What the heck is this?? PC World has an article titled, “5 Ways to Flirt Online“! Computers are no longer just personal, they’re intimate.
Category: Tech
Why Yahoo! Is Better Than Google
Ten years ago, Microsoft ruled the roost. But now, thanks to the return of Steve Jobs, Apple is a powerhouse in consumer electronics, and online it’s big, bad Google that’s calling the shots. So Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo! Does Microsoft need Yahoo more than Yahoo needs Microsoft? Yahoo thinks so, because they’re holding out for more money.
But let’s keep Google in perspective. Its search engine isn’t perfect. For example, here are the results from a search I did a few minutes ago. Click to enlarge the picture, and look at the fourth hit.
Google doesn’t put the popular Pratt Hobbies Rocket Catalog on the first page, but there’s a link to wedding pictures that you can’t look at, because they’re password protected? What’s up with that?
Now here is the same search, but done on Yahoo! Look at the first site listed.
There. Much better, don’t you think? Top of the world, Ma!
Comment on Comments
It has come to my attention that there are those among you who are not tracking comments. This means that unless I point them out, you are missing new comments on old posts.
If you are browsing with either Firefox 2 or Internet Explorer 7, click “Comments” under “Feeds.” You should see something interesting. If you see a lot of stuff that looks likes computer code, you’re using a browser that doesn’t do RSS and you should get updated!
Wii Fun With Johnny Lee
Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Mellon University has posted a bunch of amazing videos demonstrating his developments in display technology. The reversal of the roles of the Nintendo Wii remote and the sensor bar, to create 3-D effects is astounding.
The Final Days Of HD-DVD
I know how he feels. I too wanted HD-DVD, and not Blu-Ray, to win the format war. This must have come from England or Europe, where Woolworth’s stores still exist. Caution: Bad language alert!
[flv:/Video/2008/JAN/HitlerDVD.flv 440 330]
New Tech, Old Tech
There’s Gizmodo, and there’s Engaget. They’re easy to confuse. Can both survive? Dunno, but my friend Tom has pointed out an item on Engaget about Ultra HDTV. I knew there was a good reason to not jump straight into 1080. Go to the link and see how pitiful the resolution of my 720p projector looks, compared to 33 megapixel video.
At the other end of the hi-tech spectrum is the lowly, long-lived vacuum tube. They’re still made, of course, for guitar amps and very expensive, esoteric hi-fi pre-amps and power amps. Here’s an amazing video of a triode tube being made the old-fashioned way, by hand. I’m embarrassed to admit that at the moment I can’t name the tune of the piano music, despite the fact it’s played multiple times in a chopped up repeating loop. Sounds like Gershwin.