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Stallman responds to Gates speech "What Gates is really asking, writes Stallman (in a recent column, is that countries should accept "prey status" for the sake of making jobs. 'Is it really a good idea to make a product noxious to its users just so more people will be employed to produce it? That is make-work, not market economy. Gates would like every country in the world to scramble to get Microsoft jobs, but remember: That game has hundreds of millions of losers, and only tens of thousands of winners.'" This would be amusing if the consequences weren't so pervasive... Comments 10:09:35 PM 
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Accenture develops package delivery software, of all things. It's a Web service that can check your Web-published calendar to schedule deliveries when you're actually around. These guys used to offer very different advice back when... Comments 8:47:37 PM
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Bill Gates vs. Richard Stallman: "Attacks by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on the GNU General Public License (GPL), under which a lot of open source and free software is distributed, have been driven by a fear that the GPL creates a domain of software that Microsoft cannot privatize and control, according to GPL founder Richard Stallman. "Gates' latest speech on the issue ... warned developing countries against using software based on the GPL, saying those who put development time into it are denying themselves the benefits of essential taxes. Using some of his strongest language yet in his tirade against open source and free software, Gates equated the concepts to anti-capitalism."
And how the heck can you get a monopoly without GPL-free capitalism? From a ZDNET story... thanks, MacInTouch... |
 The Cone Nebula is another stunning image from the new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), recently installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. (Here's the full-resolution image). Nebula are dusty regions of space where new stars are thought to form as gravity causes dust to clump together in ever-growing masses that ultimately compress themselves to the point of nuclear ignition. The whole planet can participate in Hubble science... It's like looking over the astronomer's shoulder...Comments 2:31:59 PM
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Hydrogen from sewage using nanocrystals to double the efficiency of the extraction, has attracted 2.5 million Euros in funding from the EU, according to New Scientist. Hydrogen could power fuel cells in cars thus creating a double environmental benefit, not to mention plentiful, cheap fuel. Goal is a plant that could create hydrogen in 'gast station' quantities... Hmmm... Maybe Jurvetson and Co. are on the right track investing in nano... Comments 2:20:24 PM
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 The Tadpole is what astronomers call this remarkable image of colliding galaxies. The main galaxy, UGC 10214 is in collision with a small, blue interloper visible in the upper left-hand corner of the photo, which was taken by the new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), recently installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. Even more remarkable is the background: the image reveals some 6000 objects, more than twice as many as have ever been revealed by a deep space photo, thanks to the new camera. If you have the time or bandwidth, download the full-resolution image: some of the background objects date from the first billion years of the universe. Web browser as time machine...Comments 2:01:38 PM
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J. Craig Venter's new venture will try to remediate greenhouse gases by using bio-engineered bacteria, possibly using genomes from bacteria found near deep-ocean vents. Such bacteria operate on chemical energy, and don't require the vast amounts of sunlight that surface bacteria do. Interesting idea... he's also setting up a foundation to study the implications of genomic engineering... Comments 1:44:17 PM
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