So this is the scene in the Silicon Valley It’s tough being a journalist, especially if you’re covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while you’re stuck in a job that will never, ever make you wealthy. What’s worse is that all these [...]
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Why are movie revenues dropping?
Roger Ebert tries to explain. Ticket prices are too high. People have always made that complaint, but historically the movies have been cheap compared to concerts, major league sports and restaurants. Not so much any longer. No matter what your opinion is about 3D, the charm of paying a hefty surcharge has worn off for [...]
Tired of living in Saskatchewan? Try seasteading
Libertarians dream of living on a floating city with no government regulation but there are some challenges. Seastead designs tend to fall into one of three categories: ship-shaped structures, barge-like structures based on floating pontoons and platforms mounted on semi-submersible columns, like offshore oil installations. Over-ordering by cruise lines means there are plenty of big, [...]
Phone hacking is a “worthy tool”?
Umm, you have to read this for yourself. After Paul McMullan, a former deputy features editor at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid, had finished his jaw-droppingly brazen remarks at a judicial inquiry on Tuesday, it was hard to think of any dubious news-gathering technique he had not confessed to, short of pistol-whipping [...]
Can a responsible adult please take over RIM
Company says it is taking a $485 million charge because they are selling the Blackberry Playbook at around $200. The good news is that they are actually selling. The bad news is that they are sold about about a $150-$200 loss per unit. A $485 million writedown for the discounting, along with costs related to [...]
A new perspective on crime
The NYPD is doing 360 degree panoramas of crime scenes now. In 2009, to better record crime scenes, the New York City Police Department began using the Panoscan, a camera that creates high-resolution, 360-degree panoramic images. Each panorama takes between 3 to 30 minutes to produce, depending on the available light, and is added to [...]
All-22
The camera angle that the NFL doesn’t want you to see. Without the expanded frame, fans often have no idea why many plays turn out the way they do, or if the TV analysts are giving them correct information. On a recent Sunday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith threw a deep pass to tight [...]
2011 Canadian Weblogs Award Nominees
The 2011 Canadian Weblog Award Nominees have been listed. I have been nominated for the best political blog and the lifetime achievement award. Among Saskatoon bloggers, I see that Dave Hutton’s City Hall Notebook and Sean Shaw’s Municipal Matters blogs have been nominated in a couple of categories as well. I looked through the list [...]
4G speed
While I loved my Blackberry Curve, it’s still CDMA and I want to take advantage of SaskTel’s new network. Plus, the HSPA network has better coverage at the cabin. Instead of the new Blackberry Curve, I am thinking of getting the new Samsung Galaxy Ace. The Blackberry apps really are inferior and with declining market [...]
