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Should your genes be open source?

Should your genes be open source?How can you patent something you didn't invent? ntntI thought patenting life was verboten.Prior art.Life forms are self aware.Owning life smacks of slavery.Privacy violations.Owning life has serious problems. Patenting just the process is one thing but owning the results in the end is immoral, especially...

Tags: Life Form, gene, patent, open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions

EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...

Tags: Earth, Soup, Computer, EvoGrid, Life Form, Productivity, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Outrage in aftermath of China's YouTube censorship

Outrage in aftermath of China's YouTube censorshipThey're much worse."As for human rights the US is no better either."The fact that we can have this conversation at all is a testament that we are far better at human rights. The Chinese people can't even talk about this."Police in the US abuse...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, censorship, YouTube Inc., life form

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

The evolution of the Tree of Life

The Tree of Life was an expression used by Charles Darwin to describe the diversity of organisms on Earth and their evolutionary history. There are only two life forms, eukaryotes, which gather their genetic material in a nucleus, and prokaryotes, such as bacteria, which have their genetic material floating freely...

Tags: Earth, Life, Researcher, Tree, Life Form, Wiki, Biotechnology, Online Communications, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Galactic Deathmatch 1 (Windows)

Outstanding space shooter with great graphics and clever artificial intelligence. The computer game Galactic Deathmatch moves you in 4356: The humans have explored wide parts of the space and stand in contact with many extraterrestrial life forms. Intergalactic wars must be avoided, hence, the most advanced and mightiest life forms...

Tags: WorkIsOver Software, Life Form, Government, Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-02-09

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Paying for what does not work remains popular

We are already there, DanaYou said "But at some point your neighbors, who are paying for your excess, whether in the form of insurance or in the form of taxes, are going to start asking these hard questions"We are already there. I agree with you that many of us...

Tags: Insurance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, prostate cancer, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed

You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., vaporware

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

New ultra-thin laptops ready to catch on?

They still seem a bit over priced for what they do. I feel the same way about the netbooks too.They will NEVER take off like Netbooks becauseThey violate the netbook Trinity. These are the three contributing factors which are required for the extreme mass market appeal of a netbook....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, laptop computer, ultra-thin laptop, New ultra-thin laptop

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent

My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, sales, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Rupert Murdoch's Google taunts are a bid to unite publishers - content will be king

Rubert Murdoch, go away.He is an old man from the last century. Why doesn't he just retire rather than being a super ludite mucking up and fighting modern technology?And why does he seem to need the money that he will never be able to enjoy. It is very...

Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, Rupert Murdoch

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Geoengineering warning to Congress

How was that unforseen? Everyone who's had jr high science knows thatEvery artificial increase in one life form ever tried has always resulted in an increase in their natural predators.There's absolutely no reason to consider spending a single dollar to affect climate change. Depending on if you choose to...

Tags: U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Who needs an Office app? Google Docs, Calendar & more all work on Nokia N900

I like the direction this is headingThose keys look awfully small compared to your thumbs (or maybe you have HUGE thumbs ;-) ).In any event, I like the look of the future. You need a foldable, netbook size BT keyboard the size of a cigarette pack, a little stand, all...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Google Inc., Nokia N900, Microsoft Office, Google Docs

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

MB Podomancy 1.10 (Windows)

MB Podomancy is a divination software based on the shape and looks of a person's feet and the personality characteristics they reveal. The toes of our feet can tell us more about ourselves and the problems that we may be about to face in life. Podomancy is a popular form...

Tags: Person, MysticBoard, MB Podomancy, Podomancy, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-14

Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license

Tar and feather them nt ;-)ntYeah - they made good on GPL2 - tar them anyway!It's Microsoft - hurt them even when they do admit their errors and make good on them!Seriously Dude, see a shrink!A tad serious?Lighten up a bit - a shrink? I will put my mental health...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, tool, Microsoft Windows 7, open source, Microsoft Corp., GPL

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Apple ranks 3rd in smartphones, nipping at RIMs heels

What's more surprising......is Apple failed to dislodge RIM in the quarter the 3GS was launched whilst RIM launched nothing new of note (a new Curve and... err... hmm).Why don't we see what happens over the year and then form an opinion?RE: Apple ranks 3rd in smartphones, nipping at RIMs heelsI...

Tags: Smart phones, Sales strategy, Handhelds, Cellular phones, smart phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

MyUniverse Professional 1.0.8 (Windows)

MyUniverse Professional is a feature rich application you can use to take all kinds of information from various parts of your life and bring them together into one place in a creative, free form, visual and dynamic way which you can use at Home, School or Business. It is a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Rhok Solutions, MyUniverse Professional, RSS, Channel Management, Internet, E-mail, Investment, Web Site Development, Marketing, Online Communications, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Five Cellular Automata 7.60 (Windows)

This is software for exploring five cellular automata, as follows: A multistate version of Conway's Game of Life, called "q-state Life"; A simulation of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction in which, beginning from a random state of the system, spirals and curlicues "spontaneously" emerge; A process called Togetherness in which cells...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, State, Cell, Hermetic Systems

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Nokia 3711 - sable (T-Mobile)

Nokia fans in the United States don't get many breaks. Few of the company's phones make it to U.S. carriers and the models that land here tend to be basic handsets for making calls. The Nokia 3711 for T-Mobile is one such phone. Simple in form and function, the 3711...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, T-Mobile, phone, Nokia Corp., keypad button

Product reviews 2009-11-10

Study claims netbook users dissatisfied with Windows 7. Are you?

Very satisfiedVery satisfiedIt's a intentionaly crippled OS from a software company with lackluster QACYou should expect to be disappointed.In the Netbook realm, closed source can't compete with free.I have 7 Pro on mineand I also dual boot with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. And while I personally prefer Ubuntu, there is nothing...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Windows 7 Pro, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, netbook user

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Yojimbo 2.1 (Mac)

Yojimbo makes keeping all the small or even large bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It's so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo's mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life, without changing the way...

Tags: Bare Bones Software Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yojimbo 2.1, Channel Management, Document Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-11-10