MC2 Post 1178 Scientist Have to Deal with the Darndest Things

Scientists Delay Redefining Time 
   

From:  http://www.timeanddate.com

Scientists have decided to postpone the decision to redefine the world’s time scale, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and abolish leap seconds for at least 3 years.

It will be another 3 years before scientists decide to redefine time.

No consensus

Scientists who attended the World Radiocommunication Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, could not agree on the future of leap seconds, so they will meet again in 2015 to decide on the matter.

Link:  http://www.timeanddate.com//news/time/leap-seconds-delay.html 

TinyURL:    http://tinyurl.com/7wjc7he

===================================

===================================

January 30, 2012

The New Firefox Is Coming Tomorrow

The new version of Firefox, version 10, will go live tomorrow, according to Mozilla's meeting notes.

While you probably won't notice too many changes on the surface, the big update this time has to do with making sure your add-ons work

Link:  http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-30/tech/31004755_1_add-ons-firefox-mozilla 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/6sj5396 

===================================

===================================

=============
=============

 
MC2 LOGO

=============
=============

MC2 Post 1177 Clean Up on Aisle 4 ____The SuperBowl Aisle

Oh My, There's a person under that fallen 

Display of Dorritos !!!

 

 The Marketing of the Super Bowl Begins, so be careful walking through your local supermarket.

The munchies will be stacked to the rafters...

From:   http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com

How to Advertise Like a Pro on 
Super Bowl Sunday

Chances are your small business doesn't have $3.5 million lying around to buy a 30 second commercial spot that will run during this year's Super Bowl, but that doesn't mean you can't advertise like the big boys on Super Sunday. That is because, according to Seethu Seetharaman, a marketing professor at Olin Business School, television ads during the Super Bowl are an overrated and overpriced way for companies to advertise. Small businesses, he said, can get an equal if not better return simply by being creative.




Link:   http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/marketing-sales/2012/01/30/how-to-advertise-like-pro-on-super-bowl-sunday/


TinyURL:    http://tinyurl.com/84fvbu9  

===================================

Employers Beware: Fans Willing to Miss Work, Weddings 

and More for Super Bowl 

===================================

===================================

===================================

Link:  http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/legal-hr/2012/01/27/employers-beware-fans-willing-to-miss-work-weddings-and-more-for-super-bowl/

===================================

===================================

Link: 

TinyURL: 

===================================

===================================

Link: 

TinyURL:

===================================

===================================

Link:

TinyURL:

===================================

===================================

===================================

===================================

=============

=============

MC2 LOGO

=============

=============

MC2 is transcribing The Talk of the Tech Town

It's Not All Newton Minnow's

Vast Wasteland.

Yet.

The signal-to-noise ratio in media has gotten pretty bad lately.

  But there are islands in the flotsam worth hearing about.  

At least, I still believe there is.  I have to, because current televised media is fast becoming another technical dinosaur 
to relevance.

And just like lemmings, Media following the 
newspapers over the edge.

==============

I Remember the Old Radio shows of yesterday,

Mike Hodel's Hour 25 and a 
Hi-Fi's and Quadraphonic show 

called In-Fidelity.  

Both of which aired on my beloved KPFK,
a pacifica station...

Some of the best Media of these days is in the form called: 

Podcasts and Streaming TV.

=================================================

Inside Apple and Interview with 

Adam Lashinsky on Linkedin:

=================================================

=================================================
=================================================

Leo's TWiT.tv podcast of Triangulation 38

===================================

===================================

with Clay Johnson 

on his Book: The Tech Diet.

Link:  http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/38

=======================================

=======================================

=======================================

Working Conditions 

At Apple's Chinese factories under fire

===================================

Link:  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7396762n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

============================================

============================================

Moyers & Company

Byron Dorgan on Making the Banks 

Play by the Rules

===================================


Byron Dorgan on Making Banks Play by the Rules from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

===================================

=================================================

Bill Moyers on PBS  Money and Politics

=================================================

How did the Big Banks Get So Powerful

Link:  http://billmoyers.com/

=================================================

============================================

============================================

=============

=============

MC2 LOGO

=============

=============

MC2 Post 1175 MC2s Hearty Welcome to the New Faces of Television

Apple TV and Google TV  may have 

Ubuntu TV 

(that's Linux folks)

coming

Real-Soon-Now.

