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Jedi to open Surrey academy Home Counties feel the Force Wannabe Jedi Knights are advised to brush up on their lightsaber techniques, dust off their copy of the Jedi Handbook, and get down to Surrey, where two Star Wars aficionados have announced their intention to open a training centre dedicated to promoting the popular a Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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University offers one-day Jedi course Feel the Force, for 23 quid Queen's University Belfast will in November open its doors to 30-40 wannabe Jedi knights with a one-day course entitled "Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way."… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Surrey Satellite to be bought by EADS Astrium UK space spinoff joins Eurofighter/Airbus combine Britain's flagship space company, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), has announced that it will be acquired by a foreign buyer.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Aug. 19, 1839: Photography Goes Open Source 1839: With a French pension in hand, Louis Daguerre reveals the secrets of making daguerreotypes to a waiting world. The pioneering photographic process is an instant hit. Using chemical reactions to make images with light was not quite new. Doing it fast was. Inventor Joseph Nicép Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Aug. 19, 1839: Photography Goes Open Source 1839: With a French pension in hand, Louis Daguerre reveals the secrets of making daguerreotypes to a waiting world. The pioneering photographic process is an instant hit. Using chemical reactions to make images with light was not quite new. Doing it fast was. Inventor Joseph Nicép Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Stan Winston, 62; special-effects guru won 4 Academy Awards - Los Angeles Times Bakersfield NowStan Winston, 62; special-effects guru won 4 Academy AwardsLos Angeles Times - 5 hours agoBy Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Stan Winston, the renowned makeup, creature- and visual-effects wizard whose memorable work on "Aliens," "Terminat Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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President of EU Academy for Standardisation Criticizes OOXML Groklaw: "...[T]he president of the European Academy for Standardisation, Tineke Egyedi, is critical of OOXML being made a standard when ODF exists already, and she believes duplicative standards conflict with WTO rules..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Protests against military academy Demonstrators voice their opposition to a new military training academy being built in Wales. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Anti-academy fight ousts leader A leader of a council is ousted in an anti-academy local election battle. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Ashton rejects Academy position Former England coach Brian Ashton turns down the chance to become head of the National Academy. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Bomb kills 43 at Algerian military academy ISSERS, Algeria (Reuters) - A bomb at an Algerian military academy killed 43 people and wounded 45 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, one of the bloodiest incidents in years in the OPEC member state. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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California Academy of Sciences: A new lease on life Natural history without the formaldehyde The grand dame of natural history museums in the American west gave a sneak peak to the press last week, after a multi-year green reconstruction and all-around face lift. The results are impressive: One of the ten largest natural science museums in the wor Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Survey: Open source is entering the enterprise mainstream Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open source: What you should learn from the French A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement -- none more so than France -- and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has be Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Beware open source violations lurking in your code IT organizations that feel safe from open source licensing violations might be wise to check their code, as open source components are rapidly seeping into applications by way of offshore and in-house developers taking open source shortcuts, as well as a growing popul Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open APIs may help Microsoft repair reputation If Microsoft executes effectively on its new interoperability promises, it could repair its tarnished reputation in the technology industry and help the company get out of its own way to compete more effectively with Google. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source In a major turnaround for Microsoft, the company Thursday promised "greater transparency" in its development and business practices, outlining a new strategy to provide more access to APIs and previously proprietary protocols for some of its major software products, i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Some open sourcers keeping open mind about Microsoft pledges Microsoft made a mountainous down payment on its high-profile pledge Thursday to improve interoperability and warm up its relationship with the open source community, releasing some 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols. After digestin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft cited for open efforts, eyes Eclipse Microsoft received plaudits and criticism for its openness efforts at the MIX08 event Thursday with a Microsoft official also citing an overture toward the Eclipse Foundation for open-source tooling.During a pan Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Red Hat: Open source benefits from U.S. unpopularity The unpopularity of the United States has IT users in foreign countries happy to use open-source software, Red Hat President/CEO Jim Whitehurst said at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |