14
Jan
The USA have a big problem. The problem is money. The USA is missing 16
trillion of it actually. So what’s the way to solve this misery? One thing might
be the issue of a platinum coin with a nominal value of, let’s say 1 trillion.
Issuing 16 of these and selling them to the FED would virtually solve the prob.
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13
Jan
So ebay has changed it’s logo after 17 years. But that’s not all: The fees for
an auction are risen also. So while the max capping for an auction was 45
euros, it’s now 75 Euros. The fee for a successful auction is 9% of the bid
price. An item sold for 100 Euros for example has a fee of 9 Euros.
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10
Jan
Just as the first quadcore devices hit stores for everyone, Samsung’s plans
leaked that the new Samsung Galaxy S4 could be one of the first mobile
devices equipped with an 8-core CPU. Natively we speak of two 4-core CPUs
as octocore SoCs are not yet available or designed to a working state.
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January 10, 2013Netspark
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08
Jan
While the CES is open for exhibition on January,8 to January,11 this year
manufacturers from all countries from the entertainment industry are
presenting their newest gadgets to the public. Samsung starts first and shows
it’s newest TV set. Looking like a painting easel, it seems to float in the room.
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30
Dec
While light emmiting diodes did not gring up much light in the past, today’s
LEDs have great potential to replace the energy-saving lamps which are in
conflict with a environment-friendly production. As Energy lamps still have
small amounts of toxic mercury and light-emmiting gases inside…
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28
Dec
Although the calendar says that we’re midst in Winter, the temperature
doesn’t make one feel like so. While in some places of Germany, Austria
and Switzerland the temperatures hit the 20-degrees-celsius-mark, the
question about the missing winter is just rectified.
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27
Dec
Ever imagined what it’ll be like when you’re atop of the world’s highest
building? Ever wondered how all these shiny windows get cleaned? Well, in
this video from BBC One, you get some insight on how all the work around
the tower is done and why this building still is a masterpiece of architecture!
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26
Dec
If you ever considered robbing a trucker in Russia, you’d better watch this
video and reconsider. Because truckers aren’t as helples as you may think,
even if they have a tire flat broke. These guys from Russia scented a potential
victim and harrassed the trucker. Too bad that the trucker knew of CB radio!
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21
Dec
Everywhere you look, you see the theories about the world’s end to come up
today. Some scientific websites also claim that there were mayan drawings
discovered that prophesy the world’s end at the very day today. But what
makes all these people so sure, that the world is going to end today? Why?
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18
Dec
Scareware. A little nasty program telling you that your computer has
problems, where none are really. In most cases it’s better to trust Anti-Virus
pioneers and some system fixing software (some of them are even freeware!)
to determine your PC’s status.
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16
Dec
A land so far away? Not necessarily! The swiss airline PrivatAir has landed
a Boeing 737 the first time in Antarctica. The special weather conditions and
the ground made it necessary to train the staff more than one year until the
airline flew 32 research crew members of the norwegian polar institute there!
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14
Dec
Water can be extremely rough when you’re on it with something fast. Even the
tiniest waves can shake you around like hell. So when you’re on a fast-paced
nutshell you’d better do what? Correct: Either slow down the nutshell even if
it’s uncool or use smaller turns (if possible). Wrong: driving like this guy.
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12
Dec
At least for this century. Because there’s no 13.13.2013! – But why is this date
so special? Many people argue that such palindrome dates are guranteed to
bring luck to special events being done at such dates: Marriages, birthdays,
even common events from our everyday life are said to be better.
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11
Dec
Sounding almost ridiculous, Amazon has really patented a system to keep
mobile devices from hard crashes. Files under the patent number 833035
at the U.S. patent office, you’ll find a scheme for a air-driven recovery
system. However it’s not yet known what Amazon really plans.
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05
Dec
There’s lots of useless junk sold worldwide. The Anti-Fart-underwear might
be one of these. Okay, farts aren’t really wanted in crowds and one might
want to vanish in a big hole when he/she has dropped one. But you can’t
stop nature. When it happens,then mostly in cases where you don’t want it.
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04
Dec
Voyager 1 has been launched On September 5th, 1977 into space with the
mission to discover what’s behind the lines of the solar system as we know it
and as it could have been explored with the telescopes that time. 25 years
later Voyager 1 is now reaching the interstellar space.
