Topic: COMPUTER - on March 6, 2009 at 2:08:00 PM CET
Computer Data Storage Through the Ages -- From Punch Cards to Blu-Ray
Your next build may very well come configured with dual-SSD drives in a RAID 0 array for the OS, a gluttonous 2TB SATA HDD for storage duties, and a Blu-ray optical drive for movie watching and HD backups. And for quick transfers from one rig to another, does it get any sweeter than a 64GB USB thumb drive loaded with all of your favorite apps? Such a storage scheme is certainly worthy of dream machine status, but our storage options weren't always as fanciful, fast, and fat as they are today. Some of you may remember toting a 3.5-inch floppy to and from school, while others hearken all the way back to cassette tapes. And if you've lived long enough to remember the IBM Punch Card first hand, just ask and we'll SPEAK LOUDER.
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Topic: CARS - on March 6, 2009 at 2:07:00 PM CET
Two angry camels in a car
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 6, 2009 at 1:07:00 PM CET
Tosca - My First
'No Hassle' is the new album by Viennese soundscape masters Tosca. Forefathers of the nu-Balearic/cosmic scene of artists such as Studio, Quiet Village, A Mountain Of One and Windsurf; Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber have produced their most magical and mesmerizing album yet. A luxurious tapestry of analogue and digital sounds, submerged samples and live instruments; 'No Hassle' evolves and expands into an hour-long ambient symphony. The title reflects not only the duo's laid back approach to making music but their whole philosophy of life.
Multi-instrumentalists Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber have been friends since their Vienna schooldays, when they founded their first experimental band, Dehli 9. Richard later became half of the globally acclaimed DJ-producer duo Kruder and Dorfmeister, while Rupert worked in piano composition, sound-art installation and acoustic networks. The duo rediscovered their musical chemistry again with their Tosca debut, the 1994 12" 'Chocolate Elvis'; a string of highly praised albums and remix collections followed.
g-stoned.com Tosca mit neuem Album "No Hassle" im April Review: Tosca - No Hassle
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on March 6, 2009 at 1:05:00 PM CET
Österreichs Journalisten: Sie ticken anders
Österreichische Journalisten nehmen besonders gerne Einfluss auf die politische Agenda und neigen zu einer spezifisch österreichischen Form des Kampagnenjournalismus. Sie halten sich deshalb trotzdem für besonders kritische Aufklärer.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 6, 2009 at 1:02:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay Defendant Restarts Server Remotely during Trial
Fredrik Neij - one of the accused in the trial against thepiratebay.org - took some time to manage the website remotely in the middle of the closing argument.
- A server was down and I restarted it, Neij tells expressen.se. He is one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay that stand accused of “complicity to making copyrighted material accessible” (yes, that’s the charge). That didn’t stop him from taking care of a server mishap in the middle of the trial’s closing argument.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 6, 2009 at 1:00:00 PM CET
How to stop the drug wars - Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution
A HUNDRED years ago a group of foreign diplomats gathered in Shanghai for the first-ever international effort to ban trade in a narcotic drug. On February 26th 1909 they agreed to set up the International Opium Commission—just a few decades after Britain had fought a war with China to assert its right to peddle the stuff. Many other bans of mood-altering drugs have followed. In 1998 the UN General Assembly committed member countries to achieving a “drug-free world” and to “eliminating or significantly reducing” the production of opium, cocaine and cannabis by 2008.
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