techmanPersonal Gravity, Erasing Sex Sites And The News
March 10th 2007 20:15
Trying to find my own personal gravity at this blog, hope you’ll come back to see how this works out. 
I’m not a natural techie. I sat in a basement in San Francisco, more than a decade ago, trying to work out “gophers” to get where I needed to go on the net. A lot of others were mostly interested in deleting evidence of visits to triple x sex sites. They moaned when I raised a question about finding law for research on the net.
Sheesh....story of my life...I’m not condemning triple x sites, mind you, but that’s a whole different subject...
So, here’s technology from a woman who sometimes prefers Ralph Lauren to programs. Enjoy.
Playstation 3 caught my attention because of the announcement, with video, this past week of their new, somewhat Second Life like, program launch: Home.
Three Speech has a really good, high resolution (plus the low res, for lower bandwith) introduction in to what Sony Corp. has available for the game. Wow.
The introduction for the game Little Big Planet bored my in-house gamer, but he might give it a try. But, then, he’s used to Zelda....
Home was extremely cool looking to me, and I can see where this could be as much of a time consumer as anything else.
CNet's review of the Playstation 3 is here
Cnet .
The best price I could find on the web for the machine is here digiCombos
I haven’t purchased through this company, but they have pretty good reviews, and a price lower by more than $100 US than Wal-Mart .
The International Herald Tribune reports on Freebase, the much talked about free program newly available, for organizing the net.
"It's like a system for building the synapses for the global brain," said Tim O'Reilly, chief executive of O'Reilly Media, a technology publishing firm based in Sebastopol, California.”
Further, "Already added into the Freebase system is descriptive information about 4 million songs from Musicbrainz, a user- maintained database; 100,000 restaurants supplied by Chemoz; extensive information from Wikipedia; and Census data and location information.
"A number of private companies, including Encyclopaedia Britannica, have indicated that they were willing to add some of their existing databases to the system, Hillis said."
Around the blogs, Kuro5shin has an hysterically funny story (o.k, I think it’s funny) about geek communities online...
Otherwise, the main lead story is on the morality of suicide, which, really, may be very important but, ....
Slashdot has a neat article that refers to this link CBC Tech After reading, can you help but wonder about any kind of concert, rock or rap, and pain receptors? All kinds of possibilities here
I couldn’t get the video to play, but Cornell University has created a robot that learns.....
Cornell
Lifehacker reminds us to re-set our clocks and has an article on saving money on diapers. Who’d have thought?
engadget has a story on a new Axia product,
“The AXIA HSDPA Multimedia STB is a do-it-all box and makes no bones about it. Inside its shiny black exterior is HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0, with an embedded Windows OS for running entertainment, VoIP, kiosk and ePayment apps.
"Says Yogi Babria, Fifth Media Chief Program Officer, "We converge into a single device all the functions and desired applications required for business and home users."
We weren't really aware that the market was in dire need of such an oddly converged product, but if you want an HSDPA WiFi router that can simultaneously get you onto Internet Explorer and do the SIP hosting for your VoIP calls'
But, when you go to Fifth Media’s site it is pretty bad. Hopefully, the product works better.
The Washington Post reports that
"Under the contract with Yahoo, AT&T reportedly pays Yahoo $200 million to $250 million a year, accounting for more than 25 percent of the $798 million in fees that Yahoo collected last year. Most of Yahoo's revenue, which totaled $6.4 billion last year, comes from advertising”
This is personal, but, I nominate ATT for whatever Darth Vader awards are out there. They’ve earned it...
I’m not a natural techie. I sat in a basement in San Francisco, more than a decade ago, trying to work out “gophers” to get where I needed to go on the net. A lot of others were mostly interested in deleting evidence of visits to triple x sex sites. They moaned when I raised a question about finding law for research on the net.
Sheesh....story of my life...I’m not condemning triple x sites, mind you, but that’s a whole different subject...
So, here’s technology from a woman who sometimes prefers Ralph Lauren to programs. Enjoy.
Playstation 3 caught my attention because of the announcement, with video, this past week of their new, somewhat Second Life like, program launch: Home.
Three Speech has a really good, high resolution (plus the low res, for lower bandwith) introduction in to what Sony Corp. has available for the game. Wow.
