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Comment Death of the Macintosh (Score 4, Interesting) 213

by with a 'c' on Monday July 13, 2009 @10:37AM (#28676145) Attached to: What To Expect From Apple's Rumored MacPad

The Mac Pad has some possibility to be real simply because you would have to be blind to not see that the end of the Macintosh as a basic consumer device is coming. Anyone that went to WWDC can tell you the focus was entirely on iPhone OS.

The Macintosh will still be around as high end media creation devices and servers. Think of iPhone, Touch and potential MacPad or new consumer devices as media consumption devices. They will have basic editing ability (see iLife and iWork) but that's it. Who really needs a quad quad xenon to play MP3s and watch videos. Also look at the game market on iPhone OS. That's where the money is and that's where Apple is going.

NASA Plans To De-Orbit ISS In 2016 554

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 13, 2009 @10:00AM from the everybody-duck dept.

NewbieV writes "The international space station is by far the largest spacecraft ever built by earthlings. Circling the Earth every 90 minutes, it often passes over North America and is visible from the ground when night has fallen but the station, up high, is still bathed in sunlight. After more than a decade of construction, it is nearing completion and finally has a full crew of six astronauts. The last components should be installed by the end of next year. And then? 'In the first quarter of 2016, we'll prep and de-orbit the spacecraft,' says NASA's space station program manager, Michael T. Suffredini."

ISS Launches First Permanent Node of "Interplanetary Internet" 121

Posted by timothy on Monday July 13, 2009 @08:00AM from the wake-me-up-when-the-terminator-gets-here dept.

schliz writes "Researchers developing the 'Interplanetary Internet' have launched its first permanent node in space via a payload aboard the International Space Station. The network is based on a new communications protocol called Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN). It will be tested heavily this month, and could give astronauts direct Internet access within a year. The Interplanetary Internet is the brainchild of Vint Cerf ('father of the Internet'), among others. Last year, NASA tested the technology on the Deep Impact spacecraft." Update: 07/13 20:01 GMT by KD : If by "permanent" we mean seven years.

Comment You need a degree don't you? (Score 1) 729

by with a 'c' on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:50PM (#24024487) Attached to: PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License

What's so bad about this. I thought "they" require a biology degree to mow someone's lawn. So what's the diff?

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