NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite)

In these days of modern era where New Age  stuffs are being discussed in most corners of the world, the topics on the end of the world is inevitable. Most talk about the prophesy in the Bible regarding the Armaggedon which said that the earth will end by a comet that will collide on our planet. Some says meteors will be resposible for it and many other astrological phenomenon that somehow lead to the notion of the end of the world.

Never fear because a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) together with the Defense Research Developement Canada (DRDC) has developed a technology - surveillance satellite to monitor our space activities. This technology is called NEOSSat.

NEOSSat which means Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite is the project that is about to be launched on its expected launching on the year 2010. Sounds futuristic right? We could imagine a Star Trek or Star Wars scenario for this specific project. Althought the project is just a piece of small high tech gadget which weigh about 143 pounds and is the size of a large suitcase, its capability is high since it is a product of CSA and DRDC.

This NEOSSat is a satellite designed to identify and track objects in space. That is to say that this project will take a look on the atmosphere above to know whether there are incoming meteors or asteroids or probably commet (Armaggedon!) that will about to enter the territory of Earth. NEOSSat's telescope will track asteroids that are on a potential collision course with earth. The telescope will also be able to identify and track space debris to prevent collisions that would disrupt telecommunications systems.

It will circle close to earth on a polar orbit that affords almost constant sunlight and a darker sky. From that vantage point, the telescope on NEOSSat will be able to monitor an area within 45 degrees of the sun. That area is very difficult, if not impossible, to observe from Earth-based telescopes and is also an area where near Earth asteroids tend to be concentrated.

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Internet Networking

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Long Term Evolution

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a 4G wireless broadband technology developed by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an industry trade group. 3GPP engineers named it "Long Term Evolution" because it represents the next step in a progression from GSM, a 2G standard, to UMTS, the 3G technologies based upon GSM. LTE provides significantly increased peak data rates, with the potential for 100 Mbps downstream and 30 Mbps upstream, reduced latency, scalable bandwidth capacity, and backwards compatibility with existing GSM and UMTS technology. Future developments could yield peak throughput on the order of 300 Mbps.

The upper layers of LTE are based upon TCP/IP, which will likely result in an all-IPnetwork similar to the current state of wired communications. LTE will support mixed data, voice, video and messaging traffic. LTE uses OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and, in later releases, MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) antenna technology similar to that used in the IEEE 802.11n wireless local area network (WLAN) standard. The higher signal to noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver enabled by MIMO, along with OFDM, provides improved coverage and throughput, especially in dense urban areas.

LTE is scheduled to be launched commercially in 2010 by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless. T-Mobile and Alltel have also announced plans to roll out 4G capabilities based on LTE. These networks will compete with Clearwire's WiMAX for both enterprise and consumer broadband wireless customers. Outside of the US telecommunications market, GSM is the dominant mobile standard, with more than 80% of the world's cellular phoneusers. As a result, HSDPA and then LTE are the likely wireless broadband technologies of choice for most users. Nortel and other infrastructure vendors are focusing significant research and development efforts on the creation of LTE base stations to meet the expected demand. When implemented, LTE has the potential to bring pervasive computing to a global audience, with a wire-like experience for mobile users everywhere.

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Possibility of Cyborg

One night I was watching television. The show?Ripley's Believe It or Not, Philippines version showed in GMA 7. There it features about a professor on cyrbernetics and a possibility of real cyborg in the near future. After watching that, I surf the net to check this person named Professor Kevin Warwick.

Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering. He is also Director of the University KTP Centre, which links the University with Small to Medium Enterprises and raises over £2Million each year in research income for the University.

Kevin was born in Coventry, UK and left school to join British Telecom, at the age of 16. At 22 he took his first degree at Aston University, followed by a PhD and a research post at Imperial College, London. He subsequently held positions at Oxford, Newcastle and Warwick universities before being offered the Chair at Reading, at the age of 33.

more information here

In the show on Ripley's, he was interviewed by some interviewer of Ripley's and according to him, that in the near future a technology would arise. This technology will soon out wit human being as much more inteligent than us.

Cybernetics as a matter of fact is already existing today. Kevin is one of them because he implanted himself with circuits connected to his nerves. Computers react when they sensed he is coming, like his computer will do autocheck on his emails before he could sit in front of his computer, doors connected to computers are automatically opened when he pass by, lights on and off and so on and so forth. He even has convinced his wife to get implanted with circuits and it was successful.

This is a cool technology and I found it useful. Although it seems to be frightening because it would create a war between human and cyborg, I believe that no computers can be much more inteligent that us humans. However, it will lead me to think about the 'end of the world' and some 'biblical prophesies' and many other new age stuffs. Moreover it would tickle my imagination and lead me to imagine things like Terminator, Transformers and other robot -related films today.

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more information about Kevin Warwick in Wikipedia

Impact - Based Advertising

Impact-based advertising is a form of advertising that enables viewers to have a lasting psychological effect so they will remember the product or vendor. This technique makes advertisers gain or produce high traffics of visits or even a good impression to their site or products.It can help advertisers produce great results for a given expenditure.

