Vendor SageTV Announces Support for AMD LIVE! Home Cinema
SageTV announced today support for AMD LIVE! Home Cinema and Home Media Server consumer electronics platform designs. "The AMD LIVE! Home Cinema with SageTV Media Center can provide complete PVR, Online Video, Music and Photo access on the TV screen at the press of a remote. The software also enables Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers as well as set-top boxes to connect to the Home Cinema at home or away with the same in
Submission + - Doom for Hubble's iconic pillars
rucs_hack writes: "The Iconic pillars of Gas in a Stellar Nursery imaged by Hubble in 1995
that became an iconic image, even appearing in Star Trek Voyagers astrometrics lab, have
apparently met
their end..
While some may mourn their passing, it was a predicted end to structures in a stellar nursery, with newborn stars blowing away surrounding gas. The breakup of the pillars won't be visible from earth for another thousand years."
While some may mourn their passing, it was a predicted end to structures in a stellar nursery, with newborn stars blowing away surrounding gas. The breakup of the pillars won't be visible from earth for another thousand years."
Submission + - Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
An anonymous reader writes: Desperate to hire more engineers and sales representatives to staff its rapidly growing search and advertising business, Google — in typical eccentric fashion — has created an automated way to search for talent among the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month. It is starting to ask job applicants to fill out an elaborate online survey that explores their attitudes, behavior, personality and biographical details going back to high school.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/technology/03goo gle.html?em&ex=1168059600&en=4c26f1e0ca0babfd&ei=5 087%0A
Submission + - Life in Sulphuric Acid. The first Earthling?
Maikel_NAI writes: "A microorganism found by a group of scientist in a Russian area, is able to survive in sulphuric acid, feeding on some kind of pyrite. This fact suggest this creature has not evolve since the very first moments of life's appearance on Earth, and thus this could be the most ancient form of life in our planet. The paper, published in the last issue of the journal Nature, says that this microorganism, called Ferroplasma acidiphilum had arose at the begining of the Earth formation, more than 5 billion years ago."
Submission + - Why Windows Wins and Linux Loses
An anonymous reader writes: Today, you can do everything you want with a Linux desktop, except play the latest games. Even there, Linux is catching up. So, why do only a handful of people run Linux instead of Windows? Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols — not exactly an anti-Linux blogger — offers his top four reasons why Linux lags Windows in adoption, and suggests what is most needed for that situation to change. I'm wondering: what do Slashdot readers think these days? Does Linux still stand a chance of meaningful desktop penetration? Will the release of Vista increase, or decrease, the use of desktop Linux?
