruling is the only thing that protects your right to own a VCR, tape recorder, CD-burner, DVD-burner, iPod, or TiVo. It's that important. But new legislation that's being pushed through the Senate by lobbyists for the music and movie industries would override the Betamax decision
Based upon the story I have just read I will predict the demise of these two companies within 2 years. It seems they have agreed to implement changes that would embed code in their machines that would limit the amount of time you can store a pay for view movie and limit how often that movie can be watched. All
NASA's Genesis probe that re-entered the atmosphere today had a major malfunction when the parachute did not deploy. The probe hit the ground at 190 Mph and scientist fear the entire experiment may have been lost. [ZDNet]
Every website owner wants their site to be read from top to bottom, we are no exception. Tonight I read a fascinating article about a survey that was done using volunteers and eye tracking software. [Eyetrack III]
I know a lot of you read this site with a RSS aggreator. Heck I read 90% of the sites I review the same way. But I do know that some of you are running aggreators that poll us every hour. I have the spare bandwidth but apparently MSDN did not and those that have not throttled their aggreators where
My wife and I have moved 3 times in 10 years and it seems my office is always the last room to get unpacked. I always throw a couple of computers on the network to get back online but the room stays a mess for a couple of weeks. She decided tonight it was time to empty the remaining 30
It seems like forever ago, and it seems like just yesterday. It's been a decade since the first Internet cafe opened for business in London's West End. Cafe Cyberia was designed to support the way women used computers, at the time. Started with $35,500 in seed capital, the store grew to include international locations. The stores are now owned by a South Korean entity and have been rebranded.
Thanks to Lockergnome for the link. I am going to relate a story to you that will have some of you smiling and some of you saying hey revoke his geek status. I have worked in the electronics field for 20 years and work within prescribed power constraints all the time. Thus you would have thought that when it came
Those of you that where reading the site in June know I was severely injured in an accident overseas. I have spent the last 3 months in a body brace that has immobilized my spine and caused me great discomfort during the summer here in Hawaii. On Sept 1st the brace came off part time and life has been much
Received a interesting e-mail today from someone at Microsoft. I will be calling in the morning to verify this is a real person in Redmond and not some scam. If it turns out to be the real deal I will be headed to Redmond to get a look at a product line. I am going to refrain from even saying
Verizon Communications has doubled the speed of consumer DSL service is a dozen east coast states. If the market reacts well, the remaining states will receive the same faster DSL alternative. The additional bandwidth is a reaction to Comcast's doubling the speed of its cable broadband service, earlier this year. The extra bandwidth will be a big hit with online gamers and professionals who work from home.
Glitzy graphics showcasing this year's latest technological developments, surveys and questionnaires supported by product literature designed to help prospects select the models that best fit their needs or technical support FAQs and repair diagrams that facilitate self-repair and minimize the number of request for telephone and onsite technical service: which of these services is the focus of the company's website? Maybe, all three?
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