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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
NASA sends 'advanced' craft to study our star
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star by sending back the equivalent of 500,000 songs a day.
It was NASA's second launch in four days. On Monday, Endeavour blasted off to the International Space Station.
The shuttle-station complex was orbiting over the Atlantic, near Africa, when the observatory shot into a cloudy wintry sky aboard an unmanned rocket, a day late.
At a cost of $856 million, the Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission in NASA's Living with a Star program. Scientists want to better understand the violent activity on the sun that influences life on Earth. This so-called space weather can disrupt communications, knock out power and disable satellites, and endanger astronauts in orbit.
The spacecraft, nicknamed SDO, is designed to transmit unprecedented reams of data from an extremely high Earth orbit. It should send back 150 million bits of data every second of every day, more than any other NASA Mission. That's equivalent to downloading 500,000 songs a day.
Two 59-foot (18-meter) satellite dishes in New Mexico will handle the massive information load. NASA set up these radio antennas expressly for this mission.
The observatory has three science instruments, including an array of telescopes to watch the surface and atmosphere of the sun. The observatory will measure fluctuations in the amount of ultraviolet radiation emitted from the sun, map solar magnetic fields and even peek beneath the sun's surface.
"Our sun affects our lives more and more as we depend more and more on technology," said NASA project scientist William Dean Pesnell. He said the observatory hopefully will result in better predictions of solar weather and, as a result, minimize sun-induced disruptions to everyday life.
SDO is a whopper of a spacecraft. It weighs 3 tons and stretches 7 feet (2 meters) — 21 feet (6 meters) with its solar wings.
The price is also super-sized. The $856 million includes the Atlas V rocket that hoisted the observatory and the pair of radio antennas that will gather all the findings.
Wednesday's countdown was halted by high wind that crept close to the limit Thursday morning.—AP
It was NASA's second launch in four days. On Monday, Endeavour blasted off to the International Space Station.
The shuttle-station complex was orbiting over the Atlantic, near Africa, when the observatory shot into a cloudy wintry sky aboard an unmanned rocket, a day late.
At a cost of $856 million, the Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission in NASA's Living with a Star program. Scientists want to better understand the violent activity on the sun that influences life on Earth. This so-called space weather can disrupt communications, knock out power and disable satellites, and endanger astronauts in orbit.
The spacecraft, nicknamed SDO, is designed to transmit unprecedented reams of data from an extremely high Earth orbit. It should send back 150 million bits of data every second of every day, more than any other NASA Mission. That's equivalent to downloading 500,000 songs a day.
Two 59-foot (18-meter) satellite dishes in New Mexico will handle the massive information load. NASA set up these radio antennas expressly for this mission.
The observatory has three science instruments, including an array of telescopes to watch the surface and atmosphere of the sun. The observatory will measure fluctuations in the amount of ultraviolet radiation emitted from the sun, map solar magnetic fields and even peek beneath the sun's surface.
"Our sun affects our lives more and more as we depend more and more on technology," said NASA project scientist William Dean Pesnell. He said the observatory hopefully will result in better predictions of solar weather and, as a result, minimize sun-induced disruptions to everyday life.
SDO is a whopper of a spacecraft. It weighs 3 tons and stretches 7 feet (2 meters) — 21 feet (6 meters) with its solar wings.
The price is also super-sized. The $856 million includes the Atlas V rocket that hoisted the observatory and the pair of radio antennas that will gather all the findings.
Wednesday's countdown was halted by high wind that crept close to the limit Thursday morning.—AP
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Branson Goes 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
NEW YORK -- Virgin unveiled the latest addition to Richard Branson's luxury fleet on Friday: an underwater plane that will fly riders into the depths of the Caribbean Sea.Guests on Necker Island, a retreat in the British Virgin Islands, will be able to dive underwater in a submarine dubbed the Necker Nymph for $25,000 a week. But that's only after shelling out around $300,000 for a one-week stay on Necker, the private island owned by billionaire and Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Dancing Inmates - Michael Jackson's This Is It Video
Filipino, Philippines "Dancing Inmates" from Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security prison, were treated to a visit by Michael Jacksons long-time choreographer Travis Payne and dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid to learn performances from THIS IS IT.
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Facebook's virtual farm game attracting millions
ST. LOUIS – Even while calling Chicago home, Laura Hawkins Grimes is a country bumpkin. Her scenic rural spread has three dairy farms, two ponds and a log cabin, all skirted by a white picket fence as scarecrows stand sentry over her blackberries.
And the best part is the 40-year-old sex therapist never has to leave her computer to tend to it all.
She's one of tens of millions of occupants of FarmVille, a near-utopian, wildly popular online fantasy game where folks rush to another neighbor's aid, ribbons readily come as rewards, plants don't get diseased and there's never a calamitous frost, flood or drought.
