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Think the PSP isn%u2019t quite pocketable enough for ya? Yeah, well, SL-Interphase is working on a tablet-style gaming PC called the Rogue that comes with a built-in joystick, track ball, buttons, up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and an 8.4-inch LCD screen you can write on
Maybe Tablet PCs are not completely useless.
Raskin died on Saturday night at his home in Pacifica, his family said in a statement. In December, he told friends he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Raskin joined Apple in 1978 – as its 31st employee – to start the young company’s publications department. At the time, computers were primarily text-based and users had to remember a series of arcane commands to perform the simplest tasks.
In 1979, Raskin had a different idea: a computer that was priced affordably, targeted at consumers and extremely easy to use. A small team, under his command, was put together at Apple to pursue his concept that would eventually become the Macintosh.
A brilliant and multi-talented man. His contributions have impacted industry for over two decades and will continue to for years to come. I’ll definately watch the movie and can’t wait to see what comes out of the Raskin Center project Archy.
In the movie The Core, Hilary Swank saved humanity by drilling to Earth’s center. In reality, of course, that’s impossible – and not just because Swank isn’t the geologist type. Try as they might, actual scientists have yet to get through even the crust, the thinnest, outermost skin of the planet. It’s just too deep.
Enter the Chikyu – a 689-foot-long, 57,550-ton ocean vessel. Chikyu means “Earth” in Japanese, and the ship’s sole mission is to drill deeper than anyone has before: 6.2 miles down. After tests off the Japanese coast, researchers in June will head for deep Pacific waters, weigh anchor, and probe all the way to the mantle, that molten layer between the crust and the core.
And why are scientific feats like this not publicized mor- ohh, the game is on!
Thanks, Matt.
AMD presents dual-core version of its Athlon 64 desktop processor as the finishing point in long-lasting chip wars.
The dual-core Athlon 64 is working at a clock-speed of 2.4 GHz and has maximum power dissipation of 100 W.
This is the latest development in the long-lasting chip war between AMD and Intel. Both companies pledged processing of dual-core versions of their processors since 2003.
AMD also added the dual-core technology will %u201Cenable advanced multimedia and multitasking capabilities.%u201D
AMD was the first company that developed 32/64-bit x86 processors. Its main rival Intel answered with its EM64T 64-bit extensions for its Xeon product line.
AMD rules. Go green!
IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers.
On Friday, the tech giant is expected to announce a partnership with Zend Technologies to create a bundle called ZendCore, which includes IBM’s Cloudscape-embedded database and Zend’s PHP development tools. Zend sells tools built on the open-source edition of PHP and offers related services.
IBM also plans to establish an area dedicated to PHP on its developer Web site, which will include technical resources such as white papers.
D. Reed Freeman, the “Chief Privacy Officer” of Claria Networks (formerly Gator), the creators of the pervasive spyware package GAIN, has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s “Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee”.”
I apologize for shamelessly pulling this topic from slashdot, but this is simply apalling. Perhaps we could find someone better to head the whole department? Someone, who is closer to the enemy perhaps? Someone… in the know? Perhaps… in the lead?…
Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer’s idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
After several months of testing, we are now ‘throwing open the doors’ for general participation. If you would like to take part, please use the Create account link to create an account, and follow the instructions. Einstein@home is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X computers.
Bitrock :: Solutions :: LAMPStack
LAMPStack, cross platform gui or text installers, stuff that “just works” — oh my.
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has excecuted over 40 missions involving over 100 undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.
A deadly series of storms across California spawned everything from tornadoes to avalanches, flooding freeways with steady rain and sending rivers of mud crashing through homes.
At least six deaths have been blamed on the storm, including a woman buried by an avalanche north of Lake Tahoe and others who were victims of landslides, traffic accidents, falling trees and flooding.
I had no idea that tornados were even possible in California. To date, I have lived most of my life in Northern California (although I now currently reside in St. Paul, MN) and I have never heard of such a thing.
YOKOSUKA, Japan – A car that swerves back into lanes on its own and a video system that makes parking a breeze were part of technological features on display by the Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. The technology that reporters tried out in test drives Monday at a research center outside Tokyo is part of Nissan’s efforts to make driving safer. Similar smart-car features are in the works at most of the world’s top automakers, including Japanese rivals Toyota Motor Corp. (news – web sites) and Honda Motor Co. (news – web sites), as well as General Motors Corp. of the United States and others.
One of the features shown was a more sophisticated version of an existing warning system — already available in Nissan luxury cars in the United States and Japan — that buzzes when the car veers out of the lane.
Ah, so we’ve given up on smart drivers.
The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting.
Speakers at the national meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science expressed concern Sunday that some scientists in key federal agencies are being ignored or even pressured to change study conclusions that don’t support policy positions.
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“In previous administrations, scientists were always at the table when regulations were being developed,” she said. “Science never had the last voice, but it had a voice.”
Issues on global warming, for instance, that achieved a firm scientific consensus in earlier years are now being questioned by Bush policymakers. Proven, widely accepted research is being ignored or disputed, she said.
It’s hard to listen to common sense when you are beholden to industries and corporations.
Science News Article | Reuters.com
Global warming could stifle cleansing summer winds across parts of the northern United States over the next 50 years and worsen air pollution, U.S. researchers said on Saturday.
Further warming of the atmosphere, as is happening now, would block cold fronts bringing cooler, cleaner air from Canada and allow stagnant air and ozone pollution to build up over cities in the Northeast and Midwest, they predicted.
“The air just cooks,” said Loretta Mickley of Harvard University’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “The pollution accumulates, accumulates, accumulates, until a cold front comes in and the winds sweep it away.”
The molecular mechanisms underlying the evolution of complex behaviour are poorly understood. The mammalian genus Microtus provides an excellent model for investigating the evolution of social behaviour. Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) exhibit a monogamous social structure in nature, whereas closely related meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) are solitary and polygamous. In male prairie voles, both vasopressin and dopamine act in the ventral forebrain to regulate selective affiliation between adult mates, known as pair bond formation, as assessed by partner preference in the laboratory. </blockquote?
-Perhaps other complex behaviors could be explained by genetics? Imagine being able to alter behaviors through simple genetics…
