tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57697752011-12-15T03:48:01.482+01:00PieroxyTechnology for dummiespieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-11716831522487976152009-08-28T23:47:00.004+02:002011-11-29T18:03:25.741+01:00News from Missouri: "My iPhone flew away!"These last few weeks, the press reported a number of incidents with the iPhone. More than isolated incidents, this phenomenon looks more and more like a global issue, and we dare think that the government should step in and declare it a public health concern.Of course, many like to make fun of the various incidents and protagonists, even though there are pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-27265483451176032552008-01-31T11:53:00.000+01:002008-02-01T12:52:02.639+01:00How and why Apple got it right Presentation of the iPhoneI have already talked about my now ex phone: The SPV-C500. This was a phone running Windows Mobile.I now own an iPhone. I probably never would have bought an iPhone, but it was a gift.Until I got one, I was very interested by the iPhone. No doubt I already loved it (virtually that is). And I laughed everytime I read an article saying "Nah, pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-7958884741154946912007-11-25T09:36:00.000+01:002007-11-25T10:07:24.941+01:00A small update to the last post, "I, Pirate".amazon.com (along with others) have started to offer MP3 downloads. No DRM, no hassle. You pay, you download, you own a copy. As simple as pirating the file.As for free music downloads (such as the Radiohead initiative and the latest Harvey Danger album for example) I will always be drawn to these type of initiatives. It cost less for me (even if I endpieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1149580971189503602006-06-06T10:02:00.000+02:002006-06-07T11:24:53.966+02:00I, Pirate How I went to the dark sideDisclaimer: The following is a fiction, all liability discarded - or so I hope.I used to buy CDs when it comes to acquiring music. I do not do it much anymore, even though I haven't completely stopped. The new distribution I use is called P2P. Why?I discovered P2P with Napster, just when I left college. It was reasonnably clumsy and it was honestly quite a bitpieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1134118528832997212005-12-09T09:39:00.000+01:002005-12-09T09:55:28.886+01:00Is eBay loosing it?A while ago, I discovered eBay. It had all the required attributes (for me) to make itself an indispensable companion: Simple, free and efficient. And I created my first Paypal account, which had all the attributes required (for me) to make the perfect payment system over the internet: Simple, free and efficient.Some time ago, eBay wasn't free anymore. They would take away 1% pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1134038487428733052005-12-08T11:25:00.000+01:002005-12-08T11:42:06.890+01:00SPV C500 - Follow-UpWell, I thought that after 6 month you can get a more in depth review. First of all, I am not a reviewer, so forgive me, but I have tested only stuff that I use.I have tested reading. I have actually done a bit of reading on my phone since then and the screen is big enough to be pleasant. Tiny eBook Reader is my reader of choice.I have tested the alarm. I wake up every day pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1123016684664152282005-08-02T21:01:00.000+02:002005-08-02T23:12:40.070+02:00SPV C500It is fate that drove me to this smartphone. I would have hesitated in getting a Windows CE smartphone. Well, I own one now.What is there to say? I got the phone a month ago, and am ready to express my first comments. I must concede that they are mostly criticism. I must also concede that I haven't own a cellular phone in 4 years before this episode.First of all, the first thing you do pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1122992048638651702005-08-02T13:53:00.000+02:002005-08-02T16:14:55.596+02:00Quest for online musicI recently decided that online music was worth a shot. For plenty of reasons, convenience, price, vastness of the catalog, etc...Then began my quest for an online music service. And my discovery of audio formats and DRM. I assumed stupidly that I would be able to just download MP3s that would conveniently play on my already numerous digital music players (Car radio, DVD pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1117489474395155252005-05-30T22:59:00.000+02:002005-12-08T11:24:54.470+01:00The French Decision ExplainedI know this blog is supposed to be about Technology. Being french, I could not resist trying to explain a bit about French's rejection of the european constitution.If you are an outsider and wonder why France rejected the constitution, stop wondering right now. France did not reject the constitution. France rejected their politics. They are to blame.For they were pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1109091660070440602005-03-06T18:00:00.000+01:002005-03-07T11:10:42.343+01:00A Digital World...Part 3 - The catch: Why and how to make backupsWe have seen all the wonders of digital information in part 1, and then the wonders of an adequate tool in part 2. All that can't be all good, can it? No, because there is nothing worse about digital data than to see it vanish before your eyes. Especially since its ability to be cloned without loss makes it the perfect candidate to pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1108483679495933332005-02-15T16:57:00.000+01:002005-03-07T10:19:15.510+01:00A Digital World...Part 2: The Computer, Swiss Army Knife of the digital worldThe computer is THE tool to work on all kinds of digital media. The reason it is so popular is that it leverages the very unique advantage of digital media over analog: The ability to clone without loss. You can transfer a picture from your digital camera to your computer without loss. You can display it, send it by pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1108375388581965022005-02-13T11:02:00.000+01:002005-03-07T10:22:56.426+01:00A Digital World...Part 1: Introduction to The Digital WorldThe terms "analog" and "digital" are used when it comes to store or transmit the representation of a signal (audio, video, etc...). A signal lives in the real world in an analog form. For a while now, humans have been looking for ways to transmit and store such signals. Transmissions use mediums such as electrical wires or waves in the pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1108375323746375232005-02-12T11:01:00.000+01:002005-02-14T17:36:04.053+01:00dts 96/24: the myth of hi-res digital audioLet's start with the beginning, a brief history of what is dts. dts is a sound system created by a company called dts. It is one of four different sound systems that can be found on a DVD-Video. Its main competitor being Dolby Digital, also known as AC3. dts is supposed to be of greater quality than Dolby Digital.In 2001, dts released an extension to pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1107858285191778862005-02-08T11:15:00.000+01:002005-02-08T11:36:34.366+01:00Are computers getting any faster?
This looks like the stupidiest question ever. The short answer: Yes, but not really.
From a pure technical standopint, computers are getting faster. The P4-2GHz that I have in my PC right now is certainly faster than the 286-12MHz I had a decade ago. There is no question about that.
So why are they not really getting any faster?
Because the things we ask from thepieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1107773262613754012005-02-07T11:12:00.000+01:002005-02-07T11:53:22.980+01:00Are software patents "evil"?
You will hear here and there a lot of things about software patents. Some will consider them evil, usually developpers or open-source prone people. Some will see benefits in them, usually large companies. From here on, we can already see from where the "evilness" of the software patents are derived: The big guys like them, the small guys don't, hence they must be evilpieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1107534090969375442005-02-04T16:52:00.000+01:002005-02-05T22:05:02.970+01:00DVD-R or DVD+R? - why it doesn't matter...
Let's start with a little explanation on what I am talking about. Most of people that are familiar with CDs know that you can either burn a CD-R or a CD-RW. CD-R can be burned once, while CD-RW can be burned and then erased to be re-burned.
DVDs are another matter. There are three different formats competing for the ultimate domination: DVD-R, DVD+R and pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1107522099006605692005-02-04T14:01:00.000+01:002005-02-07T09:22:38.503+01:00About USB2 confusion
Well, all over the place you can see hardware labelled "USB2". What the hell could that mean? I mean, of course it means the interface between your specific piece of hardware and another one you will want to connect it to, will be compatible with the USB norm, version 2.0. But besides that, what could that mean? Is it going to be fast? Is it going to work with your other USB pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769775.post-1062717866975660332003-09-05T01:24:00.000+02:002003-09-05T01:24:27.013+02:00This is my first post in my first Blog. Should I be proud of it? Dunno.pieroxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11859287103050679729noreply@blogger.com0