The Onion's A.V. Club has very good game reviews. They don't take themselves too seriously, and they answer the only question I care about with a game - should I buy it?
They also have the extremely entertaining Games of Our Lives, which consists of very funny reviews of old games (20+ years in most cases) written by Wil Wheaton.
Without reading the article, I think this is referring to B&W paper, not film. When you are doing an autorad (or chemilumenesence) you are using B&W film. Usually people just look at and/or scan the negative - there's really no reason to make a print of a blot becuase all of the information one needs is right there on the negative (in fact a print would look worse, with a big field of black and a couple tiny white bands).
One scientific application I can think of being affected by the lack of paper would be electron microscopy. I was working in a lab 4 years ago and I made many B&W prints of electron micrographs from negatives that were about 2"x3". I guess people will have to scan them from now on, but the odd shape of the negative precluded the use of a film scanner, and I can't see a flatbed as giving good results, at least not for the low price of the old fashioned way.
The public macs (a mix of eMacs and iMac G4s) are all running OSX now. I think they kept the old ones on OS9 because they were the old colorful iMacs that run OSX like shit.
More info on blitzmail can be found here. I think the source code for the server and client have been released. It was a pretty good email system for its time (kind of like IMAP), but the client has stagnated a bit.
Dutch might have been a "world" language. When the USoA had to decide what language to pick as their national language (no, the Americans didn't invent English:-) the senate was one vote short for Dutch being the primary language in the USoA.
Incorrect. This is an urban legend, and you screwed it up. In the legend, German almost became the official language.
Remember there is a tariff paid to the recording industry for every blank tape and recorder sold. See earlier articles about tacking this same tarif on blank CDR's, and the uproar at the suggestion.
This tax already exists for "Audio" CDRs that you use in those Phillips home burners. That's why they are typically about $1 more per disc.
Although I don't doubt that the RIAA would love to have the tax apply to data discs as well.
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The Onion's A.V. Club has very good game reviews. They don't take themselves too seriously, and they answer the only question I care about with a game - should I buy it?
They also have the extremely entertaining Games of Our Lives, which consists of very funny reviews of old games (20+ years in most cases) written by Wil Wheaton.
One scientific application I can think of being affected by the lack of paper would be electron microscopy. I was working in a lab 4 years ago and I made many B&W prints of electron micrographs from negatives that were about 2"x3". I guess people will have to scan them from now on, but the odd shape of the negative precluded the use of a film scanner, and I can't see a flatbed as giving good results, at least not for the low price of the old fashioned way.
The public macs (a mix of eMacs and iMac G4s) are all running OSX now. I think they kept the old ones on OS9 because they were the old colorful iMacs that run OSX like shit.
More info on blitzmail can be found here. I think the source code for the server and client have been released. It was a pretty good email system for its time (kind of like IMAP), but the client has stagnated a bit.
Dutch might have been a "world" language. When the USoA had to decide what language to pick as their national language (no, the Americans didn't invent English :-) the senate was one vote short for Dutch being the primary language in the USoA.
Incorrect. This is an urban legend, and you screwed it up. In the legend, German almost became the official language.
As usual, Snopes has the real deal:
http://www.snopes.com/spoons/fracture/german.htm
This tax already exists for "Audio" CDRs that you use in those Phillips home burners. That's why they are typically about $1 more per disc.
Although I don't doubt that the RIAA would love to have the tax apply to data discs as well.