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Technically dissapointed

vali — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:20:47 +0000

I am a bit dissapointed by the technology around me. I was expecting a little bit more out of the gadgets i own.

my car cd-player broke down, after bumping in a hole in the road. roads in Romania are faulty and my cd-player jumps every time i find a rough spot in the road.
my hp elitebook takes forever to render a movie for trafictube.ro. i was expecting faster processors and faster computers.
online video still is blurry and pixelated, 3 years after youtube made it big. sad.
even more, internet speed is not what it supposed to be. mobile internet is so slow…

…And more

Congrats to Jason Calacanis

vali — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:02:16 +0000

He single-handed exposed the weak tech journalism. Using his twitter account, Mr.. Calacanis started posting fake and easy guess-able Apple iPad specs, ours ago before the official announcement. Some journalists believe him and posted “the news” on their sites. Of course, now they feel dumb, and I agree with Loren they should be, if they believe it.

work more?

vali — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:49:14 +0000

Would you believed it if you heard it 10 years ago? Would you believe that we would have to work more every day just to get by? I always thought I would work less and the technology would work for me. Not me working more for technology. For notebooks, phones, cameras…

This is a fail for humanity.

What we really need

vali — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:24:53 +0000

Not another social bookmark, social site, web2.0 bullshit. We really need faster and better technology. On my list:

A laptop that is lighter and with a battery that lasts longer than 2 hours. my Dell dies after I turn wifi on. and sometimes I really want to blog live from conferences.
A cell phone that films better and has a good battery. my Nokia N82 has a 5 megapixel camera and gets pretty good video. but I want more.
A fixed Firefox. I am tired of the memory leaks that slows down the browser. I do not mind that it takes 1gb of my ram (I have 2.5), but I want it to work!
Faster internet. and here I include all those pixelated videos on YouTube, that I hate watching.

That is what we need.