WolframAlpha; it helps you with math homework AND knows where you are

it DOES help with math

So I was sitting in the library minding my own business (read: sleeping while snoring really loud) and decided to do my math homework due in the next hour. Truth be told, not only does WolframAlpha (an awesome search engine sort of thing) know the answer to life, the universe, and everything , it also can do math… who knew? Not me I say. I’m pretty clueless at this stuff, almost like the time some girl asked me out five minutes ago and I totally forgot. She’s sitting right next to me.

Thanks to Wolfram|Alpha

Google Search likes to be a dinosaur

Seriously… just type “I like” into Google search and see for yourself.

You silly people, the reason why the LHC isn’t working is because…

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enter witty remark here

It’s because its future-self is preventing the present-self from making the apocalypse particle! Like the time I went back in time and had some “adult time” with a triceratops, then the almighty Cosmos got mad and destroyed all the dinosaurs on the face of the planet. True story.

Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

You heard it, the LHC wants to kill it’s grandfather. I call murderer! On the plus side though, you won’t exist anymore so that nagging-flesh-of-meat-of-a-girlfriend would finally shut up and pay that damn ticket herself. Yeah, I crashed into that car last night, but SHE  gave me the keys to start it. Well, I stole them, but that still doesn’t make a difference!

Thanks to AnandTech via NYtimes

You’ll hang yourself silly; a coat hanger gorilla

If I get it mad...would it throw coat hanger-shaped poo at me?

I’m not that good with gorillas… or any sort of  prime ape to be exact (ladies included), but this coat hanger gorilla is making me feel things I shouldn’t. Feelings as in love, love as in love making. Is it wrong for me to love? NO, I don’t think so.

This sculpture of a gorilla is created by David Mach and it is actually made from coat hangers

Well that’s stating the obvious, unless you count the last time I was with this girl and I called her pretty, even though I knew she was ugly as, well, an ape. A very SEXY ape.  ZING!

Thanks to TechEBlog

STOP!!! DON’T (psp) GO!!!

it looks like cartman from southpark...

We all know that the PSPGo! is arriving anytime this week, but who’s really going to buy that thing? But let’s not listen to the Phailosophy Writer and move on with this post, shall we?

The PSPGo! is a downloads-only system because Sony wants to compete in the mobile market (i.e. the iPhone/ Mr. Jobs) and many current PSP users are worried about their current game library if they decide to upgrade. Many think you can grab a digital copy from Sony and download it on the system, but guess what?

“We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time,” a Sony Computer Entertainment of America spokesman told Kotaku.

You’re absolutely wrong! Due to piracy issues and stuff, Sony announced that the rumor of  ”digital trading” is only but rumors and won’t be happening. Shame, because I really was considering of buying a PSPGo!.. but now that I know there isn’t gonna be any hope for my UMDs… this is a no go for the PSPGo! See what I did there? Me neither, I’m hungry… for BRAINS

Thanks to Bit-tech

Hello.

Hi all. I’m one of the new admins for Phailosophy (not like anyone cares) So yeah. You have to live with me now..deal with it :p. Well have fun. xD

This is Poyokun, the site’s new editor… so please play nice!

Wii all scream for a new Wii… WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!

it's all in the wrists... and the tv screen

So I bet the majority of  you don’t have a Wii for two reasons: the graphics suck or you have a xbox 360 and/or a PS3 that has better graphics. If it’s one or the other, send me your address so I can whoop your ass! No, just kidding, but I will whoop it if you pay me.

Anyways, it’s rumored (confirmed?) that the Nintendo will be releasing a new Wii–with HD graphics– sometime in 2011. It’s rumored to get new indards and all that geeky things that I’m not to sure about. It might get a new wiimote (wii+remote) that includes Motion+, so if you don’t have a Wii and are still considering to get one, I’d wait ’til 2011 for that spankin’-new model… or if you’re a rich bastard who can afford one, then get it now and THEN get the new HD Wii, and while you’re at it, buy me a present you rich snob!

Thanks to Cnet

HackThis: what handheld is better hacked?

if the DSi was white... that would make a oreo

Time for a HackThis segment! So we’re gonna be talking about the “hackability” of three handhelds brought to you by three major corps.: Apple, Nintendo, and Sony. So what are we waiting for? LET’S HACK THIS MOFO!!!

