HTTP:: Repo agents swoop on Pirate Bay buyer
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Dear, dear. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for Global Gaming Factory X which, on Thursday, was to have become the official new owner of The Pirate Bay but didn’t, they’ve taken on an even murkier hue.nAs p2pnet reported a week ago today, GGF boss Hans [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Free Backup Software V
HTTP:: Free Backup Software V
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Another item on the list of free backup solutions is Toucan, which sports more functionality besides the file backup and restore procedures. The application's expanded functionality can help you synchronize data between folders and even encrypt and store it on your computer.Toucan's ease of use is enforced by the uncomplicated interface that shows everything the application can provide you with at a single glance, just by looking at the toolbar. You will not have any sort of menus to peruse in search of some function because everything there is to know about Toucan is present in the toolbar tabs.Synchronization boasts several functions for you to use and a brief set of options. It permits you to start simple copying operations, update a destination with the new elements in the source, mirror two locations, equalise the contents of the two folders, move or clean them. As far the options are concerned Toucan's sync module allows you to enable the retaining of time-stamps and !
attributes or ignore read-only and daylight savings.[tablec][row][col][/col][col][/col][col][/col][/row][/tablec]Backup procedure is as simple as synchronization. The application is able to perform more than one simple backup operation, offering you the possibility to run compl...
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Another item on the list of free backup solutions is Toucan, which sports more functionality besides the file backup and restore procedures. The application's expanded functionality can help you synchronize data between folders and even encrypt and store it on your computer.Toucan's ease of use is enforced by the uncomplicated interface that shows everything the application can provide you with at a single glance, just by looking at the toolbar. You will not have any sort of menus to peruse in search of some function because everything there is to know about Toucan is present in the toolbar tabs.Synchronization boasts several functions for you to use and a brief set of options. It permits you to start simple copying operations, update a destination with the new elements in the source, mirror two locations, equalise the contents of the two folders, move or clean them. As far the options are concerned Toucan's sync module allows you to enable the retaining of time-stamps and !
attributes or ignore read-only and daylight savings.[tablec][row][col][/col][col][/col][col][/col][/row][/tablec]Backup procedure is as simple as synchronization. The application is able to perform more than one simple backup operation, offering you the possibility to run compl...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Students blocked at copyright meeting
HTTP:: Students blocked at copyright meeting
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Not only did Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music yobs hijack the Toronto copyright consultation town hall, during the week, ’security’ guards stopped students from making their thoughts known.nStaged (word used advisedly) on Thursday, it was, “so over-the-top that their message was lost in light of such [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Hurricane Jimena forms Danny weakens to depression
HTTP:: Hurricane Jimena forms Danny weakens to depression
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Jimena formed in the eastern Pacific near the Mexican resort of Acapulco on Saturday, but in the Atlantic Tropical Storm Danny weakened to a tropical depression and storm alerts were discontinued for the North Carolina coast.n n
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Jimena formed in the eastern Pacific near the Mexican resort of Acapulco on Saturday, but in the Atlantic Tropical Storm Danny weakened to a tropical depression and storm alerts were discontinued for the North Carolina coast.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: p2pnet picture of the day p
HTTP:: p2pnet picture of the day p
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p2pnet news view P2P | Cool:- If p2pnet had a picture of the day, the one on the right would be today’s.nWe found it via a new Twitter follower, Blaze, who’s bio says, “A Place for Broke Ass Students …â€nSo we went for a look and found Hobostudent.com.nThe current top post is from Cory [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Bell welcomes DPI privacy findings
HTTP:: Bell welcomes DPI privacy findings
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- In a spin worthy of the RIAA, Bell spokesman Mirko ‘Mr 5%’ Bibic, “welcomed the privacy commissioner’s findings†on its use of DPI (deep privacy invasion, or deep packet inspection, depending on where your interests lie).n“We’re pleased with the outcome as Bell takes privacy issues very seriously, and that [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Music from space ready for lift off Literally
HTTP:: Music from space ready for lift off Literally
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p2pnet news view Cool | P2P | Music:- “So, I’m going to officially announce ‘Project Calliope’, the music satellite,†said Sandy Antunes in an email, yesterday.nThanks to Steve Tunbridge, we’d heard about his Project Calliope a little while back.nAt the time, Sandy wasn’t ready to go public. But, “I’m going to launch a satellite!†- [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Facebook speed spy and friend farce
HTTP:: Facebook speed spy and friend farce
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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- My daughter, Emma, 13, and a lot of her friends talk on Facebook. They’re 21st digital century kids and the net and net technologies are an integral part of their lives.nIt’s particularly relevant to Emma and her friends because they’re homeschooled and they use the Internet to keep in [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Karzai pulls ahead in Afghan polls
HTTP:: Karzai pulls ahead in Afghan polls
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Partial results show incumbent president has growing lead in landmark election race.
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Partial results show incumbent president has growing lead in landmark election race.
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Pingie: TORRE: Pirate Bay Buyer Has Car and Motorcycle Repossessed
TORRE: Pirate Bay Buyer Has Car and Motorcycle Repossessed
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As if his financial issues couldn't get any worse, the CEO of Global Gaming Factory suffered yet another humiliating setback yesterday. After a tax debt of more of $110,000 went unpaid, enforcement officers swooped last night, repossessing Hans Pandeya's car and a motorcycle.
