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News Briefs 07-06-2005

How’s that Sub Rosa working out for you?

Thanks Kat.

Quote of the Day:

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

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  1. Macs to have intel chips?
    If it isn’t broken, then don’t fix it! Do this mean that intel powered Macs will lock up as much as PCs? One step forward and ten backwards
    AAiek

    1. sick macs ?
      Hi AAiek,

      Locking up is a feat of windows, not the chipset, that said you may remember, recently IBM sold the pc business to the chinese. Apple probably reckoned , in order to keep the homeland happy it would be wiser to switch to intel, and maybe they felt R&D push would lag even further with the new owners. If anything having Intel powering the new Macs could boost Apple operation systems, and mid/long term compete again with Microsoft’s OS’s.

      ” do unto others as you would have them do unto you “

      1. That’s a relief
        Thanks for the info. I work on windows cr## all day and experience at least 1 – 2 lock ups per day (one just happened when I launched explorer to check TDG). It is good know that at the end of the day, I can always turn on the Mac and rely on it, and this will continue in the future.
        AAiek

    2. Dont panic
      Lockup and system crashes aren’t the fault of the Intel hardware, rather this feat is achieved by Windows(tm). Other operating systems run just fine on Intel, MacOS won’t have a problem either. The basis of Mac OS-X, an old system called BSD Unix, runs just fine on Intel.

      It could be that IBM is turning it’s back on the desktop PC market, and moving on to bigger and better things.

      My major concern about those Intel Macs – will the boxes still be shiny?

  2. Nessie, or not.
    The only person fooled here seems to be the hapless investigator. The ‘tooth’ looks very like a young deer antler, and the ‘track’ is made by livestock, maybe a deer farm, probably cows. Familiar sights to anyone from Scotland.

    Who are the Scottish Highland Government BTW? Highland and Islands Council? They couldnt cover up their expenses never mind a 40 foot carnivorous beast in Loch Ness!

  3. Space tourism
    This is cool stuff. From what I have seen, we have the marketing side under control, as well as the legal side (liability laws and such). Now the only thing we need for space tourism is some spacecraft. Details.

  4. Two stars “poised” to merge
    It’s a kind of interesting use of “poised.” According to the article, it’s supposed to happen in like 500,000 or a million years from now! Seems the writer at space.com was being a bit dramatic.

    1. Or maybe
      The writer is an interstellar being who has a really long life span and is looking forward to sitting back after the event, sipping his cup of tea and saying “Now wasn’t that marvellous”

      Then again maybe not. Or maybe he’s hoping that the human race will be around long enough to actually experience seeing it. Now that’s reeeeally stretching the bounds of imagination!

      😉

      H.

    2. Easily explained
      You see, the writer’s audience lives exactly 500,000 or a million light years away from the event, so the timing will be just right for dinner sometime next week.

  5. Simon Singh – Skeptic Extraordinair
    He has such an inspiring vocabulary doesnt he. Of course the pharmaceutical industry are totally honest and always look after the citizen’s best interests, it’s the government who have been allowing people to make their own choices, naughty government people! Perhaps you should get a job in the cabinet Simon and ban everything that looks slightly dodgy. Religeon, battered sausages, young and the restless, sky’s the limit!!

    Perhaps we should have skeptic of the month, a contest to see who can utter the most skeptical statement, i can think of a few contenders already for June..

    I liked the skeptical manifesto link below, very informative, and look who it’s written by…
    http://www.arches.uga.edu/~skepticx/manifesto.html
    H.

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