Secrets In Websites II
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Archive for January 14, 2008
NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle
On January 4, a reversed-polarity sunspot appeared, signalling the start of Solar Cycle 24. Solar activity waxes and wanes in 11-year cycles and the previous solar cycle, Solar Cycle 23, peaked in 2000-2002 with many furious solar storms.
Xbox 360, DRM, and Why I Can’t Play What I Paid For
Microsoft STILL has yet to fix their awful DRM licensing issues for Xbox Live Marketplace downloads, locking many people out of the content they’ve paid for. So when your 360 gets the RRoD, they will fix it, but in the process break everything you’ve downloaded from XBLM, leaving it to you to spend months on the phone with XBL Support.
Newsflash: Time May Not Exist
Physicists are confounded about how time actually fits into the universe. One theory is that “time may be an approximate concept that emerges at large scales—a bit like the concept of ‘surface of the water,’ which makes sense macroscopically but which loses a precise sense at the level of the atoms.”
Elijah Wood Confirms Dual Hobbit Movie Details
“I haven’t spoken to [Peter Jackson] directly about it [but] I’ve e-mailed him, and as far as I know the two films that they’re doing, one will be ‘The Hobbit’ and another will take place between the 60 years that happened between ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings,’”
Why Ubuntu 8.04 needs better marketing
Ubuntu’s goal is to be the most popular desktop OS for humans. But Ubuntu, like most Linux distros, is still marketed towards Linux geeks. They
’re concerned with technology, trumpeting version numbers and drowning out the actual things you can do with their software. Let’s look at the 7.10 announcement, and see how we can fix it next time.
Microsoft and The US Army Team Up To Offer Halo 3 Tournament
The Army has teamed up with Microsoft to offer all you scum suckin maggots a chance to prove you aren’t a worthless lump of dog excrement – by putting together a Halo 3 Tournament, exclusively on Xbox Live.
1up Compiles The Best 101 Free Games of 2007
I just downloaded fear combat, sumotari dreams, and crayon physics. Awesome list.
HD DVD Price Drops while Blu-ray Screws Early Adopters
“Amazon now has an HD DVD player with seven movies for only $147. Blu-ray players, of course, are still well above $300… and Blu-ray players on the market are designed without “future-compatibility capabilities.” This means that bonus features on titles released starting in October will not be playable on current Blu-ray players.”
Use your iPhone as a webcam
Mac developer Ecamm has posted a sneak peak of iPhoneCam, an application that uses your iPhone’s camera as a wireless Mac webcam. You can stream video from your iPhone over its WiFi to any Mac video application, including iChat, Photo Booth, or Skype.
Sony and Nintendo pegged with a lawsuit
Copper Innovations Group has a bone to pick with Sony and Nintendo, and has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania seeking after some monies and an injunction against further infringement.The patent in question?
Do You Want A Sequel To Portal
This was a triumph, but can a sequel.
