The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I just fixed the drop down menu on my homework project. The news is still linked offsite, but the rest seems to work. As far as I know, the only broken link is the rss feed link. I haven't implemented the backend code yet for that. (php probably) I was going to do that today, but I woke up at 3pm.

Blueray wins.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/18/1340222

Blockbuster has chosen blueray as the default format in their stores. HD-DVD is second. When the video rental chains pick a format, its over. Beta died in part because video stores only rented out the most popular of the two formats. For once in a long time, Sony has won a format war. This time, they took out Microsoft. I think Walmart is going to be very upset with their huge order of HD-DVD players for this Christmas season.

One of the first blunders Yahoo made was launching a children's version without filtering ads or content properly. Yahoo used to advertise porn to children. One of the men who made that possible, co founder Yang is now going to lead Yahoo.

While Yahoo may have cleaned up their act, it still stays with me. At the time, I was 16 watching an 8 year old. His mother, a very religious christian woman, had given him a list of safe sites. Yahoigans (or however they spelled it) was on the list. I had to explain to his mother why the kid saw naked women under my care. She didn't believe me until I showed her. Yahoo was taken off his list. That kid got a fondness for porn, and his mother blamed me and yahoo for that. It really cut down on my money supply. Do you yahoo?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19296040/

http://www.frankps.net/?p=304

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/16/blu-ray-disc-coatings-starting-to-rot/

Interestingly, The Prestige disc is reported to rot. Well that will bode well for the new Blockbuster/Sony format.

I often make comments about Sony's root kit. Some people are not familiar with the background story. Sony released CDs which installed software that allowed them to control (read hack) your computer. They lost a series of lawsuits. Anyway, I was playing with Google's blog search and found this interesting blog with all the details.

http://sonyrootkit.blogspot.com/

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/06/a_qa_with_todd_holmdahl_the_hardware_guy_at_microsoft_about_xbox_360_failures.html

This interview is with the head of the Microsoft XBOX hardware division. Can anyone say design flaw?