WinFS explanation at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinfs/html/winfs03112004.asp
WinFS 101: Introducing the New Windows File System
Well, so then the WinFS is out.... today.... in beta.... so.... good.... then.
Monday, August 29, 2005
WinFS 101: Introducing the New Windows File System
Release news at: http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/
WinFS explanation at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinfs/html/winfs03112004.asp
Well, so then the WinFS is out.... today.... in beta.... so.... good.... then.
WinFS explanation at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinfs/html/winfs03112004.asp
Well, so then the WinFS is out.... today.... in beta.... so.... good.... then.
Friday, August 26, 2005
'Men cleverer than women' claim
From BBC NEWS Education 'Men cleverer than women' claim
Well, she is just smart enough to know how to control him. :)
You see, one doesn't have to have all the knowledge stored in their brain all the time. You can however know how to locate useful information quickly. With the Internet becoming more ubiquitous, it is better to know how to locate needed information faster. Similarly, other sources of information are more readily available today.
Thus it's better to not _be_ the encyclopedia but to know how to use it best for your purpose.
A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of Psychology says that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests.
<snip>
There were twice as many men with IQ scores of 125, for example, a level said to correspond with people getting first-class degrees.
<snip>
At scores of 155, associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.
Well, she is just smart enough to know how to control him. :)
You see, one doesn't have to have all the knowledge stored in their brain all the time. You can however know how to locate useful information quickly. With the Internet becoming more ubiquitous, it is better to know how to locate needed information faster. Similarly, other sources of information are more readily available today.
Thus it's better to not _be_ the encyclopedia but to know how to use it best for your purpose.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Google Talk
Google Talk
Ah, the Google Talk. It's the IM from Google. Works over existing open-source IM protocols and can work with multiple existing clients.
Currently works with,
Google Talk
Adium
GAIM
iChat
Miranda
Psi
Trillian Pro
Been using it all day. Didn't miss Yahoo messenger. Yahoo is good at what it does. But it's cluttered with the Radio, news, weather stuff, games, and so on. Google Talk is a simple client - to the point. Allows simple one click access to Gmail Inbox and allows emailing contacts with one click.
I'm pretty much thinking about moving to this client exclusively. :)
Ah, the Google Talk. It's the IM from Google. Works over existing open-source IM protocols and can work with multiple existing clients.
Currently works with,
Been using it all day. Didn't miss Yahoo messenger. Yahoo is good at what it does. But it's cluttered with the Radio, news, weather stuff, games, and so on. Google Talk is a simple client - to the point. Allows simple one click access to Gmail Inbox and allows emailing contacts with one click.
I'm pretty much thinking about moving to this client exclusively. :)
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Sky News : iPod Licensing Lapse Lets In Microsoft
Sky News : iPod Licensing Lapse Lets In Microsoft
Brilliant, just brilliant!
Computer firm Apple may have to pay Microsoft £6 for each iPod it sells after a huge licensing lapse.
Lawyers at Bill Gates' firm filed a patent for technology behind the hugely successful digital music player two months before Apple.
The US Patent Office has ruled that Microsoft has the right to charge competitors a licence fee for each iPod sold.
Brilliant, just brilliant!
Friday, August 12, 2005
What a bunch of losers!
Quote:
This is a comment someone left on my blog at: http://broccoli-guy.blogspot.com/2005/08/cnncom-career-workplace-gender-gap.html. As if it wasn't enough that these morons are spamming the email inboxes of thousands and millions of users. Now the idiots will start spamming people's blogs. It's because of scums of the earth like these that people will force all anonymous communication to be banned eventually.
I will be changing my blog to only allow registered users to comment. I would have liked to get comments from anyone but hey whatever!
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This is a comment someone left on my blog at: http://broccoli-guy.blogspot.com/2005/08/cnncom-career-workplace-gender-gap.html. As if it wasn't enough that these morons are spamming the email inboxes of thousands and millions of users. Now the idiots will start spamming people's blogs. It's because of scums of the earth like these that people will force all anonymous communication to be banned eventually.
I will be changing my blog to only allow registered users to comment. I would have liked to get comments from anyone but hey whatever!
Thursday, August 11, 2005
BWired News: Furniture Causes FedEx Fits
Wired News: Furniture Causes FedEx Fits
Great minds think of how to sue anyone for any reason. Well, good going!
Quote from the link.
