Comment Re:Too bad Congress killed the SSC in Texas... (Score 1) 106
Almost nothing of value has happened in the field (especially in the US) since the SSC was canned.
Comment Re:What's with the shared prizes? (Score 1) 67
The bundling together of unrelated discoveries is weird, and I feel like it diminishes the impact of the prizes a bit in the public eye. (Instead of explaining one seminal discovery to the public, you have to explain two, and make it clear that they are not even related.) If anything, Nambu should have received his own prize, and then KM could have shared one with Cabibbo. But there are only a finite number of years, and particle physics only gets a prize at all every few years, so it is hard to reward all of the deserving subjects (if not people) without this type of bundling.
A Detailed Profile of the Hadron Super Collider 191
davco9200 writes "The New York Times has up a lengthy profile of the Large Hadron Collider. The article covers the basics (size = 17 miles, cost = 8 billion, energy consumption = 14 trillon electron volts) and history but also provides interesting interviews of the scientists who work with the facility every day. The piece also goes into some detail on the expected experiments. 'The physicists, wearing hardhats, kneepads and safety harnesses, are scrambling like Spiderman over this assembly, appropriately named Atlas, ducking under waterfalls of cables and tubes and crawling into hidden room-size cavities stuffed with electronics. They are getting ready to see the universe born again.' There are photos, video and a nifty interactive graphic."
Submission + - Microsoft says free software violates its patents
thrillseeker writes: The Borg awakens ... Microsoft states that free software, such as Linux, violates at least 235 of its patents. Time for the free software community to take the gloves off ...
