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While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.
Actress Mary-Kate Olsen is recovering in a New York hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for a kidney infection.
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Anyone who's been waiting in line all day in Times Square and looking forward to the launch party is out of luck. Due to some pretty shoddy planning, the stage for the bands and entertainment was set up around the corner from the front of the line, making it completely out of sight for everyone in it. While everyone in line was handed stickers that looked like passes that had an 8pm time on them, they were unable to see any of the party that started at 8. Their schedule looked more like this: wait in line 'til midnight, buy Wiis, go home. The store closes at 10pm for the employees to get all the Wiis out, then they'll open at 12 for sales. That's all the entertainment the line has to look forward to. Ah well, at least they'll all get Wiis when all is said and done, so that's one up on Sony. –Adam Frucci
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Stanford University computer scientist John Koza explains the National Popular Vote Bill, a plan that, if enacted, would effectively circumvent the role of the Electoral College in determining the President of the United States.
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The Electoral College was developed by our founding fathers and enshrined in the Constitution as a system of checks and balances to ensure a fair outcome in the choosing of our presidents.
However, the highly publicized 2000 presidential election, in which Al Gore may have won the popular vote but lost the contest to George W. Bush, galvanized those who wish to see the Electoral College scrapped in favor of a national popular vote.
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Parallels has officially released Parallels Desktop 4.0, the latest edition of its virtualization software for the Mac. The program lets users run operating systems such as Windows and Linux within Mac OS X, eliminating the need to dual-boot. The fourth edition is said to improve integration with operating systems, in particular Windows, as it now supports graphics technologies such as DirectX 9...
jbpisio writes with a link to this blog-post summary that the Canadian government has commissioned a pair of unmanned subs to explore the geology of two underwater Arctic mountain ranges; the subs' mission will be to provide evidence supporting Canada's claim to huge swaths of potentially petroleum-rich seabed areas. According to the linked article, "The submersibles, scheduled to be launched in 2010, would be sent on a series of 400-kilometre missions north and west of Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost land mass and the country's gateway to the open Arctic Ocean - the scene of an international power struggle over undersea territory and petroleum resources believed to be worth trillions of dollars." At least five countries (besides Canada, these are the US, Russia, Denmark and Norway) would like a slice of those trillions.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Your social life ends (again) in a few months.
FastFormat is a C/C++ output and formatting
library whose design parameters are complete
type-safety, efficiency, genericity, and
extensibility. It is simple to use and extend,
highly portable (to any platform or compiler), and
it upholds the C tradition of you only pay for
what you use. FastFormat supports output and
formatting of statements of arbitrary complexity,
consisting of heterogeneous types. FastFormat
writes to output "sinks", which can be of
arbitrary type.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release consists of a number of small fixes along with changes that will support new features in forthcoming releases.
The Best Buy Black Friday ad held a couple deals in terms of reasonably priced TVs and a $399 Sony laptop that's sure to sell out before you even get in the store, but Circuit City has its own set of goodies for you to camp out for.
Here are only some the notables. There are actually tons of good deals in there.
Compaq Presario Laptop w/Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor and 1GB RAM - $299.99
Toshiba Satelillite Laptop with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Duel Core - $399.99
HP Pavilion Media Center PC with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5200+ - $499.97 AR
A bunch of digital cameras < $200
Fairly reasonably priced GPS units
Onkyo 5.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver - $149.99
Samsung 5.1 Channel 800W Home Theater System - $149.99
Kingston 1GB Notebook DDR2 Memory - $14.99
Wireless-G Router Free with Any Laptop - $0.00
Seagate 500GB External Hard Drive - $79.99
Western Digital 1TB My Book Essential External 3.5 USB Hard Drive - $199.99
XBox 360 Pro w/Free Wireless Controller & Two Games - $349.99
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Learn about the opening move of a paintball game, called "the break" - free paintball tips video.
