Hi i worked in the paeleo area in the 1980's and 90's as a technician and it is not unknown for strange stuff to happen with fossils. The incident that comes to mind is the Himalayan peripatetic fossils see Nature 338, 613-615 20 04 1989 Commentary, Nature 341, 11-12 07 09 1989 Commentary,Nature 341, 13-15 07 09 1989 Commentary, Nature 343, 305-307 25 01 1990 Commentary, Nature 343, 405-406 01 02 1990 Commentary. This was a source of some amusement at the time it was going on but it was of course a really bad thing for understanding the geology and and paleontology of the region
This is exciting news, hopefully more material will be found in due course and we will get a better picture of what lived on land in New Zealand in earlier times.
But it is a pity that New Zealand science cannot be properly funded in New Zealand, and New Zealand scientists must move off shore to make a living and even contribute to the knowledge of this country.
This story sounds as though someone has been reeding some older SF. It will be interesting to see if the idea can be made to work, and see what comes of a potentially cheaper way to build space craft.
If you are looking for a software based solution what about http://koha.org/. Koha is a free opensource Library systemwhich runs on Linux OS X and even windows. but it may pay to take bits from some of the other sugestions about organising and even culling your collection.
It is all very well for them to belatedly admit they got it wrong for what ever reason:-) but what are they going to do to undo the damage that they have done, and where can I get pearLyrics from now?
A $100 dollar PC and Windows for $10. Yeah right!
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I think a an open adaptable $100 PC would be a great idea but not for Microsoft! If you can build a PC that will run windows at a satisfactory speed, plus office and what ever essential software, who will want to spend a hundred on a computer and then hundreds more on bloatware I mean software. I wonder if they could build such a cheap computer and support the range of external devices currently available, perhaps we will see a two tier PC hardware platfom "real boxes" for those with $$$$ and the $100 specials for the rest and if so the $100 ones will be poor crippled examples of what a PC could be tied to an OS etc. and perhaps able to have its firmware automatically updated remotely to stop other OS's being run on it. I for one and I guess people in general will not be willing to pay several times the price of the computer for an OS and applications, but I know of other products which could fill that gap quite nicely given a chance and if the hardware makers do their work well.
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Hi i worked in the paeleo area in the 1980's and 90's as a technician and it is not unknown for strange stuff to happen with fossils. The incident that comes to mind is the Himalayan peripatetic fossils see Nature 338, 613-615 20 04 1989 Commentary, Nature 341, 11-12 07 09 1989 Commentary,Nature 341, 13-15 07 09 1989 Commentary, Nature 343, 305-307 25 01 1990 Commentary, Nature 343, 405-406 01 02 1990 Commentary. This was a source of some amusement at the time it was going on but it was of course a really bad thing for understanding the geology and and paleontology of the region
This is exciting news, hopefully more material will be found in due course and we will get a better picture of what lived on land in New Zealand in earlier times. But it is a pity that New Zealand science cannot be properly funded in New Zealand, and New Zealand scientists must move off shore to make a living and even contribute to the knowledge of this country.
The idea of building a major bridge in the middle of nowhere is not new, but the name may well be taken by a bridge built in New Zealand in 1936, an isolated monument to pork barrel politics.B y-Region/007~Wanganui/pdf/bridge-to-nowhere-factsh eet.pdf
http://www.doc.govt.nz/Conservation/Historic/020~
This story sounds as though someone has been reeding some older SF. It will be interesting to see if the idea can be made to work, and see what comes of a potentially cheaper way to build space craft.
If you are looking for a software based solution what about http://koha.org/. Koha is a free opensource Library systemwhich runs on Linux OS X and even windows. but it may pay to take bits from some of the other sugestions about organising and even culling your collection.
It is all very well for them to belatedly admit they got it wrong for what ever reason:-) but what are they going to do to undo the damage that they have done, and where can I get pearLyrics from now?
I think a an open adaptable $100 PC would be a great idea but not for Microsoft!
If you can build a PC that will run windows at a satisfactory speed, plus office and what ever essential software, who will want to spend a hundred on a computer and then hundreds more on bloatware I mean software.
I wonder if they could build such a cheap computer and support the range of external devices currently available, perhaps we will see a two tier PC hardware platfom "real boxes" for those with $$$$ and the $100 specials for the rest and if so the $100 ones will be poor crippled examples of what a PC could be tied to an OS etc. and perhaps able to have its firmware automatically updated remotely to stop other OS's being run on it.
I for one and I guess people in general will not be willing to pay several times the price of the computer for an OS and applications, but I know of other products which could fill that gap quite nicely given a chance and if the hardware makers do their work well.