February 28, 2005
Primetime Dogs, huh?
February 22, 2005
Artificial eyes by 2010, says EC
European scientists have joined the race to produce an artificial retina with research that could help restore the sight of thousands of people suffering from retinal disease.
Belgian Professor Claude Veraart says that a prototype device has been implanted in two patients so far, according to a Reuters report. He said that 15 teams of researchers are working on the problem, but that the Belgian trials had produced the best results so far. The Belgian team co-ordinates a pan-European research effort, involving scientists in France and Germany.
As with similar work in the United States, the prosthetic retina works by passing artificially stimulating the optic nerve, in line with signals from a tiny digital camera mounted on a pair of glasses.
Full Story @ The Register
Seems I may be able to cure my colorblindness one day after all :-)
Nokia dumps IE for Firefox: 55,000 times
REPORTS ON TWO Scandinavian web sites said that Nokia is pushing Microsoft Internet Explorer off its desktop PCs in favour of the Firefox browser.
Full Story @The Inquirer
Nokia dumps IE for Firefox: 55,000 times
February 21, 2005
Avidemux 2.0.38rc1 released
Avidemux 2.0.38rc1 was release yesterday. Looks like a good update, but I'll stick to 2.0.36 for the moment. I have also been working (for a good 30 minutes, haha) on an Avidemux desktop icon. I'll make it available once Mean gives the ok.
February 17, 2005
R U 404 On Office Slang?
I was crop dusting at work the other day and when I got to my email I discovered a link to this great site, check it out.
No! Don't Americanize Naruto!
Cartoon Network today announced several major acquisitions for their venerable Toonami action-animation block. Fan-favorite Naruto will join the block in the third quarter of 2005, while One Piece will move to Toonami in May. Toonami original IGPX will expand into a full series from Production IG. The Batman will see a Toonami airing beginning April 2, ShoPro acquisition Zatch Bell will start in March, and nosehair-fighting anime Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is coming in the fourth quarter.
Teen Titans will air 17 new episodes in the coming year, Justice League Unlimited has 23 new episodes on the block, and Duel Masters will return with 26 new episodes. D.I.C.E. and Dragonball GT will both also continue with new episodes.
I just know my new favorite anime Naruto is going to get haX0rd up by some asshat in the U.S. and they will ruin a freakin' awesome show. Leave it alone you slugs! Dangit!
Already finding the new episodes on bit-torrent has become "troublesome" as my favorite character Shikamaru would say ;-)
February 15, 2005
Irony in Disdain
I'm not sure how many of you out there are Rammstein fans, I for one think they rock.
However, that being said I found some Irony today in the music video for the song Amerika off their latest release.
I may be wrong here, as they sing in German and I speak very little German. The impression I get is they are saying the song how "Amerika" is trying to make the world like us. Yet the examples they use are for the most part from other countries. One such example is some African tribesmen sitting around watching tv eating pizza. Then another showing Santa in the desert with some kids on his lap.. yet another import from Europe. The best part being they are playing electric guitars and Metal music.. both American. Ain't Irony grand?
February 11, 2005
Tracker Update
Just a quick update the tracker is back up after a short downtime late last night.
Also please leave the torrent running after your download is done for a week or so if at all possible. Thanks.
February 09, 2005
WorldCom chief 'made me inflate revenues'
SCOTT SULLIVAN, the former chief financial officer at WorldCom, the bankrupt US telecoms group, told a New York court yesterday that Bernie Ebbers, the group’s former chief executive, had put pressure on him to inflate revenues so that the group met Wall Street estimates.
In his second day on the witness stand, Mr Sullivan said: “The source of the pressure was Bernie and the source of the pressure was also the marketplace.”
Mr Sullivan described how his former boss denied his pleas to lower earnings projections as the company’s finances deteriorated in 2000. Mr Sullivan testified that as earnings reports came due “there was one thing that he said each time, ‘We have to hit our numbers’ ”.
