Top Ten: best foods to eat at the Slate
10. Cookies9. Soup of the day8. Waffles7. Pizza6. Sandwiches…watch the bread…5. Chicken fried steak4. Lasagna3. Cereal2. Ice cream1. Chipotle…oh wait…
Articles by Ian Littman
Tech Break: ivi TV
ivi, an online TV service available for just a few dollars per month for Windows, Mac and Linux systems, could stand to revolutionize internet video, free of ties to the telephone, cable or satellite company…if it could step things up a notch or two…and survive the impending tsunami of lawsuits about to crash into it full force.
The service’s premise is simple: take content that is available for free over the air in various major markets, then pipe it onto the Internet for all to see. Add in a few independent stations via encoders on-location, mix in a premium channel or two and charge a few bucks per month for the package. Bake until done and use a heat gun to check for profit.
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Mines Little Theater goes from zero to one-acts in 24 hours
At 7:00 p.m. on Friday, ten actors, three writers and a handful of supporting cast members gathered at the Ford Building to audition for Mines Little Theatre’s first twenty-four hour play festival. Twenty-four hours later, Mines Little Theatre performed the fruits of their labor, three one-act plays, in the Student Center ballrooms to an audience of several dozen people.
Tech Break: Why is iTunes so slow?
We could talk about Google Instant, but there really isn’t much to say about that product; you type a search query and Google pulls up results before you finish typing. Google Instant increases the number of search queries that hit Google servers by a factor of between five and seven, and will save people 350 million hours over the course of the year. The time savings assumes, of course, that people will not spend those hours testing out Google Instant, or programming instant editions of other web applications, such as Google Maps or iTunes.
Tech Break: Internet Guide 2010
Every year freshmen become sophomores, and the need exists to get internet access from somewhere other than campus. Below is a guide to some of the options available in Golden. Keep in mind that most of the services below have setup charges involved, though you may be able to lease equipment to turn part of that setup fee into a monthly fee.
Rumor Mill: Campus rumors debunked
Rumor: Mines will build a parking lot in place of the demolished Jefferson County Jail building, which previously housed the Mines alumni office and an assortment of expensive vacuum tubes.
Status: Confirmed. The new “BP lot” will be financed by in-kind donations from its namesake oil company. Marquez Hall has been put on hold until Petroleum Engineers get chased out of Alderson by the Chemical Engineering department. Facilities Management says that, due to the central location of the new lot, parking passes for the lot will be $200 per semester. Parking in the Hall of Justice lot will carry an increased price as well to pay off the cost of the parking kiosks (both of them) in the areas.
CCIT celebrates “9×2” kickoff
Following last Saturday’s extended Blackboard outage, CCIT proudly proclaimed that they had reached a pivotal point in their existence: a running track record of less than 99 percent uptime, when all systems were taken into account, for servers directly under their control. This momentous event, said CCIT co-director Fred Robinson, “Hasn’t happened since we switched to outsourced e-mail a year ago. We feel that the resurrection of our 9×2 initiative is a good step toward keeping CCIT relevant in the days to come.”
Google Chat calls “real” phone
Two Wednesdays ago, Google took their Google Voice concept a step further, adding voice calling to and from standard phone numbers to their GMail web interface. Twenty-four hours later, the company stated that they had completed over one million phone calls through the system, which allows users to call locations in the United States and Canada for free, and international locations for very low per-minute rates.
Apple refreshes iPods, iTunes, Apple TV
Last Wednesday Apple refreshed its digital media lineup, ranging from revised iPods to a new music-focused social network to a revamped Apple TV home theater box. Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted during the event, staged at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, that over 120 million iOS devices (iPhones and iPod touches) had been sold, with 230,000 new devices being activated via their iTunes companion software every day.
OpinIan: Airlines, HP and Adobe Backward Compatibility
To give you some background, Tim Weilert left a vacancy when he ended his Two Cents column last week. So I, being a rather opinionated person with a couple of areas of expertise, have decided to step up and see whether anyone agrees with my analysis of various current events. my takes will be of a different style than Tim’s succinct nuggets, but we’ll see how this goes. Bear with me.
First, Continental Airlines and United Airlines are apparently merging. I’m a bit surprised that the two companies are coming together, but I guess that in this economic climate, and with the downward price pressure placed by the Frontier-Midwest coalition (soon to be simply Frontier) and Southwest Airlines, it’s merge or die. After all, the cool kids (Delta-NWA, Frontier-Midwest) are merging, so why not climb to the top of the airline heap by a merger of your own?