dung

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Animal dung and climate change

Bison dung and the climateWhat did 60 million bisons and their dung have on global warming. I understand the dung had high carbon and was used as firewood by early settlers.My question is basically, before they were slaughered, did they contribute to global warming. Global warming is a...

Tags: climate change, global warming, dung, bison

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricity

Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricityFeeling skepticalI think prior art is going to bite them on their behinds.Science 101, conservation of energy"M2E’s technology, born in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Lab, works according to the principle of electromagnetic induction aka The Faraday Principle. The...

Tags: Engineering, dung, grass

Discussion threads 2007-11-17

Additional Resources

Bing: Microsoft's new search... er, decision engine

Bing: Microsoft's new search... er, decision engineNed? Ned Ryerson?BING!!!When will LG sponsor Supercross?Way to go Comrads. Your german humor may be buying you a beer at the local pub than out of the Coke machine at Maiche Engineering; Oh ya, I mean HRC Great Britain.I like the layout shown on...

Tags: Branding, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Google Inc., decision engine, Bing, new search, Microsoft Corp., Apache Software Foundation, brand

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?RE: Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?Energy conservation is great and benefits everyone. Carbon credits are phony. Much warming data is built on computer models that don't show any warming unless a "correction factor" is added.If Al Gore is so serious about climate...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, TVs, Energy Conservation, Carbon Credits, tax, Humanity!, climate change, Obamasiah, Climate Change

Discussion threads 2009-03-28

Google Chrome...bundled with RealPlayer?!

Google Chrome...bundled with RealPlayer?!Is this a good move?I haven't yet come up with any reason to install Chrome on my system, as we already have a plethora of browser choices, and I tend to classify Google's other software as crapware. I do wonder about aligning with a software company...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Chrome, Google Inc., RealPlayer?, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Open source patent law panhandling

Open source patent law panhandlingthen someone should help thenIBM should step up and provide aid just the step up to MS ..you Wanna war punk ill give you one and push it until the case is done prove it one and for all .... prepare the way...

Tags: Operating systems, Tom-Tom, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, Linux, SCO Group Inc., patent, Octoshaft, open source

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Microsoft 'elevates America' with free job training

Microsoft 'elevates America' with free job trainingDOJ 2.0DOJ 2.0, simply means that when I was with MS a few years back, this idea was floated out to gain the Mind Share and thus fortify the adoption of MS products in IT shops. Most of these people can already receive...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, training and certification, Microsoft Corp., job training, training, job

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Windows Mobile: What

Windows Mobile: WhatIt is a race between WM and AndroidFor me, the race is between Microsoft improving its WM software and Android improving its hardware selection. I really like the Android OS but the hardware choice is totally lacking. I really like WM hardware (the HTC Touch Diamond is the...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Operating systems, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, hardware, phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-02-04

Wall Street waits for layoffs at Microsoft

Wall Street waits for layoffs at MicrosoftI told you so!Nobody believed my predictions when I said that M$ is going down quickly and Linux is eating their lunch!Now the naysayers have been proven wrong!The only tech companies that are hiring and grow are the OSS kind.M$ drones will get in...

Tags: Linux, Operational accounting, Workforce management, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Windows7, Microsoft Corp., revenue, layoff

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study

IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, studyBSThere is no shortage of core IT skills, there is a shortage of people willing to pay for them.Auditing, project mgt, are overwhelmingly financed, while IT skills, or any operational skill for that matter, are considered to be of little value and...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workstations, information technology, core skill, dire shortage, IT Skills

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Rockr 1.0 (Mobile)

Rockr (also known as rock-paper-scissors, scissor-paper-stone, pierre-feuille-ciseaux, piedra-papel-o-tijera, jan-ken-pon, rochambeau or dung-pa-ski) is at long last available for iPhone. For too long, business travellers, students, bankers and surgeons have been without this invaluable tool, but now, thanks to the tireless work of our research technicians at Kontrollfeld, s/he need never...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Agency, Voice, Media, Apple iTunes, Accelerometer, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-11-25

Two more Microsoft Labs deliverables debut

Two more Microsoft Labs deliverables debutRE: Silverlight? No thanks...Read the article: "The new spinoff, known as Seadragon Ajax, allows users to embed a Deep Zoom viewer in their blogs, Web sites, or even your eBay listing." In other words, if I am reading this correctly, you will not have to...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Silverlight, Seadragon Ajax, Deep Zoom, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer

Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputerI Wouldn't Use ItWould you if you were a scientific organization that needed precision calculation and system reliability? I'd rather have a beowulf cluster doing my job than this mess.Horse Power NeededYou can now run vista with all its bloatware in full...

Tags: Operating systems, supercomputer, Cray Inc., WINDOWS BASED, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

A virus in our genes, think about that....

Really fascinating news: Virus is passed from parent to child in the DNA. Researchers found that roseola, an infection that everyone apparently gets but only 20 percent of children develop the characteristic rash that gives it its name, is actually in our DNA. It co-evolved into us, which raises some...

Tags: DNA, Chromosome, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into

Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled intoI agree "One OS to unite them all""One price to keep all happy" In the end it's just a marketing ploy different versions each with their own "missing" pieces. In many ways it looks like double dipping...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, marketing, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloudniceveryniceMicrosoft's elastic cloudGee, we had elastic Wow!Now we are going to get the elastic cloud.Metaphor watch anyone?Get ready for a whole new blob of Bloat from the people who invented Bloat.Rule of thumb: If Microsoft promises something, the promise is, with near certainty, false.The credibility...

Tags: elastic cloud, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7

'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7Windows sensors will bring a new management interfaceto set them up, and then they'll crash unexpectedly, and make things stop responding.There'll be a "grandfather" sensor which automatically reboot the machine, and does some protocol sniffing on your box, to make sure that Microsoft...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, sensor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02

Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02Don't care what's under the hood?I my experience not caring about what's under the hood is about the fastest way possible to end up with a steaming pile of crap that will be both be a nightmare to maintain and will have constant errors that will severely...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Leading US search engines in April 2008

Leading US search engines in April 2008Gosh! What a surprise!Look at those numbers and the Bloatfarm is again the cellar-smeller in search.Why could that be?Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the great dungheap has no monopoly position from which to harass and coerce customers. Maybe...

Tags: Financial accounting, Bloatfarm, developer, search engine

Discussion threads 2008-05-17

Grand Theft Auto IV hits the streets--it's a '10'

Grand Theft Auto IV hits the streets--it's a '10'Sony et al Stores - The Day after ThanksgivingFrom my perception, it's sort of the mentality of those who mob the doors before they even open causing real chaos in the mall despite the presence of police officers and security guards at...

Tags: Games, game, Grand Theft, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto IV

Discussion threads 2008-04-29