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As if his financial issues couldn't get any worse, the CEO of Global Gaming Factory suffered yet another humiliating setback yesterday. After a tax debt of more of $110,000 went unpaid, enforcement officers swooped last night, repossessing Hans Pandeya's car and a motorcycle.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Weekend Reading Free Coming to Mainstream Videogaming
HTTP:: Weekend Reading Free Coming to Mainstream Videogaming
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This week, the people at Beautiful Game Studio, Eidos’s arm in charge of the creation of the Championship Manager franchise after the very public and rather nasty split with Sports Interactive, has announced that until September 10, when the game is set to officially launch, all those who are interested in it can log into a store, pay any amount of money they wish and get the game on September 11 at midnight.There is a minimum charge of 2.50 Pounds, which covers the cost of the digital distribution and there a 1 pence minimum feed needed for the transaction but other than that, players can get their hands on a full football management game for less than one can pay for a really good cup of coffee. The offer has been so good that the servers powering the scheme were brought down, although, at the moment, they seem to be working fine, processing orders without a hitch.The interesting thing about the deal offered for Championship Manager 2010 is that it brings a business mod!
el, which seems to have already been adopted by part of the music industry to videogaming. “Pay What You Want†relies on players valuing an experience on their own and paying to keep the band, or in this case, the developer going.Of course, Eidos and Beautiful Game Studios have an alternate revenue str...
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el, which seems to have already been adopted by part of the music industry to videogaming. “Pay What You Want†relies on players valuing an experience on their own and paying to keep the band, or in this case, the developer going.Of course, Eidos and Beautiful Game Studios have an alternate revenue str...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Microsoft racist SNAFU
HTTP:: Microsoft racist SNAFU
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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- World business leader Microsoft got caught with its pants around its ankles, trying to please racists.nIt pasted a white guy over a black guy in a Polish Microsoft business solutions advertisement.nLater,“Microsoft’s Marketing Snafu Is a Black and White Issue,†said a Microsoft Watch headline.nAnd as p2pnet pointed out, ‘SNAFU’ [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: A Gamer 039 s Week 22 29 August
HTTP:: A Gamer 039 s Week 22 29 August
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important gaming events that happened during the last seven days. We've been host to quite a few big talks about games and consoles, following last week's GamesCon and BlizzCon gatherings so, without further ado, here's this edition of A Gamer's Week. Monday was all about Sony, which talked about the fact that the upcoming PlayStation 3 Slim would have no backward compatibility, mostly because the game library of the PS3 was large enough to accommodate all people. Sticking with Sony and a very precious franchise for the PlayStation brand, the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 is rumored to have over 1,000 cars in its roster, which makes it the biggest racing simulator in the world, overtaking its arch rival, Forza Motorsport 3. Tuesday saw a few news reports about two respected franchises, as Mass Effect 2 will hit both PCs and the Xbox 360 console at the same time, so nobody can get upset. Nobody exce!
pt PlayStation 3 owners, who still haven't played the first title. Still on the games subject, the upcoming WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 wrestling game received quite a few details from THQ. From new customization options to fighting modes, there will be plenty of innovations featured in the multi-platform title. Wednesday was all about the...
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important gaming events that happened during the last seven days. We've been host to quite a few big talks about games and consoles, following last week's GamesCon and BlizzCon gatherings so, without further ado, here's this edition of A Gamer's Week. Monday was all about Sony, which talked about the fact that the upcoming PlayStation 3 Slim would have no backward compatibility, mostly because the game library of the PS3 was large enough to accommodate all people. Sticking with Sony and a very precious franchise for the PlayStation brand, the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 is rumored to have over 1,000 cars in its roster, which makes it the biggest racing simulator in the world, overtaking its arch rival, Forza Motorsport 3. Tuesday saw a few news reports about two respected franchises, as Mass Effect 2 will hit both PCs and the Xbox 360 console at the same time, so nobody can get upset. Nobody exce!
pt PlayStation 3 owners, who still haven't played the first title. Still on the games subject, the upcoming WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 wrestling game received quite a few details from THQ. From new customization options to fighting modes, there will be plenty of innovations featured in the multi-platform title. Wednesday was all about the...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Dick Cheney new RIAA president
HTTP:: Dick Cheney new RIAA president
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p2pnet news view Politics | RIAA:- Former US vice-president Richard Bruce ‘Dick’ Cheney has been appointed president of the RIAA.nCheney’s duties will include overseeing senior RIAA personnel currently seconded to the Obama administration’s Department of Justice, and liasing with US vice-president Joe Biden.nCheney will be responsible for developing and implementing official DoJ copyright infringement and [...]
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p2pnet news view Politics | RIAA:- Former US vice-president Richard Bruce ‘Dick’ Cheney has been appointed president of the RIAA.nCheney’s duties will include overseeing senior RIAA personnel currently seconded to the Obama administration’s Department of Justice, and liasing with US vice-president Joe Biden.nCheney will be responsible for developing and implementing official DoJ copyright infringement and [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: More Photos of the Volturi in New Moon
HTTP:: More Photos of the Volturi in New Moon
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Yesterday, Summit Entertainment upped the promo campaign on the upcoming vampire film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon†with a bunch of character posters of the Volturi, the dreaded, “royal†vampires who maintain peace and make sure their secret is well guarded. Now, once with the print issue of People magazine, the studio has also released the first shots of them in the film, as Twilight Source can confirm. Any “Twilight†fan who has also read Stephenie Meyer’s books knows that the Volturi are truly not to be messed with, since they are both very strong and unmerciful when it comes to getting their way done. Fans must also know that, in “New Moon,†Edward Cullen seeks their help when he thinks Bella killed herself. In her turn, warned by Alice, Bella flies to Italy to save him and, thus, we get to meet the Volturi. All these vampires make the biggest covenant ever, one that rules over all the vampires and intervenes every time the secret of their existence!
is about to be revealed to the humans. They are terrifying and have none of the redeeming qualities of the Cullens, because they only care about their own well-being, therefore would never think twice about hurting a mortal if that served their best interest. The photos just released by Summit, and also incl...
