Building Catapults Required Engineering Know How by Garben Catapult
... Although it wasn’t easy to fill an order on site, much like the modern day Army Corp of Engineers, their early counterparts understood what was necessary to go about building catapults. They knew, too, success or failure of their military campaign might depend on their ability to build catapults with speed and accuracy. With a wealth of knowledge stored in their heads – rather than in calculators – they set about putting these machines together onsite, or in the case of the more mobile ...

Power and Your PC by Jason Kohrs
... UPSes come in two varieties, standby and continuous, although standby versions are far more common and less expensive. A standby UPS allows the devices connected to it to run from the normal electrical connection until a loss of power is detected, at which point it quickly (in a matter of milliseconds) switches to the battery backup of the UPS. A continuous UPS always has the devices connected to it running off of battery power, while the batteries are recharged by the normal electrical ...

The Only Review You'll Ever Need of Blade: The Series (Part 1 of 5) by Larry D. Yablow
... Not satisfied with the butchering that David Hasselhoff gave the role, the "Spiked" version of super spy Nick Fury featured bionic replacements for Fury's war torn body parts, lasers in both eyeballs, a shoe that doubled as a telephone and a talking car. Hasselhoff actually auditioned for this part and performed no less than three screen tests. Nike had signed on to supply the shoe phones but the entire deal was washed away in an instant when actor Anthony Daniels flatly refused to perform ...

Seven Things to Consider When Choosing a PDA by Jason Kohrs
... Palm OS is the modern version of the operating system that was found on some of the first PDAs, Palm Pilots. No longer just a dull, greyscale environment, the Palm OS is a sharp looking operating system with many software titles available (either included, as downloads, or for purchase separately) to do just about anything you would want to do on a PDA. Microsoft Pocket PC is themed after the familiar Windows operating system, and this similarity gives the millions of Windows users a ...

Numerology and Oracles: The Tablets of Fate by Keith Abbott
... A more modern version can be found in (2) books: "Little Giant Encyclopedia of Lucky Numbers" by The Diagram Group (Sterling Publishing 2001), and "Little Giant Encyclopedia of Fortune Telling" by The Diagram Group (Sterling Publishing 1999). These are both still in print, and can be found in your local bookstore. Sadly, two of the "Tablets of Fate" were dropped from the recent Sterling Publishing printings. You can also find a Web page calculator with all of the "Tablets" from the 1940 ...

Solar Energy - How Can We Use It? by Howard Puddy
... Flat Plate Gas filled solar energy panelsA flat plate gas solar energy collector is much the same construction as the liquid version, but instead of water absorbing the solar energy that has been collected, it is air. The heated air is then pumped through into a room or space, to heat that area. Whilst not as efficient as liquid filled systems, the gas based systems have the advantage of needing less solar energy to warm up, meaning that they start outputting heat earlier in the day and ...

Personal Tracking Devices in Cell Phones? by Dakota Caudilla
... stumped on whether this new cell phone feature should be incorporated into future cell phones. Like the Internet, privacy is a huge problem. Personal information is big in the data-mining business, but so is privacy. We’ll just have to see how far cell phone companies are willing to go to make their bucks! Dakota Caudilla, journalist, and website builder Dakota Caudilla lives in Texas. He is the owner and co-editor of on which you will find a longer, more detailed version of this article.

History of End User Programming by Peter Hale
... Inventors of the Modern Computer - -The History of the IBM PC - International Business Machines. 16. Jena - - First Jena User Conference - Proceedings. 17. Kyoto Prize Laureates 2004 - - 2004 Kyoto Prize Laureates - Dr. Alan Curtis Kay (U.S.A., b. 1940) - Computer Scientist, President, Viewpoints Research Institute. 18. OpenCyc - - OpenCyc.org - General knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. 19. Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) - History - - PARC History.