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Fastest-ever hydrocarb scramjet hits Mach 8, doesn’t explode

Paul Hubert — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:37:03 +0000

HIFire 2 engine successfully lights match in a hurricane

New DDR4 memory to boost tablet, server performance

Paul Hubert — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:07:15 +0000

The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor, DDR4, will herald in a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data center hardware and consumer products alike.

Convention funnies

DrumBum — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:17:14 +0000

According to the Tampa Bay Times guns will be allowed in the designated protest zone but squirt guns will not. They have a very long list of other items – brass knuckles, urine – that are evidently far more dangerous and lacking legal protection.

What a mixed up country we have.

Pikaia Fossils Explode the Evolutionary Paradigm

Paul Hubert — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:06:01 +0000

A recent campaign by the Royal Ontario Museum to collect more fossils from the Burgess Shale site in the Canadian Rockies has added to the number of fossil specimens of a highly enigmatic creature called Pikaia gracilens.

Taking advantage of the new fossils, two paleontologists interpreted Pikaia to be a member of the phylum Chordata. This interpretation raises problems for the evolutionary explanation for life’s history, while at the same time provides support for the RTB creation model.

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Drip, drip, drip, drip …

Not one point of evidence, nor dozens or hundreds, but thousands and beyond … and mounting, while there is truly none for the Origin of Species.

KUHNER: Obama’s homosexual America

Paul Hubert — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:58:27 +0000

President embraces liberal goal of ending marriage and societal stability

Mozilla fires startling broadside at Apple

Paul Hubert — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:12:33 +0000

Firefox-maker Mozilla has slammed Apple, telling TechRadar that the walled-garden approach is both stopping people from being creative and bringing a ‘scary’ culture of censorship.

Apple reportedly putting acquired map technologies to good use in iOS 6

Paul Hubert — Sat, 12 May 2012 05:16:57 +0000

A switch away from Google’s mapping data in favor of Apple’s own in-house solution is imminent, according to a report by 9to5Mac.

iOS vs. Android in the enterprise

Paul Hubert — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:17:13 +0000

There are, however, pluses and minuses when it comes to enterprise adoption. Which one has the leg up? We went to a company, MEDL Mobile, that develops for both to give us the opposing views.

If you use Thunderbird Lightning…

Paul Hubert — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:52:37 +0000

Here is how to change Event background color

Profile folder – Thunderbird

Complete HTML True Color Chart

I just tried this – and it works GREAT!

RTB’s Dark Energy Articles

Paul Hubert — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:11:26 +0000

Darkness comprises 99.73 percent of the universe. It comes in three forms: ordinary dark matter, exotic dark matter, and dark energy. Of these forms, dark energy is predominant; it also reveals the greatest level of fine-tuning design for life’s benefit.