A manned mission to Mars poses more difficulties than simply finding the correct type of engine and hull structure for the spacecraft that will take astronauts there. It is also a journey into the depths of human limits, and at this point mission planners and psychologists are more worried about the human element of the mission than about the space vehicle itself. That is why the European Space Agency (ESA), together with the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) plans to conduct the Mars 500 experiment in 2010.
The study, which will see six volunteers being locked up in a test facility similar to a possible spacecraft design for a Martian journey, will last 520 days, during which time the “astronauts” will undergo the exact same situations space explorers going to the Red Planet would. They will “fly” in a simulated habitat, where even communications with the exterior will be subjected to the same 20-minute delay that is usually recorded between, for example, the… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Saturn, the second-largest planet in the solar system, features a large number of rings, some of which usually experience a brief “night,” lasting from six to 14 hours. At times, however, the entire ring system is engulfed by shadows, when the planet reaches its equinox. This happens once every 15 Earth years, and the latest such occurrence took place on August 11. Fortunately for us, the Cassini space probe was in orbit around the gas giant, and sent back some of the most outstanding measurements of the phenomenon’s influences that astronomers ever got the chance to look at.
“The equinox is a very special geometry, where the sun is turned off as far as the rings themselves are concerned, and all energy comes from Saturn,” NASA expert Dr. Michael Flasar explains. He is a scientist at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. During the recent equinox, which saw the rings shadowed for a full four days, the temperature inside the dust and ice formations… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
A manned mission to Mars poses more difficulties than simply finding the correct type of engine and hull structure for the spacecraft that will take astronauts there. It is also a journey into the depths of human limits, and at this point mission planners and psychologists are more worried about the human element of the mission than about the space vehicle itself. That is why the European Space Agency (ESA), together with the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) plans to conduct the Mars 500 experiment in 2010.
The study, which will see six volunteers being locked up in a test facility similar to a possible spacecraft design for a Martian journey, will last 520 days, during which time the “astronauts” will undergo the exact same situations space explorers going to the Red Planet would. They will “fly” in a simulated habitat, where even communications with the exterior will be subjected to the same 20-minute delay that is usually recorded between, for example, the… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Wireless carrier AT&T, the telecoms service provider that owns the largest Wi-Fi network in the US, announced recently that it had registered the largest number of Wi-Fi connections on its network that had been made during a single quarter. According to the company, during the third quarter of the ongoing year, its customers made a number of 25.4 million Wi-Fi connections, much more than the total number of those made during the past year, namely 20 million, and about the same number of connections made during the first half of 2009, namely 25.6 million.
It seems that the Wi-Fi connections are continuing to see impressive growth, bringing the total number of connections made on AT&T’s network since the beginning of the ongoing year up to 51 million. While their number is more than double compared with the last year, it is also increasing by quarter, starting with the 5.2 million connections registered in the fourth quarter of 2008, all the way up to the record number in the third… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Earlier this year, Disney announced it was working on the first long feature, animated film featuring a black female character, “The Princess and the Frog,” a move received with applause by the mainstream audience. All chaos broke loose just weeks after the announcement, as the first photo from the film seemed to show the prince – meaning, the black princess’ love interest – was white, as we also reported at the time.
This was when author Monroe S. Tarver thought he couldn’t go forward with his plans of coming out with a fantasy story that also featured a black female character, his publisher tells Softpedia. All of a sudden, “Imagia and the Magic Pearls,” the first book from a series called “Tales from the Mapmaker,” which details the adventures of a lonely, black princess named Imagie, no longer had a place in the mainstream. However, Tarver and publisher Wizarding World Press decided to go ahead with the release of the book as it was: “Imagia and the Magic Pearls” becomes… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
I killed a lot of people in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, a game for which we now have a review up on the site. Yes, all of them were bad, mercenary types that dressed in drab gray or in black and that wore a much-too-heavy armor for their own good (although I suppose that it kept warm that way up there, in the Himalayas). All of them were out to also kill me. But that did not make it easier. The killing is all Hollywood-like, with little blood, very clean corpses and the advantage of picking up ammo and weapons from their bodies.
But there’s also civilian death in Uncharted 2, most clearly shown in the idyllic, little Sherpa village that you get to after getting shot in the gut and train wrecked. These people tend to Nathan Drake and then you, the player, take over and go out searching for the biggest treasure you have ever seen, courtesy of Marco Polo. When you return a proven war criminal has assaulted the village and seems to be murdering quite a lot of its inhabitants. And here… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
On October 22nd, 2009, Windows hit store shelves worldwide, and, unlike its predecessor, it was received with accolades. While stirring up user enthusiasm, Windows 7 also managed to generate a consistent number of headlines around the world. And, apparently, enthusiasm was contagious, while, at the same time, there were strong reactions to the latest Windows client release from Microsoft, and even whispers of criticism.
While surfing, I came across a variety of opinions on the new operating system designed to replace Windows Vista, some stronger than others, some blatantly incorrect and then others just uninformed or unwise. I selected a collection of Windows 7 musings that I think end users should be taking with a grain of salt, and then went ahead and added my own ruminations. I will not link to the sources of the opinions included below, as I am not attempting to generate a debate, nor to criticize. I simply want to put my two cents in and nothing more.
1. Windows 7 is… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Facebook is huge, the biggest social network and one of the largest websites on the planet. It’s also growing at a hefty pace with no slowdown in sight. It has 300 million users worldwide and is one of the top five sites in terms of traffic in many countries. Yet, despite all this, some stats still manage to surprise us, like the fact that Facebook is now getting one in every four pageviews in the US. That’s right, a quarter of the webpages served in the US come from Facebook, quite a feat for a company that, a year ago, wasn’t even a threat to the then-dominant social network, MySpace.
