Watch this Google video from yesterday on Microsoft’s new voice recognition software. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. “Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.” It’s drawing a lot of comparisons with All your base are belong to us, which is also what I thought it sounded like. It’s a totally different situation, but funny still.
You are currently browsing the daily archive for 7/30/2006.
The 50th anniversary of hard-disk storage is coming up in a little over a month. On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first hard disk drive. It was the size of two refrigerators, weighed a ton, stored 5 megabytes on 50 spinning iron-oxide-coated disks– and cost $250,000 a year in today’s dollars to lease. Newsweek
In 1990, we had some brand new HP disks the size of a washing machine. Capacity 650MB.
Some software was written to move the head assembly from end to end. This would cause so much vibration the the whole machine would “walk” around.
Some new Apple Mac laptops and IBM Thinkpads have sudden motion sensors inside, which park the hard drive heads in the event of a fall which protects your data from being damaged. It’s being used for all sorts of things, including a way to turn your Mac into a Jedi weapon. It’s surprising how many fun uses for the sensors there are. Why not have an actual input device designed for this sort of thing? The acceleratometers (gyroscopes) can’t be too expensive now that Apple and IBM are including them in nearly all laptops. I guess that’s what Gyration has tried to do, but those are used just as mouse pointers. You need fun apps like these before it’ll take off. This is a good idea from a Slashdot comment. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve resolved to write at least once a day about my summer of code project. It’s the least I could do, considering all they’ve done for me. I have a presentation coming up on August 10. I need to talk to bcm about it. I don’t have anything to show yet 
I really need to do something. But what? Read the rest of this entry »
The “Contact Us” form in vBulletin is highly susceptible to spamming. I’ve received 100% spam from it– no legitimate emails. 32 spam emails so far.. the forum is inactive anyway, so I’m shutting it down.