Impact -based advertising differs with impression-based advertising, which focus only on the impressions gained and the number of times the ad is seen. Impact-based advertising gives the people or users more effective impressions that enables them to remember the products significantly and makes them remember it that would let them want it.

Impact-based advertising is very useful to those company that sells good products in any field especially on web-based content. With technology increasing, and newer sophisticated web-based ads have become practical, using this technique of advertising could catch more buyers.

Ads that come between users and the content they have requested are a form of interruption marketing, a category that also includes telemarketing calls during the dinner hour and commercials during your favorite television show. According to a report from IBM, The End of Advertising as We Know It, the advertising world will go through more change in the next five years than it did in the previous 50. An increasing trend towards impact-based and permission-based marketing is expected to be a part of that change.

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Featuring Google Chrome.

I have always wanted a browser which I found it easy to navigate. Of course fast browsing speed is listed too. Both interchangeable in priority. In the past years, I never heard about Mozilla FireFox because the only broswer I know was the Internet Explorer by Microsoft. Later I discivered Firefox myself with its most recent version Firefox 3. I used it and I found Firefox3 better than Internet Explorer. Just recently I found a cool browser created by google. The name? Google Chrome. Google Chrome is so user friendly. I advise you to try this cool browser.

There are 10 quick tips for using Google Chrome:

1.   One Box for everything.

2.   New Tab Page

3.   Application shortcuts - shortcuts for your applications can be placed on desktop.

4.   Dynamic Tab - tabs can be clicked and dragged

5.   Crash Control - it has its own Task manager located on the empty tab area. Right click & select

6.   Incognito Mode - if you dont want to record on history the site you wanted to visit, use Ignition mode.

7.   Secure Browsing

8.   Instant Bookmarks

9.   Importing Settings

10. Simpler Downloads

I found Google Chrome very cool and user friendly. I believe that this browser will become sooner or later the default browser to be used. I like it most because of its wide screen display. Google Chrome is in its Beta version and I am waiting for thier incoming newer version for more advance browsing.

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Featuring Windows 7

Ladies and gentlemen,

Windows 7 is the working name for the successor to the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The new OS, expected to be released somewhere between mid-2009 and early 2010, was previously known by the code names Blackcomb and Vienna.

The new operating system will ship in client and server versions. The client version will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit editions. The server version, also called Windows 2008, will be available only in a 64-bit edition.

Windows 7 is expected to incorporate a new version of Media Center as well as support for multiple video adapters. Other anticipated new features include:

• Gadgets integrated into Windows Explorer
• Improved network connections
• Integrated XML Paper Specification (XPS) Essentials Pack
• Enhanced Control Panel
• Enhanced Calculator program with statistics and unit conversion capabilities
• Ability to store Internet Explorer settings on a Windows Live account
• Updated version of the Paint program
• Updated version of the WordPad program
• A new Mapping program
• A new Virtual Piano program

Video: Windows 7 start button and improved calculator
What's new in Windows 7? We're still learning. Thanks to a couple of YouTube videos[search it yourself, lol], I know there's a cool hover effect over the new Start button and a better calculator.

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My Yahoo Mail was hacked!!

Notice to all Yahoo mail users.

The other day, I was on the rush. I checked my email and I saw that there were about 10 unread messages for me on that day. One of which is an email from a friend of mine who is now in Philadelphia, US. Another email in which I was not able to read that time yet is an email from Friendster.com stating that I have a New Message in my friendster account. Most of these other messages are coming from Friendster.com providing me notices that there are recently updates on my friendster friends list, Including blog updates from friends. One most important email that I recieved that time (by which I wasn't able to read yet due to "rush" circumstances), aside from the email I recived from that friend from Philidelphia is another email that I recieved from an agency that I was applying for a job. But because I was in the hurry, I need to go outside to do my business first before I'll read the message, I was able to read my emails later that night.

Surprisingly, when I got logged in into my yahoo email account that night. I noticed that most, I mean all of my recent email is already marked as read. The email that I talked about earlier which I am hundred percent sure is unread and never been read by me before I logged out my yahoo email account has already been read!! All of the recent email from friendter automated mail dilevery has been deleted!!! After that shocking discovery, I somewhat panicked. Asking myself who could have opened these emails. I am quite sure my sisters do not know my passwords and they do not know any hacking techniques. And I am quite sure that I have logged out my yahoo mail before I left. Thus concluding that my family are not responsible for this blatant crime!!!

What could be possibly happened here? I asked myself very puzzled.

Could it be that my yahoo mail account has been HACKED? or does my sisters or any family members knows password recovery strategies or do they any password recovery programs in which I do not know?

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Survivor Philippines - Premiered Sept 15 08 - GMA - 7

Survivor Philippines Premiered September 15, Monday Aired on GMA -7 had finished its first day of 39 days of surviving strategies. Paolo Bediones as the host simply "mimic" the US version's host Jeff Probst, of course in Filipino dialect, in such a way that this Filipino version of Survivor would somehow create an atmosphere of Survicor similar to the one hosted by Jeff_Probst.

