Posted on June 7th, 2008 by Administration
I really don’t see the need for solid state storage when hard drives are so cheap, so large, and keep getting faster.
Western Digital developing 20,000RPM Raptor to take on SSDs?
You read that right. Bit-tech has it from “several sources close to the hard drive industry” that Western Digital is working on a 20,000RPM followup to [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Administration
Completely off-topic, I know, but this guy is hilarious. For those of you that don’t know, he’s one of the best (READ: fastest) motorcycle riders in the world. While most of you still have Big Bird as your hero, I will always have Valentino Rossi as mine.
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Administration
This article could have also been titled: “Study concludes that dudes don’t want to lose half their stuff”
Bachelor Carl Weisman got fed up of being classified as a playboy, a loser or a commitment-phobe so he set out to find out exactly why he and a growing number of eligible men were steering clear of [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Administration
It’s no surprise that a woman in a bikini can increase a man’s sexual appetite but research in the Journal of Consumer Research says that men who watched sexy videos or even handled lingerie had more appetite for everything - and it impacted their decisions about soda, candy and even money.
Authors Bram Van den Bergh, [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Administration
It’s not often that you see devices huddled under the transportation and wearables categories, but you can certainly consider the above pictured contraption a proud member of each. Created by transportation design student Jake Loniak, the Yamaha Deus Ex Machina is an “electric, single passenger, vertically parking, wearable motorcycle, and the bike would theoretically be [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Administration
A friend of mine actually works for Zappos in Las Vegas. He loves his job. Maybe it’s time to move.
It’s a hard job, answering phones and talking to customers for hours at a time. So when Zappos hires new employees, it provides a four-week training period that immerses them in the company’s strategy, culture, and [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Administration
Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Administration
“So I recently discovered a great new running trail one evening- beautiful rolling dirt with old, moss-covered trees. Deer and owls, and not another human being to be found. Only problem is that the trail lay beyond a barb-wire fence, and a “No Trespassing” sign.
Went back a week or two later, found the end, and [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Administration
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Administration
In that box is Lamborghini Reventon number one of twenty. Apparently, it’s the only example which will be sold privately via a traditional dealership — in this case, Lamborghini of Las Vegas. The other nineteen were all spoken for before ever leaving the factory. We’ve attached a sampling of photos here, but to see the [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Administration
An Oregon man issued a series of parking citations to a uniformed police officer who parked his patrol car next to a “No Parking” sign while he went to buy food at a Chinese restaurant last month in Portland.
Eric Bryant says he approached Officer Chad Stensgaard, but the cop dismissed his concerns about the illegal [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Administration
You know what sucks? A lot of people in the US won’t protest something much more important, but these guys in Norway, who obviously don’t have a war or loss of freedoms to protest, are still taking to the streets to voice their dissent.
In this clip she says the protesters in San Francisco will not [...]
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Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Administration
News Corp in talks to join Microsoft on Yahoo bid
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and News Corp are in talks about a joint bid for Yahoo Inc that would add MySpace to the Yahoo-Microsoft combination proposed by the world’s largest software maker, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The talks with News Corp, [...]
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Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Administration
(This is for Windows Mobile (WM) phones. I have tried it with WM6 and 6.1. I would assume that it runs for WM5 as well, though.)
Pocket Nester is an excellent NES emulator that runs nearly full speed with sound! You can map your phones keys to your preferred layout and even rotate the screen to [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Administration
Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.
The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why.
A vital barrier between the brain and the main blood [...]
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