You have to break open an egg to get to the edible goodness—so it makes sense you'd have to take a hammer to an $800 lamp to make it work. Wait, what am I saying?
It may look very cool in its "I'm making a statement" type of way, but to spend $800 on a lamp you need to break open in order to make it work is absurd. Only at the MoMA store, obviously. [MoMA via Technabob]
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Glimpsed in the most hi-res outfit we've seen so far is the HTC Legend, which—if rumors prove correct—should be shown off next week at MWC.
It still looks like the Hero only with a unibody aluminum shell, but according to Dutch carrier KPN it'll go on sale March. KPN's advert for the Legend touts it as having a 600Mhz processor, an optical trackpad instead of the ball seen on previous models, and a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen. The other specs gleaned from KPN seem par for the course—a 5.0-megapixel camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and Android 2.1 (Eclair), and it looks like it'll be running HTC Sense, the Android skin which they've used on a lot of their recent models.
The leaked pics we saw recently of the Legend showed it as having black plastic inserts at the base and top of the back casing, where the SIM card, microSD card slot and camera are. It's still got a chin by the looks of the profile photo on KPN's site, but if you ask me that's a good thing. This is definitely a phone to get excited about. [Tweakers via Electronista]
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Just as Motorola was getting its act together and releasing brilliant hardware after years of, well, dirge, they're now splitting down the middle into two independent companies—on one side the phone division, the other, wireless networking. Don't glare at your Droid and vow to never put more money into Motorola, because the split is actually a good thing.
It'll make them more streamlined and focused, with equal attention being placed on each side—though the handset and set-top box side will own the name and license it to the dustier wireless networking and radio systems unit. Sounds fair, considering we only care about the mobile division anyway, but apparently they're both raking in around the same amount in sales (approximately $11 billion last year each).
Honestly, I never thought I'd see the day when I could write about Moto's corporate struggles and actually be able to put a positive spin on it, but it does sound like the right decision has been made up above. [NY Times]
"Brother can you spare a dime?"
By Clifford F. Thies
For the second month in a row, the unemployment rate has fallen while the number of Americans employed has dropped. This is not good news. It means that more and more people who normally would be looking for work are not looking because they do not think they can find work. The spread of discouragement among workers is a disaster. Yet, Obamanoids consider the fall in the unemployment rate to be good news.
Let us look back to the economy of March 2007, an economy that was being described as "the worst economy since the Great Depression." Back then, the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent and the number of discouraged workers, as a percent of the labor force, was 0.2, for a combined, expanded definition of the unemployment rate of 4.6. In December 2010, the unemployment rate was 9.7 percent and the number of discouraged workers, as a percent of the labor force, was 3.9, for an expanded definition of the unemployment rate of 13.6. Whatever the government is doing is not working.
Roosevelt's Democrat Depression Redux
If we consider the problem of short-hours, we would see an even worse picture. Of those who have jobs, 8.3 million are working part-time when they would prefer to work full-time. Treating these people as partially employed and partially unemployed results in an unemployment rate of 16.4 percent. This is the kind of unemployment situation that the economy "settled-into" under President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s.
President Roosevelt "tackled" the economic crisis he inherited with a mix of policies known as the New Deal. Famously, this included a greatly-expanded role of government in terms of spending, taxing and regulating the economy.
The Works Progress Administration and related works projects of the New Deal deserve special comment. FDR called for programs to directly employ many of those who were out of work. The purpose of these programs was not simply to provide income security. They were to maintain physical vitality and the "habit of work." FDR recognized that people out of work more than six months start to lose the ability to work because their job skills atrophy and because of the erosion of the pride that comes from being a productive member of society.
Pay in these work projects was low, so that upon the eventual recovery of the economy, workers would spontaneously transfer to the private sector where they would make more money. Furthermore, these work projects were mainly concerned with the construction of public infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, dams and irrigation projects, so that - when the bonds floated by the government to finance the projects came due - the tax revenues generated by an expanded economy, as opposed to higher tax rates, would pay the bill.
