Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project"
Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net
Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net
Nokia N73 Starts Shipping -- "a stunning multimedia computer with excellent photography features and integrated stereo speakers for optimized audio pleasure"
this story starts out not without its amusement and then takes a hard right at the end.
the comments are telling coming from both sides.
the comments are telling coming from both sides.
energy dwink
Intel has been spanked in the high-end server market by AMD, but in the mainstream market Intel is poised to bury the competition by setting new benchmarks in bang for the buck.
Scenarios for the digital home: Q&A with VP Doug Rasor of TI
"There’ll be multiple Da Vinci chips, but one of the first ones we announced has for instance 10/100Mbps Ethernet, on the chip. It also has USB 2.0 on the chip, and an LCD driver. So if you’re thinking of making a portable media player, for instance, and you’re thinking of giving it network connectivity, Da Vinci would allow you to do that very easily, with a minimal number of chips."
"There’ll be multiple Da Vinci chips, but one of the first ones we announced has for instance 10/100Mbps Ethernet, on the chip. It also has USB 2.0 on the chip, and an LCD driver. So if you’re thinking of making a portable media player, for instance, and you’re thinking of giving it network connectivity, Da Vinci would allow you to do that very easily, with a minimal number of chips."
josh marshall politely gutted on mushy lieberman positioning.
more on AVCHD from Sony
I heard the angry arab guy on NPR yesterday. He's a prof at California State University, Stanislaus (in the Sierra foothills). His peeps are from south Lebanon.
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"The report also found that conservative Christian schools -- a constituency that supports vouchers -- lagged significantly behind public schools in eighth-grade math. The report supported similar findings from a University of Illinois study on math."
"Fundamentalist conservatives will be sorely disappointed if the government doen't come through with those vouchers because they are really counting on the eleventy three-hundert dollars per student which will allow them to purchase copies of Heather's Mommy Speaks in Tongues and Biology 101: Men Are From Dust, Women Are From Ribs."
"The report also found that conservative Christian schools -- a constituency that supports vouchers -- lagged significantly behind public schools in eighth-grade math. The report supported similar findings from a University of Illinois study on math."
"Fundamentalist conservatives will be sorely disappointed if the government doen't come through with those vouchers because they are really counting on the eleventy three-hundert dollars per student which will allow them to purchase copies of Heather's Mommy Speaks in Tongues and Biology 101: Men Are From Dust, Women Are From Ribs."
ill have to put this down as one of gilliards dumber conclusions. glad most of his commenters have more sense than he.
...former Nixon Whitehouse counsel John Dean has a fascinating new book out called "Conservatives Without Conscience"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670037745/sr=8-1/qid=1153338179/ref=pd _bbs_1/103-2568283-7396653?ie=UTF8
The core of the books is his presentation of current research on the connection between contemporary so-called "conservativism" and a distinctly right-wing authoritarian mindset.
A couple of university-level peer-reviewed studies Dean cites can be found here:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/gjonas.pdf
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/reply.pdf
Money quote:
"the current state of evidence warrants the conclusion that (at least in the general population) right-wing conservatism is positively related to dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity; uncertainty avoidance; fear of threat, loss, and death; system instability; and epistemic needs to achieve order, structure, and closure, as well as negatively related to openness to experience, integrative complexity, and (to a lesser extent) self-esteem."
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fawning flora
sucumbed to the lure of the vitamin water. (im told 50cent is a part owner of the company with one of the flavors named after him.) reviewed at bevnet.
im having a vital-t, at the moment, which is quite nice.
im having a vital-t, at the moment, which is quite nice.
Slanted Door -- D and I had lunch there yesterday. The Shaking Beef wasn't as stunning as the last time, but was very good. Perhaps it had less impact because my palette knew what to expect, or perhaps the preparation was toned down slightly. Still highly recommended.
The greenlake beans with honshimeji mushrooms were also great. Green beans with shallots and mushrooms are a perennial of mine, and it's always nice to see an alternate variation. There was a bit of spicy heat in the oil used to cook the beans.
The green papaya salad is very mild compared to what I'm used to at Krung Thai in the South Bay.
I think they are missing the point, but:
FOR those who yearn for a well-aged, full-bodied vintage wine but lack the funds to feed the habit, the solution may lie with a Japanese boffin, a zany-looking contraption, a couple of metres of latex tubing and a few hundred volts of electricity.
Squirrelled away in his chemical engineering laboratory in rural Shizuoka, Hiroshi Tanaka has spent 15 years developing an electrolysis device that simulates, he claims, the effect of ageing in wines. In 15 seconds it can transform the cheapest, youngest plonks into fine old draughts as fruit flavours are enhanced and rough edges are mellowed, he says.
ive seen two middle aged women carrying umbrellas (to keep the sun off) so far today. anyone else been outside?
