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ALEX Salmond yesterday launched a three-year campaign of roadshows and public meetings to sell the case for independence.Salmond puts independence at the top of the agenda.
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Architect Mark Halstead sees more than most people when he looks at the split-level houses in his neighborhood.Architect honors split-level pioneer.
Marc Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner, just blogged about how he found himself in a situation where he had to use pen and paper — and realized he had nearly forgotten how to write.
Just a few weeks ago, I visited Helio CEO Sky Dayton at the company’s HQ in Los Angeles. Sky got talking about how the younger generation communicates with their fingers — typing text messages, shooting and sending video, conversing on IM. The cell phone is their personal life recorder. And if you go into many college classes, students sit at desks with their laptops open, taking notes by typing. Pen and paper are a last resort.
In fact, writing is moving into a dead zone in the fidelity vs. convenience equation. The fidelity of pen and paper is terrible — hard to read and even harder to manipulate. You can’t send it or edit it digitally. Until recently, it had the advantage of great convenience compared to typing or any other means of recording — you can carry it easily, it doesn’t require batteries or special knowledge to work. But these days, the convenience of a digital device is close to that of paper. Devices are small, portable, and increasingly easy to use.
Eventually, writing won’t make any sense except when there’s absolutely no other way to record something. The question is when that day arrives.
When Will Penmanship Become an Anachronism?
We’ve had a bull run in stock markets for almost four years now. Such an almost unblemished rally over such a relatively long period is fairly unusual. So you might expect some investors would be getting a little nervous. But it appears the reverse is the case. Robert Budden: No fear, investing nerves hold up
Bigelow Aerospace has announced plans to launch its first human habitable spacecraft, the Sundancer.The Sundancer module will provide 180 cubic meters of habitable space and will come fully equipped with life-support systems, attitude control and. Bigelow Aerospace Fast-Tracks Manned Spacecraft
A utility that opens an Internet Explorer 7.0 window that is configured to report its identity to websites as being Internet Explorer 6.0.Download details User Agent String Utility 2
Breaching the much touted “impenetrable” Window Genuine Advantage (WGA) of Microsoft, an Indian researcher has shown the . with a genuine copy of Windows XP could simply run the GenuineCheck.Exe file used during the WGA validation program to . Using a secondary Microsoft validation tool called ‘GenuineCheck.Exe’, Mohanty claims to have made it possible for . weakness in the software for generating illegal copies of Window XP programme. Microsoft confirmed the claims of the . concept programme on the high-profile security mailing list of the software giant, showing how the WGA validation check . to bypass the check is meant to provide an alternative way for users to prove that their copy of Windows is genuine, he . outlookindia.com wired
