Did Cylon cash in on the season too early? The Maximoffs pack their bags for New York. And Ponyville and Skaro make big pickups. Did they help?
DTNS 2539 – Brute Force Updates
Patrick Norton and Tom Merritt discuss Microsoft’s new policy to force updates on Windows 10 Home users and get Patrick’s early thoughts on living in Windows 10. +Len Peralta will upstage all that with another awesome in-show illustration.
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Today in Tech History – July 17, 2015
In 1899 – Nippon Electric Company Ltd. (NEC) was founded by Iwadare Kunihiko, an expert in telegraphic systems who worked under Thomas Edison. Western Electric provided funding, making it the first Japanese joint-venture with a foreign company.
In 1995 – The US Air Force announced the Global Positioning System had met requirements for Full Operational Capability. The navigation system was strictly the province of the US Department of Defense operated by the 2nd Space Operation Squadron of the 50th Space Wing at Falcon Air Force Base in Colorado.
In 1997 – DNS was widely disrupted making email routing and web page delivery spotty throughout the day. An Ingres database failure resulted in corrupt .COM and .NET zone files. A system administrator mistakenly released the zone file without regenerating the file and verifying its integrity.
In 2002 – Apple announced PC versions of the iPod with MusicMatch software instead of iTunes. The company also announced a 20 GB version of the music player and touch-sensitive scroll wheel and dropped the prices.
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Week 6 Lines
Hot off the presses we have the lines for week 6.
As always, Bet Early & Bet Often!
East Meets West 336 – Reality bites
Winning the lottery, Roger’s ideas for reality shows, the rise of a culture of secrecy, the changing nature of community
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DTNS 2538 – Amazon Is Past Its Prime Day
Is the desktop Office suite dead? In light of new Microsoft office versions for touchscreen and OS X, Allison Sheridan and Tom Merritt talk about what office tools people actually use these days.
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Today in Tech History – July 16, 2015
In 1945 – The United States detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico. The Trinity test ushered in the atomic age.
In 1951 – VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin was born in Philadelphia.
In 1969 – Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, blasted off from Cape Kennedy on Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
In 1995 – Amazon.com opened for business selling books online. Shipments were packed into boxes from a desk made out of a spare door in a two-car garage in Bellevue, Washington.
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DTNS 2537 – Neil Young to Net: Get off my lawn!
Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt take a look at Google’s new buy links in mobile search results. Is this new trend a ripoff or godsend for you as a consumer? MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click here
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 79
Movie Draft Update, An Honest Liar, True Detective (204), The Shield (607)
00:44 – Movie Draft Update
03:19 – An Honest Liar
12:39 – True Detective (204)
21:27 – The Shield (607)
Today in Tech History – July 15, 2015
In 1928 – The Polish Cipher Bureau picked up enciphered radio signals from the German Reicswehr for the first time. The messages were encoded with Germany’s ENIGMA machine. Cracking the EMIGMA during World War II brought together some of the finest minds in computer science at Bletchley Park in England.
In 1983 – Nintendo released the Family Computer or Famicom, along with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Popeye cartridges. It would later be released in the US as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES.
In 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbanded the Netscape browser development team. In conjunction, Mozilla created the Mozilla Foundation giving the project its first independent legal existence.
In 2006 – After a few months being used internally at Odeo, the Twttr service launched for public use. They later added some vowels and spun Twitter out as its own company.
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