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News at Seven Animation from RSS Feed, selected by tags
by Andrew McCaskey
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two near-identical spacecraft
each of them into an orbit on opposite sides of the planet to make their observations.
stereoscopic view of the sun and solar explosions called coronal mass ejections, which generate space storms that affect Earth.
The will give us unprecedented stereoscopic views of the Sun-Earth system, hopefully leading to the creation of the first 3-D movies of the Sun!
most basic use case is to shoot 60 seconds of video from your mobile phone and upload this video to Veeker in the form of an MMS. Within about 60 seconds your video is on the Veeker portal where private, friends or world mode
Basic Power
Datacenter building boom backlogs for the large generators emergency power
lengthy delays on new units of the most popular models as war soaks up production of generators
nice 2 megawatt diesel engine is now up to a year for one generator
newer Microsoft and Yahoo data centers can use up to 20 or 30 generators
Caterpillar raise generator prices by 5 to 7 percent, Cummins up 10 percent
Access lists are particularly difficult to formulate
mature companies, where the number and power of administrators have expanded over periods of years,
15,000 employees, 20 to 30 IT workers normally have access
and small companies, where rapid growth leads to undocumented tangles of administrators who are able to maintain their access because nobody has time to assess their status.’”
Either case – can read the email . That would be all email, including executive private conversations.
May want to think about your access list. Who what and why
Half Life, RSS and Evening News
It’s our feature YouTube video today – News at Seven,
Software that automatically generates video news bulletins, presented by computer-animated characters,
Northwestern University, Illinois, US
Can produce reports tailored to a person’s particular interests,TAGS
extract further key terms from these reports and use these to search for supplementary images and videos on YouTube
Quebec Outlaws Electronic Voting
Nov 2005 elections 140 electronic, 22 mail in ballots
“Not only did the systems fail, but the corrective measure proposed were insufficient, poorly adapted and often came too late. “
here was a moratorium on electronic voting prior to the November 6 election, it will be extended for future elections.”
Not ready prime time in Seattle
300 users
WiFi- cellphone called UMA – unlicensed mobile access
Nokia 6136 and the Samsung (News – Alert) T709 dual mode phones can place free calls over WiFi
Hit hot spot, then WiFi speeds beat 2G or 3G anything
Autodetect and switch
T-Mobile is not the first British Telecom (BT), which introduced its Fusion VoIP service, featuring dual-mode, seamless handover between cellular and WiFi, in the fall of 2005.
Billing not resolved, WEP
http://www.theonlyphoneyouneed.com/
$49.99 with a two-year contract, or $99 with a one-year contract. T-D-Link WiFi router optimized for the service for free with a mail-in rebate (it should be noted, however, that any home WiFi router can be used). The WiFi functionality costs an additional $19.99 a month.
Chop in and out of wifi / cellular
Compelling flash animation
Think your bill hard to read now.
Dell Readies a Sub $500 laptop
Asian manufacturer
Christmas special
AMD Turion processors 15-inch laptop.
The New York Times has an article today casting doubt on the viability of plug-in hybrids in the short term, but some of their assumptions seem detached from reality.
The article says plug-in hybrids are “miles” from becoming reality and states that a plug-in hybrid would cost $20,000 more than a gasoine vehicle.
Calcars.org has details $10,000 conversion
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