Category: computer

  • Incredible

    <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003454424_computer30.html" >Mysterious old Greek gadget turns out to be early computer</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>After a century of study, scientists have unlocked the secrets of a mysterious 2,100-year-old device known as the "Antikythera mechanism," showing it to be a complex and uncannily accurate astronomical computer.<br />n<br />nThe mechanism, recovered in more than 80 highly corroded fragments…

  • What are They Doing?

    The other day <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1483-Over-Reaching.html">I gave Google</a> a big thumbs up or their stance on <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/20/build/nation/30-google-search.inc">not releasing information to the government</a> just because they wanted it. This was the right stance to take at the right time.<br />n<br />nNow I wonder if over at Google the right hand knows what the left hand is…