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How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing

By Tom Conlon Posted on 8.6.2009 92 Comments
Though whispers of an Apple tablet device practically predate Australopithecus, this week they’ve reached a fever pitch. It’s been reported by several news outlets that the supposed iTablet will feature a 10-inch touchscreen, both Wi-Fi and 3G data, and a custom ARM processor. It’s already been priced at $800 and even greenlit by none other than His Majesty Steve Jobs for a September release. Not one iota of this has been officially confirmed, but the prospect of a Mac Tablet seems more within reach than ever before. This is not a good thing. If an Apple tablet is ever actually released, we should all be very concerned for the future of what most of us take for granted today: our digital freedom.

8.7.2009 at 08:56am - Comment by o1Buddha1o

3DTOPO: This is why we all hate Mac users, you always resort to insulting us for liking PCs. I hope you choke on your own arrogance, prick.
Gadgets

How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing

By Tom Conlon Posted on 8.6.2009 92 Comments
Though whispers of an Apple tablet device practically predate Australopithecus, this week they’ve reached a fever pitch. It’s been reported by several news outlets that the supposed iTablet will feature a 10-inch touchscreen, both Wi-Fi and 3G data, and a custom ARM processor. It’s already been priced at $800 and even greenlit by none other than His Majesty Steve Jobs for a September release. Not one iota of this has been officially confirmed, but the prospect of a Mac Tablet seems more within reach than ever before. This is not a good thing. If an Apple tablet is ever actually released, we should all be very concerned for the future of what most of us take for granted today: our digital freedom.

8.6.2009 at 03:13pm - Comment by o1Buddha1o

The solution is simple, don't be a tool, don't buy Apple. If nobody buys it, you have nothing to worry about.
Technology

NASA to De-Orbit International Space Station In 2016

By Posted on 7.13.2009 39 Comments
Despite nearing completion after more than a decade of construction, and recently announcing some upcoming improvements to accompany its full crew of six astronauts, NASA plans to de-orbit the International Space Station in 2016. Meaning the station will have spent more time under construction than completed.

7.14.2009 at 09:46am - Comment by o1Buddha1o

I call BS on this article, where is the proof that anybody has actually said that? Furthermore, it's an International Space Station, there are three different groups of people that have invested time and money into the project that would happily take it over should NASA be retarded and give up our stake in it.
The Environment

House Passes Landmark Greenhouse Gas Bill

By Stuart Fox Posted on 7.1.2009 31 Comments
Now that every scientist who isn't part of the lunatic fringe agrees that human greenhouse gas emissions significantly alter the world's climate, the debate on Capitol Hill has shifted from science to policy. And that debate has proved even more complex than Congressional fights over the stimulus package, car company bailouts, and the decision to invade Iraq. On Friday, the House of Representatives passed HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, by a margin of 219 to 212, with three abstentions. The bill is the first legislative attempt to regulate carbon emissions, and the first bill to directly finger humans as the cause of climate change.

7.1.2009 at 11:56am - Comment by o1Buddha1o

"Now that every scientist who isn't part of the lunatic fringe agrees that human greenhouse gas emissions significantly alter the world's climate..." biased much? /part of the "lunatic fringe" //not reading articles by this author
Entertainment & Gaming

Gaming Addiction a Growing Concern

By Posted on 8.11.2008 19 Comments
In a famous scene in the first Matrix movie, a character takes a bite out of a juicy steak. He knows it's not real, but enjoys it anyway. In some ways, a video game -- just moving pixels on the screen -- is a similar virtual reality experience. No, the aliens in Halo 3 are not real, but we pretend they are. That is how a game can pull you from a living-room couch into a foreign realm.

