Welcome back!Steve Ballmer was talking at the MVP Summit where he is quoted as saying that Vista is “a work in progress”. I can’t help admire such skill in the art of understatements. Calling Vista “a work in progress” is like gathering weeds in the field and calling it fine bedding that happens [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads It’s interesting or even a bit ironic that this BBC News article shows up when it does, in time for the Iron man movie. With the advances being made in robotics these days and the fact that they’re showing up everywhere from robotic vacuum cleaners to steam cleaner and lawnmowers.
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Powered by Max Banner Ads I just read one of those kinda annoying “surveys”. This one showed up on Network World. According to something called “an Accenture survey”, 12% of the people who responded to the survey in the US and UK have connected through an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot.
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Powered by Max Banner Ads Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, Sears, Kmart, and Wal-Mart have all been hit with fines totaling $6.6Million dollars for failing to put notices near analog-only sets warning customers that the sets have analog only tuners and will require converter boxes to receive broadcast signals after February 19, 2009.
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Powered by Max Banner Ads That’s right. This time the rebellion wasn’t insurgents with Iranian supplied weapons & training. Instead, it was a robot. Essentially a high tech bomb disposal / robot that’s been fitted with a 5.56mm M249 machine gun.
The Register quoted Kevin Fahey, US Army program executive officer for ground forces [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads Once in a while a domain name will just strike me a bit oddly. In this case it’s “faucet.com”. Setting aside for the moment that it’s a perfectly normal business site that sells everything from Kohler faucets and bathroom fixtures to quite literally the kitchen sink! I still [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads New Scientist has an article up about an idea that’s come out of Mitsubishi that proposes the concept that motion sensors would be less invasive than CCTV cameras everywhere. I’ll admit that it is a little better than having CCTV cameras watching everything but these people are ready to fill [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads Back on January 8, the Massachusetts State Police ordered the RIAA’s investigator, MediaSentry, to stop conducting investigations in their state without a license. Now it turns out that they’re in violation of that order.
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Powered by Max Banner Ads Ok, it’s true that Microsoft has given in and decided to extend the lifetime of XP on “low end laptops” until 6/30/2010 or one year after the next version of Windows, Code named “Windows 7″, is released.
It’s also true that XP is still consistently outperforming Vista in benchmark tests. What [...]
