Word: signal
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...move that may signal a trend among colleges across the nation, officials at the University of California-Davis (UCD) are considering imposing fees on faculty and students who access the Internet from the school...
...what did the shake-up mean? Most Silicon Valley analysts took it as a signal that Apple, which lost $69 million in the fourth quarter of last year, had abandoned its behind-the-scenes effort to merge with Sun Microsystems, at least for now. (Sun was reportedly offering a meager $23 a share for Apple stock, which closed last week at 291/4.) "Amelio's history shows that he emphasizes turning around companies, not selling them off," says consultant Tim Bajarin of Santa Clara, California...
Kennedy said the large cuts would signal a perversion of America's purpose...
Should BETA spot a signal that seems to meet the programmed criteria for artificiality, the radio telescope would abandon its fixed position and automatically leapfrog farther west so that the same sector of sky would pass before it again. If the suspect signal should then reappear in the same location, Leigh says, "alarms won't go off, but the computer will send us E-mail." And unlike earlier SETI programs, which sometimes signaled "hits" that after much excitement and analysis turned out to be beeps from prosaic Earthbound or orbiting electronic sources, BETA methodically compares signals from space to signals...
...almost impossible to learn very much about them. The stars they orbit--70 Virginis in the constellation Virgo and 47 Ursae Majoris in the Great Bear--are each about 35 light-years away. The speediest space probe would take millions of years to reach them; even a radio signal, the fastest known thing in the universe, would need 35 years to get there, and it would take another 35 for any aliens, should they exist, to answer. The planets are so dim that they cannot be detected directly. In fact, the only evidence Marcy and Butler have is observations...