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In the News (Wed 19 Nov 08)

  
  In Our Own Words - Future Outlook
Asked to reflect on the future over the next 10 years, 57% said they thought that social and spiritual awakening will make the world a better place to live.
When asked about our future and technology, over a third (37%) believe that during the next 10 years, technological breakthroughs will take care of the environmental problems we face.
Even more people (46%) were optimistic that technology will help foster trust among people by increasing communication and most (85%) believe that the more information and knowledge they have at their fingertips, the better their life will be.
www.ffga.org /fga/ioow/future.html   (266 words)

  
  Coffee- Coffee Future Trading and Coffee Options Trading
Symbolic of the strength and stability of the futures markets, coffee, cocoa and sugar futures contracts were actively trading within one week of the destruction of the exchange.
Since futures transactions do not require full advance payments for the commodity (just the margin), the buyer of a coffee futures contract which increases in value (or the seller of coffee futures contract which decreases in value) can realize a profit which can be substantial in relation to the commitment of capital.
Investments in commodity futures and options involves a high degree of risk, your investment may fall as well as rise, you may lose all your original investment and you may also have to pay more than the original amount invested.
www.tkfutures.com /coffee.htm   (3439 words)

  
 Video Review - Fight the Future Delivers Global Conspiracy of X-FilesProportions
Everybody's favorite agents of the paranormal and paranoid, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) -- exuding just as much charisma on the big screen as on the small -- leap to this big-budget blockbuster based on the cult TV series.
Fast-paced, sharply-written and enjoyably messy, 20th Century Fox's "Fight the Future" takes the best aspects of the series and shoots them up with adrenaline: alien invaders, shadow governments, mysterious informants, and a little bee harvesting for good measure.
Fitting its new 40 foot silver screen size, "Fight the Future" is epic -- studded with cliff-hanger-like extravangazas and impressive special effects.
www.space.com /spaceimagined/xfiles.html   (322 words)

  
 TV.com Forums - Any guesses on future episode titles?
X is for Xylotomous has a nice ring. Another Cornelia episode perhaps.
Hey wait I just remembered, wasn't there that fairy woman who made the heart, didn't her name begin with X? You must be registered and logged in to post a message.
Hey wait I just remembered, wasn't there that fairy woman who made the heart, didn't her name begin with X? Her name was Xin Jing, but she was a nymph, not a fairy.
www.tv.com /w.i.t.c.h./show/29931/any-guesses-on-future-episode-titles/topic/13689-260710/msgs.html   (686 words)

  
 Using GTK+/X as an Embedded GUI | Linux Journal
X is under a non-copyleft free license, and GTK+ is licensed under the LGPL.
You cannot ask X to "take this font and make it bold", because X considers different font faces to be different fonts.
At initialization time, GTK+ constructs many objects, GTK+ and X are communicating via shared memory, X is writing to the framebuffer, and the framebuffer is constantly written to the display.
www.linuxjournal.com /article/4870   (2957 words)

  
 X-37 Space Launch System - United States
Assuming success at this level of technology, the future requirements of NASA and the commercial industry are going to require a next generation of technologies, and NASA would be ready to develop those and to validate them in the X-37 experimental flight program.
While the X-33 is a demonstrator for Earth-to-orbit technologies, Future X demonstrators will flight test technologies for multiple applications including orbital and commercial transport, military spaceplane, human exploration, multi-stage and hypersonics research.
The ATV is first-ever experimental vehicle that will be flown in both orbital and reentry environments.
www.fas.org /spp/guide/usa/launch/x-37.htm   (380 words)

  
 JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future for Xbox Review - Xbox JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future Review   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While the game's core gameplay is unchanged--you'll still get around the streets with magnetically charged skates and collect spray paint cans that you'll use to spray graffiti on your surroundings--some of the mechanics and control have been tweaked.
The X button lets you perform tricks while skating, while the Y button is also used for tricking but can be used to change your skater's stance and let you skate backward as well.
The L trigger is used to recenter the camera behind you and also lets you "lock on" to enemies during battles.
www.gamespot.com /xbox/action/jsrfjetsetradiofuture/review.html   (980 words)

