Shuttle Discovery Crew Glad To Be Back On Ground
- June
- 16
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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion-dollar science lab.
Kelly and his crew accomplished everything they set out to do in orbit. They delivered and installed Japan’s Kibo lab, now [...]
How Much Is Enough To Hold In Reserve Fund
- May
- 19
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Q: I live in a self-managed building that’s in good shape. We consider ourselves a young association and have only $4,000 in our reserve account. At a recent meeting, there was concern that our reserves are too low as the building gets older.
How do we determine what is proper to have in a reserve account? [...]
Facebook Catches Flak for Collaborative Translation Effort
- April
- 25
Generating Mounting Criticism
“We thought it’d be cool,” said Javier Olivan, international manager at Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif. “Our goal would be to hopefully have one day everybody on the planet on Facebook.”
Coolness aside, and many users are embracing the idea, other social networks aren’t “crowdsourcing” translation. The move is generating mounting criticism online, [...]
STARTUP TO WATCHVeodia: Gambling on a Better Way to Stream Video
- April
- 25
What It Does
Veodia, incorporated in January 2006, started with funds from angel investors and only recently had its first round of venture financing. Its service lets organizations broadcast and manage live, on-demand, TV-quality videos using the MPEG-4/H.264 standard, and they can do this without investing heavily in personnel and infrastructure.
Take customer MIT Technology Review, for [...]
Microsoft, Novell Tag-Team Against Chinese Distros
- April
- 25
The Other Players
Currently, the major Linux players in the China market are home-grown Red Flag; Hong Kong-based Sun Wah Linux; Japanese player TurboLinux; and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) .
Of the other players, only TurboLinux has joined Microsoft’s Interop Vendor Alliance, which seeks to help vendors insure interoperability between their applications and Microsoft’s; the rest remain [...]
Stroll historic cemetery by light of moon
- April
- 21
Greenwood Cemetery, established in 1880, is the final resting place of several of Orlando’s founding families, including Joseph Bumby, Mayor Mahlon Gore, Cassius Boone (great-grandson of Daniel Boone), Mayor James Parramore, Mayor Bob Carr, Mayor William Beardall, T.G. Lee, David Mayor Braxton Beacham, Elijah Hand, Carey Hand and Joe Tinker. [...]
Don’t Be Evil or don’t lose value
- April
- 20
Dominating internet advertising and search have allowed the company to embark on a seemingly endless expansion into all manner of internet products, including email, video sharing, online mapping, mobile phone software, social networking and office productivity.
But while Googles revenues in 2007 were 37 times greater than in 2002 and its headcount has ballooned to well [...]
Many Haitians want exiled Aristide back
- April
- 18
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti’s president has lowered rice prices and the Senate has sacked the prime minister. But hungry Haitians who rioted over food prices still want more.”Aristide or death! Aristide or death!” young men in sunglasses and low-slung ballcaps chant outside parliament.That’s right, Jean-Bertrand Aristide — the slum priest-turned-president who needed a U.S. intervention [...]
Soyuz Capsule Carries Korean Astronaut
- April
- 16
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - As a Russian Soyuz spacecraft rose into the bright blue sky Tuesday, spectators held their breaths, South Koreans celebrated their first astronaut and the astronaut’s mother fainted.The flight itself — launched from the same pad that sent Yuri Gagarin and Sputnik into space — seemed flawless. The spacecraft lifted off within seconds [...]
Filter the options to clear chemicals from tap water
- April
- 13
What’s in your water?
Hydrogen, for sure.
Oxygen? Check.
Howsabout a little lithium?
Huh?
If you haven’t encountered the story, the Associated Press last month reported that trace amounts of multiple pharmaceuticals are found in city water systems around the country, including Denver.
Can home filtration devices strip the pharmaceuticals out of the water before [...]
