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New Robots Walk Like Humans - 19 years ago
New Robots Walk Like Humans By Robert Roy Britt and Tariq Malik posted: 17 February, 2005 2 p.m. ET Source WASHINGTON D.C. - In what could be described as one small step for a robot, but a giant leap for robot-kind, a trio of humanoid machines were introduced Thursday, each with the ability to walk in a human-like manner. Each bipedal robot has a strikingly human-like gait and appearance.by archive - Archive
The Five-Billion-Star Hotel - 19 years ago
The Five-Billion-Star Hotel By Michael Belfiore March 2005 Source On the Las Vegas Strip, home of the biggest and most extravagant hotels in the world, shell-shocked tourists file past one stunningly ostentatious display after another. In the desert city, water says wealth like nothing else, and there’s a lake of it in front of the Bellagio, with fountains blasting 240 feet in the air in timeby archive - Archive
The New Raiders - 19 years ago
The New Raiders They're Back -- But With A Twist. The Latest Wave Is Led By Hedge Funds Flush With Billions In Cash by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved. 2005 Source Boston hedge fund Highfields Capital Management apparently had had enough. It watched in dismay as its investment in the nation's No. 3 electronics retailer, Circuit City Stores (CC), floundered. Finalby archive - Archive
The Big Loser - by Marc Faber - 19 years ago
The Big Loser The Daily Reckoning London, England Wednesday, February 09, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: In 2004, the U.S. dollar appreciated by 85% against the Zimbabwean Dollar. It was an anomaly...virtually every other world currency got stronger. Which was the best performing currency in 2004? Here's a breakdown... THE BIG LOSER by Marc Faber At this year's Barron'sby archive - Archive
Man From the Moon (Consciousness) - 19 years ago
Man From the Moon A former astronaut is coming to town to discuss the science of consciousness. Bianca Phillips | 1/21/2005 Source On his return trip from the moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced what he describes as a state of "transcended consciousness," which resulted in feelings of "bliss and ecstasy." As he gazed at the Earth, the planets, and stars, heby archive - Archive
Re: Derivatives, USA - 19 years ago
Nice post. The tricky thing with derivates is that there are two sorts; financial derivates, which are unregulated, and the regulated 'material' derivates which are used predominately ford hedging risc in the manufacturing and raw materials (also agricultural products etc.) branch for hundreds of years. The unregulated financial derivates market, started officially in 1971 in Chicagoby archive - Archive
Re: Dollar, Horror or Fantasy - 19 years ago
“About limits, the new world economy has no clue—nor do most politicians and thinkers, trained by the prosperous second part of the twentieth century to be overly market-trusting. Here lies a huge source of twenty-first century discussion or even dissent. The great economist John Maynard Keynes sensed this more than half a century ago when he wrote that the basic debate over the future of human sby archive - Archive