IBM’s Holey Optochip? Yawn. Fujitsu’s K supercomputer? Yesterday’s news. Forget about boring old conventional computing stuff, the future of computer technology lies in crabs — lots and lots of crabs. Researchers at Kobe University and the University of the West of England’s Unconventional Computing Centre have discovered that properly herded crabs can signal the AND, OR and NOT… Read More »
Yeah, you’re pretty smart. You’re reading this! TC and EB took this test and you can guess who got the highest score! Sorry, EB. At least you look better! Ahem…. Unlike some IQ tests, this test won’t take you a day and a half to complete. It’s only 12 questions, but that may be enough. Some of the… Read More »
What really makes us angry is when we download software to test and we find toolbars and other garbage bundled with it. It’s becoming pandemic across the web. And you’re probably wondering why this is so. It’s easy. It’s all about the money. Over the years we’ve turned down dozens of offers to bundle toolbars and other worthless… Read More »
It’s a beautiful and warm spring day, although by the calendar, it is still winter. The trees remain devoid of leaves,and most of the spring flowers are but nascent green shoots. The calendar tells me it’s still winter, but my heart and my spirit tell me it’s spring and so does the sunshine that seems more at ease… Read More »
I’m not going to wax political — I’m not that crazy – but it seems to me if we want more jobs in this country we need to make more stuff in this country. Where has all the common sense gone? We threw billions at the Wall Street fat cats who colluded with investors to offer impossible loans… Read More »
For those of you who live who live in areas of the USA where broadband service is not available, you might be interested in Verizon’s new home broadband service. It’s not cheap, but it is broadband so it will be much, much faster than dial-up or satellite. Your bandwidth will be limited to 10GB for $60 a month.… Read More »