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Nikon CoolPix 8800, 8400, 4800
Nikon CoolPix 8800, 8400, 4800
09/16/2004 07:27 AMThe D2X isn't the only camera Nikon announced
today, introducing three new models into its consumer CoolPix line:
the CoolPix 8800, an 8-megapixel, 10x zoom model with a vibration
reduction system (a first for the CoolPix line); the CoolPix 8400, an
8-megapixel camera with a wide-angle lens and the fetal alcohol
chassis design; and the CoolPix 4800, a 4-megapixel, 8.3x optical
point-and-shoot model.
Nikon also mentioned a new F-series film SLR - the F6 - if you
still like to rock the nitrates.
Links-a-go-go after the jump.
Does Size Really Matter? Debating The
12-Inch Vs. 15-Inch PowerBook
Does Size Really Matter? Debating The
12-Inch Vs. 15-Inch PowerBook
05/05/2004 06:36 PMBy Vincent Laforet, SportsShooter.com (via MyAppleMenu)
MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
12/16/2003 04:12 PMThe carrier announces that it will more than triple its footprint of
Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless.
"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"
"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"
08/09/2004 08:37 PMEcological Footprint
Ecological Footprint
04/19/2004 09:52 PMmyfootprint.org
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site | 4 links
"Ecological Footprint Quiz"
"Ecological Footprint Quiz"
04/21/2004 03:24 AMCray Expands Its Footprint
Cray Expands Its Footprint
03/08/2004 11:20 PMSupercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., which currently sells a single
system aimed at the highest echelon of users, is expanding its
footprint with systems for slightly less expensive HPC applications.
Can iPod stand on its own footprint?
Can iPod stand on its own footprint?
09/18/2004 12:52 PMA recent <A
HREF="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/09/17/cx_ah_0917tente
ch.html">article</A> on Forbes.com about the
Apple/Beatles lawsuit contains an interesting footnote that brings to
light and an more interesting question: Can the iPod name survive
without the Apple brand?
While the reverse is already being tested by Hewlett Packard, it
remains to be see whether any of Apple's products can survive without
their namesake. For all of Apple's unique and unmistakable designs,
what would happen if the Apple was removed from the front of the iMac?
Or the 23-inch Cinema Display? Or the back of the iPod?
Forbes seems to think that a move away from the Apple name and symbol
"would harm its prospects not one bit.
"The iPod brand is turning out to be as powerful a brand name as
that of its corporate parent. By itself, it's also free of any
expensive encumbrances involving musicians who haven't done anything
terribly interesting in the last few years (i.e., The Beatles)."
The iPod name is certainly strong enough to exist on its own, but
would there be any benefit (aside from the Apple/AppleCorps dispute)?
Could Apple create better computers — or better music players
— if the pressure was off to do both under the same moniker?
I'd like to personally think not, and with the unveiling of the latest
iteration of the iMac, it seems that Steve Jobs & Co. can certainly do
both, and do it well, if not borrowing from the other side along the
way. The iPod is as much Apple as it is its own individual namesake,
but splitting the two would likely cause separation anxiety for one
— or even both — parties.
It's not secret that the iPod has brought Apple back to major player
status, and while it may be true that Apple the computer company has
ridden Apple the music company to new heights, they most certainly
need each other to survive.
I mean, just take a look at <A
HREF"www.apple.com">Apple.com</A>…
Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship
Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship
11/01/2003 01:56 AMSunday Times South Africa Nov 1 2003 0:24AM ET
London Overground: Wi-Fi Footprint and
Future
London Overground: Wi-Fi Footprint and
Future
06/03/2004 06:30 PMExtensively researched paper describes scope of commercial, free, and
municipal wireless in London, England: Using maps, warflying,
stumbling, and other resources, Julian Priest has released an
exhaustive look at the state of wireless in London. He looks at the
lead that free networking has had in the city due to bans on
commercial deployment until early 2002; still, the commercial
footprint is extensive. Among many interesting facts and discussions
in the paper are the necessary geek per square kilometer density
necessary to fully cover London on average with free networks (about
1.25 geek activits per sq. km). Priest also review municipal projects,
none of which are rousing successes and many of which demonstrate the
limits of straitjacketed civic projects. Priest ends with a call for a
wireless festival in London that would celebrate the city's current
unwired state, while marketing and educating further to increase
density of deployment. [link via James Enck, Daiwa Securities SMBC
Europe Ltd]...
