It's a way to cover airtime without any extra cost. Anyone watching BBC and CNN can really see the difference in reporting style, CNN will beat a single story to death, spending a better part of the hour discussing it, while BBC will spend at most 10 minutes on any one story, provide the information and move one. CNN is really infotainment, where it doesn't matter what the news is.
Lighter cars use less gas? What's next? Telling people that they shouldn't live 200 miles from where they work? I heard a kind of a funny fact this morning on BBC, average energy consumption per capita in North America is double that in Europe. It's not like the standard of living or climate is that much different, it's all about the culture.
You are forgetting that once a remotely decent system for predicting terrorist attacks exists, there are about 400 congressional districs that have a velk's chance in a supernova of getting homeland security money. Mmmmmmm, bacon
Of course it's an option, it's just how you present it to the public. Now if Canadians were to have weapons of mass destruction... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/
is that MDS made a screw up (suprise, suprise). What happened is that this reactor was supposed to shut down by now, with a brand new replacement reactor online to replace it. Somehow MDS managed to screw up the design of the new reactor so when it went online it didn't produce enough Molybdenum-99 (I don't know the exact details, but apparently it was 2-3 time less than the old one). So in expectation of the new reactor coming online, they decided to forgo any safety upgrades on the old one to save money. But now they need to run the old one until they figure out how to modify the new one.
So this is where CNSC comes in. They visited the reactor last year and gave MDS a deadline to fix the safety issues, but MDS ignored it thinking that the reactor will be offline by the time the deadline passes. CNSC as a newly independent body decided to flex its muscles and force a shutdown. So Canadian government really had to step in into a situation they had no control of, since they were assured by MDS that the reactor would be off by now and replaced by a new one.
BTW, it's not like the reactor will be used for much longer anyways, as soon as the issues with the new reactor are fixed, the old one is going off, as is more expensive to operate.
Could publics view of everything as dangerous have anything to do with the quality reporting by the impartial news media we get these days. I think I saw "Staplers, find out how they can harm your children" the other day on CNN.
It really changes depending on the pull of the particular universities. The bigs (McGill, UofT) keep 100% of the patent for themselves, medium sized ones (Calgary should be amongst them) keep 20-50% depending on the IP agreement with the particular researcher and small universities usually get nothing (but they don't have much of a research program). The reason someone like Calgary would allow the researcher to keep the portion of his IP is to make itself more attractive, because otherwise it's hard to compete with other universities for what is a very limited talent pool.
is that the standards are set by "educators" who had trouble with it to start with. I'm sure if you ask any science teacher they'll tell you that they're fine with most of the class getting crappy grades as long as they get a good education. Nowdays it's all about huggy-feely brigade saying "Gosh, I felt so bad failing math, why should my kids go through the same experience". In my day, which wasn't so long ago, there were 5 A students in the class of 40, and it's the way it should be.
You should check out Celestia, which runs both on Windows and Linux (and Mac I think). http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Nice thing about it is that it has a huge library of add-ons that people make from NASA images. IMHO with a little work it's far superior to commercial astronomy programs (such as Starry Night), although my Celestia folder is at about 2 GB right now.
It would be nice to see Adobe, which does have a wide reputation through the Acrobat brand, give it a crack. MS Office has become stale and overblown, so anyone else is welcome to try. Hey, they might even release a Linux version and bundle it with those Dell Ubuntu PCs.
J&J is suing catholic church for use of the cross and demands that it be removed from all the church buildings. When asked about the validity of their claim, J&J spokesperson replied that they feel that since the time is relative, they have as much right to the simbol as the church.
They are trying to patent the minimum genome neccesary for this particular bacteria to exist. It's no different than any other attempts to patent the parts or the whole genome of certain organisms. IMHO, it a big deal about nothing, I don't see how is genetically engineered bacteria any different than a patenting a machine that does the same job. The patent is very specific as to the length and variations in the genome sequence and could not be applied (as far as I can tell) to synthetic life in general.
There is also a question of the lenght of the copyright, I don't think that record companies should be able to still exploit the music that was made 40 years ago. There is adequate compensation and if you didn't recieve it in the first 10-15 years, maybe it because you suck.
You have to remember that the results we're getting now (Cassini, Mars rover) is from probes based on the technology developed mid-80's to early 90's. The next generation of probes, based on 21st century technology, will be able to look for life but most of them won't start returning data until something like 2015. So my guess would be that we'll be seeing some results about then.
Or block access to the websites in question? It's going to be a cold day in Hell when a totalitarian regime starts relying on Microsoft to do the spying for them.
