Comment Re:Tethering (Score 1) 555
And even fewer possibilities with the VH-71 cancellation this past spring.
Comment Re:Tethering (Score 1) 555
Let me guess...LMSI-O?
Comment Thinkpad X200 Tablet (Score 2, Informative) 176
I used a Thinkpad X61 tablet pc for note taking and lecture recording while doing my bachelors in EE, and still use it as a regular notebook and note taking now as a grad student. I recently loaded Windows 7 on a SSD and it flies. The screen's 1400x1050, so no screen real-estate complaints here. Most of the time I type my notes, but when I need to write down equations and diagrams, I flip it around and draw them, then go back to typing when I need to. It's fast enough to be a regular use noebook, especially with the new SSD. I love it. The sad thing is they don't make 12.1 inch IPS high res screens anymore, as the latest incarnation, the X200 tablet, uses a 1280x800 screen that's far inferior. Still I think it's worth a look.
Comment Re:Site Layout (Score 1) 155
It's based off the Sephirotic Tree of Life. I blame too much evangelion for this sort of knowledge.
Comment Re:Operation Meteor (Score 1) 554
OZ will surely quell those colony rebels!
Comment Re:DSLR video... (Score 1) 117
I'd question that statement, as both the T1i and the 5D Mark II have the DIGIC 4 processor.
Comment Re:amateur students? (Score 1) 58
You hit the nail right on the head. Incidentally, I work at the Lockheed site that's funding this research, and I also went to Cornell. Let me shed some light on this. These "students" are not really students per se, and are employees of Lockheed Martin who are undergoing their ELDP (Engineering Leadership Development Program). It is a three year program in which you work full time for Lockheed while earning your MEng at Cornell (not a bad deal unless you consider the fact that it only takes 1 year to earn the same degree full time, and, honestly, the surrounding area is depressing as hell, plus you get worked to the bone for 3 years). So in fact, these graduate students are professional Lockheed Martin engineers already.
Submission + - How to build a CCNA lab for under $200 (no Sims) (networkworld.com) 1
Julie188 writes: "Thanks to the crummy economy, prices for used routers and switches are unbelievable. Now is the time to consider how to build a cheap CCNA lab with real gear — no Sims, no Dynamips. For today at least, cheap is king and if the goal is CCNA prep, you can actually build a home lab for under $200 ... and if you play it right, for under $100. Trainer and author Wendell Odom has charted out the options."
Submission + - Obama Pushes for High Speed Transport (wired.com)
davidphogan74 writes: "Obama pushed for high speed transport today before heading to Mexico. Obama's high speed rail plan is to give the NW, SW/SoCal, Chicago, NYC, WA DC, etc HSR that we all contribute to. It's a good thing, right?"
Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series 297
It was recently announced that sci-fi remake series Battlestar Galactica is getting a whole new spinoff prequel series called "Caprica." Signed on for twenty hours worth of finished product, including a two-hour pilot, the new series is to be set 50 years prior to Battlestar Galactica, and will focus on two rival families, the Graystones and the Adamas. "Enmeshed in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics. 'Caprica' will deliver all of the passion, intrigue, political backbiting and family conflict in television's first science fiction family saga."
Comment Re:If only... (Score 1) 470
Almost right about the X series tablet thing. IBM/Lenovo produces the X60 and X61 tablets, which can be configured to have a 12.1" 1400x1050 resolution IPS screen. This unit is still in production, but always difficult to obtain.
The Simpson's Movie Confirmed 334
bagsc writes "BBC News reports Twentieth Centruy Fox confirms The Simpsons are going to the movies! Should hit theatres in 2007." From the article: "A 25-second trailer for the film has been shown to US audiences at screenings of Ice Age: The Meltdown, promising to introduce 'the greatest hero in American history'. It then cut to Homer Simpson, wearing only his underwear, who admitted: 'I forgot what I was supposed to say.'"
The State of Digital Music in 2006 127
wh0pper writes "Designtechnica has an excellent article on the state of digital music in 2006. Digital music accounted for only six percent of total music sales in 2005. Yet even that is a massive increase over the year before, a whopping 194 percent, which is fiscally valuable as the sales of CDs continue to decrease (although even with digital sales, the record labels experienced another downturn in 2005). While the young, usually the first to adopt and adapt to new technology, have been downloading and swapping music for quite some time, there's been a ripple effect into the older, warier area of the population, one that will only increase. Thank--or blame--Apple and its iPod, or any of the many other makes selling like hotcakes in the stores.
