Software Licensing for the Virtual Appliance

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Traditional hardware devices and software licensing are reaching an interesting intersection point. Manufacturers of "large appliances" in markets enabled by IP such as telecom, data security, and networking are coming to several realizations 1. Hardware Costs

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Plywood Cars and Hydraulic Drive

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Frustrated Automotive Tinkerer Hall of Fame candidate No. 347: Alfred Raymond "Ray" Russell of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. In 1942, while the rest of the automotive world geared up for the production of war machines, and while every other backyard tinkerer spent his time dreaming up n

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3D Hysteria - Dont Buy Into itYet

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 29 April 2010 01:00:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

With the current media frenzy and marketing onslaught about 3D television, I couldn't help but throw my two cents in. You might recall frankd20's post in January from CES 2010 about all the 3D devices he saw. Now, only a few months later, many of these new

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Mons of the Moon

post from Facto Diem on 29 April 2010 12:30:00 AM. © Facto Diem

The Moon has huge mountain ranges of comparable height to Earth's tallest peaks. They formed not by tectonic activity, though, but by meteor impacts. Over four billion years of pummeling, mostly on the far side of the moon, have blasted moon rock into piles up to 20,000 feet high tracing the edges of the craters.
Because the Moon lacks an atmosphere, and because its gravity is so weak, these steep mountain piles don't get eroded. Whereas Mount Everest will be gone in a billion years, the Moon's Mons Huygens will hold its shape indefinitely, perturbed only by the occasional impact of meteorites.
In her beautiful essay "You Be the Moon," Amy Leach reminds us: "Nothing makes a sound on the Moon and nothing ever could ... For sound is like birds and cannot travel without air." Just imagine for a moment the completely silent impact of an enormous meteor - the construction of a 20,000-foot mountain without a sound!
Incidentally, in 1934 the philosopher Alfred Ayer used the statement "there are mountains on the farther side of the moon" as an example of a scientific hypothesis that is conceivable and verifiable in theory, but might never be testable in practice.
Only 25 years later, a Soviet probe took pictures of mountains on the far side of the moon that rendered Ayer's statement correct - and his philosophical example obsolete. It is interesting to consider how impossible it seemed in his day to access the moon's dark side, and how soon afterwards we actually did. Perhaps string theorists, multiversers, and the like ought to feel heartened by this... but I'm not sure.

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360-Degree Pannable Video of Stadium Demolition
from 50-yd Line

From MAKE Magazine: This is pretty amazing panoramic, full-motion (but unfortunately non-embeddable) video of the controlled demolition of Texas Stadium on the 11th of April shot from inside the stadium itself. Watch the video

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