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Did the stimulus of last year follow the example of this part of the New Deal? No, it did not. In spite of the Congressional testimony of just about every economist, that the stimulus be directed to infrastructure, in the end, only 6 percent of the money was targeted that way. The bill was little more than a humongous pork barrel for the special interests that constitute the Democratic Party, money that has been borrowed and spent with nothing remaining but a huge increase in the national debt.
With so many people discouraged from looking for work and with the majority of those counted as unemployed being out of work more than six months, the number of us remaining "at the oars" is fast shrinking. But, don't worry, our government tells the foreigners who own our national debt, we will beat the drum faster and crack the whip harder on the fools.
Editor's Note - Dr. Thies is a professor of economics at Shenandoah Univ. in Virginia. He is also a former Libertarian National Committee member, and former National Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus.
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Swapping Twitterberry for Ubertwitter was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life, but even that has its shortfalls. BlackBerry's impending Twitter app looks heaps better, from the design to actual usability.
It's not available yet, but you can sign up for an invite code for the beta launch later this year. I haven't tested it out yet on my Bold 9700 as am juggling another phone today, but I'll definitely be giving my thoughts on it next week after trying it out properly (read: tweeting about my cat).
In the meantime, let's look at some of those features. You can compose a new tweet from the feed of updates, rather than having to go to a separate screen like in most apps. It's compatible with a lot of the native BlackBerry programs, enabling you to send a URL from the browser to Twitter (automatically resizing it to a bit.ly link), with the same process possible when taking a photo, using the Twitpic service.
The navigation icons at the top are a heck of a lot cleaner and more in keeping with the BlackBerry UI—as you'd expect, considering they developed it. From left to right, the icons include help, replies, your profile, direct messages, search for a user, search (which lets you filter by proximity), and trending topics.
Direct messages are pushed through instantly, and the official retweet function is supported by the app. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing, I'll leave it to you to decide, but I personally can't stand that new recycled retweet feature. Nothing worse than seeing someone's face in your feed, who you unfollowed long ago. Or maybe that's just me.
Before the big roll-out at the end of the year, BlackBerry intends on polishing it up and has even mentioned the possibility of adding geo-tagging support, lists, profile editing and multi-account log-in. All those features would be excellent please BlackBerry, but particularly the latter. [BlackBerry Blogs]
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Space Launch Complex-41 at 10:23 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. SDO is the first satellite of NASA's Living with a Star (LWS) program.From its geosynchronous orbit, SDO will point its instruments at the sun, conducting groundbreaking research that is expected to reveal the sun's inner workings by constantly taking high resolution images, collecting readings from inside the sun and measuring its magnetic field activity. This data is expected to give researchers the insight they need to eventually predict solar storms and other activity on the sun that can affect spacecraft in orbit, astronauts on the International Space Station and electronic and other systems on Earth.
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On Feb. 11, 2000, two radar antennas built by JPL launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on an 11-day mission to create the first-ever near-global high-resolution database of Earth's topography. The international Shuttle Radar Topography Mission collected topographic data over nearly 80 percent of Earth's land surfaces, revealing for the first time large, detailed swaths of Earth's topography previously obscured by persistent cloudiness. The data benefit scientists, engineers, government agencies and the public alike, with applications that range from land-use planning to virtual Earth exploration. 
NASA is currently using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data to create an even better global topographic map by combining it with the more complete Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer global digital elevation model of Earth released last year by NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Hop aboard as we take you on a virtual tour of some of the more "uplifting" topographic features of our home planet: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/srtm/srtm20100211.html.
For more information on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm.
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Good news—Digitimes is reporting that many of the Taiwanese phone suppliers are ditching resistive touchscreens and focusing their attentions on ramping up production of the much more superior capacitive panels. Today is a great day to be a finger. [Digitimes]
Hundreds of ground crew workers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. have been working since Friday afternoon to keep buildings safe and ensure essential employees are there to support the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-130) mission and the launch and operation of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Crews continue to work very hard to make sure the Center is ready to return to normal operations once this storm is over.Civil servants, contractors, and subcontractors are working together using hundreds of front loaders, Bobcats®, snow plows, dump trucks, and shovels to clear roads and sidewalks on Center.
