Yep! I’ve moved…I finally got a real web site! Check me out at revisionless.com! I’ll be co-admining with a buddy of mine. I really hope I see you there. It should be up and running at this second, but expect to see tons of changes going on throughout the month!
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Sadly my Samsung Trace t519 was cracked in half. From the first day I got this I wondered what it would be like to break this phone in half. I thought that I would wait about 5 years and break it when it finally got old. Turns out it only took me about 5 months to do the job. The sucker still works though…if you ask it nicely. Super glue might fix it, a good whack with a hammer might, or maybe I’ll just slap a hinge on it and make it a short flip phone. Lesson of the day: it doesn’t take much to break an 8mm thick phone. At least the screen’s not cracked!
Word on the street says that Google’s gonna release a new phone that’s got a ginormous touch screen. Apparently this phone is manufactured by Samsung(so we know it’s top quality)! Gmail and Gtalk will be integrated as well as GPS with Google Maps. There won’t be any integrated memory, so all the apps will load directly off the network. Give me a choice of an iPhone ora Google Switch, and I’ll pick the Switch any day of the week. Check out the pic…kinda reminiscent of a photoshop blur though!
Vista is out already? I thought it was scheduled for Jan. 30, but apparently newegg was able to pull off a fantastic magic trick and get you the OEM version of Vista about a week earlier at $200. They’re having trouble keeping in stock.
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What will those crazy asian people think of next? Sure we’ve all wanted to make bacon next to the computer at some time or another, but this is just over the top. He harnesses the power of 30 USB’s to make his sucker hot enough. He even goes through a step by step DIY project, just in case you want to do the same. Check out the bonus video he’s got of him making bacon. Oh yeah the original site is in asian… so good luck reading it. I took the time to get google’s crappy translation of the site.
Yeah…about that….I haven’t written for a while cause I’ve been caught up in all that Final Exam/Applying to college crap that happens at the last minute before you even know what’s happening. Well, now I’m on vacation, so I have no excuse for not writing. The weirdest thing happened today. I was just sitting here working at the office in my cubical, and this freaky asian lady with a horrible accent walks up from behind, taps my sholder, and flashes me a badge. She was asking for donations for ‘Defeat Hunger’ or somthing like that. The badge looke pretty legit, for the 3 seconds that I saw it for. But I was like, why are you asking me at work. People are trying to work here you know. She got shown out the door eventtually, but appartently she had been in the office 4 other times before, every time being shown out. She must have come back in through a back door….haxor
This past Halloween I decided to try my hand at pumpkin carving. I wanted to do a Jack the Skeleton kind of face. The mouth was the hard part, but after about an hour this is what I got.
Okay, maybe the idea of finding a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) on a Mac is too farfetched…But, on an ever so closely related topic, Macbooks have been found to be suffering from Random Shutdown Syndrome (RSS) by the drove. Thousands have complained that their Macbooks crash for no reason. After years of advertising that Macs don’t crash like PC’s do, Apple has got to eat its words. Check it out at macbookrandomshutdown.com!
A new wireless technology is in the works that could affect the way we use the internet as we know it. Wimax, or 802.16, will let one access the net from almost anywhere within a city. No more going to cafés just to use their wireless. One Wimax tower will potentially be able to cover a 3 to 12 mile radius. Although Wimax will not be compatible with wifi hardware, theoretically access points could be set up to convert the signal to traditional 802.11. This innovation may be coming to your fair city soon. Hopefully we won’t wait around on the wireless n standard, or nothing may ever happen. The next question is, who’s gonna pay for it?
For years the two major OS’s have been waiting for the day when they could fight it out in the ultimate smack down. Finally that is possible without Mac fanboys whining about how it’s unfair competition with different specs between computers. No more comparing apples to oranges; we can now compare apples to…well, apples. The test is to take an Intel equipped Apple computer and run Win XP natively through boot camp. Then benchmarks can be taken for each OS. Two apps that support Universal mode are the infamous Doom 3 and Bibble Pro 4.7. When Doom ran in Win XP, it got about 30 fps. Mac junkies will complain that Doom 3 was ported over to OS X not by ID, but by Aspyr. That’s beside the point. Well how about Bibble, which converted RAW images in 350 seconds in XP compared to 450 seconds in OS X. Probably the reply I’ve heard most when talking about crappy gaming on Macs, is that their meant for media editing. Let’s see if they are really better. With Photoshop CS2 installed on both operating systems, it takes only 413 seconds for XP to get through every filter applied to a picture. It took OS X 1123 seconds to do the same thing. I know this isn’t exactly a fair comparison because Adobe only has a PPC emulated version of Photoshop, not a Universal mode one. Regardless, maybe Apple needs to focus less on simplicity and more on quality, because ‘simple’ simply doesn’t cut it.
A few years ago magic white boxes started to appear in the pockets of a select group of people. The majority was afraid to drop $400 for the luxury of carrying a fat little white and chrome box around with them. CD players were just fine. And with new mp3 reading capability coming out, things could only get better for the cheap little gadgets…till ipods smashed them. That’s when people figured out the true value of 40 gigs in the palm of their hand. Sure, you could fill it with 11 days worth of music, but wouldn’t it be cooler if, say you dropped an OS in there or a whole pirated movie or two? The revolution was just beginning. In a couple of years, the color screen replaced the red back lighted monochrome screens of old. Then came the video capabilities, not that anyone would be interested in watching a full length movie on a teeny, tiny screen. As the ipod became the ‘in’ thing to have, the gap between those who could afford it and those who couldn’t buy one closed. People wanted it so bad that they would go to any lengths to get one. It’s as easy as getting a job at best buy as a stock boy, and have 2 that “fell out of the truck” when inventory s taken. Now that everyone owns an ipod, it has gone from sexy and in style to the very antithesis of chic, the flagship for the neo-conformist. And that’s not the only impact that it’s had on society. With various ad campaigns, especially billboards, apple has made the dancing profiles of people their trademark. Even if the word ‘ipod’ isn’t physically present or a little box with strings isn’t visible, we know it’s for the ipod. Recently I was traveling via the subways of San Francisco. There was nothing but ipod ads all over the walls; the furthest from subliminal messaging that’s possible.
