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Matthew's post just below this one got me thinking this morning. I don't use a news/RSS aggregator. I have tried one out once, but didn't like it much, because I thought I was missing out on some things. So I read my news, tech and otherwise, the old-fashioned way. I visit sites individually. I know this sounds time-consuming, but I've
The Time article generally reads like an idiots guide to the Captcha, there was an interesting point in the last paragraph that caught my eye. The Internet archive as part of their book scanning project collects a register of words that the OCR process cannot recognise. It farms those out to sites that need captchas. The owners of those sites
Todd talked a bit in #379 about Toshiba potentially releasing a new high density DVD replacement option very soon after the much publicised dropping of HD-DVD. Most of the commentary has been negative about the move. I reserve my opinion though. Toshiba management may very well be dumber than a box of hammers, there are some compelling reasons why this
Seagate has announced that they will next month be releasing both a 2TB SATA drive and its first SSD. Solid state drives use RAM technologies to provide disk storage instead of the "round and brown" like a very large cache memory. The obvious result from this is that the disk is significantly faster, it is also significantly more expensive. It
It seems that in my line of work, there is always some sort of "reorganization" going on. One week we hear one rumor, the next another. Things are always in flux. Over the last eight years at my J.O.B., our department has been officially reorganized three times. We've gone from 30 staff members to 17, and our workload of active
I'm typing to you today on my Gateway M275 Convertible Tablet. It is four years old and cost my company around $2500 brand new. I came with a screaming fast processor, plenty of hard drive, a combo CDRW/DVD drive, and a 6-way card reader. I love this machine. It has a 14.1" monitor and weighs about 4 pounds. It's gone
Gizmodo is reporting on a new battery under development that while based on Lithium technology does not have the same (admittedly minor) risk of exploding that the current batteries have. At the moment it is a ways off from hitting the street, about 3 years, and doesn't hold the same level of charge as current batteries do. The alternative option