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Thursday, February 23, 2006

5. J.A.R.B - Skype, house, random stuff

Skype

For all of you out there without it, I just thought I should inform you; Skype, is cool. Please get it, free at www.skype.com, and no, it's not a virus. It let's you talk to your friends as if you were on the phone, have "conferences" with as many people as you like You can have text conversations too. (The emoticons are goodness). You can also have msn running at the same time, so no problems with talking to other people at the same time as an msn conversation. So please get it so that I can add more people.....

House
Last night's "House" (it's a TV show about a controversial doctor) was pretty good, I have to say. It also revealed a bit about human nature to me. Doctor house is treating a professional biker, tour de France kinda guy. The patient tells them that he has done what they called “blood doping”, injecting red blood cells into his system. It ends up that having blood transfusions (the medical term for blood doping) was actually the cure for his problems. But that’s not the point. One of the doctors working on House’s team leaks the story to the press. During many of her arguments with other characters, her main point is always that kids “worship” him, and that he’s cheating them. The final scene in the show is her arguing with the local surgeon. He combats her argument with this point: is he really cheating them, or just fooling them? The kids still have a sense of a hero, someone to look up to. The surgeon says, simply “what they don’t know can’t hurt them”. I think this raises a very good point, true, but not considered to be “morally correct”. But, maybe it is. It all boils down to this, “not knowing, can be one of the greatest gifts of all”
- House is on global every Tuesday at 9:00

Other random news...
Jeep recently introduced a concept truck that can turn it's wheel's in a way that lets it move sideways like a crab, or spin in spot.
“Powder med” Has released a needle-less vaccine. It shoots microscopic DNA vaccine particles trough your skin cells using pressured helium. The shot is painless because the particles hit just above nerve endings. It takes only one 1000th of a dose from regular needles, making vaccines more readily available, and cheaper. Influenza and Hepatitis shots are being developed already.
Colored bubbles!! To be released in stores as character themed “Zubbles”. Just another one of those “why didn’t I think of that” things. You would be surprised though, it took him over 12 years and $500 000 to develop them. The color goes away instantly when the bubble pops, making for a lot of happy mothers.
The new Xbox 360, set to come out November 21st, is one amazing machine. It houses one teraflop of processing power (10 gigahertz), that’s about as much as three of our laptops, or one of our calculators… It produces 1080 lines of high definition, so you can see the blue guys all the way from the other base…
Toshiba perpendicular magnetic recording. Yes that’s right, big words… What it means is that Toshiba has created a new hard drive set to give us more space for the years to come. They’ve found a way to change how our hard drives store info. It’s complicated, and I’d rather not write an essay on it, so I’ll just tell you this. The first sentence in the article is: “Imagine having a 10-gigabyte hard drive on your laptop, or a terabyte of memory on your laptop”…
- Random news all from this week’s popular science.

- Jones posted this bad boy on 3:16 PM

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