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Time to Merge the Sirius & XM Infrastructure-> 0

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Lexor

on Tuesday July 29 2008, @10:38AM

Lexor writes "Now that Sirius and XM have finalized the merger, it's time to focus on the problems of limited bandwidth:
"There's the loud imaging spots played on most of the "mainstream" music channels. There's the tight playlists. There is the (perhaps mostly unnecessary) DJ yammering on music stations. And worst of all for the tech geek, there is that vicious digital compression, ruining any stereo imaging and nuking masterpieces into monstrosities by way of digital manipulation."

This blogger's solution: Merge the technology as well as the companies, and replace all of those obsolete radios stuck on one system or the other."
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Video Podcasting: Content + Technology = Teh Win-> 0

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AlexG

on Saturday November 10 2007, @07:06PM

AlexG writes "Do you watch video podcasts? If so, what do you think of them? Read my latest blog post for my opinion."
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Why Is Apple Not Taking Home Theatre Serously?-> 0

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Lexor

on Saturday August 25 2007, @01:37PM

Lexor writes "The Mac Mini is a great HTPC, but no matter what you do to Front Row's Quicktime-based movie player, you can't have it pass AC3 audio to your digital receiver — and what home theatre doesn't crave AC3 audio?"
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Disasters Expose Man's Deadly Short-Term Planning-> 0

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Alex Golitsis

on Tuesday July 17 2007, @12:40PM

Alex Golitsis writes "A reflection on the latest Japanese incident on my techblog: "It seems extremely easy to look to nuclear power as a source of energy which does not immediately contribute to problems like carbon emissions or air pollution. In reality, generating energy by nuclear fission exposes mankind's gross negligence.""
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Digg Effects - The Good and the Bad

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Lexor

on Sunday January 07 2007, @07:31PM

Lexor writes "The inaugural post on grog.ca is an analysis of Digg's problems. Also explored are the benefits of opening the source and providing an infrastructure for an expanded Digg community.

http://grog.ca/digg_effects.html"

Commentary: If Mario Office existed, would Wii ?

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Lexor

on Wednesday December 27 2006, @12:56PM

Lexor writes "Say "Microsoft" and gaming will likely not be the first thing that comes to mind.

While Sony is certainly in the headlines with the PS3 lately, they have a wide and varied consumer and professional product line.

Nintendo... well, they make games.

They only market a few other products in order to support games like Pokémon (itself a massive phenomenon).

The pundits have spoken, and they've firmly planted Nintendo in the lead this holiday launch season. Nindendo has the best offerings because they never lose focus on the mission of making video games.

Sony wants the PS3 to take over your living room. They don't want you to know what they have in store for this console yet. Hell, they don't even know what they want it to do. A nine-processor matrix is a great idea, on paper. It will be a year before I start to consider a PS3 for my home.

Microsoft wants your gaming segmented, so they can sell you other set-top-boxes and HTPCs down the line. But there's one big problem with their games segment: Their offerings were based on PC gaming, which has (in cause or in spite) become quite a desolate scene since Microsoft's first game console launch.

They're running out of racetrack, it seems, on this plan.

Because Nintendo is a video game company, they did not consider that their remarkable new motion-sensitive controllers might leave some hands and fly through the air.

Imagine if they had worried about such relatively trivial incidents, made famous because of camcorders and YouTube.

There would be no Wii. It would have been stillborn.

Instead, game companies — not game divisions — change the face of gaming by showing us that games can continue to evolve. We may not have 3D immersive visuals yet, but there's nothing stopping us from getting more immersed in our games, one way or another.

While the barriers to enter the games industry are a great deal higher than during the origins of video gaming (where it was one great engineer with his breadboards), we can only hold out hope for the pure game companies, new and old, to once again revive this interactive entertainment medium.

After all, big kids like me could never imagine a world without video games.

I'm Lex Smythe
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