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Microsoft is making waves with it’s new Vista operating system. The current Microsoft standard is Windows XP, but not so far on the horizon is XP’s replacement and people can’t stop buzzing about it. Vista will be even more secure than XP is now. I think that’s great, but it also means that less apps will be compatible with Vista, not sounding good for something that hasn’t even come out yet.

We’ll see what happens with Vista and XP, as of now I think I’ll stick to my Windows 95 computer, which I just upgraded from Windows 3.1.1

I’ve never owned, or lived in a household where someone did own a big TV. A new TV for me is a hand-me-down for someone else. But now that TV’s are smaller, flatter, and bigger I may change that tune I was whistling before. But what do I choose? LCD or Plasma?

This article tells you what’s the good, bad, ugly, and important between the 4 digit priced TV’s.

Geeks all have one universal problem. No, I’m not talking about Microsoft. Geeks never get chicks (and my mom says that when I stop calling them chicks that will change).

As I was saying, geeks around the world have one problem, getting chicks. We’re smart, innovative, and have somewhat of an imagination –why not just build a chick? Professor Hiroshi Ishiguru did just that (how could you doubt a guy with the word guru in his name?) Repilee Q1 is her name, and silicon skin is her game. Continue reading →

Nicholas Cage, Standley Goodspeed, in one of my favorite movies, The Rock said this when asked about VX poison gas:
It’s very, very horrible sir. It’s one of those things we wish we could disinvent. This isn’t a training exercise, is it?
This quote came to mind when I saw the Oakley/Motorola RAZRWIRE Bluetooth Eyeware. After puking in the back of my mouth a bit, I reassessed the situation and still had to put this product into our ‘That’s Janky’ category. Just imagine walking around outside, talking on your phone with that girl who you’ve had a crush on since 10th grade with your new RAZRWIRE glasses/headset. Once you pass thru the doors, you realize that the $300.00 sunglasses are too dark for you to see indoors. So take them off just to miss her say “I’ve always been in love with you, tell me you love me too!” So you’ve lost the love of your life, you look like an idiot in doing so with goofy glasses, and you’ve been chumped out of 300 bucks.

People are afraid of secret government conspiracies that plan on implanting microchips into our bodies so that the government knows where we are at all times. Too bad everyone who’s afraid of this already carries a mobile phone everywhere they go, and obviously has no idea what MIT has been up to.

“Cell phones know whom you called and which calls you dodged, but they can also record where you went, how much sleep you got and predict what you’re going to do next. At least, these are the capabilities of 100 customized phones given to students and employees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — and they may be coming soon to your cell phone.”

I see good and bad things from this. People will think that I leave my phone home on Friday and Saturday nights (but I’m actually at home trying to decrease my Windows XP boot time!!) .

Why do they call Netflix, Netflix? Ok, so you go online in order to register, order, and pay but the DVD comes to you in the mail. I wonder if Mailflix.com was taken so they decided to just go with Netflix. Or maybe they were planning Video On Demand (VOD) all the while, making their name more valid. With a set top box, and a Netflix account you may be able to watch ‘Mean Girls’ the day you order it, instead of waiting for the mail to bring it to your door. Sounds like it makes sense to me, but who wants a set top box from Netflix to go with their vcr, dvd player, stereo receiver, xbox, ps2, tivo, cable box, media center pc, etc. It’s a good idea, but I think it should be just a bit refined.

I thought that my friend’s new P4 3.8Ghz with hyperthreading was a pretty fast computer. Seems that the fastest computer in the world is owned by Americans and sits in Livermore, CA doing 136.8 trillion calculations per second. Japan told that they’re going to build a computer that runs 73times faster (10 quadrillion calcs/sec). This venture will blow about $7-9million dollars over the course of this project. Now that’s a computer. Expect to see this one finished around 2011, I wonder what version of Doom will be out then?

Yesterday, at midnight, Harry Potter’s newest adventure was on the shelves, available for the masses. Eleven hours later, Harry Potter’s newest adventure was on BitTorrent, available for the masses.

For the cost of $5-$10 for a legal download of the e-book, I’m pretty confident that the organized pirates who committed this act of pure evil would have skipped the 600 page scanning and piecing together process. But people for some reason resist change and technology. I guess that’s the way the microchip crumbles.

Looks like that new Microsoft operating system that we’ve been talking about for so long(horn), has been named. I was under the impression that we would just keep calling it Longhorn, although I did read that “Longhorn” was just a cover opps prerelease name. Windows Vista is the new Longhorn, and I’m sure we’ll be hearing about Vista for a long(horn) time. I mean, I remember upgrading to windows 98 in the year 2000.

(and don’t these guys look excited, this is what happens when geeks drink too much coffee and rename operating systems)

The atom bomb of podcasting was dropped by Apple when they incorporated podcasting support in iTunes 4.9. Wired.com interviews ‘self-proclaimed tech geek Brian Reid” who hosted “Sex Talk”, a podcast. “Apple counted more than 1 million podcast subscriptions through iTunes in the first two days alone, according to a company press release.” “Paul Saurini, whose Denver-based Barefoot Radio podcast focuses largely on news items with some white-trash element to them, had to suddenly upgrade his server bandwidth package from $25 a month for 100 GB to a $300-a-month package for 1,200 GB after the new traffic exceeded his limit.”

And I admit, I’m also huge on podcasting. I added Rocketboom.com (my favorite vlog) first, and then worked on some more music, news, and entertainment. Podcasting is new new black.