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Maybe they got slightly hacked? Working from Google's cache of the main page, none of the local tributary pages exist at all. The images still do, though.

Sorry, but tunneling is a purely quantum phenomenon and we currently have no solid theory about quantum gravity. The blackhole "leaks" radiation from its event horizon due to pair creation. Here Have Fun!

I don't think the end of open content is coming, in fact I think that it future is just beginning. Why pay for access to an encyclopaedia when you can get if free? Why pay for books when you can get them for nothing? Why pay for news when you can get it for free? (ok Slashdot isn't the best example)

Ok, so there are problems with both of these sites, the Wikipedia isn't peer reviewed and Project Gutenberg can only use books that are out of copyright (and that varies by country). But, even so, they both remain free.

So, I predict that as large companies try harder to be the only people who can provide information more projects like this will spring up. And when information is provided by only a very few companies/individuals then projects run by large groups of volunteers will become even more important.

We even have tools such as Google news that can gather information from multiple sources at once.

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ok - so your not american

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can you provide more info on the secret-UN-communism thing..?

Ah, so I'm trustworthy now that I'm not a Yankee? (-: I could be a closet American sympathiser, y'know :-)

Try doing something like this and blipping over the obvious whackos (on both sides of the question). In fact, sometimes the whackoes have interesting things to say too, you just need to a bit of prodding around elsewhere with anything like that to see whether they're in fantasy land or not.

WHO or "world health organisation" also turns up a lot of interesting stuff (and its share of whackos as well, sigh).

Mac mice have never had an issue with left/right-handedness. (Also note that many creative types are right-brained, thus left-handed. This is important to some.)

What are the chances of building a space lift being allowed. People have trouble building tall buildings in some places due to the shadow, won't this cable have some issues like the fact that it would cast a shadow over the entire planet, also what if somthing goes wrong and the cable breaks, ever read the book series (red, gree, blue) mars where the cable came crashing down on mars? hmm i guess they could get around this by building it in a country thats willing (any country woth out fussy laws that want money).

Still it would be cool =)

"The fact is Kyoto is designed to allow Europe an economic edge over the United States and provide an opportunity to paint Americans as greedy monsters."

Well that certainly shows where your comments really stem from. :) And I thought Anti-American's can be paranoid.

Kyoto is about setting global standards for the developed world, that's us the filthy rich ones! It's about tiny steps, this being the first one ideally to be followed by more significant ones in the future.

The worst thing about the anti-Kyoto crowd is their frequent use of bad economic evidence, in particular the argument that it will throw the economy into a recession! This is baseless scare-mongering, most recent evidence shows exactly the opposite!

Extreme Programming, from what I've seen, is a development process theory that fits in well to where "crap development" (tm) occurs. i.e. it is a cycle that allows for quick deployment while doing things properly at the same time. Google knows (google in austalia is a cool thing btw!).

designed to be convex (high in the middle, low on the sides) so that rain drains off.

Thats refered to as a "macadam road surface" or "tarmacadam", becase it was invented by John Loudon McAdam, who happens to be my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. ;) and here's a link. And another.

...as with most things, but he is a hoot to read and makes a great deal more sense than mainstream prognosticators. If you want a wilder read, try Karl Bunday, and if you want more content-focussed stuff, try John Holt.

Different states of CO2 have been discussed , one I believe is to sink liquid CO2 to such depths that keeping it pressurized is far less energy expensive than at the surface. This from google cache, (original from DOE reports 404: lotus notes document deleted!) Large Scale C02 Transportation and Deep Ocean Sequestration The title seems to indicate STORING ~= sequestration , as opposed to dispersing CO2 into the ocean.

Solaris has all sorts of things useful for people running mission-critical servers that Linux doesn't have yet, such as kernel crash dumps

Solaris has all sorts of things useful for people running mission-critical servers that Linux doesn't have yet, such as kernel crash dumps

But Google doesn't claim PageRank to be an expression of their opinion. PageRank is a hard-to-bias formula that, in their opinion, is the best way to sort web pages.

You're saying that PageRank itself isn't an expression of opinion, but that it is an aid to expressing an opinion. Of course they're making human decisions about what's good or bad - that's the function of their algorithm. That's why they modified it. As the lawmeme article says, there's no way to 'objectively' determine where SearchKing should be - 8, 4, 2. All any search engine can be is an expression of opinion. "We reckon that if you're searching for a water lily then this is the 'best' site for you.

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What next? Saddam Hussein as a romance novelist?

... is worth looking at. We've used it successfully on multiple projects.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=wideband+delphi

The simple fact is, I cannot estimate for you. I can only estimate for me.

Of course, you would need to get a group together to use it. You may be able to use some of the basic principles however.