What if you spent one year following every rule in the Bible? A. J. Jacobs did exactly that...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Microsoft quietly unveils Vista-to-XP downgrade
Microsoft has reportedly begun offering a downgrade option to PC makers who want to allow their customers to have the option of using XP over the pre-installed Vista software.
Computer manufacturers including Fujitsu, Lenovo, and HP now mainly offer PCs exclusively with Vista pre-installed. Customers who would prefer to have XP can request a downgrade disc for computers that come with Vista Business and Vista Ultimate. These two versions allow downgrading as part of the software licensing, but the process is difficult without a specifically coded disc.
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Computer manufacturers including Fujitsu, Lenovo, and HP now mainly offer PCs exclusively with Vista pre-installed. Customers who would prefer to have XP can request a downgrade disc for computers that come with Vista Business and Vista Ultimate. These two versions allow downgrading as part of the software licensing, but the process is difficult without a specifically coded disc.
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Extreme Rich-Poor Divisions
Here’s a quick selection of shocking photos / google maps links to start the day. they all illustrate an extreme degree of wealth divide in different parts of the world.
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The Degree Confluence Project
The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted here.
The project is an organized sampling of the world. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth. We've discounted confluences in the oceans and some near the poles, but there are still 11,033 to be found.
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The project is an organized sampling of the world. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth. We've discounted confluences in the oceans and some near the poles, but there are still 11,033 to be found.
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Pennies - Common Cents?
Hi, I'm Mitch Fincher and these pages are from a talk I gave while a Civil Engineering student at Texas Tech University.
The following is the basic pattern for building cantilevered structures with Pennies. Although it looks trivial, we can build amazing structures with these pillars. All penny columns are ten high, a "stack". Two side-by-side pennies held in place by a penny above them is called a "triad".
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The following is the basic pattern for building cantilevered structures with Pennies. Although it looks trivial, we can build amazing structures with these pillars. All penny columns are ten high, a "stack". Two side-by-side pennies held in place by a penny above them is called a "triad".
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A Natural History of the @ Sign: Part One
The "@" symbol. . . used by grocers and accountants throughout the English-speaking world to indicate a rate, or cost per unit, as in "10 gal @ $3.95/gal" [ten gallons at three dollars and ninety-five cents per gallon] has become the de facto delimiter in e-mail addresses, separating the user's name from the domain name.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Apple to iPhoners: Hacking Kills
Did you dare to hack your iPhone? If so, you may want to think twice before installing any software updates. Apple has officially warned users that installing any of the several programs available to make the iPhone run on a network other than AT&T could conflict with future updates, possibly turning the device into a $400 skipping stone.
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Printing In 3-D ~ Tech News Watch
It is a simple matter to print an ebook or other document directly from your computer, whether that document is on your hard drive, at a Web site or in an email. But, imagine being able to ‘print’ solid objects, a piece of sports equipment, say, or a kitchen utensil, or even a prototype car design for wind tunnel tests. US researchers suggest such 3-D printer technology will soon enter the mainstream once a killer application emerges.
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Official prototype of kilogram mysteriously losing weight
A kilogram just isn't what it used to be.
Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures with the reference kilogram.
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight -- if ever so slightly.
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Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures with the reference kilogram.
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight -- if ever so slightly.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Technology News: IBM Gives Back to the OpenOffice Community
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The announcement suggests a win-win for IBM and OpenOffice.org, a seven-year-old project created by Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) Latest News about Sun Microsystems and widely recognized as the open source contender to proprietary office software.
"With downloads of more than 100 million, this is the first real competitive grassroots office productivity suite that rivals proprietary alternatives," Sun spokesperson Terri Molini told LinuxInsider.
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