The Windows Mobile 5 powered Xda Mini S, also sold as the SPV M3000, MDA Vario, K-Jam, Qtek 9100. Built by HTC and codenamed the Wizard. We'll kick things off with the specs: Screen 65k Colour Transflective LCD Touch Screen (240 x 320 Pixels) Imaging 1.3 Megapixel Camera Zoom Flash Night Mode Video Record (MPEG4) Video Player (MPEG4, H.263, Motion JPEG AVI) Video Indicator Video Download Video Calling Photo ID Contacts...
A not so recent blog post by Mr Wester, uses the term fixed function to describe, well I believe it's being used to describe school. All (around) 100-200 days of the same God Damn banalistic nonsensical cycles that don't even appear to be autonomously aware of the fact that they're so into the, as I like to designate it as, "fixed function" reality that they're nil to a movie, a setup, a counterfeit as a matter of fact that is a braggart and vaunts its "...
Nearly one million people cancelled their AOL accounts last quarter and it looks like AOL are now desperately trying to hang on to every customer they can. Check out the couple of videos on the article: Two weeks ago, Vincent Ferrari tried to cancel his 5-year-old account—he'd heard from others in the blogosphere that AOL customer service could be awful. So he recorded the conversation with a representative named John. Here is the transcript of the conversation:...
Just seen this amazing image from the Cassini spacecraft: Both these moons I captured below, Enceladus is always a tough one because it's so small, luckily it is pretty bright and I managed to pick it up in this image. Titan is famous for being the giant moon with an atmosphere, and better yet and atmosphere rich in organic compounds. We landed the Huygens probe on it which was carried by the Cassini spacecraft....
This is an interesting little snippet I've harvested from the Daily Creationism. Most thinking people will agree that: 1) A highly ordered universe exists. Highly ordered compared to what? It's true that the universe is governed by the laws of nature, but how could we know of an alternative. 2) At least one planet (probably only one) (earth) in this complex universe contains an amazing variety of life forms. Earth is probably the only planet with life on in the whole universe?...
To be formally announced tomorrow so I hear. Nyx and Hydra join Pluto and Charon. Interesting choice of names, Pluto being named after the god of the Underworld. Nyx is the goddess of night (the Sun is very faint all the way over there) so that's a good one. Hydra was the offspring of Styx and Styx was the river that Charon ferried across dead souls to the Underworld. With a bit of Pluto talk probably coming up in the next few days the issue of its planetary status will no doubt crop up....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5098608.stm BBC News: The world's top scientists have joined forces to call for "evidence-based" teaching of evolution in schools. A statement signed by 67 national science academies says evidence on the origins of life is being "concealed, denied, or confused" in some classes. It lists key facts on evolution that "scientific evidence has never contradicted". These include the formation of Earth 4.5 billion years ago, and the onset of life at least 2....
It looks like the comrade over at The Daily Creationism is back at it again. This time talking about the Big Bang (again). The Big Bang is a Big Dud Interesting factoid: The name Big Bang is actually not what the scientists who proposed the hypothesis called it, Big Bang was the what those opposed to it called it. Big Bang referring to how silly an idea it was. The Big Bang was not a Big Bang in space, more of a Big Expansion of space....
"It's a genius' conundrum." Recent article on the Arizona Republic: But Hawking also said survival of the human species depends on finding somewhere else in the universe to colonize. This is where the message became contradictory. The need to leave the planet was based on his rather dispirited view that "life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of....