February 28th, 2009 at 10:55pm Under Computers
The history of radio goes way back before I was born, and with the spread of the Internet it seems like it has been re-invented. The web is an adequate conductor for the streaming and radios have fit perfectly into the trend right from the beginning.
Listening to radio over the web offers the user the comfort of quick-jumping from one station to another, just … (read more)
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February 28th, 2009 at 10:55pm Under Racing
The F1 world is waiting to discover whether Honda’s team will make it onto the grid next year.
Becken has unearthed an interesting detail potentially revealing the name of the new team:
There’s an interesting history regarding an internet domain registered by a lawyer named Caroline McGrory (former BAR employee!). She taken two names:
BRAWNRACING.COM and BRAWNRACING.CO.UK
Here, the data concerning the domain register:
BRAWNRACING.COM
Registrant: Caroline McGrory
28 The Hall Close
Rugby
Cv22 6NP
UKDomain name: brawnracing.com
Created on: 2009-02-25
Expires on: 2011-02-25
Is this the new identity of the team formerly known as Honda? Or someone taking a punt on what the team will be called, and pre-emptively registering the domain name in the hope of making some quick cash? Answers in the comments…
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February 28th, 2009 at 10:55pm Under Racing
Force India F1 VJM02 - 2009 F1 car
Force India’s VJM02 was due to break cover tomorrow but Anirudh has dug out some early pictures of it on Force India’s official website.
They confirm the impression we got from the Force India calendar earlier this year that the new car replaces the bright red flashes of 2008 with orange and green. More pictures below.
2009 Formula 1 cars
Thanks to Anirudh for the tip!
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February 28th, 2009 at 10:55pm Under Racing
Drivers who won the most Grands Prix (inset: Schumacher’s 91st F1 win)
Since Giuseppe Farina’s victory in the first ever F1 world championship race at Silverstone in 1950, Formula 1 drivers have been locked in battle to see who can be the fastest for the longest, and win more races than anybody else.
These are the seven drivers who have held the title of F1’s most prolific winner at the end of each season – from Farina to Schumacher.
Giuseppe Farina, the first world champion, scored three wins in 1950, a tally matched by Juan Manuel Fangio. But the following year Fangio left Farina behind as he claimed his first title.
Fangio was temporarily overhauled by Alberto Ascari who dominated with Ferrari in 1952 and 1953. But in 1954 Fangio drew level with Ascari’s total once again.
The Argentinean driver dominated the sport until his retirement in 1958, racking up five world championships. His 24th and final victory was also his masterpiece – recovering a deficit of over a minute at the Nürburgring to beat Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins.
Jim Clark won two world championships for Lotus, and with better reliability would surely have had more titles and race wins. Late in 1967 in Mexico City he matched Fangio’s record, and began what could well have been the march to a third title with another win at Kyalami, South Africa, in 1968. But we’ll never know how far he could have pushed the record, for he was killed at the Hockenheimring in an F2 race later that year.
It fell to another brilliant Scotsman, Jackie Stewart, to take up the challenge. He amassed 27 victories in 99 starts, retiring on the eve of what would have been his 100th after team mate Francois Cevert’s fatal accident at Watkins Glen.
Stewart’s reign as the most prolific winner of all time is the longest to date at 14 years. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw several one-time champions like James Hunt, Mario Andretti, Jody Scheckter and Keke Rosberg many of whom spent only a few seasons with a top team, and fell short of Stewart’s total.
The first of many: Prost wins at Dijon in 1981
But Alain Prost mastered the art of being in the right team at the right time. Not only did he beat Jackie Stewart’s record at the 1987 Portuguese Grand Prix, but by the time he retired from F1 in 1993 he had almost doubled the benchmark tally to 51 wins. Without stiff opposition from the likes of Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell (72 wins between them), Prost could have gone even further.
Michael Schumacher had just two wins to his name when Prost left Formula 1. But with the French master leaving, Senna losing his life the following year, and Mansell bowing out in 1995, suddenly there was a power vacuum at the top of Formula 1. Allied to unrivalled strategist Ross Brawn, whether at Benetton or Ferrari, Schumacher was a relentless winning machine.
Still it took him until the 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix to match Prost’s record. But he kept the torrent of victories flowing for another five years – with some stemming of the flow in 2005 when his Ferrari-Bridgestone package proved less competitive – before taking his 91st and final win at Shanghai in 2006.
All these drivers owed some portion of their success to the quality of their machinery. Some faced stiffer opposition than others, and later drivers had the advantage of there being twice as many events on a modern F1 calendar as there were in the 1950s, to say nothing of more reliable cars.
The inevitable question is, who will be the next driver to push the record further – and can they take it as far as 100 victories?
If so, it will likely be a long time before we find out. Fernando Alonso has the most wins of any active driver with 21. Assuming a 17-race calendar is the norm in future, it would take him until the 13th race of 2013 to equal Schumacher record if he won every race between now and then…
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Images (C) Ferrari spa, Michelin
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February 28th, 2009 at 06:55pm Under Computers
Before the official release of GeForce GTS 250 at CeBIT 2009 next week, Gigabyte’s 250 has been leaked to a Turkish website Donanimhaber.
With model of GV-N250ZL-1GI, Gigabyte GTS 250 is based on 55nm G92b, cooled by Zalman OEM VF1050 cooler with copper fins and 4 heatpipes. Featuring 128 stream processors, 1GB DDR3 and memory interface [...]
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February 28th, 2009 at 06:55pm Under Computers
There’re rumors that Lenovo might be one of the first PC makers to adopt NVIDIA’s Ion platform in netbooks, but now the first nettop based on Ion platform has been revealed. That is Acer’s Hornet.
Due to the small-size and light-weight design, Acer Hornet can be hung on the wall, or fixed at the back of [...]
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February 28th, 2009 at 06:55pm Under Computers
CryTEK has now unleashed Crysis Warhead 1.1 Hotfix Patch to fix some bugs found on earlier versions.
You may choose one of the following links to download Crysis Warhead 1.1 Hotfix Patch (37MB).
* Softpedia
* Filefront
* Gamershell
Fixes:
* Windows Vista: Mouse cursor should no longer have an offset in the menu.
* Windows Vista: Unrequested launches in windowed mode [...]
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February 28th, 2009 at 06:55am Under Computers
Sony Ericsson C905 is the first mobile phone to feature an 8 Megapixel camera, and the slider should be remembered even if only for that. Anyway, Sony Ericsson has fierce rivals such as Samsung and LG, who have also announced some 8 Megapixel camera phones, including Samsung INNOV8 and LG KC910. Unfortunately, C905 was released on the market one month after INNOV8, so … (read more)
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February 28th, 2009 at 06:55am Under Computers
Keeping personal information private is a growing concern in the digital era we’re living in. Once we turn to virtual safe boxes for storing any valuable data, there’s always someone out there willing and able to disclose what is supposed to stay out of everyone’s sight. The goals of such attempts are less important; what this is really about is above all a matter of princip… (read more)
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February 28th, 2009 at 06:55am Under Computers
Internet TV is no news these days and software claiming to play your favorite channels is at every corner on the web. Most of these apps are free and generally feature long lists of TV stations with insipid content, but every once in a while we bump into such software that sports really good content from all over the countries.
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