Friday, July 11, 2003
Wired - July 2003
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I want to take a look at the Flash piece, Broken Saints, at
www.brokensaints.com. Chapter 24 of
this story takes an hour, so it will be interesting to see whether it can hold
my attention. It sounds like an interesting piece of New Media. Wired has a
review of Broken Saints in the Play section. [p.66]
The Kodak
LS633 uses an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) instead
of an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) as a display device on the back of the camera.
An OLED refreshes faster, can have a much larger viewing angle, and does not
require a backlight, compared to an LCD. I want to take a look at this technology
if I come across it somewhere. The OLED is expected to replace LCDs in things
like portable computers, cameras, PDAs, cell phones, watches, and such. Wired
describes
the Kodak LS633 in the Fetish list in the Play section. [p. 84]
There is an interesting
in-depth article about the X Prize: $10,000,000 award to
the first private group that can create a spaceship that will hold up to 3 people,
fly to an altitude of 100 km (62.5 miles), return safely, and make a second
flight within two weeks of the first. [p. 137+]
There is a nice
couple of pages about the Slammer Internet worm. It goes
into detail on how exactly how it took control of a computer and then went about
flooding the networks with packets. [p. 146]
They have an
interesting piece that takes many of the predictions for the end
of the world, explains it, and then gives a brief analysis of the actual
risk. The ones that they are most concerned about are numbers 9 and 10 on their
list: a sudden drop in temperature on Earth and asteroids hitting Earth. They
say the first is overdue and the second, while unlikely, would wipe everyone
out. [p. 150+]
Ad: Hostway is advertising their $6.95 per year domain names.
I have vilberg.com through register.com and it costs something like $35 a year.
I should take a look at www.hostway.com
and see whether I should/can switch. [ad, p. 158+]
