Microsoft's IE 7 May Beat Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 To Market
Posted by James (4 Comments)	Tue Oct 10th '06 10:00:34 PM
This fox will later be set on fire. Mozilla Corp. has released Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), but may be beat in the race to final by Microsoft, which said that Internet Explorer 7 would ship in October. Firefox 2.0 RC2 went live late Friday, with the update pushed automatically to users of earlier editions of Firefox 2.0, the open-source browser's first major update since 1.5 in November 2005. Others can download RC2 in versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in 39 localized editions, including ones for Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Mongolian, Russian, and Slovakian speakers. However, at least one more release candidate will be issued by Mozilla. "There are a handful of security and stability bugs we'd like to see get in before the final FF2 release. Thus we'll be doing a third release candidate," wrote Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's director of engineering, in an entry on the developer's message forum. But while Mozilla has not set a final release date for Firefox 2.0 -- on this calendar, it was once pegged to late October, but was withdrawn weeks ago -- rival Microsoft said that it will ship IE 7, the first significant upgrade to its browser since 2001, this month.
	Genre: Internet

The hard drive turns 50
Posted by play_boy_2000 (6 Comments)	Thu Sep 14th '06 03:17:40 AM
Today, the hard drive is found everywhere--from the PCs we use daily to MP3 players and memory keys so small you can toss them in your pocket and forget you're carrying around a hard drive. But when the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today's largest capacity 1-inch hard drives. Back then, the small team at IBM's San Jose-based lab was seeking a way to replace tape with a storage mechanism that allowed for more-efficient random access to data. The question was, how to bring random-access storage to business computing? Enter the RAMAC, 1956 IBM's answer to this quandary was the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control, dubbed the RAMAC for expediency. The device's name is a direct reflection of the need for such capabilities in the enterprise. Led by project leader Rey Johnson, IBM's San Jose lab brought the RAMAC 305 to market.... Story is continued at Yahoo! News
News Source: Yahoo!	Genre: Tech

Why men at war will pull together
Posted by donkey (2 Comments)	Wed Sep 13th '06 01:43:26 AM
Having a common enemy brings out the best in men, a new study has shown. Psychologists created an economics game, asking groups of volunteers to decide whether to keep money for themselves or invest in a group fund. Some 300 participants in the games were each initially paid three pounds and divided into groups of six. They could then choose whether to keep the money, or invest it in a group fund. They were told that the group fund would later be doubled and divided equally amongst all group members. The strategy that would make the most money in many situations would involve holding onto your own money, and hoping that others invested in the fund. The researchers therefore used the amount of money that an individual gave to the fund as a measure of altruism, or kindness to other people. The scientists found that when people thought that their group was competing against outsiders from other universities, the group dynamic became different to when everyone was competing for themselves. The men in each group became less self-orientated, and were more altruistic than before, approximately doubling their donations. "The men actually helped their group by becoming more altruistic towards them," said Professor van Vugt. "We've labelled it the male warrior effect." For the women, there was no difference in their behaviour between when they were playing for the group, or for themselves.
News Source: BBC NEWS	Genre: Science

Irwin fans 'in revenge attacks'
Posted by donkey (0 Comments)	Tue Sep 12th '06 02:26:10 PM
Some Aussies seem to have taken the death of their most celebrated countryman a little harder than the rest of us. "Dead stingrays with their tails cut off have been found in Australia, sparking concern that fans of naturalist Steve Irwin may be avenging his death. ..10 stingrays have been found mutilated on Queensland beaches. Government officials said they were investigating the deaths and there could be prosecutions. Two stingrays were found at a beach north of Brisbane with their tails cut off, while eight were found on another beach on Monday"
News Source: BBC NEWS	Genre: General News

No more kids gluing themselves to themselves
Posted by mrplow (1 Comment)	Fri Sep 1st '06 12:04:39 PM
Airfix is no more Airfix has gone into administration, prompting an outpouring of nostalgia for the kit models. For many, memories of assembling models of Spitfires and Lancaster bombers epitomise a lost childhood. News of the shadow over Airfix's future will be greeted with an audible groan by millions who grew up in the 1960s and 70s and spent their weekly pocket money on plastic model kits and polystyrene cement every Saturday morning. For speciality shops like the Swindon Model Centre, it's "really terrible news". But a spokesman adds that Airfix has been losing ground to computer games for about seven years (the company has also stopped introducing new kits and is just repackaging old ones). Airfix prices have also risen sharply in recent years. But this has done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of those grown-up youngsters from the 60s and 70s who now compete for Airfix kits in online auctions. Perhaps the original purchasers stayed loyal as they grew older, and Airfix simply failed to engage the following generation. But this is a sad recognition that the two-shilling kits have moved from being toys to becoming collectors' items, with the accompanying status of a valuable antique. Airfix itself has become a piece of history.
News Source: news.bbc	Genre: Entertainment

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