Sound Channels
In a surround sound setup you will find that different speakers will produce different sounds. There are four types of channel for the surround setup. The centre, front, the surround…
The Knowledge : THX
THX-rated For the ultimate in sublime surround sound, there's only one place to THX stands for 'Tomlinson Holman's eXperiment' and is named after a past technical director of LucasFilm, the…
New Internet domains in the works
The Internet may soon see two new top-level domains: .jobs and .mobi. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Monday that its board had voted unanimously to…
Bioelectromagnetics Research
University of California CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ASSOCIATED WITH RADIATION FIELDS OF MOBILE TELEPHONES by Dr W. Ross Adey Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside Calif. 92521 USA 1.…
Travels in American Iraq
Travels in American Iraq By Reviewer: Scott Burchill August 28, 2004 Page Tools Email to a friend Printer format TRAVELS IN AMERICAN IRAQ, By John Martinkus, Black Inc, $ The…
New hacking tool: chocolate
The survey was conducted by the organizers of Infosecurity Europe 2004, a security exhibition to be held in London next week. They offered 172 commuters at Liverpool Street Station a…
Who says safe computing must remain a pipe dream?
But that's not true, and the reality is more complicated. You're screwed if you do nothing to protect yourself, but there are many things you can do to increase your…
Reports shows – only 12% of all E-Mail messages were legitimate during the month of November
Postini’s Email Stat Track Data Shows Spam and Viruses on the Rise in November 2004 Postini, the industry's leading provider of email security and management for the enterprise, today announced…
Microsoft blog service sparks censorship dodging
Boing Boing, a popular blog, reported on Friday morning that MSN Spaces is rejecting certain blog titles or URLs because they contain words that Microsoft has deemed inappropriate. However, like…
Army to deploy robots that shoot
The Army next March will begin to deploy Talon robots from Waltham, Foster-Miller. The robots will be mounted with M240 or M249 machine guns, said a Foster-Miller spokesman. The units…
The Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide Sport
Harley calls it a sport model, motorcycle magazines call it a sport-cruiser, and I call it a big standard. Whatever you call it, the FXDX (which is H-D's shorthand designation…
Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust
In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of "The…
The 1999 triumph thunderbird sport
"Yes!" I thought when I first read about the addition of the Sport model to the classic Thunderbird line, "This is the Triumph I have been waiting for." You can…
The 2001 triumph Bonneville
The 2001 Triumph Bonneville was perhaps the most awaited bike of the year; the re-introduction of one of motorcycling's most famous models. In collecting information for this review I have…
Samsung’s i730 w/Sliding Keyboard Revealed
Well, I can honestly say that this one caught us 100% by surprise. While attending Samsung USA's 2004 Showcase event in New York last night, I stumbled onto a number…
The Royal Enfield Bullet
Frankly, purchasing a Royal Enfield Bullet could be a risky proposition, due to limited distribution and unknown reliability. It is probably a maintenance intensive motorcycle, which makes it unsuitable for…
The Kawasaki W650
As I wrote in my article Good First Bikes, the Kawasaki W650 is a different kind of retro bike, a standard easy to mistake at first glance for a late…
Honda
The year was 1978, and Soichiro Honda's engineering team had completed work on their most ambitious consumer product yet, the 1047cc, 24 valve, six cylinder "CBX." Honda drew upon their…
China Search Alliance accelerates expansion to meet Google’s penetration into China
China Search Alliance, a combination of more than 200 Internet portals, accelerated its expansion to meet the upcoming challenge from the global search giant , which is expected to officially…
The Harley-Davidson Sportster
In 30 years of riding, I have discovered some things about motorcycles. In this review I am going to discuss one of my favorite bikes, the Harley-Davidson Sportster. (The example…