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Could the Second Law of Thermodynamics become the Second Hunch of Thermodynamics?
Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) have carried out an experiment involving lasers and microscopic beads that disobeys the so-called Second Law of Thermodynamics, something many scientists had considered impossible. […]
Cool, I was pleased to discover that Crimson Editor v3.45 beta has been released today. For those not aware, Crimson Editor is a freeware source-code/text editor for Windows.
It may not quite be at the level of (say) TextPad, but TextPad isn’t free either. While I don’t believe that shareware is immorral, I do consider free software to better imbody the hacker ethos. I regard Crimson Editor as the current champ of source-code/text editors for Windows. Some features:
As far as what’s new in the 3.45 beta, I found this list of features to be included in 3.45 Final on the messageboard, and presumably the items that are listed as “done” are included in the beta.
I attended the DFWBlogs Cocktail Event was last night at the Hurricane Grill. And, like last time, I had a good time.
Since their menu is online, I had already decided beforehand that I’d be ordering the fried catfish. And, the cornmeal-battered fillets of catfish were indeed “white and fresh-tasting”. More than that, though, the steak fries that accompanied the fried catfish were excellent — they were crisp and full of potato flavor.
All was not rosy. For one thing, someone decided that, as a group, we should sit near the front of the restaurant next to the giant sound-reflection panels (otherwise referred to as “windows”). At the beginning of the evening, it didn’t make much difference, but towards the end it wasn’t helping. Especially with the karaoke (?!) later on, the packet-loss on some of my conversations was approaching 80%. To give you an idea, one conversation resembled something along the lines of “ Weezer … Smirnoff … Thomas … emo …”.
So, yeah, I would have preferred a location more inducive to conversation. But, the food was still delicious and, up until the sound-levels reached critical mass, the conversation was good as well :).
I came across the term “blogChalking” from, of all things, the American Dialect Society’s mailing list. The basic idea is to standardize on a set of keywords/metatags to make it easier to find blogs in your neighborhood.
After seeing this kind of hard mapping implemented by people at NYCBloggers.com and watch to the rise of WarChalking (in my opinion, an idea that best express, today, the beauty of large public networks), I noticed a possible way: if all bloggers mark their sites with a special sign and geographic information, maybe it would be possible to improvise such searching system.
So I mixed up those ideas to create what I call blogChalking. [...]
It sounds like a have-nothing-to-lose idea, so I may just give it a try.
From The Register, “Ballmer ’fesses up to Linux/Windows cost FUD”. For quite some time, Microsoft maintainted that Linux costed more than Windows. But, they’ve apparently realized that people just aren’t buying that anymore:
Windows is a lot more expensive to run than Linux, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally confessed. Despite Redmond’s heroic efforts to defeat common knowledge with elaborately-rigged total cost of ownership ‘studies’, innuendo, FUD and outright distortions, the rhetorical power of common experience has become too powerful, even for a marketing behemoth like MS.
According to an article by VARBusiness, Ballmer now concedes that MS execs “haven’t figured out how to be lower-priced than Linux. For us as a company, we’re going through a whole new world of thinking.” [...]