First runner-up: iPhone/ iPod Touch

you can tell it's jailbroken because there's an app called Cydia on the Springboard... which is like Apple's App Store but with third-party apps

Almost anyone in America has either the mp3 player or the cellular version of the iPod that has a touch screen (simplified: the iPod Touch and iPhone) and I bet you my left testinut that most of the consumers already have their devices “jailbroken” or “hacktivated.” It’s pretty simple to do, actually, speaking in a veteran’s point of view, hacking an iPhone is as easy as breathing air. It involves only one program and is noob-friendly. Even if you screw up, you have the option of restoring the iDevice, which isn’t as drastic as a brick (will speak if this later in the article). If you were able to get the iPhone successfully hacked, then high chances that you have Cydia. Imagine the App Store filled with emulators, tethering apps, Google Voice, and much much more… but guess what? You don’t have to imagine, because Cydia is just that. Created by Jay Freeman (a.k.a Saurik), he wanted to make an app store were no app is rejected the spotlight, and can make some developers quick bucks. Hacking it is easy, the apps are awesome (most of the time), and pretty much “free’s your iPod Touch/ iPhone from the grips of Apple themselves.” HackThis Score: 8/10

Next up: Sony PSP

After the PSP get's hacked, there's litterally endless possibilities with it

If you don’t have an iPod, you either have a cheap mp3 player from Wal-Mart or you got  a PSP (Play Station Portable). Unlike the iPhone, the PSP is a little bit more complicated to hacked, mainly because Sony comes out with different models every few months/ years. But the pay-off is totally worth it. The PSP can get hacked in a multitude of ways, may it be M33, GEN, or some other software, which again isn’t AS easy as hacking an iPhone. There isn’t a third-party app store like what the iPhone has, but hosting all those “homebrew” would probably be the reason why. The PSP has a way more powerful engine than the iPhone, thus lending in the creations of some pretty powerful and beautifully executed emulators. FACT: some of the emulators for the iPhone were borrowed from the PSP’s version. Also, Sony know’s that hacking a PSP is hurting their business (with the creating of “backup UMDs” that would later be pirated), so they tend to release new Firmware that block hackers from… hacking their handheld. But that really doesn’t stop anyone, does it? HackThis Score: 9/10

Final runner-up: The Nintendo DSi

since DS stands for "duel screen"... shouldn't the new handheld be named Nintendo DSDC. You know, for Duel Screen Duel Camera

Finally we have the NDSi (Nintendo Duel Screen i), which now boasts not one, but two cameras! Gasp! So the DSi isn’t hacked yet (the closest so far is the “Hello World” exploit found some months ago) and you really can’t count the flash carts that let you play roms on the handheld because “hacked” in my terms means that you modified the software itself to run homebrew apps or among other things. So until the NDSi get’s fully hacked, this one will get a low score… lower than the time I told a 4th grader that little elfs were put into labor camps to make her the pudding she was eating  so that I can have the pudding. WHAT?! I was hungry at the time okay! HackThis Score: 1/10

Winner to date: Sony PSP

Apple goes rotten, fans disappointed at the “Rock and Roll” event on 09/09/09

it really didn't rock anything this time of year...

So it’s totally passed the event, sue me! Any ways… it seems that many Apple fans (myself included) were very disappointed by this event. Yes, Apple did give us some new iDevices to buy with our blood-money, but they delivered in the worst way… like when you were a kid going downstairs to see what you got for Christmas, you see Santa Clause banging your mother… without eating any of the damn cookies! Many rumors were going around that Apple would stop production of all current gen iDevices and replace all of them with new ones filled with cameras because cameras are appearing all over the handheld market. Instead, we only get one new iPod with a camera… and guess who got it? The iPod Nano. Seriously? I think most of (well, technically anyone who knows who Steve Jobs is) us thought that if one iPod was gonna get a camera, it was gonna be the iPod Touch.

look at the pretty colors! AND CAMERAS... oh wait, it's the nano

On the plus side though, the iPod Touch 3G was built with the guts of his cellular brother, the iPhone 3GS, which begs the ask: do we call this model the iPod Touch 3GS? Oh, did I mention you had to get the 32gb and 64gb to get the 3GS engine… which cost you $299 or $399. Did I forget to mention that those models get Voice Control? Yeah, wasn’t exciting to hear on my end either. The reason why there wasn’t a camera built in the iPod Touch 3g was because Jobs “wanted the device to be  for  gaming and drop the prices so that every one can get one,” which translates to “the cameras went all screwy on us at the last minute, so we decided to pull it out of production.” What a let-down Apple, this is really gonna hurt your game… especially when the iPod Touch 3G will get jailbroken, thus leading to bigger and better third-party apps brought to you by Cydia.

This is all news and one’s own opinion on the matter, so what do you guys think? Did Apple deliver, or did they rip out your souls so that Steve Jobs shall one day remake Apple into Skynet?

I’m BACKK!!!

So I just got back from my vacation and went back to school… uugh. Sadly, I got some sort of virus (whether it be of the T or H1N1 variety). This doesn’t mean I won’t post at all this week or months to come, oh no it won’t!!! Because the only thing that can stop me from blogging is my atention span, which I may say is… HEY LOOK!!! A BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY