29 August 2004

Hello Readers,

I'm back, after a good hard planning, design and management, in real life(IRL) look at Letchworth Garden City 2004, Karlsruhe and the Interlaken connurbation in the Bernese Oberlands.  More on these 'vacation study items' later.

Just to remind you, the news items on this page are introduction to the digital culture/life style.  If you are trying to solve a technical issue, take the link to The Kernels.

Edward Flaherty

 

9:20:54 AM    

 

Into multi-media, yet?  Into video clips?...MacCentral: Sorenson Squeeze 4 ships. H.264 inches closer to the mainstream. [Hack the Planet]

 

9:13:29 AM    

 

The DNC aggregator is still catching some good posts. [Scripting News]

 

9:11:17 AM    

 

Lots of newly scanned blogs in the RNC aggregator. [Scripting News]

 

9:10:46 AM    

 

Riddick raises the stakes. The Chronicles of Riddick is not only one of the most satisfying movie tie-ins ever, but also perhaps the best-looking game the Xbox has yet seen. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

9:08:05 AM    

 

Gamers dump TVs for consoles. Gamers are moving away from the TV and towards gaming on mobile devices and consoles, a US study shows. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

9:07:21 AM    

 

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Sheep, planes and Lara Croft. Letters And, oddly, potted plants [The Register]

 

9:06:06 AM    

 

Scientists suck hydrogen from sunflower oil. The fuel of the future [The Register]

 

9:01:03 AM    

 

Phone win for Apple. QuickTime makes headway [The Register]

 

8:59:55 AM    

 

Latest spam scams use Google, Olympics. A rash of recent e-mail scams relies on new techniques to try to fool PC users, according to e-mail filtering vendor SurfControl. [Computerworld News]

 

8:57:09 AM    

 

EE Times: NEC develops high-resolution 3D display. NEC Corp. unveiled a new LCD structure for 3D displays that promises high resolution at 470 horizontal pixels per inch. NEC presented the technology at the Asia Display/IMD '04 exhibition this week in Daegu, South Korea. The prototype, a 2.5-inch low-temperature polysilicon LCD, has a new pixel arrangement called HDDP... [Tomalak's Realm]

 

8:54:21 AM    

 

Microsoft Unveils A Designer Mouse. jeckil writes "Today Microsoft unveiled the new Starck mouse; a new shiny mouse designed to take the 'cool' from other mice such as Logitech or Apple. Microsoft is calling it the 'first museum-quality mouse.' Looks shiny enough to be on a museum display along with other succesful Microsoft products." [Slashdot]

 

8:52:20 AM    

 

Video Games Hit The Big Screen. Anonymous Coward writes "A movie theatre owner in Logan, Utah is hoping to start a new trend by bringing video games (Halo in this case) to the big screen. The local newspaper in Logan, The Herald Journal has a nice write-up about the success they had. Does anyone else think this could catch on to be successful, especially in college towns?" [Slashdot]

 

8:50:07 AM    

 

One of the issues, we confront in all offices, no matter what size, when we try to render high res raster images and generate walk-through/fly-overs is processor capacity, storage capacity, bus through-put...yet most of our computers are not working to full capcity nor are our networks running to full capacity especially in the 24/7 window.  IBM is working on these things... IBM puts grids to work at U.S. Open. IBM will put a collection of its On Demand-related products and technologies to this test next week at the U.S. Open tennis championships, implementing a grid-based infrastructure capable of running multiple workloads including two not associated with the tournament. [InfoWorld: Top News]

 

8:47:30 AM