Monday, October 31, 2005

Speed Driver™ Geared Screwdriver

Speed Driver™ Geared Screwdriver
Speed Driver

As a result, in low torque applications, screws go in and out 4 times faster and with less stress to your arm and wrist. The patented switching mechanism also allows on the fly switching between the 4:1 speed mode and the 1:1 standard mode. The Speed Driver™ has a ratcheting feature with three working positions; forward, reverse and locked. The cushioned handle is made from a chemical resistant material and has been designed to comfortably fit in your hand. The handle also has a convenient storage fixture with a screw cap to keep up to 8 extra bits ready for use. The Speed Driver™ has a standard 1/4' (6.35mm) magnetized hex opening to hold all standard driver bits in accordance with ANSI and DIN standards.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Will Mark Cuban (Finally) Revolutionize Hollywood? - His plan to break the video window. By Edward Jay Epstein

Will Mark Cuban (Finally) Revolutionize Hollywood? - His plan to break the video window. By Edward Jay Epstein:

To be sure, Hollywood has a long history of resisting new forms of delivery. When television first came on the scene in the 1940s, the studios attempted to kill this infant medium by refusing to let the networks show films from their libraries or use their facilities to produce programs. When the VCR was introduced, the studios attempted to strangle it with eight years of litigation. Even when Sony and Warner Bros. launched the DVD, the other major studios did not join them for a year or so. By now, the top studio executives recognize that the electronic delivery of digital movies is inevitable—it is only a question of who will defy Wal-Mart and when.

tennis game

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Count like a computer using your hands

Count like a computer using your hands

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Archimedes death ray

2.009 Product Engineering Processes: Archimedes
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Ancient Greek and Roman historians recorded that during the siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, Archimedes (a notably smart person) constructed a burning glass to set the Roman warships, anchored within bow and arrow range, afire. The story has been much debated and oft dismissed as myth.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

samy is my hero.

samy is my hero.

I began to examine the site some more, seeing how they restrict things, what they restrict, taking some breaks to look at profiles of really hot girls, trying to add them as friends and getting rejected, and getting back to making my profile cool so that they would add me as a friend later. Chicks dig cool profiles. After a little bit of messing around, I found that I could put in a longer headline than what they allowed. Hell, I could even get around their other restrictions and get HTML in there in order to add cool "effects" to my page that other people can't add. Yeah, that will get me chicks. Girls want guys who have computer hacking skills.

Let's see here...what would make my profile rock. Well, the most popular profiles on myspace pretty much consist of people with the IQ and English delivery skills of Kanye West so I don't want to mimic those, but popularity begets popularity. I need some more friends. I need people to love me. I delved into the bug and found that I could basically control the web browsing of anyone who hit my profile. In fact, I was able to develop something that caused anyone who viewed my profile to add my name to their profile's list of heroes. It's villainous. I was ecstatic.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Apple announces video iPod

Apple announces video iPod:

The speculation can thankfully come to an end. For now. Steve Jobs pulled out the usual stops at the California Theatre in San Jose today to announce the birth of a video-capable iPod. The device looks remarkably similar to existing iPods, with one small difference: the screen is now wider. The device still sits upright in your hand, albeit it it is somewhat wider. But don't let its girth fool you, because it's quite thin on the depth side. More on that in a second.

The device sports a 2.5' TFT display at 320x240 and 260,000 colors, with support for H.264 video. It also has TV-out in the forum of mini-jack to 3 RCA composite cables.

There will be two models, 30GB and 60GB, priced at $299 and $399 respectively. The Steve says that the 30GB model can hold 75 hours of video. The 30GB model is 31% thinner than the existing 20GB model, while the 60GB is 12% thinner.