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December 4, 2012Netspark
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02
Dec
These guys found an innovative way how to sort beer crates efficiently.
However I doubt that this sorting method keeps the beer in good condition.
I bet that the opened bottle will instantly start foaming like hell as it is
shaken this way. But hey, they sort them faster as anyone else!
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26
Nov
Well… when you hear “Treat your iPhone like a raw egg”, what would you do?
Right: Bumper, cover, soft cloth, careful usage and all the stuff so that this
hitech gadget won’t suffer any harm. In this case, a guy took the figure of
speech the wrong way. And what do you do with raw eggs?
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24
Nov
Time to spend a weekend in Munich again, with my friends. So it’s again the
good ol’ train that will rock me there in 6 hours. Hopefully! But my fears
were without a reason. The travel worked fine. Going from Bern to Basel
Departing in time from there… had a 6 minutes Delay in Freiburg…
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23
Nov
It’s just been a month since Windows 8 is released but there are already some
oddities, you don’t expect from Redmond. However it seems as if Microsoft
is following a weird trend as Apple has shown before. Now you may ask what
I am babbling about? Well, buy yourself a new notebook with Windows 8.
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22
Nov
Winter is coming and with it, streets tend to get slippery. Not that autumn
has these side-effects, too, but most accidents happen in intertime when
snow and ice covers the land. The bus driver in this video seems to have
been surprised by one of these ice covers on the road but acted correctly.
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20
Nov
When it comes to new gadgets, many people go crazy and tend to do stupid
things. One of them for sure is buying tech gadgets for an incredibly low
price that is hardly covering the real hardware price. The mild variation
is that you get a piracy product that is lacking features of the original.
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16
Nov
Biking is cool and also relieves from the common stress. However all the stress
can come up again, when you’re in danger. This otorcyclist barely was missed
by a misled car driver who happened to drive on the wrong side of the road.
Barely missing the motorcyclist the driver did not seem to worry about it!
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15
Nov
Nintendo and Sony – archrivals since the very beginning of the game console
era. Even now it seems as if Nintendo seems to be much more successful as
these figures underline: While the PS Vita is sold 3 million times, the 3DS has
been sold 22 million times. A factor of 7 to 1 for Nintendo.
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November 15, 2012Netspark
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11
Nov
Supercomputer are mostly one’s nation to show, we can compute numbers
as fast as possible. While last year, the fastest supercomputer was situated
in Asia, it is now again situated in the USA. The Oak Ridge National
Laboratory has built up and finally activated the fastest supercomputer.
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November 11, 2012Netspark
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10
Nov
For once, all these hassles and fights seem to come to an end according to
the actual news that Apple and HTC have finally buried all open lawsuits.
For a duration of the upcoming ten years, both manufacturers have each
other granted a mutual licence on actual and upcoming patents.
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09
Nov
Usually, you see buildings collapse when ehavy loaded or overloaded.
Especially parking houses have several warnings that they may not be
overloaded or have a certain amount of weight on a predefined area.
When watching the following video, I was just impressed of that structure.
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08
Nov
It seems as if things could not get worse when it comes to lifting heavy
machinery. But when you see this video, then you’ll reconsider your
thoughts: In this case, a giant locomotive has been lifted from a cargo
ship in order to be placed on the pier. But in midst of the lifting it happened.
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07
Nov
When it comes to apple, most of you may think: Innovative manufacturer of
cool gadgets with high potential. A real strong stock market value also has
given you this idea. With the release of the iPhone 5, while the stock market
value per share was 700 US$, nowadays, the value has dropped to 558 US$.
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November 7, 2012Netspark
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stock ,
value
06
Nov
Even these days, multi-device homepages are a bit of a hassle and so I found
out that most of my video posts are not properly viewable on mobile phones
For instance we have the iPhone which seems to drop out on the video tags
trying to open the player.swf instead. also the iPhone can’t deal with FLV.
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05
Nov
Elections – THE event in the USA when it comes to a big showdown in politics.
Usually, democracy demands that every citizen of a country is requested to
give his/her voe on a party member being put up for elections. In this case
we’re talking about Obaa and Romney.
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04
Nov
Ever wondered how google is processing your search requests or how your
video demands on YouTube are served? Well, till now, there were no official
pictures on the ‘net about the inside looks of Google’s computing centers.
Till now. Google has oficially put together a gallery about their holy cow.
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