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Yesterday, Summit Entertainment upped the promo campaign on the upcoming vampire film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon†with a bunch of character posters of the Volturi, the dreaded, “royal†vampires who maintain peace and make sure their secret is well guarded. Now, once with the print issue of People magazine, the studio has also released the first shots of them in the film, as Twilight Source can confirm. Any “Twilight†fan who has also read Stephenie Meyer’s books knows that the Volturi are truly not to be messed with, since they are both very strong and unmerciful when it comes to getting their way done. Fans must also know that, in “New Moon,†Edward Cullen seeks their help when he thinks Bella killed herself. In her turn, warned by Alice, Bella flies to Italy to save him and, thus, we get to meet the Volturi. All these vampires make the biggest covenant ever, one that rules over all the vampires and intervenes every time the secret of their existence!
is about to be revealed to the humans. They are terrifying and have none of the redeeming qualities of the Cullens, because they only care about their own well-being, therefore would never think twice about hurting a mortal if that served their best interest. The photos just released by Summit, and also incl...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Chris Brown s Mother Says God Is the Answer
HTTP:: Chris Brown s Mother Says God Is the Answer
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Chris Brown pled guilty to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna back in February this year, and has been sentenced to five years on probation, 180 days of community work, to complete a 52-week mandatory, domestic-violence program and pay legal fees. His mother, Joyce Hawkins, is now breaking her silence on the much-mediated incident, saying in a post on The Chris Brown Fan Club that this was all about God and having Him speak through her son. This is the first time that any member of Brown’s family is making a statement on the beating of Rihanna, after many months in which fans saw themselves divided in two camps, the one that took Rihanna’s side and the one that insisted Brown should not have his music career ruined because of something that was purely a personal problem. This is also the first time that someone this close to him discusses the issue by saying this was “not about Chris†but about God and, as one might expect, Hawkins’ statement is already burning !
holes on the Internet. “I just want to say from the bottom of my heart thank you for your continued support. I’m sorry I wasn’t allowed to speak to anyone as this case was ongoing. I can now say this has been the most painful moment in my entire life, but knowing that you were still standing by Chris...
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Chris Brown pled guilty to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna back in February this year, and has been sentenced to five years on probation, 180 days of community work, to complete a 52-week mandatory, domestic-violence program and pay legal fees. His mother, Joyce Hawkins, is now breaking her silence on the much-mediated incident, saying in a post on The Chris Brown Fan Club that this was all about God and having Him speak through her son. This is the first time that any member of Brown’s family is making a statement on the beating of Rihanna, after many months in which fans saw themselves divided in two camps, the one that took Rihanna’s side and the one that insisted Brown should not have his music career ruined because of something that was purely a personal problem. This is also the first time that someone this close to him discusses the issue by saying this was “not about Chris†but about God and, as one might expect, Hawkins’ statement is already burning !
holes on the Internet. “I just want to say from the bottom of my heart thank you for your continued support. I’m sorry I wasn’t allowed to speak to anyone as this case was ongoing. I can now say this has been the most painful moment in my entire life, but knowing that you were still standing by Chris...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Robots to Get Fish 039 s 039 Sixth Sense 039 Ability
HTTP:: Robots to Get Fish 039 s 039 Sixth Sense 039 Ability
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nn The amazing ability that fish have of essentially touching objects around them without actually coming in physical contact with them comes from their unique sensory system, called the lateral-line. This allows them to sense obstacles in their paths, and to steer clear of predators. Robotics engineers are currently developing new biomimetics technologies that will one day effectively allow future generations of robots to be able to do the same thing. The efforts are spearheaded by scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, led by Leo van Hermmen, a professor in the Physics Department. It has long been established that humans are only able to experience a limited amount of the information around them. For example, infrared and ultraviolet light, as well as X-rays and gamma-rays remain hidden from us. Some animals have developed specialized organs for identifying an extra “slice of reality,†and the lateral-line in fish and some amphibians is one of these sy!
stems. Van Hermmen, who is the chair of theoretical biophysics at TUM, has been interested in replicating this organ artificially for quite some time now. He gives the example of pike and pickerel, which are able to detect their preys even in murky waters, where little sunlight penetrates in depth an...
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nn The amazing ability that fish have of essentially touching objects around them without actually coming in physical contact with them comes from their unique sensory system, called the lateral-line. This allows them to sense obstacles in their paths, and to steer clear of predators. Robotics engineers are currently developing new biomimetics technologies that will one day effectively allow future generations of robots to be able to do the same thing. The efforts are spearheaded by scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, led by Leo van Hermmen, a professor in the Physics Department. It has long been established that humans are only able to experience a limited amount of the information around them. For example, infrared and ultraviolet light, as well as X-rays and gamma-rays remain hidden from us. Some animals have developed specialized organs for identifying an extra “slice of reality,†and the lateral-line in fish and some amphibians is one of these sy!
stems. Van Hermmen, who is the chair of theoretical biophysics at TUM, has been interested in replicating this organ artificially for quite some time now. He gives the example of pike and pickerel, which are able to detect their preys even in murky waters, where little sunlight penetrates in depth an...
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Pingie: HTTP:: The Mozilla Add Ons Site Adds Recommendations
HTTP:: The Mozilla Add Ons Site Adds Recommendations
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Mozilla released the newest version of its, arguably, biggest addition to the Firefox web browser, the online add-on gallery. The new AMO 5.0.9 comes with a bunch of new or improved features, which could really change the way users discover new add-ons with “Recommendations†and “Collections,†but also spur further interest from the developers with the recently launched “Contributions†program. “Some things go great together: peanut butter and jelly, popcorn and movies, Firebug and YSlow. Starting today, when you’re looking at an add-on’s listing, you’ll see several other add-ons that are often used together. We base these recommendations on the add-ons our users have grouped together in collections,†the post on the AMO blog describes the biggest, new feature. Recommendations do what the name implies, they recommend add-ons that would make a great addition to the one the user is currently browsing. Now, on every add-on page there will be several lin!
