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Friday, May 2nd, 2008I tend to play older games at least as often as modern games. Of course, I use modern programs to make those older games’ graphics look better - such as Doomsday for Doom and ePSXe for my Playstation games - and those programs and games often use OpenGL to display their graphics. No problem, right? [...]
Dreamhost Billing Fiasco
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I mistakenly deleted my rant from yesterday about the billing fiasco with Dreamhost.
However, instead of re-writing my thoughts, here’s a TechCrunch article that suitably sums up the entire situation, including Dreamhost’s Josh - the man responsible for the error - flippant and inappropriately light apology.
There’s a fine line between humor and condescension; more than a [...]
Finally “Edited” Movie Stores Will Close
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007In this incredibly biased Deseret News story it is reported that the few remaining stores in Utah that trample on filmmakers art will have to close.
Thompson explained that about two weeks ago, he got a letter from an attorney in New York who represents Warner Brothers, Sony, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount movie [...]
“Class, take out your iPods.”
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007The New York Times has an interesting article from Monday discussing schools that are pushing the use of media players in the classroom for their learning capabilities.
But even as students have been told to leave their iPods at home, the school here in Hudson County has been handing out the portable digital players to help [...]
Dear Corporations: Sorry, But It’s My Computer
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007I understand that corporatism has been the official citizen of America for a long time, and that us mere mortal civilians must bow to their will, but the technological encroachment by companies on our machines has got way out of hand.
When we buy games, software, hardware, or whatever else-ware we want to put on your [...]
