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Hitachi unveils 'fastest robot' - 19 years ago
Hitachi unveils 'fastest robot' Wednesday, 16 March, 2005, 09:01 GMT BBC Source Japanese electronics firm Hitachi has unveiled its first humanoid robot, called Emiew, to challenge Honda's Asimo and Sony's Qrio robots. Hitachi said the 1.3m (4.2ft) Emiew was the world's quickest-moving robot yet at 6km/h (3.7 miles per hour). Two wheel-based Emiews, Pal and Chum, intrby archive - Archive
Growing fears credit boom may implode - 19 years ago
Growing fears credit boom may implode By Dan Roberts and David Wighton in New York and Peter Thal Larsen in London Published: March 13 2005 21:42 Last updated: March 13 2005 21:42 Source Bankruptcy advisers are hiring extra staff amid fears that an end to the global credit boom could spark a surge in business failures in the US and Europe. Unusually loose lending conditions have encouraged reby archive - Archive
Gates up to old tricks over intellectual property rights - 19 years ago
Gates up to old tricks over intellectual property rights By Adam Gifford 15.03.2005 Source If you wondered how Bill Gates topped the Forbes rich list for the 11th year with a personal fortune of US$46.5 billion ($63 billion), look no further than the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office. Patent 525484, accepted by the office and now open for objections until the end of May, says Microsoftby archive - Archive
Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News - 19 years ago
Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News By DAVID BARSTOW and ROBIN STEIN March 13, 2005 New York Times Source It is the kind of TV news coverage every president covets. "Thank you, Bush. Thank you, U.S.A.," a jubilant Iraqi-American told a camera crew in Kansas City for a segment about reaction to the fall of Baghdad. A second report told of "another success"by archive - Archive
'Millipede' small scale MEMS prototype shown - 19 years ago
'Millipede' small scale MEMS prototype shown at CeBIT By PhysOrg March 12, 2005 Source Nanomechanical data storage device from the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Given the rapidly increasing data volumes that are downloaded onto mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, there is a growing demand for suitable storage media with more and more capacity. At CeBIT, IBM foby archive - Archive
How to Start a Startup - 19 years ago
How to Start a Startup By Paul Graham March 2005 Source (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard Computer Society. It's not meant to be complete; I skipped some topics I've already written about in "How to Make Wealth," in Hackers & Painters.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actuallyby archive - Archive
Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability - 19 years ago
Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability by Ingrid Marson at Hannover ZDNet UK March 10, 2005, 17:50 GMT Source Companies who choose open source software over Windows for their enterprise resource planning tend to be surprised by the absence of crashes, according to users and vendors A company that migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux on the desktop has praised the open source operating sby archive - Archive
Separation kernel runs Linux in "ultrasecure" partition - 19 years ago
Separation kernel runs Linux in "ultrasecure" partition Mar. 09, 2005 Source[/url[ LynuxWorks says it will ship a new super-high-security operating system in July, 2005 that was designed to meet the very highest levels of military certification. The LynxSecure Separation Kernel will run BlueCat Linux and LynxOS-178 applications within ultrasecure user-mode partitions, LynuxWorks says.by archive - Archive
Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination - 19 years ago
SPACE TRAVEL Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination Los Angeles (SPX) Mar 09, 2005 Source A little over 13 hours out from Sol, a veteran of the first space age - Voyager 1 - is working quietly in the depths of space as it travels away from our Sun at 17.163 kilometers per second. But now, NASA has told scientists working on these and other older missions that their missions may be terminatedby archive - Archive
Sanders/Austin Fitts: The Negative Return Economy - 19 years ago
Sanders/Austin Fitts: The Negative Return Economy Thursday, 26 August 2004, 11:53 am By Chris Sanders and Catherine Austin Fitts Source Fascinating and lucrative patriotism, The negative return economy: a discourse on America’s black budget Keep the people frightened Of things they cannot know Is the secret of the Tomb If they knew what you and I know They would know it is just men Who rob thby archive - Archive
