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Jupiter Moves Toward Rendezvous With Venus

2008-11-02T03:26:00.001-08:00

The crescent moon shines near Venus and Jupiter the next few evenings, the prelude to a more spectacular meeting at the end of November, when the two brilliant planets converge in the southwest.

At dusk, Venus is low in the south-southwest, about the same position it has maintained for the past two months. Jupiter also has had a long evening presence but has drifted noticeably westward and is now due south as darkness falls.

Tonight the moon's thin crescent lies about 7 degrees east of Venus. Sunday night, the moon will lie halfway between the planets, at the top of the Teapot of Sagittarius (this star formation will be all but lost in the post-sunset glare by month's end).

Note, however, that today, everything occurs an hour earlier, since Daylight Saving Time ended at 2 a.m. So while sunset occurred at at 5:45 Saturday, it comes at 4:43 p.m. today.

On Monday, the crescent moon is just 3 degrees below Jupiter, a beautiful spectacle in the dark skies. The King of Planets sets around 9 today.

Jupiter will continue its westward drift, closing the gap with Venus, until on Nov. 30 the two lie only 2 degrees apart. The thin crescent moon will be back to complete the vignette, lying less than 10 degrees to the planets' lower right. (Although the planets are closest Nov. 30, the next night promises an even prettier picture, as the moon — now to their upper left — is even closer.)

Venus sets about 2 hours after the sun now, Jupiter 2 1/2 hours after that. By the time they meet, both will set around 7:20, three hours after the sun.

Saturn rose this morning at 2. At 5, about 1 1/2 hours before sunrise, it was halfway up the eastern sky, not far from Denebola, second-brightest star in Leo. The waning moon passes 5 degrees below Saturn before dawn on the 21st. The ringed planet remains a predawn beacon all month and rises just 20 minutes past midnight by Nov. 30.

The moon is full the night of Nov. 12-13.

The Leonid meteor shower, which produces storms of "shooting stars" every 33 years, won't in 2008. A bright moon at the Nov. 17 peak worsens viewing. But you're apt to see one in the early morning a week before or after. They may be few, but Leonids can be bright and leave long trails; hitting the atmosphere at 71 kilometers per hour, they are also the fastest meteors.

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2008-11-02T03:25:00.000-08:00

Netflix is in the process of beta testing its Watch Instantly feature for Mac computers, and now it’s opened up the test for all users who wish to opt-in. Simply follow this link and you’ll be good to go: http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin.

There are a few caveats. First, you’ll need to download Microsoft Silverlight, a Adobe Flash-like browser plug-in for playing web video. Second, Netflix is warning that there may be bugs since it is still very much in testing mode. And third, not all movies are available via the Silverlight player.

An important fourth caveat is that you can only authorize up to six machines to play Watch Instantly titles, the blog Hacking Netflix notes. These include not only computers but devices such as the Roku set top box media player, so choose wisely where you want to add the capabilities.

Watch Instantly is the name of the Netflix area where subscribers to the service can stream over 12,000 titles to their computers, the aforementioned Roku boxes, a few Blu-ray players and soon TiVo digital video recorders and the Xbox 360 gaming console. Provided you have more than the minimum monthly plan, Watch Instantly is available free of charge to all Netflix members.

I’ve been testing the player for the Mac out for the past few hours. It works very well. For those who haven’t used it before, fast-forwarding is a joy because of scene stills that allow you to see where you are jumping to. Buffering (loading a part of a movie if you jump to a certain part) is not bad at all.

Picture quality is decent, not great, but not awful. It’ll be better or worse depending on your Internet connection. The Xbox 360 version of Watch Instantly will offer content in high definition.

My iniital thought: I won’t be buying another DVD anytime soon.

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Why did Apple hire away IBM's Mark Papermaster?

2008-11-02T03:24:00.000-08:00

The news of this fairly slow week for Apple watchers came in the form of a lawsuit from Apple's one-time PowerPC partner, IBM, who are apparantly are trying to protect some chip design IP. What are Apple's intentions with Mr. Papermaster?

First, let's look at Mr. Papermaster's (that name doesn't get old, does it?) background.

In the late 90's Papermaster was one of the main drivers of the PowerPC chip. He likely had lots of interaction with Apple at this point as they were the IBM PowerPC's biggest customer. The PowerPC 630 (or Power3) was ultimately used in IBM mainframe computers.

He has authored many papers on chip design and is generally regarded as one of the leaders in the chip design field.

Then a few years ago, he was put in charge of IBM's blade server division. I think this point is moot because I don't think Apple is going after the blade server market. I'd frankly be surprised if they put any more resources into their Xserves. Apple, the consumer company, just doesn't spend much in the way on resources on servers.

