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bergwitz writes:
Mozilla Sunbird is a standalone calendar application and Lightning is a integrated calendar for Thunderbird. The new 0.7 version has a new UI and some bugfixes. Download from the Project Homepage, read about the release on the calendar weblog or the Rumbling Edge.
The most notable new feature is in the UI with the new Today panel for Lightning. The worst is that the Google data provider extension breaks, but a new version is available here.
349483
submission
jesusdiazblanco writes:
This is the ultra-high resolution multi-projector VR system that will be used for training at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Built by Lockheed Martin, it uses Mersive Sol Server technology to automatically and seamlessly combine multiple projectors in one gigantabolous immersive display, thanks to camera-based fully-automatic calibration, edge blending and color correction. Instead of using complicated calibration procedures which can take weeks to complete, Sol uses a robotic camera to obtain reference points. After the screen is mapped in less than an hour, the Sol Server software corrects for geometric distortion, intensity and color variation in overlap regions that result from using multiple overlapping projectors on the spherical surface of the dome. Someone at Nellis please connect an Xbox 360 to this.
349423
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Chemisor writes:
According to the latest survey by AP, 34% of the US population believes in ghosts. Among other interesting results are 19% who believe in spells and witchcraft, 48% who believe in ESP, and 5% (including at least one computer programmer!) who have seen a monster in their closet. Something tells me that the decline in the US science education levels has a ways to go yet...
