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 Science: Space Shuttles Survive Hurricane Frances |
Posted by
timothy
on Monday September 06, @06:51PM
from the frances-doesn't-call-doesn't-write-just-storms dept.
maggeth writes "In an update to a previous story,
NASA damage assessment teams have begun work at the Kennedy Space
Center, which was hit by Hurricane Frances. It appears that there was
no damage to any of the space shuttles, according to the first word from NASA.
Although more details still are to be released, we know that Frances
died down in strength before making landfall, limiting the amount of
wind damage."
Reader knix writes, though, that "It looks like NASA did have quite a bit of damage from Hurricane Frances," pointing to an AP story which adds some detail, and noting that besides a knocked over Mercury-Redstone rocket, the massive VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) had 1000 panels missing after the storm hit. According to the AP, "The holes left by the missing panels created 40,000 square feet of 'open window' on two sides of the building."
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) | IT: On Moving Toward Software Rentals |
Posted by
timothy
on Monday September 06, @06:00PM
from the free-software-sidesteps-this dept.
CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an article about the emergence of a service-oriented model of software delivery,
supported by the W3C, IBM, HP, and Microsoft.
They already have their acronyms down: WSDL (Web Services Description
Language), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration),
and WSFL (Web Services Flow Language).
The article primarily covers the three phases of negotiating, ending
with actual service delivery."
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) | Games: 10 Points About Transgaming's Cedega/WineX |
Posted by
timothy
on Monday September 06, @05:17PM
from the asbetos-underwear-requested dept.
jvm writes "Attempting to raise the level of the discussion, Dan 'theoddone33' Olson has put together a list of ten critical observations that every potential Linux gamer should consider before buying Transgaming's WINE-based product Cedega
(formerly WineX). Dan invites credible rebuttals to the points he's
raised. The debate over the value of Cedega/WINE as a solution for the
nascent Linux gaming community continues..."
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Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Monday September 06, @04:27PM
from the trust-no-one dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Project Censored has come out with its list of the most censored media stores of 2003-2004.
Some of the gems are "Bush Administration Censors Science", "U.S.
Develops Lethal New Viruses", "Media and Government Ignore Dwindling
Oil Supplies" and "Reinstating the Draft"."
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) | Tivo and Netflix Partner For DVDs on Demand |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Monday September 06, @03:45PM
from the here's-hoping-it-pans-out dept.
Tonetheman writes "The details are not really there yet, but it looks like Tivo and Netflix are going to team up!
This is great for those who watch a lot of DVD's. You will be able to
order a DVD and have it appear sometime later on the Tivo. Blockbuster
will not be far behind with your favorite cable company."
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) | Science: NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Monday September 06, @02:51PM
from the no-complaints-here dept.
Johnny Mnemonic writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the NIH "has proposed a major policy change
that would require all scientists who receive funding from the agency
to make the results of their research available to the public for
free." Scientific magazines are screaming, fearing that their
subscriptions would diminish--but the common sense nature of the
proposal is hard to refute. Why should Americans who funded the
research with their tax dollars have to pay again to read the research?
Particularly since the web makes pubishing said information
inexpensive."
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science.slashdot.org
) | What's Up With Computer Audio? |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Monday September 06, @02:01PM
from the do-you-hear-what-i-hear dept.
Mr.Tweak writes "Last month
during QuakeCon it became clearly apparent that computer audio has
become somewhat of a forgotten component in the computer industry when
talking to gamers and listening to companies at the gaming event. We’ll
present some benchmark numbers of five different sound solutions as well as provide commentary
along the way on our thoughts of computer audio solutions and what
should be done to improve things using nVidia's SoundStorm APU as an
example."
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) | Science: Muppets Named Top Scientists |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Monday September 06, @01:09PM
from the meep-meep-meep-meep-meep-meep-meep dept.
praedictus writes "Apparently Bunsen and Beaker of Muppet fame have been nominated favorite TV scientist
in a poll conducted by the British Association for the Advancement of
Science (BA). and the BBC, soundly beating other contenders such as Mr.
