MacBook Pro 17"

Part media center, part workstation, the Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch has been revered over the years by a nation of professional photographers and film editors, not to mention average media folks who can't get enough of this thin-bodied cinematic wonder. When the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Dual Graphics) and the MacBook 13-inch (Aluminum) launched with their "unibody" enclosures—in each case, a heavily promoted slab of aluminum that rids the frame of all detachable parts—a "uni-seventeen-incher" was clearly on the way. The Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch (Unibody) ($2,799 direct) is still the lightest and the prettiest media center laptop to house a maximum-resolution screen, and the changes are significant.

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What can I say other than DUH!?

Dude you are getting a Dull PC

What a failure Dell is nowadays... And this company still loves Micro$oft. They deserve this downfall. This is what you get when you sleep with the M$. Enjoy it Dull, eh, sorry, I mean Dell.

Dell reported fourth quarter earnings of $351 million, or 18 cents a share, on revenue of $13.4 billion, down 16 percent from a year ago. That earnings figure (statement) included a pretax charge of $277 million, or 11 cents a share, related to restructuring. Excluding that charge, Dell would have had earnings of 29 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 28 cents a share. Dell reported earnings of $2.47 billion, or $1.25 a share, on revenue of $61.1 billion for fiscal 2009.

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Watchmen

The film Watchmen is almost here.

The majority of the reviews have already hit the web. And the results are worrying. Before I will let you know my personal opinion I would like to let you know this:

I didn't like Lord of the Rings Return of the King. The same with 300. As a matter of fact I hated them. Awful movies in my opinion. They took the original book and graphic novel which were awesome and created awful movies. Heck even destroying the comics in the process.

I guess the same will ring true for the Watchmen. The sickening slow motion editing of Watchmen seen in the trailers have me worrying about this movie, say 50% already.

Will I go and watch the Watchmen? Sure. Will I be able to sit and watch it up until the end which runs almost 3 hours? Maybe. Will I enjoy it? To be honest the trouble is that I already did. Tens of times already in its original graphic novel form. I think Watchmen will be another example of mine of how uber "comics" can turn into crap movies. Yep. Like 300 did before it.

I wish that I will be wrong about this and somehow I will enjoy this movie. But come on. Get real. The original graphic novel vs this hollywood blockbuster? No contest. Watchmen comic ftw.

Here is hoping that it will not end up being for me another 300 or Return of the King which I still hate to this day.

As stimulating as it was to see the superhero movie enter the realm of crime fiction in "The Dark Knight," "Watchmen" enters into a realm that is both nihilistic and campy. The two make odd companions. The film, directed by Zack Snyder ("300"), will test the limits of superhero movie fans. If you're not already invested in these characters because of the original graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, nothing this movie does is likely to change that predicament.

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For more you can always go rotten.

Mark my words... This movie is going to be one of the following two things:
Epic success
or
Epic failure

1.5 million (yes million) year old human footprints found

Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men's shoe.

The findings at a Northern Kenya site represent the oldest evidence of modern-human foot anatomy. They also help tell an ancestral story of humans who had fully transitioned from tree-dwellers to land walkers.

"In a sense, it's like putting flesh on the bones," said John Harris, an anthropologist with the Koobi Fora Field School of Rutgers University. "The prints are so well preserved ."

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Street Fighter IV

Its not the size of your joystick that matters but what you do with it!

Fighting games that remain popular today are mostly 3-D, like Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter, but with Street Fighter IV, Capcom pulls off the ultimate straddle: The gameplay draws heavily from the classics, but the graphics are as advanced as anything else around — and neither gets in the other's way.
If you've spent time with a Street Fighter game before — and odds are excellent that you have — you'll know how to play Street Fighter IV, released this week on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. (The arcade version came out last year.)

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Hack the planet

IN A room in London late last year, a group of British politicians were grilling a selection of climate scientists on geoengineering - the notion that to save the planet from climate change, we must artificially tweak its thermostat by firing fine dust into the atmosphere to deflect the sun's rays, for instance, or perhaps even by launching clouds of mirrors into space.

Surely the scientists gave such a heretical idea short shrift. After all, messing with the climate is exactly what got us into such trouble in the first place. The politicians on the committee certainly seemed to believe so. "It is not sensible, is it? It is not a serious suggestion?"

