"AMD announced its latest addition to the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series, the ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card. With a similar featureset as the HD 5800 series, this radical-looking card supports both DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2, and is geared toward casual gamers and home theater buffs.
With a clock speed of 650MHz, this card won't get too hot too fast. Some models are passively cooled while others have a low-speed fan, ensuring practically silent operation; this makes the RadeonHD 5450 perfect for situations where quiet fans are necessary, like a home theater setup.
In addition to being quiet, the HD 5450 consumes less than 20 watts while under a full processing load, so no external power connection is necessary.
If you do plan on using the HD 5450 in your home theater PC, you'll be happy to know that it includes support for HDMI 1.3a, as well as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
The HD 5450 features ATI's Eyefinity multi-monitor technology: One card can drive three displays, making it easier to set up your PC with multiple monitors.
The best part? ATI has set the price at $60 for the HD 5450, so you can save your money for a slick set of monitors or building a quiet PC to control your home theater.
You can find more information about the RadeonHD 5450 on AMD's site." PCWorld
This sounds like something I would want to get for my current computer.
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I was born to soon… I think I wish I was a bit younger. A new company is ready to sell a sex robot. Roxxxy TrueCompanion could soon belong to me for only $7K.
That is much cheaper than a real woman.
I read about it at the CNN web site. I went to the Roxxy TrueCompanion web site but I could not see much… They have to much traffic at their web site… I think that tells you something.
They are going to sell a lot of their sex robots.
I do not have $7K so I will not be getting one. If I had $7K would I buy one? I don’t think so … I have never got any sort of sex toy in the past.
I would love to see Roxxxy in operation. I would love to try her out.
I wonder if 7,000 of us could each pay $1.00 and own one. We could share her. Smile
Well I changed my mind after seeing some photos on their web site. I think I will pass on Roxxxy. It looks like a dead person to me. I am not into sex with dead people.
A company should make a sex robot that you do not have sex with..That way the face/mouth would not look like it does… Just have the sex toy that talks to you and tells you how great you are and how them the sex toy loves you and how well hung you are… That is all I need. Smile
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“Tonight’s full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.
This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name.
But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here’s how the moon works:
The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon’s orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other.
So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year.
Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather.com.
As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object…” Yahoo News
It is going to be cold tonight but I am going to check it out.
I love looking at the sky. I love space and astronomy. I wish my eyes were better and I wish I had the location and the equipment to do astronomy.
I can not afford more than one hobby.. Hell I can not afford one hobby and I consider the Internet and computers to be one hobby.
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“This exquisite piece of brilliant Italian composer Gioachinno
Rossini was adapted to the voice of children and entitled "Cats Duet".
Not enough the tunned voice of two boys who make the soil, it becomes also very funny.
Note the position of the singer who can not hide his laughter, unlike the blond always serious and interpenetrated his role.Concert given in Seoul (Korea) on 30/11/96 by the chorus of "Petits chanteurs à la Croix de Bois.” Comment on YouTube by gorlagster
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Michael Jackson’s long time choreographer Travis Payne and MJ dancers Performed with the Dancing inmates on January 19, 2010. Sony Studios made this event possible!
"They Don’t Care About Us" is the fourth single from Michael Jackson’s album HIStory. The song remains one of the most controversial pieces Jackson ever composed. In the US, media scrutiny surrounding alleged antisemitic lyrics were the catalyst for Jackson issuing multiple apologies and re-recording the album—altering the lyrics for that particular track. The singer countered allegations of antisemitism, arguing that reviews had misinterpreted the context of the song, either unintentionally or deliberately. Musically, it is an aggressive hip-hop production about social ills.
The song was accompanied by two music videos directed by Spike Lee. The first was shot in a shantytown of Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador where State authorities tried to ban all production over fears the video would damage their image, the area and prospects of staging the 2004 Olympics. Still, the residents of the area were happy to see the singer, hoping their problems would be made visible to a wider audience. The second video was shot in a prison and contained video footage of multiple references to human rights abuses.