The biggest challenge to handling this storm is finding a place to put all the snow, according to Eric Holmes, Goddard Facility Manager. “We hauled over 2,000 thousand truckloads of snow and dumped it behind Building 28,” said Holmes. “We’ve built ‘Mount Goddard’.”
Emergency planning began last Wednesday, February 3, when Holmes received a weather report from AccuWeather about the storm. “We made sure we had enough fuel, rock salt, and magnesium chloride,” said Holmes. “About 250 tons of rock salt was delivered to the Center on Thursday. We also made sure contractors and Government personal were prepared.”
Crews will live inside Building 4 for the duration of the storm. There is a full kitchen and hundreds of cots and air mattresses set up.
We were prepared to open the Center this week," says Holmes. "However, because of the surrounding county roads, Center management thought it would be safer for employees to stay home."
Space Shuttle and Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission Support
“Employees have staffed the Network Integration Center (NIC) 24 hours a day since last Friday,” says Jim Bangerter, Network Director for Human Space Flight at Goddard Space Flight Center.
Goddard provides critical communications for human spaceflight missions. The Goddard team provides data to Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control Center that allows them to monitor the performance of thousands of systems on the Shuttle, send flight commands and navigational instructions, relay science data, support voice communications between the astronauts and mission control along with video and live television feeds.
In addition to the Shuttle, Goddard also provides critical mission support to the Solar Dynamics Observatory through its entire mission from Building 14’s Mission Operation Center. The Center is fully staffed and ready to monitor and control the spacecraft through its initial orbits, using the orbital data provided to them by the Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF).
Pre-storm planning for Shuttle and SDO mission support began early last week. Contractors secured rooms at the Greenbelt Holiday Inn and Greenbelt Marriott hotels. They also made sure they had 4-wheel-drive vehicles. Employees packed extra food, water, and shovels. “Several people who did not have to work over the weekend volunteered to drive people between the hotels and Goddard during the storm,” said Melissa Blizzard, Human Space Flight Operations Center Manager. Blizzard works in the NIC. “I was amazed by how people pulled together to help one another during this storm.”
“We could not say enough about the work the ground crew is doing at Goddard,” said Joan Dunham, Flight Dynamics Support Services Operations Domain Lead with a.i. so
lutions, a contractor at the FDF. “Crews spent a lot of time clearing snow from parking lots and sidewalks from behind Building 28. It’s like plowing an ocean,” said Dunham, “They cleared one area and more snow fills in.”
Dunham adds that on Friday night, February 5, about a dozen dump trucks, bulldozers, and Bobcats® worked to clear the Building’s parking lot. They also kept a backup generator clear of snow. Building 28 houses the Flight Dynamics Facility and NASA Television operations. Both facilities are critical to mission operations.
Bangerter stayed in the NIC from Friday afternoon to Monday morning. Bangerter lives in Annapolis, Md. and didn’t want to take a chance on the roads. He slept on a couch in the Mission Management Area. “It was kind of like the old days, before some our operations were moved to White Sands, NM a few years ago,” said Bangerter. “We used to camp out at Goddard during storms like this.”
NASA Goddard contractors did a great job planning for this storm. “Nobody missed a shift,” Bangerter said. “Everyone was able to focus on the Space Shuttle launch. I am deeply grateful for those who put themselves in harm’s way to make sure our crews were able to get to work safely.”
Friday and Saturday night snow removal crews made it possible to access the Building. There were several cars in the parking lot and crews cleared snow around everyone’s cars. Crews helped Bangerter dig his car out of the snow Monday morning.
“The streets and sidewalks inside Goddard are pretty good compared to the streets outside Goddard,” said Melissa Blizzard. “Crews are plowing continuously.”
Many mission support personal were able to take a break after the Space Shuttle launch. Several dozen, however, were right back at Goddard for the Solar Dynamics Observatory launch.
Meanwhile, ground crews continue to clear snow from sidewalks and roads around Goddard. They will be working through the storm until Goddard is able to open again. “We are a very big team here,” said Holmes. “Everyone is goal-oriented here. We recognize we are part of history.”
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The history told by this tall parfait of layers inside Gale Crater matches what has been proposed in recent years as the dominant planet-wide pattern for early Mars, according to a new report by geologists using instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
"Looking at the layers from the bottom to the top, from the oldest to the youngest, you see a sequence of changing rocks that resulted from changes in environmental conditions through time," said Ralph Milliken of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "This thick sequence of rocks appears to be showing different steps in the drying-out of Mars."
