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I bought Apple's new Airport Express a few days ago. I've been using it exclusively for it's music streaming abilities, forgoing the wireless router and wireless print server functionality. And even that is not so necessary at home, since it is pretty much impossible to be further than one RCA cord away from the stereo in my tiny apartment. But the small size means it can travel. And I've already spent an enjoyable evening sitting at the bar at Alias pretending I am a DJ. This is something I've always wanted to do, but since it is sort of crowded up front where the stereo is located, it was never possible. Same for 71 and aKa, where I expect to be annoying people shortly as well.
Ars Technica has the review. The only thing they don't mention, and I admit it is a minor thing, is that with the new setup you can now preview a song in your headphones while a different song is playing over the wireless link to the stereo. There was never a way to do that before.
Short history of Unix and C from the Economist:
But the [AT&T Bell Labs] were not only the birthplace, in this sense, of modern computer hardware. Much of modern software—computer programs and the special programming languages in which they are written—originated there too. Two instances in particular stand out: the programming language called C, which from the early 1970s has been perhaps the most popular programming language; and the Unix operating system, first booted up in 1971, and still going strong in everything from laptops to airline-reservation systems. Dennis Ritchie, who has worked at the Labs since 1967, was central to both projects. He is revered as the inventor of C, and, with Ken Thompson, as the co-inventor of Unix.
Intel's new FB-DIMM memory. Part 2. Part 3.
360 degree pinhole camera. Gallery of images.
In case anyone is trying to get me, my cell phone is not working. My email here is checked very often.
Super sexy 1.3 megapixel swivel camera phone from Sony Ericsson, the S710a. Should be out by the end of the year, but it will probably be Q1 2005 before it gets picked up by a U.S. carrier. Specifications here, but more importantly, the pictures are here.
Mexico's Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said he had a non-removable microchip implanted in his arm as a security measure to track him throughout Mexico and to give him access to a crime data bank.
Other high-ranking law enforcement officials who have access to the databank will also receive the chip implants
And similarly, Japanese school kids are to be RFID tagged as well.
The future of display technology is flat, thin… and flexible, thanks to the development of new screens, which could one day - literally - be folded up and tucked away in your pocket....Man, that would really solve a big problem. But I won't be holding my breath for this to hit any time soon (although I did read a highly unlikely - and completely unconfirmed - rumor that Apple has a 10 inch sub notebook in the works that has a screen that folds out - using two side panels - into a 15 inch screen.)
3.2 megapixel 3x optical zoon cameraphone from Samsung that will never go on sale in the mobile backwater that is the United States.
FCC chairman Michael Powell starts a blog.