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Running away with the money (Brussel) - 19 years ago
Charlemagne Running away with the money Apr 7th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source How corrupt is Brussels? ANYONE wanting to understand Brussels should make a point of leaving town on a regular basis. Like most government cities but more so, Brussels exists in a bubble of its own pre-occupations and belief systems. What seems important in the self-styled capital of Europe can seem tby archive - Archive
Linux distro turns PCs into supercomputers - 19 years ago
Linux distro turns PCs into supercomputers By Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia April 07, 2005 Source An Australian security firm is about to launch a clustered Linux distribution that aims to utilise the unused nightly processing power of desktop PCs. Dubbed CHAOS, the software is able to remotely boot a computer and run it on Linux without affecting the local hard disk. With enough PCs, this hasby archive - Archive
Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix - 19 years ago
Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix 07 April 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition Jenny Hogan Barry Fox Source IMAGINE movies and computer games in which you get to smell, taste and perhaps even feel things. That's the tantalising prospect raised by a patent on a device for transmitting sensory data directly into the human brain - granted to none other than thby archive - Archive
Reading the Mind of Mr. Market (about Soros) - By Mark Tier - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning Johannesburg, South Africa Wednesday, April 06, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: George Soros believes that everyone's view of the world is "somehow flawed or distorted," and Mark Tier shows us how Soros turned that realization into a powerful investment tool. Read on... READING THE MIND OF MR. MARKET By Mark Tier In 1949 - having escaped from Soviet-occby archive - Archive
Japan Announces Manned Moon Flight by 2025 - 19 years ago
Japan Announces Manned Moon Flight by 2025 By Kenji Hall Associated Press posted: 06 April 2005 12:20 pm ET Source TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's space agency mapped out a new, ambitious plan Wednesday for manned flights to the moon by 2025 as a first step to explore the solar system's farflung planets, but said decisions about whether Japan will go it alone or collaborate with other nations wby archive - Archive
yup Hardware Rant - 19 years ago
#$*^ rant ^h^h^^h^^ up, yup Hardware Rant Bridges burned aplenty By Charlie Demerjian 05 april 2005 Source I WAS PLANNING on going to sleep early tonight, and checked my email and a few sites before I went to sleep. Bad move, I am now to0 angry to sleep, so it is time to rant, and get a few things off my chest, all while outing a few dirty internet secrets. It all comes down to this, the harby archive - Archive
Asset Class of the Next Generation - By Jim Rogers - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning Johannesburg, South Africa Tuesday, April 05, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Investors tend to steer clear of the commodities market, saying that it's just "too risky." But, as Jim Rogers points out, there has been more volatility in the NASDAQ in recent years than in any commodities index. Read on... ASSET CLASS OF THE NEXT GENERATION By Jim Rogers Rby archive - Archive
Proof and beauty - 19 years ago
Mathematics Proof and beauty Mar 31st 2005 From The Economist print edition Source Just what does it mean to prove something? QUOD erat demonstrandum. These three words of Latin, meaning, “which was to be shown”, traditionally mark the end of a mathematical proof. And, for centuries, a proof was exactly that: showing something by breaking it down into readily agreed-upon steps. Proving sometby archive - Archive
Hitachi claims leap in drive density - 19 years ago
Hitachi claims leap in drive density By Michael Kanellos, ZDNet Australia 04 April 2005 Source Hitachi Global Storage will come out with hard drives containing 230 gigabits of data per square inch, the company is expected to announce on Monday, which could mean a 20GB iPod mini. The density breakthrough represents a refinement in perpendicular recording. Today, hard drives record and store datby archive - Archive
Evidence that Python is advancing into the enterprise - 19 years ago
Evidence that Python is advancing into the enterprise 2005.03.29 By Cameron Laird Source More WASHINGTON, D.C. -- So what was the bottom line from the PyCON 2005 conference, held here last week? Python is an open-source technology whose use in enterprise IT operations will only grow for the foreseeable future. Mission-critical development organizations often regard only a handful of languagesby archive - Archive
Why Python? - 19 years ago
Why Python? By Eric Raymond Created 2000-04-30 23:00 Source Cardinal Biggles had Eric in the comfy chair for over four hours before wringing this confession from him... My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O'Reilby archive - Archive
What's Going On? - By Paul Krugman - 19 years ago
March 29, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST What's Going On? By PAUL KRUGMAN Source Democratic societies have a hard time dealing with extremists in their midst. The desire to show respect for other people's beliefs all too easily turns into denial: nobody wants to talk about the threat posed by those whose beliefs include contempt for democracy itself. We can see this failing cleaby archive - Archive
NASA Tests Shape-Shifting Robot Pyramid for Nanotech Swarms - 19 years ago
NASA Tests Shape-Shifting Robot Pyramid for Nanotech Swarms NASA News 03.29.05 Source Like new and protective parents, engineers watched as the TETWalker robot successfully traveled across the floor at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Robots of this type will eventually be miniaturized and joined together to form "autonomous nanotechnology swarms" (ANTS)by archive - Archive
La Vida Robot (keep in mind: Education for All) - 19 years ago
La Vida Robot How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship. By Joshua Davis April 2005 Source The winter rain makes a mess of West Phoenix. It turns dirt yards into mud and forms reefs of garbage in the streets. Junk food wrappers, diapers, and Spanish-language porn are swept into the gutters. On West Roosevelt Aveby archive - Archive
Desktop manufacturing - Fabulous fabrications - - 19 years ago
Desktop manufacturing Fabulous fabrications Mar 23rd 2005 From The Economist print edition Source A way to help inventors in poor countries realise their ideas STAR TREK had the replicator—a device that could assemble any object, atom by atom. The Nutri-Matic vending machine concocted drinks molecule by molecule in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, personalising them by analysing anby archive - Archive
Old before their time - 19 years ago
