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- My 2007 predictions - wrong, wrong, and wrong
- My 2007 predictions - wrong, wrong, and wrongSolaris communitySo, like what[b]EVER[/b]. It's another Unix. Do what you like under the hood, and to the extent that it's not compatible people have finally learned not to go near it.Sun spent twenty years trying to position itself as "not like...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Xmas Gift, attendant, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-12-14
- Apple: Is this really a dangerous moment?
- Apple: Is this really a dangerous moment?Message has been deleted.The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!!Not to say that Apple will always be king of the hill, but I'm not ready to unload my Apple stock just yet. The Mac part of the business is just picking up steam....
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., dangerous moment
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- GMOs down to the chromosome level
- If don't like the concept of 'Frankenfoods,' I have bad news for you. U.S. researchers have developed an artificial chromosome for corn plants. The Chicago Tribune reports that researchers can now make chromosomes to order. These artificial chromosomes are accepted as natural by the plants and passed through generations. As...
- Tags: Gene, University Of Chicago, Chromosome, Cell, Preuss, C/C++, Biotechnology, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-20
- Today's Debate: New drugs or new technology?
- Today's positive investor call on Cardinal Health should lead us to consider this question, namely whether technology or pharmacology should drive medical advances. Cardinal Health was mainly a drug maker and distributor in the 1990s, until accounting scandals laid its stock low. Now, under CEO Kerry Clark,...
- Tags: Drug, Biotechnology, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence
- Barney Pell has a passion for artificial intelligence AI and natural language processing NLP. His latest foray into those related fields is Powerset, a search engine that he hopes will challenge Google. He will be speaking, along with other experts in the AI field, at the Singularity Summit 2007, held...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Barney Pell, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Steve Omohundro: Building self-aware AI systems
- Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing an AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9. ...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Omohundro, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Coming to grips with intelligent machines
- Coming to grips with intelligent machinesResponse to SingularityGiven the present response to current problems - ie. Global Climate Change, Overpopulation, Corruption, War, Action on Blind Faith - is it likely that Homo Sapiens will last long enough to reach the state of Singularity? If we do survive, maybe...
- Tags: intelligent machine, Singularity
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Denise Caruso: Anti-social media defeats progress
- Author and New York Times columnist and Hybrid Vigor Institute founder Denise Caruso, whose new book, Intervention, just arrived, launches the Supernova Conference with a call for diversity of ideas, conversation and, ultimately, collaboration. Leaping forward without first talking, discussing the potential benefits and consequences of a new technology creates...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Can wild grass produce clean fuel?
- Can wild grass produce clean fuel?Missing data.How much energy is used in the fermentation process? In other words and this applies to any biofuel discussion is there a net loss in energy using bio instead of oil?What about yard grass? It may not be as efficient but it's already...
- Tags: Biotechnology, corn crop, fossil fuel, grass, crop
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Santa Claus high-tech tools
- If you dont believe that Santa Claus can deliver presents to millions of homes in a single night, Larry Silverberg, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University NCSU, explains that Santas society of elves has an understanding of physics and engineering that exceeds our own. In...
- Tags: Biotechnology, tool, Santa, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Santa Claus
- Blog posts 2006-12-24
- On visiting the bookstore
- On visiting the bookstoreAlways a means to an endComputing in sci fi is usually incidental - to abuse the star trek communcator some more, it was just a tool used to enable crew communications; i.e. it was never about the thing.So is computing boring to sci fi? I hope so...
- Tags: Robots, computing, science fiction, robot
- Discussion threads 2006-12-21
- Is agricultural biotechnology safe?
- Many of us are concerned by the possible risks of agricultural biotechnology. For example, when you grow transgenic crops, can their modified genes alter wild varieties of similar wild plants? The latest issue of the California Agriculture magazine carries several articles focusing on transgenic crops, fish and animals. And some...
- Tags: crop, species, genetically engineered
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- The fall of McNealy: the end of an error
- Sun’s present predicament – which has now culminated in Scott McNealy taking chairman’s bum rush – can be boiled down to one simple fact: this is a hardware company that has never understood the value of software. Sure, Sun has tons of software: Solaris, I'm told Jonathan Schwartz knows a...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., SUN HAS, software
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- Bill Joy: Pandemics, biofuels and the $10 PC
- The final day of PC Forum stared with a conversation between Esther and Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and now Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers venture capitalist. The discussion touched on how technology, the Internet and politics are impacting society and the planet. As a venture capitalist, Joy and his firm are...
- Tags: Joy
- Blog posts 2006-03-14
- Who needs a business plan?
- Who needs a business plan?and in a related story...monsanto patents pigs, not the genetic engineering, the offspring. That pig can't beget another pig without a payment to monsanto, so be careful with that genetically engineered offspring of your own, since you may be selling your progeny into slavery.Money makes the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, commons, software, open source, computer
- Discussion threads 2005-08-04
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