Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey abruptly stepped down Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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“What do you want?” Dell asked its users. “Linux on our desks and in our laps, please,” they replied. “We hear you,” said Dell, “but we don’t want to disappoint you, so you can’t have it just yet.” Sadly, the users are disappointed anyway.
Though it’s primarily a digital camera designed for taking still shots, Canon’s latest digital offering, the PowerShot TX1, also boasts the ability to film 720p footage at 30fps.
It boasts a 10x optical zoom and a 7 megapixel imager. Interestingly, though, the press release states that the camera uses the MotionJPEG AVI file format rather than MPEG4 which is more common and generally considered better quality.
Wednesday night was the women’s chance to perform on American Idol. The men had disappointed the night before with only a couple of good performances. There was no shortage of talent with the women as more gals than not wowed the judges.The two that stood out to me were Melinda Doolittle of Brentwood, Tennessee and LaKisha Jones of Flint, Michigan.
A ruling against Google in a copyright case in Belgium may influence courts in other European countries, but not the United States where laws are more permissible, copyright lawyers said Tuesday.
A Belgian court on Tuesday ordered the search giant to refrain from showing excerpts of articles from French- and German-language Belgian newspapers on Google News and Google’s Web search site for Belgium, reaffirming an earlier ruling by the same court against the company. However, in a nod to Google, the court reduced the daily fine Google faces if it fails to heed the order, from $1.3 million to $32,500.