Plus the terms of the suit laid out above seem directly in line with chip design. Apple isn't competing with IBM in the blade field. But they are likely going to be competing with IBM in the chip field fairly soon.

So, let's focus on the PowerPC portion of Papermaster's resume. He is one of the leaders in chip design field.

PA Semi, the company Apple purchased a few months ago, was going up against IBM in selling PowerPCs (PA Semi's PWREfficient was in the running to replace the IBM G5 when Apple moved to Intel). PA Semi, as a unit of Apple, is still fulfilling PowerPC contracts for embedded systems for military and other uses.

But will the final product that Apple is working on be a PowerPC processor? Probably not. One of PA Semi's engineers let slip a few months ago that he is working on an ARM based processor that will be in future Apple products.

So what will become of this hire? My feeling is that he will add a lot of talent to the PA Semi team and his mentoring will help bring in other talented chip engineers to Apple, unless IBM blocks him.

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Sony Recalls More Laptop Batteries

2008-11-01T03:11:00.001-07:00

Sony Corp. said five computer makers are recalling 100,000 lithium-ion battery packs made by the company, the latest bad news to hit the Japanese electronics giant, which is already reeling from the global economic downturn.

The recall also shows the challenges involved in mass-producing a powerful yet safe battery technology that could drive next-generation consumer electronics and eco-friendly cars.

Sony said Friday it was cooperating in a recall of 2.15Ah lithium-ion cell batteries made in Japan and sold around the world in laptops made by Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., Toshiba Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd. and Acer Inc. There have been 40 reports of overheating, in some cases involving smoke or flames, according to a company statement.

Sony, the second-largest maker of lithium-ion batteries in the world after Sanyo Electric Co., was involved in a recall two years ago of more than nine million units of a higher-capacity battery. That recall affected almost all of the world's major PC manufacturers and cost Sony more than $400 million.

Still, Tokyo-based Sony has since boosted its production of the rechargeable batteries, spending more than 40 billion yen ($406 million) to increase production in Japan. It said in August that the investment, together with expanded lithium-ion battery operations in Singapore and China, should increase its monthly output capacity to 74 million cells in the year ending March 2011 from the current 21 million cells.

Sony said the faulty batteries were from the same subsidiary that made the batteries recalled two years ago, Sony Energy Devices in Tochigi, Japan. Sony said efforts to make manufacturing lines there more efficient appeared to have backfired, leading to substandard cells. A possible flaw in the metal foil for electrodes could also have led to overheating, the company said.

Lithium-ion batteries have become a booming business on the back of growing demand for consumer electronics, pitting makers Sony, Sanyo, Panasonic Co., and South Korea's Samsung SDI Co. against each other in a race to increase production. The batteries are lighter and more powerful than many other battery technologies, and they can be made in a variety of shapes and sizes. But lithium-ion technology runs the risk of overheating if damaged.

Solving the overheating problem has become key for battery makers. A stumble by Sony could open up the field for smaller manufacturers, part of the reason why the company overhauled its production technology in 2006. Sony says the batteries in the recent recall were manufactured before then, in 2004 and 2005.

An H-P spokesman said the faulty batteries were found in 32,000 laptops in the U.S., and in 74,000 H-P machines world-wide. H-P has a Web site for owners to figure out if their machines are affected.

Dell has a similar site and said it will replace recalled batteries free of charge. A Lenovo spokesman said the company found the affected battery model in fewer than 450 laptops in China but was offering free replacements as a precaution. Toshiba and Acer could not be reached for comment.

The recall comes days after Sony reported dismal earnings for the September quarter and slashed its profit forecast for the year ending March 2009.

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Author, activist Studs Terkel dies at 96

2008-11-01T03:10:00.001-07:00

CHICAGO (AP) — Studs Terkel captured the essence of Chicago in the pages of his best-selling oral histories, chronicling common people and celebrities alike.

Along the way he became an ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Terkel died Friday at age 96.

"He found his home in Chicago and he found it in the gritty aspect of Chicago life," said Russell Lewis, chief historian at the Chicago History Museum. "The ne'er-do-wells, the outcasts, the bums, all these people were people he was curious about. They intrigued him."

Dan Terkell said his father died at home, and described his death as "peaceful, no agony. This is what he wanted."

"My dad led a long, full, eventful, sometimes tempestuous, but very satisfying life," Terkell, who spells his name with an extra letter, said in a statement issued through his father's colleague and close friend Thom Clark.

Terkel was a native New Yorker who moved to Chicago as a child and came to embrace and embody his adopted town, with all its "carbuncles and warts," as he recalled in his 2007 memoir, "Touch and Go." He was a cigar and martini man, white-haired and elegantly rumpled in his trademark red-checkered shirts, an old rebel who never mellowed, never retired, never forgot, and "never met a picket line or petition I didn't like."

