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Transportation

+ - World's cheapest car goes on sale

Submitted by Frankie70
Frankie70 writes "The world's cheapest car goes on sale.
Tata Nano — the car that caught the world's imagination as the cheapest ever — will finally be rolled out commercially on Monday in Mumbai in a mega event organised by Tata Motors.

Ben Oliver, contributing editor, Car Magazine, London test drove the car in December, 08. These were his first impressions. This was his verdict — "CAR's first ride in the Tata Nano felt far more significant and exciting than a first drive in a Ferrari or Lamborghini, because this car's importance is immeasurably greater. It won't compete on dynamics or quality with European or Japanese city cars, but it doesn't have to. What Tata has achieved at an unprecedented price is astonishing, although we'd guess it will cost Indian consumers closer to £1700 when it finally goes on sale, six months late, in March 2009.""
Cellphones

VMware Demos Two Operating Systems On Mobile Phone 52

Posted by timothy
from the for-both-your-personalities dept.
nk497 writes "Virtualisation firm VMware has demonstrated its new mobile virtualisation platform, which allows two operating systems to be used at the same time on a single device. On stage at its European conference, VMware reps used a touchscreen Nokia N800 — more of a tablet computer than a phone — with a prototype of its hypervisor to boot and run both Windows CE and Google's Android, at the same time. The firm has yet to announce when such tech will be found in phones."
Upgrades

BASH 4.0 Released 459

Posted by ScuttleMonkey
from the tools-that-matter dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The widely used Bourne-Again Shell (BASH) version 4.0 is out. The new major release fixes several remaining bugs in the 3.x releases, and introduces a bunch of new features. The most notable new features are associative arrays, improvements to the programmable completion functionality, case-modifying word expansions, co-processes, support for the `**' special glob pattern, and additions to the shell syntax and redirections. The shell has been changed to be more rigorous about parsing commands inside command substitutions, fixing one piece of POSIX non-compliance. Most of us will probably wait for the distros to test the new version and upgrade gradually, but you always have the option of grabbing the source and compiling it yourself. Enjoy."
Television

+ - Nielsen Finds TV Consumption at All Time High

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An anonymous reader writes "A recent study by Nielsen, shows that television, Internet, and mobile devices continue to increase in demand and has reached new heights. The average lazy American watches more than 151 hours of TV per month, an all-time high. Meanwhile, Americans who watch video over the Internet consume another 3 hours of online video per month and those who use mobile video watch nearly 4 hours per month on mobile phones and other devices. Nielsen also reported that digital video recorded (DVR) and other timeshifted television is watched at double the pace as video online at 7 hours, 11 minutes per month. Yet in a potential indicator of how audiences could timeshift in the future, young adults (age 18-24) watch video on the Internet and on a DVR at the same rate — about 5 hours per month. At least we can say these American's are "smart and lazy", allowing them to bypass commercials and save more time - ... or maybe instead of saving more time, allowing for more TV time. Hmm, maybe the first group is smarter after all."

Comment: Re:If you want to feel secure... (Score 0) 78

by timpintsch (#26961085) Attached to: Joomla! Web Security
Thank you, this was my point exactly. Sometimes less is more, now to be completely transparent, I use Joomla, a lot. I also try to shore up security on quite a few installations. Often I find the objectives of a person using Joomla are just as easily obtained making a good old fasioned HTML page with tables... and in some cases, even poorly thought out frames...

But, to wit, this book does serve a function. Please also not I did not us an !
The Media

AP Considers Making Content Require Payment 425

Posted by ScuttleMonkey
from the you-see-there-is-this-thing-called-web-2.0 dept.
TechDirt is reporting that the Associated Press is poised to be the next in a long line of news organizations to completely bungle their online distribution methods by making their content require payment. While this wouldn't happen for a while due to deals with others, like Google, to distribute AP content for free, even considering this is a massive step in the wrong direction. "Also, I know we point this out every time some clueless news exec claims that users need to pay, but it's worth mentioning again: nowhere do they discuss why people should want to pay. Nowhere do they explain what extra value they're adding that will make people pay. Instead, they think that if they put up a paywall, people will magically pay -- even though the paywall itself is what takes away much of the value by making it harder for people to do what they want with the news: to spread it, to comment on it, to participate in the story. Until newspaper execs figure this out, they're only going to keep making things worse."
Movies

Slumdog Millionaire Takes Home 8 Oscars 317

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the stuff-to-see dept.
Ben Burtt was robbed of his overly deserved Oscars for the sound on Wall-E, and Heath Ledger's Joker unsurprisingly got a posthumous statue, but the big winner for the night was Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire with Picture, Director, Song, and five others. Go ahead movie nerds: talk amongst yourself.

Comment: There is documentation and then... (Score 0) 401

by timpintsch (#26918687) Attached to: How Do You Document Technical Procedures?
...There is documentation. One of the most important things in dealing as a large company is to work in making sure everyone can get accurate information everyone needs. One of the most daunting tasks is sorting and maintaining this information as everyone has different levels of proficiency... so, in truth having several different copies of the same documentation geared towards different aspects of the business is very helpful.

How does one explain an OC-192 line from a Marketing perspective? How does one explain QoS routing to Level 1 tech support? How does one explain FCC rules to Sales People and still make that information understandable by customers who have a rough time programming their VCR? These are issues faced in putting together a documentation project for a corporation. Less is never more for documentation and targeted, simplified versions of highly detailed technical procedures are also valuable...

The trick is putting together a system that does all of this and is easy to update everything that needs updating.

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