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Bullet train plans still off target in US

Bullet train plans still off target in USI wonder if..I wonder if such a big and yet wealthy country has no single bullet train. I think thats why American uses the car wherever they go.No use of speaking about greenhouse effects, try start implementing'em.Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comkeep dreamingThe US not only doesn't...

Tags: bus system, Bullet train plan, Bullet Train

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

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Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumers

Can't wait to see theseThe local Best Buy is having a midnight launch. I'm probably going to go and geek out for a bit.RE: Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumersWish I could afford the upgrades.Been laid off and on for 6 years now.Could not renew my...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), way thing, Linux, U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Win7, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

News to know: Google antitrust; Bin Laden; Yelp Mafia; HP pay

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Garett Rogers: Will Google be targeted by new Attorney General for Antitrust? Sam Diaz: Where's Bin Laden? New theory,...

Tags: Google Inc., Osama Bin Laden, Hewlett-Packard Co., Antitrust, Dana Blankenhorn, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Law, Pricing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Public Relations, Marketing, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Corporate Communications

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Bullet train plans still off target in US

It's been forty years since Japan built the first bullet train line. Other high-speed rail service is found in several European countries and elsewhere. But not in the U.S. The $8 billion of stimulus money earmarked for rail transit is not enough for a single bullet train...

Tags: Bullet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-19

IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is real

IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is realAs of September...... a sudden decrease in interest in hiring people is understandable. That's when many people decided to believe what they heard and the economy tanked.There's a question to what degree the banking crisis had to spread to...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Problem 4, Problem 2, Problem 1, STEM worker, job, information technology, IT Labor Shortage, IT Offshoring

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

BearingPoint’s Q3 earnings call - part 1

To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint’s BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...

Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Only Microsoft stands between me and 64-bit bliss

Only Microsoft stands between me and 64-bit blissHey ... Shadey ...Why should it even be NEWS ... AT [b]ALL[/b]??Like Mikey Cox, every time I talk to MY Microsoft Rep, he is pushing 64-bit, 64-bit, 64-bit. Then we discover that the right hand at MS doesn't know what the left...

Tags: Network technology, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

China gets onto the fast track

China now has the second fastest railroad train in the world. Only France has a bullet train a little faster. The U.S. long ago turned its back on passenger trains and is far out of the running. The first of the new Chinese-built bullet trains...

Tags: China, Train, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-22

Convicted cop may have been framed with false science

Convicted cop may have been framed with false scienceMore & Moretimes we are hearing of flawed exidence in many cases & the defendent is released from prison. When do we stop this run away train????It's all about the convictionThere's plenty of good science to use to prosecute with. But prosecutors...

Tags: Real estate, false science, conviction, analysis, agent

Discussion threads 2007-11-20

Multiplying Mac Trojan not epidemic yet

Multiplying Mac Trojan not epidemic yetInstalling unknown software is risky, no matter the OSAs much as the die hards hate to admit, OS X, Linux and Windows have a lot in common. Install software under a trusted account and you really don't know what might happen.Now in Linux's favor...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Desktops, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, trojan horse, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

Phishing education eludes Net users; Can reverse DNS zap phishers and spam?

Two stories in one here trying to economize. If you haven't noticed, I'm on one of my anti-spam kicks again. Last week, I published a video asking Google, AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo! (GAMY!) to once and for all to set aside their differences, decide on some standard...

Tags: Education, Technique, Internet User, DNS, RFC, Server, Video, Domain Name, Phishing Education, GAMY, rDNS, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Domain Names, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-09

U.S. court dismisses Qualcomm appeal of ITC ban

U.S. court dismisses Qualcomm appeal of ITC ban3G chipsets bad for USAThe truth is that the USA government shouldn't allow consumer rip off. The 3G chip sets represent technology dumping. They are worse than bad wine because allowing cellphone network infrastructure to be built to support 3G, detracts from appropriate...

Tags: Chipsets, WiMAX, WIRELESS, Cellular phones, Semiconductors, Wi-Fi, 3G, ITC, Mhz, Qualcomm Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-20

Jobs missed the point

It seems that while I was on vacation, Steve Jobs stirred up a little trouble when he voiced his opinion of teachers unions (see Jobs: Teacher unions prevents schools from excellence). I tend to agree that unions have lost sight of their original purpose -- to protect workers from...

Tags: K-12, Education Technology, Funding

Blog posts 2007-02-21

Are your people ready for more Vista and Office togetherness?

Are your people ready for more Vista and Office togetherness?No they are not!Anyone with the exception of Mike Cox is insane if they want to become an extended beta tester for a new OS. Sorry I went this route with XP; I might be a bit adventurous but im...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Monitors & displays, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, monitor, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2006-11-29

Violent games blamed for German school attack

Violent games blamed for German school attackWhile the games are not soley to blamethey do assist with the de-humanizing and de-sensitizing of killing and war. This is how you make future warriors in today's age. BUT the games are not the sole source of the problem. You will notice that...

Tags: Games, game, violence

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Controversies spawn new blogs

Controversies spawn new blogsThis is so sadI had no idea Apple Fanboys were this mentally disturbed.and your problem is...?With all the extreme positions taken on both sides of this issue, none of you on the "Windows Fanboy" side need cast any stones.This wasn't, and still isn't, in my opinion, and...

Tags: Blogging, Mac-user, blog, security, Apple Inc., computer

Discussion threads 2006-10-03

Vista takes a serious stab at malware

Vista takes a serious stab at malwareDoesn't change the market placeNo matter what the current cituation is for Windows XP (which can be locked down fairly well with hardware enforced DEP which the Mac doesn't have and locking down the browser), it will not change the market place or shift...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, SuSE, malware, Linux, civilization

Discussion threads 2006-03-22

Critical patch coming for Windows Media Player

Critical patch coming for Windows Media PlayerAgain ?????????Ummm , I guess I'll just leave it to someone else .Watch...all the Linux fundies coming out of the woodwork:Windows patches - bad bad badLinux patches - good good goodBbboorrriiinnnnngggggAre you listening, No_AxOr whatever nym you're using these days. [b]Microsoft rates as...

Tags: Patches, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Digital music, LINUX FAN, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Windows Media, media player, patch management, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-02-09

Windows patch backfires on the security-minded

Windows patch backfires on the security-mindedDidn't ZDNet already run this story?.WEll since the other isgetting full the spill over should be here soon... ]:)I'm confusedI thought that ZDNet only ever posted things that were pro Microsoft and anti Linux/Mac yet here we have an MS flaw posted not once, but...

Tags: Patches, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Windows patch, security, patch management

Discussion threads 2005-10-17

PalmSource moved further into oblivion

Ever since I was asked at a Comdex sometime around the turn of the century to make a prediction, I've been predicting the end of the PalmOS (here's a Google search that gets you to most of that coverage). Back then, it was simply the birth of Microsoft's...

Tags: PalmOS, PalmSource Inc.

Blog posts 2005-09-09