Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized a self-powered flying machine that would achieve both lift and thrust with flapping wings alone and named it the “ornithopter”. Hot on the heels of the 100th Anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight, and the recent X prize, a team of scientists from University of Toronto’s Institute [...]
Archive > November 2004
Vegas Baby!
Well I’m in Las Vegas for a few days.Just me, All on my own. I have set a budget for myself and so far, as of right now. I am up $400 I was up a $1000 at lunch today but like a dumb ass I didn’t stop.
MGM hooked me up with a nice room.
Outsourcing To Rural America
News.com is running a story about Rural Sourcing, a company attempting to make outsourcing to rural America as cost effective as sending jobs to India.
Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player
German PC-Welt magazine reports that Microsoft used an illegal copy of SoundForge 4.5 (Google translation) for editing Wave files shipped with Windows Media Player. You can check that yourself by opening any file in the [Windows location] \Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav\ folder in notepad or other editors of your choice and looking at the last line. There you [...]
Tax Cuts – A Simple Lesson in Economics
Let’s put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every
day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill, proportional to current tax demographics, it
would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay [...]
Funny post elections joke.
Father Patrick O’Malley rose from his bed in the rectory. It was a fine spring day in his parish in downtown Boston. He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside. He noticed, however, that there was a donkey lying dead in the middle [...]
Winamp Down for the Count
BetaNews is reporting that the doors at Nullsoft have been closed: ‘The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned. Only a few employees remain to prop up the once-ubiquitous digital audio player with minor updates, but [...]
Record HDTV from you Media PC
The pcHDTV™ HD-3000 Hi Definition Television Card is the next generation digital television card to be produced especially for the Linux video hobbyist market. Shipped with the open source multimedia player, Xine, the card provides a ATSC stream to the Xine mpeg2 decoder for playback and can be used with MythTV. Priced at only $189.89 [...]