  
 The Future of Children - Sub-Sections   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In many jurisdictions, however, whether or not a report is handled initially by child protective services or by the public health/medical sector, there will be an initial assessment of the needs of the infant and family.
If there is no risk that the infant will be abused or neglected in the future, but there are medical or social service needs, any number of public or private agencies may become involved.
The Future of Children: A Publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution.
www.futureofchildren.org /information2827/information_show.htm?doc_id=77296   (1901 words)

  
 AFP > Research & Statistics | Fundraising research > Boomers Lead Generation Giving, But Younger Groups Showing ...
In contrast, older donors in pre-boomer generations were more likely to reduce their giving in the future (26 percent) than increase it (just 12 percent).
Members of generations X and Y seem more interested in advocacy and politics than their older counterparts, with 41 percent of their contributions going to those types of causes.
Only one 'future challenge' was rated as very important by more than 40 percent of boomers: the incapacity of the American political system.
www.afpnet.org /ka/ka-3.cfm?content_item_id=21989&folder_id=2345   (694 words)

  
 BI 171
This is done by adding DMSO to an overnight culture of our cells and freezing the culture to be thawed and used in the future.
Centrifuge at 12,000 x g for 30 seconds at 4 ºC. Remove the medium (supernatant) by aspiration, leaving the bacterial pellet as dry as possible.
Centrifuge at 12,000 x g for 5 minutes at 4ºC and transfer the supernatant to a new tube.
www.auburn.edu /~locyrob/teaching/bi1027/1027specialproject/1027sp8.html   (686 words)

  
 O'Reilly -- The Future of Technology and Proprietary Software
The best of breed systems these days (whether Amazon, Google, or Mac OS X) actually tend to be a melange of proprietary and open source software.
But I've got a MacOSX Powerbook with Office X installed, and that was "good enough" that I didn't need to download OpenOffice.
If I didn't have Microsoft Office X already, I might well have done so, but I don't have the "must use open source" gene that many OSS advocates do, and am happy enough to mix and match.
tim.oreilly.com /articles/future_2003.html   (2914 words)

  
 Ecology.com - Coal as Fuel of the Future
It is true that hypersonic flight is being ushered into our future with such aeronautic innovations as NASA's unpiloted X-43 Hypersonic flight vehicle which will ultimately result in larger, manned aircraft with larger engines.
It seems logical that coal would be used as the predominant fuel of the future until other non-petroleum-based substitutes are fully developed.
The commercial airline industry should be able to use coal-based fuels to power current commercial aircraft in the not too distant future.
www.ecology.com /ecology-today/coal-fuel-future/index.html   (1199 words)

  
 Linux on Laptops Forum - Linux vs. Mac OS X on a laptop
Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc.'s chief executive, offered to provide free copies of the company's operating system, OS X, for the machine, according to Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus at MIT who is one of the initiative's founders.
OS X is a stable and secure platform and offers the proprietary multi-media applications lacking in Linux.
The target for desktop Linux is simple: OS X. All desktop Linux must do is aspire to be what OS X is. If it can do that, it will not only upset the "Applecart," it will also give desktop Windows a serious run as well.
www.linux-laptop.net /forum/printthread.php?t=137   (1368 words)

  
 Future.scala
1:// package scalax.future; 2: 3:/** A Future is a function of arity 0 that returns a value of type T.
If the 6:value of the future is retrieved and a failure results, the failure 7:exception is thrown.
Note that using the anonymous class 199: this way seems to be the simplest way to prevent execution of "f" until we really 200: mean to, and still keep it around cleanly.
www.soletta.com /sbaz/Future.html   (1178 words)

