http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:10:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Higher resolutions or not, YouTube still tweaks the quality of its videos for users depending on what kind of connection they've got. So how about a workaround to make sure you're getting the best of the best? Bayme of the VideoHelp.com forums seems to have found a way to tweak ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/09/04/tweaking-youtubes-resolution-settings-the-easy-wa/ On February 15 this year, Amazon S3, the "cloud" storage service that's part of the Amazon Web Services suite of infrastructure applications, failed. Web 2.0 entrepreneurs who had been attracted to AWS based on its promised reliability and low cost had their confidence shaken. Several lost revenue when the service ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/amazon-cto-on-aws-outage-like-you-can-do-better/ The following product is available: On Sale Now: $1,348.99 View the latest prices for Sony BDP-S5000ES Key features of the Sony BDP-S5000ES: Earlier this year, Sony hit a major benchmark by releasing the $400 BDP-S350, which was the company's first standalone Blu-ray with a retail price as low as the PS3. ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/sonys-new-blu-ray-player-goes-high-end/ Of course, Ubisoft has already been publishing a series of Clancy-branded games, such as the Ghost Recon series and the Rainbow Six series, but those were done under royalty arrangements. In addition, Ubisoft said it will make additional payments to Clancy in fiscal 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. Video game giant Ubisoft has agreed ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/ubisoft-buys-tom-clancys-name/ Today the company is launching its remote-control feature for Macs, which, like some other screen-sharing services including Yugma and WebEx, allows a participant to get control of another user's mouse and keyboard. The booth had four computers set up to a Glance session, and I watched as control was passed ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/glance-shares-screens-now-with-remote-access-for/ The Pirate Bay, based in Sweden, is one of the world's most popular piracy tools. The company, founded by three Scandinavians, doesn't host any copyright films or music. Instead, visitors use the site to find pirated material available on torrent files. The latest blow came on Monday when a ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/danish-isp-blocks-the-pirate-bay/ The true answer lies in the ground we walk on. When I started to read a few of the studies and articles about them, an interesting fact emerges, the difference depends in large part on which land gets counted. Most of ethanol's carbon footprint falls into one of several categories, ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/is-ethanols-carbon-footprint-bad-it-depends/ "We now see prices falling 50 percent this fiscal year, after predicting 40 percent in October," said Executive Vice President Fumio Muraoka. It shut down its HD DVD business last month, which Toshiba says will result in an operating loss of 65 billion yen, or $658 million, in addition to ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/toshiba-cuts-its-forecast-by-a-third/ Bloggers were eager to pounce on the news as a consequence of Twitter's notorious scaling problems, which Cook should have been able to keep under control. But many members of the developer community immediately came out in support of him: Google engineer Kevin Marks said (ironically on Twitter) that Cook ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/twitter-techie-blaine-cook-talks-about-leaving/ I've had it. Watching years of endless debate over global warming play out without a final denouement, why not face the hard truth that we're going about it all wrong? Both sides invariably trot out reams of competing statistics or quote scientific tomes to support their positions in a ... http://www.advtrialmonitoring.com/2010/08/24/why-im-fed-up-with-the-global-warming-debate/