Recently, I needed to plot numerous addresses on a map and, ultimately, find the geocentral location of all addresses. The geocentral location is the weighted center of all the addresses, which can be useful in helping determine numerous things, including the average distance between all addresses and some other location. The geocentral location is attained …
Tag Archive: Internet
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Jul 28 2012
A Correction for the WSJ: So, Who Did Invent the Internet?
Recently, Gordon Crovitz wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal titled Who Really Invented the Internet? Fortunately, it’s only an opinion piece, because there was little more than opinion, littered with plenty of misinformation, in the writing. You can read the article here. Now, it’s not like I look to the WSJ for …
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Jul 14 2012
The Napster Revolution
I’ve recently been reading through Steve Jobs’ biography, a phenomenal work by Walter Isaacson. A point that Isaacson keeps coming back to throughout the book is that Steve Jobs revolutionized six different industries: animated movies (through Pixar), personal computing, tablet computing, phones, digital publishing, and music. I don’t disagree with Isaacson. Jobs did revolutionize the …
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Apr 23 2012
Reagan.com Email is a Misguided Effort
I heard a commercial with the booming and illustrious voice of Rush Limbaugh. After I recovered from banging my head against my desk, I reflected on what was said in the commercial. Rush pointed to the popular free email providers (Yahoo, Google, and others) to remind you that they scan your email. To remind you …
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Apr 21 2008
NBC Decides to Play Nice
Remember back when NBC got a little too full of itself a while back and decided to yank its shows from iTunes? They pressured Apple to increase the prices of songs and shows that were more popular in order to make more profit; thankfully, Apple refused to cave. NBC threatened to not resign their contract …
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Dec 25 2007
The Future of Digital Media
Since I want to be able to claim credit for this before it happens, I decided to blog about where I think the future of Digital Media lies. The current fight is between whether to produce solely HD DVDs or Blu-Ray Discs, though that fight is almost over seeing as how the HD DVD format …
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