Posts Tagged ‘pirates’

1972 – HP introduces the HP-35 – which was the first handheld scientific calculator. It was named after the fact it had 35 buttons. The unit weighed 9 oz and cost $395. However, this would ultimately be dubbed “The slide-rule killer”

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• The Dancing Baby Debuts
• Business Software Alliance offers amnesty to pirates
• Spam King Stanford Wallace and FTC agreement

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-         Steve Jobs in the cave.

• Tablet? Don’t think so.
• iPod Cameras
• Sept 9th

-         Sony E-reader – Google joining in

• Competes with Kindle
• $399 – more than Kindle
• Google Open Library – books.google.com
• Audiobooks – http://librivox.org/

-         When Pirates become Corporate Raiders

• Global Gaming Factory X,
• Swedish company that plans to buy The Pirate Bay domain for
• SKr60 million (about $8 million)
• Legal Site

-         Looking at Microsoft ad.

-         Don’t post your vacation plans

• Hint people will be there – Throw off scent
• Home Alone – Light timers – silhouette?
• Park a car in the driveway

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On Tuesday, Apple did what it said they were going to do for the last 2 years – pull out of MacWorld. Of course, Apple will attend this years’ event, but they really dropped the ball by stating Steve Jobs will not be doing the Keynote address. So now MacWorld is left with the senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phillip Schiller.

MacWorld Should Say to Apple “We’re Mad As Hell and we’re not going to take this anymore…”

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We have commemorated “Talk like a Pirate Day” in my other circles for the last few years now. It’s cool to see and hear mainstream picking it up. Ye all need to talk like a pirate e’ry now and then.

When I woke up this morning, I said “Yar! I need to write a Shanty”. So I did. Since my main Guitar is in the shop, I picked up the practice guitar and strummed out the song. A quick recording and mixing and Voila! A new song is born.

Here are the Lyrics if you want to sing along.

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It’s Monday, so we run This Week in Tech History. Some of the things that happened this week:

• TRS-80 Model 100
• Halley’s Comet
• Phototransistor
• UNIVAC
• Gyroscopes
• Pirate Radio

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Oink, Wikileaks, Stage 6, MisicBrigade and Yahoo Music. What do all of these items have in common, well, they all are or will be shutdown. The internet grows daily – new websites start, and new websites fall.  Sometimes you can pick up the pieces and turn it into a profit, sometimes it’s just a name in the dust.

On Monday, DivX Stage 6 – a popular video website and used to pirate a lot of videos, has decided to close it’s doors on Feb 28th. The site let users upload their favorite videos to share. Some of them were legal, home-made videos. Others were pirated movies and television series. You could watch them right there, or you could download them and watch them later – considering if you had installed the DivX codecs.

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*UPDATE: There is rumor that Bloglines could shut down as well. Although not a valid source, it would be a big blow to Social Networking. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/24/bloglines-suffers-major-outage-heading-for-the-deadpool/

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