"Adult Piraha apparently can't learn to count or understand the concept of numbers or numerals, even when they asked anthropologists to teach them and have been given basic math lessons for months at a time."
A total of about 16,5 km (10 miles) of solar panels mounted on a former military grounds at Pocking, near Passau in Bavaria. The installation saves 10,000 tons of CO2 yearly--the equivalent of 1,000 hectares of woodlands.
"In 2003, Iâ??ve collected the Google page count for over 27,000 words in an English dictionary. Iâ??ve now done the same to update the database."
"Warning: all following pictures are done with an alpha version of Terragen 2. A lot of improvements will come with the final version." If these images are of the Alpha quality, then the final version might acctually bring you there.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One day after resolving issues between a developer and landowners, bulldozers rumbled into a giant pit on Thursday to begin construction of the glittering Freedom Tower skyscraper meant to symbolize New York's resilience to the September 11 attacks.
NHK is showing Ultra High Definition Television at the NAB Conference. With 4,320 lines of resolution, Ultra HD has 16 times more pixels than the best HD available today.
The digital-download business is booming, but the Allman Brothers Band and Cheap Trick claim they aren't getting their fair share of the pie.
"...Verizon Communications Inc. can charge per-minute fees for calls to local numbers that dial-up users need to connect to the Internet - in much the same way that they charge for long-distance or other calls." So, Verizon can charge non-Verizon Internet users a fee to make LOCAL CALLS - Even if their own Internet service is unavailable.
See the graph: People have more fun watching TV than a photo album. Maybe the couch potato just won.
A recent front page Digg story complained about Mozilla removing Places from Firefox 2.0. Ben Goodger explains all the good stuff that Ff 2.0 *WILL* have.
According to the zfs-discuss mailing list, Apple is interesting in porting Solaris' new (and rather advanced) filesystem, ZFS, to Mac OS X. ZFS features include a pooled storage model, protection from data corruption, fast backup/restore/snapshots/clones, built in compression, and is highly scalable.
Has XHTML, PHP, FLASH, AJAX and many more resources. Definitely worth a look at this site.
Do you care about your freedom to surf wherever you want to on your current service provider? If yes then be aware what your service provider could do or is already doing to limit or cut off your access to certain sites.
T-Mobile plans to shake-up the home broadband market by offering an uncapped 3G service of up to 20Mbps for just $15 per month. The company aims to replace landlines altogether for both voice and data, enabling the mobile phone to be the only connectivity device the consumer needs.
Ok, so, "The Wow" is mostly on the viewers part.. and "The Why" - well to basically kick ass. For the How - watch the video.. its pretty amazing stuff! (there are some great old kung fu movie clips in there too!)
