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Get your CRITICAL security fixes now for XP
Coming Soon: Google Voice Search
“A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.”
I knew it! Laser beans!!
The next generation of weapons in the U.S. arsenal could be straight out of science fiction: laser beams and heat rays. And they could be ready for action before you know it.
“Age Play” in Second Life. What will virtual realities do to us?!
Latest on PS3 — Far from complete!
We are about six months from launch, and debugging should be done, prototypes and dev kits should flow like water, and all the tame magazines should already have one. The situation is rather different though, they are nowhere, and there are two related reasons behind this.
Dell’s $10,000 Renegade sold out!
Quarter of species gone by 2050!
Using several models that project habitat changes, migration capabilities of various species, and related extinctions in 25 “hotspots,” scientists predict that a quarter of the world’s plant and vertebrate animal species would face extinction by 2050.
Complete AMD Roadmap
AMD will be moving swiftly over to AM2 and introducing energy efficient processors.
Analysis on Google’s DNA
An analysis of Google’s business structure that argues that the company’s unique organizational structure gives it the flexibility to consistently transform to meet any challenge the globe can offer.
Firefox Flicks is now open. These are commercials created to help spread the use of Firefox.
Check them out:
Drug Companies inventing disease for ‘profits’!
All this time, I thought step 1 was: steal underwear. step 2:…. step 3: profit. I guess I was wrong on that one. Not sure I believe what this article says. They say ADHD is invented and if that’s the case, then WOW drug companies have one hell of a PR dept.
NASA plans probe to blast into moon to look for water
It’s only a 2 TON probe. Hopefully they won’t ruin all the cheese up there cause god knows, I’m bringing my nacho chips.
Global Warming threatens extinctions
It’s really amazing how much we have been hearing about this in the last 6-12 months, especially with the strong hurricanes, etc. Maybe it’s time everyone does get biodiesel cars and hybrids. Or we can all just work from home, (cough, cough)
Uh hu, sure dept. Portal Web arrives on hard-drive
40 gigabyte HD to store entire Internets. That’s one hell of a compression technique!
Nano particles effective against Cancer.
But about about sharks with lasers? Those have to be awesome for killing cancer, and small animals.
UPDATE:
Cool screenshots of Operating Systems over the past 21 years
Sutherland signs up for 3 more ‘24′ seasons. AWESOME!
5 Strategies to increase your web traffic. Pretty interesting read.
Tuesday morning. One more day closer to Friday (or Saturday, depending on what day you are waiting for! 
). The weather has been so awesome here lately. I was actually able to work outside for about an hour and a half yesterday which was AWESOME. Hopefully today I’ll be able to do a bit of the same.
Lately, I’ve been trying to pick up AJAX/DHTML/JavaScript (ok part of AJAX but whatever) and I have to say I’ve been impressed with DWR (Direct Web Remoting) and the DOJO Toolkit. DWR allows me to expose my Spring beans directly as JavaScript method calls. VERY NEAT. Dojo toolkit helps me build my DTHML interfaces based off the data received by DWR. The biggest problem with DOJO is lack of documentation and examples. There are some good blog entries that highlight examples, thank god. IBM even has a couple good articles.
Hopefully I’ll have something sweet in a few days.
A member at the OSx86 Project Forums has finally gotten Vista to fully install on his Intel Mac. There are still a few glitches, but he’s posted his instructions along with several screenshots!
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