Great minds think of how to sue anyone for any reason. Well, good going!
Most of us have been there. You can just barely afford to pay the rent. But forget about buying furniture -- not if you want to eat, anyway.
Jose Avila recently found himself in just that predicament. Although he has a good job as a software developer, he's locked into two rents after moving to Arizona, and has no extra cash for an Ikea shopping spree. But instead of scouting street corners for a ratty, unwanted couch, Avila got creative and built an apartment full of surprisingly sturdy furniture -- out of FedEx shipping boxes.
Fanciful as his creations may seem, FedEx is not amused. The shipping giant's lawyers have sent Avila letters demanding he take down the site he created to document his project, invoking, among other things, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (.pdf), or DMCA.
Avila has outfitted his entire apartment with FedEx box designs, including a bed, a corner desk with wall shelves, a table, two chairs and a couch. Drawing from architecture and drafting classes he took in college, Avila has designed pieces that are surprisingly un-boxy.
He was blindsided by the cease-and-desist letter from the company to which he proclaims long-standing loyalty.
"I was surprised, actually," Avila said. "One thing I’ve always stood behind is I'm pro-FedEx. I ship stuff with FedEx all that time and I feel more comfortable shipping with FedEx because their boxes are stable and sturdy."
Quote from the link.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Top 10 dot-com flops - CNET.com
Top 10 dot-com flops - CNET.com
Well, the bubble burst and it left a big mark on the IT history of the world. More on the United States economy than anything else. But nonetheless the world learns its lesson from this. Or I hope so.
Well, the bubble burst and it left a big mark on the IT history of the world. More on the United States economy than anything else. But nonetheless the world learns its lesson from this. Or I hope so.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
BitTorrent moving uptown - Yahoo! News
If I don't copy the whole article, it will disappear off of Yahoo in a couple of weeks. :)
BitTorrent moving uptown - Yahoo! News: "Bram Cohen arrives in San Francisco's Mission District, his hair disheveled, his face stubbled with a day's growth of beard and his black BitTorrent T-shirt proclaiming him for what he is -- the poster boy for a popular and disruptive Internet file-swapping technology.
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Time was, guys like this would be found hunched over a computer keyboard in a distant Baltic republic, working anonymously for some offshore corporation.
But now that the Supreme Court has clarified the do's and don'ts of file-sharing, the creator of BitTorrent -- which allows video and other large files to be quickly downloaded -- has no reason to hide. Indeed, Cohen, 29, recently relocated from Seattle to San Francisco, and he and his chief operating officer are making the rounds on Sand Hill Road looking for venture capital for their new company, BitTorrent. They've forged a partnership with paid-search provider Ask Jeeves, and recently the duo flew to Burbank for high-level talks with the Motion Picture Association of America.
BitTorrent already has struck deals with video game publishers to distribute games with its technology.
Cohen's bid to commercialize BitTorrent is a measure of how far the entertainment industry has come since the late 1990s, when Napster introduced millions of people to the power of peer-to-peer technology for downloading songs -- and mobilized scores of lawyers to shut it down.
The recording industry continues its legal campaign to crush the once-wildly popular Australian-based Kazaa file-sharing service. But the studios are now moving to embrace BitTorrent technology -- which gracefully and cheaply distributes giant files -- even as they sue those who use it to trade bootlegged movies, TV shows or video games.
``We have no aversion to peer-to-peer techn"
BitTorrent moving uptown - Yahoo! News: "Bram Cohen arrives in San Francisco's Mission District, his hair disheveled, his face stubbled with a day's growth of beard and his black BitTorrent T-shirt proclaiming him for what he is -- the poster boy for a popular and disruptive Internet file-swapping technology.
ADVERTISEMENT
Time was, guys like this would be found hunched over a computer keyboard in a distant Baltic republic, working anonymously for some offshore corporation.
But now that the Supreme Court has clarified the do's and don'ts of file-sharing, the creator of BitTorrent -- which allows video and other large files to be quickly downloaded -- has no reason to hide. Indeed, Cohen, 29, recently relocated from Seattle to San Francisco, and he and his chief operating officer are making the rounds on Sand Hill Road looking for venture capital for their new company, BitTorrent. They've forged a partnership with paid-search provider Ask Jeeves, and recently the duo flew to Burbank for high-level talks with the Motion Picture Association of America.