Spock, and Agent Scully."
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science.slashdot.org
) | Fabian Pascal Reacts |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Monday September 06, @12:20PM
from the stuff-to-read dept.
Kardamon writes "Fabian Pascal reacts on the recent Slashdot discussion about SQL, XML, and the Relational Database Model, both on DBAzine and on his own web site Database Debunkings. An Open Source implementation of his ideas and those of C.J. Date and Hugh Darwen is REL."
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) | A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @11:34AM
from the using-the-space-in-more-interesting-ways dept.
Jean-Luc R. writes "Via mediaTIC blog. Gallina
is a GMail blog tool created by Jonathan Hernandez that uses GMail
messages as "entries" (so 1000 MB of entries!!), replies to
conversations are the "entry comments", uses Libgmailer (gmail-lite project) to connect to GMail. It uses XML/XSLT and by the way it's a GPL software.
You can download it there.
See the Gallina Demo Blog as for an example."
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) | Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Impressions |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @11:06AM
from the who's-gonna-watch-it dept.
Tim Butler writes "1UP.com has posted impressions of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
from the premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival. The article
also reveals that the film won't be ready until next spring -- but may
clock in at more than an hour and a half in running time (is a big
screen release a possibility now?)."
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games.slashdot.org
) | Linux: Database File System |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @10:13AM
from the dept.
ozy writes "With all the fuss about searching and Spotlight and WinFS, check out the Database File System
a completely different interface for your files, implemented in KDE.
There is actually a request for developers to join a project to
implement this under GNOME and leave how we use the desktop today
behind."
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linux.slashdot.org
) | Games: Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @09:29AM
from the moving-into-COTS dept.
keeleysam writes "c|net news.com is reporting
that Alienware is going to ship a 4GHz desktop. The new Area-51 ALX,
introduced on Friday, uses overclocking, or the practice of pushing a
processor past its factory speed setting, to elevate a standard Intel
Pentium 4 chip to 4GHz. Because overclocking a processor can cause it
to overheat, the desktop also includes a special liquid-cooling system
devised by Alienware. Purchasing the 4GHz Area-51 ALX desktop is an
expensive proposition for most consumers, as the machine starts at
about $4,200, according to pricing on Alienware's ALX Web site."
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games.slashdot.org
) | Games: The End Of DirectX As We Know It |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @08:46AM
from the and-i-feel-fine dept.
socram writes "Speaking
with ATI and NVIDIA at ECTS allowed us to confirm that after DX9.0,
DirectX Graphics is no more. In name only. Microsoft's next set of core
presentation and 3D APIs are now under the umbrella of Windows Graphics
Foundation and Avalon. Microsoft will still rely on DirectX in name for
the rest of the core components, but the graphics API is now under a
new name. Look out for WGF 1.0 compatibility on the back of that next
generation graphics card's box. Some WGF 1.0 Info!" Update: 09/06 22:27 GMT by T: David Ross of hexus.net points out that this text comes straight from hexus, and should have been credited as such.
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) | Science: Self-assembling 3D Nanostructures |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @08:03AM
from the constructing-our-future-atom-by-atom dept.
Roland Piquepaille writes "Chips
holding 10 terabits of data? Copper as strong as steel? Ceramics tough
enough to be used in car engines? All this will be true in five years,
thanks to two new methods to create self-assembling 3D nanostructures.
These methods used pulsed laser deposition to create layers of nanodots
organized in a matrix. These arrays of nanodots are consistent in shape
and size -- 7 nanometers with nickel for example. But the real beauty
of these methods is that they can be applied to almost any material,
like nickel for data storage or aluminum oxide for ceramics. These
methods also reduce drastically imperfections, leading to future
superstrong materials. Read more here for other details and an image of a single nickel nanocrystal, or nanodot."
