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Category Archives: Science and Engineering
And the Internet Did Not Fail
For much of yesterday I watched the poorman’s broadband, television. Today I have it turned off. It’s just getting repetitive now. Yesterday and today I was able to send e-mail, chat with friends and make changes to the sites I … Continue reading
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Make your own DSL!
The rarity and expense of DSL is totally bogus. Robert X. Cringely shows you the truth the baby bells don’t want you to know. Probably isn’t legal in some parts though.
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Protein Engineering Begins
Researchers have managed to coax bacteria into building proteins out of amino acids other than the 20 used by all Earth organisms. One of the many things they hope to learn is why those 20, out of the many others … Continue reading
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Smart Dust and Paranoia
How’s this for a science fiction short story? What if the mass deployment of smart dust by various concerns leads to the discovery of unexpected data? What if in investigating the source of this mysterious data, researchers discover that the … Continue reading
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Artificial Intelligence and Commodities Trading
This was a news item I missed when I was at the Robotics/AI conference a week or so ago but, IBM has built AI programs that are apparently better than humans at commodities trading. One could make the argument that, … Continue reading
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The Battles That Remain, A Reprise
Now that the browser makers are finally playing by the rules, we must see to it that HTML editing programs generate W3C valid markup. It’s time for round two of the standards wars.
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Counterexamples to Tech Myths
Charles Mann, who wrote The Heavenly Jukebox, wrote another thoughtful article on Internet regulation. I only take issue with his assertion that hardware affords better protection against illegal copying than software. For example, if print media, music, movies and so … Continue reading
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You Learn Something New Everyday
There turns out to be a valid way of hiding style rules from Internet Explorer 4 for Windows. I just tested it myself last night as I installed Windows 98 for the umpth time. You just write:@import “filepath/filename.css”; as opposed … Continue reading
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CMS, Web annotations
Web content management systems are usually a set of server scripts and applications that automate many of the tasks of administrating and updating a web site. eGrail is a company based on the premise that these tools will one day … Continue reading
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FORTRAN, fungus and nanocomputers
Today many sites are running stories on the twentieth birthday of the IBM PC. Rather than rehash a story that has been rehashed a million times ever since Microsoft broke with IBM on OS/2, this site will remind folks that … Continue reading
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