Comment Re:Re-Orient? (Score 1) 583
At one point, my SCPH-1001 got so bad it had to be played upside down. However, it worked upside down for years..
Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki 160
We discussed the advent of Google's SearchWiki when it was introduced a few days back. Now Lauren Weinstein offers a thought experiment in transmitting coded messages using SearchWiki, with a working example encoded into the results of this Google search.
Comment Re:Inexpensive Legos? (Score 1) 576
I don't know if you just said that because it's obvious this is going to happen, or were you making a point about the fact that Mega-Brands was involved in the Chinese crap / knockoff lead scandals recently?
They almost went bankrupt too!
Comment Force 64 bit ! (Score 1) 369
Is Microsoft Finally going to DITCH the 32bit version of Windows?
Just to force everyone to make drivers for 64bit, so we can FINALLY have machines with enough RAM to run Windows itself?
Comment Hosting your own Google apps.. (Score 1) 336
Since Google sells Indexing appliances, wouldn't it be cool for them to sell a version that also has Gmail and Google apps?
That way, a company could use these in their own "cloud" (hate that word) , and users would get a user interface that they are used to, available from anywhere. Google could also compete heavily with sharepoint and Exchange in the enterprise that way..
Frozen Mice Cloned 272
m0rphin3 writes "Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species. Could we finally see Jurassic Park become a reality, or perhaps use this for colonizing other galaxies?"
Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS 419
snydeq writes "Microsoft today introduced Windows Azure, its operating system for the cloud. The OS serves as the underlying foundation of the Azure Services Platform to help developers build apps that span from the cloud to the datacenter, to PCs, the Web, and phones. Cloud-based developer capabilities are combined with storage, computational, and network infrastructure services, which are hosted on servers within Microsoft's global data center network."
An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda 283
theraindog writes "More than a year and a half after the first terabyte hard drives became widely available, Seagate has reached the next storage capacity milestone. With 1.5 terabytes, the latest Barracuda 7200.11 serves up 50% more capacity than its peers, and at a surprisingly affordable $0.12 per gigabyte. But Seagate's decision to drop new platters into an old Barracuda shell may not have been a wise one. The Tech Report's in-depth review of the world's first 1.5TB hard drive shows that while the latest 'cuda is screaming fast in synthetic throughput drag races, poor real world write speeds ultimately tarnish its appeal."
Journal Journal: Thunderbird 0.9 MSI Package
Thunderbird 0.9 was released today, so I made a MSI package of it... available here .. The files are out of the actual MSI so you can compare them with an MD5 of the real stuff..
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