--------------------------------------------------------------

World TV streaming app on 
Google's Chrome Browser.

See CNN, Bloomberg, Fox News, CSPAN and 

even HSN Live with

The Google CHROME Browser APP

===================================

Amazon Reportedly Mulls 

Standalone Streaming Video Service

Amazon is considering breaking out its video streaming operation as a standalone subscription-based service, the New York Post reports, citing “industry sources.”  Such a move would make the company a head-to-head competitor with Netflix.

Link:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/01/25/amazon-reportedly-mulls-standalone-streaming-video-service/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/6v644u3

===================================

Ubuntu moves beyond the desktop with new TV interface, menu-killing navigation system

===================================

Ubuntu's HUD 

New interface design

While the announcement of Ubuntu TV definitely has a certain flash appeal to it, a new display interface deserves just as much attention. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth recently blogged about the change, called the Head-up Display (or HUD) that does away with the menu and tries to better reflect how the human brain works.

embedded video.

===================================




===================================

Ten... smart TVs

LG Infinia 50PZ950T

LG a plasma but with THX 3D certification, deep picture tuning and a bucket-load of features, its relatively affordable PZ9 Infinia Series demands serious attention
 This 50-incher is particularly beguiling. As LG can’t graft its Passive 3D screen filter onto PDPs, this model offers Active Shutter 3D, which works well. The set can also record to external USB.

LG’s Smart TV portal is well-stocked with IPTV (catch-up from the Beeb, YouTube, Acetrax, yadda yadda ya) and there’s a rich seam of time-wasting apps to mine.  Media streaming is very good from both USB and across a LAN. The TV’s MediaLink service also supports the Plex media server PC client.

Link:   http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/28/review_ten_smart_tvs/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/86egg88 

===================================
===================================



============
============

MC2 Logo

============
============

MC2 Post 1176 Google Earth 6.2 released Puts on a New Face

Google rolled out its latest version of Google Earth on Thursday. Calling it

“the most beautiful Google Earth yet,” the update has managed to eliminate the “patchy” look of some of its images and now presents users with a more realistic depiction of how our planet really looks from up high. 

Link:  http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/google-earth-6-2-released-gives-our-planet-a-makeover/


TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7c92ol9

===================================
===================================

============
============
 

============
============

MC2 Post 1175 HP Gives Timetable for Open WebOS

From: The Land of Linux and:  http://www.h-online.com

Yes I was on the waiting list for a

HP Touch Tablet for $99 bucks.

And Yes it was running WebOS, 
which at the time I felt I could replace 
with either some Android variant 
or at least Linux. 

That of course fell appart with 
all the HP missteps and the CEO snafu. 

But the hardware was good enough.

Well now it seems some of the good ideas
in WebOS have been incorporated 

in Android's Ice Cream Sandwich 

and even Windows 7/8 phones.

So it May Be Worth another Look.

Wingman.

HP has disclosed its plans for releasing webOS as open source with a timetable that results in open WebOS 1.0 appearing in September. The process will see elements of the WebOS system being released each month until August, when those elements will be brought together to make the Open webOS beta. A month after that, the company will then make a full release of Open webOS 1.0.

Link:   http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/HP-gives-timetable-for-Open-webOS-1422305.html 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7tlukzn   

===================================

For More Linux related News Items see

         MC2's LBK (Linux by Knight)

posts @  http://linuxbyknight.blogspot.com/

=================================== 
Previous LBK Posts were on:

The Ruby on Rails developers have now released Rails 3.2

and Linux 3.3 Goes into Testing.

===================================
===================================

The http://www.h-online.com  has become

my new favorite site for News on 
Linux and Security issues.

===================================
===================================

Here's a sample of Why...

=============

2 TWIT.TV Podcasts worth Catching:

Security Now! with Steve Gibson's
New Routers with WPS security problems. 

