Monthly Archives: March 2008

Mar 31

Creative’s fall from glory

Let’s say you’re a maker of sound cards for PCs. And you nat­u­rally come out with dri­vers for Vista. But despite your team of pro­gram­mers the dri­vers suck. But one of your cus­tomers fig­ures out how to fix them and … Read More

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Mar 31

You can go up…

You can go up… Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz …but you can’t go down. I won­der if they’ll bother fix­ing this or not. It seems main­te­nance is no longer a pri­or­ity given the pend­ing sale.

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Mar 30

Lower Falls

Lower Falls Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz I was exper­i­ment­ing with slow shut­ter speeds to blur the motion, but this still wasn’t what I wanted. I’m going to try a neu­tral den­sity fil­ter next time.

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Mar 28

Doomsday fears spark lawsuit

Some peo­ple are suing Fer­mi­lab and CERN to sus­pend work on the Large Hadron Col­lider until the risks are bet­ter under­stood. The risks are some­what unusual: “the exper­i­ment might cre­ate globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of mat­ter that would … Read More

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