There’s always been a price disparity on goods in Canada compared to the prices for the same goods in the US. Now that the dollar has hit parity, Canadians are finally waking up to it. It’s all over the news and people are talking about it, and more importantly, doing things about it. I’ve been […]
After claiming that rumble was “last gen” when Microsoft had it and they didn’t, they announced that they were going to include it. Good news right? The problem is that they also announced that they aren’t shipping it until Spring 2008. It’s pretty basic stuff that you don’t pre-announce hardware upgrades until you’re almost ready to ship […]
So Sony’s chief Kaz Hirai has said the PS3 will have outsold the XBox 360 by March of next year. According to nexgen wars, which isn’t absolutely accurate but is usually in the right ballpark, this means they’ve got XBox’s lead of 7 million consoles plus whatever the Halo bump amounts to plus XBox 360’s […]
Microsoft’s Halo 3 site uses Silverlight. Using my PowerBook G4, the site is unusably slow, and doesn’t scale to the browser window size, making me scroll around to see the content. This is probably not Silverlight’s fault but if anyone should be able to build a showcase site for it, it would be Microsoft.
Finally, a way to visualize why we need Net Neutrality, in a way anyone can understand.
When you have a construction site in your back yard, any meal can be Mighty Machines Dinner Theater.
Maybe it’s not a problem with differing standards support at all – maybe it’s just a bug. I have two photos, I’ve called them “goodmeta.jpg” and “badmeta.jpg”. They both have keywords, but the keywords only survive the trip into iPhoto for one of them (“goodmeta.jpg”). Here’s the metadata for goodmeta, and the metadata for badmeta. […]
For a long time I’ve been keywording my photos using various tools on Windows that all seemed to agree with each other on how to get keywords into and out of photos. Picasa, Lightroom, and Bridge were all able to see the keywords that were written into the files. I just imported all these photos […]
This is good news for C++: Herb Sutter reports that in July the ISO C++ committee voted better enum support into the language. It’s all good, but the part that’s affected me in the past is the scoping of enum values. Previously: <p>class MyClass<br>{<br> enum BorderColor { Red, Green, Blue };<br>};</p> The values Red, Green, and […]
Microsoft and Novell have announced a collaboration around Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Silverlight. In my opinion, the major Linux distributions, Linux users, and most importantly webmasters, would be wise to simply ignore this. For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, here’s how it works: Microsoft sees a market they’d like to own, […]