The Science Daily article gets stuff a bit wrong. The hydrogen mentioned is not hydrogen it's protons (hydrogen without the electron), which are accelareted by the Suns magnetic field. Helium, being a neutral atom, is much less affected by the magnetic field and it moves much slower than the charged protons. Now, charged particles have a very high probability of colliding with a neutral atom (much highr than the neutral atom has), so protons will keep colliding with helium which will slow them down. The analogy is the bumper cars, except helium is a bumper 18-wheeler. So basically, the speed of fast protons will be reduced to the speed of the slow helium atoms by all these collisions.
Why is this making the/. is beyond me, not the sort of sensationalist "we're all doomed" or "we're going to be OK" stuff.
Hey, ISPs are just doing what they are able to get away with. The question we should be asking is why are they able to get away with marketing 10 MB/s and hide 1GB cap in the fine print.
What I really want to know is what is happening to the criminal charges, after all the offence commited was more in the domain of the police than the SEC.
It's just sickening that scientifically proven facts actually need approval in order to be a part of curriculum. The whole school system is becoming a joke and I'm not talking only US and UK. I've heard stories from a few of my teacher friend that make me cringe. If a kid gets a bad grade the parents get offended, so everyone gets good grades now. Forget about giving someone F, you might as well hand in your resignation. The kids are not doing so well in science, so they don't need to take science. Let's make everyone happy.
Why not just pay people to keep the kids at home, homeschool them, and then they can teach them whatever they want. If they like Sun revolving around Earth, so be it.
Linux was from the start an operating system for the "power" user, only recently has the focus changed to Joe Schmoe and his grandma. I've been using (and preffering) Linux over Windows for a long time and I like it the way it is. It's no knock on new linux users, but the real reason I use linux is because it gives me freedom to really customize our computer experience, something that was never possible on Windows. This kind of approach is never going to work for the average user, so in order to sell Linux to them you have to build a Windows clone. For all the flak Microsoft gets, they have done a really good job in making an OS that anyone can use. They lock it down tight and bury evrything under layers and layers of criptic menus to discourage any change. As the Linux makes the push for the average user, it will have to make the same changes Windows made over time, becoming more and more constrained. There is this perception that Linux needs to compete with Windows, but I don't see why. In order to compete with it Linux would have to become Windows and in the end all you do is change the name of the OS, but the essence remains.
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It's a way to cover airtime without any extra cost. Anyone watching BBC and CNN can really see the difference in reporting style, CNN will beat a single story to death, spending a better part of the hour discussing it, while BBC will spend at most 10 minutes on any one story, provide the information and move one. CNN is really infotainment, where it doesn't matter what the news is.
I would love to see an ARM netbook from Nokia, none of this Atom crap
Lighter cars use less gas? What's next? Telling people that they shouldn't live 200 miles from where they work? I heard a kind of a funny fact this morning on BBC, average energy consumption per capita in North America is double that in Europe. It's not like the standard of living or climate is that much different, it's all about the culture.
Maybe some sort of a watermark or protection is in order... Oh, wait
You are forgetting that once a remotely decent system for predicting terrorist attacks exists, there are about 400 congressional districs that have a velk's chance in a supernova of getting homeland security money. Mmmmmmm, bacon
which is that it's the standard that's deficient. I'm sure that the standard will soon be "improved" so it conforms with Office 2007
and it just goes to show that silicon is not dead yet
Of course it's an option, it's just how you present it to the public. Now if Canadians were to have weapons of mass destruction... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/
Give each passanger a parachute and there is no need to screen anyone. I'll have my 500,000 now. "Donations" from the parachute lobby are welcome
is that MDS made a screw up (suprise, suprise). What happened is that this reactor was supposed to shut down by now, with a brand new replacement reactor online to replace it. Somehow MDS managed to screw up the design of the new reactor so when it went online it didn't produce enough Molybdenum-99 (I don't know the exact details, but apparently it was 2-3 time less than the old one). So in expectation of the new reactor coming online, they decided to forgo any safety upgrades on the old one to save money. But now they need to run the old one until they figure out how to modify the new one. So this is where CNSC comes in. They visited the reactor last year and gave MDS a deadline to fix the safety issues, but MDS ignored it thinking that the reactor will be offline by the time the deadline passes. CNSC as a newly independent body decided to flex its muscles and force a shutdown. So Canadian government really had to step in into a situation they had no control of, since they were assured by MDS that the reactor would be off by now and replaced by a new one. BTW, it's not like the reactor will be used for much longer anyways, as soon as the issues with the new reactor are fixed, the old one is going off, as is more expensive to operate.
Could publics view of everything as dangerous have anything to do with the quality reporting by the impartial news media we get these days. I think I saw "Staplers, find out how they can harm your children" the other day on CNN.
