If you need a million apps, complete web access, and you need to post on JU from your MP3 player, stick with your apple. (Zune HD does internet too, but it apparently doesn't do it as well as IPOD touch.) ]]>
Still no green cheese though. :)
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NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station. The discovery was announced by project scientist Anthony Colaprete at a midday news conference. "I'm here today to tell you that indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit; we found a significant amount" -- about a dozen, two-gallon bucketfuls, he said, holding up several white plastic containers. The find is based on preliminary data collected when the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, intentionally crashed October 9 into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus crater near the moon's south pole. After the satellite struck, a rocket flew through the debris cloud, measuring the amount of water and providing a host of other data, Colaprete said. |
Now you all know that I have been a loyal Zune supporter and was thoroughly unimpressed with Ipod, but I have to say Zune is officially garbage now, and needs to get un****** or disappear.
Zune was pretty much the superior piece of hardware, AND I preferred (past tense) their software interface, HOWEVER, sales were lower since MSoft's marketing team,plan,strategy is all one coordinated epic failure!
And worst of all now, the ZUNE HD comes out. OMG! OMG! we have to make a product to go toe to toe with Ipod Touch. Well, good job fags.
Zune HD is pretty nice
BUT,
In typical Msoft fashion, They were in such a hurry to to get the new updated ZUNE HD ready software out, they didn't bother to fix the bugs it had with ALL the previous zune players. (By "BUGS", read: the software doesnt F*n work.)
Now, across the board, anyone with a previous version of Zune IE: 4G all the way through that nice, glossy, laser engraving personalized 120G some of us bought a mere 4 months ago, can't get their shit to work properly!
Its so bad when you call the help line where you used to get two options and a wait for representative,
now you get a 5-8 choice touche tone recording of the different malfunctions youmay be having.
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If you are calling because your player will not sync press 1. If you are calling because your device will not turn on at all press 2. if your device will not charge press 3. If your device is not recognized by your PC press 4. If your device is frozen press 5. If your device has a blank screen press 6. if your device is in multiple pieces after being smashed in frustration press 7. We are experience a high call volume right now, please stay on the line... |
Hey, Billy Gates? What are you going to do about that?
Well Bill, let me present you with the dancing Ipod silloughette facepalm!
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Just stopped one day with no changes in software or hardware. ]]>
Do they just do it for kicks? Just to mess with people?
Do try somehow get paid?
Come IT peeps. Gimme the skinny on all this. ]]>
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The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading "in the wild" in Australia. The self-propagating program changes the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message "ikee is never going to give you up". The worm, known as ikee, only affects "jail-broken" phones, where a user has removed Apple's protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software. Experts say the worm is not harmful but more malicious variants could follow. "The creator of the worm has released full source code of the four existing variants of this worm," wrote Mikko Hypponen of security firm F-secure. "This means that there will quickly be more variants, and they might have nastier payload than just changing your wallpaper." The picture of Rick Astley is believed to be a nod to the internet phenomenon known as Rickrolling, where web users are tricked into clicking on what they believe is a relevant link, only to find that it actually takes the user to a video of the pop star's song "Never gonna give you up". 'Stupid people' The worm has so far only been found circulating in Australia, where the hacker - Ashley Towns - who wrote the program lives. The 21-year-old told Australia's ABC News Online that he created the virus to raise the issue of security. It only exploits jail-broken phones that have SSH installed, a program that allows people to make changes to the phone's file system. |
1. Cars- It used to be your dad or you uncle or whoever taught you how to fix cars. Now with all this technology in cars they almost all have to be braught to a dealership for one thing or the other.
2. Kids used to play outside. Use their imaginations. Interact with other kids. Now there's computers and games. Which is good for their IT skills but isn't it lacking in development of their creativity and social interatction or does it make no difference.
3. Food- How many people know how to clean and descale a fish, plant veggies? I know I don't.
4. How many kids read books?
5. How many people can do math without a calculator? Better yet I know once we hit high schools we all had calculators for algebra and geometry. Isn't this a bad thing? Shouldn't studens have to use pencil and paper or their head to at least keep practicing math.
6. Look at fast food joints. Most of th registers don't have numbers. It's just a picture or name of the item. What happens if the registers just break and you have to do the math in your head and give correct change? ]]>
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Who would've thought that the language barrier would be broken by a pair of glasses? These aren't your everyday glasses, though. NEC has created this eyewear translator from the future. You put them on your face, just like any other glasses. They take in foreign languages through voice recogition and spit out translations in the form of subtitles. And get this: These subtitles will appear in space, right where you're looking, as the glasses beam the translations to your retinas, in real time. These glasses, named Tele Scouters, won't be putting fansubbers out of business yet. When released in 2011, a set of 30 will cost 7.5 million yen (83,300 dollars), plus the cost of software. |
Very cool, get your Engrish delivered to you right in your eyes! :first:
Would be helpful for watching movies, but then you'd be enforcing your old lazy english comprehension ways... :w00t:
Too expensive at the moment, but maybe they could rent them out for vacationers. ]]>
Multilingual domain names open Net to millions more
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The non-profit body that oversees Internet addresses yesterday approved a new multilingual address system which, it said, would open up the Internet to millions more people worldwide. The move by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) spelt the end to the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses. In future, it will be possible to write an entire website address in any of the world’s language scripts. With the introduction of “internationalised” domain names (IDNs), scripts such as Chinese, Korean and Arabic will eventually be usable in the last part of an address name — the part after the dot, as in .com and .org. At present, technological restrictions mean all domain names end in letters from the Latin alphabet. |
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Countries can only request one suffix for each of their official languages, and the suffix must somehow reflect the name of the country or its abbreviation. Non-Latin versions of “.com” and “.org” will not be permitted for at least a few more years as Icann considers broader policy questions such as whether the incumbent operator of “.com” should automatically get a Chinese version. Icann also is initially prohibiting Latin suffixes that go beyond the 37 already-permitted characters. And software developers still have to make sure their applications work with the non-Latin scripts. Major Web browsers already support them, but not all e-mail programs do. |
Tried googling about, but find a lot of info on deleting duplicate files, which i dont want, and microsofts vista forum is down for maintenane (ROR).
Figured I throw it out, see if anyone smarter than me had a clue... ]]>
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 The US Air Force is not only experimenting with lasers to kill missiles. They are now using them to transmit data from planes and drones, at 22 miles and enabling quantum encryption. They did it with adaptive optics: When you transmit information through turbulence—motion in the atmosphere caused by turbulent cells or "wind"—it's distorted just like the information coming from the light reflected off a distant, twinkling star to your eye. It's fuzzy. You have to overcome that by using adaptive optics to rectify the distortion and get a better quality signal.That's what Dr David Hughes, from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, says. He claims that the technology has been tested successfully with both stationary and flying situations, which means that they can easily implement it in the battlefield, with not too much effort. [The Register] |
http://bingandgoogle.com/ ]]>