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- Airliners First Edition (exe)
- Airliners First Edition is a screen saver that has over 120 high quality airliner images. It features airlines that fly into Charlotte Douglas International Airport every day. This product was developed by amateur photographer Stephen MacPherson. His love for aviation drives him to get the action shots that others would...
- Tags: Screensaver, Stephen MacPherson, Airliners First Edition
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship
- Virgin Galactic on Wednesday unveiled designs for SpaceShipTwo and the WhiteKnightTwo, two vehicles that are designed to usher in private spaceflight. The technology behind the system will have an open architecture "like Linux," said officials. In an event at the American Museum at Natural History in New...
- Tags: Event, Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo, WhiteKnightTwo, Linux, Government, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Aerospace & Defense, UNIX, Operating Systems, Strategy, Open Source, Software, Manufacturing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- China's now building commercial airliners?!¿@!¡
- China's now building commercial airliners?!¿@!¡I think China will ultimately be very successful in airliners.To be sure, Chinese companies have made some big errors this year: Lead in children's toys, tainted pet food ingredients, and releasing pre-production automobiles for safety testing that kill all of the passengers in ordinary crashes. But,...
- Tags: Boeing Co., airliner, Airbus
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- China's now building commercial airliners?!¿@!¡
- From the land that brought you dangerous toys and poisonous food, there are now...Chinese commercial airliners. As reported by Bloomberg, they don't expect to sell many planes: "We're well aware that in the international market there's not a very good impression of China's ability to...
- Tags: China, Vice President, Aerospace & Defense, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Measuring green opportunities
- Measuring green opportunitiesMark Twain Nailed It"Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics." You make some good points about real impact of supposedly green technologies. There's information pollution to go with the environmental variety; responses tend to be well meaning but badly mistaken. It interests me how lemming-like environmentalists tend...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Monitors & displays, data center, Just Like Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
- Israel launches antihijack pilot ID system
- Israel launches antihijack pilot ID systemOne FlawPity the passengers of the drunk pilot that can't remmeber the proper code :-)RE: Israel launches antihijack pilot ID systemThe Terrorists aren't real. Who cares about a keypad when the planes are remotely controlled by their own governments?its all a bunch of smoke and...
- Tags: Government, MANPADS
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- A solution for MagSafe in the car
- The MacBook's MagSafe power adapter is probably its best and worst feature. It works really well when you accidentally trip over it, but the patented adapter is being withheld from third-parties. This means that the adapter wasn't available for airplanes and autos for the longest time. Apple eventually address the...
- Tags: Adapter, Apple MacBook, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- (Photos: The new world's tallest building)
- (Photos: The new world's tallest building)Ummmmm...Did ZDNet recently headhunt a bunch of writers & editors from Mechanics Illustrated or something? This looks way out of place here.The CN Tower, Toronto is 1815ft.The "Tower Dubai" is designed to eventually reach 2,651 ft. when completed - it was designed to have 162...
- Tags: photograph, CN Tower, Empire State Building, bushel
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- Prediction: BlackBerry in-flight will take longer than you think
- As has been reported, within a year you will be able to use your BlackBerry on selected flights. Thats because AirCell will install equipment on airliners that will act as a WiFi hotspot in the cabin and connect to Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerrys, and laptop computers too. The "up until" factor...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Airbus A380 lands in U.S. (Photos: Airbus A380 lands in the U.S.)
- Airbus A380 lands in U.S. (Photos: Airbus A380 lands in the U.S.)Will it be?Wouldn't bigger just mean they can cram more people on it while maintaining the same comfort level as a 747?I dunno about comfortI dunno about comfort - usually they just pack more people in.It's incredible to seethis...
- Tags: photograph, Airbus A380, Qantas Airways Ltd., Airbus
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
- Where are the MagSafe adapters for cars?
- Back on 28 June 2006 I posted a story asking "Where are the MagSafe adapters for cars and airplanes?" Apple finally gave us the MagSafe Airline Adapter on 26 October 2006, but where is the car adapter?The MacBook Pro was announced on 14 February 2006 and here we are a...
- Tags: Hardware, MacBook Pro, Battery, adapter
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Apple's gift to travelers: Magsafe airline power adapter
- Tucked deep within the product pages for Apple's new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is mention of a new product that will make frequent flyers happy - the Magsafe Airline Power Adapter.For US$59 you can now purchase an adapter (PN MA598LL/A) that works with the in-seat DC power ports found...
- Tags: adapter, Magsafe Airline Power Adapter
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program
- Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy programMaybe, but the ruling stands until a highercourt rules otherwise.Given how angry the courts are over Bush refusing to use the special court set up for this I doubt they are in a listening mood.You see, telling judges and courts to go frell...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
- Register: Fliers stripped of hi-tech, remote detonation a possibility in terror plot
- According to The Register's reporting on this morning's foiled terror plot, passengers looking to fly out of UK airports this morning were not only asked to stow all of their carry-on luggage, they were asked to put any electronics in that luggage. The crackdown on wireless technology apparently included...
- Tags: detonation, plot
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- Evaluating Customer Loyalty Solutions
- Customer Loyalty Programs CLP has come a long way from their early beginnings in the 1970's. Conceptualized with the original idea of gaining a better understanding about popular routes for airliners, CLPs have evolved to become a subject of wider corporate aspirations and challenges. The success of CLPs depends on...
- Tags: Aspiration, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Customer Loyalty Programs
- White papers 2006-07-25
- Quaero and industrial policy
- Governments don't tend to spend a nation's investment capital as well as private citizens. It's not because government functionaries are stupid. Rather, besides being removed from the day to day operations in a given market segment, governments also tend to have different motivations guiding investment decisions. Corporations which inspire national...
- Tags: Airbus, Quaero Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- Dumb idea?: Biometric hall pass for travelers
- Bruce Schneier doesn't mince words about the stupidy of a using biometric IDs to create two classes of travelers (low risk, higher risk) and b privatizing the system that does it: What the Trusted Traveler program does is create two different access paths into the airport: high...
- Tags: security
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
- Eavesdropping: A little dab'll Dubya
- Eavesdropping: A little dab'll DubyaThe other side knows we're listeningWhat's so retarded about all this...a phrase you get used to typing with the current administration...is that intelligence pros know that any unsecured communication medium can be monitored and tracked. That's why operatives don't fax in their daily report over...
- Tags: Network security, Fax, SECURITY, constitution, intrusion, expedience
- Discussion threads 2006-01-24
- On being bugged
- Gilles Caprari of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has developed a matchbook-size robot named Insbot. Insbot can secrete reassuring chemicals and has successfully insinuated itself into colonies of cockroaches. It is so realistic to a cockroach that it can actually lure its new friends out of their...
- Tags: InsBot
- Blog posts 2005-07-27
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