• Gadgets

    Ten Computing Tasks You Won't Be Doing With Chrome OS

    By Tom Conlon Posted on 7.22.2009 24 Comments

    When Google pulled the lid off of Chrome OS last week, most of the tech world rejoiced. Our suspicions were correct! Death to the desktop OS! Yay Web 4.0! (or whichever version we’re on currently!). But as I pored over the official Google post on Chrome, and then over the hundreds of articles providing instant analysis of the announcement, I realized just how scant the facts and details were. So, I called Google for some background and got some interesting answers. The company is still being cagey with specifics, but there's one thing for certain: death knells for Microsoft and Apple are exaggerated. Here are ten copmuting tasks that Chrome OS, as it is currently understood, won't do better than your traditional desktop PC.

    7.26.2009 at 11:51pm - Comment by qawagstaff

    Why on earth would I trust Google with my confidential data? Let's face it they would eventually sell that data to the highest bidder in profiles that could match me to marketing campaigns. Wait they do that now! The best firewall is no connection.

  • Science

    Five Human Achievements That Could Top Walking on the Moon

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 7.20.2009 62 Comments

    Possibly the single most influential event in the public's interest in science and technology (not to mention one of humankind’s greatest adventures), the Apollo 11 mission touched the collective dreams of millions, while pushing science and technology swiftly forward at an unprecedented pace. But in the decades since man first walked on the moon, science has advanced so rapidly that technology which even a few years ago might have been considered magic has become commonplace. Even so, it would be naïve to assume that Apollo 11 ever represented science and technology’s pinnacle, and that nothing forthcoming will similarly explode the world’s collective dreams and perceptions of what it means to be human. So what’s next? What will be the next worldwide event or discovery that fundamentally changes the way we look at ourselves and the universe we live in?

    7.26.2009 at 11:35pm - Comment by qawagstaff

    Why HIV and not Cancer which kills many more times the number of humans. Aids can be mostly be prevented by use of condoms and practicing safe sex. Cancer strikes humans without warning, even those who have healthy lifestyles. It's choice of this list over Cancer seems a little PC.

  • Bahrain World Trade Center

    By Posted on 10.28.2008 Comments

    The first skyscraper to integrate large-scale wind turbines suspends three 1,200-megawatt units between its matching 787-foot office towers. The turbines, which were completed in April, supply 15 percent of the electricity for the two buildings—roughly the same amount used by 300 homes. To maximize energy output, the tapered towers funnel wind between them, creating a negative pressure zone behind the buildings that draws more air through the gap.

    11.26.2008 at 01:52am - Comment by qawagstaff

    The Wind Technology looks good and it is a good project to use a test project. However you should know something about Bahrain & it's neighbor Dubai whose world tallest skyscrapers are amazing. They employed poor and desperate foreign workers at almost slave wages as construction workers. They have miserable conditions and in essence are indenture servants. See http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/25/africa/ME-FEA-GEN-Dubai-Towers-of-Tears.php Who cares if its green when it is built on the backs of the poor working class being mistreated?



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