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ks to other ones that users believed should go together, as the recommendations are based on the collections that other users have created. Collections were launched in June as a way of allowing users to install an add-on pack, freeing them from the hassle of searching for and ins...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Megan Fox on Jennifer s Body and Kissing Amanda Seyfried
HTTP:: Megan Fox on Jennifer s Body and Kissing Amanda Seyfried
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“Jennifer’s Body,†the horror comedy penned by Oscar-winning scribe Diablo Cody and starring the stunning Megan Fox, is readying for a nationwide release on September 18. In the meantime, promotion for it is still going strong, with Fox doing a Behind the Scenes issue with MTV, in which she talks about what prompted her to think of acting, what shooting for “Jennifer’s Body†was like and, most importantly, how it felt to be kissing co-star Amanda Seyfried for one of the most mediated scenes of the flick. It’s no longer unknown that one of the things that pushes “Jennifer’s Body†is Fox’s presence in it and the movie studio is, of course, pulling all the stops on promoting it with her help. Another big seller for the film is a much-hyped scene in which Fox’s character, a cheerleader possessed by a demon, kisses her best friend, a dork who rolls with the unpopulars and who sets her eyes on stopping the demon from killing other boys in their high schoo!
l. For Seyfried, having to shoot that particular scene was nothing short of embarrassing and a sort of compromise she agreed to make. Things were different with Fox, as she says so herself for MTV. “I feel much safer with girls, so I felt more comfortable kissing her [Sey...
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“Jennifer’s Body,†the horror comedy penned by Oscar-winning scribe Diablo Cody and starring the stunning Megan Fox, is readying for a nationwide release on September 18. In the meantime, promotion for it is still going strong, with Fox doing a Behind the Scenes issue with MTV, in which she talks about what prompted her to think of acting, what shooting for “Jennifer’s Body†was like and, most importantly, how it felt to be kissing co-star Amanda Seyfried for one of the most mediated scenes of the flick. It’s no longer unknown that one of the things that pushes “Jennifer’s Body†is Fox’s presence in it and the movie studio is, of course, pulling all the stops on promoting it with her help. Another big seller for the film is a much-hyped scene in which Fox’s character, a cheerleader possessed by a demon, kisses her best friend, a dork who rolls with the unpopulars and who sets her eyes on stopping the demon from killing other boys in their high schoo!
l. For Seyfried, having to shoot that particular scene was nothing short of embarrassing and a sort of compromise she agreed to make. Things were different with Fox, as she says so herself for MTV. “I feel much safer with girls, so I felt more comfortable kissing her [Sey...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Lady Gaga Collaborates with Michael Bolton on New Track
HTTP:: Lady Gaga Collaborates with Michael Bolton on New Track
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Known for her extravagant fashion style and fiery performances, Lady Gaga is clearly not the kind of artist that would shun away from a potentially controversial collaboration. After working with the likes of Marilyn Manson, Gaga has now turned her attention to an even more unlikely musical partner, legendary crooner Michael Bolton, Marie Claire informs. The collaboration on a new track is now official, Bolton himself confirming it for several media outlets just recently. According to his statement, he too was surprised when his agent called him to tell him that an artist known as Lady Gaga, of whom he hadn’t even heard before, wanted to work with him on an upcoming track. The surprise doubled when the agent further told him that this Gaga person was a huge fan of his and, undoubtedly, might have also contributed to his decision to go along with it. “I was taking a break from production when my manager and the label tag-teamed me on the phone about writing with a yo!
ung artist named Lady Gaga who I had never heard of â€" but they were raving about â€" they said that she was a huge fan of mine and wanted to write with me.†Bolton says, as quoted by the aforementioned magazine. It didn’t take long to convince him to do the song with Gaga, the singer further reveal...
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Known for her extravagant fashion style and fiery performances, Lady Gaga is clearly not the kind of artist that would shun away from a potentially controversial collaboration. After working with the likes of Marilyn Manson, Gaga has now turned her attention to an even more unlikely musical partner, legendary crooner Michael Bolton, Marie Claire informs. The collaboration on a new track is now official, Bolton himself confirming it for several media outlets just recently. According to his statement, he too was surprised when his agent called him to tell him that an artist known as Lady Gaga, of whom he hadn’t even heard before, wanted to work with him on an upcoming track. The surprise doubled when the agent further told him that this Gaga person was a huge fan of his and, undoubtedly, might have also contributed to his decision to go along with it. “I was taking a break from production when my manager and the label tag-teamed me on the phone about writing with a yo!
ung artist named Lady Gaga who I had never heard of â€" but they were raving about â€" they said that she was a huge fan of mine and wanted to write with me.†Bolton says, as quoted by the aforementioned magazine. It didn’t take long to convince him to do the song with Gaga, the singer further reveal...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Apple Releases Server Admin Tools 10 6 Download Here
HTTP:: Apple Releases Server Admin Tools 10 6 Download Here
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Containing remote administration tools, documentation, and utilities that users can install on a computer other than their server, the Server Admin Tools 10.6 package is now available for free download for Snow Leopard users. Posted yesterday on Apple’s Support / Downloads section, the Server Admin Tools 10.6 can be installed on Mac OS X 10.6 and used to administer Mac OS X Server 10.5 and 10.6. To learn about the compatible combinations of Server Admin Tools and system software for administering a Mac OS X server from another Mac OS X computer, Apple has posted an additional Support piece on its website. Go here for admin tools compatibility information. Server Preferences and Server Status widget The Server Preferences application and Server Status widget are for remote administration and monitoring of your server and key services including file sharing, address books, calendaring, instant messaging, mail, web, and virtual private networking.  Server Admin The Serve!
r Admin application is for remote administration of one or more servers. It can be used to install and setup Mac OS X Server on a remote computer, manage file share points, configure service settings, monitor server activity, and provide detailed logging information for each of the running services....