8.11.2008 at 02:01pm - Comment by o1Buddha1o

By the way, I play WoW pretty frequently. I'm a happily married man with two cats and a good job. I spend time with my friends both in WoW and in the real world. WoW has not adversely affected my life but where's the news article about me?
Entertainment & Gaming

Gaming Addiction a Growing Concern

By Posted on 8.11.2008 19 Comments
In a famous scene in the first Matrix movie, a character takes a bite out of a juicy steak. He knows it's not real, but enjoys it anyway. In some ways, a video game -- just moving pixels on the screen -- is a similar virtual reality experience. No, the aliens in Halo 3 are not real, but we pretend they are. That is how a game can pull you from a living-room couch into a foreign realm.

8.11.2008 at 01:57pm - Comment by o1Buddha1o

There is really nothing wrong with WoW. Saying that the game is the cause for people's addiction problems is ignorant. It is not the game that is at fault, it's the people who get addicted. If you can become addicted to a video game, it's likely that you are susceptible and probably are addicted to other things, i.e. alcohol, pornography, drugs. I'm tired of the blame always falling on somebody else or something else, other than the real culprit. If somebody gets addicted to WoW, and it begins to effect their relationships with people or their health, it's their fault. If somebody robs a taxi driver and then decides to kill him, it isn't GTA's fault, it's the parents that weren't paying attention to their child. If a child goes on a shooting spree because he "saw it in a video game", does anybody stop to wonder how badly the parents messed up? How did they not notice their sons had guns! The point is, video games are harmless if parents are watching their children, talking to them and teaching them what is right and wrong. If an eleven year old child is left alone to play GTA4 because his parents aren't watching him aren't taking an active role in his life, yes he will probably have some development issues. But is it the video game's fault or the neglectful parents who should never have purchased the video game for him in the first place?
Science

Readers Ask . . .

By Posted on 7.30.2008 26 Comments
PopSci reader aaronmrosen wonders: "when it comes to wind farms, can too many props actually slow down the wind, and cause a change in weather patterns?" What do you think? Wind power: good or evil? Discuss in the comments section. Submit your science and technology questions to fyi@popsci.com.

7.31.2008 at 10:50am - Comment by o1Buddha1o

Purepower, lets stay on topic, let's not turn this into a discussion on whether man is the cause of global warming, that's not the point of this discussion. To the topic at hand, the energy has to come from somewhere, there is no such thing as free energy. It may seem like wind farms are insignificant but hypothetically, if we were to build enough wind farms to provide the majority of the power needs for the world, you don't think that pulling that energy out of the atmosphere would have any affect? I've read that the temperatures beneath the wind farms increase on average of 2 degrees F. Now what if that temperature increase was over hundreds of thousands of acres of land, such as would be required to provide a significant amount of power. I would think that might have an effect on wind patterns. And wind farms are what 20% efficient? Maybe 50%? If we have to pull out 130 million kWh of power per year, out of the wind, to power a small town, you still don't think trying to power the whole country with wind would have a drastic effect on wind patterns? And replanting all of the trees is not the same as building wind turbines. A forest creates a boundary layer, very similar to what happens in the study of fluid dynamics. It creates a very turbulent flow at the surface of the earth. But wind turbines are designed to take advantage of a laminar flow, maximizing the friction on the blades. This is why you build them on open plains, mesas, the flow is closer to laminar on an open plain, thus maximizing the air friction on the turbine blades. This pulls more energy out of the system.
The Environment

Watershed Moment

By Posted on 6.11.2008 5 Comments
This frothy flume is what 300,000 gallons of water per second looks like. A 60-hour surge of almost 75 billion gallons, it’s part of an effort to revitalize the ecosystem of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. Teams from the U.S. Geological Survey, the Grand Canyon Trust and 25 other agencies have been working together since 1995 to develop a plan that will mimic natural flooding to redistribute sediment that would normally wash downriver.

6.10.2008 at 03:27pm - Comment by o1Buddha1o

Your missing the point. It's not about your "carbon footprint." It's about restoring an ecological system that man has destroyed. People are so wrapped on the hot air coming out of Al Gore's mouth that they forget about real issues.