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Comment Re:HTML5 (Score 1) 163

"While the entire HTML 5 standard is years or more from adoption, there are many powerful features available in browsers today. In fact, five key next-generation features are already available in the latest (sometimes experimental) browser builds from Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome. (Microsoft has announced that it will support HTML 5, and as Vic noted, "We eagerly await evidence of that.") Here's Vic's HTML 5 scorecard:

http://radar.oreilly.com/upload/2009/05/html5.png "

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-bets-big-on-html-5.html

Comment Re:no. (Score 1) 554

The main thing that makes anarchism different from, say, libertarianism, is that anarchists are against private property. The typical anarchist analysis is that the accumulation of private property leads to social inequality...

n.b. individualist anarchism supports the notion of private property.

Comment Couple of questions.. (Score 1) 217

"The Y(4140) particle decays into a pair of other particles, the J/psi and the phi, suggesting to physicists that it might be a composition of charm and anticharm quarks. However, the characteristics of this decay do not fit the conventional expectations for such a make-up. Other possible interpretations beyond a simple quark-antiquark structure are hybrid particles that also contain gluons, or even four-quark combinations."

a) how would researchers get from this data to understanding what the particle actually consists of?

b) what would be required to tell if this relates to any of the particle predictions by the An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything?

Comment Re:My Ambition (Score 1) 313

i can't be bothered keeping up with the changelog or whatever of the more recent slashdot changes, but 95% of stories on the front page have the red border on the left so i've been assuming these are the 'hot' stories that have come through from the firehose.

(this is the border being refered to, yes?)

Education

Submission + - Uruguay children try low-cost laptops (OLPC)

mdawkins writes: http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_5928965 VILLA CARDAL, Uruguay- Big smiles spread across the faces of the 160 pupils at a public elementary school in this rural South American hamlet: Each sat gawking at a brightly blinking laptop computer given them days earlier. "This is like an early visit from Santa Claus," beamed 11-year old Eduardo de los Santos, clutching his computer with its shiny white case and bright green trim. The machines are the first in South America from the much-publicized "One Laptop Per Child" project, which hopes to put low-cost portable PCs in the hands of children in developing countries. Still in a pilot phase, the group has also placed machines at one school in Nigeria and another in Thailand.

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