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Containing remote administration tools, documentation, and utilities that users can install on a computer other than their server, the Server Admin Tools 10.6 package is now available for free download for Snow Leopard users. Posted yesterday on Apple’s Support / Downloads section, the Server Admin Tools 10.6 can be installed on Mac OS X 10.6 and used to administer Mac OS X Server 10.5 and 10.6. To learn about the compatible combinations of Server Admin Tools and system software for administering a Mac OS X server from another Mac OS X computer, Apple has posted an additional Support piece on its website. Go here for admin tools compatibility information. Server Preferences and Server Status widget The Server Preferences application and Server Status widget are for remote administration and monitoring of your server and key services including file sharing, address books, calendaring, instant messaging, mail, web, and virtual private networking.  Server Admin The Serve!
r Admin application is for remote administration of one or more servers. It can be used to install and setup Mac OS X Server on a remote computer, manage file share points, configure service settings, monitor server activity, and provide detailed logging information for each of the running services....
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Pingie: HTTP:: Mischa Barton Explains Breakdown Admission to Mental Institution
HTTP:: Mischa Barton Explains Breakdown Admission to Mental Institution
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In mid-July, former “The O.C.†star Mischa Barton was admitted under 5150 statute to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after the police and an ambulance were summoned at her apartment by friends upon a worrying mental breakdown. Initial reports had it that a combination of stress and drugs or alcohol were the cause of the meltdown, but the star is now denying such speculation, telling Time Out New York that it was entirely due to the pain following a botched surgery on her teeth. Mischa says reports of her binging on drugs for three days before the breakdown are bogus, since the only problem she had was the pain from the surgery, combined with the stress of knowing for certain she could not fulfill her contractual obligations because of it. She couldn’t take prescription pills either, she reveals, because that would have interfered with her acting. So, she hit “rock bottom,†as she puts it, and had to seek professional help. “Here’s what happ!
ened: Before the show started, I was traveling abroad for contract stuff and I went through a terrible surgery â€" a wisdom tooth surgery, all four removed. It was a nightmare. I’ve never had surgery before â€" it all went wrong and I had to have a second surgery and it almost ...
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In mid-July, former “The O.C.†star Mischa Barton was admitted under 5150 statute to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after the police and an ambulance were summoned at her apartment by friends upon a worrying mental breakdown. Initial reports had it that a combination of stress and drugs or alcohol were the cause of the meltdown, but the star is now denying such speculation, telling Time Out New York that it was entirely due to the pain following a botched surgery on her teeth. Mischa says reports of her binging on drugs for three days before the breakdown are bogus, since the only problem she had was the pain from the surgery, combined with the stress of knowing for certain she could not fulfill her contractual obligations because of it. She couldn’t take prescription pills either, she reveals, because that would have interfered with her acting. So, she hit “rock bottom,†as she puts it, and had to seek professional help. “Here’s what happ!
ened: Before the show started, I was traveling abroad for contract stuff and I went through a terrible surgery â€" a wisdom tooth surgery, all four removed. It was a nightmare. I’ve never had surgery before â€" it all went wrong and I had to have a second surgery and it almost ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download Network Registration Update for Mac OS X 10 6
HTTP:: Download Network Registration Update for Mac OS X 10 6
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Apple’s Support / Downloads section is featuring new updates for users of its just-released Mac OS X version 10.6, Snow Leopard. Network Registration Update 1.0 is one of those updates. The download is recommended for servers running Mac OS X Server 10.6, as it addresses an issue with duplicate serial number alerts when dealing with multiple network interfaces. At first glance, Apple says little about Network Registration Update 1.0, mentioning only that, “The Network Registration Update is recommended for servers running Mac OS X Server version 10.6. It addresses an issue with duplicate serial number alerts on servers with multiple network interfaces.†However, an additional Support piece titled “Mac OS X Server v10.6, Xsan: Invalid serial number alert with multiple network interfaces†reveals even more about the update. “Server Assistant, Server Admin, or Xsan Admin may report a duplicate serial number in use on a server with multiple network interfaces in!
Mac OS X Server v10.6,†Apple begins to explain in detail. “This may include servers which provide services to multiple subnets for DHCP, NetBoot or Gateway (NAT), servers which are Xsan controllers or clients, servers with a bonded ethernet port, and servers using third-party vir...
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Apple’s Support / Downloads section is featuring new updates for users of its just-released Mac OS X version 10.6, Snow Leopard. Network Registration Update 1.0 is one of those updates. The download is recommended for servers running Mac OS X Server 10.6, as it addresses an issue with duplicate serial number alerts when dealing with multiple network interfaces. At first glance, Apple says little about Network Registration Update 1.0, mentioning only that, “The Network Registration Update is recommended for servers running Mac OS X Server version 10.6. It addresses an issue with duplicate serial number alerts on servers with multiple network interfaces.†However, an additional Support piece titled “Mac OS X Server v10.6, Xsan: Invalid serial number alert with multiple network interfaces†reveals even more about the update. “Server Assistant, Server Admin, or Xsan Admin may report a duplicate serial number in use on a server with multiple network interfaces in!
Mac OS X Server v10.6,†Apple begins to explain in detail. “This may include servers which provide services to multiple subnets for DHCP, NetBoot or Gateway (NAT), servers which are Xsan controllers or clients, servers with a bonded ethernet port, and servers using third-party vir...
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Pingie: HTTP:: File Sharers Are More Likely to Purchase DVDs and Go to Movie Theaters
HTTP:: File Sharers Are More Likely to Purchase DVDs and Go to Movie Theaters
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Studies have shown in the past that file sharers also make good customers for the media companies, not that it has changed anything in the way the big companies approach the issue. Still, one more can't hurt, so here's yet another study that has found that users that engage in file sharing also purchase more DVDs, more media devices and are generally more engaged with entertainment content. The Frank N. Magid Associates research firm was hired by peer-to-peer company Vuze, maker of the popular Java-based bittorrent client Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, to see if and how its users differentiated from the average Internet ones. While ordered by a p2p company, Mike Vorhaus, president of Magid Advisors, assures us that the results are not biased in any way. The study used a random sample of Vuze users and compared it with another one made up of regular Internet users aged 18 to 44. The result of the study, while going against everything Hollywood is claiming, isn't that su!
rprising, considering the number of previous similar reports. It found that the p2p users went to 34 percent more movies than regular ones, bought 34 percent more DVDs and also rented 24 percent more movies. Could it be that the ones that use file sharing do so precisely because they are more interested in media ...