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science.slashdot.org
) | Exploring Firefox Extensions |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @07:37AM
from the learning-more-about-it dept.
Gary writes "If you haven't made the switch to Mozilla Firefox it may be because you aren't aware of the great benefits Firefox has over IE. Flexbeta has posted a nice HOWTO guide on Firefox extensions; my favorite is the Target Alert extension
which displays a small graphic next to links that are not web pages.
For example a mailto: link will display a small envelope, a link to a
PDF file will display a small Adobe icon, etc."
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) | IT: LCD Pixel Response Time Halved |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @06:15AM
from the speeding-things-up dept.
kagaku writes "Japanese newspaper the Nihon Kaizai Shimbun
(evil registration required) said that Mitsubishi has mastered a
technology to improve the response speed of pixels on LCDs by 100 per
cent or more. It’s done this by getting rid of the afterimages on
screens which known as “ghosts”, said the newspaper, and invented a
proprietary system called Dual Domain Bend.
It cites unnamed sources at Mitsubishi saying that this method produces
a response speed of one millisecond when power is applied and five
milliseconds when the lights go off and the power goes down. That, the
paper said, compares to up to forty milliseconds to switch pixels on
and off. While the technique, when it gets to the manufacturing stage,
will have immediate benefits for PC monitors, it will also help narrow
the gap between LCD TVs and plasma displays, which have a quicker
response speed. Here's a non-registration required link."
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it.slashdot.org
) | IT: An Independent Study on Offshoring IT? |
Posted by
michael
on Monday September 06, @04:02AM
from the where-do-you-want-to-go-today dept.
vsprintf writes "What
are the real effects of offshoring on the U.S. technology sector? Pick
your economist on the subject. The Bush administration's Gregory Mankiw
says it's all good, and exporting jobs is just a new way to do trade. In Congressional testimony, Ralph Gomory says a little bit is okay, but too much is bad, while Herman Daly says it's just plain bad. The ITAA's
paid mouthpiece, Harris Miller, says it must be good because IT workers
in India wear Nike tennis shoes. At last, it appears the IEEE-USA has persuaded Congress to pay for an independent study to determine how offshoring really affects U.S. IT."
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it.slashdot.org
) | Ars Electronica : Biggest New Media Festival |
Posted by
Hemos
on Monday September 06, @02:22AM
from the playing-with-the-world dept.
Brainsur writes "Live from Linz, Austria. At this moment the biggest Festival for new media and digital art is having place in Linz, Austria. Ars Electronica
started in 1979 as a small group of nerds that came togheter to produce
cyberarts, digital avant-garde media, digital electronic music and
more. Now 25 years later you can experiment with all kinds of new
technologies such as walk the internet with SevenMileBoots, interactive
plant growing, tracing communications, Pixelspaces, ... If you are around it's definitely worth a visit.
Check it out at Ars Electronica"
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) | IT: Skype VoIP Software & Service Reviewed |
Posted by
michael
on Monday September 06, @01:00AM
from the skype-ripe-for-hype dept.
securitas writes "The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows reviews Skype VoIP software and the SkypeOut paid Internet telephony service
in today's New York Times. Fallows almost raves about the software and
service, writing, 'Skype, a made-up term that rhymes with "tripe," is
the most popular and sexiest application of VoIP'. But he acknowledges
that 'There is one huge drawback: Skype works best from a fully
connected computer, which runs counter to the whole trend of ever more
mobile communication.' Fallows interviewed Skype's CEO Niklas
Zennstrom, who discussed company plans for 'partnerships with
manufacturers of cellphones and personal digital assistants,' to
address Skype's mobile limitations - it's currently restricted to
Pocket PC. Fallows concludes with a provocative thought about Internet
telephony when he writes, 'there are also questions about whether this
new form of instant access could become as oppressively intrusive as
e-mail often seems.' (Mirror at Taipei Times). Slashdot previously covered reviews of VoIP services Vonage, Packet8 and VoicePulse and profiled Skype."
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