I’m thinking of adding a category to my blog. It will be the “Why I know there is no god.” I already have “Yet another sign the apocalypse is near” (YASTAIN). This would be WIKTING. How come?
Microsoft got a patent for ‘pg up’ and ‘pg dn’.
The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, […]
No, “computer viruses in space” is not a pitch for a TV show, it is what we have. Laptops on the International Space Station have been infected by a virus.
The laptops carried by astronauts reportedly do not have any anti-virus software on them to prevent infection. Once it has scooped up passwords and login names […]
May 31, 2010. The last shuttle mission.
NASA has 10 missions remaining for the shuttle fleet, which President Bush ordered to retire by Sept. 30, 2010. The schedule announced Monday includes five flights this year, five in 2009 and three in 2010.
The space agency has already begun work on developing a new spacecraft to send astronauts […]
2000 frames per second.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vajL48mwsCA
Say no more.
I don’t know who will win the Presidential sweepstakes this November, but I hope that it is either a person who understands computing technology, or someone who has a batman who does.
But I’m not holding out hope.
I was having a beer with a good friend, someone whom I greatly respect with regard to computing insights. […]
Robots learn to lie. Whoa, didn’t see that one coming.
Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Floreano and his colleagues outfitted robots with light sensors, rings of blue light, […]
After getting nicked for $124 last night by John Law for expired plate tabs, I was pretty steamed. I’m not a scofflaw, it was just one of the bits of detail that I manage that didn’t get managed. The reminder came in the mail at the time that I was preparing to go […]
The availability of fuel has been the telling mark of man’s existence. In our time, most fuel has a petroleum source. At Princeton and other universities, researchers are working to better understand jet fuel.
While current guidelines specify some overall properties of jet fuels, they do not spell out the actual chemical composition. Depending on the […]
Roughly Drafted is a good source of computer info.
The editorial stance has one foot in marketing, one foot in engineering. For example, with regard to the disk formats, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD:
To deliver HD video, the DVD Forum determined that a new disc format would be required to deliver greater bandwidth and capacity over the […]
I don’t have the time or space to fully develop this argument, but here it is:
Greed is a lousy design agent.
People who support capitalism and free markets state axiomatically that a profit motive is a good way to develop new technologies and markets. And that statement and sentiment are repeated without inspection by the […]