There is a guy on the internet called Malcom Steward trying to tell us that a specific brand of SATA cable improves the quality of his audio.
Now three things spring to mind here
a) is the guy being paid to say this rubish?
b) The guy is a total idiot.
c) He has spent a lot of money [...]
From an article at http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars
I only block Ads that are irritating, slow or get in the way. Google ads are not blocked on my system.
If you want to keep your adverts viewable make them unobtrusive. no flash (I block scripts), no rotating gifs as I don’t want to be continuously distracted from what I am [...]
Wow, now that’s a nice gift to the users of the internet
http://www.popsci.com/archives
Some interesting articles for your perusal. I scan many tech news sites and here are just a few of the articles I have read today.
Sub $200 tablets arrive, competition for the iPad?
Linux is doing fine on servers
How much does google know about you?
Don’t press F1 in Windows XP or easy to read notes
Mankind has come a long way in the last 100 years or so from steam powered engines to car and the Jet powered plane. The television and the internet, the nuclear reactor and the PET scanner.
There are few inventions that have directly affected pretty much everyone in the same way as the internal combustion engine. [...]
The kindle has finally come to the UK and has already failed for me.
I was looking at getting a Kindle a long time ago and finally gave up waiting and went out and bought the Sony. Boy am I relieved I did.
There are more than 4 reasons why I am glad I got the Sony [...]
Very nice system… From BackBlaze I am not going to repeat what is on that page go have a look it’s impressive.
Just looking around for more ebooks to download and found this (Another Quarter of Triple-Digit Growth for E-Books)
But on the downside I found Random Books the UK’s biggest Publisher has its own ebook site at http://rbooks.co.uk. Thats not bad news until you see that they are charging £17.08 for the new Dan Brown book The [...]
I know this is old news but it is starting to get interesting now. With google taking on the ePUB format, Barnes and Noble already using it and now Sony moving to it there are Rumours that Apple will go with it also.
What this means is that everyone that matters except Amazon will be using [...]
I apologise wholeheartedly for jumping to conclusion. The broken BBC website is not the fault of FireFox.
I have just installed Internet Explorer (yuk) and that has the same problems. I also note that MS installed a bunch of updates on my computer last night and that the BBC website has changed somewhat.
So is it the [...]