Comment Someone got inspired... (Score 1) 468
... by The Thunderbird's Fireflash
Cockpit detail: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...
Comment Internet! (Score 1) 139
Because I like to go to bed listening to streaming radio...
Submission + - Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Like all invisible things that are only partly understood, black holes evoke a sense of mystery. Astronomers know that the tremendous gravitational pull of a black hole sucks matter in, and that the material falling in causes powerful jets of particles to shoot out of the hole at nearly the speed of light. But how exactly this phenomenon occurs remains a matter of conjecture, because astronomers have never quite managed to observe the details – until now.
Astrophysicists have taken the closest look to date at the region where matter swirls around a black hole. By measuring the size of the base of a jet shooting out of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, the researchers conclude that the black hole must be spinning and that the material orbiting must also be swirling in the same direction. Some of the material from this orbiting "accretion disk" is also falling into the black hole, like water swirling down a drain.
Astrophysicists have taken the closest look to date at the region where matter swirls around a black hole. By measuring the size of the base of a jet shooting out of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, the researchers conclude that the black hole must be spinning and that the material orbiting must also be swirling in the same direction. Some of the material from this orbiting "accretion disk" is also falling into the black hole, like water swirling down a drain.
Comment InPulse watch (Score 1) 466
Why not an iNpulse watch? http://getinpulse.com/ Got mine a couple of weeks ago and simply love it. You can change the time font and color, the day of the week font and color. There are a few watch faces available. One even shows the time in roman numerals! Heck, you can PROGRAM it to display the time any which way you like.
Also I pre-ordered a Pebble (scored one of the first 200... Woohoo!). Seems to be the same thing but in e-paper monochrome.
"Give a man the answer, and he's good for a day. Give a man Google and he'll be good for a week"
Comment Not much really (Score 1) 374
Squeezebox
NAS/Bittorrent server/client
Desktop
Hacked Nook Color (running Cyanogen)
Printer
HTC Inspire
PS3
Dish Network receiver
Laptop (when sis comes to suck bandwidth)
The Squeezebox gets the heaviest usage. The desktop the least (basically to transcode movies) Internet surfing and most email is done with the Nook.
Comment Parallax HomeWork Board (Score 1) 376
Since Heathkit is long dead, I'd suggest the Parallax learning kit. It is more focused into the Parallax microcontroller but it has basic electronics and formulae explained in the experiments. My local RatShack wants $80 per complete kit (board, book, servo, semiconductors, jumper wires) but I was able to buy one for $35 on eBay...
The Most Annoying Software Out There 885
superglaze writes "ZDNet UK has a very entertaining round-up of the most annoying software out there, and everything from RealPlayer and Adobe Reader to Java and Norton Antivirus gets a kicking. 'The internet has brought us many joys. It's rewritten the rules of business and pleasure. And pain. For it allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time ('let's use it to make sure our customers have the latest software', for example) to turn into a stinking pit of misery — usually, but by no means always, after marketing gets its fangs in.'"
New Malware Report Hits Vista's Security Image 258
An anonymous reader recommends a Computerworld article on a new report from Australian security vendor PC Tools. The company released figures on malware detection by its ThreatFire product, and in its user base 27% of Vista machines were compromised by at least one instance of malware. From the article: "In total, Vista suffered 121,380 instances of malware from its 190,000 user base, a rate of malware detection per system [that] is proportionally lower than that of XP, which saw 1,319,144 malware infections from a user base of 1,297,828 machines, but it indicates a problem that is worse than Microsoft has been admitting to." Microsoft hasn't responded yet to this report.
A Virtualized Linux System For Windows 280
getupstandup1 writes "Ulteo today unveiled their Virtual Desktop (screenshots, download) which is a free, full Linux desktop that runs seamlessly on Windows. It's interesting because it's not running under Xen or VMWare, but instead uses the coLinux patch, which they claim allows the system to achieve 'great performance, close to a native installation on the PC.' No need to reboot the system anymore to switch from Windows to Linux." We discussed Ulteo when the Ubuntu-derived distro was announced a year back.
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