I’m really surprised that IO DATA is the first company to come out with an obvious feature in a DVD player that also plays Windows Media, DiVX, etc. It has a USB 2.0 interface so you could load an external hard drive full of media, and then just plug-n-play. No worrying about configuring networks, installing…
August, 2004
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The other night, I put on the Olympics so my daughter could watch the gymnastics competition. I’m not a big fan of gymanstics in the first place, but the problem is compounded by NBC’s continuing use of John Tesh as an annoucer. But that was made even worse by some script writer at NBC who…
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Four years ago I wrote about my incredulity and Derrick Thomas’ family suing General Motors. Thomas was an NFL player who died when he rolled his automobile. Thomas was driving way too fast for conditions and not wearing his seatbelt. He was thrown from his vehicle and sustained injuries that killed him 16 days after…
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CNET notes that a web site setup to complain about Apple’s iTunes service has backfired somewhat with people using the site to flame Real. Well, duh. Real has treated its customers like crap for years, so it’s hardly surprising that few people exactly want to rally around it. Real’s major complaint against Apple is that…
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Which Walter Cronkite is which? The Cronkite who complains, I am dumbfounded that there hasn’t been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. I expect that to develop in the fairly near future. Or the Cronkite who complains (emphasis added), Corporate censorship is…
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It’s kind of hard to understand the justification for banning performance enhancing drugs but allowing all sorts of other performance enhancing technologies. If the major concern is the “integrity of the game,” then high tech swimsuits that reduce drag far more than was possible at previous competitions seems just as unfair as some drug that…
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A couple weeks ago, the African Union finally got around to releasing its report blasting Zimbabwe for human rights violation. So what are African nations going to do about the report? Nothing. As the Johannesberg Sunday Times reports, Southern African ministers are to recommend that no action be taken against Zimbabwe despite a recent African…
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Okay, I don’t understand this at all, Sidelined judoka Miresmaeili was quoted by Iran’s official news agency IRNA as saying he “refused to face my Israeli rival in sympathy with the oppressed Palestinian people.” I thought the Muslim countries in the Middle East wanted to fight the Jews!! What, it’s not a fair fight unless…
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Parents Television Council — the group last seen paying WWE $3.5 million after the PTC lied about the WWE’s role in a number of child deaths — filed a complaint about an episode of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. The episode in question featured simulated sex between Buffy and Spike, which the PTC claimed was indecent.…
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There’s a long series of jokes/sardonic comments built around the phrase, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” For the 21st century, however, it looks like the phrase needs to be updated to “I’m from the United Nations and I’m here to help you.” I guess after expending all its energy condemning…