Ok, I don’t know how many of you are Stargate fans but I am. But as much of a fan I don’t know about this next theory. Some “hard core” Stargate fans believe that the Stargate program is real. Yes, I said it, real. There are multiple theories.

One is that the government is actually using a Stargate in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, CO. There have been rumors of a closet that has name Stargate or some sort. I think that this is a practical joke played by some fans of the show who work at the complex. So that theory states that we already know extraterrestrial life and have battles in space with aliens in different galaxies. Ok, that could be plausible.?

The next theory is in context with real events happening right now. It come from a theory by William Henry http://www.williamhenry.net/. He believes that Stargate is buried in the Middle East and that the war happening right now is a battle to get the gate. Some how Saddam sent the missing WMD through the Stargate to hide them. A pretty wild theory. Ok, and that could be plausible.?

To read the whole theory go to: http://home.earthlink.net/~sammark4/id138.html

GO TO WWW.JJJUNK.COM NOW

First under the plastic/rubbery surface of the click wheel, there are four mechanical buttons (Menu, back, forward, play/pause), and one button in the center (select). But what were really interested in is how the scroll wheel works.

Click wheel face

Behind the Click Wheel face (left) and Click Wheel contacts on the motherboard

You’ve got a total of five buttons and five corresponding contacts on the motherboard of the iPod. When you press the skip forward button, the wheel pushes down the forward button. Then under each of the rubber buttons is a metal contact, so pressing it completes the corresponding circuit on the motherboard. The motherboard then tells the processor that circuit is complete, and the processor tells the operating system to fast-forward through the song or skip to the next song (depends on how long you hold it down).

The click wheel’s touch-sensitive function lets you move through lists, adjust volume and fast forward through a song by moving your finger around the stationary wheel. It works a lot like touchpad on your laptop. In fact, sources say that the company that supplied the click wheel for the 4G iPod was Synaptics (the most widely known for makinglaptop touchpads). For the 5G, Apple went out of the way created its own proprietary click wheel design based on the previous Synaptics-designed click wheel.

Now for how it works:

Under the plastic cover of the click wheel, there is a membrane embedded with metallic channels. Where the channels intersect, a positional address is created, like coordinates on a graph.

At its most basic, a capacitive-sensing system works like this: The system controller supplies an electrical current to the grid. The metal channels that form the grid are conductors (they conduct electricity). When another conductor (say, your finger) gets close to the grid, the current wants to flow to your finger to complete the circuit.Butthere’s a piece of non-conductive plastic in the way. So the charge builds up at the point of the grid that’s closest to your finger. This build-up of an electrical charge between two conductors is called capacitance. The closer the two conductors are without touching, the greater the capacitance.

Back of membrane: Here you can see the Click Wheel controller.

The “sensing” part of the system comes in with the controller. The click wheel controller (see above) is programmed to measure changes in capacitance. The greater the change in capacitance at any given point, the closer your finger must be to that point. When the controller detects a certain change in capacitance, it sends a signal to themicroprocessor. As you move your finger around the wheel, the charge build-up moves around the wheel with it. Every time the controller senses capacitance at a given point, it sends a signal. That’s how the Click Wheel can detect speed of motion — the faster you move your finger around the wheel, the more compacted the stream of signals it sends out. And as the microprocessor receives the signals, it performs the corresponding action — increasing the volume, for instance. When your finger stops moving around the wheel, the controller stops detecting changes in capacitance and stops sending signals, and the microprocessor stops increasing the volume.

Now, in discussing the workings of the Click Wheel, a particularly curiousHowStuffWorks staffer raised the following question: If your finger controls the Click Wheel because your finger is a conductor, why can’t you control the Click Wheel with a paper clip?

Now will direct you to continue your read on this page to find out their experiments (they are at the bottom of the page). http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ipod4.htm

Apple having problems, well whats new?According to a post on CNET the iPhone is having some hardware problems. Everyone knows about the iPhone and it’s famous touch screen. And it’s predecessor the iPod Touch. The iPhone has been out for approximately 5 months now and already having problems.

Many began with a reset, power-cycle and a test of different touch-based functions (aren’t they all?). One man was convinced that he needed to get help at the Apple store. He made an appointment online for the next day.

Many went to an Apple store to receive help. After attempting a restore, the Apple clerk brought out a white box with a new iPhone in it. The clerk said Apple would exchange my phone, and there would be no charge. This was a hint to what many have been expecting, an Apple hardware problem. The clerk transfers all of your saved items including: ring-tones, photos, SMS messages, IMAP settings. Then the phone could be activated on the AT&T within minutes. The whole process would take approximately 30 min. The clerk told the customer who had this problem, “the technology was very new, and that, as an early adopter, I should have expected as such.”

I would recommend holding off on these new products, the iPhone and the iPod touch, until the technology gets all of it’s bugs out of it’s system.

If you would like to read more go to: CNET

Many of the first generation Zune owners are are downloading the latest version (v1.2) of the PC-based Zune software. They are regretting jumping to the new update. There has been some talk about this upgrade for some time now on the Microsoft support message boards.

The major problem on the forum seems that the new upgrade (for the PC-based software) is supposedly erasing library metadata (album art, ID3 tags, playlists, song ratings). The Zune support team has posted a seemingly viable solution to the problem, The problem with this solution is that the user has to do this manually by poking around on their computer’s Local Settings folder to rename and delete files. This is not making everyone happy by having to do this.

The problem many users are complaining about are the features that have been stripped out of the Zune PC software. Some of them being the smart playlists, the in-depth ID3 tag editing, drag-and-drop album art feature, and the five-star rating system have been scrapped in an effort to presumably make the software less complicated to new users of Microsoft’s Zune. I think they shouldn’t of taken the features out just because people who aren’t computer advanced won’t have any use for it. That just betrays the computer oriented users.

I have not had much experience with the Zune, but from what I can tell it has a very hard user interface. Me being an iPod owner for many years now has gotten me used to the touch turn wheel that iPod is well known for and probably copyrighted it as well. This makes it very difficult for me to use the Zune. I do like to see that Microsoft is trying to make competition for the Apple iPod market and this requires Apple to come up with new and original ideas, like the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Which these two haven’t been doing so well lately.

My recommendation is that you should just wait a while for the big businesses to get all of the bugs out of their software’s system before running out in upgrading or buying their product. This has been a issue with many new technologies that are in many products today. The big corporate businesses are just trying to rush their product so they can rake in the money and skipping on the quality of the product.

For more information please go to: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-6490_7-9817411-49.html?tag=cd.blog

Overall I believe this was a great buy. Here is the place I bought it from:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130274

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