Sony Ericsson gives reason to consider current Wishlist a rough-draft
Posted: 11/03/2009 Filed under: Tech News | Tags: android, phone, sony ericsson, xperia Leave a comment »First there was DROID, and it was good. Then Sony Ericsson came along and said “Eff that noise, check this out!” and I went “omfg, I think I just creamed my panties!”
If you know anything about anything (and I do) then you know Android 2.0 phones have been rocking the house.
These glorious devices are sleek, sexy, and jam-packed with features.
The Motorola DROID for Verizon made its debut recently and really threw all the gadget reviewers for a loop — it’s Motorola’s first “worth a damn” phone in a long time. So everyone, of course, got excited and ran out to buy it. But now the other 20+ phones are hitting the market and it’s a site to behold.
So what is it I’m ranting and raving about?? Why, the XPERIA of course. Here’s a lowdown on the features:
- 8.1 MP Camera
- Bluetooth Stereo (Supports MP3/AAC)
- Twitter/Facebook/Gmail/etc
- Gesture support (implying multi-touch)
Two videos below, courtesy of Engadget
The Google Chrome Team is RIIIIIIICH (biatch)!
Posted: 11/03/2009 Filed under: Tech News | Tags: Award, Google Leave a comment »So what’s it like working for big daddy Google? Well, today would be a good day to ask the Google Chrome development team as they’ve just received one of Google’s most auspicious perks — The Founder’s Award.
The Founder’s Award is a multi-million dollar stock benefits package awarded to teams who have really brought Google some innovation points in their specific market.
It’s amazing to see them giving this out and proof that recent claims by Google that the recession is pretty much done affecting their business strategies for the time being.
Suppose we’ll start seeing more jobs out of the Mountain View office here soon.
You can read more at the official Google Blog (and hey, you know it’s official b/c it’s right in the title… “OFFICIAL”) – http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/investing-in-innovation-at-google.html
Adobe to Apple “Ohhellnoyoumuthaf#%&indidnt!!!!”
Posted: 11/02/2009 Filed under: Tech News | Tags: adobe, Apple, flash, iPhone, ipod 3 Comments »
Adobe to Apple, "Ohhellnoyoumuthaf#$%indidnt!!!!"
To add to the “Steve Jobs is a fool” theme for today… So… you know how you can’t do *ANYTHING* flash related on the iPhone and the iPod touch? Well, there’s a reason for that, it’s Apple’s fault (I know, I know… I’m not surprised either).
Adobe has been trying to beg Apple to let them in on a Non-disclosure Agreement to get a better look at developing for the devices so they can port Adobe Flash Player to them. Apple has refused. So Adobe figured they’d try a more “we’ll just let your customers know this is your fault directly until you agree” approach:
“Flash Player not available for your device. Apple restricts use of tecnologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod touch.”
Honestly? 10 points Adobe. Now if it’ll only work.
Read more @ http://www.geardiary.com/2009/11/02/adobe-to-iphone-users-want-flash-dont-blame-us/
Terminator to get a new daddy (or mommy)
Posted: 11/02/2009 Filed under: Random | Tags: franchise, Halcyon, Terminator Leave a comment »The Terminator franchise is reportedly being sold… AGAIN. Halcyon bought it some time ago but now they’re in a pissing contest with the hedge fund that loaned them the money and blah blah blah. So basically, someone else (maybe) will be collecting royalties on everything Terminator but the first two movies (you know, that ones that didn’t suck… as much).
This follows up right after everyone’s favorite little Heroes in half-shells were discarded for $60 million. Hey, they traveled through time too.. maybe that’s the link… Watch out Back to the Future/Highlander/<insert time travelling movie here>.
You can read more at http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/02/will-the-terminator-be-back-sci-fi-franchise-could-sell-for/.
Now, you too can “Pee-Own” faces!
Posted: 11/02/2009 Filed under: Humor, Random, Tech News | Tags: 360, first person shooter, fps, gamer, games, gaming, pwn, wii, xbox, xbox360 Leave a comment »Funny little jab at the concept of Wii FPS over at Gizmodo. NSFW due to the section about trash talking.
http://gizmodo.com/5395146/wii-xbox-360-to-make-shooters-more-accessible-to-non+gamers
Rise in E-reading apps on iPhone make fool of Steve Jobs (like that’s hard)
Posted: 11/02/2009 Filed under: Tech News | Tags: Apple, apps, E-book, E-reader, iPhone, Steve Jobs Leave a comment »Remember when the Kindle came out and everyone stared at Apple… Apple remained silent. Then the Nook debuted and everyone began glaring and begging the question “Ummm, you guys gonna work your magic on this?!”.
