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(Images: A lesson plan from the South Pole)

(Images: A lesson plan from the South Pole)That's nice. Who cares? ntnt = no textA lesson plan from the South PoleI sometimes watch ed-TV and remember the North Pole lesson plan. This teacher in summer goes all the way to the north pole and on the horizon appears a big...

Tags: South Pole, lesson plan

Discussion threads 2007-02-19

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NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon

On Friday morning, NASA successfully rammed the LCROSS satellite and a probe into the south pole of the moon in an attempt to search for hidden pockets of ice. by Andy Smith

Tags: NASA, Network Technology, Networking, Moon, LCROSS, water, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-10-09

Google hijacks Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame

IE is already up to the speed... and the plugin enabling it is SilverLight."Hello XAML, and byebye HTML garbage." So says M$.That's sarcasm, right?If not, you know very well that Idiot Exploiter is far more obsolete than any other actively maintained browser. Just like windows.Microsoft will send out and update.Microsoft...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...

Hope it's not too lateDespite a cool US, the rest of world is getting warmer.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090916_globalstats.htmlPlease explain.....Why the National Climate Data Center using NASA satellites show a decline in global temperatures over the past decade? Yeah it may be warmer one year over the next, but the temperature chart is...

Tags: Data centers, global warming, downward slope, past 10-year, slope, NASA

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayerYou're missing the pointWe should not permit single point of failure networks to be built. Besides, there's over 80 million miles of fiber in the U.S. alone, and it simply is not possible to monitor all that cable, or...

Tags: Network technology, WikiAnswers, cable, prayer, Internet-infrastructure

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

Magnets 1.1 (Windows)

In this game you need to destroy magnets by connecting 3 or more magnets of the same colour together. For two magnets to be connected, the north pole of one magnet must be connected to the south pole of another. Use the mouse to click a magnet and rotate it...

Tags: Magnet, Novel Games, Games, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-03-26

IDC: Downturn to drive Linux adoption

IDC: Downturn to drive Linux adoptionMicrosoft will probably lower prices rather than cede market share, but, even a price break on the server end, and netbook end may not be enough to stop market share losses. MS does not have a suitable OS for Arm based netbooks, and for virtualized...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, netbook, Linux-adoption, virtualization, Microsoft Corp., International Data Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-17

(Gallery: Google Earth finds Atlantis or Atlant-isn't)

(Gallery: Google Earth finds Atlantis or Atlant-isn't)Yes, they're ship tracksI agree with Google ~ they're ship tracks...RE: (Gallery: Google Earth finds Atlantis or Atlant-isn't)yes, it's the rectangular track of the echo-sonar executing shipRE: (Gallery: Google Earth finds Atlantis or Atlant-isn't)Doesn't look like it can be used to...

Tags: Atlantis, Atlant-isn't, Google Earth, Gallery, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levels

Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levelsI love the apocalyptic predictions ofhorrible weather resulting from global warming when not a single climate model takes precipitation into account because we don't know how to model it.Maybe global warming will cause long, gentle rains and huge increases in snowfall in...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

Global warning: act now

Global warning: act nowI don't think it's sth we can controlI'm not sure we even fully understand how all the elements work in the climate equation.31,000 Scientists say Hansen is full of ithttp://www.oism.org/pproject/RE: Global warning: act nowFunny how all their graphs stop at the year 2000, but don't show the...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, Hansen

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

A telescope in a cubic kilometer of ice

University of Delaware UD scientists and engineers are currently working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. When it...

Tags: Ice, Particle, Tank, IceCube, Digital Optical Module, Eiffel Tower, IceTop, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Team Management, Blogging, Internet, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

One prediction about climate change challenges another

Remember the ozone hole? Well, the CFCs that were apparnetly causing the ozone hole to grow, have been reduced in human industry and releases are waning. The ozone hole over the South Pole is slowly diminishing. A new projection about climate change says the reduction of...

Tags: Ozone, Ozone Hole, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-07

What do the British really believe about global warming?

What do the British really believe about global warming?lolu got ot be kidding meRE: What do the British really believe about global warming?You have got to be kidding! I can not remember when it really snowed properly in the UK, we are seeing greater instances or extreme weather such...

Tags: Now Let, global warming, climate change, British Public

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Cable: Act, Don't React

Cable: Act, Don't React21-Hour coincidence?Isn't it amazing that the outage "happens" to get fixed just before the 24-hour point? After 24 hours, they would be stuck to give refunds, but it was fixed "just in time."Amazing.I've been through it many times.I dont quite understand what you mean here..."[i]If this household...

Tags: INTERNET, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Charter Cable, cable, phone

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu’s Volkswagen

OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu’s VolkswagenSuSE is the best distro going.Especially if your a Windows person looking for a place to start in Open Source. YAST is the very best configuration interface in the Linux world today. No other distro has anything close.If you want to make the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, KDE 4, YaST, SuSE, Ubuntu, distro, Novell OpenSuse, OpenSUSE 11 RC1, OpenSUSE 11, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen AG

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide

U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...

Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-27

New WiFi from Intel improves rural communications

New WiFi from Intel improves rural communicationsRe: "New WiFi...improves rural communications"Great!!! Glad to hear about the technology.HOWEVER...What's this talk about Africa and Asia? What about here in the U.S.?ANYONE who is outside the reach of Cable is going to be CONDEMNED to years more of the Internet via...

Tags: Wireless LANs, INTERNET, Network technology, rural communication, Wi-Fi, POTS, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Cooking at the South Pole

In a freely available article, The Wall Street Journal reveals how chefs cook at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. You might find surprising to find such a post here, but cooking at the South Pole needs lots of innovation and creativity. Let's look at some of the challenges. First, the...

Tags: Food, National Science Foundation, Wall Street Journal, Mushroom, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-16

RBAC problems wipe out AT&T DSL in California

RBAC problems wipe out AT&T DSL in CaliforniaNever been impressed with SBC's serviceThese were the people who told me that DSL was available where I was living in the San Diego back country. I ordered the equipment accordingly, only to discover I was too far away from the exchange...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, N95, Comcast Corp., DSL, AT&T Corp., role-based access control

Discussion threads 2008-02-07