  
 BOOKSAMILLION.COM (BAMM.COM) - Features
During each year from 2007 to 2016, four different dollar designs, each bearing the image of a different president, are being released.
Living presidents, both current and former, are excluded from the program—thus the roster of presidential honorees currently stands at 37.
For these presidents, 38 coins are planned; this is because Grover Cleveland, who to date is the only president to serve multiple nonconsecutive terms, will be represented with two coins.
www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?id=3738461983256&cat=whitman&subcat=presidential   (422 words)

  
 plasticsfuture » The State of Backup and Cloning Tools under Mac OS X   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The simplicity, unfortunately, is gone with OS X. Such a simplistic approach is no longer a guarantee to preserve all data faithfully (neither is it a simple or reliable approach for a regular backup procedure).
Until OS X 10.4 there was no possibility in Darwin to change the owner/group of a symlink, so it was impossible to preserve this information.
An ideal OS X backup would, therefore, preserve inode numbers; however, this is not possible short of a device-level clone of an entire volume.
blog.plasticsfuture.org /2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x   (7192 words)

  
 The Generation Gap
Despite their failure to save, both Generations X and Y have high hopes for the power of investments to save the day when it comes to retirement.
Hewitt reports that 93% of Generation X and 92% of Generation Y expect their 401(k) plans to provide income for retirement.
Members of Generation X that do contribute to their employer-sponsored retirement savings plan can increase the amount of expected income during retirement to 95.7% of what they earned during their workings years, according to the Hewitt study.
www.investopedia.com /articles/pf/06/generationgap.asp   (964 words)

  
 Deriving global climate sensitivity from palaeoclimate reconstructions
To assess the future impact of anthropogenic greenhouse gases on global climate, we need a reliable estimate of the sensitivity of the Earth's climate to changes in radiative forcing.
Future application of the method to additional climates in the geological record might constrain climate sensitivity enough to narrow the model uncertainties of global warming predictions.
Schlesinger, M. E., Jiang, X. and Charlson, R. in Climate Change and Energy Policy (eds Rosen, L. and Glasser, R.) 75−108 (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1992).
www.nature.com /doifinder/10.1038%2F360573a0   (510 words)

  
 Exhibitions Future
Polychromed clay, 10 x 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Bronze with brown patina, 12 x 15 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Clay with tobacco spit glaze, 10 1/2 x 8 x 7 1/2 in.
www.newpaltz.edu /museum/exhibitions/future_readingobjects.html   (329 words)

  
 Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020
In the course of this study, it became increasingly clear that the definition of manufacturing will become even broader in the future as new configurations for the manufacturing enterprise emerge and the distinctions between manufacturing and service industries become blurred.
The committee understands that it would be foolhardy to think that the future can be precisely defined.
Comments on this report can be sent by electronic mail to bmaed@nas.edu or by FAX to BMAED (202) 334-3718.
www.nap.edu /openbook.php?record_id=6314&page=R10   (454 words)

  
 FPP - Baby Treasures Time Capsule
As a diary, the books is a permanent record that chronicles Baby's origins as well as events surrounding his first year of life.
Here is a chance for you to send a message to Baby in the future, at a time when he might be able to understand.
As a small photo album, the book will hold important pictures of mom, dad, grandparents, and siblings as well as Baby, and there is lots of space for paper mementos such as a birth announcement, a newspaper clipping, and shower invitation.
www.futurepkg.com /tc_babytrsrs.html   (301 words)

  
 Exit with 'X' ...
Hi I want to be able to quit with the Windows 'X' in the upper right corner of the window.
i have one 'X' beside the window title and one beside the menu and it's this one I want to be able to close.
It's just because the user see the 'X' and they want to close the window with it.
forums.oracle.com /forums/thread.jspa?messageID=260745   (253 words)