Mr Sullivan told the court that, under pressure from his boss, he adjusted revenue figures, such as credits for overbilling, in order to match Wall Street analysts’ growth expectations.
Full Story @ Times Online
I can confirm the following from the article "Mr Sullivan described how his boss was obsessed with costs, accusing employees of stealing coffee. Mr Sullivan paraphrased his former boss: “There’s more coffee filters than coffee bags. That means employees are taking coffee home, and we need to cut out the service.”
We lost our coffee and were told that it was to cust expenses... then it came out that Ebbers thought we were stealing coffee. Nobody bothered to consider we used 2x packs of coffee for each pot because it was weak, poor quality coffee to begin with. :-/
February 07, 2005
U.S. Drops Criminal Inquiry of CIA Anti-Drug Incident
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have dropped a three-year investigation into whether at least four CIA officers lied to lawmakers and agency superiors about a secret anti-drug operation in Peru that ended in 2001, a Justice Department spokesman said on Saturday.
"The Justice Department has declined a criminal prosecution," spokesman Bryan Sierra said in a statement.
The United States halted anti-drug surveillance flights that first began in 1994 after the fatal downing of a small missionary plane in Peru in April 2001.
How does the CIA gun down an American missionary and her baby and nobody is held accountable? I say Bush either steps up the plate and fires the asshats responsible for this (at the very least) or gives up and admits he is everything the liberals claim he is.
13 Year Old Gang Member: DRT
Feb 7, 2005 2:24 pm US/Pacific
LOS ANGELES (CBS) Authorities were investigating a Los Angeles police shooting that left an unarmed 13-year-old suspect dead early Sunday in South Los Angeles....
Read the story at KCAL 9
*Editors note* I wonder How many lives were saved because this kid was killed? Other articles mentioned he was a gang member, hence the reference to him as a gang member.
RIAA sues the dead
Death is no obstacle to feeling the long arm of the Recording Industry Ass. of America.
Lawyers representing several record companies have filed suit against an 83 year-old woman who died in December, claiming that she made more than 700 songs available on the internet.
"I believe that if music companies are going to set examples they need to do it to appropriate people and not dead people," Robin Chianumba told AP. "I am pretty sure she is not going to leave Greenwood Memorial Park to attend the hearing."
Gertrude Walton, who lived in Beckley, West Virginia hated computers, too, her daughter adds. An RIAA spokesperson said that it would try and dismiss the case.
Full Story @ The Register
My favorite part is the RIAA saying "that it would try and dismiss the case" (rolls eyes)
February 06, 2005
French demonstrate to keep 35-hour work week
PARIS (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of French people took part in demonstrations across the country to protest against government plans to reform the 35-hour work week.....
Read the story at Yahoo!
*Editor's Note* What whiny bitches.
February 03, 2005
One more year of this garbage
I signed back up for one more year of hosting.
So DF you can stop holding your breath, I'm not going anywhere for one more year.
:-P
As for the rest of you.
God Bless and may your coffee always be fresh and never bitter.
Muddy
p.s. hey DF I'm drinking your country right now... uh.. never mind.
MP3.com is Reborn
SAN DIEGO, February 2, 2005 - Michael Robertson, the founder and former CEO of MP3.com, will announce next week that he is starting a new digital music company called MP3tunes. The company will focus on music products and services with an emphasis on the MP3 format to maximize interoperability and consumer choice. Over the coming months, MP3tunes will make several new products available online including a hardware device, software products and an online music store. Robertson will officially announce the new company at the Desktop Summit, February 9-11 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego (www.desktopsummit.com).
"When I started MP3.com, the term 'MP3' was an obscure acronym recognizable only by geeks," Robertson said. "Back then, we had to battle for the legality of MP3 players. But because of those early efforts, consumers now have a spectacular array of portable players to choose from.
Visit MP3tunes.com