Computer programmers sometimes mistake brevity for elegance, especially when discussing the relative merits of programming languages. Haskel partisans, for example, love to show how one can implement QuickSort in one line of inscrutable gibberish that looks like somebody had an epileptic seizure with the caps lock on. Haskell is a great language, but not because [...]
Thought I’d try posting directly from the iPhone for the fun of it. I can see this being useful if I actually did interesting things with my life. As it stands, however, I’m currently sitting in Newtowne park in the square, and here’s what’s going on at the moment:
In ten easy steps:
Purchase an ’R’ rated movie from the iTunes music store.
Pause movie during particularly noisy sex scene, preferably one involving farm animals.
Turn off phone.
Go to important meeting with your entire staff, including boss.
Turn off ringer using mute switch and put phone to sleep.
Think you’re safe.
Innocently pull out headphones from jack, momentarily shorting out badly [...]
The end of broadcast television was always going to happen eventually, but thanks to the FCC and the vagaries of a little-known modulation format known as 8-VSB, it may happen before the end of this decade. As of February of 2009, analog television signals will be shutdown across in America. The signals which have been [...]
Ah, the fun with Vista continues. For the longest, most infuriating time, my screen settings would completely reset after my Dell Latitude D620 laptop would come out of sleep. It appears that the problem was with the Intel integrated graphics drivers. Is that Microsoft’s fault for doing something dumb in Vista, or Intel’s fault? I [...]
Quick Summary. Google’s street view is simply a representation of reality on a specific day, and they have not highlighted any aspect of the dataset, and furthermore the dataset is comprehensive. Given the mapping between reality and the dataset that is inherent in something like Street View, one’s privacy on the day your photo was [...]
If you want to connect your RAZR to your windows computer with a USB cable, at the very least you will need the following drivers. They will let you connect to the phone as a modem, and will allow the phone to be charged by the computer. It’s the first thing you should install should [...]