Commercially, the song became a top ten hit in all European countries and number one in Germany for three weeks. In the US, radio stations were reluctant to play the controversial composition; it, however, managed to peak at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.” Wikipedia
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“While covering the CES conference for us recently, Traci was astounded by the new Facevision TouchCam N1. It’s an HD video cam with an embedded H.264 codec chip, and dual microphones! This allows for crystal-clear HD video and superior audio at the same time. This little gadget is the first Skype certified video camera, and works perfectly for all of your video-conferencing needs. Thanks to Creative for sending Traci the Vado 3 to use during CES!” http://twitter.com/tracitoguchi – http://geeks.pirillo.com – http://chris.pirillo.com – http://lockergnome.net
They are saying it will be out in March and sell for $119.00 and I will be ordering one of them to try out for sure.
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(CNN) – In his weekly radio and video address Saturday, President Obama sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this week easing some campaign finance regulations.
"This ruling opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money into our democracy," Obama says in the address. "It gives the special interest lobbyists new leverage to spend millions on advertising to persuade elected officials to vote their way – or to punish those who don’t."
Full transcript of address after the jump
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“So Bill Gates is on Twitter. Hey, it’s 2010 after all. He’s trying to keep up with Larry King on the tech front. It makes sense, says DVICE: Gates is "master and commander of anything with a blue screen of death." His first Tweet—"Hello World"—was an inside joke that "pays tribute to basic programming," explains Ubergizmo. Surprised it wasn’t a C:> prompt. Post Tech says "the public response has been huge. In just one day, @BillGates amassed more than 234,000 followers." More interesting: who is Gates following? It’s mostly charities and politicians, but "for some reason, the malaria-battler is keeping Ryan Seacrest and Ashley Tisdale on his short list," says Switched.
So what is Bill Gates doing now? Well, mostly just promoting his new web site, The Gates Notes. Yep, this isn’t just a cool way to retweet check Ashton Kutsher after all. "Looks like his foray into Twitter and his return to Facebook on Tuesday weren’t just for the heck of it," says The Microsoft Blog. Techflash says the new Gates Notes site includes a section dubbed "What I’m Thinking," with topics including the crisis in Haiti and the role of innovation in addressing global warming. "It’s an interesting move that could establish more of public presence for Gates independent of Microsoft or his foundation." Wait—he’s on Facebook too? That’s correct, sir. Last August, Gates quit FB because, Mashable reported, there were "10,000 people wanting to be my friend" and it was time consuming to decide if he "knew this person, did I not know this person." (Hold on a sec, you have to know your friends??) This time around on FB, Gates is a "Page" rather than a person, so he won’t have to deal with the countless friend requests.
Elsewhere, a Hong Kong outfit called NMA News has made this hilarious CGI video that makes sense of the whole Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien mess. Boing Boing raves: "The magic happens around a minute in, when CoCo [that's Conan] transforms into the Incredible Hulk, and Leno into Superman." BB points out that there’s an English-language version, too, but it’s not as funny. Elsewhere on the boob tube, a new video at The Onion reports that the coming final season of ABC’s Lost "promises to make Lost fans more annoying than ever."
The White House has released its own iPhone app which helps you get nothing accomplished more conveniently! Oh yeah! Thank you! No, but seriously, reports TechPresident, it puts some of WhiteHouse.gov’s video on the device so you can watch Obama’s State of the Union address in your hand, and it links to WhiteHouse.gov/Live, "the White House’s under-appreciated live-streaming feature that shows what’s happening at the White House at any particular time." With both the State of the Union and Super Bowl XLIV coming up, here’s a timely way to kill a few hours: America Bowl, which compares America’s 44 Presidents against its (as of next month) 44 Super Bowls, to see "which have been better." One match-up per day. It’s "A delightful waste of time," says Democracy in America. "So brilliant that I’m completely jealous not to have thought of it myself," says Uni Watch blog. Philebrity calls it laughably unsexy. Yep, sounds like it belongs on the Web.
Speaking of fantasy-league politics, how about that Massachussetts election? Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat that Democrat Ted Kennedy had held for more than 11 centuries. "We have our first teabagger U.S. Senator," says Joe My God. Democratic candidate Martha Coakley had to pull out all the stops to lose in liberal Mass. For post-mortems, The Gaggle explains "how Coakley blew it," and Business Insider explains "how Martha Coakley blew it" and The Daily Banter recaps "how the Democrats blew it (again)." On the Daily Show Jon Stewart was in disbelief at how incompetent Coakley’s campaign was and how it possibly ruined national healthcare reform. Says Washington Examiner: "You really F#@&ed this up!" he yelled into the camera as he highlighted Coakley’s numerous campaign gaffes, including calling former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling a Yankee fan. Oh, by the way, the guy who won, Brown, once posed nude for Cosmo. "Cosmo named Brown "America’s Sexiest Man" back in its June 1982 edition—and he posed for the magazine with nothing but a strategically placed arm," says Fitsnews.”
