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BlackShirt writes:
Star Tech, an online retailer in the U.S. that started taking orders for the Eee PC before the specs were done, says its Eee PC page has been averaging 1,000 hits a day and it's been taking roughly 100 orders a week, mostly from businesspeople and travelers.
http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/1112/024a_print.html
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Cally writes:
Space.com reports that the
X Prize Cup 2007 is now in progress, with several teams competing for the Lunar Lander Challenge — a vehicle must take-off, hover for three minutes (six for the second-level challenge), and then make a controlled vertical landing at a site several hundred meters from the launch pad.
John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, now down to only two vehicles after a last minute accident in testing, are in the running to take the prize.
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coder4hire writes:
- UNA (United North America)
- EU (European Union)
- ChiTaHoKo (China + Taiwan + HK)
- USCR (Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics)
- PBI (Pirate Bay Island)
- PRCN (People's Republic of CowboyNeal)
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boaz112358 writes:
Over the summer, the House Judiciary Committee set up a website where would-be whistle blowers in the Justice Department can send tips to the committee. Yesterday, they sent out an email to everyone who had sent in a tip. However, the geniuses decided to include everyone in a single email with all email addresses in the 'to:' field, rather than using 'bcc:' or sending individual emails. Ironically, the email describes the procedures that the committee has set up to ensure the tipsters confidentiality. TPMmuckraker has the details.
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Jonnah writes:
Radio scientists at IBM Research and MediaTek are teaming up to develop a wireless transmission protocol that will deliver files more than 100 times faster than Wi-Fi.
The idea is to take advantage of the 60GHz spectrum, according to Mehmet Soyuer, the lead researcher on the project, whose based in IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. These chips will be able to transfer files at around 2.5 gigabits per second, compared to the 11 to 54 megabits of Wi-Fi. Hence the 100x faster calculation.
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theodp writes
"Nine months after the Los Angeles Unified School District launched SAP HR and Payroll as part of a larger $132M ERP rollout, LAUSD employees are still being overpaid, underpaid or going unpaid. In June, about 30,000 paychecks were issued with errors, falling somewhat short of the Mission Statement 'to effectively deliver services to meet the payroll needs of all District employees serving our students.' Meanwhile, a $17M PeopleSoft-based payroll implementation has been making life miserable for Chicago Public Schools teachers and staff since last April, including June retirees who were stiffed for more than $35M. It's been a bad computer year for CPS staff, who also had to contend with a new $60M system that wasn't up to the task of taking attendance."
