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5 Ways Newspapers Botched the Web |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 13:51 |
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nicholas.m.carlson writes "Remember Knight-Ridder and AT&T"s Viewtron from 1983? With a $900 terminal and $12 a month, you could access news from the Miami Herald and the New York Times, online shopping, banking and food delivery, via a 300-baud modem. After sinking $16 million a year into the project, Knight-Ridder shut it down in 1986. That"s just the earliest of the 5 newspaper failures on the Web that Valleywag details in this post, writing: "each tale ends the same way: A promising start, shuttered amid fear, uncertainty, and doubt."" 
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The Next Chapter - Computerworld |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 09:57 |
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If Linux Fails, Blame Jim Zemlin |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 09:27 |
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darthcamaro writes "Everyone asks who runs Linux — to which the normal answer is either Linus Torvalds or "the community." But (as Master Yoda once said) — There is another. His name is Jim Zemlin and he is the Executive Director of The Linux Foundation." From the interview linked above: ""I want to be a thousand percent confident that this organization will be around for the next 30 to 50 years because Linux isn"t going away," Zemlin said. "It"s everywhere, and there is no doubt that Linux will be an important platform in the future and we"re only at the beginning on the embedded and mobile side. It will be my screwup if we don"t have an organization that can help coordinate and grow the development of the Linux platform."" 
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Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 07:23 |
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eonlabs writes "A new paper has been published on the formation of stars in close proximity to a supermassive black hole. Their formation has not been well understood until now, but with the help of a year of supercomputer time, scientists have been able to model the interstellar processes needed to produce them. The results not only match up well with earlier observations, but provide clues as to how their formation is remotely possible. It also helps clear up previous research in this area. "The simulations...followed the evolution of two separate giant gas clouds up to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, as they fell towards the supermassive black hole. ...The disrupted clouds form into spiral patterns as they orbit the black hole... In these conditions, only high mass stars are able to form and these stars inherit the eccentric orbits from the elliptical disc."" The paper itself was published in Science, but you"ll need a subscription to read more than the abstract. 
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