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Submission + - Space Flight May Be Coming Soon to Ohio

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UglyTool

on Saturday December 02, 2006 @11:49AM

UglyTool writes: "According to MSNBC, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio officials are proposing a set ot incentives intened to lure Canadian rocketeers RocketSpace to launch from and land at an area airport. A decision on the incentives could be made by January.

From the article:

Such a package could include tax credits, financing programs and training grants amounting to millions of dollars, said Matt McCollister, the seven-county chamber's vice president for economic development. PlanetSpace's chairman, Indian-American entrepreneur Chirinjeev Kathuria, told MSNBC.com he expected the incentives to amount to "somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million."
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The Wii Launches in Japan 80

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 02, 2006 @11:45AM from the wii.jp dept.

The Wii has launched in Japan, successfully and without many of the incidents associated with the PlayStation 3 launch. Joystiq's coverage of the Wii's painless Nippon birth has nothing but praise for the crowd control efforts of electronics outlets. The talk is entirely of sellouts and happy gamers. From the article: "Numerous methods of retail were used to launch the Wii, and these varied from store to store. Yodobashi kept its customers camped overnight in a parking lot, distributing numbered tickets to determine the order of entrance, before opening its doors at 7am. Bic Camera also opened at 7am, although most of the 650 people in line there didn't arrive until the first trains of the morning began to run at around 5am. Famitsu reports that the Tokyo Ikebukuro branch of Bic Camera sold out if its allocation of 1,200 units, while the Tokyo Yuuraku-cho arm of Bic Camera declared the console "sold out" at 5.41am when the 1,500th person arrived in the queue there." Kotaku has even more extensive coverage, with plenty of photos of the waiting lines.

Journal Journal: AMD demonstrates native quad-core x86 server processor

Journal by OSTG Marketing on Saturday December 02, 2006 @10:26AM

AMD showed off their stuff at the annual AMD Industry Analyst Forum in California. They demonstrated a server powered by four upcoming Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors (codenamed Barcelona ), manufactured on 65nm silicon-on-insulator process technology, utilizing all 16 cores. "By delivering a consistent thermal envelope while adding two more processing cores, along with micro-architectural enhancements, AMD says that it

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