What is life going to be like 50 years from now? I assume I’m still going to be alive. Although my current life expectancy is 76 years, however people are living longer, so I expect to outlive 76. In 50 years, I’ll be 87. Looking back 50 years ago, nobody could have predicted what was […]
Last night’s Saturday Night Live premiere was the best episode I’ve seen in a long time. The writing for this episode was better than most of last season. The best skit was the one where they’re showing some people on the plane that had the broken landing gear, watching on TV how they were all […]
No, it’s not some .NET backup tool… Managed Copy is a feature of next generation optical discs (HD DVD, Blu-Ray). Managed Copy is the ability to copy the content of a disc onto a hard disk for playing on a computer network. Permission to copy stuff off the disc is something I didn’t expect at […]
I believe government spends money stupidly, but consider this: More than 80 percent of the $1.5 billion in contracts signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to clean up after Hurricane Katrina were awarded without bidding or with limited competition, the New York Times reported Monday. When you’re dealing with a disaster and need stuff […]
This is a big no-no. People get carted off to jail for saying bomb in an airport. But why? Do terrorists talk about bombs while they’re in the security line? “Hey Bob, you still have the bomb? You didn’t leave it at Starbucks did you?”. Has there ever been a single case where acting on […]
I’ve heard a number of different references to ‘taxes’ that developers or users are or managers are paying. Here’s two examples: The Windows Vista Hardware Tax The Power Management Tax The first one refers to the fact that if users don’t buy new hardware, they can’t play with the new software toys. This could be […]
A lot of people have been pointing to this picture as evidence that the mayor is responsible for there still being people in New Orleans, and thus somehow exonerating the federal government: Here’s my problem with that. First, a lot of the people who stayed simply didn’t want to leave. Even today, people don’t want […]
Looks like we have our own Iraqi Information Minister. “I’ve had no reports of unrest … I’ve had no reports of that” – FEMA Chief Michael Brown.
The way this disaster is being managed continues to amaze me. It’s being handled so badly it’s beyond incompetant and makes me wonder what’s really going on behind the scenes. It’s hard to believe. This is a disaster. It’s not just a bunch of people who want to travel out of New Orleans, it’s a […]
new_orleans_msi_aug31_2005_dg.jpg (JPEG Image, 4062×4544 pixels) courtesy of Digital Globe. What I don’t get is it looks like there’s a dry road from the SuperDome to the dry parts of the city. There are over 20k people at the SuperDome and they’re taking them out on buses a few at a time, but folks could at […]