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Over in the private sector, Netpreneurs are trying to tap into the same community computing power for commercial purposes, selling it to industries in dire need of supercomputer muscle. One lucrative market: biotechs and pharmaceuticals trying to analyze data from the Human Genome Project. "The genome is so huge, and it takes so long to analyze even a single protein, that there's no way to do it without resorting to some sort of distributed computing," says Vijay Pande, who runs Folding@home...
Mark Knopfler, former lead singer of Dire Straits, is not scared to blaze a new trail. In Sailing to Philadelphia, the indignant, muted, yet invitingly incomprehensible lyrics of "Sultans of Swing" are absent. Most of the songs are fairly transparent paeans to episodes of America's folk past, never mind Knopfler's British extraction. The title track features Knopfler and guest James Taylor in a mock-up of a very awkward conversation between Mason and Dixon of Mason-Dixon line fame, but the song holds together if you don't pay attention to the lyrics. Unfortunately, Knopfler seems to have...
This surely was overkill. After all, beach volleyball is a sport that prohibits bikinis bigger than a certain size. Its charms are self-evident. Other sports are in vastly more dire need of the bonhomie of Dave and his ilk. Athens might like to consider Epee Demetrius for the fencing...
...dire peals of Intel's Thursday-night bad news - that Q3 earnings would grow only 3 to 5 percent from the company's second-quarter numbers, and not the 6 to 8 percent growth once expected - have been reverberating westward across the globe since Thursday night and giving investors headaches all the way. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, London... and now back to Wall Street, where losses that had been piling up all night - to record volume for electronic-trading networks - came gushing out with the morning bell (NASDAQ falling 194 points in 13 minutes dramatic enough for you?). A very...
...Federal Reserve will manipulate currency markets - very occasionally - by buying or selling U.S. dollars, or by raising or cutting interest rates. That is part of the Federal Reserve chairman's job, as it has been since the Fed's creation some 90 years ago in response to a dire financial crisis. But the U.S. does not have an oil equivalent of Alan Greenspan, an appointed official working very closely from an established charter. Venezuela has an oil minister - he's president of OPEC right now. Maybe Clinton is jealous, because the U.S. apparently has just appointed one now, just...