Comment This is bad news (Score 1) 55
They may be more 'biodegradable', but they certainly are not vegan.
Comment Ahhh.... Disruption (Score 1) 251
Everyone nodding their heads in agreement should read Malstrom's articles.
Pre-1985 everyone knew the standard controller was a joystick. Then Nintendo released the button controller, and it became the standard.
The joystick is still around for some specialist games like flight simulators, but new games have replaced it. Ironically, buttonpad games may soon be confined to the PC.
Comment Merger (Score 1) 51
Merger never changes.
Biology Could Be Used To Turn Sugar Into Diesel 355
ABCTech has an interesting article about an Emeryville-based tech startup, Amyris Biotechnologies, that is planning to use microbes to turn sugar into diesel. Ethanol is made by adding sugar to yeast, but Amyris believes that it can reprogram the microbes to make something closer to gasoline. The company was initially given a $43 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attempt to research the applications of Synthetic Biology for making a cost-effective malaria drug. Jack Newman, the Vice-President of Amyris said, "Why are we making ethanol if we're trying to make a fuel? We should be making something that looks a lot more like gasoline. We should be making something that looks a lot more like diesel. And if you wanted to design, you name it, a jet fuel? We can make that too."
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
