Rogers Completely Screws Canadians, leaving them out in the cold without their data plans in one of the worst public relations moves in recent recorded Canadian history.
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Flickr Apocalypse
So, it’s finally happened. From my part of the world, Flickr has dropped off the map. From what I can tell, there’s some sort of DNS issue, and many of the flickr.com subdomains cannot be resolved by me, or my friend Jack starting last night and continuing all of today. I feel a little like [...]
Voxilla Not Fraudulent
Internet commerce is going gangbusters these days, more people are trying it out and getting good results. I, however have made two internet purchases this month and both of them have met with something akin to fraud. The largest of these purchases was a new IP telephony ATA device that would allow me to have [...]
Java 6 Released, But I don’t JSR it.
12 Dec 2006 at 23:56
thorinside
Bad, Development, Rants, Software development, Technology, Uncategorized
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Okay, I’ve been away from the Java world for a while. The better part of three years, I’ve been an infrequent visitor, sometimes maintaining software that I’ve previously written, and writing the odd article about Geronimo. I was excited about the new Java 6 release recently, and decided to download it. I downloaded it with [...]
Dog brain controls computer!
John Thomson, at the University of Texas, has grown a “brain” 50,000 nerve cells taken from a dog and raised in a Petri dish that can control Quake 3: Arena, allowing scientists to study how brain cells compute and deal with sensory input.we make money not art: Dog neurons in a dish control game Oh [...]
