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- Has TV animation gone too far?
- In my opinion, Fox either made an incredible mistake or a marketing test this weekend and it may kill auto racing aswe know it on TV.For years I’ve been hinting to my wife that NASCAR was little more than WWF on wheels, (I used to refer to NASCAR as televised...
- Tags: Car, NASCAR, Animation, TV, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Two new chip technologies advance Moore's law
- Intel and IBM, in separate releases, announced a new more energy efficient way of making the tiny gates which make up semiconductors.First to be seen in dual and quad core server and PC microprocessors late this year, the new Intel chips will be available before IBM’s production.Specifically, the new gate...
- Tags: Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Nikon 70-300M F4.5-5.6 anti-vibration lens
- I had been on the waiting list for about 6 months when last week I got a notice from my pro equipment supplier in NYC (BHPhotovideo.com) that my new digital telephoto zoom lens was shipping. The MLK holiday slowed things a day, but the past two days I have been...
- Tags: Nikon Corp., Lens, Camera, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Tiny Trivia Question II
- Since people seemed to like the Tron question, here's a REALLY basic one.Without the aid of Google or other research, how many of you know the correct spelling of the language Basic and what it stands for?No cheating, and, don't put your answer in the title of the reply -...
- Tags: Question, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-23
- Tiny Trivia Question
- I was talking to a group of young hackers the other day and the subject of the movie Tron came up. There is lots to say for and against the movie, although I still like the graphics. However, none of the younger hackers were able to tell me the very...
- Tags: Movie, Hacker, Hacking, Security, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- VoIP Lives and So Does Net Neutrality
- Think about it a minute, would we have Skype and other Internet phone services if we didn't have net neutrality? Do you really believe that the big phone companies which control the pipelines would allow small competitors to eat their lunch if they weren't forced to do so? Why do...
- Tags: VoIP, Net Neutrality, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Terabyte Storage Capacity Comming To CD-Size Optical Disks?
- Researchers have demonstrated a simple new way to focus laser beams to a much tighter spot than is possible with conventional lenses and mirrors, making it possible to store up to 3T terabytes of data on a CD-sized optical disk.Applied Physics Letters 89: 093120 details the research results of integrating...
- Tags: Laser, Storage, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Personal Technology, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- MySpace choose your marketing weapons
- With all the noise about predators on MySpace, no one seems to be the least interested in learning that kids who actually use it say they ignore sexual approaches on MySpace.But something they can’t ignore (and probably don't really notice) is the intense advertising.Unlike earlier online social networks and even...
- Tags: MySpace, Marketing Research, Marketing, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- The Ultimate Geek Car?
- Of course all of us here at TR know that geeks are not how they are portrayed in the media. At 30 the high school football player just has bad knees, the high school geek may have a 7 figure portfolio and his/her own company. Ecology freaks (I speak from...
- Tags: Car, Free Trade, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Nintendo Wii strap recall
- FYI, Nintendo has recalled 3.2 million of the motion-sensitive controllers due to weak straps. by siliconsamurai
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Vinge Rainbow's End - Book burning writ large? Or Big Brother meets the Web?
- Having greatly influenced the development of cyberculture with his earlier writing, Vernor Vinge is at it once again with a vision of text-messaging gone wild to the point of near telepathy and schools where the most important skill taught is the ability to navigate the cyberworld and evaluate the credibility...
- Tags: Game, Web, Novel, Computer, Games, Productivity, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Go Zinio, save a tree
- OK, I don’t care if you are an ecology nut like me or not; stacks of old publications are the bane of the existence of many geeks, and especially geek spouses. Personally it is one big reason we bought a backhoe.You probably thought that Adobe acrobat was the only way...
- Tags: Publication, Tablets, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- IBM PS/2 The MicroChannel Path to Failure
- Anybody out there remember microchannel and the PS/2? IBM brought out the PS/2 to CRUSH the competition. LITERALLY crush them - some of the computers weighed as much as a boat anchor!After IBM so brilliantly developed the PC with its open architecture, they discovered that there was actually a big...
- Tags: Review, PC, Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- CARS, a brief review of the DVD
- We don't watch much TV or many DVDs during the summer around here, what with the organic orchard, gardens we sell organic produce through a local supermarket and all the fences to keep up, but we catch up in the colder weather except for the couple of weeks when all...
- Tags: NASCAR, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- A very brief review of the new Superman DVD
- Around here the theater experience is pretty dismal, only fair sound and small screens 25 miles away at the next big town, or the local community theater here at Groundhog Day Central, not the gigantic screens and primo sound systems a lot of you have in the big city, so...
- Tags: Movie, DVD, Lois Lane, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Blame it on the word processor
- Nostalgia is often considered simply a failing of the old, but it’s really a personal rough draft of history, often by the people who actually lived through it, and is important to anyone who wants to see where they are going since their feet are often simply following the path...
- Tags: Nostalgia, PC, Word-processor, Computer, Productivity, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Google Answers Goes Belly Up Update - pending questions still being answered
- After several years’ in testing, often with less than strong support from Google, Answers.google.com, or Google Answers quietly folded yesterday. The first question asked had been “Why is the sky blue?.” In an ironic twist, the title of that final question was, “Unable to process request. Please try again later.”...
- Tags: Google Inc., Researcher, Question, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Wyrd Sisters
- I’m a long-time fan of Terry Pratchett, author of the wildly funny Discworld series so it was only natural that, when I saw Wyrd Sisters had been made into a movie, I immediately ordered a copy. I feel it is only my duty to alert other fans or potential fans...
- Tags: Movie, Video, Director, Corporate Communications, Marketing, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Check Out the Internet's Wayback Machine (Dog biscuits for Mr. Peabody not required.)
- With all the well-deserved hype surrounding pop culture phenomenon YouTube, I wonder how many geeks are quietly enjoying selections on archive.org, a project which has been around much longer providing audio, video, old movies, and even a massive selection of old Web sites. I know that most users have never...
- Tags: Web, Geek, Web Page, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Ion Turntable Turns Old Vinyl Into MP3
- Hi, some of you may have seen this mini review in the Security blog because I only had access to that area initially. But that was certainly off topic so I have now transferred it to Geekend where it belongs! With the 10th anniversary Elmo out of the...
- Tags: Geek, MP3, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
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