The community is irrelevant to him, because the software can run his infrastructure, and he can buy enough support for it from vendors. "When I look at the constant reengineering we have to do within the travel agency business , to me, there's no other solution besides open source, given our volumes, our transaction rates and the problems we have to solve." Open Source Ascendantby archive - Archive
An Interview with Einstein Two weeks before Einstein died he was visited by a historian of science. They sat in Einstein's study and discussed some of his illustrious predecessors in the evolution of physics by I. Bernard Cohen Source On a Sunday morning in April, two weeks before the death of Albert Einstein, I sat and talked with him about the history of scientific thought and great menby archive - Archive
New Cornell study suggests that mental processing is continuous, not like a computer By Susan S. Lang June 27, 2005 Source ITHACA, N.Y. -- The theory that the mind works like a computer, in a series of distinct stages, was an important steppingstone in cognitive science, but it has outlived its usefulness, concludes a new Cornell University study. Instead, the mind should be thought of more asby archive - Archive
France to Be Site of World's First Nuclear Fusion Reactor By CRAIG S. SMITH New York Times June 28, 2005 Source PARIS, June 28 - France won an international competition today to be the site of the world's first nuclear fusion reactor, an estimated $12 billion project that many scientists see as essential to solving the world's future energy needs. "It is a great success forby archive - Archive
Deep Impact On the 4th of July, a NASA spacecraft will blast a hole in Comet Tempel 1. 6.28.2005 NASA Source June 28, 2005: For the last five billion years of our planet's violent history, Earth has been walloped by comets. These small bodies and their asteroid cousins whacked Earth often in its early years, knocking the stuffing out of our young world. As the solar system matured, impby archive - Archive
France gets nuclear fusion plant Tuesday, 28 June, 2005 BBC News Source France will get to host the project to build a 10bn-euro (£6.6bn) nuclear fusion reactor, in the face of strong competition from Japan. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) will be the most expensive joint scientific project after the International Space Station. The Iter programme was held up forby archive - Archive
Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable in Communication with Government Monday, 27 June 2005 Posted by tatle Source On presenting his new plan for information technology in Norway - "eNorge 2009 – the digital leap", Norwegian Minister of Modernization Morten Andreas Meyer today at a press conference in Oslo declared "Proprietary formats will no longer be accby archive - Archive
Boffins create zombie dogs By Nick Buchan of NEWS.com.au June 27, 2005 Source SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh's Saby archive - Archive
Hungarian paper: Referendum results might prompt EU 'renewal' Source Jun 9, 2005, 14:22 GMT The EU has had a number of major dilemmas for a long time now, but it has been unable to face these problems for several reasons. The rejection of the constitutional agreement in two states regarded as core members so far will hopefully trigger a shock effect that the EU needs to successfullby archive - Archive
TechnologyReview.com The Willing Partner By Alex Frankel July 2005 Source The Case: Corporate customers have loved Research in Motion's BlackBerry since its 1999 launch. But as the popularity of the device increased, so did the number of the company's critics, many of whom believed Research in Motion was too small to maintain its dominance. When the company began to license its softwby archive - Archive
Mothers show pity for Beslan school killer Tom Parfitt in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia Sunday June 26, 2005 The Observer Source As he stepped blinking into the glare of the cramped courtroom, a crowd of bereaved mothers confronted Nurpashi Kulayev, the last surviving militant from the gang that seized School Number One in Beslan, screaming: 'Beast! Child-killer!' More than 330 died in tby archive - Archive
Italians hunt covert CIA snatch squad By Barbara McMahon in Rome Sunday June 26, 2005 The Observer Source Italy and the United States were embroiled in a growing diplomatic row today over the CIA's alleged kidnapping of a terror suspect, as other countries also began investigations into America's role in the disappearance of their citizens. Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr,by archive - Archive
...Of course, this was only the case in those countries that dared to hold a referendum, which is a minority of member states. Elsewhere, national parliaments simply rubber stamped their approval. This is understandable as national parliaments have become nothing more than the breeding ground for an elite political class. It is from this elite class where the new members of the EU aristocracy areby archive - Archive
The War President By PAUL KRUGMAN June 24, 2005 VIENNA Source In this former imperial capital, every square seems to contain a giant statue of a Habsburg on horseback, posing as a conquering hero. America's founders knew all too well how war appeals to the vanity of rulers and their thirst for glory. That's why they took care to deny presidents the kingly privilege of making war at tby archive - Archive
MIT physicists create new form of matter June 22, 2005 Source CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity. Their work, to be reported in the June 23 issue of Nature, is closely related to the superconductivity of electrons inby archive - Archive
BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE DISABLED `Bionic' arm brings back sense of touch Technology links computer, nerves By Kelly Kennedy Tribune staff reporter Source June 23, 2005 Jesse Sullivan lost both of his arms at the shoulders, but with the help of a prosthetic hand and a set of rewired nerves, he can now feel--and sense hot and cold--almost as if he had real fingers. Two years ago, experts tby archive - Archive
Guardian Unlimited If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman Patent absurdity By Richard Stallman Monday June 20, 2005 Source Next month, the European Parliament will vote on the vital question of whether to allow patents covering software, whiby archive - Archive
The Rude Awakening Wall Street, New York Friday, June 17, 2005 Source The Rude Awakening PRESENTS: Financial bubbles are mortal organisms. Even though they might seem immortal for a time, they never live forever. The housing bubble will be no different. Are we ready for the after-life? THE AFTER-LIFE By Eric J. Fry Financial bubbles are mortal organisms. Even though they might seem immortal fby archive - Archive
The US war with Iran has already begun By Scott Ritter, Aljazeera.net Monday 20 June 2005 Source Scott Ritter is a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, 1991-1998, and author of Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of America's Intelligence Conspiracy, to be published by I B Tauris in October 2005. Sunday 19 June 2005 - Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up tby archive - Archive
World's dry regions set to expand BBC News Friday, 17 June, 2005 Source Desertification is a growing menace that puts at risk global efforts to tackle poverty and hunger, a new report from a coalition of scientists states. The group says bad crop management and the misuse of irrigation in a number of regions is putting unsustainable pressure on dryland areas. The UN-led team estimates thby archive - Archive
But Mr Juncker’s arguments are deeply unrealistic—not to mention arguably undemocratic. The Dutch prime minister, for example, made it clear at the summit that his country would not vote again on the same, unamended constitution. Europe's identity crisis deepens Jun 18th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source The European Union summit has broken up with a deal on the constitution thby archive - Archive
Fears of military action on Iraq-Iran border By Phil Sands and Jumana Al Tamimi Published: 17/6/2005, 09:05 (UAE) Source Muntheria, Iraq/Dubai : Tensions between Iran and Iraq have escalated in recent weeks to the extent that threats of military action have been made, a senior member of Iraq’s security forces said. General Nazim Mohammad, chief of Iraq’s Border Police in Muntheria, told Gulfby archive - Archive
Nanoparticles transport cancer-killing drug into tumor cells to increase efficacy, lower drug toxicity in mice U-M scientists use folic acid as bait to get methotrexate inside tumor cells Written by Sally Pobojewski June 15, 2005 Source ANN ARBOR, MI - University of Michigan scientists have created the nanotechnology equivalent of a Trojan horse to smuggle a powerful chemotherapeutic drug insby archive - Archive
Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management by Robert L. Hirsch et al. ( "Waiting until world conventional oil production peaks before implementing crash program mitigation leaves the world with a significant liquid fuel deficit for two decades or longer," according to a report prepared for the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laborby archive - Archive
The global housing boom In come the waves Jun 16th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history. Prepare for the economic pain when it pops NEVER before have real house prices risen so fast, for so long, in so many countries. Property markets have been frothing from America, Britain and Australia to France, Spain and China. Rby archive - Archive
"The whole world economy is at risk. The IMF has warned that, just as the upswing in house prices has been a global phenomenon, so any downturn is likely to be synchronised, and thus the effects of it will be shared widely. The housing boom was fun while it lasted, but the biggest increase in wealth in history was largely an illusion." House prices After the fall Jun 16th 2005by archive - Archive
Buttonwood An odd time to be rising Jun 14th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source Europe’s share prices are rising smartly even though Europe itself seems to be falling apart DOES it strike anyone else as odd that European shares are jumping ahead these days? The future of the euro, perhaps even of Europe, looks more than a bit uncertain. Each new economic statistic is soggier than thby archive - Archive
European Charter Architect Faults Chirac for Its Rejection By ELAINE SCIOLINO Published: June 15, 2005 Source PARIS, June 14 - As the architect of the European Union constitution, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing seemed at the top of his game, praised as "the Mozart of politics" and poised to go down in history as the founding father of a new Europe. Only two months ago, Mr. Giscard dby archive - Archive
EU: What kind of club? By Paul Reynolds World Affairs correspondent, BBC News website Thursday, 16 June, 2005 Source The European Union summit in Brussels this week is unlikely to resolve the twin issues currently facing Europe - the future of its proposed constitution and the imbalances in its budget. if Rome was not built in a day, the EU will not be saved in a summit. On the constitution,by archive - Archive
NASA sees earliest manned moon landing in 2015 Mon Jun 13,12:02 PM ET Source The next mission to land a man on the moon will take place in 2015 at the earliest, the new chief of the United States' space program said on Monday, adding the mission could be followed by the construction of a multinational space station there. But NASA has not yet decided what vehicles will be used to reach thby archive - Archive