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Opening The “Bag Of Hurt” With Blu-ray Discs And Mac OS X

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Despite Apple Macs still not including Blu-ray disc capable drives and Steve Jobs’s famous statement from late 2008, claiming the technology amounted to a “bag of hurt”, OS X users are finding a growing number of options for using the media with their systems.  For quite a while now, Blu-ray capable players and recorders have […]

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MIT Makes Real-Time Hologram, Use Wrong Star Wars Reference

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[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LW8wgmfpTE’] As reported at NewScientist, smart-type people at MIT have made a huge leap in the possibility of real-time holograms. The MIT  folks use, among other things, a hacked Kinect, proving once again that the Xbox 360’s controllerless controller is wasted on dance games. This is rather amazing technology. It’s extremely early, but it’s […]

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Segues: Competition Means Becoming The Other Guy

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Each Segues  column starts with something tech-related before quickly branching out from there into a tangentially related thread. These articles are born from my thought and speech patterns that regularly contain quickfire transitions. For one of my birthdays, a friend made me a crown that said “King of the Segues.” Actually, it said “King of […]

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