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James Hatch

Adding Hibernate Option in Windows 8 Shutdown Menu - 0 views

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  • James Hatch on 04 Oct 13
     
    If you are finding ways to add hibernate option in Windows 8 shutdown/Power menu, then you are advised to watch this clip. In this video, you will find a systematic procedure to enable Windows 8 hibernate mode.
julia Dexter

Animate Windows 8 Start Screen through Registry - 0 views

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  • julia Dexter on 25 Jul 13
     
    Windows 8 has a new 'Start' screen (also referred to as Metro UI). If you ever want to access the traditional Windows desktop, you need to click on/tap a tile at this Start screen which takes you to the desktop. However, if you want to customize your Windows 8, then follow this video about Windows 8 Start Screen Registry Tips and Tricks.
James Hatch

How to enable the F8 key to start Safe Mode in Windows 8 - 0 views

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  • James Hatch on 10 Oct 13
     
    In order to improve the Windows 8, Microsoft decided to remove the F8 key option to access advanced startup options that are considered best for troubleshooting system in case an issue arises. There was no easy way to access safe mode than F8 key but, it is not present in Windows 8.
julia Dexter

Windows 8 Freezes on Startup Fixed - 0 views

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  • julia Dexter on 17 Aug 13
     
    If your Windows 8 freezes on Startup, you can try the number of solutions being disucssed in this video
julia Dexter

Services You can Disable in Windows 8 - 0 views

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  • julia Dexter on 03 Oct 13
     
    Windows 8 system operates on a compendium of processes and services. Services specifically are vital to execute a login session, as the important drivers and components are loaded through them. In the relevant interface, you can view more than a hundred listings of services.
thinkahol *

Supercomputer hunts child abusers - tech - 03 December 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views

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  • thinkahol * on 07 Dec 10
     
    With the help of their 1.8 petaflop supercomputer, Jaguar, researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are sifting through internet traffic in search of suspicions patterns that will lead police to the perpetrators of child pornography.
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Lasers could power drones in flight or launch rockets | KurzweilAI - 0 views

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Lasers could power drones in flight or launch rockets | KurzweilAI

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  • thinkahol * on 20 Aug 11
     
    Researchers at LaserMotive have devised a way to beam lasers to power military bases and drones, possibly helping to save lives, since delivering fuel to battle zones can be a dangerous task in wartime. Although still largely in the R&D stage, laser power beaming has many other potential uses, which include powering vehicles, replacing electric power wiring and transmission lines in difficult places, and even launching rockets into orbit. The beam is about 8 inches wide as it leaves the transmitter - and then spreads wider as it travels. The beam emitter is located at a ground-based unit and operated by a person, who could control it from the same location or remotely from an entirely different place altogether. The operator uses the machine to fire the laser beam at a photovoltaic collector located on an unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV), small plane, or helicopter. The current range of the system is about a kilometer. When the laser hits the photovoltaic device, the photons in the light beam are converted to electricity to fly the AUV. Topics: AI/Robotics | Energy | Physics/Cosmology | Survival/Defense
David Mills

Quality GPS Tracking Products - 3 views

I am very happy that I purchased Securatrak’s GPS car tracking device because I was able to retrieve my stolen car real fast. I gave all the GPS information of my car's exact whereabouts to t...

GPS tracking car

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David Mills

Reliable Vehicle Monitoring Device - 1 views

I thought I can never set myself free from worrying about my cargo trucks that usually travel to far places. Undeniably, there were drivers who cannot be fully trusted. But if I had to keep on chan...

Truck tracking

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James Hatch

Keeping your Windows Phone Secure - 0 views

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  • James Hatch on 02 Oct 13
     
    Windows 8 RTM for mobile devices has introduced some elevated security features. Through preeminent synchronizing capabilities, Microsoft empowers this operating system to become loyal with its users and help them keep their data safe and secure.
David Mills

Relieved From My Worries - 1 views

I used to worry about my dad who usually drives alone at 75 years old. Though, I always tell him to have a driver whenever he wants to go elsewhere, yet he insists that he still loves to drive his ...

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David Mills

Making My Fleet Business More successful - 1 views

I admit managing my fleet business has been very challenging. There were even times when I wanted to give up because I could no longer figure out how to make it succeed considering that I have alr...

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Todd Suomela

The Technium: The World Without Technology - 0 views

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  • Although strictly speaking simple tools are a type of technology made by one person, we tend to think of technology as something much more complicated. But in fact technology is anything designed by a mind. Technology includes not only nuclear reactors and genetically modified crops, but also bows and arrows, hide tanning techniques, fire starters, and domesticated crops. Technology also includes intangible inventions such as calendars, mathematics, software, law, and writing, as these too derive from our heads. But technology also must include birds' nests and beaver dams since these too are the work of brains. All technology, both the chimp's termite fishing spear and the human's fishing spear, the beaver's dam and the human's dam, the warbler's hanging basket and the human's hanging basket, the leafcutter ant's garden and the human's garden, are all fundamentally natural. We tend to isolate human-made technology from nature, even to the point of thinking of it as anti-nature, only because it has grown to rival the impact and power of its home. But in its origins and fundamentals a tool is as natural as our life.
  • The gravity of technology holds us where we are. We accept our attachment. But to really appreciate the effects of technology – both its virtues and costs -- we need to examine the world of humans before technology. What were our lives like without inventions? For that we need to peek back into the Paleolithic era when technology was scarce and humans lived primarily surrounded by things they did not make. We can also examine the remaining contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes still living close to nature to measure what, if anything, they gain from the small amount of technology they use.
  • Then about 50,000 years ago something amazing happened. While the bodies of early humans in Africa remained unchanged, their genes and minds shifted noticeably. For the first time hominins were full of ideas and innovation. These newly vitalized modern humans, which we now call Sapiens, charged into new regions beyond their ancestral homes in eastern Africa. They fanned out from the grasslands and in a relatively brief burst exploded from a few tens of thousands in Africa to an estimated 8 million worldwide just before the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago.
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  • It should have been clear to Neanderthal, as it is now clear to us in the 21st century, that something new and big had appeared -- a new biological and geological force. A number of scientists (Richard Klein, Ian Tattersall, William Calvin, among many others) think that the "something" that happened 50,000 years ago was the invention of language. Up until this point, humanoids were smart. They could make crude tools in a hit or miss way and handle fire – perhaps like an exceedingly smart chimp. The African hominin's growing brain size and physical stature had leveled off its increase, but evolution continued inside the brain.  "What happened 50,000 years ago," says Klein, "was a change in the operating system of humans. Perhaps a point mutation effected the way the brain is wired that allowed languages, as we understand language today: rapidly produced, articulate speech."  Instead of acquiring a larger brain, as the Neanderthal and Erectus did, Sapien gained a rewired brain.  Language altered the Neanderthal-type mind, and allowed Sapien minds for the first time to invent with purpose and deliberation. Philosopher Daniel Dennet crows in elegant language: "There is no step more uplifting, more momentous in the history of mind design, than the invention of language. When Homo sapiens became the beneficiary of this invention, the species stepped into a slingshot that has launched it far beyond all other earthly species." The creation of language was the first singularity for humans. It changed everything. Life after language was unimaginable to those on the far side before it.
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