A Networked World

Westerners are the King Kongs of the breeding race

There have been many theories about why western post industrial societies have adopted a reproduction rate that has now fallen below replacement levels. Any number of moralisers and conspiracy theorists, ethicists and proponents of egregious selfishness litter the ground. But Nature magazine has tossed up an even more intriguing possibility, we are energy monsters and, somehow, we know it.

Open Source Claims a Microsoft OS

OK, its not even the end of the beginning, but it is an interesting step towards MS recognising, in its full sense, the reality of the power of OS. They are in the processing of letting the Chinese government peek under the skirts of Windows and in the process of deciding whether or not to port MS server products to Linux and other OSS, and now maybe they are experimenting from the other end as well. Microsoft opens Windows CE to third parties The vendor expands the shared- source program for its operating system for handhelds, making all source code available to third parties and dropping the ban on commercialising changes to it. Where will it end?