Pretty interesting outcome to a fairly controversial experiment.

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Don’t just backup, verify your backups, keep old backups, keep other copies. Make redundancy.

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Boggles the mind.

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HTC was doing great, but isn’t anymore.

They tried to make their devices more open, and it looks like the carriers’ sales-strength caused HTC’s profits to dwindle. The result is HTC starting to lock up their devices again.

It’s sad that carriers have more strength than consumers, and that consumers don’t care about openness enough to encourage it (even though that’s pretty hypocritical coming from an iPhone owner).

A big reason I have an iPhone, is because I trust Apple more than any mobile carrier. And no other phone maker has the power to serve the consumer.

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Looks interesting. Although I’m not sure what it is.

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Here’s what Orange UK consider ‘adult’ content.

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The real problem with these proposals is that it’s not just porn that gets censored. All the UK mobile operators already have ‘adult’ content filtered out on mobile phones. Adult content like an Internet Freedom group, Internet privacy tools and even a christian church. So, if you want to access a legitimate resource online, you have to sign up for ‘adult’ services, along with the stigma of being on a list of people that want ‘adult’ content.

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It’s terrifying that this sort of thing can continue to happen in a ‘free’ country. The government coerces innocent people into planning criminal acts, and then punishes them for it.

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Detailed and fascinating article. It explains why sample-rate and bits/sample are important, and why 16 bits, 44.1KHz (i.e. CDs) are perfect for playback.

One thing it doesn’t address is the idea that the higher-frequency audio may not be directly audible, but interacts with the surroundings and other sounds in a way that is perceptible. Maybe that’s too much hogwash to even stoop to refuting.

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Awesome video. Added Aeropress to my birthday list.

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