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::: Saturday, January 31 ::: |
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::: Friday, January 30 ::: |
Cool: musicplasma - the music visual search engine
It's a little slow, but interesting. I'm not sure exactly how Barenaked Ladies relates to Train (!) of all bands. I have every album and DVD released by BNL, if Train comes on the radio sometimes I won't change the station. But only sometimes.
[thanks to Ceej for the linl]
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::: Friday, January 23 ::: |
Kupo: Final Fantasy - Crystal Chronicles
I sincerely hope that the single player adventure is worth playing. I understand the allure of GBA connectity, but it's a bit outside my demographic to have three GBA owing friends in the same room simultaneously. Much less for the 40-60 hours it takes to play through an entire Final Fantasy campaign.
I had similar fears about DoubleDash! before it was released and Nintendo didn't disappoint me. I'm hoping Square will be able to deliver as well.
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::: Thursday, January 22 ::: |
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::: Tuesday, January 20 ::: |
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::: Thursday, January 15 ::: |
Interesting: The end of the PC desktop is nigh
We have, of course, all heard this before. I tend to apply Cringely's Law of Technology to such announcements. To paraphrase, Bob says that the adoption of disruptive technologies tends to be overestimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term.
To put it more simply, replacing 65% of the corporate desktops by 2006 is not particularly likely. It's not that this level won't be reached eventually, but more that they have underestimated the friction such ideas face in the real world. Adding to that friction is a relatively high buy-in for wide-spread deployment. Let's face it, PC hardware is almost free when compared with the other expenses involved.
If I were to hazard a guess I would say 2012 is doable. That takes into account Microsoft shipping Longhorn by 2008 and gives businesses three years beyond that point to get their money out of their Windows investment plus a year for deployment. In the meantime, there may be a "Killer App" for non-PC desktop devices which makes the move a true no-brainer, but I doubt even that would derail Longhorn plans for most Windows-centric environments.
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::: Wednesday, January 14 ::: |
Hilarity Ensues: No relief from Microsoft phishing bug
"The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them," [Microsoft] advises. "Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself."
Uhm, yeah.
That's nearly as good as the General Manager of the Windows digital media division saying that "Windows is about choice". I suppose that's a true statement if we are talking about Microsoft's choice rather than, say, mine. Try uninstalling Outlook Express on an XP machine and then come talk to me about choice.
[Update: The NYPost has a photo of the spin-master and a few reactions from other vendors]
4:32 PM CST ::
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Wow: Gizmodo Does CES
My favorite gadget site, Gizmodo, has been covering the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the past few days. There is too much to comment on specifically, but it looks like 2004 is going to be a really big year for portable audio and video. Perhaps even moreso than 2003.
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::: Friday, January 9 ::: |
Eh: NASA trying again to clear Mars rover's path
I know that as a computer geek I'm supposed to be all enthused over this Mars stuff, but I'm completely and utterly underwhelmed by the whole thing. It's far too hit-or-miss and far too expensive to be justifiable. Particularly now that they may have paid $400mil for a "panorama" which looks like little more than a hacked together combination of really bad Photoshop textures.
Then again, looking on the bright side, NASA can't actually kill anyone on this mission.
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