Sorry.. 'Unemployment insurance" malapropism.

Outriders welcome! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHAWWW! Down with the MBA Yankee boys!

Last one to meet me at the Death Star trench programs in PASCAL!

A confederation is a more loose alliance among independent knowledge professionals. Bargaining would be left up to the individual, but the organization would offer unemployment assurance through Union dues. The best off all possible worlds. Highly Optimal Opportunity Topology. H.O.O.T!

5 + 3 = 8. Beauitful underlying symmetry. Somebody better call Astrid Farnsworth at FRINGE Division. We have a potential anomaly at the Tower! Immediate evac and search.

Please get a clue.. Go to www.ric.org before you jump to a stupid and wrong conclusion. The Ric uses parts from all types of manufacturers. You could say they are the first "open source" prosthetics shop.

He's like the Steve Wozniak of prosthetics.. He's going head to head with Dean Kamen and Deka Labs to build the first humeral prosthetic arm designed specifically to fit a woman.

"The Tower" refuses to acknowledge it's "slave name!" Power to the PEOPLE! Word.

Won't work.. The wind would take you right off.. It isn't called "the windy city" for nothing. Try the David Foster Wallace story (another deceased former Illinoisan) "Mr. Fudgy."

I love the "Tower formerly know as Sears!' People just don't understand the Tower, yo! It's a Chicago thing.. It's "the Tower" now for short.

The great thing about it is that there is no direct neural interface with electrodes in the muscle. Because anything foreign in the body tends to be corroded over time by the immune system. Dr. Kuiken gave a presentation on his technique at last years CHF festival in Chicago. The idea is for the nerves to fire and to be detected by sensors placed on the skin on order to move. I expect the good doc to perfect a "Hechatonchires" full body prothesis any decade now. Appleseed, here we come.

I'd say you have Dr. Kuiken and the bionic research group at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago to Thank. Dr. Kuiken is the best. Period. You can read all about him and his team at www.ric.org. Try not to slashdot em. They are doing some of the most exciting bionic and prosthetic reseach. My ambition is to work for Dr. Kuiken some day.

I'm building my own Beowulf cluster and I really need some parts! My e-mail address is phrackwulf@gmail.com. What would convince you to part with them?

Point taken, but just because a product that was half baked didn't sell the first time, does that mean we just sort of give up and never try selling the product again now that it is further along? Certainly, we don't keep trying for a win after the fourth or fifth loss but just giving up on the concept entirely seems somewhat premature?

Maybe there is a need to split this project along the lines of the split between Red Hat and Fedora? Wikipedia as we know it today would continue as an open source, crowd-sourced knowledge base while the scholarship required to polish the project is applied to produce a more refined product that could be used to support the open source project? How do we translate what has been accomplished as an open, public knowledge product into an economical and refined knowledge product?

Hooke gets credit for popularizing the technology but the optical science of Van Leeuwenhoek has always been where the real scientific innovation was. H. Clifton Sorby, the "Father of all metallurgists" refined the use of the optical microscope for geological materials and then metals and began the process of specialized etchants, which directly gave us the ability to refine and understand the structure of steels in different quenchants and temperatures through direct study of the resulting microstructures. Sorby doesn't get anywhere near the credit he deserves nowadays and ever time I run into a poorly trained metallurgist I am reminded of the exacting science of men like E.C. Baine, M.A. Grossman and H. Clifton Sorby. Though the Hooke college of microscopy in Chicago should never be overlooked.