 Link:  http://twit.tv/show/security-now/337

this is a very propeller hat discussion

and

Triangulation's discussion on 
Clay Johnson's Book: The Information Diet

 Link:  http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/38

=============
=============

MC2 LOGO

=============
=============

MC2 Post 1174 CNETs CES favorites__ new laptops__ and why OLED Matters

From:  http://news.cnet.com

Back from CES, the gang shows off some video of their favorite products, and Ty explains why OLED will completely change the television industry.
 


Link:  http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50118777.html?part=pulse&subj=latest-news&tag=readMore&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews  



166 unneeded Characters In This Day and AGE...



TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/6ugd24d   

===================================

===================================

And In The style of the Old "Print" version

of US News & World Report:

===================================

Why is Obama Going on a Visit to Arizona?

From:  http://news.cnet.com

On Wednesday, President Obama 
is due to visit an 

Intel plant in Arizona. 
Here's why.

In Chandler, Intel will make its next generation of 14-nanometer (nm) processors that will be its most highly-integrated and power-efficient to date. Those chips--many of them a so-called SoC or system-on-a-chip--will power future ultrabooks, tablets, and smartphones.

And an often overlooked aspect of Intel's manufacturing might is its strategic relationship with Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology. Those two companies formed Intel Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT) in 2006 and operate two U.S. plants, one in Utah and another in Virginia.

Forget This 216 Charcaters is way Over the Top.  Use the more reasonable TinyURL of 26 Characters...

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7czrkww

===================================

also from:      CNET  News  Nanotech - The Circuits Blog

by Brooke Crothers January 24, 2012 5:19 PM PST

===================================

And all of this is good for exports. "Semiconductors are America's top exporting industry and with three quarters of semiconductors being designed and manufactured here and 82 percent of our sales outside the U.S.," said the Semiconductor Industry Association in a statement in October of last year.

Intel chip fabrication plants (fabs) in the U.S.:

    Oregon, Hillsboro: D1X (development), microprocessors, 14nm*, starts 2013

    Oregon Hillsboro: D1D (development), microprocessors, 22nm, started 2003

    Oregon Hillsboro: D1C (development), microprocessors, 32nm/22nm, started 2001

    Chandler, Arizona: Fab 42, microprocessors, 14nm, starts 2013

    Chandler, Arizona: Fab 32, microprocessors, 32nm/22nm, started 2007

    Chandler, Arizona: Fab 12, microprocessors/chipsets, 65nm/22nm, started 1996

    Rio Ranch, New Mexico: Fab 11X, microprocessors, 45nm/32nm, started 2002

    Hudson, Massachusetts: Fab 17, chipsets, 130nm, started 1998

    Lehi, Utah: IMFT** fab, flash memory, 20nm, started 2007

    Manassas, Virginia: IMFT fab, flash memory, 25nm, started 2006

*nanometer

**Intel Micron Flash Technologies, owned 49 percent by Intel, 51 percent by Micron Technology

===================================

===================================

=============

=============

MC2 LOGO

=============

=============

MC2 Post 1173 James Cameron Wants to Blow Your Mind With 60 Frames Per Second

From:  http://www.wired.com/magazine 

169 Characters and Not Worth the Hassle.    Wingman.

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/6lk7pmf   

===================================

Home Theater Geeks Talks about 3D and Frame-Rate

and 3D Glasses Problems with  Phil "Captian 3D" McNally a

stereoscopic supervisor at Dreamworks Animation, about

the wonderful world of 3D.

 
Link:  http://twit.tv/show/home-theater-geeks/96

===================================

===================================

===================================
Phil "Captian 3D" McNally is on Skype on a iPod Touch!!!
And all they run is Linux.

===================================

From:  http://www.latimes.com

The OSCAR nominations 2012: 'Artist,

' Scorsese's 'Hugo' shine brightest

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7xcwyxx

===================================
===================================


=============
=============

MC2 LOGO

=============
=============

MC2 Post 1173 That's Impossible Man This Can't Be Happening

From:  http://www.newscientist.com

Impossible Reactions: Five Chemistry Rules Broken

Chemistry is a messy business. The elements are so diverse that their interactions can be unpredictable and sometimes bizarre. Often, chemists rely on nothing more than intuition to tell them what may or may not be possible.

