I'd like to know how, at the completion of the experiment, they are going to remove all the hardware out of the ice? Surely they aren't just going to leave it there? There's enough man-made rubbish encroaching on ecologically sensitive areas of the planet already, and to not consider how the post-experiment cleanup is going to be done is just sad.
William Stephenson's 'A man called Intrepid' has been alledgedly shown to contain some fanciful writing (google for it) so if Bob Cringely is using that as his source, can we believe all his claims?
I read the articles. Nothing mentioned whatsoever about one IN DEVLOPMENT. It's all theoretical. What MIGHT be possible. What machine MIGHT be useable for experiments. This is not IN DEVELOPMENT.
Just a stupid misleading sensationalist title for this story.
I wonder if it looks like a salt shaker and makes a high-pitched whistling noise when waved over the body. I saw these being used back on TV in the sixties.
Iran is planning to sell its oil in Euro rather than US dollars, undermining the dollar hedgemony:
Will we see fireworks in Iran before March next year?
I listened to some, and thought how much it seemed like this extract from George Orwell's '1984':
"It was only an 'opeless fancy.
It passed like an Ipril dye,
But a look an' a word an' the dreams they stirred!
They 'ave stolen my 'eart awye!
The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound. He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of the children in the street, and somewhere in the far distance a faint roar of traffic, and yet the room seemed curiously silent, thanks to the absence of a telescreen."
I would wonder why Intel are using Oz as a test. It wouldn't be in any way connected with their attempts to break Australia's CSIRO patents on WiFi technology would it? Why test it in the US when they can muscle right in at the source of their legal case.
At least that's better than when IE had the rotating Earth throbber. That only showed the Americas and Europe, and left out the whole of Asia!!!!
Google Earth photo of my house is 5 months old
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Google Earth's satellite photo of my house in Brisbane, Australia is less than 5 months old.
I was covering the roof of a shed in my backyard with 3 x 1 m corrugated sheetmetal; I had done two panels in January / February and left the third off for a few months. The photo was taken in that time and the two panels are clearly visible.
So they don't always have old images.
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I'd like to know how, at the completion of the experiment, they are going to remove all the hardware out of the ice? Surely they aren't just going to leave it there? There's enough man-made rubbish encroaching on ecologically sensitive areas of the planet already, and to not consider how the post-experiment cleanup is going to be done is just sad.
This I remember as the followup punchline to "Need Another Seven Astronauts".
William Stephenson's 'A man called Intrepid' has been alledgedly shown to contain some fanciful writing (google for it) so if Bob Cringely is using that as his source, can we believe all his claims?
Maybe they wanted to make sure it didn't swallow up the planet first. After ten months, looks like it hasn't, so they can safely announce the news :)
...oh... wait
I read the articles. Nothing mentioned whatsoever about one IN DEVLOPMENT. It's all theoretical. What MIGHT be possible. What machine MIGHT be useable for experiments. This is not IN DEVELOPMENT.
Just a stupid misleading sensationalist title for this story.
I wonder if it looks like a salt shaker and makes a high-pitched whistling noise when waved over the body. I saw these being used back on TV in the sixties.
...and offered to fly their new taikonauts to the ISS?
I bet NASA woould suddenly receive all the funding it needed, ASAP, and no questions asked!
...if anyone remembers this late 60s / early 70s UK TV show, that is.
I had Stelarc as my art teacher, many years ago in Japan. He has a third hand: http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/third/third.html/
Arrghhh! You beat me to it!
"Money can't buy you happiness. But it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."
I believe what you are looking for is called a 'squid vid'.
'Cntr-T'? This guy talks about standards and good UI design, and he can't even use the standard convention of 'CTRL+T' in his own writings?
Link was http://www.energybulletin.net/7707.html (I hit Submit before I finished)
Iran is planning to sell its oil in Euro rather than US dollars, undermining the dollar hedgemony:
Will we see fireworks in Iran before March next year?
"It was only an 'opeless fancy.
It passed like an Ipril dye,
But a look an' a word an' the dreams they stirred!
They 'ave stolen my 'eart awye!
The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound. He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of the children in the street, and somewhere in the far distance a faint roar of traffic, and yet the room seemed curiously silent, thanks to the absence of a telescreen."
I would wonder why Intel are using Oz as a test. It wouldn't be in any way connected with their attempts to break Australia's CSIRO patents on WiFi technology would it? Why test it in the US when they can muscle right in at the source of their legal case.
When I attempt to close this googleripoff(tm) page, nothing happens.... wierd :(
At least that's better than when IE had the rotating Earth throbber. That only showed the Americas and Europe, and left out the whole of Asia!!!!
Google Earth's satellite photo of my house in Brisbane, Australia is less than 5 months old. I was covering the roof of a shed in my backyard with 3 x 1 m corrugated sheetmetal; I had done two panels in January / February and left the third off for a few months. The photo was taken in that time and the two panels are clearly visible. So they don't always have old images.
...who read the article at the end of WWII whilst stationed in the Philippines http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0035.html
Oh great. So when the shuttle goes out shopping and walks into a store, all the alarms are going to go off!
Google Maps have got to be kidding themselves if they think they're showing the 'whole world'.
It can't even show images or maps of Sydney, Australia, a city of four million people!
What an unfinished piece of work this thing is. How can they justify their 'whole world' claim?
Hmmmm.