Thanks @60Minutes for your story about #TheLostBoys -I promise not to bitch about #FirstWorldProblems ever again- http://www.cbsnews.com/
Sunday, March 31, 2013
The Lost Boys
Thanks @60Minutes for your story about #TheLostBoys -I promise not to bitch about #FirstWorldProblems ever again- http://www.cbsnews.com/
Business insider
Drones May Soon Deliver Your Newspaper In The French
Province Of Auvergne
- http://www.businessinsider.com/drones-delivering-newspapers-2013-3?pundits_only=0&comments_page=1#comment-5158600c6bb3f7662f000019
Quick......someone write a business plan for a startup that delivers dog food by "drones" and flip it for billions.
www.Cognation.net
- http://www.businessinsider.com/drones-delivering-newspapers-2013-3?pundits_only=0&comments_page=1#comment-5158600c6bb3f7662f000019
Quick......someone write a business plan for a startup that delivers dog food by "drones" and flip it for billions.
Cheers,
Dean Collinswww.Cognation.net
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Hunting The Elements
Just finished watching "Hunting The Elements" on PBS by David Pogue incredibly fascinating stuff.
I challenge you to watch this and not learn anything new. (btw you can also watch it online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/hunting-elements.html in case you dont have access to PBS on cable though i recommend you watch it on a dvr as you'll want to rewind more than a few times to re-listen to some of the things that he says and listen to the explanation.
I especially liked the fact that they explain very clearly about how human bodies are actually made up of star"dust", this has been a favorite fact of mine for years that still to this day blows my brain (eg that the atoms in your left pinkie may have come from a different sun than the atoms in your right pinkie").
If there are any geeks reading this I was curious about the bit at the end about trying to man make elements and why "large scale stable elements" are useful and important to discover this "island of high molecular weight".
I challenge you to watch this and not learn anything new. (btw you can also watch it online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/hunting-elements.html in case you dont have access to PBS on cable though i recommend you watch it on a dvr as you'll want to rewind more than a few times to re-listen to some of the things that he says and listen to the explanation.
I especially liked the fact that they explain very clearly about how human bodies are actually made up of star"dust", this has been a favorite fact of mine for years that still to this day blows my brain (eg that the atoms in your left pinkie may have come from a different sun than the atoms in your right pinkie").
If there are any geeks reading this I was curious about the bit at the end about trying to man make elements and why "large scale stable elements" are useful and important to discover this "island of high molecular weight".
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Duravit
Hey @Duravit ,want to know why sales are down? Ever done a secret shopper in NYC and tried to buy an Duravit XL605402222 in gloss white-ugh effort.
Your Madison ave display center is a waste of space and no dealers have floor displays. lol no wonder your items cost so much.
BTW....you do realize your sample cards in no way resemble the product colour/sheen right....why bother having them!!
Your Madison ave display center is a waste of space and no dealers have floor displays. lol no wonder your items cost so much.
BTW....you do realize your sample cards in no way resemble the product colour/sheen right....why bother having them!!
What if they pulled the plug
Great article by an Australian technology reporter Brad Howarth - http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/what-if-they-pulled-the-plug-20130327-2gun9.html
The scarier part from me that most people dont realise is that we (city slickers) are no more than 3 days away from running out of food at any one time.
So take a simple solar flare event that knocks out not one telstra exchange but everyone on the eastern seaboard.....how would we fare then Eg do you think a supermarket could place orders with pen and paper to the distribution warehouse.
Yes yes i know most people will go sure sure....but with 8-10% possibilities of a solar event in the 2010-20 decade.....you have to wonder if we are worrying about the right things some days.
Cheers,
Dean
The scarier part from me that most people dont realise is that we (city slickers) are no more than 3 days away from running out of food at any one time.
So take a simple solar flare event that knocks out not one telstra exchange but everyone on the eastern seaboard.....how would we fare then Eg do you think a supermarket could place orders with pen and paper to the distribution warehouse.
Yes yes i know most people will go sure sure....but with 8-10% possibilities of a solar event in the 2010-20 decade.....you have to wonder if we are worrying about the right things some days.
Cheers,
Dean
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Cloudy future for Australian cloud based DVR's
Do you think Australia is going to be left behind the USA in a legal limbo with the Cloud DVR ruling last year - http://www.zdnet.com/cloud-tvrs-stop-in-wake-of-tv-now-ruling-1339338503/
Should www.MyTVR.com etc sold their soul to Channel 9 or similar and allowed one (or more) of the tv channels to buy into their cap table in order to steer the decisions a different way?
With the cablevision "remote hard drive" ruling in the USA (http://blog.collins.net.pr/search?q=cablevision) isnt there some kind of IP harmonization tack that can be tried - or even once the Aereo case works its way through the courts (saw they launched in Boston last week) is this a possible alternative challenge with the rental of "per user antennas?
Anyone closer to the action in Australia know whats going on?
Should www.MyTVR.com etc sold their soul to Channel 9 or similar and allowed one (or more) of the tv channels to buy into their cap table in order to steer the decisions a different way?
With the cablevision "remote hard drive" ruling in the USA (http://blog.collins.net.pr/search?q=cablevision) isnt there some kind of IP harmonization tack that can be tried - or even once the Aereo case works its way through the courts (saw they launched in Boston last week) is this a possible alternative challenge with the rental of "per user antennas?
Anyone closer to the action in Australia know whats going on?
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Mercy !!
New cd just launched last week. get it now on CD baby at - https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/erinsax
Check out track number 3 - https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/erinsax/YouAintWomanEnough ,doesnt get any better.
Check out track number 3 - https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/erinsax/YouAintWomanEnough ,doesnt get any better.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Could the USA government buy out TimeWarner and Comcast cable etc
Could the USA government buy out Time Warner and Comcast cable etc to implement a high speed fiber network in a similar method to the Australians NBN
Telstra will also cease using its hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network to deliver broadband in Sydney and Melbourne. Optus is also set to receive AU$800 million to decommission its own HFC network.
I know AU$37.4 billion in capital expenditure (to be paid off by 2040) seems like a lot now but in 2040 it will seem a cheap investment (especially considering the USA fed reserve is buying $85billion worth of debt every month to boost the USA economy)
And yes we are talking about different scale...but Australia might even be harder to do considering the size with smaller numbers eg 12.2m homes passed by 2021 (93 percent by fibre, 4 percent by fixed wireless, 3 percent by satellite)
- http://www.zdnet.com/nbn-fibre-to-the-world-7000012385/
Thoughts?
Telstra will also cease using its hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network to deliver broadband in Sydney and Melbourne. Optus is also set to receive AU$800 million to decommission its own HFC network.
I know AU$37.4 billion in capital expenditure (to be paid off by 2040) seems like a lot now but in 2040 it will seem a cheap investment (especially considering the USA fed reserve is buying $85billion worth of debt every month to boost the USA economy)
And yes we are talking about different scale...but Australia might even be harder to do considering the size with smaller numbers eg 12.2m homes passed by 2021 (93 percent by fibre, 4 percent by fixed wireless, 3 percent by satellite)
- http://www.zdnet.com/nbn-fibre-to-the-world-7000012385/
Thoughts?
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Totem
Saw Cirque Du Soleil "Totem" at The Mets Stadium last night.......here's a tip in case you are going, dont eat the ice cream before the show unless you want to feel like a fat pig while watching them do their acts......oh wow so thats what muscles are supposed to look like...... amazing show.
The performer in the pink skirt (59 secs of this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsOzYup2_3Y ) has a 6 pack you could see from the back row its so ripped.
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