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Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?

Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?Very disturbing but legitimate topicI think we're far from "marriage" with robots since robots with true AI and not intelligence imitation are far from reality. All too often is a clever algorithm mislabeled as "AI". Having robots...

Tags: Robots, robot, blow-up doll, doll

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

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Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead

Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-12

'A device that will blow the roof off all previous Blackberrys'

'A device that will blow the roof off all previous Blackberrys'Add a JAVA JREThan I'll be happy.

Tags: Handhelds, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

'A device that will blow the roof off all previous Blackberrys'

At least that's what BoyGeniusReport is saying today. Apparently, Blackberry addicts should reconsider waiting and salivating over the Pearl Flip 8220, Curve 8900, Bold or Storm because BGR has "confirmed from two independent sources that RIM is working on a device that will blow the roof off...

Tags: Device, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home users

Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook business

plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook businessi tend to agree with your wifeThis is very poor english, but does express a meaning that make sense. You may disagree with what it says, but it is coherent. I wouldn't call the extracts you chose as plagiarism. Author used one transformed sentence...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, OOA/OOD/OOP, C/C++, Operating systems, plagiarism, textbook business, IEEE

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65V

Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65VOf course people will!People will do it anyway thinking it won't happen to them...because we all know that these things happen only to others. And when the CPU makes a funny smell and suddenly the computer is like a big powerless door...

Tags: Memory, Manufacturing, TVs, TV & Home Theater, TripleII, RAM

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Eee PC's 7" version: A hot toy this year

Toys R Us released a list of what it sees as the hottest toys this holiday season and the usual suspects were there: Hannah Montana, Legos, Star Wars figures and the Wii. And then there's the 7-inch Asus Eee PC. I heard a few folks refer to...

Tags: Toy, Toys R Us Inc., Nintendo Wii, Eee PC, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveaway

Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveawayRE: Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveawayOdd way to grow share by limiting the number of people who can join. You're assuming that you need to pay them to search with you a dangerous precedent and by limiting...

Tags: SEARCH, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, search engine, Microsoft Tries, giveaway, searcher, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

SaaS and the downturn

It seems inevitable that the blow-up on Wall St will make credit scarcer and more expensive for everyone. But if there's less money being spent in the economy as a whole, does that mean more or less being spent on SaaS? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Best platforms for book on "tape"

Best platforms for book on "tape"They could use their ownAs an example, in our ninth grade the students study four novels. Three of the four are available through the Central Mass Regional Library System in a format that allows storage/playback on MP3 players including the iPod as well as burning...

Tags: Digital music, Branding, Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Web Data Grabber (zip)

Grab and view all the data from a Web site. Download all the images, view all the links. The appearance of this software isn't great and there aren't too many functions to call. We promise that the next version will blow you out. Hope you enjoy Web Data Grabber 1.0....

Tags: Web, Miri Piri Khalsa Technologies, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-25

Taking a Bott beating

My colleague Ed Bott, who writes the Windows column for ZDNet, takes issue with the problem solving approach that I used when I went about migrating my friend Christine's old PC over to Vista. From the nature of the talkbacks to that original post, I would...

Tags: PC, Ed Bott, USB, Christine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Outside school doesn't equal online carte blanche

Outside school doesn't equal online carte blancheTime to teach the little buggers, and the idiot parents, a lesson.If I were the principal, I'd file a defamation of character & libel suit against the kids involved, AND their parents...two of whom are obviously low-grade morons at best. Then see what they...

Tags: principal

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMware

Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMwareAs if...As if Apple, Apple fanboys, Linux fanboys and every other MS competitor don't refer to their anti-MS playbook every single day.What exactly is your point with this article, Mary Jo Foley?RE: Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMwareBeside the...

Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., VMware Inc., Linux, anti-Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture"Ate wheatiness..." is obscureHow long since the ad campaign about Breakfast of Champions(?), with the cereal having the effect of spinach on Popeye. (And how many younger people know of Popeye?)The use in connection with "serialization" is clever, but seems a stretch in...

Tags: Processors, IBM Corp., hardware, System 38, microcode, IBM AS/400, database

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

TV Pack headaches reveal Microsoft's Media Center dilemma

Of all the features in Windows, Media Center is unique. It offers high-end capabilities that appeal strongly to digital media enthusiasts, sparking the growth of online communities like the Green Button, with more than 110,000 members at last count. These days, that passionate community is spending much of its energy...

Tags: Release, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Media Center, Feature, Media Center Application, Fiji, HD, Medium, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-09-18

No, this is not bathroom humor. Brondell touts toilet seats that cut back on toilet paper usage

No, this is not bathroom humor. Brondell touts toilet seats that cut back on toilet paper usageAir Dryer??In a toilet?? Let's see.... water.... electricity... plumbing.... naked butt..... Hmmmmmmm.But as a conversation piece, it could be loads of fun. I mean, uh, discussing how the air dryer blows your........

Tags: Forest Service, toilet, Forest, set-aside, Brondell

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

PacketTrap gives enterprise "Perspective"

Computers are strange beings. Sometimes they stop working for no apparent reason, sometimes they work so well they don't need to shutdown or stop processing, and some literally blow up in your face. Dealing with one computer can be troublesome enough, but how do those like enterprise managers, IT and...

Tags: Administrator, Disk, Network, Disk Usage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Maritz: VMware's Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V

In a direct stab at his old employer, VMware CEO Paul Maritz launched today the next generation OS: the virtual datacenter operating system from VMware. Forget about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. VMware's future 'Virtual Datacenter OS' is a set of services that will allow customers to "pool...

Tags: Data Center, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Data Centers, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-09-16