Seeing that it’s 100 years now since Einsteins “miracle year” The Economist has written a piece outlining some of his theories and what he accomplished. An excerpt:
IN THE span of 18 months, Isaac Newton invented calculus, constructed a theory of optics, explained how gravity works and discovered his laws of motion. As a result, 1665 […]
100 years after Einstein
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments
Tags: Math & Science
You have the right to unpimp your ride
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments
Seems like the fellas from West Coast Customs (pimp my ride) got fined $16.000 by the goverment for safety violations.
I wonder however the goverment found out…. More info here. For those of you who don’t like registering, here is the full article:
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Custom Rims, Yes; TV in Steering Wheel, No
By DANNY HAKIM
Published: December 30, 2004
DETROIT, Dec. […]
Tags: Cars & Tuning
The kings salary open for all to see
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments
The BBC reports that in an unprecedented move the king of Morocco’s salary has been published. It seems that the guy earns a modest $45.000 / month. That’s less than a typical Fortune 500 CEO earns and certainly less than some other Arab kings & sheikhs earn.
This is a very bold move for an Arab […]
Tags: Middle East
Put Firefox on speed
December 30th, 2004 · No Comments
Seems that the fellows at forevergeek.com have written a little tutorial to make Firefox faster. It basically comes down to setting it to pre-emptively cache more data while you’re surfing:
1.Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to […]
Tags: Firefox & Thunderbird