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What is Microsoft SiArch (and why did they hire a Sun chip guy)?

What is Microsoft SiArch and why did they hire a Sun chip guy?just more M$ dirty deedsHiring engineeres from competitors should be banned under antitrust law.RE: What is Microsoft SiArch and why did they hire a Sun chip guy?You are so funny. Next we all should become communists and live...

Tags: Semiconductors, Recruitment & Selection, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SiArch, chip guy, donation, Sun Microsystems Inc., chip

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Developer drops app pricing to 99??, asks for donations

Developer drops app pricing to 99??, asks for donations"On 12 December 2009 I posted App Cubby developer David Barnard's thoughts"I always knew you were ahead of your time... ;-)

Tags: app pricing

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

Amazon and OLPC...First G1G1 picture this year

Amazon and OLPC...First G1G1 picture this yearA cue from Apple?"I'm thinking that Amazon could at least take a queue from Apple on their store updates, though."What, and knock the entire store down to update 3 products? Pfft. No thanks. :-)RE: Amazon and OLPC...First G1G1 picture this yearI appreciate you G1G1...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, G1G1, G1G1 picture, Amazon.com Inc., tax, donation

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Creative backs down on modded Vista drivers

Creative backs down on modded Vista driversHe was doing them a service..the problem thoughWas that he was asking for donations and claimed that the more in donations the more he would work at creating better versions etc. He tried to capitalize off his work, which I don't see any...

Tags: BIOS, Microsoft Windows Vista, hardware, donation, hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

When donations are still OK

It wasn't long ago that I swore off donations. Well, actually it was more that I was forbidden by the powers that be to take any more since I'm an electronic pack rat. However, not only were a variety of bureaucratic types from the state requiring that we...

Tags: Server, Hardware, Teacher, Laptop Computer, Computer, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-08-30

More donation woes

More donation woesAre there other schools in the area?Maybe you could direct the person to another local school or maybe a church or even a some of the smaller "mom and pop" shops. Either way the donations take care of the hardware issues for whomever the recipients are, and your...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, hardware, donation, National Cristina Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-07-11

More donation woes

I walked into the school on Monday for a few meetings and found a letter in my box from an upset community member whose computer donations had been turned down. At the end of the last school year, we set a no-donation policy, since we had actually managed to...

Tags: Donations, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Will MySpace show Barack Obama the money?

Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Barack Obama on MySpace, the REAL Barack Obama on MySpace, is closing in on 100,000 friends.(SEE  MySpace to 175 million friends: It’s OUR Space, not yours!)Hillary Clinton officially has 83,715 MySpace friends; Obama bests the front runner...

Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Web, Social Networking, Presidential Race, MySpace, Barack Obama

Blog posts 2007-06-02

Time Travel 1.2.0.3 (Windows)

Time Travel is a date calculator for personal and professional use. Calculate the number of days, weeks, months, years between two dates. Go to a number of days, weeks, months and years ago or later from a date. Learn your age in year/month/day format, as well as the number of...

Tags: Calendar, Donation, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2007-04-19

What the Tellme deal says about Microsoft

What the Tellme deal says about MicrosoftWell, MS has nothing against services, well, if the services require you tolicense Windows or MS Office. They just need to make sure that they keep those two cash cows a runnin'. Look for MS to put billions into creating dependencies on Windows and...

Tags: Neukom, donation, Microsoft Corp., Tellme Networks Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-21

No more donations for me.

My last monster load of dead hardware was being taken away for recycling over the holiday break, making way for the new hardware that will be arriving in a month or so. Were keeping plenty of monitors and the better PCs are being distributed around the school as either...

Tags: computer, donation, K-12, Donations, Education Technology

Blog posts 2006-12-28

Buffett makes first donation to Gates Foundation

Buffett makes first donation to Gates FoundationBuffett should reconsidergiving money to Gate$, the greatest scam artist alive.Instead he shold donate it to the OSS community.About timeanalyst and geek were waiting to receive and process the donation.Buffett makes first donation to Gates FoundationAbsolutely wonderful! This is the first step to...

Tags: Free trade, Operational accounting, Gates Foundation, donation

Discussion threads 2006-08-25

Gates' donation to fight AIDS in Africa

Gates' donation to fight AIDS in AfricaWah wah wahWhy don't you stick to the topic of him doing good for the world instead of your little tangent about Microsoft? Especially since the two are not related at all. Perhaps you'd be better suited on slashdot if you want...

Tags: Corporate law, Neukom, Gates Foundation, donation, Microsoft Corp., Bill Neukom, Bill Gates, Gates IS

Discussion threads 2006-07-20

Ellison no Buffett

As Warren Buffett unloads his billions on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder and the world's 15th richest person, is reneging on his promise to donate $15 million to Harvard University reports S.F. Gate In 2005, Ellison pledged to make a major donation to Harvard...

Tags: Larry Ellison

Blog posts 2006-06-28

Ellison reverses $115 million Harvard donation

Ellison reverses $115 million Harvard donationlarry ellison...just one more indication that the guy is one of the world's biggest slimeballs!Ellison is quite a piece of work...That don't impress me much.Why a piece of workSummers essentially gets forced out because he says men and women are different with different aptitudes, and...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Warren Buffet, donation, Larry Ellison, Ellis Abramoff, Harvard

Discussion threads 2006-06-28

EXCLUSIVE: AT&T CEO's political donations to net neutrality opponents

As AT&T continues its battles with net neutrality proponents on Capitol Hill this week, I thought it would be interesting to see where AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has been spending his own money this campaign and election cycle.I went to Opensecrets.org, and checked under "Whitacre." I found several donations,...

Tags: Ed Whitacre

Blog posts 2006-06-26

More on Donations

My post from earlier this week on donated computers generated a fair amount of feedback and a number of good questions, so I thought I'd devote some more space to this issue. Most of what follows is my $.02 and I'd love to see some more feedback on the topic.For...

Tags: computer

Blog posts 2006-03-31

FEMA wants IT system to manage disaster donations

The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently posted a notice that it is looking for IT vendors that can create a central repository for tracking information on disaster-related donations, Washington Technology reports. The obvious choice is Aidmatrix, a Dallas-based nonprofit that Hours after Hurrican Katrina struck ......

Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Blog posts 2006-02-24

Gates donates $15 million to computer history

Gates donates $15 million to computer historyThis makes me so mad!!!Billy boy is SOOOO stingy. I hear last week that Torvalds and Jobs each donated $150 million to the museum but does ZDNet report on that? Oh no, because ZDNet is owned by m1Cr0$l0Th!Ahhh, I love the smell of zealotry...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Billy-boy, donation, computer history, computer, Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2005-10-18

US online donations reached $3 bln in 2004

US online donations in 2004 hit more than $3 billion, up 58% from $1.9 billion in 2003, according to Kintera and Luth Research. More than 8.6 mln US households gave online to their favorite charities or nonprofit organizations. More than 65% of all donors visited at least one of the...

Tags: donor, donation

Blog posts 2005-07-01