Sometimes that leads them astray. History is littered with ideas that were derided or dismissed at first, but eventually changed the rules of the game. Philip Ball tells five stories of chemistry they said could never happen

Link:  http://www.newscientist.com/special/impossible-chemistry?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news  

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/85djc5m   

===================================

MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

From:  http://www.wired.com 

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts — Call Anant Agarwal’s work crazy, and you’ve made him a happy man.

His latest commercial venture is Tilera. The company’s specialty is squeezing cores onto chips — lots of cores. A core is a processor, the part of a computer chip that runs software and crunches data. Today’s high-end computer chips have as many as 16 cores. But Tilera’s top-of-the-line chip has 100.

Link:  http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/01/mit-genius-stu/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

176 characters....blimey!

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/8587jfm

===================================

===================================

=============
=============

MC2 LOGO

=============
=============
 

MC2 Post 1173 Why Chasing Apple and Facebook is no Picnik for Google

And For Windows Too.  They're dragging 

BE-Hind Apple and Android.

See the Second Part of this Equation.

----------

FIRST

----------
 

From:  http://news.cnet.com

Google Cancels Picnik and Closes a 

few Other Businesses

Link:   http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57363171-93/google-cancels-picnik-and-closes-a-few-other-businesses/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7ncwel7   

===================================

===================================

-------------

SECOND

-------------
From:  http://arstechnica.com

While Windows IS dragging Be-Hind Apple and Android

and trying desparately from LINUX 

getting on the 

Windows Desktop.

Microsoft mandating Secure Boot on ARM, making Linux installs difficult

With Windows 8 coming out later this year, there has already been controversy about whether computers that ship with Windows 8 will have the ability to run Linux, either as a replacement for Windows or in a dual-boot setup. As we've reported, a process called UEFI secure booting prevents the booting of operating systems not signed by a trusted Certificate Authority—and hardware makers must enable the secure boot technology to qualify for a Designed for Windows 8 logo.

Link:  http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-mandating-secure-boot-on-arm-making-linux-installs-difficult.ars

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/73gz9rk 

===================================

From:  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source


Is the Linux Desktop actually growing?

I don't think so.

Wingman.

===================================

First reported by Katherine Noyes on Linux Insider, it turns out that the Web research firm Net Applications’ data show that Linux’s desktop market share has been growing , from a mere 0.97 percent in July, 2011 to a new high of 1.41 percent in January, 2012.

As a Linux lover, this is good news, but it’s also odd news. GNOME, long the desktop interface darling of many Linux desktop users, lost many of its fan with its 3.x revision.  Ubuntu, long the most popular Linux desktop, changed to a new interface, Unity, in April 2011 and many people hate the new Unity desktop.

Mint Linux, which recently surged to the top of mind for Linux desktop users, has kept its fans, but now it’s also changing its desktop interface. With its users turning up their noses at GNOME 3.2, it’s now creating its own GNOME 3.x shell: Cinnamon.

Link:  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/is-the-linux-desktop-actually-growing/10160 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7k2segt

===================================

Even Ubuntu IS walking backwards these days....

Canonical backtracks on deleting 

Oracle's Sun Java

From Ubuntu...

From:  http://www.h-online.com

Link:  http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-backtracks-on-deleting-Oracle-s-Sun-Java-1415541.html


TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7ey766b


===================================
===================================

(SUPERBOWL STUFF)

===================================

Three COWs descend on Lucas Oil Stadium, 

courtesy of Verizon Wireless (video)
 
 
Link:  http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/21/three-cows-on-lucas-oil-stadium-verizon-wireless/

===================================

===================================
===================================

Superbowl Sunday:

Link:  http://www.indianapolissuperbowl.com/

===================================

=============

=============

MC2 LOGO

=============

=============