Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 15, 2005 at 3:24:29 PM
There were three outages this past few days from Comcast all from their DNS servers.
Longhorn on schedule for release next year.
From Sci-Fi to real world, glove from 'Minority Report' is made.
New ISS crew lifts off.
Lunar land zoned for first base.No word on when Moon McDonald's will open.
Longhorn on schedule for release next year.
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As for timing, Allchin said development is basically on track for the schedule outlined by the company last fall. An updated developer preview version will be given out at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, set to take place at month's end in Seattle. The company is still shooting for an initial beta around midyear, though it could be July, as the new official schedule is "early summer." A second beta is planned, though no final date has been given, with the goal of having the OS broadly available on PCs by next year's holiday season. Longhorn will come in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, Allchin said.
From Sci-Fi to real world, glove from 'Minority Report' is made.
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The system under development at Raytheon lets users don a pair of reflective gloves and manipulate images projected on a panoramic screen. A mounted camera keeps track of hand movements and a computer interprets gestures. "Your hand becomes a Swiss Army knife," says Underkoffler.
New ISS crew lifts off.
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Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and US astronaut John Phillips will be the 11th crew to live aboard the orbiting outpost. European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori will join them in the cramped Soyuz capsule during the flight and will then return to Earth with the current residents, Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov, on 24 April.
Lunar land zoned for first base.No word on when Moon McDonald's will open.
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But the Moon's poles are thought to be less extreme. Unlike Earth, the Moon spins nearly vertically with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun and so the poles never experience a sunset - the Sun just skims around the horizon as the Moon rotates. This constant light should provide stable temperatures of about -50°C and a steady source of energy - crucial requirements for any future lunar base.