Gartner, the fat lady of research firms, is singing HD DVD’s swan song this morning. Hiroyuki Shimizu, Principal Research Analyst in Japan, says in Gartner’s Semiconductor DQ Monday Report that, “Gartner believes that Toshiba’s price-cutting may prolong HD DVD’s life a little, but the limited line-up of film titles will inflict fatal damage on the format.” He goes on to call the recent price cuts “useless resistance” in avoiding the inevitable.
This is a 1971 Coca-Cola commercial. The quality’s a little lousy but it’s the real thing.
Buy the World a Coke
It’s the real thing. Coke.
Well… This is quite old (last October) but I just watched it only. Adobe gave a sneak peek into Flash Player 10 and showed off the new RTL, multi-column text engine, the new 3D features, and the new bitmap effect scripting language, Hydra.
Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote
Very neat! But not what I was hoping to come out for Flash Player 10. I was kinda hoping on improvements on the UI. Flex has these really nice containers that I wish were part of Flash too. Didn’t quite like the way Flex and Flash are different products too. I dislike seeing code in XML files (Flex) and I working on presentation without XML is painful (Flash).
Very cool explanation by Penn & Teller on how to pull off one of their famous tricks.
It’s just so enjoyable to watch I never thought how it’s done. If you love magic and want to continue to love magic, perhaps you shouldn’t watch the video.
Suharto (1921 to 2008). Former Indonesian dictator Haji Muhammad Suharto — the “smiling general” who ruled his country with an iron fist for three decades — died Sunday at a hospital in Jakarta, said his doctor. He was 86.
Former Indonesian President Suharto dies at 86
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — Former Indonesian dictator Haji Muhammad Suharto — the “smiling general” who ruled his country with an iron fist for three decades — died Sunday at a hospital in Jakarta, said his doctor. He was 86.
He was rushed to Pertamina Hospital on January 4 for treatment of a failing liver, heart and lungs, his doctors said.
He had been suffering at home for five days.
His death comes just a day after his doctors said he appeared to be making a remarkable recovery.
Suharto, who, like other Indonesians, only has one name, was president of Indonesia from 1967 until he was forced to resign — under immense political pressure — in 1998.
He is credited with shaping modern Indonesia by boosting the economy and making the sprawling archipelago a regional power.
However, he also reigned as the nation was beset by internal corruption and, at the end of his rule, economic decline.
“He was known as the smiling general. He could be very charming, but behind that smile was this streak of steel,” said Richard Woolcott, Australia’s former ambassador to Indonesia.
“In the short term, he’ll probably be judged fairly harshly by Australian critics and others in the West, but in the longer term, I suspect historians will see his contributions to Indonesia in a very positive light,” Woolcott told CNN.
Source: CNN
TODAY Singapore reports that, in order to solve the MRT squeeze, Singapore is to build two new lines that run parallel to the present routes at the cost of $20 billion.
(Map of the new $20 billion MRT lines. Image credit: TODAY Online)
Answer to the MRT squeeze
THE problem is a familiar one: The passenger squeeze in MRT trains.
The solution is radical â at least in the Singaporean context: Build two new lines that run parallel to the present routes at a cost of $20 billion.
One will run from Marina Bay and end at Woodlands, very similar to the present North-South route adding new townships like Sin Ming, Kebun Baru, Thomson and Kim Seng. The other will mirror the eastern portion of the East-West Line, running through Tanjong Rhu, Siglap, Marine Parade and Bedok South.
By 2018 and 2020, respectively, the 18-station Thomson Line and the 12-station Eastern Region Line will be up and running.
The routes of the two new underground lines caught National University of Singapore (NUS) researcher Han Songguang off-guard. Said Mr Han: “In most cases, you wouldnât run parallel rail lines because they would be tapping into the same market.”
Still, Assistant Professor Terence Fan of the Singapore Management Universityâs (SMU) Lee Kong Chian School of Business pointed out that such a model is seen in New York, London and Hong Kong.
The two new lines are not the only changes to the rail network announced by Transport Minister Raymond Lim in part two of his big bang strategy on Friday: There will also be extensions to the existing lines to be ready by 2015. The North-South Line will be stretched to Marina South to take commuters to the upcoming Gardens by the Bay and the Marina Barrage. And workers at the Jurong Industrial Estate will be able to make use of the five-station Tuas Extension to get to work.
Read more at TODAY Online
My mom’s already confused with the MRT tracks, with an additional 100 stations coming up, she probably has to ask around more often in future. Even as the government announces these new MRT tracks, people are still wanting their cars. I’m not sure if we can even fill the trains by 2020, we’re likely to fill up the roads first.
Woman thinks she’s about to be fired, goes into office over weekend and destroys past 7 years’ worth of archives.
Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job â and with her boss’s phone number listed â she assumed she was about to be fired.
So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
“She decided to mess up everything for everybody,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. “She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed.”
It didn’t take Steven Hutchins, owner of the architectural firm that bears his name, much time to figure out who’d done it â Cooley was the only other person who had full access to the files.
Police arrested Cooley Monday evening and charged her with causing greater than $1,000 damage to computer files, a felony. She was bailed out the following afternoon.
Kinda funny actually.