Tabula Rasa To Shut Down (Saturday 22nd of November 2008 10:15:01 AM)
NCSoft announced today that it will be closing down Tabula Rasa on February 28th. The sci-fi
shooter-flavored MMO struggled for quite some time, despite recent attempts to draw in new
players by announcements of new features, price reductions, and using ...
(more)NASA Exploring 8 New Space Expeditions (Thursday 20th of November 2008 08:45:01 AM)
Coondoggie writes "NASA is trying to decide between eight space tour missions that include
further exploring Venus and comet composition as well landing on an asteroid or examining the
space around Jupiter. The space agency today began accepting solicitations ...
(more)NRDC Rates Energy Efficiency of Video Game Consoles (Thursday 20th of November 2008 08:45:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes "Today, more than 40 percent of all homes in the United States
contain at least one video game console. Recognizing that all that gaming could add up to
serious demand for electricity, NRDC and Ecos Consulting performed the first ...
(more)Microsoft Feared Mac Vs. Vista In '05 (Thursday 20th of November 2008 08:45:01 AM)
CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer sifted through many threads of e-mails released under the 'Vista
Capable' lawsuit to dig up this jewel...More than a year before Windows Vista's release —
and long before Apple started poking fun at the OS — Microsoft ...
(more)Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 07:30:01 AM)
An nameless reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss
Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot
more slowly than any one thing else, necessarily, as one ...
(more)Unhappy People Watch More TV (Sunday 16th of November 2008 12:45:02 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "A new study by sociologists at the health center of Maryland concludes
that unhappy people watch more TV, while people who state themselves as 'very happy' spend more
time reading and socializing. 'TV doesn't really seem to satisfy ...
(more)Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada (Saturday 15th of November 2008 12:30:02 AM)
TechDirt is reporting on a 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by
houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.cite this source synonym
collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group evolvement ...
(more)Review: Gears of War 2 (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
The third edition by the editors of the stars and bars heritage® dictionary. copyright
© 2003 Gears of War was one of the most popular games of 2006, helping to solidify the
Xbox 360's place in the console market. Since then, it's sold about ...
(more)Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Dtolman writes "Scientists at the Keck and Gemini telescopes stole the thunder of Hubble
scientists posting the first picture of an extrasolar world orbiting a star. Hubble scientists
announced today that they were able to lay open an extrasolar world ...
(more)New Search Engine Takes "Dyve" Into the Dark Web (Wednesday 12th of November 2008 11:00:01 PM)
CWmike writes "DeepDyve has launched its free search engine that can be used to access
databases, scholarly journals, unstructured lore and other data sources in the self-named 'Deep
Web' or 'Dark Web,' where 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing ...
(more)40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 09:45:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "A BBC inspection has found that in 1968 the US deserted a nuclear weapon
beneath the ice in northern Greenland after a nuclear-armed B52 crashed on the ice a few miles
from Thule Air Base. The Stratofortress disintegrated on impact ...
(more)MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube (Monday 10th of November 2008 09:30:01 PM)
Lithal13 writes to tell us that MGM studios will soon be the first major movie studio to post a
unconditional feature-length film on YouTube. Some credit advertisement video site 'Hulu' for
the mended similarity between YouTube parent Google and Hollywood. ...
(more)Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic (Sunday 09th of November 2008 08:15:01 PM)
Jbpisio writes with a link to this blog-post summary that the Canadian regime has commissioned
a pair of unmanned subs to explore the geology of two underwater Arctic bank ranges; the subs'
mission will be to provide corroboration supporting Canada's ...
(more)Simulations Predict Where We Can Find Dark Matter (Saturday 08th of November 2008 08:00:01 PM)
P1234 writes with this excerpt from the Max Planck doctrine for Astrophysics: "Simulations by
the Virgo team show how the Milky Way's halo grew through a series of violent collisions and
mergers from army of much smaller clumps that emerged from the Big ...
(more)RedHat & AMD Demo Live VM Migration Across CPU Vendors (Friday 07th of November 2008 07:45:01 PM)
An nameless reader notes an or try your search for "inquirer" at:
amazon.com - shop fo story
reporting on thing of a amelioration in virtual machine superintendence — a demonstration
(not yet a product) of migrating a running virtual machine ...
