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Pirates Cut Six

The have assigned shortstops Brian Friday and Argenis Diaz, outfielders Brandon Jones and Gorkys Hernandez, and pitchers Ramon Aguero and Ronald Uviedo to the minors. No huge surprises there; I thought Jones might get a slightly more serious look as a ...

From CHARLIE, Bucs Dugout,  14 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Brandon Jones

Pictures From Minor League Spring Training

Here are some photos from minor league camp by WTM, whose excellent Pirate Player Profiles site is the single best resource for information about Pirates minor leaguers. This is Rudy Owens, who I assume needs no introduction. After a huge year at West ...

From CHARLIE, Bucs Dugout,  14 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Kevin Greene,  New York Yankees

2010 N.L. Central Preview: St. Louis Cardinals

6 months ago: Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Andy LaRoche, left, watches as St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols rounds third after hitting a three-run home run off Pirates pitcher Denny Bautista in the sixth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, ...

From CHARLIE, Bucs Dugout,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: St. Louis Cardinals,  Felipe Lopez,  Pittsburgh Pirates,  Albert Pujols,  Andy LaRoche

3D chips to take Moore's Law past 2020?

Here's a technique that can keep processor density doubling every two years, keeping up with Moore's Law using a couple of clever techniques. IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Z端rich figured out a way to stack multiple processor ...

From CHARLIE WHITE, Dvice,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: IBM

Elegant Autumn calendar sheds days like falling leaves

You have Stihl to thank for some of those leaf blowers waking you up every Sunday morning, but if the company would just send us this beautiful corporate gift (otherwise known as "schwag") it created, all would be forgiven. The Stihl Autumn Calendar 201 ...

From CHARLIE WHITE, Dvice,  12 Mar 2010

Ultra-slim digicam is almost disposable

If this super-slim $23 Winait CD130BT camera were about $15 cheaper, it would be the modern equivalent of those cardboard disposables brides give away at weddings. That's right, it's gotten down to this: a half-inch-thick digital camera that shoots ...

From CHARLIE WHITE, Dvice,  12 Mar 2010

Lightweight 193hp superbike performs a miracle

Now this is how you promote motorcycles! The guys at BMW want you to know how quickly their S1000 RR crotch rocket accelerates, and what better way to demonstrate than to pull that old trick your mom really doesn't want you to try? Could this be real? ...

From CHARLIE WHITE, Dvice,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: BMW

iPad Gets New Button: Screen Rotation Lock

As we comb through the updated Apple website for more iPad-related clues, up pops this new picture detailing the physical buttons on the iPad. Now, in addition to the sleep/wake, home and volume buttons familiar to iPhone users, there is a new button ...

From CHARLIE SORREL, Wired,  12 Mar 2010

iPad and Accessories Available for Pre-Order

The Apple Store was down for a short spell this morning, and it has popped back up with a pre-order page for the iPad. If you want to get your shiny new Wi-Fi Apple tablet delivered on April 3rd, you can buy it now. If you are holding out for the 3G ...

From CHARLIE SORREL, Wired,  12 Mar 2010

Fingers-On with Streetfighter IV for iPhone

There are three* video games I know anything about, and all of them I played obsessively through my college years. One of those games is Streetfighter II, Capcom’s amazingly popular (and awesome) one-on-one beat’em-up. So when Streetfighter IV turned ...

From CHARLIE SORREL, Wired,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Capcom

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