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(Photos: Great Red Spot eats 'Baby')

(Photos: Great Red Spot eats 'Baby')Why is it there?Could it be that underneath, on the surface, is a giant mountain causing the spot? I mean, an almost stationary turbulence that has lasted over 168 years must have some logical reason.

Tags: Great Red Spot, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Images: New red spot appears on Jupiter

Astronomers were amazed when a second giant red spot suddenly appeared on Jupiter two years ago. Now, there's a third one.Images from the Hubble Space Telescope confirm the appearance of a third giant red spot on Jupiter the smaller spot to the left. The new feature was recently seen as...

Tags: Spot, Jupiter, Great Red Spot, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-22

Photos: Voyagers--strange visitors to other planets

It was thirty years ago when the first Voyager spacecraft left Earth. The ships have returned closeup views of four planets--and aren't finished yet.Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 followed on Sept. 5, 1977, for what was originally a five-year mission to study Jupiter...

Tags: Earth, Moon, Data, Photograph, Voyager 1, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter', Io, Great Red Spot, It', nnTriton, Here', Cassini, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-08-28

Additional Resources

Mono-mania: It's risky business

M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...

Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Samsung UN46B8500

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB8500 seriesIf you watch football or read CNET, chances are you've noticed ads for Samsung's so-called LED TVs. The company has released three series of these super-thin LED-based LCDs so far this year, the 6000, the 7000, and the 8000 models, but it's saved the...

Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung UNB8500, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-06

Samsung UN55B8500

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB8500 seriesIf you watch football or read CNET, chances are you've noticed ads for Samsung's so-called LED TVs. The company has released three series of these super-thin LED-based LCDs so far this year, the 6000, the 7000, and the 8000 models, but it's saved the...

Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung UNB8500, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-06

Can we let the Kindle/1984 thing go already?

I wanted the Red TruckBut I wanted the red truck.Oh no, that was a limited time offer, says so right here in the fine print.Even kids know its wrong to hide behind fine print...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiAvHPPc8M8$150,000 is a little excessiveBut I like to think that Mr. Orwell's spirit is smiling at the...

Tags: Litigation, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle/1984 thing, Kindle/1984

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Canon PowerShot D10

The PowerShot D10 comes across as one of the company's Digital Elphs in a fat suit--albeit a very protective one. Unfortunately, it's a suit you can't take off at the end of the day as you would with one of Canon's waterproof housings. But again, the extra layer keeps it...

Tags: Monitors & displays, PowerShot D10, Canon Inc., Canon PowerShot D10, LCD, Canon PowerShot

Product reviews 2009-07-30

Nikon Coolpix P90

Photo gallery:Nikon Coolpix P90Nikon joins the ranks of manufacturers ramping up their top-of-the-line megazoom models to 24x. The replacement for the Nikon Coolpix P80, the P90, outzooms its 18x predecessor with a 24x f2.8-5 26-624mm-equivalent lens, and outpixels it by upping the resolution from 10 megapixels to 12. More useful,...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Nikon Corp., Nikon Coolpix, Nikon Coolpix P90, PASM, ISO, CCD

Product reviews 2009-06-15

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1

Photo gallery:Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1More than any other camera I've reviewed lately, my opinion formation about the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 inevitably comes back to price. It's fast, but not as fast as other cameras that cost a lot less. It has great photo quality, but its high ISO sensitivity photos don't...

Tags: Corporate communications, navigation control, camera, GH1, Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1, Panasonic Lumix, video, Panasonic

Product reviews 2009-05-15

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Casio Exilim EX-FH20

The Casio Exilim EX-FH20, like most all megazooms, is basically a puffed-up point-and-shoot camera. However, it's what Casio puffed it up with that sets it apart: the ability to shoot at 40 frames per second and 1,000fps video capture. In fact, these are really the only reasons to choose the...

Tags: FH20, Casio Inc., Casio Exilim EX-FH20, CASIO EXILIM

Product reviews 2009-04-21

Open source and the shrinking waterhole

Open source and the shrinking waterholeOpen source is the futurentMoment of truthMany open source companies have been kept afloat by selling "support" which was in reality donations in disguise from sympathetic supporters of the open source ideology.Those sympathizers now face much more difficult questions when they try to artificially make...

Tags: open source, OpenSource

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

Google's VC fund: Would you rather have a dividend?

Google has a bevy of side projects and now there's another one: A reported $100 million venture capital fund.  Google announced its venture fund on its blog post and like all things the search giant does it has garnered a lot of attention Techmeme. Google says: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Venture-capital Fund, Dividend, Intel Corp., VC, Intel Capital, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Dell SP2309W

For $329, the Dell SP2309W only available direct from Dell bundles good performance; VGA, DVI, and HDMI connections; a high 2,048x1,152-pixel resolution; an intuitive, robust and uniquely designed onscreen display; 360 degree screen rotation; and five USB ports. Compared with the $690, 24-inch Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP, the SP2309W comes up...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Performance management, screen-height, Dell SP2309W, Dell Computer Corp., OSD, bezel, display

Product reviews 2009-02-20

Sony Alpha DSLR-A900 (body only)

Photo gallery:Sony Alpha DSLR-A900Sony makes a point of not calling this a "professional" camera, instead referring to it as the "flagship" model of its dSLR line. However, it's priced like a pro model, and its full-frame competitors--the Nikon D700 and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II--are widely, though not exclusively,...

Tags: A900, Sony Corp., camera

Product reviews 2009-01-20

Apple's future: It's in the Touch

Apple's future: It's in the TouchIt's scary catchup timeBill Gates remarks on the Next 10 years of Digital Media NVTC speech http://tinyurl.com/97zbns Videohttp://www.nvtc.org/events/031308/TranscriptRemarksByBillGates.pdf Transcript"On that tablet we can touch the screen. We have a pen. We can write. We can have the handwriting be recognized and so...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, VOIP, Cellular phones, Apple iPod Touch, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, whiteboard, software

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guideA different take on Black FridayI read an article a couple of weeks ago about Black Friday. The interesting thing is it's proven to be accurate so far.If anyone is interested, it's on http://www.uberi.comThe specific article is titled "What About Black Friday?"...

Tags: Notebooks, MicroCenter, Black Friday

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

Canon EF 70-200mm f4 IS USM L

You want a medium telephoto lens for your Canon dSLR, something with a constant aperture, solidly built with pro quality, yet light enough to carry on adventure to some far away part of the world. You have looked at the f2.8 models but didn't think you could afford them or...

Tags: Mode 1, Canon Inc., lens, aperture, f4 IS USM L

Product reviews 2008-10-06

LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.

LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.It hasn't been that long ago...my company got rid of its last Green screen based network in favor of a fancy Windows based network at several of our branch offices. Guess what. We didn't pick up one iota of productivity gain. We...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Loverock Davidson, NOW IS, LinuxWorld, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-08-05