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Thursday 5 June 2008
Amazing - Sunset on Mars
Sunset on Mars
On May 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol.
Sunset and twilight images are occasionally acquired by the science team to determine how high into the atmosphere the Martian dust extends, and to look for dust or ice clouds. Other images have shown that the twilight glow remains visible, but increasingly fainter, for up to two hours before sunrise or after sunset. The long Martian twilight (compared to Earth's) is caused by sunlight scattered around to the night side of the planet by abundant high altitude dust. Similar long twilights or extra-colorful sunrises and sunsets sometimes occur on Earth when tiny dust grains that are erupted from powerful volcanoes scatter light high in the atmosphere.
Apple to introduce OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" at WWDC?
by Nilay Patel, posted Jun 4th 2008 at 7:00PM
The pre-WWDC Apple rumor mill has finally churned out something that doesn't have the words "3G" and "iPhone" involved -- sources have told both Ars Technica and our friends at TUAW that Steve will also use his keynote to introduce the next major version of OS X, codenamed "Snow Leopard." As the derivative release name indicates, there aren't many changes in store from 10.5 Leopard -- Apple's said to instead be focusing on tightening up speed and stability as it starts producing more mobile devices. What's more, this could be the end of PowerPC and Universal support in OS X, as Snow Leopard is said to be Intel-only. That's bound to ruffle a few feathers, but things could get even more heated if Carbon is deprecated as is also being rumored. We'll see when we see -- Monday can't get here fast enough.
The pre-WWDC Apple rumor mill has finally churned out something that doesn't have the words "3G" and "iPhone" involved -- sources have told both Ars Technica and our friends at TUAW that Steve will also use his keynote to introduce the next major version of OS X, codenamed "Snow Leopard." As the derivative release name indicates, there aren't many changes in store from 10.5 Leopard -- Apple's said to instead be focusing on tightening up speed and stability as it starts producing more mobile devices. What's more, this could be the end of PowerPC and Universal support in OS X, as Snow Leopard is said to be Intel-only. That's bound to ruffle a few feathers, but things could get even more heated if Carbon is deprecated as is also being rumored. We'll see when we see -- Monday can't get here fast enough.
Albatron demos 22-inch multi-touch screen for Windows 7
We didn't think it'd take too terribly long to make it happen, but Albatron is taking Microsoft's heed and is already demonstrating a prototype 22-inch monitor with multi-touch, intended for use with whatever Windows 7 will eventually come to be called. The early verdict on the 1680 x 1050 display? TG Daily says it "works much better than we expected," but we said the same thing about Surface when it debuted last year -- so maybe it simply works as well as it should.
Sofa ready, Eyes ready, end to social life ready, Apple TV ready - iTunes movies up and running
With films from the major studios - Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros and MGM. Apple TV comes of age.
700 films are currently available including I Am Legend and Hitman, and over 100 are available in high definition formats. Films can be downloaded to a PC or Mac and then transferred to Apple devices like an iPod or AppleTV. They’re also fairly reasonably priced at £10.99 for new releases and £6.99 for classics, or you can rent for between £2.49 and £3.49, with high definition versions costing just £1 more across the board.
If you rent a movie you’ll find you have 30 days to start watching, or 48 hours once you have, before DRM kicks in, though there’s no limit to how many times you watch it in that period.
Unfortunately we’re still paying quite a bit more than our friends in the US, whose rentals cost around half the price. Steve Jobs has blamed this on VAT and the price of doing business in good ol’ Blighty. – Paul Lester
700 films are currently available including I Am Legend and Hitman, and over 100 are available in high definition formats. Films can be downloaded to a PC or Mac and then transferred to Apple devices like an iPod or AppleTV. They’re also fairly reasonably priced at £10.99 for new releases and £6.99 for classics, or you can rent for between £2.49 and £3.49, with high definition versions costing just £1 more across the board.
If you rent a movie you’ll find you have 30 days to start watching, or 48 hours once you have, before DRM kicks in, though there’s no limit to how many times you watch it in that period.
Unfortunately we’re still paying quite a bit more than our friends in the US, whose rentals cost around half the price. Steve Jobs has blamed this on VAT and the price of doing business in good ol’ Blighty. – Paul Lester
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