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Archive | January, 2007
Apple iPhone Does Not Support Java
Well this sucks, apparently Jobs doesn’t think much of Java: Java’s not worth building in [to the phone]. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain. That’s unfortunate to hear, especially with Java becoming such a ubiquitous language for a lot of software, some really good on the Mac. If he doesn’t think much [...]
Continue reading...Building a Network Attached Storage Device for (XBox 360) Media Streaming
15. January 2007
So my current personal project is to build a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. In the most vanilla sense, the purpose of a NAS is to be a little headless (no video card or monitor) network connected device that has a custom operating system on it usually and just holds a ton of hard drives [...]
Continue reading...Matt Groening Funds DeviantArt Artist to Develop Anime Comic Series
15. January 2007
This is pretty dang slick. Groening did a mockup of the Simpsons and Futurama crew using an anime style: and Bongo Comics has hired Goening to work on a series of comic books using the style. Also 20th Century Fox has contacted Groening for more work on the Futurama series as well, slick! Update #1: I [...]
Continue reading...1080i versus 1080p, Debate Rages On
14. January 2007
Engadget HD has an interesting piece linking to a fellow doing a writeup about the differences of 1080i and 1080p and why P is important. To recap, all of our HDTV sets are either 720p or 1080p, meaning that is the image they display. Any signal fed to them that isn’t in that format is left [...]
Continue reading...No HD Dual-Format Player Yet, LG Cannot Sell BH100
14. January 2007
So all the folks pumped to see the LG BH100 at CES this year are in for a big disappointment, but first some back-story: At CES, folks looking at the LG booth viewing the BH100 might have noticed right off the bat that the HD-DVD logo on the player is not the official HD-DVD logo. They [...]
Continue reading...Ford Airstream, Hydrogen/Electric Concept Car
14. January 2007
This is slick. Ford took the wraps off of its new Hydrogen/Electric hybrid concept car called the Airstream. Autogreen had the scoop. Check out Autogreen’s gallery for more shots.
Continue reading...Huge Monkey-Wrench Thrown into SED Display Technology Rollout
14. January 2007
Not again! For the folks out there in HDTV land that have been waiting for the venerable “SED” (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) set as the end-all-be-all flat panel technology (quality of a CRT, in the form factor of a glass panel) and have been just beaten down by the constant delays and adjustments of the release dates, [...]
Continue reading...North Korean Food Shortage Solved: Giant Rabbits
14. January 2007
Well for any rabbit-lovers out there, this story is going to suck. It seems that giant German rabbits are being bread by a award-winning large-rabbit breader Karl Szmolinsky to help feed the impoverished North Koreans. I have to admit, of all the ways to feed people in a country that needed the help… giant rabbits wasn’t [...]
Continue reading...Nintendo Wii, Longer Term Followup
13. January 2007
Ok so now I’ve had the Wii for a while and I know my previous reviews weren’t that off the charts. So I’m just adding some more thoughts aftering using it in a few more situations. We went bowling with some friends tonight and came back to the house after. I ended up showing them the [...]
Continue reading...Porn Popups from Spam Cause Guilty Verdict for Teacher
13. January 2007
Let’s assume for a second that the facts are correct as stated here since that’s all I have to go on. The gist of the idea is that a teacher has computers in her class room for her underaged kids to use. It turns out that spyware had installed porn popups on the machines. Part [...]
Continue reading...More Cute Pictures
12. January 2007
I was minding my own business and got an email with a bunch of cute pictures attached to it… so here are some of them (I removed the ones with the damn raccoons and monkies, because they aren’t cute, but stupid):
Continue reading...Wii: Godfather, the Bitchslap Edition
11. January 2007
Dang. Looks like they are reworking Godfather for the Wii, where the remotes will fully map to your hands so you can reload a revolver by flipping it to the side, backhand someone in the face by “slapping” your wiimote in the air, choking, punching, elbowing in the face, etc.
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15. January 2007
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