Consider asbestos: it's harmless in a large piece. But once that piece starts crumbling, asbestos tends to split lengthwise into thinner and thinner fibers (rather than shorter and shorter ones). Breathe those in and you might end up dying an agonising death.
So yes, we do need to study nanoeffects of materials, even when we already know the bulk effects of those same materials.
The interview in TFA is a bit non-committal, but one very good point was made: a set of "best practises" should be drawn up to help bridge the gap between today's exploration of the possibilities of nanotechnology - and the hindsight that will surely come in the future.
According to TFA, the "resource base" is 3.74 trillion barrels. That equates to about 600 barrels of oil per person on this planet. That's about 1500 car tankfuls per person, if we don't use oil for anything else.
This move comes just in time. With Microsoft being in bed with Novell, it makes me just a little uneasy about the future of mono. Plus, it will be nice to have Java included in free distros such as Fedora.
Technology hinders election integrity. How can you beat the integrity of a paper vote system, where the ballots are removed from sealed ballot boxes and counted immediately at the close of polling, with scrutineers from each party watching? There's very little scope for mischief.
Why bother bringing technology into the voting system? Polls are infrequent, so there's no real cost benefit to automation. It's not like voting is being done every day and needs to be automated.
Yes, socio-technological approaches often work better than pure geek-tech approaches.
Many years ago, my grandparents spotted that our elderly neighbour had not opened her kitchen blinds that day, something she did every morning without fail. They broke into the house, found her sprawled on the floor, and called the ambulance.
The elderly neighbour lived another 20 years, thanks to her daily blind habit.
I was surprised to find that five of the 42 "banned books" were ones I studied at high school in the 1970s: To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Sons & Lovers.
TFA makes it clear that the news site is the one charging for the old articles, and that the news site does not share the revenue with Google. Google just provides the search (and they organise it very nicely into a timeline too).
Microsoft Word for DOS is now free as in beer
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Microsoft makes Word 5.5 for DOS available as free-beer software.
They had to fix a year 2000 bug and decided to give the software away rather than trying to sell it.
Word for DOS 5.0 was a really nice piece of work, although in my opinion the interface had started to go downhill by 5.5 (trying to copy the Windows interface too much).
I have the feeling that a lot of their free "beta" software will one day become non-free, and they will only at that point "release" it.
You may have something there. The Google Answers service came out of Beta on the same day that it started running ads. Coincidence?
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Provided I can use Firefox and gain its benefits, I don't care whether others use FF or IE.
Provided the Firefox share is high enough that webmasters will make their sites work with it, I don't see the point of bloating FF in an attempt to gain even higher market share.
Sadly, the "art form" of movies is dying. Today's movies need to allow for copious product placement, and need to be designed with merchandising spinoffs in mind.
Google has the technology to track how visitors move through an advertiser's website. It's called Google Analytics.
It's voluntary, and it's for the advertiser's benefit. But with cost-per-action advertising this is how Google could capture data relating to how visitors move through the advertiser's site.
Furthermore, if the advertiser is using Google Checkout then it's pretty clear-cut whether a purchase "action" has occurred.
A threat to disperse a fine layer of soot over the polar ice would do the trick. The black layer increases the heat absorption, and in a few years the sea level is a hundred metres higher.
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Consider asbestos: it's harmless in a large piece. But once that piece starts crumbling, asbestos tends to split lengthwise into thinner and thinner fibers (rather than shorter and shorter ones). Breathe those in and you might end up dying an agonising death.
So yes, we do need to study nanoeffects of materials, even when we already know the bulk effects of those same materials.
The interview in TFA is a bit non-committal, but one very good point was made: a set of "best practises" should be drawn up to help bridge the gap between today's exploration of the possibilities of nanotechnology - and the hindsight that will surely come in the future.
Next time you'll know to choose an open source solution.
With a proprietary solution, the customers are the ones who support the product, and are then shafted when the product is discontinued.
According to TFA, the "resource base" is 3.74 trillion barrels. That equates to about 600 barrels of oil per person on this planet. That's about 1500 car tankfuls per person, if we don't use oil for anything else.
Particularly as TFA clearly says "the team has not built and tested a system".
This move comes just in time. With Microsoft being in bed with Novell, it makes me just a little uneasy about the future of mono. Plus, it will be nice to have Java included in free distros such as Fedora.
Technology hinders election integrity. How can you beat the integrity of a paper vote system, where the ballots are removed from sealed ballot boxes and counted immediately at the close of polling, with scrutineers from each party watching? There's very little scope for mischief.
Why bother bringing technology into the voting system? Polls are infrequent, so there's no real cost benefit to automation. It's not like voting is being done every day and needs to be automated.
Moon, june, spoon, croon, zune?
Many years ago, my grandparents spotted that our elderly neighbour had not opened her kitchen blinds that day, something she did every morning without fail. They broke into the house, found her sprawled on the floor, and called the ambulance.
The elderly neighbour lived another 20 years, thanks to her daily blind habit.
I like the "other" face on Mars better. It's a crater with rocks shaped like eyes and a smile: http://roger-browne.com/weblog/2006/03/17/google-m ars-and-the-happy-face/
He's a brave guy. He gets my props.
I was surprised to find that five of the 42 "banned books" were ones I studied at high school in the 1970s: To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Sons & Lovers.
That's 12%. Can anyone do better?
Don't you mean Billennia Neutron Bomb?
Sure it's the same service.
TFA makes it clear that the news site is the one charging for the old articles, and that the news site does not share the revenue with Google. Google just provides the search (and they organise it very nicely into a timeline too).
TFA is old news. The service is already launched here: http://news.google.com/archivesearch
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Web Owls (a group blog by some Google Answers researchers) has a piece about it: http://web-owls.com/2006/09/06/googles-news-archi
Microsoft makes Word 5.5 for DOS available as free-beer software.
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They had to fix a year 2000 bug and decided to give the software away rather than trying to sell it.
Word for DOS 5.0 was a really nice piece of work, although in my opinion the interface had started to go downhill by 5.5 (trying to copy the Windows interface too much).
Details here: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/11/25/free-file
I have the feeling that a lot of their free "beta" software will one day become non-free, and they will only at that point "release" it.
You may have something there. The Google Answers service came out of Beta on the same day that it started running ads. Coincidence?
Provided the Firefox share is high enough that webmasters will make their sites work with it, I don't see the point of bloating FF in an attempt to gain even higher market share.
The plot and the acting are secondary.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these all catching fire at the same time!
The 1999 version of the Google logo was created using GIMP. You can even download the XFC file.
It's voluntary, and it's for the advertiser's benefit. But with cost-per-action advertising this is how Google could capture data relating to how visitors move through the advertiser's site.
Furthermore, if the advertiser is using Google Checkout then it's pretty clear-cut whether a purchase "action" has occurred.
Best Buy Invaded By Blue Shirt Improv Artists
> CSR: Resigning you . . .
In real life this would be more like:
CSR: Re-signing you . . .
The geo-terrorists can use science too.
A threat to disperse a fine layer of soot over the polar ice would do the trick. The black layer increases the heat absorption, and in a few years the sea level is a hundred metres higher.