That’s how apple has changed this country…this world, into a land filled with avid music fanatics who can’t take a moment to take the little white strings out of their ears to notice the world around them. Kinda’ sick isn’t it? If any other company makes a product that could rival the ipod’s quality, I’d buy it!
This is whats left of Rueben’s Red Hot…now a bum’s home…
Get up early. Throw something on. Crawl into the car. Getting there, only to slouch down the dreary grey halls to see the greyness mirrored on their faces. They are the ones half leaning against the wall, half lying on the floor; half dead, half awake. Like transients…no, less than that, barely functioning; only breathing. Waiting for someone to kick them in the balls to make sure there are still signs of life, and when there’s no response, they get chucked out into the cold abyss. Never seen. Never heard of. No recollection. Reflection; a fabrication that can only come from one’s self, from the soul, which can show one’s wretchedness or true beauty.
Over this past weekend, the death toll of American soldiers was on par with the deaths of those lost in the World Trade Center. So “what does that matter?” you ask. Isn’t it kind of ironic how we Americans can hold memorials and candle light vigils for a “terrible attack on our country that led to many unnecessary deaths?” But all we can do for the unnecessary deaths that are caused by an unnecessary war is stick a little yellow sticker of a ribbon on our cars that say “support the troops.” If someone really wanted to “support the troops,” maybe we shouldn’t get them killed. “But we have to liberate the Iraqi and Afghani people,” some may whine. No we don’t. America liberated itself. Maybe the president wanted to double the deaths that he could pin to the infamous terrorists that want to destroy America. I’m sure that we all feel real threatened by terrorists with all the billions of tax dollars spent on the military and ridiculous security measures that plague us day to day. I can’t wait until the unnecessary deaths in the name of putting an end to terrorism triples. No one will notice. Who cares anyway?
Oy! It’s talk like a pirate day again! Arrrr! The one day that everyone can go around and speak like a semi-retard and not be laughed at. But when all the “Arrr”-ing and “Ye Matey”-ing has been said and done it gets kinda old, really fast. That’s why I think we should advocate a new type of talk like a pirate day in which “torrents”, “p2p fileshareing”, and “rip it to your hdd.” Hell, it should be called act like a pirate day. It’ll be the one day of the year that brings all the Limewire’s, eMule’s, and Bittorrent’s out there to a peak in traffic. And so I say to you, “ye can touch me booty, but ye can’t touch me chest!”
The new BluRay/HD-DVD DRM standard is HDCP. This new High Definition Copy Protection is meant to be unbreakable. This new copy protection uses a kind of key code that must match the High Def player as well as the HDCP compliant display. There is no practical way to record the video in HD whether you’re trying to record the output signal from the player or the display (cause you can’t). If the key code signal is interrupted in any way throughout the chain, then the movie will be shown in low res. One can record in analog, but there is another new DRM that might deal with that. The thing that really sucks is that is the key is in any way compromised, then the key for new DVDs will be changed. This means that all the DVD players that used the old keys will be rendered useless save for playing old high def DVDs. I don’t think that people will enjoy getting screwed over every other month when a cracker dumps the new key. In the present, makers of High Def players and HDCP compliant parts have taken another approach to DRM by making their products so expensive that only the stupidly wealthy can afford them. Unfortunately, many h4×0rs, pirates, and crackers aren’t that rich, which is why they (we) steal/borrow most of our stuff. As soon as High Def equipment becomes affordable, then decrypters will be popping up everywhere. The only way that DVD rips would be feasibly possible without screwing the majority over is to capture the HD video directly from the screen. No doubt the HD player software will detect this screen capture stuff running in the background and shut down right away. Of course, as with many of today’s games which check for virtual drives and such, someone will be create a cloaking program. Anyway, the point is to vote with your money and don’t buy HDCP stuff. Cheers to all you digital pirates, h4×0rs, and crackers. Take what you can and leave nothing for nobody!
9/11 has become an unofficial holiday/day of mourning, which is stupid because we don’t usually mourn for the deaths of people in other mass death tragedy scenarios. We probably won’t really care to have a tsunami remembrance day even though the death toll racked up to more than 100 times that of the fatalities in the Twin Towers. Who cares about the anniversary of hurricane Katrina? Meanwhile the attacks on the World Trade Center spurred wars that indirectly led to the killing of some 40,000 innocent Iraqis. I’m willing to bet that the majority of Americans don’t know what we celebrate Memorial Day for. Some may argue that we will remember the 9/11 attacks because they were major acts of terrorism, but what about the Oklahoma bombings? Who the hell remembers the date of that attack? No one holds candle light vigils every year for the people who died then. Give it a decade, maybe two, and this whole 9/11 thing will blow over. Then people will be like, “what’s so important about September 11 then?
So I was calling up Dell the other day for tech support and the phone rings. Then I get transfered to an Indian Dude on the other side…after a while of troubleshooting, I hung up the phone with nothing different from when I started. The point is you can’t understand a word of what they are saying. Trust me when I say this, I don’t have a thing against Indian guys, but don’t you think its kinda annoying when you can understand a darn thing they’re saying…Anyway, now I hear that a company based in India, TutorVista, now has Indian Dudes tutoring our children over the phone…what is this world coming to? Is America that incompetent that we can’t even teach our kids in our own country?
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