  
 HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
headers", and "axis" attributes so that future browsers and assistive technologies will be able to select data from a table by filtering on categories.
Future browsers and assistive technologies will be able to automatically translate tables into linear sequences or navigate a table cell by cell if data is labeled appropriately.
Whenever the button is clicked with a mouse, the x and y coordinates of the mouse click are sent to the server as part of the form submission.
www.w3.org /TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS   (10237 words)

  
 666/The666/Project666   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In such historical circumstances, the coin of the future will be the “666 Electronic Money” represented in the economical features of Project 666, with his Business System 666, Business Code 666 and Identity Code 666, which will regulate and control the world economy and business world of tomorrow.
The economic integration of the European Common Market (The Euopean Union), and the development itself of the Space Era in which we are the introduction to the organization of a new society based on the know-how and awareness that the human race is unique and indivisible and as such, constitutes one family.
The formula capable of guaranteeing the success of this new economic organization and which we have pointed out should be realized with the number 666, is the creation of a "one currency system" superior to those ever known.
members.chello.se /project666/eng8.htm   (4055 words)

  
 LWN: X.Org Foundation releases X Window System X11R6.7
The X Window System is one of the most successful open-source, collaborative technologies developed to date and is the standard graphical window system for the Linux® and UNIX® operating systems.
The inherent independence of the X Window System from the operating system, the network and the hardware, as well as its successful interoperability, have made it widely available and deployed with more than 30 million users worldwide.
In the longer term, they are planning to split X up into a series of smaller packages for the server, different libraries, utility applications, etcetera.
lwn.net /Articles/79302   (4676 words)

  
 Owners Opinion: Minolta DiMAGE X: Alan Mandel: Digital Photography Review
The design and engineering of the Dimage X was well thought out.
And, I will definitely have the X with me at all times, so I won't miss a photo-opportunity.
The SD cards are the size of a postage stamp; this is likely to catch on in the future.
www.dpreview.com /reviews/read_opinion_text.asp?prodkey=minolta_dimagex&opinion=10101   (306 words)

  
 SELinux Mailing List
One model seems to be that SELinux will always be an "add-on" that highly security aware administrators tune and use based on NSA releases.
So, while new enhancements based on research are likely to come from NSA from time to time, I expect version X and X+1 of SELinux to differ more based on kernel changes than NSA releases (in the distant future.) Thus, I don't expect NSA version numbers to be interesting over the long term.
This doesn't alter the fact that in the short term, NSA version numbers are how you "know what you've got." Although the kernel usually cycles up at least a release between NSA versions, we aren't promising that.
www.nsa.gov /SeLinux/list-archive/0204/1655.cfm   (755 words)

  
 EADS N.V. - EADS: “Infantryman of the Future” to be better protected on dangerous missions
EADS will be supplying the Bundeswehr with a new Future Soldier System (programme name: Infanterist der Zukunft, IdZ) that aims to decisively improve the protection of individual soldiers on dangerous missions.
The company announced on Friday that EADS Defence Electronics (DE) obtained a 70-million euro series order from the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) for 196 IdZ Future Soldier basic systems, which are envisaged for around 2,000 soldiers of all services including the NATO Response Force and the German ISAF contingent in Afghanistan.
"The 'Infantryman of the Future' is based on an integrated system approach that combines aspects of self-defense, communication, orienteering or navi-gation, and arms,” explains Bernhard Gerwert, Head of EADS Defence Elec-tronics.
www.eads.net /1024/en/pressdb/archiv/2004/2004/Defence%20and%20Security%20Systems/en_20041203_idz.html   (582 words)

  
 Catalysis Looks to the Future
Thus, novel catalysis will in many cases be the critical technology that enables us to retain most of the benefits created by the chemical and petroleum industries, but with improved preservation of the environment.
In addition, very stringent local automobile emission standards (e.g., in California and Vermont) will require up to a 10-fold reduction in emissions by the late 1990s.
The 300 x 150 dpi PDF linked to it is printable on your local printer.
www.nap.edu /books/0309045843/html/37.html   (587 words)

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