Can the train take the strain?
Andrew Adonis is promoting high-speed rail to cut short-haul flights in the UK, but the environmental case is far from proven.............The environmental case for high-speed rail is not proven and cannot rely on the vague notion that people will be attracted away from air, especially while government policy favours aviation through low taxation and a planning regime that is designed to accommodate seemingly unlimited growth.Obama Reverses Himself on Needle Exchange
Obama, during the primary campaign, pledged his support of needle exchange programs to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS. When he took over the White House, the administration website affirmed: “The President also supports lifting the federal ban on needle exchange, which could dramatically reduce rates of infection among drug users.”
Yet Obama’s budget includes language that bans spending federal money on needle-exchange programs.
Experts Challenge the "Dangerous Divide" Claims about Science in America
It is never good to jump to dramatic conclusions without taking into account the cumulative research and expert views in an area.
In a recent AAAS/Pew survey [1], one in five U.S. scientists named the chronic difficulties [2] in communicating with and educating lay audiences as one of the greatest U.S. scientific failures of the past 20 years. The real surprise, however, was that scientists do not seem too eager to find a solution.
( Contrast this with Dr. John at Nepmak2000 on Opera : despite not having English as his mother tongue - something I rather cheaply twitted him about and discovered he seems sensitive on the topic - he writes and blogs volumes in an effort to communicate. SF writers have counted scientists in their number of course - but research certainly gets in the way of writing. )
I didn't realize the coherence of questions about Ubuntu that I received. Having made some statistics I noticed -to my surprise- that the aftermath of the installation tops the bill. Installing Linux appears no longer the problem. LiveCD's make life quite easy for that. Complications however often appear right after. Few seem to realise that you only have a -working- basic installation. For but few sufficient, particularly while quickly after the initial start-up an impressive list with updates appears. In that stage there is nobody advising you to wait a moment and see if different priorities should be met before continuing! I assume that some of the most reported difficulties stem from the phase between installation and appearance of the Update Manager with its list. What should be observed?
'Net Nanny' Advocate Does Back Flip Hat Tip Bill Kerr
Obesity Makes People Stupid...About Heritability : Mike the Mad Biologist
what heritability estimates mean--and, more importantly, what they do not mean...................................................................................................
SMB Tech Advice.com - Technical Advice from the Enterprise Engineering front lines.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a significant new version of Sun VirtualBox, its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. VirtualBox 3.0 is capable of creating and running multi-processor virtual machines that can handle heavyweight server-class workloads, and also delivers enhanced graphics support for desktop-class workloads, reinforcing VirtualBox's position as one of the world's most popular virtualization platforms. To download the freely available VirtualBox software, visit: http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp.NComputing vSpace Desktop Virtualization Software - "The greenest computing on Earth"
We can’t live without PCs, but we need to learn how to live with them: they consume too much electricity and generate too much e-waste. A typical PC takes 110 watts to run, and there are almost a billion of them on the planet. And according to the Silicon Valley Toxics Commission, e-waste is the fastest growing part of the waste stream.
The solution is simple
Today's PCs are so powerful that we no longer need one for each person. We can tap into the excess power in one PC and share it with many users. NComputing technology uses just 1 to 5 watts, lasts for a decade, and generates just a few ounces of e-waste.
Opera Unite - a new way to share files directly from your web browser
With Opera 10, we are introducing a new technology called Opera Unite, radically extending what you are able to do online. Opera Unite harnesses the power of today's fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer at a time. Read about how Opera Unite is going to change the way we interact on the Web on labs.opera.com.How Amazon Web Services is tackling the 'security of the cloud' problem.
TheLadders.com Recruits 3PAR and Saves on Storage - Online Job Search Engine Cuts Total Storage Costs by 50%
....................................................................................Mozilla Advances the Web with Firefox 3.5
It's been in a few days now and seems a lot faster than the previous issue.VMware-Microsoft War Heats Up
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - a Medical Mystery
How The Internet Is Changing Health CareFrom Twitter to Second Life to Facebook, patients now have access to more health information than ever before.
In late June, the Rochester, Minn.-based hospital system Mayo Clinic tried something it had never attempted before.
Using the micro-blogging service Twitter, it announced the imminent release of a study on Celiac disease, an immune system response to gluten. Then it tracked which of its followers had re-distributed the Tweet and, after careful consideration, provided a few users with an embargoed copy of the study--a practice normally reserved for journalists. Those followers, each of whom have Celiac disease, were permitted to blog about the study once it was released to the public.
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Joblessness Will Hinder U.S. Recovery
High unemployment could constitute a strong headwind against a vigorous U.S. economic recovery for three reasons: consumption, credit and housing.
In the down economy we're still spending, but more on needs than wants--depending on the city, that is.
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