The Federal Reserve unanimously voted to increase the federal funds rate to 3.25% and the discount rate to 4.25%. Both rates were increased a quarter-percentage point for the ninth straight time. This increase is designed to continue removing stimulas from the economny. While the economy seems to be slowing, much of the bad news is …
Monthly Archives: June 2005
BitTorrent Next Target?
After Monday’s Supreme Court decision that companies that create peer-to-peer applications could be held liable, BitTorrent could be in potential danger. However, unlike Grokster, BitTorrent has far more convincing case for it. The creator, didn’t create BitTorrent for the explicit reason of file sharing, in fact, he advised people not to use BitTorrent for illegal …
Blog Maintance
I’ve installed a few plugins, created a cool theme, and created some pages for more content. This completes version 1.0 of Logical Eccentricity News. Enjoy it.
Google at $300
Google ended trading today above $300. Back when Google IPOed I had said that it would fall to under $50. I was way off. While I now understand the company to a greater extent than before, thanks to MOA, I still don’t understand what investors see in to push the price to $300. Maybe I …
The Grokster Case
On Monday the US Supreme Court rules that companies that create peer-to-peer applications designed, and promoted to encourage copyright infringment could be held liable for the copyright infringment. Peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster and Morpheus parent StreamCast Networks can be sued and held legally liable for the copyright infringement of the people using their software, …
Life Drive
The PalmOne’s new Life Drive seems really interesting. This new PDA has a 4 GB hard drive, so you can store music, movies, documents, emails and contacts on it. With the built in Wi-Fi you can connect to the internet, get emails, etc. Based on what I saw, the biggest downside, is the battery life, …
Xbox 360
Microsoft announced that the Xbox 360 at some point is going to have HD DVD in it. Some future version will have the HD DVD drive for movie playback, not for games, but only for movies. They can’t have games on HD DVD dics becasue then older Xbox 360 won’t be able to play those …
New Projects
I’ve got a bunch of projects upcoming. First I’ve got to redo the HSC website.
I created this site last year, and never paid much attention to it. But
this year, I’ve got big plans for it, and I’m going to make it look
really cool. My other major project is coming up with a new layout for
the IAG website. I want to out do BAP on the website, and I