IT News HeadLines (HardOCP) 15/08/2010

PETA Takes On Dodge and Comes Up Empty
PETA, taking its usual stance defending almost everything non-human, took on a Dodge commercial using a chimpanzee. The Dodge team came up with an ingenious alternative, saving the commercial and poking PETA in the eye with the solution. You could say the problem just disappeared. :D Comments
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Did Star Trek Influence the Design of the iPad?
If you ever watched The Next Generation on TV, you would have noticed Captain Picard using a touch interface device aptly named PADD or Personal Access Display Device, which bears strikingly similar design and use to the iPadÂ….. 23 years into the future. Could it be the Enterprise did another slingshot maneuver around the sun and met with Steve Jobs? I hope this won't destroy the space/time continuum For ST:TNG and beyond, Starfleet used touchscreen PADDs. The thin, handheld devices used the same interface as the control panels and computers on the Enterprise-D. "The idea was that we wanted to make them sleeker, slimmer, and way more advanced than the electronic clipboards were on the original series," Okuda said. But PADDs were much more powerful than electronic note pads. "We realized that with the networking capabilities we had postulated for the ship, and given the [hypothetical] flexibility of the software, you should be able to fly the ship from the PADD," Okuda said. Comments
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Seasonic X-Series: X-400FL Silent Power Supply
Not everyone needs a massive 1000W power supply, some times all you just need a rock solid, quiet power supply like the Seasonic X-Series: X-400FL Silent PSU. Hit the link for the complete evaluation. Seasonic, long known for making excellent power supply units has gone silent. Not just quiet, silent. It's new 400 watt unit comes to the consumer complete with no fan. Now let's see if the new silent Seasonic is worth your hard earned cash. Comments
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Great Ideas For Your Next Mod Project
You know what our case modding forums are great for? Getting ideas and inspiration from some seriously talented people, that's what! Sometimes it is the simplest things that get overlooked, like this guy's idea of reusing steel mesh from a case to mount your fan / radiator combo. Pretty slick idea, isn't it?
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9 Women From Brown Intern at Microsoft
It would seem that Microsoft is trying to change that "lack of women" in the tech field problem everyone keeps reporting on. Kinda cool that all nine women from Brown University's computer science department spent the summer interning at Microsoft. Thanks to Marcy for the link. They can field their own baseball team, with nine women in all — a group small enough to fit around a large lunch table at The Commons, but large enough to make for vibrant conversation. But baseball isn't what these nine women all have in common – it's computer science. Comments
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Rage 60fps iPhone 4 Demo
I know, I know, Carmack and the crew should probably be more concerned about actually getting a game to market instead of screwing around with Rage on the iPhone 4 (how long has it been since Doom III?) but this is still definitely cool to see. Comments
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Man Scrawls World's Biggest Message With GPS 'Pen'
Hey, I'll be going through Canada soon, maybe I can do what this guy did and make a huge [H] on my way through. Comments
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Millionaire at Sixteen
Dear sixteen year old millionaire kid…I hate you. Delighted Christian Owens, now 16, used his pocket money to fund his first venture, website Mac Box Bundle, which has taken £700,000 since its launch in 2008. He launched advertising pay-per-click company 'Branchr' a year later and worked on the company after school and at weekends. Branchr was a smash hit with internet sites, made a staggering £500,000 in its first year. Comments
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Probe of Bribery at HP Heats Up
The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, says that the Department of Justice is now joining in the HP bribery probe. Ouch…DOJ and probe are two words you never want to hear mentioned in the same sentence. German prosecutors, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal in April, are looking into the possibility that H-P executives paid about €8 million ($10.9 million) in bribes to win a €35 million contract under which the U.S. company sold computer gear, through a German subsidiary, to the office of the prosecutor general of the Russian Federation. The German probe has been joined by U.S. and Russian authorities, according to people familiar with the matter. Comments
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