BT to double coverage footprint for
broadband SDSL
BT to double coverage footprint for
broadband SDSL
07/06/2004 03:12 AMPublicTechnology.net Jul 6 2004 7:11AM GMT
Toshiba Announces 0.85 Inch HDD,
MagicStor Announces new 1 Inch Drives
Toshiba Announces 0.85 Inch HDD,
MagicStor Announces new 1 Inch Drives
01/10/2004 12:29 AM
Toshiba
Toshiba has now officially announced their new 0.85" Hard Drive as
earlier reported.Toshiba Corporation today announced development of
0.85...
Twelve Inch Ibook Vs Twelve Inch
PowerBook Revisited
Twelve Inch Ibook Vs Twelve Inch
PowerBook Revisited
07/20/2004 09:22 PM By Charles Moore, MacOPINION (via MyAppleMenu)
Firefly Coming to DVD
Firefly Coming to DVD
12/19/2003 07:33 PMI won't remind you that a google search for firefly space western may
turn up some infromative pages, but will point you to TV Tome
[tvtome.com]. ...
Win a SnapStream Firefly
Win a SnapStream Firefly
07/05/2004 07:09 PM
Hello, friends. Let's have a contest! I've
got a Firefly PC Remote from SnapStream to give away, and I
think one of you should have it. All you need to do is send me an
email (first name is 'editor', last name is 'at gizmodo.com') with
your best caption for this picture. Let me give you an example: "Ha
ha, Howard. It is like we are going to have sex, perhaps with this
ancient computer, as in a pornographic film and also the title of this
post!" That would be, in example, a 'non-winner.'
More details after the jump.
Firefly DVD Set Released
Firefly DVD Set Released
12/19/2003 06:15 PMSci-Fi Channel Picks Up Firefly
Sci-Fi Channel Picks Up Firefly
06/17/2005 03:39 PMSlashdot Jun 16 2005 10:32AM GMT
Firefly Caption Contest
Firefly Caption Contest
07/14/2004 09:59 AMI haven't forgotten you guys. You just sent in a lot of
captions, and I'm still going through them. Plus, you know, I'm
lazy!
Snapstream Firefly Impressions
Snapstream Firefly Impressions
06/25/2004 07:15 AM
Snapstream's
Firefly is in some ways, perfect. The install is easy, the layout of
the buttons seems logical, the Firefly software never crashed on me
(with one almost-exception, which I'll get to in a minute), and for
most of the functionality it offers, it just worked.
Oh, what is it? It's an RF remote control for your PC, specifically
oriented for a Home Theater PC.
Snapstream sent me out a unit, as well as gave me an exclusive look
at its "Snapstream Spotlight" suite of software, a bundle of services
from other companies that offer crippled or demo versions to let you
get a feel for their use; companies like Movielink, Live365, or
NewsGator. Let me talk about the Firefly in general, for a moment,
then we'll get to the Spotlight.
Read the rest after the jump.
SnapStream's Firefly PC remote
SnapStream's Firefly PC remote
01/08/2004 08:16 PM A new multimedia PC remote from SnapStream, the company behind the
very well-regarded Beyond TV PVR software. The Firefly isn't designed
to work just...
New: SmartDisk FireFly 20GB drive
New: SmartDisk FireFly 20GB drive
07/08/2004 10:34 AMSmartDisk released the FireFly 20GB, a bus-powered, USB 2.0 portable
hard drive, based on a 1.8-inch/4200 RPM drive mechanism.
Firefly Caption Contest Winner
Firefly Caption Contest Winner
07/16/2004 08:46 AM
First, I want to thank you all for being
incredibly unfunny. I used to feel badly about getting paid to write
dick jokes, but you have all shown me what an elusive skill it truly
is. More specific thanks to the hundreds of you who established that
old computers look like refrigerators, Windows sucks, three men in an
office will invariable have hot, brown-suited sex, and that Douglas
Adams once wrote a paragraph featuring the number "42."
I braved permanently crippling my ability to "fun" to bring you
these highlights:
• New from Ikea - The Vacüm line of office
furniture!
