The Saboteur Gameplay Xbox 360!! Nice one…

YouTube – The Saboteur Gameplay Xbox 360!! Nice one…

Edible cotton engineered by scientists that could one day feed millions of people

Edible cotton engineered by scientists that could one day feed millions of people | Mail Online

A Texas researcher has engineered edible cottonseed that he says could feed millions of people.

Cotton seeds are packed with protein but regular plants produce a toxic chemical called gossypol which can damage our liver and heart. They can only be eaten by cattle, who have four stomachs that break down the poison.

Boc îi pune cap în cap pe sindicalişti cu îngheţarea salariilor înainte de alegeri

Boc îi pune cap în cap pe sindicalişti cu îngheţarea salariilor înainte de alegeri – Capital.ro

Propunerea Guvernului de a interzice majorările de salarii cu 6 luni înainte de alegeri a trezit, cum era de aşteptat, reacţii ale lideriilor sindicali. În timp ce Bogdan Hossu şi Marius Petcu condamnă această măsură, Dumitru Costin o consideră „o intrare în normalitate”.

9 chestii cu Traian Basescu

9 chestii cu Traian Basescu. Da, EBA si alianta cu PSD l-au tras in jos. Scuze pentru 22 de milioane (de Costi Rogozanu) – Mass Media in Campanie – HotNews.ro

Am ramas mut in dimineata asta dupa ce am citit doua interviuri. Pentru ca, in sfirsit, Basescu s-a intilnit cu jurnalisti adevarati care nu l-au protejat, nici nu au incercat sa-l “prinda”. Au vorbit pur si simplu. Si a iesit acel Basescu teribil, care arunca raspunsuri surprinzatoare care-si face mea culpa, care spune chestii de o rationalitate care i-ar putea demobiliza pe fanaticii sai, dar care i-ar putea lasa pe demobilizati sa se mai gindeasca o data.

New language features in Java 7

New language features in Java 7 « JoeJag :: Tech

Here are 7 of the new features that have been completed:

* Language support for collections
* Automatic Resource Management
* Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation (diamond)
* Underscores in numeric literals
* Strings in switch
* Binary literals
* Simplified Varargs Method Invocation

Buy every song in the world for €4 a month

Buy every song in the world for €4 a month

“Music should be a service, not a product. Instead of purchasing tunes, you would pay a small monthly fee for access to all the songs in the world – say 4 Euros per month. Recordings would be streamed to you when you want to any appliance – your laptop, mobile device, car, home stereo, via the Internet.

“Call it Everywhere Internet Audio. Every customer has the Me Channel and could slice and dice the massive musical database anyway you like – by artist, by genre, by year, by songwriter, by popularity, and so on. The Me Channel would know what you like, based on what you’ve chosen in the past. You could even ask your Everywhere Internet Audio service to suggest new artists that resemble my known favorites or to create a new playlist called ‘Mick Jagger’s current favorites.’

“Musicians, songwriters and even their labels would be compensated through systems that track their popularity. All the music would be pooled and using actuarial economics the total pie would be divided up according to the number of times the songs of a given artist were streamed. Technologies and companies already exist that can do this.”

A New Recipe for Rocket Fuel

Technology Review: Blogs: Delta-V: A New Recipe for Rocket Fuel

Researchers are using aluminum and frozen water to make a propellant that could allow rockets to refuel on the moon or even Mars.

The dark side of Dubai

The dark side of Dubai – Johann Hari, Commentators – The Independent

I ask the Filipino girl behind the counter if she likes it here. “It’s OK,” she says cautiously. Really? I say. I can’t stand it. She sighs with relief and says: “This is the most terrible place! I hate it! I was here for months before I realised – everything in Dubai is fake. Everything you see. The trees are fake, the workers’ contracts are fake, the islands are fake, the smiles are fake – even the water is fake!” But she is trapped, she says. She got into debt to come here, and she is stuck for three years: an old story now. “I think Dubai is like an oasis. It is an illusion, not real. You think you have seen water in the distance, but you get close and you only get a mouthful of sand.”

As she says this, another customer enters. She forces her face into the broad, empty Dubai smile and says: “And how may I help you tonight, sir?”