Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Turkey point shutdown causes Florida power outages.
One of Florida's largest electric company cutdown a nuclear reactor South of Miami for safety reasons.Causing random power outages that could last well into Tuesday night.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that two Florida& Power nuclear reactors automatically shutdown, when threat of danger came about.This caused many power grid disurbances throughout South Florida.FPL stated that power outage should be statewide within 10 hours.The power outage so far continues,but no complaints so far.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Online Video sites have doubled in popularity in 2007
Online video sites such as Youtube and many others have doubled in popularity in 2007.According to a report issued by the Pew internet&American life project,(48%) of online adult users said they have visited a video site.Compared to the year before it has shown to bring a 45% year-to-year growth.Up to (15%)of respondents said they had they had visited video sites recently before the survey.This survey study was drawn out of 2,054 Americans,ages 18 and older,between October 24 and December 2,2007.This report not only shows a surge in video site usage,but how it also may be a cause of concern for people between the ages of 18 to 24,almost half don't read books for pleasure within a year.Average reading scores in tests have declined between all age groups and levels of education.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Making 3D models from videos
A company named "Boing Boing" has created a new form of software called "Video Trace".Video Trace allows you to create 3D models from images in video clips.The user is able to create the 3D model images by tracing the shape of the object that will be modeled in one or many more frames in a video.The user can make 3D realistic models of whatever object they want to create from that video.
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