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...there's no conclusive evidence that the billions it would cost to go digital would be repaid by a box-office surge. "Our research shows that the audience generally isn't going to pay more and isn't going to go more," Hall says. "So there's no financial model that creates an incentive for the exhibitor to make this investment...
...produced by the aforementioned People in the Room, open-source software is offered to the entire world as a collaborative project. Somebody posts a piece of software on the Internet and then throws the joint wide open. It's like American Idol for software. In the open-source model, innovation comes from hundreds of thousands of people, not just a handful of engineers and a six-pack of Code Red. One open-source program, the truly excellent Web browser Firefox, has been downloaded 150 million times. SourceForge.net a website that coordinates open-source work, is currently host to almost...
...asked for a Discover card or leased a Jetta.) She was the victim of the worst kind of identity theft--new accounts opened in victims' names without their knowledge, as opposed to the more common misuse of existing accounts. "My credit was destroyed," says the San Francisco-- based fitness model. Four years later, Journey, 29, still has to pay for everything in cash and has yet to resolve all the bills. "Dealing with this is like having a part-time job," she says...
...issues being addressed by NASCAR as it finishes its Car of Tomorrow, due to make its first of 16 races next March at the Bristol Motor Speedway. The car is a bit wider, a bit taller, a bit less long and actually a bit slower than the current models. Most important, the Car of Tomorrow is designed to be a whole lot safer than the car of today. The project was given tragic impetus during a nine-month period in 2000-2001 when a number of drivers were killed, including Petty's son Adam, then 19, and the legendary Dale...
...Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Fail or Succeed,” have posited similar claims. According to Diamond, the historical dominance of Eurasian and particularly European cultures has nothing to do with any questions of personality or intellectual capacity, as historians had once asserted. Instead, he proposes a model of human social evolution that sees European cultures as the winners of a geographical lottery that gave them the tools and environment to dominate other, less luckily-located, societies. He said that one key factor determining a civilization’s success is the number of animal and plant species that...