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- ILM snags Oscar nods for visual effects
- How do you make a 30-foot robot/semi-truck appear lifelike? What about a creature with tentacles for a face? Those were some of the challenges for the visual-effects teams at San Francisco-based Industrial Light & Magic. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with the designers behind Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean:...
- Tags: News.com, Effect, Team Management, Management, ilm, transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, george lucas, san francisco, kara tsuboi, oscars
- Videos 2008-01-23
- Ed Tech...more than meets the eye?
- Sorry, folks...I just took the kids to a special late-night showing of Transformers. I have no idea how to tie this into educational technology, but I just have to throw it out there. This movie absolutely rocked. The technical wizardry was amazing, Michael Bay captured enough nostalgia...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
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- LHC ready for trial collisions
- Let's smash some atoms! The Large Hadron Collider is back on track for trial collisions this week, after a glitch with the cooling system, Times Online reports. Once the two beams had been inserted into the LHC ring last Wednesday, the next task was to "capture"...
- Tags: Collision, Beam, Large Hadron Collider, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Fastest-growing search terms in June 2008
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. george carlin 0.04% 2. summer vacation 0.01% 3. where is my rebate check 0.01% 4. transformers 2 0.01% 5. spinning skyscraper 0.01% 6. camp rock lyrics 0.01% 7. perceptions of tattoos...
- Tags: NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it already
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it alreadyTalk about Polution!!There's is no form of transportation MORE polluting than an electric car. Why people are so thrilled with them....They use power which is produce primarily by COAL!!!The coal-fired electricity has to be transmitted which costs...
- Tags: car, electric car
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
- OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- MIT students making solar power realistic
- MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Business imperatives theme dominates Forrester's IT Forum conference opener
- Forrester Research, the Cambridge, Mass. market research and analysis firm, kicked off its influential IT Forum conference today in Las Vegas with a keynote address by founder and Chairman George Colony on CEO success imperatives. What the success imperatives do you have? Colony asked a series of...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- With a name like Optimist Prime, it's gotta be good
- Recently, I gave a big thumbs up to the ShaggyMac screen protector as a highly effective way to prevent smudges, prints, and damage to the glossy LCD screens that are so commonplace on mainstream laptops. Often, if we're in the trenches, we spend our time just keeping things running...
- Tags: LCD, Laptop Computer, Screen Protector, Mist, Monitors & Displays, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Best Buy, Netflix declare Blu-ray the winning high def DVD format
- Best Buy, Netflix declare Blu-ray the winning high def DVD formatDon't be so sure on thatAre they really being suckered at 1/4 of the price. If more people have more HD-DVD players than Blu-Ray then it doesn't matter what Best Buy or NetFlicks offers. They will be forced to change....
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Best Buy Co. Inc., DVD player, NetFlix Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- 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
- Fixing damages immediately with RFID
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes how PG&E will start tagging transformers and poles with new RFID tags so line workers can more efficiently access and fix damages when accidents occur. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Tagging, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- PG&E CIO: Pat Lawicki - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Pat thanks for joining me. Pat Lawicki: Thank you, I'm delighted to be here. Dan Farber: Now you've been at PG&E in 2005, it's a company that's undergoing some transition as you're putting in new systems. What is the scope of...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, PG&E Corp., Customer, Vision, Lawicki, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- HD DVD vs. Blu-ray ad nauseam
- The battle between the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats is the battle that simply doesn't want to end. Many, however, think that this Christmas season could be critical, a Gettysburg-style confrontation that won't by itself knock either format permanently out of the race, but could start a "rolling downhill" effect...
- Tags: Advertisement, Sony PlayStation 3, HD-DVD, Acceleration, Disc, Blu-ray, HD-DVD Forum, HD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Sales Strategy, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sales, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- 3D Transformers screensaver (exe)
- 3D transformers screen saver is a very cool screen saving program. In this Screensaver, over 50 cool transformers can transform themselves, enjoy! Features of 3D Transformers Screensaver: Realistic 3D environment; Full transformers world; Cool animation; Over 50 cool transformers; Protects your screen from fading. Version 2.2 adds new transformers.
- Tags: 3D, Screensaver, 3D Transformers Screen Saver
- Software downloads 2007-11-27
- AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season
- AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday seasonWhat a waste of slots for having four video cards...Try fitting 4 dual-slot video cards as you'll need ThermalTake Armor+ for that. It comes with 10 expansion slots.AMD is putting all their eggs on ATISeems like AMD's CPUs aren't making many waves and...
- Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Games, radiosity, card, video card, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, video, game
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Rackspace's really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile
- Rackspace, a Web hosting firm, should adopt that song "I Don't Like Mondays" as its corporate motto. After all, Monday turned out to be horrendous for the company. That song, a 1979 hit from The Boomtown Rats, sums up Rackspace's last 36 hours. First, Rackspace had a...
- Tags: Rackspace, Data Center, Internet, Techmeme, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Just for fun: It's a bike. No, a snowboard. Whatever, it's a cool green-tech thingie
- How does that song go? "You'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for ..." Well, the composer of that ditty would be hard-pressed to describe the E-Bikeboard and its kin from Swissbikeboard. These are ultimate transformers, with attachments that let you use them on...
- Tags: Mile, Battery, E-Bikeboard S500, Engineering, Transportation, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-04
- Turtle Beach Ear Force AK-R8
- Plenty of PC headphones and audio cards offer a "headphone surround-sound" mode, but it's often little more than a sophisticated reverb mode that uses psychoacoustics to trick the mind into thinking it's hearing something beyond a stereo (2-channel) source. That's why the Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA headphones were so...
- Tags: Ear Force AK-R8, headphone, Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA, PC, AASRM, earcup, USB
- Product reviews 2007-11-01
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