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- Open source in a time of recession
- We face what my late friend Russell Shaw called "a shrinking water hole." Not every company will survive the drought. But open source as a business model will survive, because it's an adaptation that is meant for days like these. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Recession, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Job alert: SAP, COBOL, PowerBuilder??
- As enterprise Web 2.0 makes its way into organizations, there is a misconception held among a pocket in the industry that the new technologies will replace the old says Nexaweb's Jeremy Chone. Commentary--Was anybody else not surprised by the recent Foote Partners finding that the...
- Tags: Job, Web, Misconception, Knowledge, SAP AG, COBOL, Enterprise Application, Web 2.0, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Software, Nexaweb, SAP, Jeremy Chone, CTO, Nexaweb Technologies, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-10-01
- Chilling data from the Arctic
- Chilling data from the ArcticSo much hyperbole, so little factPolar bear populations are on the rise. It's stupid to think that the polar bear is so unadaptable that it can't handle a decrease in ice floes. They'll just hunt from shore. Life adapts.BTW, the sea ice is the SECOND lowest...
- Tags: Polar Bear population, Arctic, bear, lake, ice
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Google goes investing
- The news that Google is close to launching its own venture capital fund may raise a lot of hopes, but the history of corporate investment isn't fantastic and comes with a heavy price for portfolio companies that win a corporate sweepstakes. It also tells a lot about Google's own sense...
- Tags: Google Inc., Investor, Investment, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Broadband, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.It's the sun, stupid.The earth has been cooling for the last 10 years. If the current low solar activity keeps up, we could be in deep doodoo.RE: First scientist to warn Congress on Global...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Hansen, data set, global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- (Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)
- (Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)Oh my what will the utility companies have to say about this?I am sure the utility companies will find reasons to downplay or eliminate this concept. Just like they make it financially impossible for the average American to afford to put up windmills for...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind generator, solar dish, dish, photograph, utility company
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Global warming: a fish story, and your health
- Global warming: a fish story, and your healthSpecies come, species goGlobal warming positivies :Organisms can grow and develop at faster rates, thus bringing us new species more rapidly.Plants will grow more quickly, taking more CO2 from the atmosphere. The warmer it gets, the harder vegetation will work to remove CO2....
- Tags: High-altitude habitat, health care, forest, global warming, species
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Americans growing their own: veggies this time
- Americans growing their own: veggies this timeGood idea.When I was a kid we always had a vegetable garden in the suburbs. Tomatoes, cucumbers carrorts and lettuce. That way you don't have to worry about what type of pesticides companies use. Not only that, they taste so much better, especially the...
- Tags: lawn, herb
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled
- NASA IG: Scientists were muzzledI don't think so!If this administration is writting his pay check, than they can control what the researcher is doing and saying.As for global warming, it seems to be limited to glaciers in the mountains and at the poles. The temperature did not changed much in...
- Tags: Workforce management, NASA, administration, NASA IG
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- A wall's being built along the northern border of the U.S.
- NOAA map of the Great Lakes Basin. And this isn't a wall promulgated by Homeland Security. It's not about people trying to get into the U.S. No this wall is aimed at keeping some states from getting resources that other states have. ...
- Tags: Lake, State, Water, Wall, Construction, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- A professor deals with political climate around climate change
- I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...
- Tags: Food, Science, Humans, Trite, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Can Technology Meet the Challenge?
- I remember when there were population explosion predictions more than forty years ago: famine and global doom were touted as likely outcomes. Then farmng practics and crop varieties changed and much of the expected disaster fizzled into the continuing run of regional famines that plague poorer parts of the...
- Tags: Global Warming, Famine, Humans, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Open source and the shrinking waterhole
- Despite a lot of brave talk at OSBC there is little doubt that open source is heading into its first recession. (If you want to explain a recession to your four-year old, here's one way.) During the last bust, what I call the dot-bomb,...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Lexmark X7550
- The $200 Lexmark x7550 is a misfortunate victim of the all-in-one Achilles heel: In combining several features into one unit, the whole ends up sacrificing functionality on each of the individual parts. The printer quality is trumped by even the most entry-level inkjets, the fax machine is mediocre because of...
- Tags: Printers, Document management, Fax, Wi-Fi, Lexmark International Inc., x7550, Lexmark X7550, printer
- Product reviews 2008-03-18
- Global Warming (GW)? The spin cycle is on high.
- Global Warming GW? The spin cycle is on high.Message has been deleted.RE: Global Warming GW? The spin cycle is on high.This article falsely claimss that the Roanoke Weather article states that excess snow cover is evidence of a cooling trend. Actually if you read it, the article...
- Tags: socialist, global warming, spin cycle
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- Global Warming (GW)? The spin cycle is on high.
- The only thing more controversial in the U.S. these days than GW George W is the other GW Global Warming. And that's the GW this blog is interested in. A report from the National Climatic Data Center is being spun dry right now. To one recent blog...
- Tags: U.S., Temperature, Global Warming, NCDC, January, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usual
- No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usualNuclear water useAs a pro-nuclear blogger working at Idaho Samizdat http://djysrv.blogspot.com, I get the question all the time about water use. It's important to note you walked into a current controversy over water use by...
- Tags: Blogging, NEI, blogosphere, nuclear plant, fission
- Discussion threads 2008-01-26
- No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usual
- My recent blog on the drought possibly shutting down some American nuclear power plants raised some comment. All of it negative about this idiot blogger. I've now been labelled an "ecosocialist." Was that because I mentioned Chernobyl? NO, that mess happened under a faux-socialist regime so maybe...
- Tags: Nuclear Energy, Blogosphere, Plant, Blogger, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
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