Comment Drafting Kids ? (Score 1) 173
In the latest months of WWII, when lacking adult soldiers, the German army drafted kids, too... Are the USA at this point of exhaustion ?
(oops, did I win a Godwin, here ? ;) )
Comment Re:The first was: the witkar in Amsterdam (Score 1) 136
And Paris is not even the first in France: at least La Rochelle has this kind of service since 1999, called Liselec at the time, now renamed Yélomobile: http://www.yelomobile.fr/
Submission + - 2.5 mile borehole drilled into San Andreas Fault (stanford.edu)
iandoh writes: "Cool research: Geologists at Stanford University and the US Geological Survey have drilled a 2.5 mile deep borehole into the San Andreas fault. They've extracted over one ton of rock from 2 miles down, and they'll be installing sensors down the length of the borehole.
Via Stanford University News Service"
Submission + - Newton II: Does the rumor have legs this time? (computerworld.com)
Ian Lamont writes: "Mike Elgan has an interesting analysis of the small computing market, and predicts that the market is primed to take off. Yes, he admits that small computers have been tried before and failed ('Every single UMPC device that has been shipped or announced suffers from lousy usability, high prices, poor performance, ill-conceived user interfaces, or any combination of the above') but he points to several recent products — and a rumor — that he says changes the playing field and paves the way for the first-ever successful small computer, from Apple. The products are the iPhone and the iPod touch. The rumor: Apple Insider has sources who claim that Apple is actually working on a 'modern day Newton' to be released in the first half of 2008. The device will supposedly have a version of Mac OS X Leopard and a touch interface, according to Apple Insider. A lot of people just aren't buying it. They point to the fact that the first Newton eventually flopped. A few note that similar Newton II rumors have been trotted out in years past, as well as a high-profile hoax. Nothing ever came of them."
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