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rprising, considering the number of previous similar reports. It found that the p2p users went to 34 percent more movies than regular ones, bought 34 percent more DVDs and also rented 24 percent more movies. Could it be that the ones that use file sharing do so precisely because they are more interested in media ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Template Monster Will Supply Templates for a Promising Flash Startup CMS
HTTP:: Template Monster Will Supply Templates for a Promising Flash Startup CMS
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Template Monster has announced a partnership with FlashMoto to provide Flash website templates for its new and highly anticipated CMS. With critics praising the new FlashMoto CMS as the greatest tool for webmasters since the launch of Joomla and Drupal, anxiety grows towards the FlashMoto official release this September. The partnership was put into place after the FlashMoto management was unsuccessful in finding a suitable graphic suite for its new CMS. Unsuccessful entries in a design contest hosted on its website convinced FlashMoto CEO and Founder Demetrio Fortman, who was recommended the Template Monster website by one of his friends that had David Braun's credentials (Template Monster CEO). After a week in which Mr. Fortman tried to get in touch with Mr. Braun, they were finally able to speak and reach a deal beneficial to both parties. In Demetrio's blog post on FlashMoto, he discloses that David Braun was impressed with their work and revealed the fact that Templa!
te Monster itself was working on a similar Flash CMS. “We get to know that TemplateMonster team has been working over their own Flash CMS lately, and some decent user-interface concepts have been already implemented in Flash CMS Intro and Flash Photo Gallery products,†Demetrio Fortman...
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Template Monster has announced a partnership with FlashMoto to provide Flash website templates for its new and highly anticipated CMS. With critics praising the new FlashMoto CMS as the greatest tool for webmasters since the launch of Joomla and Drupal, anxiety grows towards the FlashMoto official release this September. The partnership was put into place after the FlashMoto management was unsuccessful in finding a suitable graphic suite for its new CMS. Unsuccessful entries in a design contest hosted on its website convinced FlashMoto CEO and Founder Demetrio Fortman, who was recommended the Template Monster website by one of his friends that had David Braun's credentials (Template Monster CEO). After a week in which Mr. Fortman tried to get in touch with Mr. Braun, they were finally able to speak and reach a deal beneficial to both parties. In Demetrio's blog post on FlashMoto, he discloses that David Braun was impressed with their work and revealed the fact that Templa!
te Monster itself was working on a similar Flash CMS. “We get to know that TemplateMonster team has been working over their own Flash CMS lately, and some decent user-interface concepts have been already implemented in Flash CMS Intro and Flash Photo Gallery products,†Demetrio Fortman...
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Pingie: HTTP:: DJ AM Dies at 36
HTTP:: DJ AM Dies at 36
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He was a regular presence on the party scene, having long crossed over from being just a disc-jokey to a bona fide celebrity. 36-year-old Adam Goldstein, generally known as DJ AM, was found dead in his apartment this Friday. His death has already been ruled an overdose, after police discovered drug paraphernalia on the scene and learned that he had been struggling with severe depression, NBC New York informs. Sources are telling the media that Goldstein, who was once engaged to be married to Nicole Richie and whose friends included anyone from Paris Hilton to Travis Barker and Ryan Seacrest, had not been seen or heard of in days before his body was found. Friends became so worried about him, knowing as they did that he was suffering from depression, that they eventually went up to his apartment, where they found him unresponsive. DJ AM was pronounced dead on the arrival of the paramedics, with the cause of death being listed as an overdose. Ironically enough, Goldstein !
had been sober for nine years in a row and was even in talks with MTV to start working on a reality show, called “Gone Too Far†and meant to help young people overcome their addictions. As of now, there are no signs that might point to suicide, reports say, but that’s a possibility the police are not yet ready to discard altogether. Apparently, DJ ...
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He was a regular presence on the party scene, having long crossed over from being just a disc-jokey to a bona fide celebrity. 36-year-old Adam Goldstein, generally known as DJ AM, was found dead in his apartment this Friday. His death has already been ruled an overdose, after police discovered drug paraphernalia on the scene and learned that he had been struggling with severe depression, NBC New York informs. Sources are telling the media that Goldstein, who was once engaged to be married to Nicole Richie and whose friends included anyone from Paris Hilton to Travis Barker and Ryan Seacrest, had not been seen or heard of in days before his body was found. Friends became so worried about him, knowing as they did that he was suffering from depression, that they eventually went up to his apartment, where they found him unresponsive. DJ AM was pronounced dead on the arrival of the paramedics, with the cause of death being listed as an overdose. Ironically enough, Goldstein !
had been sober for nine years in a row and was even in talks with MTV to start working on a reality show, called “Gone Too Far†and meant to help young people overcome their addictions. As of now, there are no signs that might point to suicide, reports say, but that’s a possibility the police are not yet ready to discard altogether. Apparently, DJ ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Facebook to Allow Charities in the Gift Shop As Well
HTTP:: Facebook to Allow Charities in the Gift Shop As Well
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Facebook is slowly expanding its Gift Shop to allow third parties to offer their own virtual gifts and even real products. Last week, it announced four companies would start selling their own wares in the shop, and now, the social network is revealing that an additional four charities will also be joining the initial test starting sometime next week. Facebook has big plans for its Gift Shop, which now sells virtual gifts using the social network's own virtual currency, Facebook Credits. Most gifts sell for ten Credits ($1) and they have all come from Facebook until now. But, as the platform matures and gains traction, the company plans to allow third-party developers to use the virtual currency in their apps and also other companies to start selling their own products in the gift shop. Facebook revealed last week that it would start things off with only four companies, American Greetings Interactive, GreetBeatz, Someecards, and Real Gifts, which would begin to sell in the!
