I wonder how different computers would be…
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas | No Comments »If there was no longer a dividing line between hard disks and memory? IE, if you just had a big huge slab of memristors that could be both the RAM and Hard Drives at the same time. Just a weird ...
How NOT to seed your (pseudo-) random number generator…
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas | No Comments »This is how you write a function to generate a random number BEFORE you remember how PRNG's normally work: int randomGender() { double rand; int gender; //if rand
I’ve coined a new term, and I’d like you all to use it
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas | No Comments »The term is "anecdotal failure rate", and it's quite important. It's a term for the "I've heard lots of people say their whatever has broken". I've been weighing the options of either an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3. 360 Positives ...
Something that Google should add to their toolbar…
Friday, October 6th, 2006 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas, General Life | No Comments »They have their "Safe browsing" toolbar. It puts up warnings for possible phishing sites, malware sites, etc. They should also add a "Not Safe For Work" (NSFW) aspect to it. It doesn't prevent you from going there, but sometimes ...
You know what would be cool?
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Posted in Computers, Crappy Ideas | No Comments »It would be cool if my RSS reader, shrook (or any RSS reader, for that matter) could figure out when boingboing, engadget, gizmodo, etc. all post an entry about the same damn thing (the "self timing egg" is the most ...