2006 April 28 Archive at Grant Gochnauer - Blog : Technology : Foundation

Thanks to BetaNews:

“Mozilla has decided to strip out a major new feature of Firefox 2.0 in order to ensure that the browser meets a Q3 2006 release target, a post in the browser’s developer forum indicated earlier this week. “Places,” a complete rewrite of the browser’s bookmarking system, will no longer be included in the release.

While Places had made it into the first public alpha release of Firefox 2.0, codenamed “Bon Echo,” it had been previously pulled before then. In announcing the decision, Mozilla’s director of engineering Mike Schroepfer said the company wanted to ensure a quality release.”Rather than rush it to market - we’d prefer to spend the time it takes to get it right,” he wrote. Schroepfer said that it was a difficult decision, but it would ensure that when released, Places would work as Mozilla intended it to.”

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Another week flown by! TGIF WOHOHO! Next weekend one of my best friends Jon Friedstat graduates from medical school. I gotta say, CONGRATULATIONS dude! I know it’s been one hell of a ride! I still can’t believe I have been out of college for 4 years now. DAMN time flies (hence another week having flown by).

OK — Onto the news!!

Use your thought pattern as your password
Their idea of utilizing brain-wave signatures as “pass-thoughts” is based on the premise that brain waves are unique to each individual. Even when thinking of the same thing, the brain’s measurable electrical impulses vary slightly from person to person.

Are you lazy? Then we have just the gadget for you!
Some of these look VERY strange and I don’t think I even want to ask. For example: I wouldn’t be caught dead with these products:
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What do you do when you make $8.4 BILLION in quarterly profits?
You raise gas prices of course!! I saw on CNN yesterday that this is the 5th largest quartery profit recorded in the entire history. DAMN!

Scientists use an insects eye to design ultra thin cameras
This would allow the eye to be used in tiny, omni-directional surveillance devices, ultra thin cameras or for high-speed motion sensors. America’s military research group, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), is interested in the eye and funded some of the research. Professor Lee also thinks it may have medical applications such as imaging the gut.

I am very skeptical of this: VoiceCode. You code by talking to the PC. Yea right!

Intel admits, we are teh big suck compared to AMD but promises battle is not over yet.

Apple to release a media center? We know it’s been rumored for ages.

I thought this was humours: The CEA CEO take a stand with this ad:

Latest report on which cities have DIRTIEST and CLEANEST air. Where do you fall?
Wohoho. Chicago is listed as the 11th most polluted air. Thank god I can breathe easy now.. oh wait.

Not sure if anyone has been following the Net Neutrality issue, but when the heck did it become a bipartisan issue?
Oh you wanted to access this content from YOUR ISP? Oh well your ISP didn’t pay extra to access that content so we’re just going to slow your access down or show you different content. WHAT CRAP! Keep the net neutral!!!! Democrats got shot down by Republicans on the issue. What bull crap! “Markey said the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Efficiency Act of 2006 (COPE) as currently written would “fundamentally and detrimentally alter the Internet.” MORE HERE and HERE

Oh you wanted 720p or 1080p. That is SOO 2005. Check out what you get in 2006!
Resolution of the new system is 7,680×4,320 lines, delivering 32 million pixels, 16 times the current 1920×1080 standard that has two million pixels. While Nagamitsu Endo, NHK Enterprises America producer, co-productions, says the system isnâ€™t expected to be ready for consumer deployment until 2025 it already has caught the eye of the industryâ€™s leading HD proponents.

In some good news, NY has started construction on Freedom Tower