Month: June 2010

Rumors for Twilight #3

I don\’t generally post unconfirmed rumors here… But, a friend of an friend, of an friend has told me that Edward is being replaced in the next Twilight movie… He\’s just asking for too much…According to my source… My understanding is that our new lead is a tad bit older, and is played by Graf […]

iPad\’s in Space?

The Register has pointed out that an Swiss Television show named \”Einstein\” wanted to see if an iPad would be able to correctly handle it\’s screen rotation in \”Zero G\”.  So they hired an \”Vomit Comet\” flight to prove how well it works… Well, it\’s safe to say that an Accelerometer needs to have gravity […]

Some facts from the Steam (May 2010) Hardware Survey

Here is some interesting facts from the Steam (May 2010) Hardware survey that includes Macintosh hardware…. Percentage of Macintosh systems ~ 8.7% Mac OS X 10.6.3     ~6.95% Mac OS X 10.5.8     ~1.40% Mac OS X 10.6        ~ 0.33% That exceeds the percentage (6.95%) of Vista 64 bit systems, […]

Deja Vu? 1979 Gulf oil spill, redux?

I found this on http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/06/gulf_oil_spill_deja_vu_all_ove.php?utm_source=selectfeed&utm_medium=rss And there are quite a few good points, including the fact that all the \”relief\” methods that we are using now, failed in 1979 in 200 or so feet of water….  Now they are failing in 5,000 feet of water…

Interface to an Alarm (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc)

Interfacing Indigo with an Alarm system (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc)…. Instead of hardware hacking, this thread discusses was to use off the shelf hardware with your Home Automation & Security System. Perceptive Automation – View topic – Interface to an Alarm (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc).