Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America 89
First time accepted submitter markboyer writes "The Solar Impulse just landed at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California to announce a journey that will take it from San Francisco to New York without using a single drop of fuel. The 'Across America' tour will kick off this May when founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg take off from San Francisco. From there the plane will visit four cities across the states before landing in New York."
Comment Re:Haha (Score 1) 166
HA SAP indeed, they deserve what they get.
I have never come across software that makes work twice as complicated, slower, aggravating, frustrating and the UI has to be designed by... well, 'designed' is being generous.. and we just eventually end up doing everything again in a spreadsheet anyway.... Their sales teams must be amazing.
RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free 715
BillyG noted an RMS interview where he says "'Software as a service' means that you think of a particular server as doing your computing for you. If that's what the server does, you must not use it! If you do your computing on someone else's server, you hand over control of your computing to whoever controls the server. It is like running binary-only software, only worse: it's even harder for you to patch the program that's running on someone else's server than it is to patch a binary copy of a program running on your own computer. Just like non-free software, 'software as a service' is incompatible with your freedom."
Submission + - Classic Books of Science - Which Ones to Read?
half_cocked_jack writes: "What are the classic books of science from throughout history? I'm currently reading On the Origin of Species on my Kindle 2, and it's sparked an interest in digging up some of the classic books of science. I'm looking for books from the ancient and medieval worlds and books from the golden ages of scientific discovery. Books like:
- Galileo's The Starry Messenger
- Newton's Principia
- Copernicus's On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- Faraday's The Chemical History of a Candle
I know that I can likely find these books in a format I can use on my Kindle (found a few on Gutenberg already), but what I need is a checklist of these books to guide my reading. Suggestions? Thanks!"
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