Posted 04/20/2009 at 03:43:05pm

lol, it wasnt too long ago but i remember my senior year of highschool I was in a vocational school learning Autocad and chose to use the windows 3.1 machine with autocad r13 just because it was in the corner of the room and I had ample desk space at my disposal.

Come to find out, it was much more reliable than the win95/98 machines others were using. yeah it took along while to properly render, but at least i wasnt losing my saved work and even better i wasn't BSOD-ing like others in my class.

Posted 04/19/2009 at 04:24:21pm

I remember watching the "i'm a pc" and thinking to myself that they have it all wrong. PCs were portrayed as the old fashioned, corporate type when in fact the only place i've EVER seen macs in daily use is in corporate offices. Aside from the preppy teenagers and twenty somethings who need a reason for someone to look at them.

To be honest, i would probably forget that macs even exist if it weren't for the seemingly everywhere product placement. i.e. movies, tv......

Like another put it, I'd rather have a rig i can customize myself right down to the hardware.

Posted 04/04/2009 at 01:25:23pm

What you explained is an account of you as just what you say you are. a private citizen. These are employees for a foreign-based corporation taking pictures to be used and possibly distributed in a product they develop and release publicly. Albeit free or not free there still should be some licensing involved.

If ask.com wanted a picture of my house for their search engine frontpage, they cant just walk up and take it without notifying anybody. Consent must be provided.

Of course, this is all based on the USA laws. 

Posted 04/03/2009 at 02:09:48pm

No. They were a manufacturer of high end visual effects workstations. Back in their heydey, they may have supplied workstations, whose soul purpose was to create 3d graphics and visual effects for different medias, to ILM. But they are not the creators of effects for ILM/Lucasfilm.

Pity to see them go, in their prime they had some quality hardware albeit expensive.

Posted 03/29/2009 at 07:10:14am

sounds like the courts may have to go further when someone is selected for grand jury. I know most times, the jury is put up in hotels with no more interaction that is needed with the outside world. It may piss a few people off, but I dont see it as too far a stretch to confiscate and hold cellphones and put up jurors in non internet connected locations.

 All important messages to a juror can be sent through a court secretary.

It may seem a bit harsh, but dont yell at the legal system for this, yell at the idiots that are mentioned above. 

Posted 03/19/2009 at 03:44:00pm

Add a chain and waterproof this baby and you have the perfect makings of a multi-use boat anchor.

Posted 02/26/2009 at 02:04:45pm

Or how about a layer of it added to the windshield of cars, trucks, and motorcycles. GPS, radio, and even backup camera displays could all be right in front of you, making it possible to actually look at the road while browsing for a new satellite radio channel.

Posted 02/24/2009 at 01:08:57pm

So it sounds to me that cloud computing has made the jump to home-based cloud operating system. Not a bad idea, and it was just a matter of time before it was realized.

Gotta kinda put the shivers in Microsoft though. If this catches on, and nothing is available to support MS kernels, then there's another market share they lost to Linux. However small it may be.

Posted 12/26/2008 at 08:17:34pm

If Blu Ray can handle the economic recession, eventually it should catch on. DVD had the same humble beginnings, 300 to 400 dollar players with limited selection of titles. But with prices falling all the time, it's getting more and more within reach.

 What many fail to realize is this. For the complete blu ray experiance, one also needs to have a HD capable tv (LCD or plasma). Upgrading to blu ray sadly is not just buying a br player and hooking it up like DVD was. 

 Digital downloads pose more a threat to the video rental business than the movie business as a whole. With more devices being introduced that can stream media to a television from a PC. But even that is threatened with the bandwidth cap debate.

Posted 12/26/2008 at 01:59:19pm

It's Doctor, DOCTOR Emmitt Brown