Congratulations to Offbeat Creations on their Acquisition by Playdom
Another BitPusher's gaming customers, Offbeat Creations, was acquired this week by Playdom. Congratulations to Chia, Robert and Tom!
Jonathan Cook writes more about it at http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/03/playdom_buys_social_media_gaming_sta...
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Best instant message EVER from @redhotpenguin
Fred Moyer 11:36 guess what bitch
Fred Moyer 11:36 gravity and electromagnetism are complementary forces in alternate universes
Fred Moyer 11:36 you can make an anti gravity machine with a rotating superconducting coil
Michael Halligan 11:37 ok
Fred Moyer 11:37 look up stellar diffraction
Fred Moyer 11:38 gravity bends space, so light rays get bent
Fred Moyer 11:39 sorry gravitational lensing
Michael Halligan 11:39 Oh right
Fred Moyer 11:39 but guess what
Fred Moyer 11:40 electromagnetism bends gravity, just in a different dimension
Fred Moyer 11:40 you can create gravitational inductance using a rotating electromagnetic coil
Michael Halligan 11:40 Sweet!
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Awesome excerpt from Jonathan Safran Foer's "Eating Animals"
"The worst it got was near the end. A lot of people died right a the end, and I didn't know if I could make it another day. A farmer, a Russian, God bless him, he saw my condition, and he went into his house and came out with a piece of meat for me."
"He saved your life."
"I didn't eat it."
"You didn't eat it?"
"It was pork. I wouldn't eat pork."
"Why?"
"What do you mean why?"
"What, because it wasn't kosher?"
"Of course."
"But not even to save your life?"
"If nothing matters, there's nothing to save."
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Startup idea: Travel website predicting availability of business class and first-class upgrades.
Dear farecast, flightcaster, or any other travel prediction related start-up. You would carve yourself out quite a niche if you added a feature which helped predict for a given flight how many upgrades would be available a week, a day, 2 hours, and at boarding time. In fact, I'm half tempted to do this myself, but please build it for me. In exchange I'll send you Pez, lots of gratitude, and buy you a Whisky the next time you're in SF (and face it, you're probably already here).
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Does your DSL suck? Blame content providers.
Maybe it's the pain meds, but it just hit me why DSL sucks. Hollywood wants it that way. Who cares if you can backup your 2TB hard drive over the net? Hollywood doesn't. All they want is for you to download their weak-ass content at fast speeds. Sure, we'll see 100mpbs downloads soon enough, but we'll still be stuck at 1mbps. Your internet connection is just another tool for the retailers to sell you crap, the content providers to make you watch crap, and the advertisers to convince you to watch or buy crap. It's not about what you want, it's about what they want to sell you.
I'm really feeling that the only way to fix the sad state of broadband in the USA is through federal action. If we leave it to private enterprise, there really will never be an incentive for them to sell us the services we actually want.
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14 years on, and Linux is still the wrong choice for the desktop.
Today I watched a well respected colleague break down into hysterics after a week of rebuilding his desktop. CentOS, Ubuntu, 3 or 4 smaller named distros, and back to CentOS. Stubbornly he tried to find a distro that gave him what he wanted out of a desktop, which was a seemless installation, an intelligent array of default settings, and functional software. He failed on all accounts. This is a man who has been in the industry for decades. He wrote Top. By all accounts, a greybeard, yet he failed. All he wanted was a desktop. Something to run Firefox, irc, and listen to music on , he ranted.
People don't run Linux on the desktop because it's the right choice. They run it because they're throwbacks with a strong anti-microsoft bigotry, and developing anti-apple bigotry. At some point they decided that the Unix way was the only way. The way of struggling to configure X windows, to beat one of the myriad of bloated, overly-architected swiss army knife desktops into submission. They seem to enjoy getting angry about the dozens of hours they spend per year begging their Linux desktops to just provide the basics of functionality that the rest of the world takes for granted. Meanwhile, I smugly pet my Macbook Pro and think, "The five years since I switched from Linux to OS X on the desktop have been good to me."Comments [0]
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