In reading about a proposal to offer unlimited downloads as part of the ipod’s price and in noticing that compensating the artists wasn’t even part of the conversation - the following ironic joke came to mind:Apple: Would you sleep with me for a million dollars a shot? Music Industry: Um, yes. Apple: Would you sleep with me for 30 cents a shot? Music Industry: What kind of girl do you think I am? Apple: We’ve already established that, now we are just negotiating the price. That’s inaccurate
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“When someone from the audience asked Mary McDonnell, who plays President Roslin, if Barack Obama had approached her to be his running mate, she replied that Hillary had. At which point Douglas quipped: ‘Hillary’s the final cylon.’ Badabum!” The promotional campaign for BSG Season 4 gets rolled out of drydock, including a stop on Letterman’s Top 10. [Text.] Not great, frankly, but it’s redeemed by #5, #1, and the World’s Most Dangerous Band’s mean version of “All along the Watchtower.” If you’r
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A silly little story about the inanities of defense contracting. In the Army’s vision of the future, every 200-man company of soldiers will carry around its own, 30-pound ground robot — to peer around corners, hunt for improvised bombs, what have you. The idea is to keep the thing as light and as simple as possible, since some poor grunt is going to have to haul the robot around on his back, in addition to his regular load. And since the machine is very likely to be blown up anyway. But t
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We think our lovely young Korean friend there has some issues to sort with her vacuuming technique (at least the floor looks clean), but there’s no argument that her two new cleaning devices from Samsung are both easy on the eyes. And speaking of eyes, one of them even has eyes of a sort… The Roomba-esque Hauzen VC-RE70V robot vacuum uses an onboard camera to map out the layout of your dirty domain, avoiding areas it’s little trilobite vacuum has already cleaned. It also has an additional 15
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(Credit: Samsung) How do you come up with a vacuuming bot that can compete with the Roomba, which has become a household word? (A least in Michael Kanellos’ house anyway.) Answer: Make it smarter. That, at least is apparently the strategy of Samsung, which has created its own OCD bot …
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This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content. Seeing as BD+ has been cracked you can see that the scene has been flooded with Bluray rips from all kinds of movies, and here is another one of them. I Robot is a pretty well known movie starring Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan with a pretty good plot line. There are a lot of special effects and CGI in this movie so watching it in HD is a must for me. It’s 2035 A.D., where robots are everyday objects and are prog
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As well as hanging out with attractive women on the bed, Samsung’s new Hauzen VC-RE70V robot vacuum has some clever tech inside. It actually uses a camera to generate a map of your room, so it knows where it has already cleaned. When it’s low on juice it hunts down its charging base for power, and then zooms back to where it had got to before. Of course it also does obstacle avoidance with 15 sensors, but that’s not as cool as the mapping function. If it had internet connectivity, it’d be the s
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Filed under: Household Samsung’s no stranger to automated floor sucking creatures, but the latest from the outfit is looking to give your Roomba a real run for its money. The Hauzen VC-RE70V sports a fairly attractive shell along with a built-in camera to “see” where it’s going; better still, it can reportedly snap pictures of rooms as it goes in order to build a map of your domicile in its “brain” and keep things quick on subsequent cleanings. Just like your Automower, this thing will also au
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Similar to the Lawnbott, Husqvarna’s Solar Powered Automatic Lawnmower will mow your lawn for you will you sip your lemonade and laugh at your neighbors for being less ‘1337′ than you. However, unlike the Lawnbott, the Husqvarna lawn mower is both battery and solar powered, capable of charging itself in 40 minutes for 40 minutes of work on its battery alone. On a sunny day, its solar panel will provide 50% more mowing time according to Husqvarna. The lawn mower can cut up to 2,300 square me
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Husqvarna Releases Solar/Electric Hybrid Lawn Mower March 10th, 2008 Spring is in the air and that means sessions with the lawn mower are just around the corner. I can think of about 100 things I would rather do than push a mower in circles so I’m glad that the engineers at Huaqvarna have similar views on yard work. The company has just unveiled what is perhaps the perfect yard device, a self managed mower that is powered by a solar/electric hybrid motor. Similar to the non-solar Robomower f
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