Standard, standards, who's got the standards

God knows I love new tech and new gadgets. But sometimes I wonder if things move too damn fast. Now they've developed PAPER DVD's and other new larger-capacity DVD formats.

Besides the above, I read today they're already looking to replace the DVD....and the DVD is supposedly going to replace the CD. It's moving towards replacing it for CD-R uses on computers.

Hell, I haven't finished replacing all my LP's and VHS tapes with DVD yet. Cut it out, guys!

Thanks heavens they are making DVD drives that are able to read and write the old formats. Oh yeah.....there's a ton of different DVD formats out there (DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW and these new things.)

Unix and Linux have this problem too. There's eleventy-one different flavors of Unix and even of Linux. Hell, there's a half dozen Linuxii for the MACINTOSH for crissakes....And Mac OS X is a BSD Unix variant. I wonder if this hurts or help Unix/Linux. I'm betting it hurts.

COOL new tech makes for much more efficient motors and quieter fans

A Japanese inventor has come up with a new idea to make electric motors 80% more efficient. This will also help fans run more quietly and use less power.

Dandy!

Novel cell phone service helps you figger out what song that is on the radio!

John C. Dvorak posited in one of his columns a while back that killing Napster (the free version) was the worst thing the music industry ever did, because it killed the major way to sample new music. You can't do it on the radio anymore, because they play songs for 20 minutes and don't tell you who the heck played that song you liked. (I've never understood this.....you'd think they'd be doing MORE commercial breaks these days, not less. It's all about advertising after all...)

Well, AT&T has solved this problem with a new cell phone service.

Reminds me of a widget I saw some years back that you could buy and push a button on to "bookmark" music you were listening to at a particular time and then use it with your computer later to find out what the song was. Never heard about it again (not surprised, are you?)

So I dunno if this AT&T service will go anywhere either. I only sort of agree with Dvorak, too. After all, even though Napster has gone commercial, there's always KaZaa, Gneutella, OpenNap, Usenet newsgroups, etc, etc. But then, I've long since stopped paying attention to Mr. Duh Whore Hack. Him and Dennis Miller used to be great....but they've gone down the tubes the last few years.

First steps towards Replicators?

Hmmm....what with nanontech and such things as these small logic blocks, are we on the way to making "Replicator" robots, ala the TV show Stargate SG-1?

Anyone got the Asgard's address?

My next job may be in the auto industry....

Looks like cars are becoming so hight tech, computerized, and hard to repair that they are looking for people with IT and electronics backgrounds to diagnose and fix 'em

I've never been one to work on my own car.....but hmmmmmmmm....

Methinks it's time to rethink the auto industry AND the computer industry....