What do you think is the best technological advance of 2004.

[alexander]

This is not as full as i would have liked it to be, but there's a limit of 10 questions a poll, so i had to choose some of the better examples of technology from the source, the source is:

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/122904/TRN%27s_Top_Picks_122904.html

[Tormod]

ER...where did the poll go?

[alexander]

i was working on it!

Anyways, here are the links to sources for all the selections as listed above:

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[Tormod]

This is a tough one...so many choices. I ended up voting for the solar panel thing. I think the ability to convert sun energy at a higher rate will be very important for future energy needs.

[IrishEyes]

Best of the year?

Anything that involves cryptography has got to be at the top of the list. Old habits die hard, I guess.

[alexander]

I will not vote, i think that all of them were very important in their own, special way, many smarter-than-me people worked on them for a long time trying to sucess in their area of expertise, they should all deserve recognition...!

[Freethinker]

Well glad to see the site's members are so consistant! 5 votes, all different! I LOVE IT! :-)

 

Yes it was hard and my vote is close to a coin flip (if I had a 10 sided coin!)

 

But my current intellectual facination is with QM and particles. Thus the 5 entangled photons. As far as far reaching understandings, dealing with particles at this level will ultimately give us more insight and capabilities than even nano-tech.

 

Can I vote again tomorrow? I might change my mind by then!

[IrishEyes]

they should all deserve recognition...!

 

Very true,alex. And what better way to recognize them than to put them on a TOP10 list here at Hypography, the premier science site the Net has to offer...

 

Which makes me wonder why Tormod isn't on that list somewhere. He should somehow be recognized for bringing this charming little web experiment along so nicely. Or will that only happen when he sells it to Bill Gates (because YOU, alex, spread such viscious 'lies' about Gates' beloved MSN), and all of the Admins and Mods become multi-billionaires? Come on, alex, MORE Linux propaganda please!!!!

[Tormod]

Which makes me wonder why Tormod isn't on that list somewhere.

That's easy - I wasn't invented in 2004. :)

[IrishEyes]

That's easy - I wasn't invented in 2004

No, you weren't. But the NAI Hypography was... And so it should be there as well! I mean, it's not every day that a science site can do the things that this one does... :)

[alexander]

Or will that only happen when he sells it to Bill Gates (because YOU, alex, spread such viscious 'lies' about Gates' beloved MSN), and all of the Admins and Mods become multi-billionaires? Come on, alex, MORE Linux propaganda please!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo...................

Plese, please tell me that you will never microsoftize this website? I will not be able to live with myself if this website all of the sudden went to ASP! I will seriously own that microsoft box and make sure that it will be completely opened for anyone to use, maybe run a few dozen services in the background...

 

more propaganda, plese, for network admins, there's no better tool for network scanning than nmap, other great tool is etherial, and both are open and were originally written for LINUX!

 

here's a good link that i think people should check out: http://pel.cs.byu.edu/~alen/computers/Linux/WhyLinux/Why.html

loads of why linux is better stuff!

[Freethinker]

NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo...................

Plese, please tell me that you will never microsoftize this website? I will not be able to live with myself if this website all of the sudden went to ASP!

Or worse .net!

loads of why linux is better stuff!

Except when forced to deal with .doc or .xls! Just opened a .doc in Staroffice. Looks real strange!

[Stargazer]

All these are great in their own ways, and so I simply had to choose one... the robotic scientist. I could've picked pretty much any of these though.

[alexander]

Or worse .net!

if you meant ASP.net, that is the worst nightmare you can ever have!

Except when forced to deal with .doc or .xls! Just opened a .doc in Staroffice. Looks real strange!

OpenOffice actually XOpenOffice or Koffice are better for this stuff, they open xls and doc documents really well, i've never had problems with weird looking documents in them.

[infamous]

I have to agree with Tormod on this one, advances in energy production will create far reaching results.

[Tormod]

I will not be able to live with myself if this website all of the sudden went to ASP!

Oops...did I forget to tell you?

:)

[alexander]

:)