• While still fighting time restrictions, the Half-Life 2
code staff works diligently on their state of the art, completely
secure vacuum computers.
• 10 PRINT "I HATE YELLOW" 20 GOTO 10
See the rest of the runners-up, plus the winning entry, inside.
Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press
Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press
08/07/2004 02:09 PMBleisatz - giftig, aber schön .. This Quicktime
micro-documentary
elsa.photo.net/video/firefly-small.mov
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Upcoming Firefly Movie Behind-the-Scenes
Photos
Upcoming Firefly Movie Behind-the-Scenes
Photos
09/12/2004 09:20 AMSmartDisk shipping tiny FireFly USB
drive
SmartDisk shipping tiny FireFly USB
drive
07/06/2004 09:57 AMSmartDisk Corp. said today that it is now shipping the FireFly USB 2.0
20GB portable hard drive...
Official Firefly Movie Web Site Launched
Official Firefly Movie Web Site Launched
06/24/2004 06:21 PMPhoto: Firefly phone calls on kids
Photo: Firefly phone calls on kids
04/14/2005 09:37 AMThe Firefly phone is small and simple--with just five keys to make and
accept all calls.
First Clip from Firefly Movie to be
Shown at Comic-Con
First Clip from Firefly Movie to be
Shown at Comic-Con
07/23/2004 06:06 AMFirefly Handheld Manages Multimedia on
PC, TV (PC World)
Firefly Handheld Manages Multimedia on
PC, TV (PC World)
06/25/2004 08:57 AMPC World - SnapStream's Spotlight software now supports premium TV
services.
Firefly Phone Reviewed (Verdict: You
Know, For Kids)
Firefly Phone Reviewed (Verdict: You
Know, For Kids)
06/22/2005 01:58 AM
The Firefly, which is
available through Cingular, is a mini-cell phone for the 8-12 set. It
has dedicated Mom and Dad button (What if Dad wears mumus or kilts and
Mom wears pants? What if it's two mommies or two daddies? Wow. The
unexpected gender politics of key caps.) and has a 911 button for
emergencies. General usage is uber-simple—press and call. The
review found some quirkiness with the initial set-up, but one can only
assume that once the Mother-Unit and Father-Unit numbers are
programmed in, all the Child-Unit has to do is press a button.
The phone uses prepaid cards to charge usage and supports 850 and
1900Mhz GSM and offers about 6 hours of talk time. It's quite small
and rounded, making it a perfect "I-lost-it-in-the-river" item for the
youngster in your life.
Review of
the Firefly mobile phone for kids [MobileBurn]
Update: Sascha Segan wants you to know he reviewed this phone in
March.
Firefly
Phone Review [PCMag]
SmartDisk FireFly: 20GB USB Hard Drive
SmartDisk FireFly: 20GB USB Hard Drive
07/08/2004 08:44 AM
I'd declare the
death of Flash Memory drives if I could, as manufacturers like
SmartDisk continue to release tiny, portable hard drives like the
FireFly, but as the capacities in both product lines grow, they both
will move to fill the niche their forebears pioneered. But as robust
and sturdy as flash memory drives can be, a product like the FireFly
-- a portable 20GB hard drive that requires no external power to
operate -- is a much smarter solution for someone who needs to carry
around a fair amount of data and doesn't mind the relatively bigger
size. It's still tiny, though, in the grand scheme of things -- only
four inches long with a weight of 3.3-ounces -- and with a retail
price of just $189, it's cheaper and easier than buying, say, an iPod
to do double-duty.
Read -
FireFly 20GB [FireFly]
Firefly Phone Mini-Review (Verdict:
Great For Kids)
Firefly Phone Mini-Review (Verdict:
Great For Kids)
04/01/2005 09:28 AM
Mobileburn talks about
their brief hands-on experience with the Firefly kids cell phone in
this piece. We first saw the Firefly last month and noted then that it lacks a standard
numeric keypad, instead limiting the user to a "Mom" key, a "Dad" key,
and a phonebook which can store up to 20 preset numbers. The phone was
"a breeze to use, and certainly was entertaining to look at,"
according to the guys at Mobileburn and may potentially have some
appeal in the senior market. Swappable faceplates and a prepaid system
make the idea of handing a cell phone to your preteen a bit more
palatable. The Firefly is available now for $200 which includes 1200
nationwide (GSM) minutes for the year.
