This is pretty cool and quite logical from a scientific point of view. Those Benzene rings store a whole lot of energy!
Archive for the “Tech” CategoryI think all of us in the IT world have seen at least minor headaches with the DST change this year. This article looks at whether or not it was worth it and what is most disturbing to me is this line toward the end, "the bill has a provision for the country to return to the old daylight savings calendar". Ummm…I don't know about anyone else out there but I certainly don't want to go through all of this again in a couple of years. Apple Computer's popular iPod music player could become a flight data recorder (FDR) following an announcement by US light aircraft manufacturer LoPresti SpeedMerchants to introduce the device in the cockpit of its Fury piston aircraft.
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“The Longest Suicide Note in History†How Vista cowtows to RIAA & MPAA and how you lose your ‘fair use’ rightsPosted by: Wm D in Actual News, TechThat's Peter Gutmann's assessment of Microsoft Vista in his technical, economic and performance analysis of the compromises in Vista. This document is a must-read if you are interested in how the performance and stability of the system for which you paid hard-earned cash will be adversely affected. These issues all stem from demands by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to prevent the copying of HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and other content on personal computers, even for fair use backup. A great article written several years ago on this development sits on the Freedom to Tinker blog. The Electronic Frontier Foundation also has an excellent analysis of this cozy and far-reaching relationship here. Lest you think that this is just paranoid hype, read Microsoft's own Output Content Protection and Windows Vista page and accompanying white paper for yourself. Quoted directly from the Microsoft link above, here are the critical parts of OCP:
• Protected Video Path – User-Accessible Bus (PVP-UAB) provides encryption of premium content as it passes over the PCI Express (PCIe) bus to the graphics adapter. This is required when the content owner's policy regards the PCIe bus as a user-accessible bus. • Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA) is the new User Mode Audio (UMA) engine in the Windows Vista Protected Environment that provides a safer environment for audio playback, as well as checking that the enabled outputs are consistent with what the content allows. • Protected Audio Path (PAP) is a future initiative under investigation for how to provide encryption of audio over user accessible buses. For the full story see: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Board=tankerbobblog&Number=26899 Now off the shelf components allow you to build your own "open source" Fab@Home. Anyone can download the plans at http://www.fabathome.org. Just because nobody has stirred up any heated debates on here recently, and I happened to have had this topic on the conversation in the last week or so, I figured I would post several links to pages that give advice on washing your keyboard in the dishwasher. First though, I will say that I have done this many times (5+ is a guess), and I have never had a problem with it. I have mostly done it with my IBM Model M keyboard, which is from 1987, but I would be confident in using just about any wired keyboard. The Bluetooth/RF keyboards might work, but, I haven’t tried. In my practice, I have always made sure to use the top shelf, no soap, and nothing else in the dishwasher. In addition, I have never used the heated drying, prefering to let it air-dry for several days. Two days is probably the minimum, however, I have personally always left them to dry for somewhere in the 4-5 days range. (Who doesn’t have at least one extra keyboard lying around?) http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=263 I'm sorry but there are some absolutely ludicrous statements in this interview with Bill Gates. Especially his comments on Mac OS X.The guy is delusional. I think he's had his head buried in the sand for too long…or maybe somewhere else… …at least to me. Honestly, it could have happened to anyone and I don't want to turn this into a Microsoft bashing post. But I find it hilarious that an audio file on a website could take control of your system! OK, first of all I had no idea they were called "Googlebombs" until I saw this article but I thought it was interesting enough to post. Basic definition: using search phrases to get unintentional, often humorous results. For example "talentless hack" I believe used to take you to a page about George W. Bush. If not him, some other politically charged person. The most interesting part of the write up to me is Google's reasons for why they want to try and stop it. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html Getting back to my geek roots, Im posting a list of Web 2.0 sites that was pretty thorough, hell we all use a number of these sites they must be good right? Here is a great piece of Russian Art. I would love to see artwork like this just randomly around. Probably not, but someone is looking to capitalize on their success. While this is quite interesting and very cool, I'm not sure I can support the idea of calling it a "computer"… |
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