Economics focus Old before their time Mar 3rd 2005 From The Economist print edition Source Labour-market reform remains the key to higher living standards IN MANY European countries, calls for economic reform are heard more often than they are heeded. However, a new report by the OECD, “Economic Policy Reforms in OECD Countries: Going for Growth”, deserves attention. It may aid reform by proviby archive - Archive
Inflation targets - Monetary conundrums - - 19 years ago
Inflation targets Monetary conundrums Feb 24th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source America's monetary policy is off target “YOU are not here to tell me what to do. You are here to tell me why I have done what I have already decided to do,” Montagu Norman, the Bank of England's longest-serving governor (1920-44), is reputed to have once told his economic adviser. Today, thankby archive - Archive
Companies on a borrowing binge - By Buttonwood - 19 years ago
Buttonwood Companies on a borrowing binge Mar 29th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source America’s companies are cash-rich, right? Then why have they started borrowing again? THE Family Buttonwood having callously decided to go skiing over Easter, your correspondent was left scrabbling solo at the coalface. And a good thing it was, too. With time to devote to such previously unmined trby archive - Archive
Global liquidity - Saturated - - 19 years ago
Global liquidity Saturated Feb 24th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source The world's giant money printing-press HOW loose is the world's monetary policy? One gauge is that real interest rates in America and other countries are still negative. Another is that global liquidity has been expanding at its fastest pace for at least 30 years. This deluge largely reflects the combiby archive - Archive
Photonics Startup Pegs Q2'06 Production Date - 19 years ago
Photonics Startup Pegs Q2'06 Production Date By Mark Hachman March 28, 2005 Source Startup Luxtera has announced its plans to enter the CMOS photonics market, anticipating the day when microprocessors will transmit information via light, not electrons. The company claims that its optical modulator for transforming electrons into photons runs at 10-GHz, ten times the speed of an optical mby archive - Archive
On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures - 19 years ago
On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures by Dorian Birsan, Eclipse From Software Updates Vol. 3, No. 2 - March 2005 Source Extensible application architectures such as Eclipse offer many advantages, but one must be careful to avoid "plug-in hell." Plug-ins In a world of increasingly complex computing requirements, we as software developers are continually searching for that ultimby archive - Archive
Tool turns English to code - 19 years ago
Tool turns English to code By Kimberly Patch, Technology Research News March 23/30, 2005 Source Writing software has been relatively difficult since people began programming computers in the mid-1900s. Although programming a computer is eminently useful -- it gives you fine control of a powerful tool -- it requires learning a programming language. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute oby archive - Archive
Secret Service's Distributed Computing Project Aimed at Decoding Encrypted Evide - 19 years ago
DNA Key to Decoding Human Factor Secret Service's Distributed Computing Project Aimed at Decoding Encrypted Evidence By Brian Krebs washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Monday, March 28, 2005; 6:48 AM Source For law enforcement officials charged with busting sophisticated financial crime and hacker rings, making arrests and seizing computers used in the criminal activity is often the easy partby archive - Archive
Java fallout: OpenOffice.org 2.0 and the FOSS community - 19 years ago
Java fallout: OpenOffice.org 2.0 and the FOSS community By Bruce Byfield 2005.03.28 Source Several new features of the recently released OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta require a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Since Java's license is neither free nor open source, a small but vocal minority has responded both strongly and negatively. For instance, when NewsForge recently published a review of theby archive - Archive
South Korea Steps Up Linux Use in Public Sector - 19 years ago
South Korea Steps Up Linux Use in Public Sector Asia Pulse 03/28/05 8:18 AM PT Source Last year, the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea encouraged eight government agencies to adopt the Linux operating system and it is now gaining traction, the ministry said in a statement. South Korea said today it will launch a government-wide promotion to increase the free use of the Lby archive - Archive
Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend (Open Source) - 19 years ago
Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend By TODD BENSON March 29, 2005 Source SÃO PAULO, Brazil, March 28 - Since taking office two years ago, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has turned Brazil into a tropical outpost of the free software movement. Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, Mr. da Silva has instructed government ministries and state-runby archive - Archive
Measure for measure - by Buttonwood - 19 years ago
Buttonwood Measure for measure Mar 23rd 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source Bond investors are becoming increasingly rattled by trifles. Does this imply a crisis, the “measured” return of rational pricing, or neither? BUTTONWOOD is not the only one who considers General Motors the slowest-moving car crash in history: the bonds of this former blue chip have been trading like junk forby archive - Archive
The Decay of Paper Currency - by Chris Mayer - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning London, England Thursday, March 24, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: For anyone living in the 20th century, the rising cost of living is nothing new. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, the dollar has lost about 95% of its purchasing power. Chris Mayer explores our other options for making sound investments... THE DECAY OF PAPER CURRENCY by Chris Mayer Inflation,by archive - Archive
Putting Your Assets on the Line - by Dr. Marc Faber - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning London, England Thursday, March 24, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Millions of Americans have been viewing their humble abodes as their own, personal ATM. Marc Faber looks at this phenomenon and wonders when people will realize that they shouldn't have everything riding on their household assets... PUTTING YOUR ASSETS ON THE LINE by Dr. Marc Faber Let us assumeby archive - Archive
Borrowers Should Go For Broke - by Rick Ackerman - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning London, England Tuesday, March 22, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The new bankruptcy bill may deter some debtors from further "credit card kamikaze," but if property prices decline, the bill could leave millions of homeowners underwater on their mortgages. Rick Ackerman explores... BORROWERS SHOULD GO FOR BROKE by Rick Ackerman As indebtedness in its many inby archive - Archive