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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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(Tuesday, September 12)
Apple iTV
The new product: a box to connect to your TV to play all these iTunes Movies and iTunes TV shows on it.
This box supports wireless—no stringing cables—and is the missing piece.
iTV looks like a small Mac Mini. It's just an internal codename, and will be renamed later.
There's a power supply inside, USB, 802.11 wireless, Ethernet, HDMI, component, stereo audio, and optical audio out to your TV.
Whatever setup you've got, you can hook up to this iTV box. It can go out to your TV, stereo, whatever.
Steve's holdiing one. It's wider than a Mac Mini, but flatter.
iTV looks faster than Front Row. Looks similar to Front Row—has movie covers, TV covers.
When you're browsing your movies, it gives you the synopsis of the movie, stars, and the cover.
Can anyone please tell me why the hell I would want to watch a movie in 640x480 on my High Def TV?!?
I bought the TV for the picture quality, not to watch a shitty movie resolution designed for my ipod. AND I have to buy the device to verify the DRM?
Ha. Riiiiiiiight.
I love my ipod, but this is off the deep end. I really hope a lot of people don't go for this. I certainly don't see this as a step forward for anyone.
Update:I was just IM'ing with someone and they were saying that HDMi can sometimes upconvert 720i or 1080i (I guess at same resolution?? anyone know?). I am not well versed on the resolution upconversions, but normal NTSC is 720x480 so 640x480 doesn't sound like to much of a hit, but when I look at SVCD (usually 520*480) it annoys me (although I can still usually watch it). I still stand by my first assertion that this won't look good, but I guess the resolution won't play as big of a factor in how crappy this device sounds. I am eager to see what the downloads look like honestly, I can say that there is no way in hell regardless that I would be buying something like this and locking myself into their video drm. I am extremely happy with going and picking up the DVD myself for DVD quality picture. I am not a fan of watching stuff on my ipod (I have a few movies on there right now), but if i traveled a bunch I could see how it would be nice to have movies on the ipod. Still i don't see how this product is viable to anyone, unless you just really wanted one (and we don't even know if it upconverts yet).
Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
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