Using geological layers to understand stages in the evolution of a planet's climate has a precedent on Earth. A change about 1.8 billion years ago in the types of rock layers formed on Earth became a key to understanding a dramatic change in Earth's ancient atmosphere.
Milliken and two co-authors report in Geophysical Research Letters that clay minerals, which form under very wet conditions, are concentrated in layers near the bottom of the Gale stack. Above that, sulfate minerals are intermixed with the clays. Sulfates form in wet conditions and can be deposited when the water in which they are dissolved evaporates. Higher still are sulfate-containing layers without detectable clays. And at the top is a thick formation of regularly spaced layers bearing no detectable water-related minerals.
Rock exposures with compositions like various layers of the Gale stack have been mapped elsewhere on Mars, and researchers, including Jean-Pierre Bibring of the University of Paris, have proposed a Martian planetary chronology of clay-producing conditions followed by sulfate-producing conditions followed by dry conditions. However, Gale is the first location where a single series of layers has been found to contain these clues in a clearly defined sequence from older rocks to younger rocks.
"If you could stand there, you would see this beautiful formation of Martian sediments laid down in the past, a stratigraphic section that's more than twice the height of the Grand Canyon, though not as steep," said Bradley Thomson of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. He and John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena are Milliken's co-authors.
NASA selected Gale Crater in 2008 as one of four finalist sites for the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, which has a planned launch in 2011. The finalist sites all have exposures of water-related minerals, and each has attributes that distinguish it from the others. This new report is an example of how observations made for evaluating the landing-site candidates are providing valuable science results even before the rover mission launches.
Three instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have provided key data about the layered mound in Gale Crater. Images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera reveal details used to map hundreds of layers. Using stereo pairs of the images, the U.S. Geological Survey has generated three-dimensional models used to discern elevation differences as small as a meter (about a yard). Observations by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars yielded information about minerals on the surface. The Context Camera provided broader-scale images showing how the layers fit geologically into their surroundings.
Thomson said, "This work demonstrates the synergy of the instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. We wouldn't have as complete a picture if we were missing any of the components."
The mission has been studying Mars since 2006. It has returned more data from the planet than all other Mars missions combined. More information about this mission is at http://www.nasa.gov/mro.
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, provided and operates the Context Camera. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory provided and operates the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer. The University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, operates the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.
JPL, a division of Caltech, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft.
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Spirit moved about 34 centimeters (13 inches) toward the south southeast in a series of drives beginning on Sol 2145 (Jan. 15, 2010). The left-rear wheel (on the right in this rear-facing view) moved out of a rut that it had dug in soft soil in April 2009. The drive motor for the right-rear wheel (on the left in this view) stopped working in late 2009, leaving the six-wheeled rover with only four functioning wheels. The top of the image shows the underside of Spirit's solar array.
The rover's solar array is tilted 9 degrees toward the south for the winter. In the three previous winters that Spirit has spent on Mars, its parked positions tilted toward northward, a better attitude for drawing energy from the sun in the northern sky. Engineers anticipate that, due to the unfavorable tilt for this fourth winter, Spirit will soon be out of communication with Earth for several months. A low-power hibernation mode will shut down almost all functions except keeping a master clock running and checking periodically on Spirit's power status until it has enough power to reawaken.
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While new colorways aren't exactly our bag, we'll make an exception for the Panasonic GF1 just because it's so damned cool. It'll be available in silver and pink options from March 12th. [Panasonic via Akihabara News]
Officially named "P/2010 B2 (WISE)," but known simply as WISE, the comet is a dusty mass of ice more than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in diameter. It probably formed around the same time as our solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. Comet WISE started out in the cold, dark reaches of our solar system, but after a long history of getting knocked around by the gravitational forces of Jupiter, it settled into an orbit much closer to the sun. Right now, the comet is heading away from the sun and is about 175 million kilometers (109 million miles) from Earth.
