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I talked to a bee keeper the other day about CCD. Apparently, they have facilities that you can bring the hive to that will take care of killing the colony. They then use gamma rays to "clean" the hive. I didn't ask where these locations were. I assumed they must have been associated with the nearby university.

The article didn't include many of the satellite images that were mentioned. Here is a pdf of the images with some discussion.

http://belgingur.is/nmm2008/wp-content/uploads/utdraettir/go...

Good to see someone else with an interest in Miller. I just started reading Plexus the other day. Did you read the Tropic books as well?

I think that the Ask YC Archive does a good job at this. Too bad it isn't constantly on the main page.

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

I disagree. I think this is very typical. This is Google's largest acquisition and one of the the few that isn't a startup.

When a company does an acquisition of this size there is bound to be numerous redundancies, specifically in the HR department.

For another example consider EMC and RSA.

24 (going on 25) BS Geology minor Computer Science

I truly think that Microsoft knows their market. Web applications are great for the general consumer market, but not for the corporate market. I don't think corporations want their confidential documents directly accessible to another corporation (Google) or to anyone that could guess/crack the password to the service. This is why desktop software is still relevant. For example, the large corporation that I work for has denied access to Google Docs to ensure that it is not used.

Though, Google Docs could be useful to the corporate world if it were possible to install it on a local server in the corporate environment. That way the access to the documents could be directly controlled.

Thanks Xobni. I always felt outlook was broken. I hated using it. The search is terrible and finding email address and phone numbers is a pain. Being that I am forced to use outlook at work, I was really excited to try out Xobni. I installed it as soon as I could download it.

I found the search amazing and email address information was very helpful. For example phone numbers are easier to find now.

Though, the social features seem elaborate, unnecessary and bulky. I am not interested in that right now. Maybe I'll find it useful later on.

Overall, great product. fast, effective, and useful. Keep up the good work!

The article did not go into a lot of detail about how the development of the geologic timescale contributed to the science of geology. One of the most important contributions of the timescale was giving scientists a framework to correlate geologic events. For example the KT boundary groups the events of a mass extinction, elevated trace amounts of iridium, and the impact crater in Mexico. Before the timescale and radioactive dating, geologic events such as these were witnessed across the globe, but never correlated to be one single event.

NetApp is against the wall. They are quickly losing market share in midrange storage. Their stock is falling. This is merely a ploy to bring them some press. Maybe there will be a settlement in their favor. Though, the victory would be bad PR considering NetApp's view on patent laws and the high regard Sun is held in.

The semantic web platform is still in its infancy. My cofounder is developing semantic web applications for a university's engineering department. They want to use it to catalog engineering parts and allow for an algorithm to determine the parts needed for a project based on set specifications. At least that is my understanding of the project.

Right now, the semantic web is very vaporous because it is an underutilized platform. If the platform is adopted more readily it could allow for software to process data more intelligently for nearly any industry. Essentially, it has potential assuming that it is adopted.

Although, I think it will be a long time before anyone outside of academia or commercial industry will find it useful.