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...level, it’s just much easier and a much more robust offering,” he said. “It’s got very good tagging functionality and allows for a number of different things that will make searching a lot easier.”Hal Roberts, the project manager for the new server, agreed that “performance and stability” were key reasons behind the switch.“We wanted people to be able to rely on it, for it to be up all the time,” he said...
...thick-rimmed glasses between them—wryly mocking nearly every subject that comes up. Indeed, they sound like a well-rehearsed comedy act when describing the genesis of their play, which is loosely based on the 1971 black comedy “Harold and Maude,” Hal Ashby’s film that tells of the love affair between an elderly woman and a teenage boy. “This wouldn’t work if it was an older man and a younger girl. Social norms would be defied if that were the case...
...This comforting view is a lot more reassuring than Kubrick’s Hal ever was regarding the consequences of computational power...
...best-known of Honduras' storied Bay Islands. And although Antigua and Costa Rica are relatively safe, burglaries are up in Honduras, driving the development of gated communities. But Bill and Judith Allred, who in 1998 bought a pod-style home in Roatn conceived by the Canadian designer Hal Sorrenti, say common sense helps ward off crime. "This isn't St. Barts," says Judith. "You don't go out at night wearing jewels...
Then why can we so easily walk down the street while engrossed in a deep conversation? Why can we chop onions while watching Jeopardy? "We, along with quite a few others, have been focused on exactly this question," says Hal Pashler, psychology professor at the University of California at San Diego. It turns out that very automatic actions or what researchers call "highly practiced skills," like walking or chopping an onion, can be easily done while thinking about other things, although the decision to add an extra onion to a recipe or change the direction in which you're walking...