Semiconductor manufacturers are able to outbid solar companies for the available silicon because the material makes up a much smaller portion of their production costs, Homan said. “We are getting into a pricing war” between industries, Homan said. “The solar industry has been living off the scraps of the computer industry. This is not a […]
I ran across the term “cargo cult science” and was trying to get a better understanding of the term. Here is what the late Professor Feynman defined cargo cult science as: In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes with lots of good materials, and they […]
This is very cool. A History of Photography Website. Usually reading history of technology helps in understanding fundamentals and concepts for me. Too bad I’m still pretty slow at absorbing it all. Hey, stop ranting and give me the link
Now that’s an error message. Read it yourself
This is just hilarious: While Google allows you to filter pornography and explicit sexual content from your search results using their “SafeSearch” feature, they do not provide a means to search exclusively for such adult material. … The unsafe search works by performing two Google queries, a normal query and a query with SafeSearch enabled. […]
Okay here’s a blast from the past. The New York Times actually did a review on Transformers: The Movie. I’m reading through it now. Check out the review yourself
While not paying attention in a class that was not as interesting as I thought it would be, I drew some violent images that related to one another and told a story of violence and redemption. Well, perhaps not redemption. Take me there
This was just too funny. Thanks wooj, you made my evening. No, I don’t have a girlfriend, so if you’re interested, please send me the following items for my review of your candidacy: Four photographs — two facial close-ups and two full-body shots, preferably dressed in a swimsuit (or even better, nothing at all). Official […]
Hanzi Smatter takes a look at a tattoo that comes off meaning Fruit Information Person (果報者) in Chinese it seems. However, in Japanese the meaning is ‘lucky fellow’. The ensuing discussion erupts into how the Chinese are monopolizing their usage of 漢字. However, some very useful information on the evolution of the meaning of 果報 […]
Vietnam’s economy is supposedly going through a high growth phase right now. With growth in the economy, comes a more privileged lifestye for those who want to reach out for it. It also seems that the concept of stress also comes along witht he package. Stress is the latest trend to hit Việt Nam from […]
SSL-enabling your website brings up issues of actually getting a SSL certificate from a well known provider or else you get a pop-up window which only paranoid people bother reading through the whole certificate to verify it came from where it came from. The problem is how do you choose? This site gives a good […]
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Oh man, someone implemented a basic Tetris using SVG. Too bad SVG support is still non-existent with the browsers I use daily. Lemme try!
This is the most insightful thing I’ve seen in awhile: Then I remembered a New York Times piece I read several years ago. The basic message was simple: Americans will not pay for information or education but they will seriously overpay for convenience. How else explain bottled water, bottled tea, individually wrapped portions of peanut […]
I like using TeraTerm Pro quite a bit on Windows. However, one thing that has always bugged me about TeraTerm was the lack of SSH version 2 support. However, it seems if you are willing to look beyond the English only site for ttssh, there is a sourceforge project with a TTSSH extension that supports […]