| Music industry sues cadaver for piracy | |
| Posted by play_boy_2000 (3 Comments) | Tue Feb 8th '05 04:08:59 AM |
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BRIEFS FOR the music industry thought they were onto an easy winner when they sued a little old 83 year old lady from Charleston, who they were sure was a file-sharing pirate. According to their sterling legal and technical efforts the investigators had worked out that Gertrude Walton was by day a sick old woman who hated computers, but by night was a an evil high-tech file sharing pirate called "smittenedkitten". No matter that she was 83. After all the same legal teams has taken children and probably even babies to court. The briefs felt they had enough evidence to name Gertie as the sole defendant in a federal lawsuit, claiming she made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free. What they should have known, if they had done their paperwork is that Gertrude had been buried at Greenwood Memorial Park for two months and was unlikely to show up for her court case on account of her being dead 
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| News Source: The Inquirer | Genre: Intrawab |
| Microsoft launch hit by name blunder | |||
| Posted by donkey (3 Comments) | Mon Feb 7th '05 09:58:12 PM | ||
The reason i'm posting this is that if you go to the non-MS Euroscience page ( http://www.euroscience.org/ ) and scroll down, you may notice a  logo  maybe MS is targetting all organisations that support macs 
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| News Source: BBC NEWS | Genre: Microsoft | ||
| Japan snaps up 'lucky' Kit Kats | |
| Posted by donkey (4 Comments) | Wed Feb 2nd '05 08:45:55 PM |
 Students in Japan have reportedly caused sales of Kit Kat bars to soar, by adopting them as lucky charms. The name of the chocolate bar resembles a Japanese expression - "kitto katsu" - used by students to wish each other luck before exams. |
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| News Source: BBC NEWS | Genre: General News |
| HP crossbar could kill transistor | |
| Posted by play_boy_2000 (5 Comments) | Tue Feb 1st '05 11:46:21 PM |
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PRINTER GIANT HP claimed that it has made a fundamental invention which will see off the transistor in the future. The firm has published a paper in the Journal of Applied Physics demonstrating a crossbar latch which gives signal restoration and inversion computers need without using transistors That, it explained, could result in computers thousands of times more powerful than existing machines. The crossbar latch uses nanometre scale devices that are cheap and easy to build, said HP The latch method uses a single wire which acts as a signal line, and that's crossed by two control lines with a molecular scale junction where they insert. Voltage applied to the control lines and using opposite polarity switches allows the performance of the NOT, AND or OR operations. A number of simple gates, the scientists reckon, can be chained together to create computing abilities. But HP's invention will take a few years before it comes to reality - that's if it is ever taken up. Phil Kruekes, one of the senior computer architects and who co-wrote the paper, said: "Transistors will continue to be used for years to come with conventional silicon circuits, but this could someday replace transistors in computers, just as transistors replaced vacuum tubes (valves) and vacuum tubes replaced electromagnetic relays." Blah, transistors are old technology, after all. Time for new, better, faster! (albeit in a few years down the road, if at all) |
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| News Source: The Inquirer | Genre: Science |
| Apple upgrades powerbooks | |
| Posted by donkey (5 Comments) | Tue Feb 1st '05 05:10:14 PM |
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Apple has released more versions of its popular PowerBook range, adding clock speeds and features while cutting prices. The cheapest PowerBook, the 12-inch model, now retails at just $1499, whilst being upgraded to a 1.5GHz processor. All models now come with 512MB RAM as minimum, apparently disregarding the previous fiction that 256MB is plenty to run OSX efficiently. The touchpads now include built-in support for scrolling "Every PowerBook G4 features a new trackpad with scrolling capability. Just drag two fingers over the trackpad to scroll vertically and horizontally or pan around any active window."  -- nice to see they finally have 512MB ram and also have falled in price I want a 12inch one like hazmat's! ERR 
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| News Source: The Inquirer | Genre: Apple |
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