The introduction for the game Little Big Planet bored my in-house gamer, but he might give it a try. But, then, he’s used to Zelda....
Home was extremely cool looking to me, and I can see where this could be as much of a time consumer as anything else.
CNet's review of the Playstation 3 is here
Cnet .
The best price I could find on the web for the machine is here digiCombos
I haven’t purchased through this company, but they have pretty good reviews, and a price lower by more than $100 US than Wal-Mart .
The International Herald Tribune reports on Freebase, the much talked about free program newly available, for organizing the net.
"It's like a system for building the synapses for the global brain," said Tim O'Reilly, chief executive of O'Reilly Media, a technology publishing firm based in Sebastopol, California.”
Further, "Already added into the Freebase system is descriptive information about 4 million songs from Musicbrainz, a user- maintained database; 100,000 restaurants supplied by Chemoz; extensive information from Wikipedia; and Census data and location information.
"A number of private companies, including Encyclopaedia Britannica, have indicated that they were willing to add some of their existing databases to the system, Hillis said."
Around the blogs, Kuro5shin has an hysterically funny story (o.k, I think it’s funny) about geek communities online...
Otherwise, the main lead story is on the morality of suicide, which, really, may be very important but, ....
Slashdot has a neat article that refers to this link CBC Tech After reading, can you help but wonder about any kind of concert, rock or rap, and pain receptors? All kinds of possibilities here
I couldn’t get the video to play, but Cornell University has created a robot that learns.....
Cornell
Lifehacker reminds us to re-set our clocks and has an article on saving money on diapers. Who’d have thought?
engadget has a story on a new Axia product,
“The AXIA HSDPA Multimedia STB is a do-it-all box and makes no bones about it. Inside its shiny black exterior is HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0, with an embedded Windows OS for running entertainment, VoIP, kiosk and ePayment apps.
"Says Yogi Babria, Fifth Media Chief Program Officer, "We converge into a single device all the functions and desired applications required for business and home users."
We weren't really aware that the market was in dire need of such an oddly converged product, but if you want an HSDPA WiFi router that can simultaneously get you onto Internet Explorer and do the SIP hosting for your VoIP calls'
But, when you go to Fifth Media’s site it is pretty bad. Hopefully, the product works better.
The Washington Post reports that
"Under the contract with Yahoo, AT&T reportedly pays Yahoo $200 million to $250 million a year, accounting for more than 25 percent of the $798 million in fees that Yahoo collected last year. Most of Yahoo's revenue, which totaled $6.4 billion last year, comes from advertising”
This is personal, but, I nominate ATT for whatever Darth Vader awards are out there. They’ve earned it...
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Comment by Ahmed
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
That and anyone who actually plays second life won't want it, why? Because the console costs $600.
Comment by Theresa
Today's World
Welcome.
I don't know about Home's future. I agree with your point that there is a lot of anger over the price for P3. And, that it is too much. But, despite all the bolg references to Sony's management lately, I think they may have something with Home. Well, we'll see how it shakes out.
I was offline spending time with family today, and then, finally tried out Second Life, purely for investigative purposes, you understand (about time, I guess).
Prior to joining (basic, free) I had watched a little of a google video produced about a year ago, about Second Life (that was what finally made me try it).
At that time they had $5M US a month going through users hands. They talked about people exchanging products and money without borders and tariffs. Pretty exciting stuff for someone who actually likes economics.
I checked out some of the other metaverses, on a very general basis. Not actually joining.
I'd be interested to know what you think is the future of these enterprises. Will SL be here, in some form, in 10 years? Will IBM be charging sales tax on virtual, or real, products? Is it already there, and I just didn't get to that section yet? Will nations impose borders, and require virtual passports? If they do, will the members just pack up and go to a new communitty?
It's interesting...more to come
Theresa
Comment by Ahmed
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
Still dunno about this one, knowing console gaming Home is going to turn into a social ground for a bunch of 13 year old kids whining and cussing online with the sound of their parents yelling at them in the background...
Comment by Theresa
Today's World
Oh my gosh, I didn't think about that. Pardon to 13 year olds (wicked cool Nick, in particular). No, not my idea of socializing. Nor would they want to socialize online with me
It will be interesting to watch...
Theresa