| Tech meets tough in LR3
When you take delivery of a new car, the salesperson normally sits in the passenger seat, spends a few minutes making sure you're familiar with all the controls, and then bids you good luck. If you happen to be buying today's test car - a 2008 Land Rover LR3 - an hour's worth of classroom instruction would only be enough to touch on the vehicle's multiple systems and controls. That's certainly one reason the company includes a lengthy DVD tutorial along with the thick owner's manual. The DVD is must viewing for any new Rover owner - it has an amazing amount of technology incorporated into its innate toughness. Last spring, I was able to drive several Land Rovers on an off-road course the company's marketers set up on the 25-acre grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Endi cott House in Dedham.
Christie invite 'a mistake'
Former sprinter Linford Christie will not take part in a relay carrying the Olympic torch through London, it has been confirmed. Christie received a letter from London Mayor Ken Livingstone inviting him to take part in April's torch procession, but a spokesman for the Mayor said it had been sent by mistake. The Mayor's spokesman said: "The decision to invite Linford Christie to be a torchbearer was not taken by the Mayor. The decision to invite Linford Christie was taken by officials and was a mistake." The 47-year-old has a lifetime Olympic ban after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone in 1999, and international Olympic officials condemned the decision to invite him to the torch event. Christie, who won gold in the 100m at the 1992 Barcelona games and has always denied taking the banned drug, was sent the letter "as a formality", the spokesman said.
IN-VEST TO IMPRESS
The bell has finally tolled for the HD DVD. Toshiba, the format's biggest proponent, announced it has thrown in the towel, making Sony's Blu-ray the winner in the first home-video format war since Betamax went up against VHS. Now that that's settled, you might want to pick up this Samsung player. Not only is it feature-heavy, it upconverts standard DVDs to full 1080p HD resolution, has a HDMI 1.3 output, Dolby TrueHD sound and plays movies at 24 frames per second, the way they were shot but it's also well-priced. If you're looking for an even better bargain, though, experts still recommend the PlayStation 3 for its crisp picture, future readiness and dual purpose as a gaming console. Chumby $179.95; store.chumby.com The much-geeked-over Chumby was in beta testing for two years, during which it was chortled over by a bunch of Linux and open-source code writers who were encouraged to hack and create widgets for it.
McCain and Romney spar over Michigan economy
When Bill was governor of Arkansas, law enforcement officials, politicians, and military personal alike said Hillary was very demeaning, demanding, and hateful towards ALL men. Her attitude seems to be a spillover (towards all men) from her loathing of Bill and his philandering. Had she not needed him to (eventually) be viable for the Presidency, she would have dumped him years ago. She is a "willing victim" for the sake of her unbridled political ambition. >> Amy Rees, a stay-at-home mother in San Francisco who will vote in the California Democratic primary Feb. 5. "I kept thinking that the truth is, a woman - even a woman of her unquestioned intelligence and preparedness - can't get even a single primary win. It really stung." .
ESS Technology to go private in $58M sale
Digital video company ESS Technology Inc. agreed to be bought by Imperium Partners Group LLC for $1.64 a share, or about $58 million in cash. The deal, which should close in the middle of this year, will make Fremont-based ESS (NASDAQ: ESST) a private company. It requires shareholder approval. Imperium, based in New York, is an asset management firm started by Jeffrey Devers and John Michaelson. The ESS board has approved the merger and advised shareholders to vote for it. .
When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps to Revolution
In the face of this reversal, Davies tells us, it's not at all surprising that the national mood is turning ominous, from one end of the political spectrum to the other. However, he warns us: this may not be just a passing political storm. In other times and places, this kind of quick decline in a prosperous nation has been a reliable sign of a full-on revolution brewing just ahead. 2. They Call It A Class War Marx called this one true, says Davies. Progressive modern democracies run on mutual trust between classes and a shared vision of the common good that binds widely disparate groups together. Now, we're also about to re-learn the historical lesson that liberals like flat hierarchies, racial and religious tolerance, and easy class mobility not because we're soft-headed and soft-hearted - but because, unlike short-sighted conservatives, we understand that tight social cohesion is our most reliable and powerful bulwark against the kinds of revolutions that bring down great economies, nations and cultures.
Santa Fe School District Adopts Wireless LAN from Meru Networks
In addition, schools have a habit of moving things around every year as their population is reconfigured. It's much easier and cheaper to move the lab down the hall if we don't have wires and cables to worry about. We expect our initial investment in wireless to be more than offset by what we save in making these frequent moves and changes."
After Installing Meru, "All the problems went away"
Before deciding on Meru, Phaklides's technology team had evaluated numerous wireless LAN products and deployed pilot networks from some of the industry's biggest names without success.
"They were having tremendous interference issues in trying to use their web-based learning software with more than a few students at a time," recalled Jack Vigil, CEO of Albuquerque-based Harmonix Technologies, a Meru reseller partner.
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