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Here’s a short list of places where you probably shouldn’t take your fancy new flash driv e. School A court building Police station The airport Chuck E Cheese’s England Any others?
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At some point we’ll probably just ingest our memory cards. via Reddit
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It’s fairly easy to find exactly when most Americans started to get fat. All you have to do is go back to the 1950’s. Some would say this is due to our fast food lifestyle, people spending too much time in front of the TV instead of running from animals, or even possibly a plot by Colonel Sanders. I think it’s directly related to the invention of the remote control. Now, there’s even less reason to get up off the couch thanks to the latest invention: The Clicker. The Clicker is a 9-function learning remote with one important difference. It has a built in bottle opener. Now, after you train your dog to go and get you a beer out of the fridge, you no longer have to fumble in your pocket, or on the side table for an opener. You’ll know exactly where it is. Unfortunately you can’t be lazy if you want to order one though, as the website doesn’t have an electronic store. There isn’t even a price listed, just a phone number. You can download the instructions on how to program your new remote/bottle opener though.
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As a full time systems administrator, I can tell you without equivocation that IT is hard. There are lots of little problems that occur. Operating systems are fragile. Automation is great, but requires constant vigilance. So I approach things like the ClearBOX with much skepticism. An all-in-one IT solution sounds too good to be true, and it very likely is. I’m sure it offers some great features, and in the right environment it can be a good purchase. But there is no holy grail to unified IT services, because every environment is different, and the only constant is change. The hardware specs on the ClearBOX look adequate enough for most small businesses with simple IT needs: System Restore (In Development) Bypass 2 LED Indicator Bypass 1 LED Indicator G2 Bypass Segment 1 with 2 1Gb Ethernet Ports G2 Bypass Segment 2 with 2 1Gb Ethernet Ports 2 1Gb Ethernet Ports Dual USB 2.0 Ports RJ45 System Console connector Hard Drive Active LED Power LED Reset Button 128
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You’ve probably heard about some quantum this-and-that where it was implied that certain particles can be here and there, or moving and not moving, simultaneously. “Splendid,” you said, disparagingly, as you adjusted your monocle, “that also explains my quantum state of simultaneously reading and not caring.” Oh, sir! How droll that was! You slay me. But you spoke the truth: on a practical level, who cares about a muon or something not being pin-downable on a scale so small that we have to build monstrous facilities just to observe? Well, some scientists felt the same way, so they decided to implement quantum weirdness on a scale visible to the human eye : a “quantum drum” that they supercooled and then somehow both vibrated and did not vibrate. So…what did it look like? I don’t know, they don’t really say! What the hell, right? It turns out that even at a (technically) visible level, in this case about 30 micrometers, an object in a state of quantum suspension can’t really be observed, per se. I think the amount of light it would take for us to see it would totally mess up the experiment. So the researchers had to trust their instruments. I know – these scientists and their instruments . I got your instrument right here, nerd. [via Reddit ]
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Octopuses like HDTV as much as we do. Who knew? Apparently a group researches with too much grant money available tested a bunch of cephalopods a while back and found that while they appear intelligent, they didn’t responded to images on standard definition TVs. So they redid the test with HDTVs recently. The octopuses bought it and responded “more vigorously” to the HDTV images of animals and inate objects. The hope is that now researchers can now use HDTVs as a tool to study behavioural traits, such as personality. Just wait until they get their first glimpse of HDTV golf. The octopuses will likely find a comfy sponge and waste away the rest of the day just like humans.
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Here’s a fun diversion for your Thursday: the “Ben” 本 NanoNote laptop palmtop miniature computer netbook smartbook thingie! Described as a “full copyleft hardware” device, this thing isn’t going to win any performance competitions — it runs OpenWRT, which you normally find on hacked Linksys routers — but it does represent an interesting option in the realm of traditionally expensive small computing devices. There’s tons of info on the Qi Hardware wiki . The CPU is an Ingenic Jz4740 Multimedia Application Processor running at a whopping 336 MHz. It has 32 megs of RAM, and a 2GB flash chip. It doesn’t have Ethernet or WiFi, but the whole thing weighs just a little over four ounces (with battery!). I’m sure inspired hackers will find all manner of great uses for this little guy, since the price is right and the device is open. Available for purchase from sharism or hackable devices .
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A young man rang Charter Cable to cancel his cable TV connection and maintain his Internet connection. Why? Because cable TV is an anathema to this generation’s vision of media consumption and/or it sucks. So he calls Charter and Charter informs him that he has to pay a $10 no-cable fee and he is told that soon Charter and the rest of the cable companies will control all streaming, thereby rendering all streaming media unusable after “May 1.” Consumerist has his note: At this point, he said he would see what the cost of internet alone was, and said there would be a $10 “no cable TV” fee (sounds like b.s. to me), which would make it $49.95 a month for internet alone. Then he went on to say that he strongly suggested that I keep the tv service because come May 1, all of the online streaming services would be shut down because the cable TV providers are taking over, and that the FCC regulations are changing so that the cable companies will have total control over streaming video. Total control, eh? Sounds fishy. Look: cable companies have cables that come into people’s homes. They can make lots of money offering fat pipes to people who want them. But they don’t. They want to stick to whatever consumption model appeals to them and that model is the the cable channel. Cable channels don’t cost them money to maintain, they don’t have to be up 24/7, and they can sell premium channels and services to rubes who don’t know any better. The Internet is like offering running water to the home. Cable TV is like offering a bottled water service with a special “shower package” for those who want to wash. Which one is more lucrative?
Nowhereelse found what amounts to be a sneak peek for a new version of Predator , now called Predators which I suspect will eat les balles. Oh well.
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Matt: “I see we just got the latest computer monitors. Take that, South Korea.” Devin: “Zerg him, comrade” John: “Our glorious gold farming initiative is the pride of the world.” Dave: “What?? Doug left CrunchGear ?” Greg: “Our screens may not be bigger, but they are deeper. Take that, South Korea!” Scott:”I always get sniped on de_dust, too. Don’t let it get you down, brother.” via The Big Picture where there are 30 more just as funny pictures.
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