I picked up the Eee PC 1000H last month and I have to let everyone know that is it the best notebook I have ever used, and I've used many different ones.

The two big updates on the 1000H version are the screen size and standard magnetic hard drive instead of a solid state drive. I replaced the 80GB hard drive with a 320GB drive for $100, so now I can have all my media and movies with me at work or wherever I want. I also have connected it into my widescreen TV to watch divx movies.

I plan to write a full page on my thoughts about the 1000H sometime in the future.

Since I bought the new one, I'm selling my 701 for $350, it comes with carrying case, 8GB SDHC storage card and car adapter. That is a good deal!

That's right folks, Newegg is coming to Canada! I remember a few years ago newegg.ca was up with a logo, but it didn't say if it was official. Now it has officially been announced and you will be able to buy all your favorite computer parts and great prices. It will be interesting to see if there will be price wars with NCIX. (is that even possible?)

Website: newegg.ca

We are an online technology retailer committed to becoming the most loved and trusted marketplace on the web by offering customers the best shopping experience, lightning fast shipping, and stellar customer service. We are the second-largest online-only retailer in the US.

We define an excellent shopping experience to be one that combines unsurpassed product selection, abundant product information and fair pricing. With thousands of tech products in stock and numerous tools to help customers make informed buying decisions (detailed specs, how-to’s, customer reviews and photo galleries), we have earned the loyalty of tech-enthusiasts and novice e-shoppers alike.

When it comes to shipping, it does not get better than Newegg. Proud to offer lightning fast delivery at ground prices, we ship 99% of approved orders within 24 hours. With over 1,000,000sq.ft of warehouse space and cutting edge logistics, we have established ourselves as an industry leader.

Our slogan is simple but undisputable: “Once You Know, You Newegg”. It has been embraced with strong loyalty by millions of customers who have consistently ranked us among the best in the industry. We are a strong believer in customer service and have built an outstanding team of associates who go the extra mile to ensure customer satisfaction with short response times and close to 24/7 availability via chat, phone or e-mail.

These supporters got a little more ammo to back their arguments thanks to a comical experiment put on by Microsoft.  As part of its new PR efforts, which include "anti-Mac Guy" commercials, Microsoft conducted a top secret experiment known as the "Mojave" Experiment.

Inspired by an employee email from Microsoft's David Webster, the Vista team gathered over 120 XP users in San Francisco who were critical of Windows Vista.  After being questioned on video about their Vista impressions, Microsoft told them it was giving them a stunning opportunity -- the chance to view their secret operating system they had been cooking up, codenamed "Mojave".  The excited users showed great enthusiasm for the new operating system, with over 90 percent giving positive feedback of the 10 minute demo of the system.

The comic twist is that there is no "Mojave" and it wasn't a pre-release version of Windows 7.  "Mojave" was simply a fictitious title applied to a standard Windows Vista install.  Interestingly, the XP users seemed utterly unable to recognize Vista or its features, despite criticizing it.  Remarked one user on the new features, "Oh wow!"

While it has been pointed out that the experience neglects to consider installation and networking setup, the "Mojave" experiment provides a strong case for the upsides of Vista analogous to the classic blind taste test advertising gimmick.  While Microsoft is still deliberating on how to incorporate the footage into its advertising campaigns, suffice it to say, it is coming soon.

Source: DailyTech

Website: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com

Seems strange, but by manipulating extra dimensions with astronomical amounts of energy, two Baylor University physicists have outlined how a faster-than-light engine, or warp drive, could be created that would bend but not break the laws of physics.

"We think we can create an effective warp drive, based on general relatively and string theory," said Gerald Cleaver, coauthor of the paper that recently appeared on the preprint server ArXiv.org

The warp engine is based on a design first proposed in1994 by Michael Alcubierre. The Alcubierre drive, as it's known, involves expanding the fabric of space behind a ship into a bubble and shrinking space-time in front of the ship. The ship would rest in between the expanding and shrinking space-time, essentially surfing down the side of the bubble.

The tricky part is that the ship wouldn't actually move; space itself would move underneath the stationary spacecraft. A beam of light next to the ship would still zoom away, same as it always does, but a beam of light far from the ship would be left behind.

That means that the ship would arrive at its destination faster than a beam of light traveling the same distance, but without violating Einstein's relativity, which says that it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light, since the ship itself isn't actually moving.

The fabric of space has moved faster than light before, says Cleaver, right after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded faster than the speed of light.

"We're recreating the inflationary period of the universe behind the ship," said Cleaver.

While the theory rests on relatively firm ground, the next question is how do you expand space behind the ship and contract it in front of the ship?

Cleaver and Richard Obousy, the other coauthor, propose manipulating the 11th dimension, a special theoretical construct of m-theory (the offspring of string theory), to create the bubble the ship would surf down.

Source: Discovery