Three Red lights Problems on the Xbox 360 Ring Of Death!!!!
One of the more frustrating things about being an early adopter is the fact that you know there’s a higher-than-normal chance you’ll get bad hardware. You’re buying one of the first batches, no one knows how the system will work after being played for hours on end, and you need it right now! You can [...]
US Debt Clock Runs Out Of Digits
NEW YORK – In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.
As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure — the “1″ in $10 trillion. It’s marking [...]
Fighting : Thailand-Cambodia border kills 2 soldiers
At Preah Vihear temple
Cambodian and Thailand army are crossing over near the border
Thailand army taking place in temple
Thailand army near borderCambodian monk vs Thailand army
At Preah Vihear temple:PHNOM PENH, Cambodia A gunfight broke out Wednesday between Thai and Cambodian troops at a disputed border zone near a landmark 11th-century temple, killing two Cambodian soldiers [...]
Dow Down 679 After Another Late-Day Tumble
Posted Oct 09, 2008 08:13pm EDT by Henry Blodget in Investing, Recession, Banking
Related: ^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC, GM, AIG, C, WB
From Clusterstock, Oct. 9, 2008
Dow down 679. Which is a lot bigger percentage move than it would have been two weeks ago (7%). And what’s with these end-of-day market crashes, anyway?
Barry Ritholtz thinks there’s some sort [...]
60 DEAD IN BOMB ATTACK ON PAKISTANI HOTEL
AT LEAST [40] 60 DEAD IN BOMB ATTACK ON PAKISTANI HOTEL
ISLAMABAD: A massive blast, possibly caused by an explosives-packed truck, outside the Pakistan capital’s luxury Marriott hotel on Saturday night killed at least 60 people and wounded 150.
Many parts of the hotel caught fire in the minutes after the explosion, with flames rising up from [...]
Hurricane heads for New England
Hurricane Kyle raced toward Maine early Sunday, triggering the state’s first hurricane watch in 17 years as it roared over the Atlantic off North Carolina on a northward trek that threatened to bring flooding and damaging winds inland. Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch Saturday for parts of coastal Maine.
Tropical Storm Kyle [...]
U.S., Russia Agree to Criticize Iran
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration and Russia agreed Friday to push forward a new United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technologies, but without any new economic sanctions.
Associated Press
A missile sits in front of a poster of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a military exhibition in Tehran this week.
This agreement, said [...]
Apple selling unlocked iPhone 3G in Hong Kong
Apple has made an unlocked version of the iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong, letting consumers pick whichever carrier they so choose.
This is in sharp contrast to Apple’s policy for the almost everywhere else on the planet. Unlocked iPhones are rampant worldwide, but that isn’t something that Apple has sanctioned.
Freedom doesn’t come cheap. [...]
Fastest Aspherical Lens (35 mm camera system)
The World’s Fastest Aspherical Lens (35 mm camera system)
The new LEICA NOCTILUX-M 50 MM F / 0.95 ASPH
Pre Photokina 2008: Along with the M8.2, Leica has unveiled the world’s fastest asphercial lens, the NOCTILUX-M 50 mm f/0.95 ASPH. offering the market a faster lens than the SUMMILUX-M 50 mm f /1.4 ASPH. The wide maximum [...]
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons (one of several types of hadrons) with very high kinetic energy. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. It is [...]
