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See, this is what technology is for
An alarm that automatically goes off as you reach your train stop during your morning (or evening) commute? Brilliant. New Google Now alarm feature will ease your commute Thanks to the latest Google...
View ArticleThe Eyes in the Sky are getting better vision
Net-net, the enabling of 33cm resolution images vs 50cm resolution is probably a good thing. Mapping and observation has a lot of valuable applications, and it's not like they can turn around and do a...
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Michael Powell is a Dolt (Profit Motive Edition)
Because it’s no good if it doesn’t make a buck.‘”It is the Internet’s essential nature that fuels a very heated policy debate that the network cannot be left in private hands and should instead be...
View ArticleRT @History_Pics: Screenshot 1…
RT @History_Pics: Screenshot 1983. http://t.co/lGgex1cc6d
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We don't need another graphics format
Well, let me put it this way — I don't particularly want another graphics format for still images. If Mozilla can improve JPEG encoding that helps reduce file size, rather than our having to start add...
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Now that's pretty kinky
Heh. (Original at http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3422) View this post on Google+
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How TV is watched today
Networks are still overly focused on live or same-day ratings. But that's increasingly becoming obsolete, as looking at DVR usage, Video on Demand, and various online streaming numbers means that...
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The Money Pit (F-35 Edition)
I'd really prefer not to think that the executives of Lockheed-Martin, or our Congresscritters, are willingly leaving this country vulnerable through this botched-up never-ending black hole of spending...
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You've got to know when to fold them
The V-22 Osprey program has been yet another of those ghastly over-budget, under-performing whiz-bang defense contracts, but … well, this is kind of cool. Reshared post from +Game N Gadgets V22 Osprey...
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World War I and weapons of mass destruction
At least mass-destructive for the era. Actually, this looks like the kind of thing Miguelito Loveless would invent, only to be thwarted by James West and Artemis Gordon. That actually leads into some...
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Grace Hopper: Saaaaalute!
A hell of a woman. Reshared post from +Brad Acker Today in History: Grace Hopper recalled to active duty to head COBOL programming effortOn August 1, 1967 — 47 years ago today — Grace Murray Hopper, at...
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When stuff that's good enough is a problem
For the industry that makes it, that is. The same thing as described here was true for e-readers — suddenly everyone who was likely to get one had gotten one, and the only costs were for folks looking...
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The evolving digital classroom
A lot of schools, especially at higher grade levels, are finding that keyboards are critical. Meaning iPads are being swapped out for … Chromebooks. +Kay Hill's school district (Littleton Public...
View ArticleTappity-tappity-tappity-tappity-DING!
Okay, this is just pure comedy gold. Even moreso if, having gotten used to working on a computer, you've gone back and used a typewriter for anything more complex than an envelope. I started my typing...
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The evolving airline media environment
All I have to say is, "I'm glad I always have a book with me." Aside from being a big #firstworldproblem , this is kind of interesting. I was thinking the other day (in a discussion about cell phones...
View ArticleDigital killed the movie reel stars
An interesting, if sometimes over-glurdgy, documentary on the end of film reel projection at movie theaters, as studios move to shipping just digital versions of their movies, replacing massive reels...
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Welcome to the future
And, yeah, yeah, caveats for a lot for substantial portions of the populace globally, and other forms of inequality and injustice, etc. But, in general, it's an amazing point (and a reason why when...
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Physical media are not eternal
A CD is almost certainly going to last longer than, say, a floppy disk. But it's not a perpetual medium, and depending on CDs as the ultimate archive of data carries a lot of risks in the...
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Quickly, invert the phase couplings in the tetryon field!
So I saw this on a big metal box while on a walk today, complete with blinking green light, and I had to say to myself, "What the hell is a Cathodic Protection Rectifier?" Turns out its for protecting...
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On suspension of belief (and SF prognosticating)
Heh. (via +Marty Shaw) Reshared post from +Graham B View this post on Google+
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