Does anyone know how to set a post to be hidden until the date that it is listed as being posted?This post started as a debate in my mind on the way home when I recalled the Gulliver’s Travels stories about Big Endian and Little Endian lilliputians fighting a war over which end they should crack open the soft-boiled egg. I didn’t imagine I’d have a story to attach it to when I got home.

Why is it that all of the online video rental places are doing the normal competition thing in reverse? Instead of competing with each other to add new features, they’re competing in how many they can take away!Back when I signed up for blockbuster (Primarily because they had Bluray,) they allowed you to get unlimited rentals in the store by trading in videos in envelopes. Unfortunately they first dropped this down to 5 in-store rentals per month, then started charging extra even for those 5!

Retro Review: Breath of FireBy just about any standard this is an old game. It first came out in 1993, and the version that I played for the GBA is from all the way back in 2001. It’s age is definitely showing.The storyline is fair, but not really above par on anything. Typical of late NES and early SNES rpgs. There are some brief mostly static cutscenes. Most of the storyline is told through text and setting.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/intel-rips-into-nvidias-ion-platform/Intel says Nvidia is reusing graphics chips and chipsets from laptop and desktop systems in their atom-style system…Didn’t intel sell their atom processor with the power hogging 945 chipset? Didn’t the chipset need active cooling on those where the processor didn’t? Give them time, their chipset will catch up.Of course, I’ve been avoiding nvidia since my issues with their AMD motherboards…

The whole prince roger series, beginning with March Upcountry, was fascinating. Ringo and Weber are two of my favorite authors. It’s fairly obvious that the politics parts of the book came from Weber, while the marine ground actions are classic Ringo. The few (2?) space battles have a definite Weber/Honor Harrington feel to them. (Largely statistics about the numbers of missiles launched and how many of them got through, in great detail…)They travel all around one planet in the first 3 books, then all the way home in the 4th.

I’d pretty much stopped reading back when my palmtop died last. Since they gave me a blackberry at work though, I’ve been working through the backlog of books I bought from Baen but never actually read.The first one was The Hero, in the Aldenata series with the posleen, darheel, and such. This is set about 1000 years after the rest of the series. I’d probably put it at between 3 and 3.

The government can’t find people to buy their debt anymore. China and sovereign funds around the world had been the main buyer since the spending orgy of the Bush administration. They no longer want to buy our debt however, since they think we won’t pay it back…Thus, the government has started playing gamese They are devaluing the currency. The Federal Reserve, a private company, is buying government bonds. The federal reserve gets all of its funds from the Treasury.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/11/kindle_complaint/So let me get this straight. You have a book. You can read it, but if you read it out loud then you’re violating the copyright? There goes all those school programs and assignments that tell you to read books with your children. Gee, where will that leave you authors? Hmmm…Here, let me paint this bullseye on your shoe, that way it’ll save you a step when you go to blow your foot off.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/11/feinstein_stimulus_amendment/The Democrats just try to piggyback it on legislation that is so widely advertised as being UTTERLY MISSION CRITICAL OR THE COUNTRY MAY NEVER RECOVER so they can get every last thing they want through without any scrutiny. This amendment is nothing less than a government mandate for 100% widespread invasion of privacy on the internet. It just goes to show that internet and privacy are one area where the two parties flip sides on depending on who is in power.

I don’t know why, but Microsoft is always there for me… when I have problems with my computer, they’re the first ones to step to the plate and make everything just that much worse. I bought a retail copy of Vista awhile back, and had installed it to my old Sempron system, then that thing left a glowing crater… Then I installed it to my wife’s computer. She bought a laptop, so I purged it off.