Indoor plants and I don't mix. Basically, I kill them, no matter what I do. The Thirsty Light might help me keep at least a few of them alive, despite the fact that it looks more like a cotton swab than an electronic sensor.
LLast week I wrote that testers reported that Windows Vista SP1, at least in Release Candidate (RC) form, is still somewhat of a slowpoke. Devil Mountain Software, the testers, have run their same tests on Windows XP SP3's RC, and in this case, they've seen a 10% speedup from XP SP2 to SP3.
It's obviously not as sleek and cool as Iron Man (pictured), or even the powered suits worn in Starship Troopers (the animated series or the book, not the movie), but it's getting there. Sarcos, a Utah-based company, has been working for years on real-life exoskeletons for the military.
Picking a Christmas tree is typically a matter of taste. Is the shape right? Is it too tall? Too short? Now a handful of growers in the top Christmas tree producing state of Oregon want people to consider another factor-how "green'' a tree is. They've created a system to help consumers identify trees grown under certain environmental standards.
You'll recall Vodafone's court case against T-Mobile's iPhone exclusivity in Germany ... and the subsequent response by T-Mobile (unlocked iPhones, for a mere $1478). You're probably also aware of how many hoops have to be jumped through for hackers to unlock or jailbreak their iPhones. Apparently, if you're connected to the right infrastructure, it's easy --- T-Mobile iPhones, after the IMEI number is recorded and "processed" by Apple, unlock in seconds via iTunes.
A find of dioxin at the bottom of the Saginaw River could be the highest level of such contamination ever discovered in the nation's rivers and lakes, according to a federal scientist involved in cleanup efforts downstream from a Dow Chemical Co. plant.
Although T-Mobile has begun selling unlocked (albeit expensive) iPhones in response to the court ruling and injunction filed against it by Vodafone, it's always said it would appeal the court ruling. It had two weeks to appeal, but it's not waiting that long; a German court will hear arguments on Thursday.
Some scientists have proposed compressing carbon dioxide and sticking it in underground caves as a way to cut down on greenhouse gases. Joe David Jones wants to make baking soda out of it.
Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, a United Nations report says on Tuesday.
This'll teach Al to post more often, I guess (his last blog post at the time of this writing was late 2006). As Al Gore was meeting with President Bush yesterday, in the tradition of American Nobel Prize winners getting a photo-op with the Prez, it was revealed that the blog on Gore's site, ClimateCrisis.net, has been hacked.
