Bringing rapid-fire photos to digicams. While most digital cameras' processors leave you waiting between shots, start-up NuCore's chips let you fire off five frames a second. Pixel freaks, take notice. [CNET News.com]

Well, I think I'll wait for this and Foveon tech to come out in cameras before I buy one.

5:16:33 PM    

Microsoft Gets Defensive About Open Source Software. According to a report in The Washington Post, Microsoft is "aggressively" trying to convince the Pentagon to abandon its use of freely distributed software, claiming open source software threatens Department of Defense security. [Internet Product News]

Which is interesting given that just the other day they were testifying that Windows is so full of holes that releasing the source code could get people killed. Please make up your minds there folks, OK?

1:33:12 PM    

PVR thought: While I may not be watching the commercials, I am recording them, and they are taking up storage space on my PVR. So I am archiving, for free, a broadcast quality version of the commercials that are funding my programs.

A dedicated server with 30 gigs of storage would cost me $250 a month from Pair networks, and a Tivo Generation 2 can store up to 60 hours of programming. Given that there is only about 40 minutes of actual broadcast in each hour of TV, that works out to 1/3 of my storage space being forked over for commercials. Since I can't delete them, I'd have to delete the whole show, I'm still paying for the priveledge of skipping commercials with my lost storage space.

9:35:19 AM