Imagine listening to babbling brooks of methane on Titan, or hearing deep thunder booming through Venus’s dense, noxious atmosphere.
Month: August 2007
Under Atlantis
the death trap is pretty apparent, don’t you think?
SnapFish
How the heck am I supposed to get my pictures? Why doesn’t this “smart” software just put them in the email so I can see them when I get the message? Attaching JPEG files to an email message is hardly advanced technology, folks!
this is why travel companies and other don’t belong on the internet: their sites are just too atrocious.
Simplification by Committee
In what might seem like a contradiction, OASIS has formed 6 different technical committees to simplify SOA application development.
muppets.
Cerberus Capital
We try to hide religiously. If anyone at Cerberus has his picture in the paper and a picture of his apartment, we will do more than fire that person. We will kill him. The jail sentence will be worth it.
Verrines
Most Americans know what a parfait is, but take that same idea and make the layers avocado salad, crabmeat, and pink grapefruit, and you get an entirely new dish called a verrine
nice. i hope bea can leverage this into a gig at a less hidebound organization.
Joost no Broadband
the semantic games to redefine broadband as 200kb/s in the us are finally coming home to roost.
Joost, despite an early lead when it comes to the P2P television is beginning to get some criticism about its video quality. A skeptical report on JoostTeam points out that the bit rate is ~50% that of video from DivX Stage6 or the iTunes Store. And even that resolution is inferior to standard definition digital video from cable providers. While Joost promises that they’re working on improving the quality, and touts the power of their advanced video compression codecs, there’s only so much that compression can do. The fundamental problem that Joost faces is the fact that the broadband available to North American households simply isn’t fast enough for them to provide image quality comparable to digital cable or satellite, much less high-definition video.
The Outsourced Life
I decided I needed to outsource my worry. For the last few weeks I’ve been tearing my hair out because a business deal is taking far too long to close. I asked Honey if she would be interested in tearing her hair out in my stead. Just for a few minutes a day. She thought it was a wonderful idea. “I will worry about this every day,” she wrote. “Do not worry.”
i would totally pay for someone to do all the nonsense for various bureaucracies.
China Surveillance
20k police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity.
Facebook PHP Mess
From just this single page of source code a lot can be said and extrapolated about the rest of the Facebook application and platform. For instance, the structure doesn’t follow any object oriented development practices, and it seems that the application is one large PHP file with a large number of custom functions living in the same namespace (they also seem to be using the Smarty templating engine).
where we learn that its a mess of PHP. that will cause pain as they expand.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 