BitTorrent already has struck deals with video game publishers to distribute games with its technology.
Cohen's bid to commercialize BitTorrent is a measure of how far the entertainment industry has come since the late 1990s, when Napster introduced millions of people to the power of peer-to-peer technology for downloading songs -- and mobilized scores of lawyers to shut it down.
The recording industry continues its legal campaign to crush the once-wildly popular Australian-based Kazaa file-sharing service. But the studios are now moving to embrace BitTorrent technology -- which gracefully and cheaply distributes giant files -- even as they sue those who use it to trade bootlegged movies, TV shows or video games.
``We have no aversion to peer-to-peer techn"
Friday, July 29, 2005
Design Documents
Ah, the software engineering cycle. Application develoment cycle. All the documentation that goes along! Just fun!
Is NOT!
I've been working on a Design Document for a project. The technical writer side of me says it better be good. The technical side of me says, it better be a good Design Document and other developers should be able to look at this document and engineer the solution. The practical side of me says, since the business doesn't really respect the technical writing and always wants things done their way, which is "how they've always done it", why should I bother? The practical side also says, just get it done and put it out there. Since I'll be the one developing with another developer who already knows the details, we won't really have to come back to the Design Document and criticize it.
You see, this is all part of the new process we're following. We have a process that we try to follow for each project and this process addresses each step of software engineering cycle. Documentation, design, implementation, testing and all. How ever this causes our time estimates to be thru the roof. Which could be a good thing for us.
When all is said and done, I wouldn't buy a solution from me if I saw one of my estimates. What a jerk!
Is NOT!
I've been working on a Design Document for a project. The technical writer side of me says it better be good. The technical side of me says, it better be a good Design Document and other developers should be able to look at this document and engineer the solution. The practical side of me says, since the business doesn't really respect the technical writing and always wants things done their way, which is "how they've always done it", why should I bother? The practical side also says, just get it done and put it out there. Since I'll be the one developing with another developer who already knows the details, we won't really have to come back to the Design Document and criticize it.
You see, this is all part of the new process we're following. We have a process that we try to follow for each project and this process addresses each step of software engineering cycle. Documentation, design, implementation, testing and all. How ever this causes our time estimates to be thru the roof. Which could be a good thing for us.
When all is said and done, I wouldn't buy a solution from me if I saw one of my estimates. What a jerk!
Hitch?
Just saw the movie Hitch. I liked it a lot. It had a really funny tone to it. For the most part the idiot was played by the guy from "King of Queens" or whatever that show is. Although even Will Smith played the idiot a little in the end when he didn't understand the girl he was in love with.
Both actors just did a really really good job of handling this movie. I liked the girl also but I don't recognize her. Some parts of the movie could be called slightly cheesy by a few people but for the most part it was a straight love/comedy movie that just did a really good job.
I enjoyed it while I was watching and didn't have any of those moments where you would go take a restroom break without pausing the movie.
Also saw The Pacifier with Vin D. That one was also pretty good. Although not in the same league as Hitch but it was funny and lighthearted enough to be fun overall. Some bits of the movie were a little annoying or just plain too much but overall it's a fun watch. It has a very light mood overall.
And that wraps up this unofficial two-word review.
Both actors just did a really really good job of handling this movie. I liked the girl also but I don't recognize her. Some parts of the movie could be called slightly cheesy by a few people but for the most part it was a straight love/comedy movie that just did a really good job.
I enjoyed it while I was watching and didn't have any of those moments where you would go take a restroom break without pausing the movie.
Also saw The Pacifier with Vin D. That one was also pretty good. Although not in the same league as Hitch but it was funny and lighthearted enough to be fun overall. Some bits of the movie were a little annoying or just plain too much but overall it's a fun watch. It has a very light mood overall.
And that wraps up this unofficial two-word review.
Sunday, July 03, 2005
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Newsday.com: Brain Areas Shut Off During Female Orgasm
Newsday.com: Brain Areas Shut Off During Female Orgasm
These people obviously have nothing better to do than to rig up people and their partners and watch their brain responses during sexual activity. I mean, being a scientist used to mean more than being a pervert with a computer!
These people obviously have nothing better to do than to rig up people and their partners and watch their brain responses during sexual activity. I mean, being a scientist used to mean more than being a pervert with a computer!
Monday, June 20, 2005
Monday, June 13, 2005
Thursday, June 09, 2005
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