Someone bought a USB 64Mb drive for $65 off of Daz a few weeks ago and it is wang. I was at Sonystyle on Sunday and rechecked the prices they offer for there devices. Can you say $187 for 64Mb.... That's $122 for the Sony brand, and that is plain silly.
Freedom Fries are dumb, and give rise to "Open-mouthed kissing is henceforth Freedom Kissing. Have at it, kids." (davezilla) But interestingly enough I have a point. Matt read out a section from the NY Times that mentions that there is historical precedent to this name changing tomfoolery. Back in WW1 anti German sentiments ran so high that they stopped calling frankfurters frankfurters and started calling them Hot Dogs. And that is cool, because that kind of linguistic wackiness is cool. I can't find the NY Times article to quote, but it was there. I have explored this idea furthur, and the web seems to disagree with dirty NYTimes, so maybe it is not as cool as I had hoped. Muh.
In news both of coolness to gadgety things and to my thesis, fear the "two recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc." Groovy. One is from Sony which apparently uses some dodge bastardised version of their ATAC3 format similar to the MD long play format, to give around 30hours on a CD whilst Philips have come to the party with a DVD based system that gives 100 hours of music. Mmmm 100 hours. Some of the geeks moaned that Sony and Philips will no doubt have some crappy DRM (digital rights management) system built in to make their systems crappy, and Sony no doubt will but Philips don't have a record of doing that kind of thing. Sony has a crap system for the Mini Disc which means that before you can play a MP3 on a mini disc you must first send it through the proprietary Sony software to make it Atrac3 which is then read by the minidisc, and they tie this all up with the checkin-out system whereby you can only move/copy the file so many times before you have to "check out" the original again. (gay) Philips on the otherhand doesn't do this. The CD is an fairly open standard anyone can use (for some fee I'm sure) if they want, and what is more when people started making borked CDs in an attempt to get around piracy it pisses everyone off - including Philips.
The party at James' was indeed a party, and more power to it. I declare that quote of the night belongs to Quix with "Ben stop eating cranes."
NPT sent me this link. It is a link worthy of following as it leads to a BBC article entitled "'Talking fish' stuns New York," that contains such A1 reporting as:
Zalmen Rosen, from the Skver sect of Hasidic Jews, says co-worker Luis Nivelo, a Christian, was about to kill a carp to be made into gefilte fish in the city's New Square Fish Market in January when it began shouting in Hebrew.
It is a week old, but still, it is Rock Tastic.
Posted by luther at March 20, 2003 05:50 PM