Of course you do. But do you remember Steve Job’s reply?
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore… The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
This was Steve’s reasoning behind not getting apple involved in the E-book business, even though it’s still reported that a tablet style reader is being created behind-the-scenes. So exactly how gratifying is it to watch the Style-nazi not only “supposedly” be dead wrong but actually have one of his own products make a fool out of him? Pretty damn gratifying.
Gigaom is posting that the iPhone book apps have OUTDONE the games for a little over the month. Hey, maybe Apple doesn’t need to build that tablet anyways?
Btw, Jobs… pwnt… by your own product… in the face… hard. (and btw, we still read, we just wouldn’t know proper grammar if it had an accelerometer and slick LCD screen and jerked us in a back alley-way).
More at Gigaom – http://gigaom.com/2009/11/01/iphone-e-book-reader/
Skype going Open-Source in next nano-second…
Posted: 11/02/2009 Filed under: Tech News | Tags: Oliver Faurax, open-source, Skype Leave a comment »So looks like Oliver Faurax has been told that Skype will be open-sourced for the linux community “in the nearest future”. While this is good news… I just have to interject – wouldn’t the nearest future have happened before Oliver had a chance to take in a breath of excitement, let alone write out a large post about it? O.O
http://ofaurax.free.fr/blog/index.php5/2009-10-31-00h31-0100.xml
I’m going nuts…
Posted: 11/02/2009 Filed under: Work Life | Tags: insanity, redundant, work Leave a comment »So I work for a company that manages off-site management networks. We’re currently replacing a large batch of hardware/software deployments — coming up into the age of virtualization (read: getting rid of Dell 660′s that some assjack called servers to save a buck).
We’re putting PowerEdge 1950′s and 2950′s out there now. Complete with an ESXi 4.0 load (I’m guessing the same assjack is responsible for going the free licensing route on this) and a virtual container for every physical machine that was previously deployed.
“Ash, man, that sounds awesome… sounds like it’s right up your alley… you know, all that tinkering with VMWare and access to regular RHEL 5 troubleshooting.”
Yeah…. f#$% you. These SysAdmins are the bane of my existence. I mean these bitchy little prima donnas do things on the kind of timeline that makes me look like a hard worker (What can I say, I take “work smarter, not harder” to an extreme). For those of you that don’t know exactly how slow that is, let me demonstrate with a real world and all-too-frequent example.
It’s crucial to note that the following is not an exaggeration:
- 10/15/09 — Server shipped overnight
- 10/16/09 — Server received and SIGNED FOR BY SYSADMIN
- ??/??/?? — Server unboxed
- ??/??/?? — Server racked
- ??/??/?? — Firewall rules put in place
- ??/??/?? — New VPN security group added
“Ash, there’s no way!” Yeah, yeah apparently there is and these employed-by-our-company-but-gone-native lazy asses are keeping me from doing my job. You know what I do at work all day?!?!?! Twitter. F%^&ING TWITTER. GAH!!!!!!!!
Well, that’s not entirely true… I spend most of my week reattempting to connect and calling these useless piles of carbon every day so that I can access the servers and actually work my magic. Though, I suppose it has given me more time to finish learning/implementing my SQL/PHP/AJAX project for the division opening up… and well, you know, get this site off the ground finally.
I swear my job is a real-world example of denotatively demonstrating insanity.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) begins giant game of Hide-and-Seek
Posted: 11/01/2009 Filed under: Tech News | Tags: anniversary, contest, DARPA, internet Leave a comment »So to celebrate the first message being sent over ARPA Net (pre-intarweb) between two computer systems, DARPA has issued a challenge. It’s like Where’s Waldo… but with Weather baloons… and the book is the United States… and you have… ok so it’s nothing like Where’s Waldo but you should read up on it anyways. Anyone wanna take a stab at it? O.o
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46944
