This is the beginning of the scrambling by big companies to get a piece of the linux hardware market. Many large players missed the boat - and now with the success of the iPhone, and the upcoming Google phone (OpenMoko being a shadow of what the google phone could become) hardware players are getting nervous that they've ignored something significant. In some cases, they've ignored it perhaps because the big players in the Cell industry have told them to stay away.
Meanwhile, Linux/ARM-based devices have been quietly improving and projects like DD-WRT,
NSLU2-Linux, FreeNAS, and other embedded hardware projects are gaining popularity among hobbyists - all the big players are taking notice and want in on the action.
Since Linksys released the WRT54GS with linux internals, the game has changed. Folks want to tweak their hardware to extend its capabilities and Intel needs tools and expertise to play in this sector.
Paul Stamets has spoken recently about a new technique for killing ants that involves introducing a fungus in to the colony that the ants will take back to the queen as food - when the ants eat it, the fungus grows inside them and kills them. Its all natural and pesticide free. the fungus is a natural one and to my knowlege is not invasive or problematic in any other way.
He talks about it in his new book "Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms can save the world"
http://www.fungi.com/books/stamets.html
Fascinating stuff
Ants are also really interesting, they have a short life cycle, so their evolution happens about 20-30 times faster than human evolution.
All your base r belong to ants
May seem like such organisms are hardy & tough, but those are super fragile environments -
Images of tourists throwing coins into the Yellowstone thermal pools come to mind....
Please remember that not every animal, organism, and scrap of land on this planet has to have a human use.
Over the decade from 1994-2004 the major telephone companies profited from higher phone rates paid by all of us, accelerated depreciation on their networks, and direct tax credits an average of $2,000 per subscriber for which the companies delivered precisely nothing in terms of service to customers. That's $200 billion with nothing to be shown for it.
Many companies have incentives from city or local governments to reduce the # of parking spots or automobile commuters arriving at the workplace. Talk to your Company and ask the tough questions: what is this company doing to support alternatives to driving to work?
Every place I have ever worked I've contacted everyone I could think of to ask about showers, changing areas, lockers, and parking for bicycles. Many times the answer is "We dont have any" but unless people ask for these things, why would a company build them? A few times I was suprised and the company relocated (from somewhere they were unused) or erected outside bicycle-storage lockers which I could then use.
Its up to you... Participate in building the workplace/world you want.
It cant hurt. Contact/email/webform your senators and congresspeople. Let them know you care about space / science. If you have time to read this message, you have the time to send that email.
Otherwise, its useless jabber and speculation and talk.
Not George Bush, not Nasa, *You* are to blame for letting this happen, if you dont do *something* besides bitch and moan on/.
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This is the beginning of the scrambling by big companies to get a piece of the linux hardware market. Many large players missed the boat - and now with the success of the iPhone, and the upcoming Google phone (OpenMoko being a shadow of what the google phone could become) hardware players are getting nervous that they've ignored something significant. In some cases, they've ignored it perhaps because the big players in the Cell industry have told them to stay away. Meanwhile, Linux/ARM-based devices have been quietly improving and projects like DD-WRT, NSLU2-Linux, FreeNAS, and other embedded hardware projects are gaining popularity among hobbyists - all the big players are taking notice and want in on the action. Since Linksys released the WRT54GS with linux internals, the game has changed. Folks want to tweak their hardware to extend its capabilities and Intel needs tools and expertise to play in this sector.
Paul Stamets has spoken recently about a new technique for killing ants that involves introducing a fungus in to the colony that the ants will take back to the queen as food - when the ants eat it, the fungus grows inside them and kills them. Its all natural and pesticide free. the fungus is a natural one and to my knowlege is not invasive or problematic in any other way. He talks about it in his new book "Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms can save the world" http://www.fungi.com/books/stamets.html Fascinating stuff Ants are also really interesting, they have a short life cycle, so their evolution happens about 20-30 times faster than human evolution. All your base r belong to ants
May seem like such organisms are hardy & tough, but those are super fragile environments - Images of tourists throwing coins into the Yellowstone thermal pools come to mind.... Please remember that not every animal, organism, and scrap of land on this planet has to have a human use.
This sounds to me like the media warming us up to another big telco subsidy by the federal gov't.... remember this?
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html
From the FA: (fine article)
Over the decade from 1994-2004 the major telephone companies profited from higher phone rates paid by all of us, accelerated depreciation on their networks, and direct tax credits an average of $2,000 per subscriber for which the companies delivered precisely nothing in terms of service to customers. That's $200 billion with nothing to be shown for it.
Its like deja vu all over again!
Many companies have incentives from city or local governments to reduce the # of parking spots or automobile commuters arriving at the workplace. Talk to your Company and ask the tough questions: what is this company doing to support alternatives to driving to work? Every place I have ever worked I've contacted everyone I could think of to ask about showers, changing areas, lockers, and parking for bicycles. Many times the answer is "We dont have any" but unless people ask for these things, why would a company build them? A few times I was suprised and the company relocated (from somewhere they were unused) or erected outside bicycle-storage lockers which I could then use. Its up to you... Participate in building the workplace/world you want.
It cant hurt. Contact/email/webform your senators and congresspeople.
/.
Let them know you care about space / science.
If you have time to read this message, you have the time to send that email.
Otherwise, its useless jabber and speculation and talk.
Not George Bush, not Nasa, *You* are to blame for letting this happen,
if you dont do *something* besides bitch and moan on