Since its launch last summer, the cartoonish simulation game seeming to meld "Leave it to Beaver" and "Green Acres" has become a Facebook phenomena, luring in everyone from urbanites like Grimes to actual farmers while gently nudging people to think more about where their food comes from.
"It's kind of what you don't see every day," Grimes said of FarmVille by Zynga, a San Francisco-based developer of games widely played at online hangouts such as Facebook. "I have to say, living in Chicago, what appeals to me about FarmVille is it's not urban."
FarmVille _ with more than 72 million monthly users worldwide, the most talked-about application in Facebook status updates _ heads a growing stable of simulated agriculture that also includes SlashKey's Farm Town on Facebook and PlayMesh's recently launched iFarm for the iPhone.
Purposely simplistic, FarmVille lets players build and trick out their farms, starting with a tiny parcel they till and seed with a range of crops including berries, eggplant, wheat, soybeans, artichokes and pumpkins. Players can add pigs, cows and chickens and accouterments such as barns, chicken coops, windmills and greenhouses.
As is the case on real farmland, attentiveness in FarmVille is vital. Players who diligently tend to their crops see their farms flourish and their bank balances balloon. Those late with their harvests may see their crops _ and their investment _ shrivel and die.
Neighbors get rewarded with points and gold for scaring away pests, fertilizing or feeding chickens on another player's spread.
"One thing we feel we got right is it has extremely broad appeal," said Bill Mooney, Zynga's vice president and general manager. "Everybody likes farming, whether you're a gardener, whether you grew up on a farm or your grandparents did. It's literally something everyone can relate with."
And with FarmVille, "there's an appeal that's just cute, with the amazing ways people take the farms and develop them out as their own."
In the end, he hopes, "people will see this as a fun little escape."
Grimes sure has. The transplanted Oklahoman who detests video games and has no farm background razzed her FarmVille-loving friends before her sister successfully prodded her to join.
Now, she admits, "I'm a total FarmVille freak."
A mother of a 3-year-old daughter and the wife of a paramedic, Grimes squeezes in simulated farming between appointments and parenting. She devotes less than an hour each day "in little bitty spurts" to eventually max out her FarmVille spread to resemble a whimsical menagerie _ black sheep, pink calves, penguins, reindeer with flashing Christmas lights in their antlers.
"It was completely mindless and just mine," she said. "I could decide where everything went, I could decide when it happened. I got to move things around. I got to make it look nice."
She loves getting rewards at every turn, often for helping a neighbor. And she credits FarmVille with hastening her reconnection with old friends, including a fourth-grade schoolmate who's now living next door to her in this online agricultural experience.
"I don't know anything about her life except she's a really nice neighbor _ she leaves me little posts, she sends me nice gifts, harvests my crops. And it makes me feel better about people in my life," Grimes said. "What's so nice about this is it's really about camaraderie, like you depend on people to do things for you."
"I really would have never thought this would have been something I do," she said.
Even actual farmers are digging it. In his central Illinois farmhouse near Windsor, 31-year-old bachelor Darin Doehring started playing months ago with the game he credits with helping him wait out sogginess that hampered harvesting of his 2,000 acres of real corn and soybeans.
"There were more times this past fall I was doing my crops more on there (FarmVille), than I was in the field because of the rain and mud outside. I enjoy it," Doehring said, noting that he wished the fantasy game posed more challenges mimicking real-life ones farmers face, including weather events.
Mooney of Zynga says that isn't likely: "We don't want it to be a punishing experience. We want this to be a positive."
To John Reifsteck, a corn-and-soybean grower in Champaign County, Ill., there are parallels between virtual and actual farming. "Success at FarmVille requires foresight, persistence and a willingness to help others _ just like farming in the real world," he wrote in an online column last month.
And while he doesn't play FarmVille _ "I work in the fields for a living" _ he understands those who do and welcomes FarmVille's popularity.
"It's a healthy sign for agriculture _ but only if players don't come to think that running a farm is as easy as FarmVille makes it seem," he wrote. "If FarmVille was as difficult and complicated as actual farming, probably no one would play it."
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On the Net:
FarmVille, http://www.farmville.com
Zynga, http://www.zynga.com
SlashKey, http://www.slashkey.com
PlayMesh, http://playmesh.com
And the best part is the 40-year-old sex therapist never has to leave her computer to tend to it all.
She's one of tens of millions of occupants of FarmVille, a near-utopian, wildly popular online fantasy game where folks rush to another neighbor's aid, ribbons readily come as rewards, plants don't get diseased and there's never a calamitous frost, flood or drought.
Since its launch last summer, the cartoonish simulation game seeming to meld "Leave it to Beaver" and "Green Acres" has become a Facebook phenomena, luring in everyone from urbanites like Grimes to actual farmers while gently nudging people to think more about where their food comes from.
"It's kind of what you don't see every day," Grimes said of FarmVille by Zynga, a San Francisco-based developer of games widely played at online hangouts such as Facebook. "I have to say, living in Chicago, what appeals to me about FarmVille is it's not urban."