It really changes depending on the pull of the particular universities. The bigs (McGill, UofT) keep 100% of the patent for themselves, medium sized ones (Calgary should be amongst them) keep 20-50% depending on the IP agreement with the particular researcher and small universities usually get nothing (but they don't have much of a research program). The reason someone like Calgary would allow the researcher to keep the portion of his IP is to make itself more attractive, because otherwise it's hard to compete with other universities for what is a very limited talent pool.
is that the standards are set by "educators" who had trouble with it to start with. I'm sure if you ask any science teacher they'll tell you that they're fine with most of the class getting crappy grades as long as they get a good education. Nowdays it's all about huggy-feely brigade saying "Gosh, I felt so bad failing math, why should my kids go through the same experience". In my day, which wasn't so long ago, there were 5 A students in the class of 40, and it's the way it should be.
You should check out Celestia, which runs both on Windows and Linux (and Mac I think). http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Nice thing about it is that it has a huge library of add-ons that people make from NASA images. IMHO with a little work it's far superior to commercial astronomy programs (such as Starry Night), although my Celestia folder is at about 2 GB right now.
It would be nice to see Adobe, which does have a wide reputation through the Acrobat brand, give it a crack. MS Office has become stale and overblown, so anyone else is welcome to try. Hey, they might even release a Linux version and bundle it with those Dell Ubuntu PCs.
J&J is suing catholic church for use of the cross and demands that it be removed from all the church buildings. When asked about the validity of their claim, J&J spokesperson replied that they feel that since the time is relative, they have as much right to the simbol as the church.
They are trying to patent the minimum genome neccesary for this particular bacteria to exist. It's no different than any other attempts to patent the parts or the whole genome of certain organisms. IMHO, it a big deal about nothing, I don't see how is genetically engineered bacteria any different than a patenting a machine that does the same job. The patent is very specific as to the length and variations in the genome sequence and could not be applied (as far as I can tell) to synthetic life in general.
There is also a question of the lenght of the copyright, I don't think that record companies should be able to still exploit the music that was made 40 years ago. There is adequate compensation and if you didn't recieve it in the first 10-15 years, maybe it because you suck.
You have to remember that the results we're getting now (Cassini, Mars rover) is from probes based on the technology developed mid-80's to early 90's. The next generation of probes, based on 21st century technology, will be able to look for life but most of them won't start returning data until something like 2015. So my guess would be that we'll be seeing some results about then.
Or block access to the websites in question? It's going to be a cold day in Hell when a totalitarian regime starts relying on Microsoft to do the spying for them.
The Science Daily article gets stuff a bit wrong. The hydrogen mentioned is not hydrogen it's protons (hydrogen without the electron), which are accelareted by the Suns magnetic field. Helium, being a neutral atom, is much less affected by the magnetic field and it moves much slower than the charged protons. Now, charged particles have a very high probability of colliding with a neutral atom (much highr than the neutral atom has), so protons will keep colliding with helium which will slow them down. The analogy is the bumper cars, except helium is a bumper 18-wheeler. So basically, the speed of fast protons will be reduced to the speed of the slow helium atoms by all these collisions. Why is this making the /. is beyond me, not the sort of sensationalist "we're all doomed" or "we're going to be OK" stuff.
Hey, ISPs are just doing what they are able to get away with. The question we should be asking is why are they able to get away with marketing 10 MB/s and hide 1GB cap in the fine print.
What I really want to know is what is happening to the criminal charges, after all the offence commited was more in the domain of the police than the SEC.
It's just sickening that scientifically proven facts actually need approval in order to be a part of curriculum. The whole school system is becoming a joke and I'm not talking only US and UK. I've heard stories from a few of my teacher friend that make me cringe. If a kid gets a bad grade the parents get offended, so everyone gets good grades now. Forget about giving someone F, you might as well hand in your resignation. The kids are not doing so well in science, so they don't need to take science. Let's make everyone happy. Why not just pay people to keep the kids at home, homeschool them, and then they can teach them whatever they want. If they like Sun revolving around Earth, so be it.
Linux was from the start an operating system for the "power" user, only recently has the focus changed to Joe Schmoe and his grandma. I've been using (and preffering) Linux over Windows for a long time and I like it the way it is. It's no knock on new linux users, but the real reason I use linux is because it gives me freedom to really customize our computer experience, something that was never possible on Windows. This kind of approach is never going to work for the average user, so in order to sell Linux to them you have to build a Windows clone. For all the flak Microsoft gets, they have done a really good job in making an OS that anyone can use. They lock it down tight and bury evrything under layers and layers of criptic menus to discourage any change. As the Linux makes the push for the average user, it will have to make the same changes Windows made over time, becoming more and more constrained.
There is this perception that Linux needs to compete with Windows, but I don't see why. In order to compete with it Linux would have to become Windows and in the end all you do is change the name of the OS, but the essence remains.