According to TechNewsWorld Microsoft is trimming back the proposed feature set of their upcoming operating system (codenamed “Longhorn”). Recently, Longhorn’s release date was pushed up from the 2007 to early 2006, apparently, after timelines have already slipped to a late-2006 release, Microsoft has had to trim down Longhorn’s list of proposed features to meet the [...]
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Monthly Archives: August 2004
Aug 30
Tomorrow's Stereograms — TODAY!
Remember those stereograms back in highschool, the prints that looked like a “static field” on paper, and when you crossed your eyes just right you’d be able to see a 3D image in the static? Remember how cool that was? What if you could do that with actual photographs? It’s been done! Quentin Burke has [...]
Aug 26
Google AdSense
Years ago I tried the whole “make money off your website” deal. Most were ad banners that were ads for other ad banners (ePipo, AllAdvantage, etc.). Basically, you’d install a program and it’d cycle through ads on your desktop. You’d be paid for the number of hours that you were “looking at the ads” as [...]
Aug 19
out of phone numbers by 2025?
According to this C|Net article, “Federal agencies estimate that [we'll] run out of 10-digit [phone] numbers, which include area codes, by 2025.” The article doesn’t say who “Federal agencies” are, and they like to point the finger at VoIP as a “problem child” in the phone number problem. The real problem here is cell phones… [...]
Aug 19
math tricks
What’s 852? Why, that’s simple! 7,225! How do I know that? Well, thanks to the Vedics (who predate Christ), we have mathematical shortcuts all rolled up in what’s called Vedic Maths. This particular shortcut tells us that the square of any number ending in 5, ends in 25 and is precede by the number(s) before [...]
