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Drivers and more drivers..you’d think once you’d bought a machine the stupid thing would just work. But no the thing about computers is that they need drivers, sound drivers and printer drivers and all manner of bits that make the wheels go round.
I’m not talking about some crazy dude in your car, it’s these irritating little software addons that if they aren’t available or I’ve deleted them or they’ve been corrupted….my computer will let me down. You know, you’ve been there too. It won’t work just when I need to get a job done quickly. Or I can’t get the thing to print because the printer is asking for a driver which I don’t have and I end up missing a deadline.
Check out Gil’s post at Mushroom Man for yet another reason we should be preserving the last vestiges of our old growth forests. There is a great short clip by film maker Bill Weaver which will inspire you.
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Dr. Mir F. Ali
Fiber optic technology advanced at an astonishing rate in the second half of the twentieth century. The discovery of fiber optics in 1966 was indeed a major landmark for which Charles Kao won a share of the Nobel Prize in physics in 2009. Working at the Old Standard Telecommunications Laboratories in the United Kingdome, Kao coauthored a paper with G. A. Hockham in 1966 on the subject of the theory and practice of the use of optical fiber for communications applications. In this paper, for the first time, they described how to transmit light over long distances using ultrapure optical glass fibers which enabled such transmissions to reach 62 miles. As a result of this discovery, the first ultrapure fiber was produced in 1970.
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Dr. Mir F. Ali
In these days of climate change and energy crisis, it’s too bad that the word “Nuclear” has a connotation that brings back memories about the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl and the near miss of Three Mile Island. People are rightfully scared of potential accidents and the proliferation of nuclear weapons even though it has been proven that those accidents were the result of mismanagement. Over the last few decades nuclear plants have proven to be reliable and have in general a superb safety record. It is critical to note that nuclear plants have the capability to generate an incredible amount of clean and non-polluting energy which could be instrumental in mitigating the current global crisis of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions drastically, if not entirely. Perhaps the question should be asked: Is nuclear power worth a serious look?
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