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Comment Re:Microsoft can still win (Score 1) 188

Here is a novel concept, why doesn't someone build a laptop (or netbook) that is convertible to a tablet. Now configure it to make use of virtualization and when you turn the thing on it boots the primary Operating System (for the laptop) like Windows 7 Starter and simultaneously boots a secondary operating system (for the tablet) like Android 2.3 or 3.0. Now when ever you swivel the screen and lay it down it doesn't have to switch modes it just switches virtual machines and enables the Android OS on the screen. When you lift the screen back up it reverts to the other VM and re-enables Windows or which ever OS you have on there. Oh and if you implement this as a HARDWARE SWITCH it should be virtually flawless, result in no loss of data/productivity when switching. Its not even that hard to do. You just have the hard drive partitioned with a hidden partition that runs Android. Then utilize virtualization in the bios to boot the second OS in the background.
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How HTML5 Will Change the Web 208

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner looks beyond the codec and plug-in wars to examine nine areas where HTML5 will have a significant impact on Web development. From enabling more interactive graphics, to tapping local file storage, to geolocation, HTML5 is rife with rich capabilities — and may even improve our ability to secure applications delivered via the Web, Wayner writes. But the most important impact of HTML5 will be its ability to simplify Web development itself: 'HTML5 offers one language (JavaScript), one data model (XML and DOM), and one set of layout rules (CSS) to bind text, audio, video, and graphics. The challenge of making something beautiful is still immense, but it's simpler to work with a unified standard.'"
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Google Voice Opens To All 185

An anonymous reader writes "Google Voice is now open to anyone in the US, removing the need to search for an invite. At the Google Voice site, anyone with a US IP address and a US phone number can sign up for an account. Non-US IPs are blocked, and non-US-based phone numbers are prevented from attaching to Google Voice (with the single odd exception of the 403 area code of southern Alberta)." Good timing on the part of Frontier Communications Corp., which just filed a lawsuit claiming that the Google Voice feature connecting a user's home, work, and cell phone numbers to another number infringes one of their patents.

Comment Hope (Score 1) 179

Okay lets look at this scientifically....If a meteor slams into a frigid desert and causes massive amounts of virtually pure ice to explode out onto the surface what exactly does that mean? Before you answer consider that at other sites around Mars they imaged impacts and found that those craters resulted in much dirtier ice being expelled as they would expect if it was ice crystals forming around grains of dirt. However in the image above it was 99% pure water/ice that was expelled.... To me that means there is a large body of frozen water that has been frozen so long that it has been completely buried by one of many Marian Dust Storms. Furthermore, if there is a large body of water/ice under the dirt a few meters it would extremely old and could possibly still contain life of some form.

Comment Re:Relativity and time dilation make my head hurt (Score 1) 260

That is an interesting paradox, but it is flat out wrong. If you take two remote control cars (one capable of 40 mph and one capable of 20 mph) and you have the 40 mph car take off, then half a minute later the 20 mph car and they are both going the same direction for 1 mile. Which one will get there first? Now do the same with a couple of jet airplanes both flying the same direction leaving 30 minutes apart with the first one flying at Mach 5 and the second at Mach 2.5. Again the faster one will get there first. Frame of reference aside this is true. Now with that said if you took two space ships, one traveling at .5c and one traveling at .25c and had them leave a year apart (with the faster one first), both traveling in the same direction. It would appear to us (hear on Earth) through Visual Observations that the slower one gets to the destination at the same time (or close to it) as the faster one. That is an optical illusion caused by speed. However, they would not arrive at the same time or even any where close to the same time. They would arrive relative to the distance/speed they where traveling just like the remote control cars or the jet planes. However, relative the person(s) onboard the space crafts the persons on the slower (.25c) craft would age at almost three times the speed of those on the .5c craft.

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