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 Saturday, 9 November 2002
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Internet2 Pumps Streaming Media. A live New World Symphony performance streamed over Internet2 offers a peek -- and a listen -- at what's to come when the public Internet gets fatter pipes. Andy Patrizio reports from Los Angeles. [Wired News]
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Diamonds? Who Cares? Give Me HDTV. If there's a segment of the population that really wants digital television, it's women. According to a recent study, women prefer a DTV to a 1-carat diamond ring. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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Chrysler Debuts PT Big Sky Show Car with Surround Sound
Las Vegas, NV (November 11, 2002)--At the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) annual trade show, Chrysler premiered a custom vehicle that, among many other enhancements, includes a DVD player and 5.1-channel surround system. [ProSound News]
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Bin Laden is alive - Interpol. The leader of al-Qaeda is still alive and currently planning terrorist attacks in several countries, says Interpol head Ronald Noble. [BBC News | WORLD]
'We'll smoke 'em out of his foxhole.'
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How copy-resistant "Not-CDs" work. The methods used to make "Not-CDs" (which purposefully violate the Red Book audio CD standard in an effort to prevent copying) are incredibly trivial and easily defeated, according to an article in New Scientist. So trival and easily defeated, in fact, that it almost makes you feel sorry for the record labels that are paying to license the [base "]technologies[per thou] (if you can call data corruption a technology). [PlaybackTime]
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Once More Around With 'The Rings'. If there's such a thing as the perfect DVD movie, it has to be "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." By Peter M. Nichols. [New York Times: Arts]
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The Rock Hall of Fame Picks Five Groups. The Police, the Clash, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, AC/DC and the Righteous Brothers have been chosen as the new members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. By Jon Pareles. [New York Times: Arts]I must be getting old. I came of age listening to the first three. Favs of mine.
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Microsoft Hires TV Veteran for Business Strategy. Microsoft said it hired cable TV veteran Maggie Wilderotter to help the software giant move more aggressively into the market for television technology. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]It's the only way MS knows how to move.
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Steven Kan offered a tip for people using computer-connected microscopes, such as the Intel Play QX3 or
Digital Blue QX3+,
which are supported on the Mac by Eric Hangstefer's Microscope 1.0:
Inexpensive image sensors, such as the CMOS imager in the QX3+, tend to
have a lot of video noise.
FrameBlenderQT is a free QT and PhotoShop plugin for OS 9 and OS X that
can average many frames together. Since noise tends to be random, it
will tend to cancel itself out if averaged over enough frames. [Macintouch]Clever! I'll use this to clean up some stills I shot with my video camera.
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China turns its back on communism. World latest: President Jiang Zemin yesterday effectively jettisoned communism in his manifesto speech on China's future development to the Communist party congress. [Guardian Unlimited]Now there's some news!
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Florence set for anti-war protests. Anti-war protesters gathering for Saturday's rally in the Italian city of Florence react with anger to the UN Security Council vote on Iraq. [BBC News | WORLD]
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Nokia Licensing Deal Seen as Major Boost for RIM. TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd.(RIMM.O) has scored a major coup by signing a software licensing agreement with Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's biggest mobile phone maker, analysts and fund managers said on Friday. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
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Microsoft Memo Examines Linux Threat. SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) should stop denouncing open source software, such as Linux, and instead stress the benefits of its own products, according to an internal strategy document that was obtained and posted on a Web site for free software advocates. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
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Microsoft Names Committee to Oversee Orders by Court. Microsoft announced Friday that it had appointed a three-member committee of its board to make sure the company carries out the court-ordered antitrust rules. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]Fox. Henhouse.
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Oil and Gas: "The US State Department has pushed back its planned meeting with Iraqi opposition leaders on exploiting Iraq's oil and gas reserves after a US military offensive removes Saddam Hussein from power." [Scripting News]
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Window to world domination still open. Online: The market position of software giant Microsoft appears unassailable despite court moves to water down its monopoly, writes Victor Keegan. [Guardian Unlimited]
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eWeek: "Adobe's PDF document-distribution format may seem entrenched among computing consumers, but that isn't stopping Microsoft from trying to throw its weight behind a competing publishing venture." [Scripting News]
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