Wait, you use the semicolon for sentence construction? Are you for real? Surely, nobody really knows how to use that thing properly anymore. It’s probably for the best that it’s only ever used to form winky emoticons these days. [Doghouse Diaries]
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A Black Friday 'hola' from Spain.
(Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
This week, America’s retailers have put on their finest makeup and highest heels in order to make themselves supremely attractive.
My inbox has been full of enticements, all to celebrate the Feast of the Black Eye Friday.
One seductive missive caught my eye, though. It promised: “Black Friday, sólo 3 días con ofertas irrepetibles?.”
Well, I suppose my name does look a little Spanish after a few sangrias.
The offers were, of course, very special. A Lenovo Intel Core i7, for example. A mere 579. A Bosch washing machine for just 289.
It was then that my brain intercepted my eyes and whispered: “Hey, those prices are in euros.”
This was, indeed, an e-mail from the Spanish department store El Corte Ingles. Oh, don’t ask how I got on the mailing list. (Soccer aficionados will understand if I say I’m a Real Betis fan.) Ask what on Earth El Corte Ingles is doing celebrating Black Friday.
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ISON (or fragments thereof) emerges from behind the sun on its path back out of the solar system and past Earth.
(Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/GSFC)
It made for perhaps the nerdiest Thanksgiving moment ever when I plugged a Google Chromecast into my mother’s TV on Thursday and proceeded to put a live NASA Google+ Hangout on Comet ISON‘s sun-grazing journey on the screen in the living room.
By the time all the pumpkin pie had been knocked back and the turkey set to work lulling me into a coma, ISON had failed to emerge from the sun’s shadow after reaching perihelion, leading many observers to conclude that the comet had been destroyed by its close encounter with the massive nuclear furnace at the center of our galactic cul-de-sac.
Related Links:
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UrtheCast cameras to live-stream Earth views from ISS
Cosmonauts set for Olympic torch relay spacewalk
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Those damn dot-commers are still mucking up San Fran, parents are passing along their dangerous pedestrian ways to the next generation, a giant suitcase is an eyesore in Red Square, and—sigh—we’re all so lonely. These things and more are What’s Ruining Our Cities.
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We love listening to music. It speaks to us through the best of times and the worst of times. That being said, it should be no wonder that we want it on, loud, and playing constantly. There’s nothing more annoying than having your favorite song come on, and not have the ability to be fully immersed in it because you can’t turn it up any more.
This would be a good time for either an external speaker, or a way to turn up the volume even higher on your headphones. The NuForce Cube Portable Speaker will help you do just that. It will be a step up from whatever your current ear buds are, and can act solidly as a standalone speaker. It has an output of 3W, and a DAC that can provide 16bit/8kHz of sound.
It’s made of aluminum, plastic, and cloth, and only weighs 6 ounces. This is perfect for presentations, cars without a sound system, or just jamming anywhere in the house. As someone who doesn’t always like wireless devices (when they don’t work), it makes me happy to see that this is a plug-and-play. It comes with a 3.5mm cable that is two feet long, a USB cable that is 2′ 4”, and a carrying pouch. The biggest downside is that this little thing will cost you $100, which seems like just a bit too much for what it is.
Available on ThinkGeek
[ NuForce Cube Portable Speaker – turn up the volume copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
The Shirai Lab at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology have developed a way to simultaneously display 2D and 3D video on the same screen without producing a blurry double image. The technology is called 2x3D or Scritter. It uses two projectors to beam the videos and graphics processors that cancel out one of the videos being displayed, so that the 2D video can clearly be seen with the naked eye. The 3D video will become visible once the viewer wears a polarized filter on his right eye.
Kanagawa Institute of Technology Associate Professor Akihiki Shirai noted that their technology also has many other practical applications beyond displaying 2D and 3D video at once. 2x3D can be used to display text in different languages or show different layers of an object, e.g. superimposing the different systems of the body. The drawback to 2x3D is that it results in videos with relatively low contrast, but Shirai also said that that may be countered by using more projectors.
You can learn more about 2x3D on Shirai Lab’s website.
Welcome to Engadget’s holiday gift guide! Head back to our hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month.
This is an especially good year for gamers: With major consoles from Microsoft and Sony debuting just in time for the holidays, there are some pretty obvious items to add to the wish list. If hand-held gaming is more your thing, don’t fret; we’ve got you covered, too.
This article was written on December 18, 2007 by CyberNet.
Day! Hard to believe, isn’t it? Spam eats 512 terabytes of space each and every single day. This is just an extremely rough estimate, and it’s likely that it’s in fact more than 512 terabytes each day. Pingdom came up with this estimate after finding out that there are about 120 billion spam emails that pollute the web each day. Then they sampled the amount of spam that their office mail server got to determine the average size of each message which was 4.27 kilobytes. Multiply 4.27 kilobytes by the 120 billion spam messages each day and you come up with 512 terabytes. If you were to take into consideration the size of the spam messages which are one giant image, the number would likely be quite a bit more. In all, I’d say that their number is on the low side.
So what does this all mean? Well, for starters, that’s a lot of wasted bandwidth, wouldn’t you say? To put this into perspective, one terabyte is equal to 1000 gigabytes. More interesting is that the cost of a one terabyte drive is about $250. If you had enough of these to cover the 512 terabytes that are eaten every day, it comes out to $128,000 worth of hard drive space each day! That helps explain why mail services such as Gmail will automatically delete your spam messages after so many days. Yes, it’s a convenience for their users, but think about how much extra space they’d need to handle millions of spam messages that just sat there and never got deleted.
Pingdom points out a few additional reasons why spam does us no good whatsoever:
This all helps explain why the FBI takes spamming seriously, and why one of the top 10 spammers in the world was recently arrested for conducting his “business.”
Enough of this spam already!…
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