Looking at numbers from Compete, researcher Perry Drake found that Facebook had grown to be the biggest website in the US in terms of pageviews, trumping giants like Google. While Facebook manages to get 25 percent of the page views, Google only gets about eight percent of the total monthly pageviews in the US, or one in 12. The numbers, of course, may not be precisely accurate, but they do serve… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
Finnish mobile-phone maker Nokia announced not too long ago that it sued Apple due to a patent infringement that involved the GSM, UMTS and WLAN connectivity standards used in the iPhone, and it seems that the Cupertino-based company might see itself in the position to pay up to $1 billion in case it loses the lawsuit.
The largest mobile-phone vendor in the world filed the suit in the Delaware District Court on Thursday, claiming that a number of ten patents were infringed by Apple’s iPhone in areas like wireless data transfer. Moreover, the company also stated that all of Apple’s iPhone models used its patented technologies.
Up until now, the Cupertino company has managed to ship a number of around 34 million iPhones, with 7.4 million units being sold during the last quarter alone. According to Strategy Analytics’ Neil Mawston, cited by Reuters, the Finnish phone maker might ask Apple to pay somewhere between $200 million and $1 billion for the patents.
Ben Wood, research… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
The methods for keeping your data safe from prying eyes vary from user to user. Some prefer simply hiding the files from everyone else (if they don’t know where it is, they can’t peek in), but accidental finding has been known to happen, especially if the perpetrator knows how to make hidden data visible (and this is not quite rocket science), so this is not foolproof.
Encryption, on the other hand, may be a more suitable choice for some of you, because it ciphers up the data in a proprietary container, making the effort of de-scrambling the information too much, even for the most patient wrong-doer. Even if encrypting sensitive files’ weakest spot is that they can be deleted, moved or copied, this method stands among the most efficient ways to secure data.
LockFiler is a data-encryption tool designed to protect your files using the Dynamic Linkage Data Encryption System, which specifies a one-way symmetrical encryption algorithm. To put it in short, the D.L.D.E.S. concept… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
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A manned mission to Mars poses more difficulties than simply finding the correct type of engine and hull structure for the spacecraft that will take astronauts there. It is also a journey into the depths of human limits, and at this point mission planners and psychologists are more worried about the human element of the mission than about the space vehicle itself. That is why the European Space Agency (ESA), together with the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) plans to conduct the Mars 500 experiment in 2010. 
Saturn, the second-largest planet in the solar system, features a large number of rings, some of which usually experience a brief “night,” lasting from six to 14 hours. At times, however, the entire ring system is engulfed by shadows, when the planet reaches its equinox. This happens once every 15 Earth years, and the latest such occurrence took place on August 11. Fortunately for us, the Cassini space probe was in orbit around the gas giant, and sent back some of the most outstanding measurements of the phenomenon’s influences that astronomers ever got the chance to look at. 
A manned mission to Mars poses more difficulties than simply finding the correct type of engine and hull structure for the spacecraft that will take astronauts there. It is also a journey into the depths of human limits, and at this point mission planners and psychologists are more worried about the human element of the mission than about the space vehicle itself. That is why the European Space Agency (ESA), together with the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) plans to conduct the Mars 500 experiment in 2010. 
Wireless carrier AT&T, the telecoms service provider that owns the largest Wi-Fi network in the US, announced recently that it had registered the largest number of Wi-Fi connections on its network that had been made during a single quarter. According to the company, during the third quarter of the ongoing year, its customers made a number of 25.4 million Wi-Fi connections, much more than the total number of those made during the past year, namely 20 million, and about the same number of connections made during the first half of 2009, namely 25.6 million.
Earlier this year, Disney announced it was working on the first long feature, animated film featuring a black female character, “The Princess and the Frog,” a move received with applause by the mainstream audience. All chaos broke loose just weeks after the announcement, as the first photo from the film seemed to show the prince – meaning, the black princess’ love interest – was white, as we also reported at the time. 
I killed a lot of people in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, a game for which we now have a review up on the site. Yes, all of them were bad, mercenary types that dressed in drab gray or in black and that wore a much-too-heavy armor for their own good (although I suppose that it kept warm that way up there, in the Himalayas). All of them were out to also kill me. But that did not make it easier. The killing is all Hollywood-like, with little blood, very clean corpses and the advantage of picking up ammo and weapons from their bodies.
On October 22nd, 2009, Windows hit store shelves worldwide, and, unlike its predecessor, it was received with accolades. While stirring up user enthusiasm, Windows 7 also managed to generate a consistent number of headlines around the world. And, apparently, enthusiasm was contagious, while, at the same time, there were strong reactions to the latest Windows client release from Microsoft, and even whispers of criticism. 
Facebook is huge, the biggest social network and one of the largest websites on the planet. It’s also growing at a hefty pace with no slowdown in sight. It has 300 million users worldwide and is one of the top five sites in terms of traffic in many countries. Yet, despite all this, some stats still manage to surprise us, like the fact that Facebook is now getting one in every four pageviews in the US. That’s right, a quarter of the webpages served in the US come from Facebook, quite a feat for a company that, a year ago, wasn’t even a threat to the then-dominant social network, MySpace. 
Finnish mobile-phone maker Nokia announced not too long ago that it sued Apple due to a patent infringement that involved the GSM, UMTS and WLAN connectivity standards used in the iPhone, and it seems that the Cupertino-based company might see itself in the position to pay up to $1 billion in case it loses the lawsuit. 
The methods for keeping your data safe from prying eyes vary from user to user. Some prefer simply hiding the files from everyone else (if they don’t know where it is, they can’t peek in), but accidental finding has been known to happen, especially if the perpetrator knows how to make hidden data visible (and this is not quite rocket science), so this is not foolproof.