Software Patents in the EU - 19 years ago
Software Patents in the EU A Perspective on the European Computer Implemented Inventions Directive by Edward Griffith-Jones, Tom Chance 03/08/2005 Source Bill Gates wrote, in his Challenges and Strategy memo of May 16, 1991, that "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a compleby archive - Archive
Software patents make a mockery of European ideals - 19 years ago
Software patents make a mockery of European ideals By Leader ZDNet UK March 07, 2005, 13:35 GMT Source The software patents directive shows Europe at its worst. Whose rules shall we play by now? Whole countries opposed it, its proponents couldn't explain it, and its own parliament called for it to be completely reconsidered. Twice. Therefore, the European Council decided to approve it.by archive - Archive
Software patent directive adopted - 19 years ago
Software patent directive adopted By Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK March 07, 2005, 10:45 GMT Source Update: Opponents are furious that the EU Council has approved the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The future of software patenting in Europe now lies in the hands of the European Parliament The European Council adopted the software patent directive on Monday, despite requests from Denmarkby archive - Archive
Wake-up Call - about microwave radiation emitted by cellular phones - 19 years ago
Wake-up Call By Rob Harrill Source HENRY LAI HAS A VIVID RECOLLECTION OF HIS INTRODUCTION to the politics of big science. It was 1994, and he had just received a message from the National Institutes of Health, which was funding work he was doing on the effects of microwave radiation, similar to that emitted by cellular phones, on the brain. He and UW colleague Narendra “N.P.” Singh had resultsby archive - Archive
Fannie Mae faces billions more in new losses - 19 years ago
Fannie Mae faces billions more in new losses Report: Regulator may force another restatement The Associated Press Updated: 6:25 p.m. ET March 3, 2005 Source WASHINGTON - Additional serious accounting problems at Fannie Mae recently discovered by federal regulators could mean as much as $2.8 billion in further losses, according to an analysis based on information provided by the embattled mortgby archive - Archive
The Debt-Peonage Society - By Paul Krugman - 19 years ago
March 8, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Debt-Peonage Society By PAUL KRUGMAN Source Today the Senate is expected to vote to limit debate on a bill that toughens the existing bankruptcy law, probably ensuring the bill's passage. A solid bloc of Republican senators, assisted by some Democrats, has already voted down a series of amendments that would either have closed loopholes for the rich or prby archive - Archive
New York Times Ed. -- Hope in the Land of Dashed Hopes - 19 years ago
March 7, 2005 NYT EDITORIAL Hope in the Land of Dashed Hopes Source For more than 40 years, the epitome of wasted potential and squandered opportunity in Africa has been Nigeria. From the time it gained independence from Britain in 1960, that behemoth of 137 million people has seemed to do its level best to fritter away every natural advantage. Given the second-highest proven oil reserves in Afby archive - Archive
Report: Airlines sweat fuel costs - 19 years ago
Report: Airlines sweat fuel costs Anticipating $60 a barrel oil, carriers cut routes and bump up fares -- USA Today. March 7, 2005: 1:39 PM EST CNN Source NEW YORK (CNN Money) - After watching the price of crude steadily climb over the last year, major airlines are planning for the prospect of $60-a-barrel oil and beyond by raising fares and cutting routes, according to a report published Monby archive - Archive
BAE to buy United Defense for $4B - 19 years ago
BAE to buy United Defense for $4B European company to pay cash, and a 29% premium, for maker of Bradley Fighting Vehicle. March 7, 2005: 6:05 AM EST CNN Source LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's biggest defense company, BAE Systems, agreed to buy U.S. firm United Defense Industries for $3.97 billion in cash Monday, bolstering its land systems business and its foothold in the United States. BAEby archive - Archive
Why the U.S. Cannot Correct Its Military Blunders in Iraq - 19 years ago
'Going to War with the Army You Have' Why the U.S. Cannot Correct Its Military Blunders in Iraq by Michael Schwartz March 06, 2005 Source The Latest American Theory about the Iraqi Resistance In early February, a Newsweek team led by Rod Nordland produced a detailed account of current theorizing among American and Iraqi officials about the structure ofby archive - Archive
NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications - 19 years ago