"Comets are ancient reservoirs of water. They are one of the few places besides Earth in the inner solar system where water is known to exist," said Amy Mainzer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Mainzer is the principal investigator of NEOWISE, a project to find and catalog new asteroids and comets spotted by WISE (the acronym combines WISE with NEO, the shorthand for near-Earth object).
"With WISE, we have a powerful tool to find new comets and learn more about the population as a whole. Water is necessary for life as we know it, and comets can tell us more about how much there is in our solar system."
The WISE telescope, which launched into a polar orbit around Earth on Dec. 14, 2009, is expected to discover anywhere from a few to dozens of new comets, in addition to hundreds of thousands of asteroids. Comets are harder to find than asteroids because they are much more rare in the inner solar system. Whereas asteroids tour around in the "main belt" between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, large numbers of comets orbit farther away, in the icy outer reaches of our solar system.
Both asteroids and comets can fall into orbits that bring them close to Earth's path around the sun. Most of these "near-Earth objects" are asteroids but some are comets. WISE is expected to find new near-Earth comets, and this will give us a better idea of how threatening they might be to Earth.
"It is very unlikely that a comet will hit Earth," said James Bauer, a scientist at JPL working on the WISE project, "But, in the rare chance that one did, it could be dangerous. The new discoveries from WISE will give us more precise statistics about the probability of such an event, and how powerful an impact it might yield."
The space telescope spotted the comet during its routine scan of the sky on January 22. Sophisticated software plucked the comet out from the stream of images pouring down from space by looking for objects that move quickly relative to background stars. The comet discovery was followed up by a combination of professional and amateur astronomers using telescopes across the United States.
A teacher also teamed up with an observer to measure comet WISE using a home-built telescope next to a cornfield in Illinois. Their research is part of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration, an education program that helps teachers and students observe comets and asteroids (more information is online at http://iasc.hsutx.edu/ ).
All the data are catalogued at the Minor Planet Center, in Cambridge, Mass., the worldwide clearinghouse for all observations and orbits of minor planets and comets.
Comet WISE takes 4.7 years to circle the sun, with its farthest point being about 4 astronomical units away, and its closest point being 1.6 astronomical units (near the orbit of Mars). An astronomical unit is the distance between Earth and the sun. Heat from the sun causes gas and dust to blow off the comet, resulting in a dusty coma, or shell, and a tail.
Though this particular body is actively shedding dust, WISE is also expected to find dark, dead comets. Once a comet has taken many trips around the sun, its icy components erode away, leaving only a dark, rocky core. Not much is known about these objects because they are hard to see in visible light. WISE's infrared sight should be able to pick up the feeble glow of some of these dark comets, answering questions about precisely how and where they form.
"Dead comets can be darker than coal," said Mainzer. "But in infrared light, they will pop into view. One question we want to answer with WISE is how many dead comets make up the near-Earth object population."
The mission will spend the next eight months mapping the sky one-and-a-half times. A first batch of data will be available to the public in the spring of 2011, and the final catalog a year later. Selected images and findings will be released throughout the mission.
JPL manages the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The principal investigator, Edward Wright, is at UCLA. The mission was competitively selected under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, Utah, and the spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The ground-based observations are partly supported by the National Science Foundation. The Minor Planet Center is funded by NASA. More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise and http://wise.astro.ucla.edu.
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The most technologically advanced of NASA's heliophysics spacecraft, SDO will take images of the sun every 0.75 seconds and daily send back about 1.5 terabytes of data to Earth -- the equivalent of streaming 380 full-length movies.
"This is going to be sensational," said Richard R. Fisher, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "SDO is going to make a huge step forward in our understanding of the sun and its effects on life and society."
The sun's dynamic processes affect everyone and everything on Earth. SDO will explore activity on the sun that can disable satellites, cause power grid failures, and disrupt GPS communications. SDO also will provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate.
SDO is the crown jewel in a fleet of NASA missions to study our sun. The mission is the cornerstone of a NASA science program called Living With A Star. This program will provide new understanding and information concerning the sun and solar system that directly affect Earth, its inhabitants and technology.
The SDO project is managed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center managed the payload integration and launch.
For launch coverage, briefing materials, and multimedia, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/briefing-materials-20100209.html
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