I don\’t know what Talk show this is from, but here\’s two minutes from the new live-action Space Battleship Yamato movie. There is no US Release date yet, but I certainly want to see it…
Science Cheerleading???
Forget About Melting Steel with Sunshine… How About Rocks?
The power of the sun is amazing, but with that amount of solar energy being focused into that small of an area, I\’m not suprised at what it can do. According to the video, it can reach temperatures around 2,500 Degrees F / 1,370 Degrees C.
Is Adobe the new Microsoft?
People sometimes ask me why I am not a fan of Adobe?
The main reason is that they have very lackluster Macintosh support. Â Misbehaving Installers, slow installers, and quality control that Microsoft would never accept.
Microsoft is criticized for throwing out releasing and then over the next dozen or so patches slowly eliminating bugs (and introducing new ones). Â But Adobe has just finally added preliminary support for Stage Video, a technology aimed to reduce heavy CPU usage during video playback. I suspect this is a direct move to try to reduce the criticism from Apple regarding the high drain on the system when running Flash on the Macintosh.
But is this too little too late? Â Time will tell.
Rapier vs. Longsword, fight!
Many games, including Role Playing Games (D&D, I call you out!), treat most swords the same. Â A Rapier is a Longsword, is a Rapier. Â But they actually are quite different, and have significant differences.
What would happen if a Longswordsman & a fighter with a rapier fought?
Let\’s find out.
A Dad-inator? From Phineas & Ferb…
Why did I not hear about this?  The folks at Disney, have a Dad-inator…
That\’s right, make a Phineas and Ferb themed Father\’s day card, with (or without) songs, and sound…
Gosh darn…. I\’ll have to remember that for next Father\’s day….
NIS America is bringing over imageepoch\’s games…
NIS America has struck a deal with Imageepoch to bring over it\’s stable of japanese games to the America\’s…
Included with this deal is:
- Last Promise Story
- Chevalier Tactics
- Black roch Shooter RPG
- and possibly more…
A Waste of Money and Time – Room for Debate
Brice Schneider, the security technologist, and author, is debating on The Body Scanner issue in the New York Times… I highly recommend reading it…
A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so they put PETN bombs in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn’t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces — the level of magical thinking here is amazing — and they’re going to do something else.
Take all the money spent on new security measures and spend it on investigation and intelligence.
This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it.
It’s not even a fair game. It’s not that the terrorist picks an attack and we pick a defense, and we see who wins. It’s that we pick a defense, and then the terrorists look at our defense and pick an attack designed to get around it. Our security measures only work if we happen to guess the plot correctly. If we get it wrong, we’ve wasted our money. This isn’t security; it’s security theater.
See the rest of the debate at, A Waste of Money and Time – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com.