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The Escapist. Michael Prior: The UK is a country in ruins. One of the Pitts is said to have replied, when told he was ruining the country, that there was a lot of ruin in a country. So it is with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which, if one believes David Cameron, is broken, socially and economically, to which might be added constitutionally and politically as well if one goes along with the guidance paragraph for this article set out by Soundings: "The economic crisis has temporarily derailed the Conservatives.

The New Labour project is exhausted and its electoral coalition has been breaking up. The political status quo has vanished and as the crisis unfolds conditions now exist for a new kind of social and democratic settlement. " Well, yes, but perhaps not quite in the way Soundings might wish. It is widely accepted that the 11 years of New Labour government have been essentially Thatcherism mark two. Sorry, but that is about the best on offer. The Linux Game Tome. Technology News, Computer and Notebook Reviews, Computer News, Computer Mods, PC News | Maximum PC.

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BBC World News. Hey, Gang, Let’s Make Our Own Supercomputer. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22 — Some class science projects get out of hand. That is certainly the case with Patrick Miller's graduate course in do-it-yourself supercomputing at the University of San Francisco. On April 3, his students plan to assemble the first "flash mob supercomputer" in the school gym. While brainstorming about how to build a home-brew computer powerful enough to be added to a list of the world's 500 fastest computers, Mr. Miller and his students, along with Gregory D.

Benson, an associate professor of computer science, came up with the idea of an electronic barn-raising. They decided to build on the concept of flash mobs, the sudden Internet-organized gatherings with no particular purpose that became an unlikely fad last summer. Last week, the class put out a call for about 1,200 volunteers to bring their computers to the Koret Gym here for a day and plug them into a shared high-speed network.

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