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2008 predictions
It's fun recording your predictions, so that you can have a laugh reading them in the future. I still remember the space conquest predictions of the 20th century culminating in the movie 2001 Space Odyssey ( Read more... ) -
Relativistic particle simulation in Java
I finally had some time to rewrite a little Java applet that I wrote some time ago when computers were slower. You can see it here. The original version was just throwing animation frames as fast as possible, which was slow enough back then. However, on modern computer, it become just one big blur ( Read more... ) -
Studies
So far I have audited two Computer Science grad courses at the UW. The first one was about Distributed Systems. It turned out to be very useful in my work at Reliable Software, since we have implemented a distributed peer-to-peer version control system ( Read more... ) -
Comcast sucks!
I never thought I would be pining for Microsoft software, but that's because I underestimate the inaptness of other software companies ( Read more... ) -
Copernicus was wrong!
Could you believe that?! I am cited in conservapedia, the religious right's response to wikipedia! See for yourself. I am born again! Hallelujah!
So how am I helping the defenders of intelligent design? I wrote this article in which I explained that, in view of modern science, in particular Einstein's general relativity, it is possible to describe ( Read more... ) -
DVD Encryption
Things are not as bad as I though. Yesterday I attended a seminar at the UW about the state of the war between the "cease and desist" people and the rest of us. We are winning the war ( Read more... ) -
Another Obnoxious Company that Treats Users Like Dirt
I've been using Jasc Paint Shop Pro for ages. Unfortunately they were bought by Corel and the Corel marketing scum started working on it. They added the InstallShield update manager, an obnoxious piece of software that works like a Trojan horse. It regularly pops up a window telling me that there is a new version of Paint Shop Pro which I should ( Read more... ) -
Big Changes
I'm in the middle of big changes in my life.
For one, I bought an iMac--yes, I caved in. I'm a sucker for shiny toys. It's a beautiful machine.
I'm also reading about QT, learning D, and working on a book about Windows programming in D.
And, before I forget, I'm now a non-matriculated grad student of CS at UW. -
"Stay away from Vista" consumer revolt
I'm one of these "early adopter" types, at least as far as Microsoft operating systems go. I even installed a beta of Vista on one of my computers. But this time I'm going to stop at that. I think it's time for a consumer revolt. Read a very thorough analysis of Vista DRM (digital rights management) system by Peter Gutman from the CS department of ( Read more... ) -
Don't download this software! Microsoft marketing scum did it again!
I am stupid! There's no doubt about it. I am the leader of the microcephalic. I am the top moron, the emperor of dumbness. In other words I used Microsoft media player.
I mean, it kind of did its job--it played my CDs and DVDs. But that wasn't enough for me! When the media player announced that there was an upgrade ready to be installed, I jumped ( Read more... )