WebCandy
By Ryne Colt Radigan | Friday, February 29, 2008 - 5:23 pm AKST - Posted in WebCandy
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This Week in Tech
By Ryne Colt Radigan | - 10:00 am AKST - Posted in This Week in Tech

BLU-RAY vs HD DVD?

According to industry insiders the High Def DVD war is over, and Toshiba has officially dropped production. now first of all let me tell you the my money was always going for Blu-ray especially after I bought a Playstation 3. Not to say that I thought Blu-ray was going to win the war. For a while I was thinking HD-DVD would win. (WARNING: Semi-adult content to follow) Especially after I heard industry reports that the Pornography industry was going HD-DVD as opposed to Blu-ray. I believed this was going to push HD because if you look at the VCR and Beta Max war the reason that VCR won was in no small part because the Adult film industry was an early adopter of the standard.

However if you look further into the reports about HD content it is believed that in the future the convenience of video downloads will overtake movies that are placed on media to be purchased at a “brick and mortar” store. So will Blu-ray really be as big as sony wants it to be. I don’t believe so. Americans like quantity and convenience, over quality and options.

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WebCandy
By Ryne Colt Radigan | Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 5:23 pm AKST - Posted in WebCandy
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Manual Labor
By Ryne Colt Radigan | - 4:00 pm AKST - Posted in Uncategorized

Sorry y’all I was doing manual labor pretty much all day today, but you will still get some “WebCandy” today.

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WebCandy
By Ryne Colt Radigan | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 5:24 pm AKST - Posted in WebCandy
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Big Brother “The next generation”
By Ryne Colt Radigan | - 10:00 am AKST - Posted in Politics, Rant, Tech life, Technology

I was reading a story about interesting uses of Wireless chips from the CNET crave. (read the story here.) This article was basically describing the new uses that professors and such are finding fore these useful chips. So I was reading through and got to the end were I found this tantalizing excerpt.

“The group also is experimenting with a sensor pill that patients could swallow and that would then relay information to a doctor.”

This got my conspiracy juices flowing. Now just follow me here. How hard would it be for engineers to take this experimental chip and “mod” it to were it would contain a GPS transceiver. Now perhaps it could be said that this chip would be passed by the bodies digestive system so quickly that the chip would be virtually unusable. However the next step would be to design it to get past the digestive processes of the body. Once again I realize that this sounds like conspiracy banter, but the also said the the computer would never be but into a home because of size constraints and look where that prophecy has gone. So just think about what exactly you are swallowing the next time you take a medication.

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WebCandy
By Ryne Colt Radigan | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 5:20 pm AKST - Posted in WebCandy
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Modern Day Religiosity
By Ryne Colt Radigan | - 10:00 am AKST - Posted in Politics, Religion

NPR did a story about the current state of religious affairs in the United States (Read the story). My summary of the text is this: people are switching from the faiths they were brought up in, or they are breaking away from the “church” entirely. This study really does not surprise me. I think people are tried of the church’s in this country and more specifically the elitist nature of the church. Only if you do this will you get into heaven, homosexuals are evil, etc. (NOTE: the previous comments span multiple religions, but not all. I am not pointing to a single religion with the previous comment) Just so we are clear here are my beliefs concerning religious matters “I believe in god, not religion!” I did attend church on a regular basis when I was young, but I was not forced to. As I mentioned above I believe the most church’s are just a form of people feeling elite to others because they are part of that particular religious “click” nothing more.

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WebCandy
By Ryne Colt Radigan | Monday, February 25, 2008 - 5:25 pm AKST - Posted in WebCandy
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Ride Your Music!
By Ryne Colt Radigan | - 10:00 am AKST - Posted in Gaming, Tech life, Technology

This weekend I acquired a new game from the Steam Network AudioSurf “Ride your Music”. The basic idea of it is you select an audio file from your collection. The game imports and the analyzes the wave patterns in the song. Form there it generates a race track like simulation of the song. Throughout this simulation there are colored blocks, the point to these blocks is to get clusters and score points. This game is extremely addicting especially if you have a large music collection. Luckily, I do over 40 Gigs. All in all I recommend this game, oh and if you are still not sure they offer a demo.

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