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...Starting today, owners of the pricey PlayStation 3 - there are nearly 17 million of them worldwide - can download the software for free via Sony's PlayStation Network, which connects the game consoles on the Net so users can play one another. Sony is calling the rollout a "beta," meaning Home is still being crash-tested, so buyer beware. That said, this is a pretty stable environment, and I think referring to it as a beta test is a little disingenuous, or a heavy-handed way of saying that Home is a work in progress. Trust me - Home will always...
...technological progress is translating into environmental gains, take a trip to the research campus of Lafarge, just outside the French city of Lyons. The world's largest cement company, with sales of $22.5 billion in 2007, Lafarge has set itself the goal by 2010 of cutting its net CO2 emissions for every ton of cement it produces to 20% below the 1990 level. But it is also steaming ahead with research efforts into smarter, stronger and less polluting products, including ultra-high-performance concrete. Research director Casanova traces the path of innovation back to the 1980s, when the first...
...words of Tim Gunn, the student body must “make it work” in order to achieve this aim. The UC must reaffirm its mission to advance student interaction and inter-community learning by maximizing the net benefit of event funding. The UC must strengthen its relationships with other grant-giving bodies, such as the Harvard Foundation, Office for the Arts, and Phillips Brooks House Association to ease student access to Harvard’s many resources. Finally, the UC must prioritize clear communication and simplify avenues for grassroots student input to better inform sensible, productive change...
...Russia's nouveaux riches, the Moscow event had become the jewel in the crown. No wonder. According to the 2008 World Wealth Report by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini, Russia is home to one of the world's fastest-growing populations of millionaires. Last year the number of Russian "high net-worth individuals" (people with a worth of more than $1 million, excluding their primary residence) reached 136,000, a 14% rise over...
...many students, the first experience is one of rejection,” Naddaff said. “This is absolutely the wrong message to be giving.”One solution that Naddaff recommended to avoid the pitfalls of rejection is encouraging students to “cast their net more broadly” and apply to more seminars.Another idea on the table, also proposed by Naddaff, is that students who applied and were rejected in the fall receive first priority in the spring.Though the program’s traditional base in the humanities and social sciences has been expanded...