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YouTube Muppet parody mayhem

I love the writing in the first two paragraphs of Richard Rushfield's L.A. Times story, Muppets Gone Wild:SWEEPING through the debris field that makes up today's YouTube catalog, a few emerging schools of webcamography are evident: confessional videos by teenage girls, stolen footage of Jon Stewart and Asian game shows,...

Tags: INTERNET, Muppets, Parody, Fair Use, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-30

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How open source defends itself in the PR wars

Run by the muppets?NominomDoo do do dootnominomdo do do doI think you mean manamanahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynjIoymWHvUI was thinking Nominem was founded by a working mother who wanted to remain anonymous. Mom and them. Or anon and them.

Tags: public relations, open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event

No "We're Dumping AT&T"??I'm disappointed.No way they'd mention AT&T at allit would be embarrassing for the hall to fill with the boo's.Whoopty doo...An iPod Nano with a video camera. That's all they could come up with? :-(So......? Isn't the whole point of an MP3 player to choose the songs YOU...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Investment, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., FM-radio, ZuneHD

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Will Wikipedia ever be legitimate?

Probably not.As long as any twit can put their "two cents" in on a subject...it will never be legit.It's legitimate in that it's a good place to startWikipedia works best when being used for "non-legitimate" uses, meaning someone wants to find out something in general but don't want to research...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

DRM licensing group plan to plug analog hole

DRM licensing group plan to plug analog holeI don't piratebut I hate DRM. It's a huge scam that penalizes legitimate users and doesn't do anything to stop real pirates. It makes me disrespect the industry and less likely to buy encumbered products. In my life, I have bought a total...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, analog output, piracy

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem

Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem"...but losing everything is like the sun going down on me...Ahhh what a great song...Ok Rudy.Sure IBM can't compete with Sun what with their stock about $100 more per share.My advise is DON'T WAIT! SGI and Sun took a beating from Linux because they...

Tags: Network technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nehalem, T2

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

Advanced Micro Devices Case Study: Jim Henson's Creature Shop

The Jim Henson Company has a long history of bringing puppets to life. It needed to create technology that allows a non-technical performer to "puppeteer" a computer graphics character. To meet that design challenge required the "Imagineering" of a technological marvel running on customized software. Jim Henson Creature Shop has...

Tags: Jim Henson Co., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Computer, Jim Henson Creature Shop, Productivity, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2009-01-01

Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hit

Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hitBack again?Always to be found around here bashing Apple. He's just upset that Microsoft is becoming increasingly irrelevant. (Its value as a company peaked NINE years ago!)Not to mention that Windows Mobile is going down the tubes since developers are...

Tags: Cellular phones, windows mobile, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, supplier

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Considering a Windows Innovation Demo

Considering a Windows Innovation DemoA narrow mind never innovates....Well Mr. Murphy, if you weren't so narrow minded and stuck in the 70's you might actually understand why Microsoft, and others, are making billions and you are stuck blogging on ZDNET.What's next, a blog on how Charles Babbage ripped off the...

Tags: Linux, Blogging, C/C++, Programming languages, .NET, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

FTP: untrustworthy file transfer

FTP: untrustworthy file transferWow Robin, good blog!It is, of course, very old news that FTP is not secure by design but it is still good to get the word out.However, I'm a little disappointed that you didn't use the same logic you used when you blamed MS for file system...

Tags: Anonymous FTP site, FTP

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Microsoft withrawls bid for Yahoo, Google wins

Microsoft withrawls bid for Yahoo, Google winsEven more embarassing than thatis that it should be "withdraws".A withdrawal is what a drug user experiences when he has no more of his addictive drug. Or is that what you meant ;-)Withrawls???Somebody please fix the headline for this article! It's embarrassing!THE INTERNET AND...

Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., withdrawal

Discussion threads 2008-05-04

Offshore outsourcing rates headed higher

Offshore outsourcing rates headed higherHope they are enjoying thieir 'bargain' service...That's what you get when you think short-term.Which means its a good time to stop offshoringWith the cost of offshore outsourcing increasing its a good time to reevaluate that position and correct that mistake by bring the work back in...

Tags: Outsourcing, offshore outsourcing, US/EU

Discussion threads 2007-07-24

Samsung SGH-A717

Photo gallery:Samsung SGH-A717 AT&T's new Samsung SGH-A717 has a lot in common with another AT&T cell phone, the Samsung SGH-A727. Not only did the two devices land at the carrier on the same day, but they also didn't strike any new ground in the design department. While the SGH-A727 bears...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, AT&T Corp., SGH-A717, phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., display

Product reviews 2007-06-25

Samsung SGH-A727

Photo gallery:Samsung SGH-A727When we saw the first pictures of AT&T's Samsung SGH-A727, we did a double take as we knew we'd seen such a design before. We've seen it in three other phones, to be exact: the unlocked SGH-X820, Alltel's SCH-R510, and T-Mobile's SGH-T519 Trace. Like its predecessors, the SGH-A727...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Samsung SGH-A727, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone

Product reviews 2007-06-22

Motorola Razr V3xx (platinum)

Photo gallery:Motorola Razr V3xxThe carrier that brought you the very first Razr cell phone is now bringing yet another one (yes, another one) to the market. The Motorola Razr V3xx for Cingular Wireless (soon to be AT&T) doesn't bring anything particularly revolutionary to the Razr family but it does include...

Tags: volume rocker, Motorola Razr, telephone, Motorola Inc.

Product reviews 2007-04-20

Jimmy Wales is a super-duper rocket scientist

If Jimmy Wales didnt exist, silly satiricists like myself would have to invent him.Yesterday, I promised myself that I wouldnt write any more about Jimmy Wales this week. I dont want you thinking that Im obsessed with him. After all, there is other news out there. AT&T are jumping out...

Tags: SEARCH, Wiki, Jimmy Wales, Wikia

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Motorola Razr V3xx (Gold)

The carrier that brought you the very first Razr cell phone is now bringing yet another one (yes, another one) to the market. The Motorola Razr V3xx for Cingular Wireless (soon to be AT&T) doesn't bring anything particularly revolutionary to the Razr family but it does include a handful of...

Tags: volume rocker, Motorola Inc., Motorola Razr, telephone, RAZR V3xx

Product reviews 2007-03-08

No 'Second Life' for Microsoft's Vista

No 'Second Life' for Microsoft's VistaNo 'Second Life' for Microsoft's VistaThis is a Second Life problem and NOT a Vista problem. Linden Labs had plenty of time to test their software on Vista. Besides, Second Life isn't all that great anyway.[i]Microsoft representatives didn't immediately respond to requests for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), patient, Microsoft Windows Vista, Second Life, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-13

Vista winds its way to market

Vista winds its way to marketit is all going to come down to driversIn the final analysis the early success of Vista, like x64 before it, is going to come down to drivers.If early adopters try to load Vista and discover that their hardware is either not supported or poorly...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Think Microsoft, vista, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2006-11-10

Image Gallery: Windows Update

Image Gallery: Windows Update"I have never had a problem with windows update"That's what I thought, too, until we started trying to renew our antivirus software. It alerted us that we did not have current version of windows. I went to windows update.com history and even though I have...

Tags: Construction, server, Microsoft Windows Update, Windoz Updates, window, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-08-24