InfoWeek reports that Hitachi plans to begin sampling a 5″, 200gb holographic disk in 2005 and incorporate the technology into drive system in 2006. According to Infoweek, Hitachi hopes to increase capacity to 400gb in 2007. Tom’s Hardware has more technical details about InPhase, the holographic disk company that Hitachi acquired and which will actually…
January, 2005
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Cory Doctorow posted last week about a bizarre encounter with American Airlines in which an AA attendant tried to convince him that a Transportation Security Agency regulation required him to write out a list of the names and addresses of everyone he planned to stay with while in the United States (if I remember correctly,…
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Audible.Com and the NFL have reached an agreement so that recordings of radio broadcasts of playoff games will be available for download the Monday after the game. And for a low, low price of $10. Huh? Is there really that big of a market for listening to day-old radio broadcasts of sporting events? I could…
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This past week has been absolute hell. First, I’ve got a number of important, deadline-driven projects that I’m trying to finish at work. So it was inevitable that the entire family would come down with a flu-like virus. I can handle that — I’m used to working through feeling like crap and getting things done…
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Back on December 17th, I sent Seth Dillingham a letter via USPS Priority Mail. Because of the Christmas holiday, I sort of understood why he hadn’t received it before Christmas, but when the New Year came and it still hadn’t arrived that was very annoying. Not to worry, though — it finally arrived on January…
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NC Soft, makers of MMORPG ‘City of Heroes’, has filed a motion to dismiss Marvel’s lawsuit claiming the game is one big copyright/trademark violation factory, since the game’s character creation system allows players to create characters similar to Marvel (or DC or any other superhero property) characters. NC Soft’s motion, among other things, argues that,…
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Via Slashdot, on-again, off-again rumors that Star Trek: Enterprise is being cancelled . . . or not. I’m not a big Enterprise fan, but it’d be sad if its the case, as some Slashdotters opine, that its poor ratings are because geeks are watching Stargate and Stargate: Atlantis on Sci-Fi instead. The last season of…
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It is kind of weird to see all sorts of blogs commenting on Martin Schwimmer’s anti-Bloglines rant while apparently purposely ignoring the salient point and the (potential) problem with Bloglines (emphasis added), It was brought to my attention that a website named Bloglines was reproducing the Trademark Blog, surrounding it with its own frame, stripping…
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Shortly after competition for domain names was opened up, I switched all my domain names from Network Solutions to Dostster. At the time, Dotster had good word-of-mouth and positive reviews. Unfortunately, the company has really gone down hill the last couple years. Recently it pulled off two bone-headed maneuvers. First, it automatically created free .info…
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I can’t stand Daily Kos but the sort of ignorant hit pieces like Chris Nolan’s article are just absurd. Nolan is upset because the Markos Moulitsas, who writes the Daily Kos, was a paid consultant to the Dean campaign, Last week, Zephyr Teachout former Howard Dean campaign director of Internet organizing put a post up…