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......"set out to do what no musician has ever tried — to make the world's ugliest piece of music"......
Already done...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(You're)_Having_My_Baby
Submission + - Apple Wins Ban on Samsung Tablet in Australia (washingtonpost.com)
Unloaded writes: FTA: An Australian court on Thursday temporarily banned Samsung from selling its new Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in the country, after rival technology giant Apple accused the company of copying features from its popular iPad tablet.
Submission + - Australian court blocks sales of Samsung Galaxy Ta (itnews.com.au) 2
jimboh2k writes: Apple has succeeded in blocking the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia until a final hearing can be heard in the case down under. The judgment on Thursday could effectively kill chances of the tablet ever launching properly in Australia after Samsung claimed further delays to the product would threaten hopes of gaining traction.
Feed News: Vonage CEO resigns, cost-cutting moves planned (macworld.com)
Feed Ofcom consults on unlicensed radio (theregister.com)
Free spectrum for all
UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom has published a consultation document which suggests expanding the use of unlicensed spectrum in frequencies over 40GHz, and for low-power technologies including ultra-wideband, and is looking for feedback before 21 June.
Feed EFF takes up arms against IPRED2 (theregister.com)
Brandishes web petition
The European wing of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has taken on the might of the European Commission by beginning its opposition to IPRED2, the proposed new directive that aims to harmonise European copyright laws.
Submission + - Korea launches a switch to open source
An anonymous reader writes:
Thousands of computers in ministries, government-linked organizations and universities in South Korea will replace Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite with open-source alternatives under the plan, according to the country's Ministry of Information and Communication.
Twenty percent of desktop software and 30 percent of server software will be changed to open source by 2007, said a representative from the Ministry of Information and Communication.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5084811.html
Twenty percent of desktop software and 30 percent of server software will be changed to open source by 2007, said a representative from the Ministry of Information and Communication.
Submission + - Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push for HTML5
foo fighter writes: "The insular World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been slumbering the past several years: HTML was last updated in 1999, XHTML was last updated in 2002, and no one is taking their largely incompatible work on "next-generation" XHTML or "modularized" XHTML seriously. Both HTML and XHTML are in sorry need of removing deprecated items while being updated to reflect the current practices of web and browser developers yet remaining compatible with legacy Recommendations. The much more open and transparent WHATWG formed in 2004 to address this problem and has been hard at work on developing a draft spec for HTML5 to update and replace legacy versions of both HTML and XHTML. The quality of this work has reached the point that Apple, Opera, and Mozilla have requested the adoption of HTML5 as the new "W3C Recommendation" for web development."
Submission + - IBM Designs Stackable Chips
narramissic writes: "IBM has announced plans to build smaller, more efficient chips by stacking a processor on top of its memory or power components. While some chip makers already stack processors, they connect them with long wires wrapped around the edges of the chips. By etching holes straight through the processors, IBM can use wires one-thousandth as long, and use 40 percent less electrical power, said Lisa Su, VP for IBM's semiconductor research and development center.
'Since the mid-60s we've just used the X and Y dimensions of integrated circuits. Now we can use this new approach to get around some huge problems. The bandwidth between logic and memory will go up, and it could help with the problem of power and heat dissipation,' says Dave Lammers, director of www.WeSRCH.com for VLSI Research Inc."
'Since the mid-60s we've just used the X and Y dimensions of integrated circuits. Now we can use this new approach to get around some huge problems. The bandwidth between logic and memory will go up, and it could help with the problem of power and heat dissipation,' says Dave Lammers, director of www.WeSRCH.com for VLSI Research Inc."
Submission + - New File Sharing Method Increases Download Speed
s31523 writes: "With more and more web content being shared, download speeds are a concern since traditional methods, like BitTorrent, are limited by the number of people sharing a specific file. A new sharing technique, Similarity-Enhanced Transfer (SET), claims to be able to increase download speeds up to %500. According to the article, researchers found that many files have chunks of identical data which can be leveraged in farming out the file to others who are downloading it."
Submission + - Was videogaming better 30-years ago?
An anonymous reader writes: Sean Sands at Gamers With Jobs looks back at the dawn of videogaming, when we were all kids just typing in our games, one line of basic at a time. And he finds the present lacking:
Read the whole thing.The dreamers became assets instead of leaders, and the rockstar designers became, well, Rockstar... or Blizzard, or Valve. Publishers with cash-rich money to spend bought the creative process, and the minds of marketing professionals replaced four guys hopped up on sugar doughnuts and generic cola. So, how dare I be surprised that the price of today's gaming blitz is a little piece of last generation's soul?
Feed 'Rebuilt' immune system shakes off diabetes (pheedo.com)
Rebuilding patients' immune systems from scratch with their own bone marrow stem cells may free type 1 diabetics of the chronic condition
Submission + - Gaming on Linux
timtim writes: "Many enthusiasts have talked about how they wish they could switch from Windows to Linux, but the overwhelming hold back has often been the gaming support. The inability to play games under Linux has been a common misconception for quite some time now. This article hopes to clear up some of the myths and proves that Linux ain't so bad after all. From the article: "Gaming is the one thing that Windows has to offer over Linux. There are plenty of open-source office packages, photo editors, web browsers, mail clients,... but the general impression of gaming on Linux is poor. This is because most big gaming developers only use DirectX in their games; and, as we all know, DirectX is one of Microsoft's greatest gifts to gamers.""
Submission + - centos 5 torrent leaked before release
An anonymous reader writes: after being delayed for countless hours due to mirror synchronization, centos 5 isos are available on unofficial torrent (initially created for release to mirrors) http://centos.hughesjr.com/testing/5-torrents/
Submission + - Write your valentine on the side of a spacecraft
GingerSnaps writes: Looking for something more fun and less predictable than roses and chocolates this Valentine's Day? At http://www.yournameintospace.org/ you can show that special someone just how much you care by writing your love in the stars — or on the side of a satellite to be precise. This unusual approach to courting comes courtesy of (who else?) students at MIT and Georgia Tech, as part of a larger initiative to pay for their research spacecraft, the Mars Gravity Biosatellite. For a small, tax-deductible donation anyone can post a picture or message of choice on the spacecraft. All donations help the students pay for the development and construction of their Earth-orbiting satellite, which will be launched in 2010. The data gathered will be critical to preparing for human missions to Mars and beyond. More info on the mission can be found at http://www.marsgravity.org/
