Toted by Curiosity is the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite, gear that takes up more than half the science payload on the 1-ton rover.
A full version of the WordPerfect Suite geared for Linux will ship by the end of this year.
The science conducted on the LTER cruise spans physics to top predators, with 24 hour operations that use the full suite of scientific gear available for this type of work: net sampling, bioacoustics, CTD casts, ocean gliders – if you can name it, it was dipped, soaked, dropped, towed or otherwise deployed/recovered on this cruise.
The instruments used for testing range widely, from hand-held detectors that cost $20 and give results in a few minutes to laboratory suites full of gear that must run for days to achieve certitude.
Indeed, the two largest direct owners of smartphone platforms — Apple and Google — this year announced a suite of tools geared toward trying to manage the amount of time users end up glued to their screens.
A combination of Salesforce's sales team and CRM software with Google's Office docs and Google Gears to make the whole suite work offline is a real competitive threat to Microsoft Exchange.
Use of protective gear is explained and a decontamination suite described.
The goal is to be able to equip 5,000 emergency workers within the first 96 hours of a catastrophe with gear like respirators, chemical protective suits, rescue equipment and mobile medical suites.
The company, which was founded back in 2004, offers an integrated technology suite and related services geared towards service providers, medium-sized and large enterprises, and developers.
Zions offers rewards credit cards, along with an entire suite of bank products geared toward children and young adults, including student checking and savings, kid savings, and the Zion's Bank Pays for A's program.