Had the question been posed a few years ago, most climate scientists would have agreed. But the mood is changing. In the face of potentially catastrophic climate change, the politicians and scientists all agreed that since cuts to carbon emissions will likely fall short we need to be exploring "Plan B". Climatologists have hit a "social tipping point" says Tim Lenton of the University of East Anglia, UK.

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On an irrelevant note, hack the planet, is a quote from an old movie that I still love to watch A LOT.

Hackers ftw ;)

Micro$oft Office 14 aka M$ Office 2009

will not be released in 2009 but in 2010 and it will be called M$ Office 2010, maybe :P

Microsoft will not release its next-generation Office 14 suite in 2009, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer confirmed during a Tuesday "strategy update" Webcast. A "netbook"-like version of Windows Server is also planned.
Ballmer offered a midquarter update to Wall Street analysts, focusing primarily on the impact of the economy on the company's business. Microsoft is using RCA as a model, Ballmer said; RCA continued to invest during the Depression, then went on to dominate the television industry.

"And that's kind of the mindset that we have relative to the economic situation," Ballmer said. "You don't beat it, you manage in this environment; you don't think about it as a short term, you think of it as a reset that may take several years."

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And guess what? The Mac version may go further into 2011. But who cares? I mean, only stupid Mac people are still using that Mac M$ Office crap thing. iWork, NeoOffice, OpenOffice, etc. are better. Heck, even M$ Office 2007 under VM Windows is better than the Mac M$ Office 2008 crap.

Ice Man or just man?

PERCHED on the edge of an Antarctic ice sheet, Lewis Gordon Pugh surveys the waves. At 0 °C, water does not get much colder than the sea beneath him. Undeterred, Pugh unzips his jacket, strips down to his swimming trunks and dives in.

Most of us would start to hyperventilate uncontrollably if we dived into such cold water. Pugh doesn't even gasp in pain but instead starts swimming. In December 2005, when Pugh took this plunge (pictured above), he went on to swim a kilometre in just over 18 minutes. Many ordinary people would drown after just a few minutes in such cold water. Pugh, however, not only survived but went on to make several more long-distance swims in extremely cold water (see graph). So what makes him able to keep swimming in such extreme cold?

A study of Pugh published last month has confirmed that his response to cold water is anything but normal. Remarkably, though, while Pugh may have some innate advantages, it seems his near-superhuman ability is largely down to training - so perhaps it could be something we are all able to learn.

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GarageBand makes us lonely

Apple unlocks the gates to the tech castle, rolls out the red carpet and says 'welcome' in clear language. This means that anyone can be productive, and not only that, their efforts can lead to results that sound - and look - surprisingly slick.

This is countered by charges that Apple's software is for simpletons and idiots.

It's a bit like the car analogy - when they first came out, cars were for the rich, and owners either needed to be mechanically fascinated enough to become apt or to hire a full-time mechanic. How they must have railed when first, everyman could afford a car (thanks to Henry Ford, mostly) then, worse, could drive them day to day without retaining the services of full-time mechanics.

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Interesting read but if you ask me the same holds truth for every single iLife and iWork application. I still remember all the hating for iWeb when it first came out. Some crazy haters even went as far as spreading FUD of how professional web designers would lose their jobs because of it. Whatever.

Safari 4 beta

Introducing Safari 4 Beta. Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world’s fastest web browser.

What is Safari?
It’s a browser. It’s a platform. It’s an open invitation to innovate. Whether on a Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPod touch, Safari continuously redefines the browser, providing the most enjoyable way to experience the Internet.

Read more here and also download it from here (Mac and Windows), now!

Loving it. Every single feature so far. Safari 4 beta ftw!

Sony POS

muahahaha.com


Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

roflmao

Although a bit old "news" its always good for a rocky day ahead ;)

David Lynch mania

He is The Man. He is The Filmmaker. He is David Lynch. Love him or hate him but you cannot ignore him or his work.

When he speaks you listen. When he makes films, you watch. I owe him one. Sorry for that David. I will catch up. I promise!









You can find a lot more by Mr.David Lynch all over the Internet, TVs and video clubs. Go get some David Lynch mania. You know you want it.