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• Those crazy russians: Looking to extend lifetime of the ISS (International Space Station) (comments here for reading)
  • Space Exploration is the next frontier: Russians already have their plans started to facilitate that goal
  • Big pet peeve: Equipment engineered to only last until 2 days after warranty expires
  • What will happen when something fails halfway to mars? Extending a products lifetime is a skill-set
  • Russians 1 step ahead with their Mir experience
  • “I think it admirable that the Russians are not merely throwing their stuff away but at least show the willingness to keep it up there and try to reuse it. Even if this fails in the end, they will learn a lot from the attempt. And too many of us are conditioned not to maintain and repair things, but throw them away when they break (or even when they’re simply not in style anymore) and buy new.”
• Japanese give away IPhone to curb Truancy
  • Use GPS System to track students
  • Students using other students to answer their name during roll call
• Microsoft Sets Record with Monster Patch
  • 31 vulnerabilities patched
  • Previous records was 26 in Aug 2008 and Aug 2006
  • Problems fixed ranged from Office fixes, IE fixes to actual OS vulnerabilities (Windows Search, etc.)
  • 18 were marked critical
  • Microsoft not only one, Apple released a patch here recently for 67 BUGS
• The Sims 3
  • Hit shelves June 2nd and set a record for EA… best video game release in their company history… Over 1.4 Million units sold
  • For Mac, PC and the iPhone

Geek-Speak

• Best of E3:
  • Scribblenauts
    • Solve puzzles by drawing on the screen
    • Draw word and it will appear in game
    • Need to get to other side, draw a dinosaur, get teleported to a different dimension and draw more stuff to get out
    • Free Mode, write 2 objects and watch how they interact with each other
    • Developers promise the options are endless
    • Can you imagine all the dependencies between objects? Take the 10,000 nouns then multiply that number by the items in the game and there’s your number of dependencies
    • (Cthulu, vampire, vampire hunter, shuriken, ninja, etc)
  • Halo 3: ODST
    • Includes Firefight Multiplayer (halo speak for Horde Mode)
    • Q4 2009 for release date
  • DJ Hero
    • Like Guitar Hero but different with a different peripheral
    • peripheral cross fader, turntable with guitar hero buttons
    • Ability to scratch, trigger samples
    • Different music, all different mixes: Hip Hop, R&B, Rap
• Worst of E3: Nintendo Keynote or PSP Go
  • Nintendo was so 2008. Both sony and microsoft have motion control (or its coming)
  • $249 dollars for a slightly smaller device and no UMD? Just pay $40 and put a 16GB card in slot
  • Onlive working on Cable Modem
    • Warning Bells, “a little sluggish on FPS online multiplayer, but too early to tell”
    • Worked great on single player games
    • Was pulling about 3 Mbps
    • Thoughts?
• Apple’s IPhone 3-GS
  • 2x faster running apps
  • Compass
  • Camera on outside with zoom features
  • MobileMe
  • Standard 199/299 for new customers
  • Original 3g Iphone $99
  • WHAT ABOUT CURRENT CUSTOMERS??? (AT&T fail)
  • no MMS and no Tethering when the software gets delivered on June 17th
• A-Team getting the “Star Trek” Treatment
  • GI Joe, Transformers, Star Trek, Knight Rider (ugh) what next? Star Wars?
  • Can they really recreate the campiness and  total awesomeness of the original?
  • (steven) Cast is what made the first so awesome (hannibal, face, Mr. T, Murdock)

Geek TV

Reaper has been cancelled, but the guys over at http://ReaperDMV.com have launched a last ditch effort to save the show

Flame Bait (user emails)

Intarweb Goldmine (Whatever the Internet brings)

• Fisherman hooks LIVE missile
  • Commercial fisherman, Salomon
  • Live Air-to-Air Missile
  • Kept on boat for 10 days
  • Live and Extemely unstable  acc. bomb squad