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- SpaceShipOne repeats its feat
- SpaceShipOne repeats its featGreat news!Let the age of space tourism begin! Sign me up for a flight.. once the cost becomes reasonable (ie. costs less money than I'd earn in several years..)All Tech Support For Spacecraft Outsourced To IndiaCan't wait to place a tech support call at 320,000 feet!SIMPLY...
- Tags: Desktops, Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, Mike Melville, SpaceShipOne
- Discussion threads 2004-10-04
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- TechCrunch50: Day 1
- When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Holy cow, Batman, it's a Platinum-level green data center!
- Holy cow, Batman, it's a Platinum-level green data center!Don't Have a CowYour pop culture reference is missing an important element. Robin would NEVER say "Holy cow, Batman!" (at least, the Burt Ward TV character wouldn't). Cows don't have anything to do with Platinum-level green data centers.Robin: "Holy molars!...
- Tags: Data centers, Holy Cow, Batman, Platinum-level, data center
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Altec Lansing T612
- Back in 2006, Altec Lansing released the M602 iPod Home Audio System. Billed as a "high-end home system," the M602 initially carried a $199 MSRP, but its price has since dropped to closer to $100. Now the company is offering the T612, which, aside from its darker color scheme,...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Toni Braxton, T612, M602 iPod Home Audio System, Altec Lansing M602, Apple iPhone, Altec Lansing
- Product reviews 2008-02-26
- Flight profile (Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwo)
- Flight profile Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwoSpaceship TwoI think this is great. I am a big fan of Burt Rutan and all of his projects. I cannot wait until SpaceShip Two is complete. I am the academic coordinator for the Aircraft Manufacturing Technology program at a technical school...
- Tags: SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Photos: That's one small step for SpaceShipTwo
- It's been redesigned, rehashed, and delayed. Richard Branson and Burt Rutan unveil mockups of their commercial spacecraft. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-01-23
- Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship
- Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceshipBeautifulThey are much better looking than the first ones. I hope that they accelerate space exploration and lunar landings. Unfortunately, the current goal is mostly space tourism, which is impractical. Maybe they'll raise enough money from it to fund the bigger picture, though.RE:...
- Tags: space elevator, Virgin Galactic, architecture spaceship, SpaceShipTwo
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- 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
- TechCrunch 40: Revenue models and analytics
- TechCrunch 40: Revenue models and analyticsGreatGreat article.Regards,James Burthttp://www.nhse.org
- Tags: Financial Planning, TechCrunch 40, TechCrunch, analytics
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Can Burt Reynolds inspire lust for Michael Dell's products?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a surreal tour of Dell's Star Power holiday shopping Web site featuring Burt Reynolds and other celebrities. If you searched the Web for the next month, how many times do you think you'd find the words "Michael," "Dell" and "lust" in the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Chris, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Branding, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Web safety pork: House offers $25m to Hollywood-linked group
- Web safety pork: House offers $25m to Hollywood-linked groupExcelent political moveThe Industry is using the right stuff when it comes to political moves.what do they need $5million for.. each year?!What on earth do they need $5 million for, every single year? Do people realize how much money that is?Programs like...
- Tags: Channel management, industry, Lord, I-Safe, political action, Hollywood-linked group, Web safety, kind-of, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon again
- X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon againI am not so sure returning to the moon ...... is a bad idea. If we had proceeded to build a moon base in the 1970s & 80s, we would have the capability to build and launch vehicles from...
- Tags: Low Earth Orbit, Rutan, moon, NASA, X Prize winner, X Prize
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon again
- Any work NASA is doing to return to the moon is "silly," Burt Rutan, the engineer who won the Ansari X Prize for a suborbital rocket plane, told a panel at CalTech on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the space program, News.com reports. "Taxpayer-funded NASA should only...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Leadership, Management, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- NASA pundits launch debate over space flight
- NASA pundits launch debate over space flightNot sure I agree with RutanThe fact is, that the airplane industry is incredibly advanced. Which is precisely the problem.What do I mean by this? Well, we've had cars around for about as long, and that industry has flourished. And yet its the issue...
- Tags: Government, Aerospace & Defense, Vertical industries, NASA, space flight
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- News to know: Google-DoubleClick-Clear Channel; Adobe video; Web 2.0 Expo
- Notable headlines:Ubuntus feisty spin on virtualization.Microsoft gives bar codes a splash of color.Dan Farber: Salesforce.com adds Flex to Apex platform. Web 2.0 Expo: Changing the face of the desktop.AP: Google, Clear Channel Ink Long-Term Deal.Robin Harris: Apples new kick-butt file system. Selling stuff online? Here comes the IRS.Intel set to...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- RSA 2007 keynotes: Notable quotes
- The morning RSA keynotes were mostly warmed over common wisdom--layer approachs, risk management, intelligence sharing, managing user identities, governance, focusing on users, etc.--about information security, with the exception of the cryptographer panel, which had some good moments. I pulled out some quotes from the presentations to give a flavor of...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Security, RSA Security Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- IBM code to go aloft with NASA space telescope
- IBM code to go aloft with NASA space telescope200,000 lines of C++ code ???Oh good grief! IBM, are you kidding?!? You could've made a better choice with APL2. APL2 is your program product, isn't it? You could probably have done the same work with 100 lines...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, NASA, APL2, C++, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-20
- Web-based hiring system to fix IL's corruption woes?
- Political patronage and cronyism has a long history in Illinois. Indeed the name Daley is synonymous with the notion of politicians using their office to give state jobs to friends, backers and political bedfellows. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, campaigned in 2002 on an anti-corruption platform but has been plagued in recent...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Bill Gates stumps for robotic future
- Bill Gates stumps for robotic futureGates on RoboticsGlad to see that Bill is involved in this area and taking the lead. I don't think I'll sell my Microsoft stock anytime soon . . .Seems very Matrix to meEverything in the robotics space is to enable higher productivity. This being...
- Tags: Robots, Hindsight, robotics, Microsoft Corp., robot, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- Will Office 2007 get a 'kill switch,' too?
- Will Office 2007 get a 'kill switch,' too?What about Mac Office?One wonders if they're going to try to build in any of these sorts of things in their Mac products. If so, I'll stick with what I already have.That's the longest 'Yes' I've ever heard...You should never ask lawyers...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, software
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
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