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Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 709

The competition between Comcast and whoever else may be scant in some areas, but it does exist.

Depends on your definition of competition. There are PLENTY of areas in the US where there is essentially only one provider of high speed internet. If that single provider decides to throttle your connection, no amount of complaining is going to help when they know you have nowhere else to go.

Desktops (Apple)

New Mac Clone Maker 'Quo' To Open Retail Store 296

bughunter writes "Cnet is reporting that Mac clone maker Quo Computer plans to open its first retail location, selling Mac clones, on June 1st. To start, Quo will offer three desktop systems: the Life Q, Pro Q, and Max Q. While details of the components are not yet available, founder Rashantha De Silva said they are looking at Apple's system configurations for guidance. Pricing has also not been finalized on the desktop machines, but the company is looking to start pricing at less than $900. While Quo is starting off with the desktop machines, De Silva said it is looking at offering an Apple TV-like media server and a smaller computer similar to the Mac Mini. He acknowledges that Quo will likely face opposition from Apple, much like Psystar. 'They probably will (sue us),' De Silva said. 'There are others doing this, but we have a different attitude. There are thousands of people in the "Hackintosh" market, but many of them are creating bad products. I don't think anyone wins in that environment.'"
Medicine

Submission + - Scientists use MRI machines to read minds... kinda

NigelTheFrog writes: Researchers in England have used fMRI to map the activity in volunteers' hippocampi (hippocampuses?). From these scans, they could pinpoint exactly wher they were in a virtual reality landscape.

"Specific parts of each participant's hippocampus were active after that person had navigated to particular places in the room. A few practice rounds provided fodder for creating algorithms for each participant that correlated different brain activity patterns with different virtual locations. The algorithms, the team found, could in turn "predict" new virtual locations, not those used during practice rounds, based on each person's pattern of brain activity."

Comment Re:Don't mess with emusic! (Score 1) 414

it is just easier for me to buy from iTMS directly instead of having add files manually to my library after downloading them from emusic.

Actually, the most recent eMusic download manager (at least for OS X) automatically imports downloads into iTunes, artwork and all. I think it works with Media Player too, but I've never had opportunity/desire to find out.

And eMusic has been around long before 2003. I've been a subscriber since March 2000.

Transportation

Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car 324

Colin Smith writes "Dean Kamen, (inventor of the Segway) has combined a Stirling engine with a battery-powered electric vehicle based on the Ford Think to provide a fully decoupled electric hybrid car which can run on any fuel which can provide enough heat to run the Stirling generator. Think are also producing a purely battery 'Think City' car which is capable of 62mph and with a range of 126miles." Some stats on the Ford Think: Top speed, 55mph; 0-30, 6.5 seconds; Range, 60 miles on battery.

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