Yostivanich

“Sil­i­con Valley’s elec­tric car com­pany, Tesla Motors, says that it hit prof­itabil­ity in July. The pri­vate com­pany reports that it made “approx­i­mately $1 mil­lion of earn­ings” on rev­enues of $20 mil­lion, and that it shipped 109 Road­sters, its $109,000 all-electric sports car.” Good job.

“Com­par­ing the iPhone to the HTC Magic, a phone run­ning Android, shows the prob­lems that a vir­tual key­board can cause, and how they can be solved. Typ­ing on the iPhone – espe­cially in Eng­lish – works per­fectly well, per­haps bet­ter than on a phys­i­cal key­board. Doing the same thing on an HTC Magic is often annoy­ing and wrought with errors. Note that some of the Magic’s prob­lems are not spe­cific to Android, but to the Magic.” Though some­what unfair com­par­ing a 1.0 prod­uct to a 3.0 product.

“The cen­ter of our Milky Way Galaxy is hid­den from the pry­ing eyes of opti­cal tele­scopes by clouds of obscur­ing dust and gas. But, in this stun­ning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared cam­eras pen­e­trate much of the dust, reveal­ing the stars of the crowded galac­tic cen­ter region. A mosaic of many smaller snap­shots, this detailed, false-color image shows older, cool stars in bluish hues. Red­dish glow­ing dust clouds are asso­ci­ated with young, hot stars in stel­lar nurs­eries. The galac­tic cen­ter lies some 26,000 light-years away, toward the con­stel­la­tion Sagit­tar­ius. At that dis­tance, this pic­ture spans about 900 light-years.” Pretty photo.