FarmVille _ with more than 72 million monthly users worldwide, the most talked-about application in Facebook status updates _ heads a growing stable of simulated agriculture that also includes SlashKey's Farm Town on Facebook and PlayMesh's recently launched iFarm for the iPhone.
Purposely simplistic, FarmVille lets players build and trick out their farms, starting with a tiny parcel they till and seed with a range of crops including berries, eggplant, wheat, soybeans, artichokes and pumpkins. Players can add pigs, cows and chickens and accouterments such as barns, chicken coops, windmills and greenhouses.
As is the case on real farmland, attentiveness in FarmVille is vital. Players who diligently tend to their crops see their farms flourish and their bank balances balloon. Those late with their harvests may see their crops _ and their investment _ shrivel and die.
Neighbors get rewarded with points and gold for scaring away pests, fertilizing or feeding chickens on another player's spread.
"One thing we feel we got right is it has extremely broad appeal," said Bill Mooney, Zynga's vice president and general manager. "Everybody likes farming, whether you're a gardener, whether you grew up on a farm or your grandparents did. It's literally something everyone can relate with."
And with FarmVille, "there's an appeal that's just cute, with the amazing ways people take the farms and develop them out as their own."
In the end, he hopes, "people will see this as a fun little escape."
Grimes sure has. The transplanted Oklahoman who detests video games and has no farm background razzed her FarmVille-loving friends before her sister successfully prodded her to join.
Now, she admits, "I'm a total FarmVille freak."
A mother of a 3-year-old daughter and the wife of a paramedic, Grimes squeezes in simulated farming between appointments and parenting. She devotes less than an hour each day "in little bitty spurts" to eventually max out her FarmVille spread to resemble a whimsical menagerie _ black sheep, pink calves, penguins, reindeer with flashing Christmas lights in their antlers.
"It was completely mindless and just mine," she said. "I could decide where everything went, I could decide when it happened. I got to move things around. I got to make it look nice."
She loves getting rewards at every turn, often for helping a neighbor. And she credits FarmVille with hastening her reconnection with old friends, including a fourth-grade schoolmate who's now living next door to her in this online agricultural experience.
"I don't know anything about her life except she's a really nice neighbor _ she leaves me little posts, she sends me nice gifts, harvests my crops. And it makes me feel better about people in my life," Grimes said. "What's so nice about this is it's really about camaraderie, like you depend on people to do things for you."
"I really would have never thought this would have been something I do," she said.
Even actual farmers are digging it. In his central Illinois farmhouse near Windsor, 31-year-old bachelor Darin Doehring started playing months ago with the game he credits with helping him wait out sogginess that hampered harvesting of his 2,000 acres of real corn and soybeans.
"There were more times this past fall I was doing my crops more on there (FarmVille), than I was in the field because of the rain and mud outside. I enjoy it," Doehring said, noting that he wished the fantasy game posed more challenges mimicking real-life ones farmers face, including weather events.
Mooney of Zynga says that isn't likely: "We don't want it to be a punishing experience. We want this to be a positive."
To John Reifsteck, a corn-and-soybean grower in Champaign County, Ill., there are parallels between virtual and actual farming. "Success at FarmVille requires foresight, persistence and a willingness to help others _ just like farming in the real world," he wrote in an online column last month.
And while he doesn't play FarmVille _ "I work in the fields for a living" _ he understands those who do and welcomes FarmVille's popularity.
"It's a healthy sign for agriculture _ but only if players don't come to think that running a farm is as easy as FarmVille makes it seem," he wrote. "If FarmVille was as difficult and complicated as actual farming, probably no one would play it."
___
On the Net:
FarmVille, http://www.farmville.com
Zynga, http://www.zynga.com
SlashKey, http://www.slashkey.com
PlayMesh, http://playmesh.com
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
PHP Web Development - Flex Application development: Integrate Magento for robust ecommerce site
Magento Developer - Magento ecommerce is an open source solution for those who want to conquer the online world.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
“Google” Is Word of the Decade
The American Dialect Society has named “google” the word of the decade and “tweet” the word of the year.
This comes after BingBing said that “TwitterTwitter” the most popular word of 2009, and the Oxford dictionary declared“unfriend” (to remove someone as a FacebookFacebook friend) the word of the year.
Notably, “google” is lowercase. It’s not the name of the company; it’s a catch-all term for searching the Internet, whether you use GoogleGoogle, Bing or another search engine. One member of the panel of judges said he thought “blog” would become the word of the decade, but “google” won out in the end.
Characters in TV shows regularly talk about googling one another, and the word is ubiquitous enough that it’s already been stolen as a brand name for toilet paper, among other things.
“Tweet” is society’s word of the year, but Twitter didn’t begin using that word officially until a few months ago. It was used unofficially by most everyone, though. Unlike “Google,” it’s not trademarked.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2010/01/11/google-tweet-word/
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