Archive for December 5, 2006

US plans permanent base on Moon

Will serve as science center and possible “stepping stone” for a Mars mission. Funds will come from scrapped shuttle missins, as well as other countries & even some businesses. Could the richest of us be vacationing at the moon in 15+ years?

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Google Desktop makes love to my RAM…

…but why am I not angry?

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Apples cheaper than Dells?

It may come as a surprise that Macs occasionally offer a price advantage over PCs. A price comparison between a Dell XPS M1710 and a 17-inch MacBook Pro showed the Dell’s final price at $3,222 while the Mac clocked in at $2,699.

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Sony Australia: Wii “More Fun” than PS3

Sony Aus. said: “Wii is a core gaming device. It’s a more fun, intuitive sort of product to pick up, where the PS3 is a broader entertainment solution; so you can have your fun, enjoyable gaming … but then you have a whole suite of other applications … such as Blu-ray media playback, the ability to access your music, access your photos….”

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US plans permanent base on Moon

Will serve as science center and possible “stepping stone” for a Mars mission. Funds will come from scrapped shuttle missins, as well as other countries & even some businesses. Could the richest of us be vacationing at the moon in 15+ years?

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Gaia is reborn, version 0.1.1 of open source 3D Earth viewer released

After receiving a letter from Google on November 25, Gaia downloads had to be removed from the webpage. The project doesn’t use Google Earth images and data anymore. They now use images from NASA World Wind project. Version 0.1.1 is now available for download and also has some bugs fixed and build system improved.

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AMD Demos Native Quad-Core Server CPU

AMD today demonstrated the industry’s first native quad-core x86 server processor, achieving four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon.

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HP Promises Unix Improvements

Hewlett-Packard is preparing to release security and virtualization improvements to its Unix operating system and says it’s now fulfilling a long-promised Itanium performance advantage.

Most of the improvements will arrive in HP-UX 11i version 3, due to begin shipping this year but not formally launched until about three months from now, said Nick van der Zweep, director of virtualization and Integrity server software.

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YouTube Moves to The Small Screen

A deal between YouTube and US mobile firm Verizon Wireless will see the popular video-sharing website extended to mobile phones.

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A Game Rendering Full-scale Planets And Solar Systems in Real-time (VIDEO)

This is truly amazing: a game rendering BILLIONS of full-scale planets, a game world bigger than you can explore in your entire lifetime!

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Sony Holds Secret Sale on HDTVs

There’s nothing like the delight of finding an incredible bargain on a tech product as desirable as a high-definition television. Especially if everyone else is in the dark.

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Xbox 360 to sell 750k in Nov and 1.5-2 million in Dec

Going forward, Pachter comments: “We expect sales of 750,000 Xbox 360 hardware units in November, and between 1.5 – 2 million units in December. Sell through of Xbox 360 hardware could be higher if the supply situation for the PS3 continues to lag…”

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