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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Power of Information #65
This week on the Power of Information, Derek, Suzy, and I discuss Apple’s latest announcements (and there’s a lot of them this week), Universal starting Blu-Ray support, and Melinda Gates gives a rare interview. We also talk about micro-blogging site, Jaiku, an open source search engine, and we look at some recent video game announcements. All this and more on this week’s Power of Information. Continue reading
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Tagged america first radio, Apple, blu-ray, comcast, derek, melinda gates, Power of Information, suzy
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links for 2008-01-20
Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab (tags: blogging scrapping content adsene google)
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links for 2008-01-19
CodeProject: WPF Amazon Explorer Using 3D. Free source code and programming help (tags: amazon c# development wpf)
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Why I'm Glad the Houston Market is now Comcast
It seems that the internets are abuzz with Time Warner’s plan to have bandwidth limits on their high speed cable modem accounts. They have yet to release the price/bandwidth numbers but I have to say that this makes me glad … Continue reading
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Why I’m Glad the Houston Market is now Comcast
It seems that the internets are abuzz with Time Warner’s plan to have bandwidth limits on their high speed cable modem accounts. They have yet to release the price/bandwidth numbers but I have to say that this makes me glad … Continue reading
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Format Wars
The way I see it, downloadable movies (especially in HD quality) is going to be a commodity item for a nice little while. Reason being is file size. a DVD quality movie is 4-8GB minimum and HD quality is 1.5 times that at around 720p (2.25 times at 1080). Also, with the exception of the Xbox 360 and the PS3, there is not an easy consumer friendly way to watch downloaded movies on your television. I will say that Tivo has something that is quite nice with its Amazon Unbox integration and Apple TV has a lot of things done right but it’s still not perfect. But we are still not quite there with consumer friendly methods to watch a downloaded movie on your television. Continue reading
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