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Archive for May, 2007
The mystery of the daytime idle: Why aren’t you working?
Wednesday, May 23rd, 200710 Simple Ways to Save Yourself From Messing Up Your Life
Wednesday, May 23rd, 20071) Stop taking so much notice of how you feel.
2) Let go of worrying.
4) Take no notice of your inner critic.
5) Give up on feeling guilty.
6) Stop being concerned what the rest of the world says about you.
7) Stop keeping score.
Don’t be concerned that your life and career aren’t working out the way you planned.
9) Don’t let others use you to avoid being responsible for their own decisions.
10) Don’t worry about about your personality.
IBM’s New CPU Hits 4.7GHz
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007Today simultaneously launched the fastest microprocessor ever built and an ultra-powerful new computer server that leverages the chip’s many breakthroughs in energy conservation and virtualization technology. The new server is the first ever to hold all four major benchmark speed records for business and technical performance. At 4.7 GHz, the dual-core POWER6™ processor doubles the speed of the previous generation POWER5™ while using nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cool it. This means customers can use the new processor to either increase their performance by 100 percent or cut their power consumption virtually in half.
The new server offers more than just raw performance – it is the world’s most powerful midrange consolidation machine, containing special hardware and software that allows it to create many “virtual” servers on a single box.
The 100 Best Products of 2007 by PC World
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007pcworld.com: Our editors rank the best PCs, HDTVs, components, sites, and services. Plus: the products we’re looking forward to next year, and which technologies are rising and falling.
Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007The Guardian is reporting that the UK’s has launched a new breed of police ’spy drone’. Originally used in military applications, these drones are being put into use as a senior police officer warns the surveillance society in the UK is eroding civil liberties. In the UK, there are an estimated 4.2 million surveillance cameras already, and you are on average photographed 300 times a day going about your business.
Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA’s rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now. The processes that could have produced such a concentrated deposit of silica require the presence of water.
Members of the rover science team heard from a colleague during a recent teleconference that the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, a chemical analyzer at the end of Spirit’s arm, had measured a composition of about 90 percent pure silica for this soil.
Full story here.
FCC Approves iPhone
Friday, May 18th, 2007The Federal Communications Commission approved Apple Inc.’s iPhone, clearing the way for the combined phone and music player to hit the shelves. Apple expects to begin selling the phones in late June. Some of the FCC documents confirm a few features of the phone, including it will have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and will operate in the 1900MHz and 850MHz frequency bands. The phone uses GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology and the low-speed GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) wireless data standard.
Moviefone’s 25 Best Movie Sequels of All Time
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
From firstshowing.net
25. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
24. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
23. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
22. Before Sunset
21. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (as a sequel to Empire Strikes Back)
20. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
19. After the Thin Man
18. Bourne Supremacy
17. Superman II
16. Rocky II
15. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
14. Evil Dead 2
13. Toy Story 2
12. Dawn of the Dead
11. Kill Bill Vol. 2
10. Bride of Frankenstein
9. X2: X-Men United
8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (as a sequel to Fellowship of the Ring)
6. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
5. Spider-Man 2
4. Aliens
3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
1. The Godfather Part II
28 Weeks Later
Monday, May 14th, 2007
US Military Launches YouTube Channel
Monday, May 14th, 2007From slashdot.org
The US military has launched its own channel on YouTube, in efforts to shift the media’s focus of Iraq from a negative to a more positive light, and to ‘counter the messages of anti-American sites.’ From the article: ‘The footage is not picked specifically to show the military in a good light … and is only edited for reasons of time or content too graphic to be shown on YouTube … And while all the clips currently posted have been shot by the military’s combat cameramen, soldiers and marines have been invited to submit their own clips.’ The question is, where are they supposed to submit them? Starting ‘on or about 14 May 2007′, the Department of Defense will block troop access to Myspace, Youtube, MTV, and more sites, due to a ‘growing concern for our unclassified DoD Internet, known as the NIPRNET’.
LG.Philips Develops World’s First Color E-Paper
Monday, May 14th, 2007From slashdot.org
LG.Philips LCD has announced it has developed the world’s first 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper display, equivalent in size to an A4 sheet of paper. The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent.