Tech A Couple of Weeks in Geek
posted by on August 17 at 13:01 PM
I read it for the articles - Study shows nearly half of time on web is spent viewing content (as opposed to sending e-mail, searching, shopping, etc.), up from 34% in 2003. The study doesn’t say so, but I bet this increase has something to do with pizza porn. «– NSFW, duh.
Under-reported story of the month - Workers at a drinks hut on a Dutch beach fished an 8-foot tall Lego man out of the sea. The giant, undoubtedly bent on world conquest, appeared to be heading for England. The beast now stands next to the drinks hut, biding his time. If we had any available military, I’d suggest that they be put on high alert.
A nation yawns - Blu-ray outselling HD-DVD 2-to-1. Really, format wars are so 1986.
Format King - The compact disc turns 25 today, and like all 25-year-olds, it’s best days are behind it and it will soon be dead.
Making people shit themselves in style - Taser introduces the latest in portable incapacitation—the C2 personal protector ($350). Now you no longer have to choose between delivering a 50,000-volt charge to scramble someone’s brain and being fashionable. Laser-sighted.
Finally! - TSMC says MSFT to use 90nm DRAM process for Xbox! Just thought you should know.
AHHH! - A Shepard tone - a “sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves… [creating] the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower.” It’s freaking me out.
Seattle in Hyperstereo - Super genius Steve Lodefink of Finkbuilt has posted a couple of hyperstereo images of Seattle. Instructions and more examples on Finkbuilt.
Kill me - The Internet is too slow. Please send bandwidth.
My Long Personal Nightmare is (Almost) Over - TiVo finally releases a somewhat reasonably-priced HD DVR. I waited for the new Comcast software, which arrived last week. Shockingly, it still sucks. Looks like I’m going to have to bite the bullet. Go to hell, DCT6412.
Blu-ray has won. 100%. They have Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, Target, et al. It's over for HD-DVD.
zomg.
That Lego man thing KILLS ME! I love it.
"Finally! - TSMC says MSFT to use 90nm DRAM process for Xbox! Just thought you should know."
I just cried laughing.
never mind hyperstereo -- here's Seattle in gigapixel form, as presented earlier this month at Siggraph:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5UUrxL_2t0
Anthony,
I've been really pleased my homebrew mythtv box. Commercial skipping + DVD archiving of shows >= TiVo.
We just got TiVo HD, & if you have Comcast, you're in for nothing but problems. We've called them three times in less than one day because they can't seem to figure out how to activate the CABLEcards. So if anyone out there gets one, take the day off & prepare to talk to people who admit they don't know what they're doing.
@5
MythTV is nice, but no cablecard means no recording of HD sources that are protected by the cable company. Personally, I'm waiting until Vista w/ cablecard machines start to come down in price, because the Tivo cannot play my digital music collection.
i have that comcast/motorola box too and it sucks. the only good box i ever got was from dishnetwork, but they didnt have the channels i want. so now i refuse to have anyone unless i can get project runway canada.
and like all 25-year-olds, it’s best days are behind it and it will soon be dead
Ouch, that smarts.
Well, the Taser C2 is certainly no Bowel Disruptor, but what the hey...
@1 what are you talking about Target sells HD-DVD. Unless you're referring to that myth floating around digg that confused aisle end-cap displays for blu-ray with some kind of "exclusive" deal.
oh, and fuck sony. ftw.
I love the reference to the EIGHT-FOOT legoman being "life-sized."
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