In the year 2000, cell phones were just becoming popular with the general population. Most of the screens were like 4Bit pixels and only in black and white, siilar to calculators. They cpuld only talk, no texting (AHHHHHHH!) and had snake for a game. Not to mention that the batteries were like half the phone and only lasted like a day. Now we can view and edit word documents and most other MS Office documents, while checking email on Facebook. Aswell as the battery life has at least more than trippled.

In the year 2000, Video games were becoming evermore popular with teens and young adults as with me. The PS2 was released this year and at the time was the creme de la creme of consoles at the time. the graphics were amazing at the time. Now a days preety much evgerything electronic has games on it and not to mention the consoles of today. Running in full 1080p through a HDMI cable while using a Bluetooth controller to watch full movies streamed from a computer.

Digital Cameras at the time were bulky, not very much space (eg. 128Mb) and battery life was pretty much non-existent. Around 2.0MP was the max and was not very responsive. Now we have cameras the size of phones that shoot around 10.0MP and can also take videos. the max space is somewhere from 32Gb to i don’t even know, probably whatever the biggest hard drives you can buy are.

The way in which it works differs from the factory rev limiter in that it is an ignition cut, as opposed to a fuel cut. The reason for this is because if an engine (particularly turbocharged) regularly hits a fuel-cut rev limit (such as in high performance driving, or particularly drifting) engine damage can arise due to the lean (very high air:fuel ratio ie: 20 parts air to 1 part fuel) condition produced when the original ECU shuts off the fuel pump. The BEE*R rev-limiter allows fuel to pass into the engine still, limiting engine speed by disabling the ignition signal (spark plugs). The Bee*R rev limiter is fully adjustable in 500rpm increments, for safety reasons allowing only a lower rev-limit to be configured than standard. If you have spent a lot of money tuning your engine, or are running at high RPM’s for extended periods of time, it could be recommended to run a lower rev-limit to prolong engine life. Both Formula 1 and JGTC cars use ignition cutting rev limiters, so it is a fully race proven.

The Bee*R can also be used as a “two stage rev limiter”, as an aid for launching your car. The Bee*R is configurable for two different rev-limits. A lower rev limit can be activated by a switch, the handbrake switch often being used. This configurable lower limit, can be set to the optimum RPM to launch your particular car from in 500rpm increments. When the handbrake is released, the usual rev limit comes into action, allowing quick launches, and full performance down the strip or track.

The Bee*R rev-limiter has another final neat feature. The gain control knob allows you to adjust the frequency of the ignition cut. This in turn changes the frequency and sound of the flames and bangs from your exhaust!

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year they will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because they’re already talking to partners about the project, and they’ll soon be working with the open source community, they want to share the vision now so everyone understands what they are trying to achieve.

Very creative advertisement from WWF [Pic]: Wow that is really kinda disturbing in a realization-of-what-is-happening sort of way. But still, it makes a good point.

Someone at Microsoft is Taking LSD… [PIC]: WOW this is really funny. Mind you it just a background and its more of a joke but it is still funny.

Another Reason why Time Warner Sucks

Windows 7 Release Candidate 1′s Best Surprise New Features

Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” officially released

I find that the problem with this app/program is that it is an invation of personal privacy. If you are willing to have it then go right ahead and more power to ya’.  But if you want it just to show your friends where you are, and you start gettting people that you dont know following you because it is a public thing to view then that can be bad. Since it is public someone who doesnt like you for some reason could start stalking you and really freak you out.

Another reason this is bad is you know the little side bars on some websites like Facebook that say whatever, the reason its there is that you or something you comented on found out something and now starts to advertise those things. The problem with the Google Latitude is that you could just walk by a store and all of a sudden start getting their advertising. Now that could be very annoying especially if it is something that you really dont want to see for onr reason or another.

One thing that this app could be used for is literally spying on someone. Say you work for a company that uses this app and they want to see where you go at lunch. Now most companies give you say an hour for lunch. Now luch is used loosly. You can do whatever you want but aslong as your back intime to start work again. Now this is like your own private time to your self and anyone you want to know what you’re doing. If a company is looking at what your doing all the time that could start to be an invation of your own personal privacy. Basically what I’m saying is that whatever you do on your time is to your knowledge and your knowledge only.

LittleBigPlanet was a little kind of “kids game” that didn’t have a lot of publicity before it was released. It was a fun based game that is very simple to play and to create levels of your own. You could play them with your friends or publish them so other people around the world could play them. By the timme it was released it was around like a small, not very popular game. Once it was released, it started to pick up speed in the sales market and became a game that will be rememberd as a “PLAYSTATION EXCLUSIVE.”

Next is the DualShock3 controller. Thisis the ability to sense both rotational orientation and translational acceleration along all three dimensional axes, providing six degrees of freedom. This in turn make flying game and any gamer that requires some sort of additional movment, but without the use of the analog sticks or in additon to them.

The game that i think that will affect the tech world in 2009 will be GT5. But mor commonly known as GRAN TURISMO 5. Not the prologue, but the actual game itself. In an April 2008 interview, Kazunori Yamauchi(the designer of the game) revealed that 150 people had worked on Gran Turismo 5 for four years, with all of Polyphony Digital’s 120 employees working on GT5, and the game costing 50 times more to develop than 1997′s Gran Turismo. The amount of detail that goes into the cars is astonishing. To digitize one real car, it take GB’s of pictures taken with cameras,days to get the info back, and then 180 days to render the car. 180 DAYS!!! Thats a lot considering that there is rumoured to be over 1000 cars total ranging from the Ferrari F1 2007 car to the Dihatsu Midget. So a huge aray of cars that are all  able you to proformance modify them. And not to mention the “fifthsequal” to the racing……(racing simulator)(it actually says that during th opening credits) ”monarchy” that is Gran Turismo. GT FTW.

Heres a page of the cars going into a liitle more detail also with a list of what is to come in the future: http://www.zerotohundred.com/newforums/automotive-news/181936-ps3s-gran-turismo-5-complete-list-of-cars.html

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IP addresses:The IP address is usually expressed as four decimal numbers, each representing eight bits, separated by periods. This is sometimes known as the dot address and, more technically, as dotted quad notation
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