Unorganized or vague. A lack of structure. For example, the amorphous state of a spot on a rewritable optical disc means that the laser beam will not be reflected from it, which is in contrast to a crystalline state which will reflect light. See crystalline.
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- Speculation among speculators: what's green under Obama?
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- Blog posts 2008-11-09
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Technology and the costs of change
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- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...
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- Blog posts 2008-05-05
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- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- On Sustainability
- The first post on ZDNET! And if that isn't scary enough I kind of need to spend some time explaining the concept of ‘sustainability', the subject matter of this blog. Nailing custard to a wall would be so much easier. Ask ten people what sustainability means and you will get...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
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- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- CIO Sessions: BT's JP Rangaswami
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- Blog posts 2007-10-30
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- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Open Source Microsoft, plus an iPhone SDK
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- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Open Source Microsoft, plus an iPhone SDK
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- Blog posts 2007-10-17
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- Blog posts 2007-10-02
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- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
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- Blog posts 2007-09-19
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- Blog posts 2007-08-29
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- Blog posts 2007-07-19
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- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
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