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Comment Re:Great Blazing Colors (Score 1) 702

by Blimbo (#23012256) Attached to: What Font Color Is Best For Eyes?
It is also interesting to note (IIRC) that 'red' is one of the hardest colors to determine distance. This means that, yes while we see it and register it quickly; it is difficult to determine how far away the light it is (distance) based on luminance.

This was determined some years ago during studies regarding red automobile brake lights and traffic lights, and no i don't have time to reference this, so maybe someone else will review.

MIT Plans To Convert Cell Phone Users Into Podcasters 90

Posted by Zonk from the i-already-talk-too-much dept.
robyn217 writes "A new research project at MIT's Media Lab, entitled RadioActive, aims to turn every cell phone or PDA carrying member of the public into a podcaster, and every mobile device into a virtual podcasting studio. The project defines a large-scale asynchronous audio messaging system in which voice messages can be threaded like text in a discussion forum (like on Slashdot) as a method of 'discussion-on-demand.'"

Wireless Data Plans Reviewed 105

Posted by CowboyNeal from the carrier-pidgeons dept.
prostoalex writes "The New York Times Technology section runs a review of available wireless data plans that provide a PCMCIA card for wireless Internet connections. Cingular BroadbandConnect seems to have won the comparison as far as quality, but the service is only available in 16 major metropolitan areas. Sprint Mobile Broadband has wider coverage for $80 a month. Verizon Wireless sells BroadbandAccess for $80 a month or $60 if you decide to commit to a 2-year contract, and this one has the widest coverage of 181 metropolitan areas."

Tech Workers of the World Unite? 1254

Posted by Zonk from the come-together-right-now dept.
okidokedork writes "Wired News reports on the lack of unions in the IT workplace. If you could join a union in your workplace, would you?" From the article: "The rich get richer, the shareholder is valued more than the employee, jobs are eliminated in the name of bottom-line efficiency (remember when they called firing people 'right-sizing'?) and the gulf between the rich and the working class grows wider every year. You see this libertarian ethos everywhere, but nowhere more clearly than in the technology sector, where the number of union jobs can be counted on one hand. Tech is the Wild West as far as the job market goes and the robber barons on top of the pile aim to keep it that way. They'll offshore your job to save a few bucks or lay you off at the first sign of a slump, but they're the first to scream, 'You're stifling innovation!' at any attempt to control the industry or provide job security for the people who do the actual work."

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