The interwebs has been in uproar during the last 24 hours about the new Usage Base Billing that the CRTC has allowed ISPs to implement. Some of the new usage caps are ridiculous. For example, starting March 1st, TekSavvy customers will have a bandwidth cap of 25GB/month, down from 200GB/month.
ArsTechnica has a good write-up about the situation, and the Liberals are already calling for the decision to be reversed.
Reddit user CGSColin put it in perspective the best in the following graphic:
Also, goto stopthemeter.ca!!!
Asimo has been around for a while, but some researches at Carnegie Mellon have given it some amazing capabilities. It can dodge dynamic obstacles, including some pretty tricky ones at the end of the vid. Asimo would be pretty good at real life frogger.
Last tuesday, Apple announced the Magic Trackpad. For those of you who ignore apple news, the magic trackpad is basically a larger version of the trackpad found in the macbook pros. It is marketed at desktop users, and from some of the pictures on apples’ site, it is being marketed as a mouse replacement. Some bloggers are even claiming that this is the end of the mouse era.
There is no way that this trackpad will completely replace the mouse. It is likely that something will eventually replace the mouse, but this is not it. I could see the Magic Trackpad becoming a common peripheral, maybe finding its home on the left side of a keyboard, but it will never replace the mouse.
A trackpad will never be as precise or as fast as a conventional mouse. This is due to some simple biomechanics. A trackpads precision and speed could potentially be increased by some smart motion sensing algorithms, but if these algorithms existed, they could be applied to mouse-movements as well, making those even more precise and speedy.
Don’t worry, your mouse isn’t going anywhere….
Since I signed up for my first Google account, which was sometime in 2006, Google has kindly been keeping track of my web history. As of today, I have performed a total of 20900 Google searches. That averages to about 14/day. In practice, I would have performed many more searches than that, for Google’s web history only keeps track of the searches made while I am logged in. I am rarely logged into my google account when I am on the computers at school, at friend’s places or on my phone. Also, when I first got my Google account I didn’t stay logged in all the time, so Google’s web history wouldn’t have known about a lot of my searches.
The calendar over to the right shows the Google searches that I have made last month. Most days I am performing between 50-100 searches, and I am breaching the 100 search/day mark on several days.
…yea…I probably spend too much time on the interwebs….
I have always been interested in evolutionary algorithms. I didn’t realize that they’d be compromising my future employment though.
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