Test-drivi
ng the kids' Firefly phone [MobileBurn]
Catalog
Page (Available now.) [SunCom]
SmartDisk ships iPod-sized 20GB USB 2.0
FireFly drive
SmartDisk ships iPod-sized 20GB USB 2.0
FireFly drive
07/06/2004 03:31 PMSmartDisk Corp. is now shipping its
FireFly portable hard drive, the company announced
on Tuesday. FireFly is a 20GB drive that's approximately the size of
an iPod and connects to your Mac via a USB 2.0 port, with the ability
to throttle transfer speeds down to USB 1.1 speed if necessary. It
weighs 3.3 ounces and receives power through your Mac's USB port.
FireFly is US$189.99 and comes with a USB 2.0 cable; it works with Mac
OS X v10.1 or higher.
GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs
GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs
08/18/2004 02:34 AMGood Technology expands internationally, opens a Canadian office.
Adds Financial Services Customer; Signs First Four Canadian VARs
[PRWEB Aug 18, 2004]
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
12/19/2004 02:54 PM
Global Footprint Stress
Index: Extreme (purple, >10), High (orange 3-10), Moderate (yellow
1-3), Low (white <1)
Last month I wrote an article
suggesting that a propensity for war-mongering and civil violence,
i.e.
the tendency to take hasty and extreme action rather than a reasoned
and responsible response to a crisis, might be attributable to what
Edward Hall describes as population stress, the adrenaline-driven
aggressive/panic stress response that all creatures exhibit when their
population greatly exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Hall
explains
that this is nature's 'last resort' method of bringing the population
of the species quickly back into balance with the rest of the
ecosystem, when the species fails to manage its own numbers and when
opportunistic diseases don't do the trick. Earlier I had calculated<
/a>
a simple Population Stress Index (PSI), which was computed by
multiplying density per arable square mile by population growth rate,
and I compared it to an astonishingly similar map by another
blogger, Matthew White, showing violent death rate by country.
As I explained in last month's post, the PSI is an imperfect stress
index. It does not show the very different levels of consumption and
demand on local resources of people in different countries (which has
as much to do with sustainability as population). So I have now
computed a Footprint Stress Index (FSI), plotted on the map above,
which is computed as follows:
- First, I calculated the Resource Use Index
by taking the aggregate Ecological Footprint (EF) of each country in
hectares (the per capita footprint from sources such as the Living Planet Report, times the country's
population), and dividing it by the number of habitable
hectares of land in the country (I used as a proxy for this the lesser
of 80% of total land area and 200% of Oxford's 'arable land area'
data). This very useful number indicates the number of times over each
country's citizens are using the renewable and sustainable resources
available to them. A Resource Use index of 1.0 is sustainable. An
index
of, say, 5, indicates that to restore the country to sustainability,
it
needs to do some combination of reducing population and reducing
per-capita resource consumption, by a combined 80%. The table below
shows some sample Resource Use indices I computed.
- Then I
multiplied this Resource Use Index by the estimated
annual growth rate of the country's aggregate Ecological Footprint.
For
this, I started with the annual population growth rate as a proxy (the
EF studies suggest aggregate footprint and population are growing at
roughly the same rate), and then substituted more precise EF growth
rate numbers when I could find them online (China's EF is growing much
faster than its population, for example).
Resource Use Index: Sample
Countries
80 Japan
60 S.Korea
40 Israel, Palestine
35 Switzerland
25 Netherlands, Belgium, UK
16 Germany
13 Ireland, France, Italy, Venezuela
11 US, Columbia, Chile, Sweden
|
9 China, Philippines
8 Congo
6 World Overall
6 S.Africa, New Zealand
5 Brasil, Iran, Mexico
3 Canada, India, Iraq, Russia
2 Australia, Argentina
1 A few equatorial African nations |
Footprint Stress Index: Sample
Countries
40+ Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait
30 China
18 Congo
12 Venezuela,
Columbia
10 US
8 Chile
6
India, Netherlands, Belgium, Iraq
4.5 World Overall
|
4.0 Mexico, Iran, UK
3.0 New Zealand, Sweden
2.0 Brasil, Argentina, Japan,
France
1.5 Canada, Australia
1.0 S.Korea, Switzerland
0.5 Germany,
Italy
0.0 S.Africa, Russia
|
The US, China, Congo, Colombia, Venezuela, and several Mid-Eastern
nations all have FSIs in excess of 10. These are all countries
embroiled in war, imperialistic or regional or civil, except for China
where dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. These are the countries that
are suffering enormous anxiety because not only are they consuming
vastly more resources than what they have available domestically,
their
populations or industrial capacities are also growing rapidly, meaning
they will need to find ever more resources outside the country to feed
the soaring need.