Gift Shop sometime the following week. The announcement came from Facebook's Marketing and Outreach Director, Randi Zuckerberg, speaking at the Social Good Conference in New York, held by social media blog Mashable. In this first step, four charities and nonprofit organizations, Project Red, Kiva, the World Wildlife Fund and T...
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Facebook is slowly expanding its Gift Shop to allow third parties to offer their own virtual gifts and even real products. Last week, it announced four companies would start selling their own wares in the shop, and now, the social network is revealing that an additional four charities will also be joining the initial test starting sometime next week. Facebook has big plans for its Gift Shop, which now sells virtual gifts using the social network's own virtual currency, Facebook Credits. Most gifts sell for ten Credits ($1) and they have all come from Facebook until now. But, as the platform matures and gains traction, the company plans to allow third-party developers to use the virtual currency in their apps and also other companies to start selling their own products in the gift shop. Facebook revealed last week that it would start things off with only four companies, American Greetings Interactive, GreetBeatz, Someecards, and Real Gifts, which would begin to sell in the!
Gift Shop sometime the following week. The announcement came from Facebook's Marketing and Outreach Director, Randi Zuckerberg, speaking at the Social Good Conference in New York, held by social media blog Mashable. In this first step, four charities and nonprofit organizations, Project Red, Kiva, the World Wildlife Fund and T...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Discovery Launches to the ISS
HTTP:: Discovery Launches to the ISS
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At 11:59 pm EDT (0359 August 29th GMT), the space shuttle Discovery took off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, California, on its 13-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS). The midnight launch went without a hitch, despite earlier concerns over a hydrogen fuel valve failure, which prompted delays earlier this week. Seven astronauts are onboard the shuttle, which is scheduled to perform its first heat shield inspection today. “This time Mother Nature is cooperating so it looks like third time really is the charm,†Pete Nickolenkt, the NASA launch director, told the Discovery crew moments before take-off. “Thanks to everyone who helped prepare for this mission. Let's go step up the science on the International Space Station,†Rick Sturckow, the commander of the STS-128 mission, replied. The flight was already canceled two times this week, on Monday and on Wednesday, and the original Friday launch time was delayed!
to later on in the day. Discovery's departure took place during one of the last opened launch windows. If the shuttle hadn't launched by August 30th, then it would have had to wait until mid-October for another window. During September, two flights are scheduled to the ISS, one by a new Japanese unmanned cargo spacecraft, and the othe...
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At 11:59 pm EDT (0359 August 29th GMT), the space shuttle Discovery took off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, California, on its 13-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS). The midnight launch went without a hitch, despite earlier concerns over a hydrogen fuel valve failure, which prompted delays earlier this week. Seven astronauts are onboard the shuttle, which is scheduled to perform its first heat shield inspection today. “This time Mother Nature is cooperating so it looks like third time really is the charm,†Pete Nickolenkt, the NASA launch director, told the Discovery crew moments before take-off. “Thanks to everyone who helped prepare for this mission. Let's go step up the science on the International Space Station,†Rick Sturckow, the commander of the STS-128 mission, replied. The flight was already canceled two times this week, on Monday and on Wednesday, and the original Friday launch time was delayed!
to later on in the day. Discovery's departure took place during one of the last opened launch windows. If the shuttle hadn't launched by August 30th, then it would have had to wait until mid-October for another window. During September, two flights are scheduled to the ISS, one by a new Japanese unmanned cargo spacecraft, and the othe...
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Pingie: HTTP:: New Software Recognizes What You Write in the Air
HTTP:: New Software Recognizes What You Write in the Air
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Tired of typing endlessly on your computer keyboard, or sick of having to always cram your fingers on your smartphone's small screen? Then you may be happy to hear that neuroscientists from the Canton, New York-based Norconnect Inc., the Duke University, and the St. Lawrence University had you in mind when they started developing a new type of technology that will essentially allow you to type anything you want into thin air, without the need of any actual piece of hardware to input your data. The new system relies on analyzing brain waves and muscle-contraction patterns to infer exactly what you are trying to say, the team explains, quoted by Wired. In a new paper, published in the August 26th issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE, Norconnect Inc. neuroscientist Michael Linderman says exactly how the system will transform scribblings in the air into correct text input. Using a technique known as electromyography (EMG) â€" which analyzes and records the activation sign!
als in muscles â€" as well as pattern-recognition algorithms, the science team managed to make their new technology able to convert electrical signals into their intended correspondent, be it a number or a letter. The end-strife of this line of research, experts add, is the creation of a fingerless glove, outfitted with a l...
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Tired of typing endlessly on your computer keyboard, or sick of having to always cram your fingers on your smartphone's small screen? Then you may be happy to hear that neuroscientists from the Canton, New York-based Norconnect Inc., the Duke University, and the St. Lawrence University had you in mind when they started developing a new type of technology that will essentially allow you to type anything you want into thin air, without the need of any actual piece of hardware to input your data. The new system relies on analyzing brain waves and muscle-contraction patterns to infer exactly what you are trying to say, the team explains, quoted by Wired. In a new paper, published in the August 26th issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE, Norconnect Inc. neuroscientist Michael Linderman says exactly how the system will transform scribblings in the air into correct text input. Using a technique known as electromyography (EMG) â€" which analyzes and records the activation sign!
