http://www.animeclasicos.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:37:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The future is about more than just gender or race," Obama said when asked about the fact that the two Democratic front-runners are a woman and an African American, and then quipped, "If it were about race, I wouldn't have to...(campaign). I could just show up." The young audience, receptive ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/09/04/the-myspace-generations-got-a-crush-on-obama/ When (or if) classical music can be deciphered by these types of services it will probably be a great engineering feat. Progress, if this is ever attempted, would probably be incremental. First, identifying a particular symphony, concerto or quartet is, in itself, very difficult. Next, identifying the particular recording will ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/29/iphone-apps-testing-shazams-limits-classical-m/ Current, the edgy news and culture channel co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, has come up with a new way to broadcast the presidential debates: show Twitter commentary on what people are saying. Last year, MTV featured Twitter as a promotion platform for the Video Music Awards, and featured some ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/24/twitter-will-come-to-current-tv-for-debate-chitcha/ A new IRS Web site that allows taxpayers to check on the status of their refund checks could lead to users being phished. The new "Where's my stimulus payment?" site asks taxpayers to enter in their Social Security number, and a few other trivial bits of information before informing the ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/24/irs-web-site-opens-door-to-phishers/ If you are looking for "Albany," you might want to try heading to Circuit City. The welcome screen for the new Equipt offering lists the products and services available. "It makes a lot of sense so it's something you will likely see," he said. Also, for now at least, there is no way ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/24/office-subscription-service-ready-to-go/ (Credit: Belkin) Read the full review to find out. Both Conserve models also come with a light-switch-style wireless remote control that allows you to turn off your components with the flip of a conveniently placed switch (rather than having to bend down underneath a desk and hit an on/off switch on the ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/24/can-this-belkin-surge-protector-pay-for-itself/ (Credit: Intel) "Milliwatts" refers to chips such as Atom, a tiny low-power, low-cost processor destined for ultramobile devices and low-cost desktops typically running either Linux or Windows XP. The first Atom chips will launch in June. (See: Intel rolls out five new Atom processors.) On a slightly more practical level, the ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/24/at-idf-shanghai-intels-vision-of-chips/ (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) Times have changed, of course. Like most kids, I moved on from D&D and hadn't even looked at a D&D book in decades, until a former colleague of mine brought his son's old gaming books into the office. While we may have been oddball hobbyists 25 ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/24/an-homage-to-the-man-behind-dungeons-dragons/ My one major pet peeve with the MacBook Air is that no matter what I do, it seems that this machine never goes fully to sleep. Somehow the battery is being drained (albeit at a slower rate) when I set the computer to "sleep" or when I close the lid. ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/24/macbook-air-major-annoyance-when-sleep-doesnt-me/ A next step would be to index the Web, which would be of great interest to Google rivals. Powerset has garnered $12.5 million in Series A funding from Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and angel investors. Given the cost to scale up a semantically rich index of 20 billion Web pages, ... http://www.animeclasicos.net/2010/08/24/is-microsoft-stalking-powersets-search-technology/