When you propose to someone, you’re offering to pledge the rest of your
life to them. It’s not to be taken lightly. For SuperGenius 3D artist
and animator Robert Fink, it wasn’t enough to simply make the vow. He
needed to do something more; something unique and special. He needed to create Knight Man.
Where the deployment of exploratory drones is concerned, one of the biggest challenges lies with getting a robot down to the surface of a planet or moon. NASA has come up with a rather novel solution: Super Ball Bot, a wire mesh, ball-shaped robot that can roll around of its own volition.
This article was written on January 23, 2007 by CyberNet.
I was surely surprised this morning to wake up to news that Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 has been released! I knew that it would be sometime this month but I figured it wouldn’t come until next week.
Here are all of the new features that they list, but it is the same as the Beta 1 list…
I think that a majority of the work was under-the-hood since there were 78 bug fixes since the last Beta. If you are still using Thunderbird 1.5 you might be surprised at the refreshing appearance that version 2 offers:
As we mentioned a few months back, Mozilla still plans on doing tabbed messages. Of course, I’m pretty skeptical that it will be able to make it in time because the Beta builds, which are now done, are supposed to represent all of the new features. Then the release candidates only focus on fixing bugs introduced by those new features. So don’t be surprised if we don’t get tabbed messages.
As for future milestones the two release candidates should be coming in February and then the final release of Thunderbird 2 is expected sometime this first quarter (it has already been more than a year after 1.5 was released). Then it looks like they want to get things moving again because Thunderbird 3 is projected to be released the first quarter of 2008.
Go Thunderbird! 😀
Windows: Installer
Linux: GTK2 + XFT
Mac OS X: Universal Binary
Thanks for the tip wipeout140 and Claus Valca!
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The Taiwan-based company BungBungame has developed a prototype high-end Android smartphone with a target price point of $299, a low price for the specs. The phone is called “Project S” … Continue reading
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There’s a great, bloody shark war going on in Western Australia right now. After six deaths in two years—making Western Australia the deadliest place on earth for shark attacks—the state has ratcheted up its side of the war by deciding to kill sharks. Lots of ’em. Any shark within one kilometer of the beach will be trapped and shot according to their controversial cull strategy. Remember, humans can be a vengeful species.
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France is preparing to extend its “culture tax” to Facebook, YouTube, DailyMotion and other Internet giants. The culture tax is currently levied on French cinemas, TV broadcasters, Internet service providers … Continue reading
This article was written on May 15, 2007 by CyberNet.
The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) was going on for the last few hours and I watched it live online. It isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, and doesn’t have the cool demonstrations that are normally found at the Consumer Electronics Show in January of each year, but there was still some interesting information mentioned that I thought I would cover here.
Bill Gates has been the primary speaker and introduces everyone for each of the demonstrations. To begin the show he talked about Vista’s sales which, as of last week, have consisted of 40 million copies of Windows Vista being sold. He continued to mention that the sales are twice as fast as the Windows XP launch (which we already knew), but he also added that 78% of the sales were from premium editions of the operating system.
He then started to show off some of the Ultra Mobile PC’s and seemed to really focus on those, especially the ones equipped with SideShow. Gates explained how a large focus of Vista was on making the operating system look good on both a 3–inch display and a setup with three 30–inch monitors. Some of the Ultra Mobile PC’s that he talked about can be seen here.
Next Bill Gates invited Glenn Ward and Jim Barber to the stage to demonstrate Windows Rally. In the demo they showed how easy it was to connect a digital camera, game console, wireless access point, and digital photo frame to the computer in the “time it would take to pop a bag of popcorn.” The hardware devices need to be enabled with this technology, and once it is we should be presented with an effortless way to connect devices. They even went as far as to stream an HD show using a wireless media extender, all of which was setup and connected during the demonstration. The whole time I was thinking that something was bound to fail, but it went surprisingly perfect.
Bill Gates then introduced Steven Leonard who discussed Windows Home Server. He showed an example Home Server device that will be offered by HP (pictured to the right) and how easy it would be to add more storage to the unit.
Steven also went on to demonstrate being able to remotely connect to the server, and it reminded me of accessing files via an FTP, but the interface was much nicer and completely browser-based. He also mentioned that anyone purchasing Windows Home Server would get a free domain name through Windows Live, therefore making it easy to connect to your remote machine.
Windows Server Longhorn (view our Beta 3 screenshot gallery) also broke free of its codename today, and is now cleverly called Windows Server 2008. They said that they put a lot of work into coming up with a clever, and distinguishable name which is demonstrated in this brief 1–minute video.
A feature in Windows Server 2008 was demonstrated where an administrator can prevent certain USB devices from being used, such as a flash drive, but still allow things like a USB mouse to be plugged in. This is useful if the server has important data on it that shouldn’t leave the computer, and it was promoted as an alternative to pouring glue in the USB port to prevent users from having access to it.
Bill Gates came back to us to talk a little more about the progress of Windows and where the industry is headed. A big focus seemed to be on the convergence over to 64–bit software and operating systems over time, and presented the graph to the right. The graph demonstrates that both the server and desktop market is almost completely capable of running 64–bit operating systems since they have 64–bit compatible processors. The mobile market is still lagging behind a little, but there has been a huge jump from last year and there is expected to be another one by 2008. The reason Bill Gates stressed this so much is because the industry is only “half way there” when it comes to making compatible drivers and such to work on 64–bit operating systems.
Bill Gates left the stage for good this time as he welcomed Craig Mundie. The only cool thing that he really talked about was this virtual checkerboard that was simply a touch-screen device. You could setup real checkers on the board which the touch-screen would recognize as you move pieces and such.
Overall this WinHEC wasn’t nearly as exciting as some of the previous ones have been. Of course that is expected since Microsoft just released a new version of Windows a few months back. No information was given about what the next consumer version of Windows (codename Windows 7) will contain so it is currently left to speculation.
If you missed it, you can watch the WinHEC presentation at 100K, 300K, or 500K. The video is currently not available, but should be shortly for those that have about 2–hours to kill.
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The best aesthetic for pretty much any dish is a pile of delicious food. If you’re a proud member of the clean plate club, however, revealing a purdy pattern beneath your meal is a nice touch at the end of dinner. Dutch designer David Derksen used an acrylic paint-filled pendulum to give his Oscillation series an intricate swooping design, with an assist from that old earthly standby—gravity.
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