Japan, South Korea and most European nations have very high Resource
Use Indices, but because their populations are growing slowly and
because they are mostly very aware of conservation, their EFs are not
increasing. As a result, their FSIs are more moderate. Because they
all
depend so heavily (90% or more) on imports of other countries' natural
resources, however, as these resources get depleted and as exporting
countries realize how cheaply they are giving them away, these
nations'
unsustainable resource demands will not be able to be met, and that
will drive their Footprint Stress Indices way up. Once these
scarcities
become endemic, there will no longer be any option to increase resource use, and at that
point the Resource Use Index itself will become the Footprint Stress
Index.
What will the world be like when dozens of nations, whose economies
are using resources at more than ten
times
the rate they can sustain them from domestic supplies, suddenly find
the price of these supplies quadrupling, or that these supplies are
not
available at any price? Colour all the countries on the left side of
the Resource Use Index table above purple on the map at the top of
this
article and you'll get the idea. We're talking about a world war for
increasingly scarce resources. And all of the countries on the right
side of that table then become invasion targets.
We all know what we have to do. Immediate massive taxes on resources
to
finance the development of technologies that conserve or don't require
natural resources. Shut-down of corporations that waste resources,
that
pollute, and that produce non-essential products. An end to subsidies,
so that we can begin to realize the true cost of our profligate
deficit
spending. The pay-down of government debts to reduce the risk of
economic collapse when interest and inflation rates spike. Incentives
for having no children, or maybe one.
Of course, we have no appetite for these draconian solutions. The
corporatist Frankenstein monster is perpetuating the waste and madness
that is producing this crisis, and they accept no responsibility for
the ultimate Tragedy of the Commons that will hit us with colossal
force once we simply run out of resources to consume to keep
civilization's engine running. The hydrogen economy simply won't occur
fast enough to stave off disaster.
Our best hope is, ironically, that some crisis will shock us into
collective action before the real crunch hits. We learned nothing from
the oil line-ups a generation ago, but perhaps it is not too late. If
the first crisis to hit is manageable, we may be motivated to combine
three massive human efforts: Voluntary negative population growth,
global large-scale conservation, and an unprecedented investment in
innovation and new low-footprint technologies, that could prevent a
social, economic and ecological collapse. We survived a Great
Depression three quarters of a century ago by exactly this type of
huge, collective intervention. That's what we need now. The 'market'
isn't going to fix this mess.
|
12 Inch G4/1.33 GHz PowerBook Vs 15 Inch
G4/1.5 GHz PowerBook... How Much Faster
Is It
12 Inch G4/1.33 GHz PowerBook Vs 15 Inch
G4/1.5 GHz PowerBook... How Much Faster
Is It
06/02/2004 12:48 AMBy MacReviewZone (via MyAppleMenu)
Breaking News - Firefly with Freshtel's
Low Cost Offnet Fixed and Cell Phone
Termination Launched This Week has the
World in a Buzz
Breaking News - Firefly with Freshtel's
Low Cost Offnet Fixed and Cell Phone
Termination Launched This Week has the
World in a Buzz
05/31/2004 02:11 PMAustralian VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) developers Freshtel
proudly announce the public release of their much-anticipated low cost
off-net toll quality calling from PC to fixed and cell phones using
the Firefly internet soft phone.The Firefly internet phone now extends
it features by allowing its customers to call landlines and cell
phones but with great advantages over other services. [PRWEB May
10, 2004]
The Tower
The Tower
01/24/2004 10:19 AMProject totally rewrote
tower toppler 1.0.5
tower toppler 1.0.5
01/25/2004 04:11 PMA platform game where you have to climb a tower.
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