i am going to have to move so much crap out of my yahoo when microsoft takes over. i’ll probably just delete everything and let it lay fallow like i do with my a hotmail account.
i only signed up for hotmail to stake the claim to my other moniker.
oh well, whatever.
Video with audio on web pages that starts playing automatically when those pages load is presumptuous, intrusive, loathsome and horrible. Please knock it off.
You just interrupted LL Cool J with some inane drivel about AJAX that was saved out with such a low bitrate that it may as well just have been radio static and the volume was jacked up so loud it scared me half to death. Do ya feel me?
The computer may look like TV and may one day replace TV but right now, I’m not watching TV. I’m working, writing code, and was looking for information on your product and frankly I have no desire to listen to some generic-sounding voice-over artist your tragically-hip marketing person hired read some cliche, second rate ad copy that is so clogged with worn-out buzzwords and smarmy lukewarm hype that given its poor recording quality is really just vocal vomit.
That insipid little aural stunt just made me hate your company. I just closed your web page and will never visit it again.
i’m drinkin homemade wine outta south philly and thinking about how much i hate nVidia — it would see that they cannot make a product that simply works. every time i get stuck using one of their products there are issues. my ati cards never give me grief like this.
i put one of their cards in my desktop and windows won’t even see it, their tech support informs me that they cannot help me and to return the product. my laptop comes with an nvidia graphics and it can’t change resolution of the external monitor.
i dunno, seems to me that if you’re in the biz as long as they have been, i’d expect better, ya know?
eh — fuck’em
driving drowsy is already illegal in NJ
now, you might not think it’s a big deal, but the atlantic city expressway is a remarkably straight, flat stretch of road that can bore even the most highly caffeinated driver to sleep — and most people leaving a.c. just came off hours long gambling binges, not to mention drinking
anyone driving back to philly from america’s playground knows the three signs with flashing yellow light spaced about mile or so apart “STAY AWAKE”, “STAY ALERT”, “STAY ALIVE”
but i’ve always wondered how they would test for drowsiness, and now there’s a simple spit test that detects cancer, gum disease, even drowsiness
the beeb’s web site is reporting on a device created at the university of southhampton, uk that generates electricity from environmental vibrations.
and while the amount of electricity is small, there are plenty of industrial sensor applications that can be powered by this little gem
as a species throughout history and pre-history have culled energy from our environment, from burning logs to keep warm, to splitting atoms to generate electricity.
look ma! no wires! this little gizmo allows for zero-emission devices that don’t use batteries filled with caustic chemicals or require stringing wires to them.
how cool is that? well, for me it means that hopefully i won’t be needing to compete with my car for my nation’s agricultural output.
and as gizmodo’s so keenly observed:
The generator may also one day be used to power a pacemaker, which would indeed be a funny twist: It would derive its power from the beating of the heart that its job is to keep on track. How’s that for existentialism?
so apparently best buy geek squad technicians are developing a reputation for swiping porn, music files, etc from off of the customer computers that they are assigned to fix.
As part of the operation to catch a technician stealing files from a customer’s computer, consumer-advocate blogger Ben Popken loaded a PC with porn and screen capture software before taking it along to several Geek Squad stores. He then videoed the entire incident
i don’t know how it could possibly come as any surprise that geeks are going snag your tunes and your pr0n when they have your pc in their hands.
so apparently there is a scheme to place small windmills in the median along the new jersey turnpike to generate electricity from the winds of passing cars. sounds like a swell idea only as anyone who’s ever had to drive the dreaded turnpike can tell you — cars don’t normally drive fast enough to generate a wind.
“I am pretty excited about integrating a subway or light-rail train right where the barrier is,” designer Mark Oberholzer told architecture magazine Metropolis.
“I love the idea of siphoning off electricity generated by private transportation to run public transportation.”
The scheme would also have the benefit of generating more power at peak commuter times, which roughly coincide with peak power requirements.
clearly these guys have never had to drive into new york from points south, because it may well have occured to them the irony that at peak commuter times, the wind generated by autos is most likely its most feeble.
no, really — the cadaver calculator will calculate the monetary value of your mortal coil were you to part ways with it today and had willed it to science.
i am worth about the same as a 10 year old honda, $4675!
Powered by WordPress