NSA specifies elliptic-curve crypto for security applications By Loring Wirbel EE Times March, 2005 (10:11 AM EST) Source COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The National Security Agency has specified elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) for a wide range of key agreement and digital signature tasks. The decision boosts the fortunes of ECC originator Certicom Corp. (Missisauga, Ontario). The announcement fby archive - Archive
A first look at OpenOffice.org 2.0 - 19 years ago
A first look at OpenOffice.org 2.0 By Craig A. Adams March 4 2005 Source It is not too bold to say that OpenOffice.org 2.0 will usher in a new era of functionality, reliability, compatibility and ease of use. The extensive changes and enhancements which are to be included in the upcoming release are all the evidence needed to justify this assertion. For those who are impatient and unwilling tby archive - Archive
Electrical Birthing of Stars (Plasma Cosmology) - 19 years ago
Electrical Birthing of Stars Mar 04, 2005 Source Popular ideas about star and planet formation have received a jolt from a recent peek into the womb of a newly forming star. The shock came from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory as it peered into a star-forming region called R Corona Australis, about 500 light-years from Earth. The astronomers who investigated the regby archive - Archive
Ants - learning from the collective - 19 years ago
Ants - learning from the collective By Peter Everett Saturday, 5 March, 2005, 09:46 GMT Source *** RELATED INTERNET LINKS: Chris Melhuish Nigel Franks **** "Go to the ant, thou sluggard," King Solomon advised in the Book of Proverbs Chapter Six, "consider her ways and be wise". Humans have always looked at the little beasts - so efficient, so purposeful and yet so diffby archive - Archive
Carly's Way (at HP)... the can-do attitude was killed by management choices - 19 years ago
Carly's Way As Told to Michelle Delio March 4, 2005 Source An electronic engineer who worked as a Research Scientist at the Hewlett-Packard Imaging Systems Laboratory starting in 1975 until he resigned in 2003, G.S. thought HP represented the very best of American character -- "a spirit of adventure and a belief in unlimited possibilities." He charges, though, that startingby archive - Archive
Red Hat exec takes over Open Source Initiative - 19 years ago
Red Hat exec takes over Open Source Initiative By Stephen Shankland Story last modified Fri Mar 04 12:07:00 PST 2005 Source The Open Source Initiative, a group seeking to become more influential in matters concerning the cooperative programming philosophy, has seen its second change of leadership in less than a month. Michael Tiemann, vice president of open-source affairs at Linux seller Redby archive - Archive
Sowing the Seeds of Open Source Advocacy - 19 years ago
Sowing the Seeds of Open Source Advocacy by Jono Bacon 03/03/2005 Source Aristotle was a confused yet accomplished man. As someone who demonstrated incredible understanding of philosophy, his efforts typically hinged around expressing abstract concepts to people in a language they understood. With a portfolio of such complex topics, Aristotle developed better ways in which he could express hisby archive - Archive
Conversation with a successful Linux services entrepreneur - 19 years ago
Conversation with a successful Linux services entrepreneur Friday March 04, 2005 (12:00 PM GMT) By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller Source Con Zymaris runs Cybersource, an IT service company in Melbourne, Australia. Cybersource started as a one-man Unix shop in 1991 and has gradually evolved into a decent-sized Linux/FOSS-based business that serves a client base Zymaris says is now 20% governmby archive - Archive
Peeking Into Google - 19 years ago
Peeking Into Google By Susan Kuchinskas March 2, 2005 Source BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The key to the speed and reliability of Google (Quote, Chart) search is cutting up data into chunks, its top engineer said. Urs Hoelzle, Google vice president of operations and vice president of engineering, offered a rare behind-the-scenes tour of Google's architecture on Wednesday. Hoelzle spoke here at Eby archive - Archive
New look for classic experiment - 19 years ago
New look for classic experiment By Peter Rodgers 2 March 2005 Source Physicists in Europe and the US have performed a novel version of the double-slit quantum-interference experiment with single electrons. In the classic version of the experiment, electrons pass through a mask containing two parallel slits and produce a pattern of bright and dark interference fringes on a screen. Now, Gerhardby archive - Archive