"A lot of people feel, 'What can I do, (it's) hopeless,'" Terkel told The Associated Press in 2003. "Well, through all these years there have been the people I'm talking about, whom we call activists ... who give us hope and through them we have hope."

The tougher the subject, the harder Terkel took it on. He put out an oral history collection on race relations in 1992 called "Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About The American Obsession," and, in 1995, "Coming of Age," recollections of men and women 70 and older.

He cared about what divided us, and what united us: death — in his 2001 "Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith," and hope, in his 2003 "Hope Dies Last."

Terkel won a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for "The Good War," remembrances of World War II; contrasted rich and poor along the same Chicago street in "Division Street: America," 1966; limned the Depression in "Hard Times," 1970; and chronicled how people feel about their jobs in "Working," 1974.

Said Andre Schiffrin, Terkel's longtime editor, publisher and close friend: "He liked to tell the story of an interview with a woman in a public housing unit in Chicago. At the end of the interview, the woman said, `My goodness, I didn't know I felt that way.' That was his genius."

He also was a syndicated radio talk show host, voice of gangsters on old radio soaps, jazz critic, actor in the 1988 film "Eight Men Out," and survivor of the 1950s blacklist.

Terkel's politics were liberal, vintage FDR. He would never forget the many New Deal programs from the Great Depression and worried that the country suffered from "a national Alzheimer's disease" that made government the perceived enemy.

Terkel was born Louis Terkel on May 16, 1912, in the Bronx. His father, Samuel, was a tailor; his mother, Anna, a seamstress. The family moved to Chicago in 1922 and ran a rooming house where young Louis would meet the workers and activists who would profoundly influence his view of the world.

He got the nickname Studs as a young man, from the character Studs Lonigan, the protagonist of James T. Farrell's beloved trilogy of novels about an Irish-American youth from Chicago's South Side.

Terkel graduated from the University of Chicago in 1932, studying philosophy, and also picked up a law degree. But instead of choosing law, he worked briefly in the civil service and then found employment in radio with one of his beloved "alphabet agencies" from the New Deal, the WPA Writers Project.

His early work as a stage actor led to radio acting, disc jockey jobs and then to radio interview shows beginning in the 1940s. From 1949 to 1952, he was the star of a national TV show, "Studs' Place," a program of largely improvised stories and songs set in a fictional bar (later a restaurant) owned by Studs. Some viewers even thought it was a real place and would go looking for it in Chicago.

The McCarthy-era antipathy toward activists cost him his national TV outlet. But his radio interview show flourished, first at WFMT in Chicago and then, through syndication, in many markets.

Alton Miller, an associate dean of the School of Media Arts at Columbia College Chicago and a friend of Terkel's for more than 20 years, said Terkel hoped to live to see Barack Obama elected president.

Obama called Terkel a Chicago institution and national treasure.

"His writings, broadcasts, and interviews shed light on what it meant to be an American in the 20th century," Obama said in a statement Friday night. "He will be deeply missed by all who knew him, all who loved him, and all whose lives were enriched by the American stories he told."

In 1939, he married social worker Ida Goldberg, a marriage that lasted 60 years even though she couldn't get him to dance and always called him Louis, not Studs. "Ida was a far better person than I, that's the reality of it," Terkel later wrote of Ida, who died in 1999.

"She had a certain empathy I lack. And she was more politically active than I. ... Did she play a tremendous role in my life? Yeah, you could say so."

Palin: despite oil dip, energy steps still needed

2008-10-29T09:27:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, seeking to underscore her expertise on energy issues, said on Wednesday a drop in oil prices should not dissuade the United States from taking steps for greater energy independence.

"Though this sudden drop in prices sure makes a difference for families across America, the dangers of our dependence on foreign oil are just as they were before," Palin said in remarks prepared for delivery in Toledo, Ohio.

Palin considers herself an expert on energy issues as governor of Alaska, which is rich in oil and natural gas, and her speech was an attempt to reflect the knowledge she has gained on the subject at a time when Democrats want to portray her as too inexperienced to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

A drop in the price of oil below $70 a barrel has been a boon to hard-hit American consumers who are now paying less for a gallon of gasoline than they were last summer.

Palin and Republican presidential nominee John McCain argue that the United States must open more offshore territory to drilling as well as develop alternative resources such as nuclear, wind and solar.

Democrat Barack Obama has said he would be open to more drilling, but puts a higher priority on developing alternative energy sources.

"In Washington, we can view this period of lower oil prices as just one more chance to make excuses -- and on the problem of energy security, we've heard enough excuses. Or we can view it as an opportunity to finally confront the problem," Palin said.

Palin also pledged that a McCain-Palin administration would commit $2 billion a year to develop clean-coal technology in order to make use of America's vast amounts of coal without adding to pollution problems.