Survivor is a popular reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off a tribe member, until only one final contestant remains and wins the title of "Sole Survivor". The format for Survivor was created in 1992 by Charlie Parsons, and the first production of it was the Swedish show Expedition: Robinson in 1997. source: wikipedia.com

Country	Show name	Aired on	Grand Prize	Broadcast years	Seasons
Africa	Survivor	M-Net	Unknown	2006	1
Argentina	Expedición Robinson	Canal 13	$10,000	2002	2
Australia	Australian Survivor Celebrity Survivor	Nine Network Seven Network	AU$500,000 AU$100,000 (For celebrity's chosen charity)	2002 2006	1 1
Belgium	Expeditie Robinson	VT4 (2000-2004), KANAALTWEE (2005-)	€50,000 (originally BFr2,000,000)	2000 - Present	9
Brazil	No Limite	Globo	R$ 300,000	2000 - 2001	3
Bulgaria	Survivor BG	bTV	250,000 BGN	2006 - Present	3
Chile	Expedición Robinson: La Isla Vip	Canal 13		2006	1
Colombia	Expedición Robinson La Isla de los FamoS.O.S. (Celebrity Season)	RCN TV	COL$250,000,000	2001 - 2002 2004 - 2007	2 3
Croatia	Survivor	HRT		2005	1
Czech Republic	Trosečník	TV Prima	5,000,000 CZK	2007	1
Denmark	Robinson Ekspeditionen	TV3 Danmark	500,000 DKK(originally 1,000,000 DKK)	1998 - Present	11
Ecuador	Expedición Robinson	Teleamazonas		2002	1
Estonia	Ekspeditsioon Robinson	TV3 Estonia		2001 - 2002	2
France	Koh-Lanta	TF1	€100,000 (originally ₣500,000)	2001 - Present	8
Finland	Suomen Robinson	Nelonen	€100,000	2003-2004	2
Georgia	GMiri Survivor	Rustavi 2		2007 - 2008	1
Germany	Expedition Robinson Gestrandet Survivor – Überwinde. Überliste. Überlebe.	RTL II (2000-2001) ProSieben	€250,000	2000 2001 2007	1 1 1
Greece	Expeditie Robinson Survivor	Mega TV		2003 2007	1 1
Hungary	Survivor - A Sziget	RTL Klub	Ft10,000,000 and car	2003 - 2004	2
Israel	Survivor 10	Israel 10	₪650,000 and a car	2007 - Present	2
Italy	Survivor Italia L'Isola Dei Famosi (Celebrity Season)	Italia 1 Rai Due	€200,000	2001 2003 - Present	1 5
Japan	Survivor	TBS	¥10,000,000	2003	4
Latvia	Robinsonii	TV3 Latvia		2001 - 2002	2
Lithuania	Expedition Robinson	TV3 Lithuania		2001 - 2002	2
Middle East	Survivor	LBC	1,000,000SR	2005?	1
Netherlands	Expeditie Robinson (Joint version with Belgium)	NET 5 (2000-2004), Talpa (2005-2006), RTL 5 (2007-)	€50,000	2000 - Present	9
Norway	Robinsonekspedisjonen	TV3	NOK1,000,000	1999 - Present	7
Pakistan	Mountain Dew Survivor Pakistan	PTV, TV One, ARY	US$100,000	2006 (Discontinued)	1
Philippines	Survivor Philippines	GMA Network	P3,000,000	2008 (Upcoming)	1
Poland	Wyprawa Robinson	TVN	100,000 PLN	2004	1
Portugal	Survivor	TVI	Esc10,000,000	2001	1
Russia	Последний герой (Posledny Geroj, Last Hero)	Channel One (Russia)	1,000,000 RUB	2002 - Present	5
Scandinavia	Robinson VIP	TV3		2004	1
Serbia	Survivor Srbija	Fox televizija	Unknown	2008 (Upcoming)	1
South Africa	Survivor South Africa	M-Net	R1,000,000	2006 - Present	2
Spain	Supervivientes: Expedición Robinson La Isla de los FamoS.O.S. (Celebrity Season) Supervivientes (Celebrity Season)	Telecinco Antena 3 Telecinco	€300,000	2000 - 2001 2003 - 2005 2006 - Present	2 4 3
Sweden	Expedition: Robinson	SVT (1997-2003), TV3 (2004-2005)		1997 - 2005	9
Switzerland	Expedition Robinson	TV3		1999- 2000	1
Turkey	Survivor Survivor	Kanal D Show TV		2004 2007	1 2
United Kingdom	Survivor	ITV	£1,000,000	2001 - 2002	2
United States	Survivor	CBS	US$1,000,000	2000 - Present	16
Venezuela	Robinson: La Gran Aventura	Venevision	100,000,000 VEB	2001 - 2003	2

In the diagram listed above, Survivor has already known internationally. 41 Countries had already had their own versions of Survivor borrowing from the original concept of Charlie Parson. US had the most number of seasons produced with 16 seasons by now.

The first Filipino sole survivor will win P3,000,000.00
The Philippine version of Survivor is now aired on GMA - 7
weeknights 9:15 in the evening.
Here is the list of Survivor Castaway.
Survivor Philippines - unofficial blog
Survivor Philippines - official website