(more)Obama Launches Change.gov (Friday 07th of November 2008 07:45:01 PM)
Mallumax writes "Obama has launched Change.gov. as it should be to rule to the site 'Change.gov
provides backing to better realize the transition process and the be in the driver's seat being
made as part of it. It also offers an look-in to be heard ...
(more)Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles (Friday 07th of November 2008 07:45:01 PM)
Khemisty writes "Back in grade school you were feasibly taught the importance of warm-up
exercises, and it's likely you've continued with pretty much the same routine ever since.
Science, however, has moved on. Researchers now believe that some of the ...
(more)Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)
Smivs writes "Bletchley Park, the home to the allied codebreakers during WWII, and a major
computing heritage centre, has been given a economic lifeline, reports the BBC.The grant of
£330,000 will be used to undertake urgent roof works as the rooms ...
(more)How To Cloak Objects At a Distance (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)
KentuckyFC writes "All invisibility cloaks to date work by hiding an object embedded inside
them. Now a group of physicists have worked out how to remotely cloak objects that sit outside
a cloaking material. The trick is to make the cloaking substance ...
(more)The Laptop Celebrates Its 40th Year (Tuesday 04th of November 2008 04:00:03 PM)
Wired has an dialogue with Alan Kay on the use of the 40th feast day of the idea of the laptop
computer. Kay's vision, which he dubbed the "Dynabook," was for a 2-pound, 1-Mpixel color
bookkeeping device. "... the Dynabook was never built. But it ...
(more)Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" (Tuesday 04th of November 2008 04:00:03 PM)
Mallumax notes Amazon's new Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. Over several years the
retailer hopes to convince many of its suppliers to offer consumer-friendlier packaging. It's
control gate with just 19 store from Mattel, Fisher-Price, Microsoft, ...
(more)Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth (Saturday 01st of November 2008 11:30:02 AM)
MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered corroboration of seductive portals connecting
the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs
form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), ...
(more)Google Book Search Settlement Receiving Criticism (Saturday 01st of November 2008 11:30:02 AM)
Waderoush writes "While James Gleick, Lawrence Lessig, and other pundits have reacted
unmistakably to this week's act reimbursement of the printing industry's lawsuit against Google
over the Google Book Search project, a deeper study of the agreement ...
(more)The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "The discrete Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of
traits, ethnic background and other data of the first ten volunteers, which include the project
head and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, ...
(more)One of HST's Cameras Is Back In Action (Monday 27th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)
StupendousMan writes "One of the two big cameras aboard the Hubble Space radar telescope is the
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, or WFPC2 for short. As the most recent HST status report
indicates, the camera was afresh powered up again and sent commands ...
(more)Game-Related Education On the Rise At Colleges (Monday 27th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)
The LA Times has a story about the increased interest in 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt
publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. all rights
reserved.view results from: wordbook | llc.view results from: dictionary ...
(more)Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative (Sunday 26th of October 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Techdirt makes note of some problems cropping up already for early voters in the suspensory
veto election. CNN covers some of the issues, including machines in a West zigzag fence county
which recorded laughter laughter some votes incorrectly because ...
(more)Storing Qubits In Nuclei (Saturday 25th of October 2008 08:00:01 AM)
Bednarz writes "Scientists have demonstrated what is being called the 'ultimate miniaturization
of mainframe memory,' storing data for nearly two seconds in the nucleus of an atom of
phosphorus. The hybrid quantum memory execution is a key step in the ...
(more)Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? (Friday 24th of October 2008 05:45:05 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Laura Holson writes in the NY Times that she 'wandered down to the
T-Mobile store at Ninth Ave. and 43rd St. in New York City to see what kind of crowds —
if any — were lining up to buy the new ...
(more)Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole (Friday 24th of October 2008 05:45:05 AM)
An nameless reader writes "Microsoft said late Wednesday that it plans to release a critical
armament update today to plug a safeguard hole present in all supported versions of Windows.
The company hasn't released any details about the patch yet, which ...
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