likecool.com: Mission to the edge of Space
“The mission, Red Bull Stratos, will take renowned athlete Felix Baumgartner to at least 120,000 feet above the earth, to the very edge of Space.
From there, he will attempt a stratospheric free fall jump – the longest in the history of man – and hopefully will become the first human to break the speed of sound with his own body.
Mach > 1.0? Outch, ca risque de faire mal.
slashdot.org: Woz Cites “Scary” Prius Acceleration Software Problem
Speaking at Discovery Forum 2010, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak went off topic and spoke about a ‘very scary’ problem with his 2010 Toyota Prius. ‘I don’t get upset and teed off at things in life, except computers that don’t work right,’ said Woz, who went on to explain he’d been trying to get through to Toyota and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration for three months, but could not get anyone to explore an alleged software-related acceleration problem. ‘I have a new model that didn’t get recalled,’ Steve said. ‘This new model has an accelerator that goes wild but only under certain conditions of cruise control. And I can repeat it over and over and over again — safely.’
Ho my, quand ca va mal, ca va mal. S’il fallait que la “patch” mecanique de Toyota ne soit pas la bonne solution, un second recall pour une “patch” logiciel serait vraiment la cerise sur le sunday. Et aujourd’hui, c’est la Prius qui fait les manchettes avec un probleme potentiel de pedale de frein alors qu’elle ne fait pas partie du rappel initial. Wow, quand ca va mal…
Disons que ca enleve un peu l’envie de considerer les Toyota malgre leur fiabilite passee.
dvorak.org: Was Newsday’s Charging for Website Access a Good Idea? A Whopping 35 People Thought So!
So, three months later, how many people have signed up to pay $5 a week, or $260 a year, to get unfettered access to newsday.com?
The answer: 35 people. As in fewer than three dozen. As in a decent-sized elementary-school class.
thestar.com: Break that contract, expect jolt of financial pain
Bon article sur les frais pour briser certains contrats. Voici quelques situations illustrees:
Natasha and Brian sold their home halfway through a seven-year term, only to be charged a $46,000 penalty on their $530,000 mortgage with a major bank.
Colin Lewis, a retiree, found TD Canada Trust charging $150 to transfer three RRSPs to a dealer that offered a better interest rate.
“We felt sick after receiving a bill for $1,300-plus in cancellation fees for gas and hydro,” says first-time homeowner Greg Bago, who agreed to a deal with Summitt Energy (and was released without penalty when the Star intervened).
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dvorak.org: For Sale: $500 Blu-ray Player for only $3500!
Lexicon and THX apparently attempted to pull a fast one on the consumer electronics industry, but got caught this week when a couple websites exposed the fact that the high-end electronics company put a nearly-unmodified $500 Oppo Blu-ray player into a new Lexicon chassis and was selling it for $3500. AV Rant broke the story first on its home theater podcast with some pics of the two players’ internals.
CANON Commercial – Freeze Tag from Saman Keshavarz on Vimeo.
Via:Likecool.com
