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As you already know, laptops come packaged in a fair amount of cardboard boxing, plastic and other potential environmental pollutants. The retailers receive these items in even bigger boxes. Their enormous boxes contain smaller ones inside, most with non-biodegradable peanuts and excessive padding material to boot.As you already know, laptops come packaged in a fair amount of cardboard boxing,... more
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Talk about gold metals, Dell is celebrating the fact that its Studio Hybrid has just been granted Gold status within the EPEAT program, (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool), making the Studio Hybrid the first and only desktop to meet the Gold standard, beating Apple’s Mac Mini and all of HP’s consumer desktop offerings.Talk about gold metals, Dell is celebrating the fact that its Studio Hybrid has just... more
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The überbox contained 16 smaller boxes which each contained exactly two sheets of A4 paper.The überbox contained 16 smaller boxes which each contained exactly two sheets of... more
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Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for all the electronic musicians that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's near impossible to mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.
Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition "for a laugh" and to find out what would come out of such an impossible task.
I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In... more
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Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $13.2 billion in a deal that will create the second largest technology services provider behind IBM.
Under the terms announced Tuesday, Palo Alto-based HP will pay $25 per share in cash for EDS, which pioneered the concept of running computer systems and providing other high-tech help for large companies and government agencies.
It's a field dominated by IBM Corp., which generated $54 billion in revenue from technology services last year. HP's technology services revenue will more than double to more than $38 billion with the addition of EDS, which had $22 billion in revenue last year.
The deal is expected to close during the second half of last year and begin to boost HP's profit in its fiscal year ending in October 2010.
Once the marriage is completed, HP estimates it will have about a 7 percent share of the technology service market compared with IBM's 10 percent share. The deal will enable HP to leapfrog Fujitsu and Accenture in the niche.
To make sure the EDS takeover pays off, HP indicated it will make significant layoffs as it eliminates overlapping jobs and other expenses. In Tuesday conference calls with media and analysts, HP Chief Executive Mark Hurd and EDS CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer declined to estimate how many workers might lose their jobs.
"There are obviously going to be some changes," said Rittenmeyer, who will run the combined technology services unit and report directly to Hurd.
The combined services business would have 210,000 employees and operations in more than 80 countries. It will retain the EDS brand and EDS' Plano, Texas headquarters.
Hurd hailed the EDS deal as "compelling."Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $13.2 billion in a... more
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Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is in talks to buy technology outsourcing company Electronic Data Systems Corp (EDS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for $12 billion to $13 billion in a deal which would vault it to a close second to IBM in technology services.
The acquisition would be HP's biggest since its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq in 2002. Shares of EDS rose nearly 28 percent, taking its market value to about $12 billion.
HP shares fell nearly 5 percent amid some skepticism that slow-growing EDS, still considered in turnaround mode, would provide more than a one-time boost, and might not be worth a premium of as much as 37 percent.
A source briefed on the matter told Reuters about the talks and that the plan was to announce a deal by the close of Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the discussions, and later HP and EDS both said they were in talks about a business combination but gave no details.
"While Hewlett-Packard has over time built up its own outsourcing practice, this clearly is a move by Mark Hurd to challenge IBM in the services area," said David Garrity, director of research at Dinosaur Securities, referring to HP's chief executive.
A bigger HP could compete better against International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in going after large clients and help it keep costs in line, analysts said. If HP completes the acquisition, it would be by far the largest under CEO Hurd.
"It would put Hewlett-Packard in the sweet spot of an IT spending trend. It would definitely improve their position against IBM," said CRT Capital Group analyst Ashok Kumar.Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is in talks to buy technology... more
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The existence of the memristor, short for 'memory resistor', was first suggested in 1971, but only now have researchers succeeded in creating a real, working example. They hope that the new components could revolutionize computing, promising an end to frustrating waits for your computer to boot up.
"A memristor is essentially a resistor with memory," explains Stan Williams of HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, who reports the memristor's creation in this week's Nature 1. "The actual resistance of the memristor changes depending on the amount of voltage and the time for which that voltage has been applied to the device."
That means that a computer created from memristive circuits can 'remember' what has happened to it previously, and freeze that memory when the circuit is turned off. This quality could allow computers to turn off and on again in an instant, as all the components could revert to their last state instantly, rather than having to 'boot up'. The existence of the memristor, short for 'memory resistor', was first... more
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I LOVE this video - first off, I loved those HP notebook commercials, and this video takes the concept to an even better level. And, the song is HOT...I LOVE this video - first off, I loved those HP notebook commercials, and this video... more
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HP is one of the few PC makers that can design smart-looking tablets (such as the consumer friendly tx1000). New today is the HP Compaq 2710p Tablet PC, a 12-inch widescreen tablet that weighs in at 3.6 pounds and is only 1.1 inches thick. HP smartly adds a LED Backlit display, which helps with battery life and weight, plus Intel's Ultra Low voltage Core 2 Duo CPUs. Looks like the standard HP digitizer screen and stylus are included, which makes this a thin, lightweight package worth checking out.
There are five pre-configured models available, starting at $1,649 and going up to $2,478 for a bigger hard drive, slightly faster processor and a second GB of RAM.HP is one of the few PC makers that can design smart-looking tablets (such as the... more
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