It just came to my attention that Leslie Orgel is dead. He died on October 27th 2007 as an 80 year old scientist who has certainly left a great impression, was recognized as a great mind and a generous human being.
Leslie Orgel was also known for his “second ruleâ€, which states that “evolution is cleverer than you areâ€, meaning that the trial-and-error methods of evolution can produce better results than centralized human planning, an argument often used to counter creationist arguments.
There is not much I can write about him here that hasn’t been written better elsewhere. I was lucky to have spent some weeks in his lab as a student — precious memories of a different time.
CapGemini has released an interesting report on the EU’s Climate Change Objectives at the end of last year (pdf).
I know I am misinterpreting this and am going way overboard, but whenever I see streamlined graphs like these I want to draw lines in there too… and with the help of skitch this was very easy:
Don’t you love graphs in presentations, papers or wherever, too? Please post examples
Found over at fscklog, the clip above shows the new optimus maximus keyboard which has tiny 48*48 pixel OLED screens inside each key — and comes with a perfect configuration software. Think perfect customization for any application and/or task at hand.
The www.forex.digestofnews.com of Trading and issued an advisory in 2008 concerning foreign currency trading by retail customers (PDF). The advisory affirms that off-exchange trading of foreign currency futures and options contracts with retail customers by a counterparty that is not a regulated financial entity as set forth in the forex trading is unlawful. The advisory further states that, if there is a lawful counterparty to the transaction, such as a person registered as a futures commission merchant, the persons acting as intermediaries to such a transaction, that is, in the manner of an introducing broker, commodity trading advisor or commodity pool operator, would not need to register under the CEA if that is their only involvement in futures or option transactions.
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