November 2008 Entries
A little while ago I wrote about Steve Jobs' quote about Blu-Ray, saying that 'Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt." I put that to the test today when I purchased a Blu-Ray drive and dropped it into my media PC. Actually putting it into the computer wasn't that bad (considering I had to take apart nearly the whole thing), but that was the easy part.
I first installed the BD Adviser which is a little program that tests the compatibility of your hardware to make sure it is compliant. After getting the green light (the only issue was that the...
Well boys and girls, come sit down and learn a sound piece of advice: don't make promises you don't intend to keep, no matter how outlandish those promises may be. Case in point: Last March Dr. Pepper promised that it would give everyone a free Dr. Pepper who asked for one if the rock 'n' roll group Guns and Roses would release their vaporware album Chinese Democracy by the end of the year. The album has been in production since 1994, so chances were that another year would elapse without a release. Turns out (either by bad luck, promotion, or...
One of the underpinning tenants of the Internet is the concept of self-healing, world wide access. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, as long as you're connected to the 'Net, you're connected to everything else. The Internet knows no borders, political boundaries, or frontiers. Once you are plugged in, the world is at your fingertips. Unless you live in China. Or the United States--what?
One of the things I find goofy about content producers is the idea of U.S. only content. You can go to Hulu, MySpace Music, and Pandora to listen to free, ad supported movies, TV...
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Christmas is almost here, but with last nights election I have a nice little technology wish list for the next administration.
Net Neutrality
The concept of Net neutrality spans the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should give traffic neutral passage regardless of protocol and source/destination. What this means is that people shouldn’t have to pay more to get the same speeds from (or even access to) Disney.com and say, Joe’s Gadget Shack. It also means that whether I’m surfing the ‘Net, checking my email, uploading photos to Flickr, or playing a...
Whether you voted for the guy or not, one cannot deny the magnitude of Barack Obama's clinching of the U.S. Presidency. Numbers are still yet to come in, but this election has seen a level of participation from a large cross-section of our nation, showing America's concern for it's future, both home and abroad. While the tea leaves aren't revealing much about what the future holds, one can see that we have chosen to go down a different path than we have been going for the past eight years. Early results are also showing that the Democratic party has accrued...