als in muscles â€" as well as pattern-recognition algorithms, the science team managed to make their new technology able to convert electrical signals into their intended correspondent, be it a number or a letter. The end-strife of this line of research, experts add, is the creation of a fingerless glove, outfitted with a l...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Online Video Saw Record Month in July
HTTP:: Online Video Saw Record Month in July
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Online video is going from strength to strength and, after a record month in June, it broke all previous records in the US in July as well. According to new numbers from comScore, more than half of the US population, 158 million people, watched a video online last month. The rise from the previous month isn't spectacular, a little over one million more, but it’s still the highest number ever recorded. And, as if one record wasn't enough, July 2009 was also the biggest month when it comes to the number of videos watched, with a whooping 21.4 billion video streamed. The biggest contributors to the two-billion rise in videos watched are Google sites, meaning YouTube, as users streamed a little over 1.3 billion more videos from the sites, going from 7.6 billion in June to 8.9 last month. YouTube, of course, still dominates the video market with an almost 42-percent share. The rest of the chart is pretty much unchanged with the notable exception of video search engine Blin!
kx, which made a surprising appearance in June at number four, but is now nowhere to be seen. Hulu, on the other hand, has managed to recover from the slump in June, and has, in fact, seen a record number of videos watched reaching 497 million streams. When it comes to the number of unique viewers, the figures are even clearer,...
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Online video is going from strength to strength and, after a record month in June, it broke all previous records in the US in July as well. According to new numbers from comScore, more than half of the US population, 158 million people, watched a video online last month. The rise from the previous month isn't spectacular, a little over one million more, but it’s still the highest number ever recorded. And, as if one record wasn't enough, July 2009 was also the biggest month when it comes to the number of videos watched, with a whooping 21.4 billion video streamed. The biggest contributors to the two-billion rise in videos watched are Google sites, meaning YouTube, as users streamed a little over 1.3 billion more videos from the sites, going from 7.6 billion in June to 8.9 last month. YouTube, of course, still dominates the video market with an almost 42-percent share. The rest of the chart is pretty much unchanged with the notable exception of video search engine Blin!
kx, which made a surprising appearance in June at number four, but is now nowhere to be seen. Hulu, on the other hand, has managed to recover from the slump in June, and has, in fact, seen a record number of videos watched reaching 497 million streams. When it comes to the number of unique viewers, the figures are even clearer,...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Why Protoplanetary Disks Sometimes Look Weird
HTTP:: Why Protoplanetary Disks Sometimes Look Weird
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It's common knowledge that, once a star forms from a collapsed cloud of cosmic gas and dust, it produces a protoplanetary disk around it. In this disk, large amounts of dust eventually clump together and give birth to meteors, asteroids, comets, moons and planets. But, in some telescope images, stars reveal disks of unusual and seemingly impossible shapes, a phenomenon for which astronomers have had no plausible explanation until now. A new study by scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, now proposes a simple and elegant explanation, ScienceDaily reports. The team, led by astronomer John Debes, argues that the motion of the respective star through the interstellar gas â€" which permeates even the space between galaxies â€" is what causes the peculiar protoplanetary disk shapes. “The disks contain small comet- or asteroid-like bodies that may grow to form planets. These small bodies often collide, which produces a lot of fine dust,†!
he says, adding that, as the star “travels,†it bumps into gas clouds along its path. These collisions trigger the formation of winds, which in turn create turbulences in the disks. “The small particles slam into the flow, slow down, and gradually bend from their original trajectories to follow it,&rdq...
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It's common knowledge that, once a star forms from a collapsed cloud of cosmic gas and dust, it produces a protoplanetary disk around it. In this disk, large amounts of dust eventually clump together and give birth to meteors, asteroids, comets, moons and planets. But, in some telescope images, stars reveal disks of unusual and seemingly impossible shapes, a phenomenon for which astronomers have had no plausible explanation until now. A new study by scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, now proposes a simple and elegant explanation, ScienceDaily reports. The team, led by astronomer John Debes, argues that the motion of the respective star through the interstellar gas â€" which permeates even the space between galaxies â€" is what causes the peculiar protoplanetary disk shapes. “The disks contain small comet- or asteroid-like bodies that may grow to form planets. These small bodies often collide, which produces a lot of fine dust,†!
he says, adding that, as the star “travels,†it bumps into gas clouds along its path. These collisions trigger the formation of winds, which in turn create turbulences in the disks. “The small particles slam into the flow, slow down, and gradually bend from their original trajectories to follow it,&rdq...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Food Shortage Inevitable for Asia by 2050
HTTP:: Food Shortage Inevitable for Asia by 2050
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According to new official estimates, the already deteriorating conditions in most parts of Asia could reach a critical point by the half of this century, unless significant and long-term water reforms are set in place. The lack of irrigation systems, coupled with shifting weather patterns â€" caused by climate change â€", will deal a devastating blow to the continent's food supplies. The crops that will be most affected include rice, which is the basic food at least for two billion people, one third of the world's population, ScienceDaily reports. Wheat and maize will also be adversely affected by the water shortages, the new study by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows. By 2050, a large number of Asian nations could end up importing more than a quarter of their necessary crops, which would place them at an increased dependency on the outside world. The situation would also mean that!
any fluctuations in the price of grains would severely affect these countries' economies, leading to long-lasting downturns that would impact the region. The conclusions of this study were drawn from the advanced WATERSIM computer simulation, which was fed established data and trends that influenced Asia at the moment. The finds w...
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According to new official estimates, the already deteriorating conditions in most parts of Asia could reach a critical point by the half of this century, unless significant and long-term water reforms are set in place. The lack of irrigation systems, coupled with shifting weather patterns â€" caused by climate change â€", will deal a devastating blow to the continent's food supplies. The crops that will be most affected include rice, which is the basic food at least for two billion people, one third of the world's population, ScienceDaily reports. Wheat and maize will also be adversely affected by the water shortages, the new study by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows. By 2050, a large number of Asian nations could end up importing more than a quarter of their necessary crops, which would place them at an increased dependency on the outside world. The situation would also mean that!
any fluctuations in the price of grains would severely affect these countries' economies, leading to long-lasting downturns that would impact the region. The conclusions of this study were drawn from the advanced WATERSIM computer simulation, which was fed established data and trends that influenced Asia at the moment. The finds w...
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