Infinity Unbound

from PhysOrg.com Astrophysicists have found evidence that a corrected version of Newton’s 2nd Law (which deals with the acceleration of mass) works well on the grand scale of the universe. These modifications to Newtonian physics are known as “modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). “Newton offers a foundation for classical mechanics in the relationship of force, mass and accelerations,” Alex Ignatiev explains to PhysOrg.com . “These are always true, except in special cases.” [ ... ]

Ehh.. it didn't take a lot of time to rediscover wine after I made a huge switch to ubuntu last month. After all, there isn't any reason now to keep running windows. I've managed to run the following softwares so far: 1. Adobe Photoshop 7 2. Macromedia Flash 8 3. Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 4. Winrar 5. Flashget but there was a little problem with Picasa 2.6!... Basically I couldn't use the web upload feature... It just wasn't recognizing that I had an internet connection. Damn that sucks. After reinstalling, looking into database and all, I found the error wasn't in Picasa at all but in wine itself due to a bug in wininet library... after some trial, I found that the default wine on the ubuntu repository was slightly older wine 0.9.22 I tried updating and it worked.. the commands? 1. Getting the apt-get list $sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list 2. getting it updated $ sudo apt-get update 3. ...

Yep, its been quite some time that I've posted anything here... but that's about to change...

The oldest known color photograph: 1872 Before the Autochrome process was perfected in France, this photograph of a landscape in Southern France was taken. No, it is not hand-tinted. This is a color-photograph. (Note: It was published in a Time/Life Book entitled "Color" in 1972, "courtesey of George Eastman House, Paulus Lesser.") You are looking at the birth of color photography seven years after the American Civil War. 130 years ago this view of Angouleme, France, was created by a "subtractive" method. This is the basis for all color photography, even today. It was taken by Louis Ducos du Hauron who proposed the method in 1869. It was not until the 1930's that this method was perfected for commercial use. Color Photos from the Russian Empire Monastery from the Solarium Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of...

Prof Hawking is in "no hurry to die" The human race must move to a star outside our solar system to protect the future of the species, physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has warned. He told the BBC that life could be wiped out by a nuclear disaster or asteroid hitting the planet. But the Cambridge academic added: "Once we spread out into space and establish colonies our future should be safe." Prof Hawking, 64, was speaking before receiving the UK's top science award, the Royal Society's Copley Medal. My next goal is to go into space, maybe Richard Branson will help me Professor Stephen ...