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How cute is that? I am watching it right now and there are 5,579 other people watching at the same time. The streaming site is Ustream and the video site is: Shiba Inu Puppy Cam.
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Top Stories for the Week of Jan. 11-15, 2010
This just in: Google is the Word of the Decade. Tweet was the word of 2009. "Every year throws up new words and phrases that seemingly emerge from nowhere to become part of our everyday language," says Tech.Blorge (note: though Blorge sounds like it was thrown up, it’s still not a word-of-the-year candidate). The American Dialect Society put tweet ahead of fail, public option, H1N1, death panel, and sexting. Interesting that both tweet and Google are proprietary names, says The English Blog. Those were just two of the neologisms that zeitgeisted out of the Dialect Society’s latest tribunal, which insider Ben Zimmer at the Word Routes blog says was "a standing-room-only affair." According to You Don’t Say, which also had a reporter present, other lean memes that received honors were: "Sea kittens, an inane substitute for fish proposed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was voted ‘Most Unnecessary’ winner."
What else did the Web throw up this week? The Rumpus posted an interview with an anonymous Facebook employee that has some users frantic and others not so much. The FB worker said, among other stuff, that FB insiders once had a master password to access any account, but it’s been deactivated—and "replaced by a pretty cool tool " that does something similar. Gawker says this illustrates "why you shouldn’t trust Facebook with your data." (Umm, too late!). All Facebook says Facebook’s PR team is dismissing this interview as a bunk sandwich filled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations. Gizmodo says it’s still unsettling: "Employees still have access to all sorts of info about any user, including what profiles you view and any information you have since deleted. Acceptable business practices or privacy disaster?"
Ah, maybe someday future Web workers will be able to track your twibbons to see how you joined Team Conan on Twitter or connected to I’m with COCO on Facebook. What? American Dialect Society Alert: Code Orange! As the late night comedy wars flared up again, Mashable reported that "Facebookers are showing their support for [Conan O'Brien] by changing their pictures to the COCO image." TMZ says people who work (worked?) for The Tonight Show and NBC have joined the movement. "So you want to be on Team Conan? Along with the whole Internet, apparently!," says Pop Watch, which also has the lowdown on the twibbons and a link to the requisite subtitled video mashup, "Hitler learns Leno is moving back to late night." Meanwhile some are just adding Conan’s hair to their own photos.
Back in the real world (not really!), the New York Times has produced a fascinating (up to a point) interactive tool that maps 2009’s most popular Netflix rentals by zip code in 10 cities. "Great job, NYT. I think I just spent a good hour browsing this one. How’s that for engaging data?" says Flowing Data. FD and NewTeeVee are both all over the data with screen grabs of the most salient demographic trends, like a comparison of the popularity of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in Atlanta vs. Boston.
Bringing closure to another Web meme of 2009, the TV show Tosh.0 opened its new season by giving YouTube sensation David, that kid in the car whose father videotaped him loopy on dental drugs, a bit of revenge. "Comedian Daniel Tosh tracked down a David off the meds and helped him get back at his dad," says hip parenting blog StrollerDerby. That including giving dad some knockout gas and some payback.
Yeah, the Web knows how to laugh at itself, but it can get serious quickly too. Blogs and social networks around the globe stepped up quickly to try helping Haiti after this week’s catastrophic earthquake. Everyone from conservative blogger Michelle Malkin to The Daily Beast to British left-wing blog Liberal Conspiracy is listing ways to go online or off and help. Popeater looks at Haitian native Wyclef Jean’s efforts to mobilize help, including his trip to Haiti and his tweeting soliciting donations. Search Engine Watch details how searches on "Haiti relief" delivered extremely useful information, especially on Google and Bing. BaltTech reports that an American Red Cross campaign to let people donate money by text message, spread via Facebook and elsewhere, had raised more $800,000. Occasionally Google and tweet are more than just buzzwords.
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