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Empty towns, packed graveyards

When most people look at human settlement patterns over time, what they see is a history of transportation; but what I see is a parallel to the development of the computer industry. Settlement patterns reflect transaction costs for information and market exchanges, that's why markets started out walking distances...

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Blog posts 2006-03-10

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Put your PC on an energy diet!

Put your PC on an energy diet!The wonders of USB and Firewire...Almost all of my new "toys" are either USB or Firewire; I don't know how much power these things draw when they're not in active use, but the really infrequently used ones can at least be hot-plugged on demand.But...

Tags: Desktops, Network technology, PC, chip, CPU, USB

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuit

RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuitThis is stupid. I already do this with AnyDVD and mymovies.Its essentially built into my movies if you pay for the anydvd software. On top of that.. you can also rip HD and Blueray.The only thing you cant do directly is burn the...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Standing Up, RealDVD, DVD, lawsuit

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Jackson Browne and Copyright

Jackson Browne and CopyrightRE: Jackson Browne and CopyrightPosted to the wrong place. Moved here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52418&messageID=988050&start=-9996?SO!WHO CARES WHOM YOU VOTE FOR!!!!!I agree. it should be the length drugs are givenDrugs take far more money and time to produce than movies and music. On top of that, they may...

Tags: Jackson Browne, Fair Use

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Fast, tough pocket storage

I've owned a couple of dozen flash drives starting back when they were a dollar a megabyte. Several of them have broken - usually when most needed. But I've found a flash drive that not only handles the rigors of my car-keys-and-change pocket, but has also...

Tags: Storage, USB Flash Drive, CVGT, Flash Memory, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It

Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe ItDelta doesn't seem all that bad......but maybe it's just in comparison with US Airways which held the franchise at the local airport just before them. They'll even let you bring food on the plane, and they have a real live flight...

Tags: Benefits, Food & Beverage, Americans Hate Flying

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Oracle OpenWorld: a view from the cheap seats

While Sam Diaz and Mike Krigsman are slaving away in the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco at this year's Oracle OpenWorld I get the pleasure of observing from the comfort of my office in downtown Hicksville, Spain some 5,500 miles away. Once more, Oracle dropped...

Tags: Oracle Corp., BEA Beehive, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Needed: 'five times' as many SOA architects as we now have

Needed: 'five times' as many SOA architects as we now haveWhat is SOA anyway?Do you mean this?http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2005/jw-0613-soa.htmlSOA material@joemartn: As mentioned in other comments, that article is pretty good, though it has some items on the first page that are a bit off (e.g. the first bullet is right about described...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Wall Street woes? Silicon Valley is hiring

I caught a great post by Claire Cain Miller on the New York Times' Bits blog last night about the upswing, so to speak, of the current economic crisis: that is, that if you can't keep a job on Wall Street, Silicon Valley will take you: ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Hiring, Wall Street, Recruitment & Selection, Venture Capital, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Open source patents: Four companies offer green tech to public domain

So it turns out that the Eco-Patent Commons, which I wrote about back in January, isn't just another empty-handed cooperative industry effort. Three new companies, Bosch, DuPont and Xerox, have joined the effort and another, Sony, has contributed an additional patent to the community. ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Xerox Corp., Public Domain, Patent, Green Technology, Open Source, DuPont Co., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-12

Klondike Solitaire (exe)

This is the popular Klondike Solitaire card game. The object of this game is to pile all the cards up in four piles, each pile must have the same suit and must go from A to K. The card can also be piled up temporarily at the bottom, while doing...

Tags: Card, Pile, Novel Games

Software downloads 2008-09-12

Thecus N3200

The Thecus N3200 is an empty, three-bay NAS drive that sells for approximately $330. Though it doesn't provide any storage out of the box, it's still reasonably priced for a device that supports RAID and up to 3TB of storage. The device boasts a useful set of features, including printer...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), RAID, Storage, NETWORKING, Network technology, Thecus N3200

Product reviews 2008-09-09

Folder Content Maker Pro (exe)

Folder Content Maker is an easy-to-use software for Win32 platforms. It extract filenames according to its original structure. Main features: refined structure, details of all folders, size and date of files, specifical file type filter, filename filter, and exclude empty subfolder. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Folder, Faraseen

Software downloads 2008-09-09

Do you have what it takes to be a 'Windows guru'?

Do you have what it takes to be a 'Windows guru'?@voyager529Since Mike Cox already works for MS, it would a simple transfer!This sounds like the perfect job for Mike Cox!...and Loverock Davidson. If Microsoft hires those two, then their $300 Million just might make a dent in public mindshare!! =)JoeySo.....What...

Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Windows guru, Apple Macintosh, Best Buy Co. Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

Is this Tuesday's 4G nano?

Is this Tuesday's 4G nano?Starting to look like a Zune.What makes you think it's real? It could be an empty shell. The real questions are will it have replacable battery, will it do wireless song download, and will it have FM radio?First Step to iPhone Nano?Maybe the longer form factor...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, iPhone Nano, 4G

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...

Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Don't leave that fridge by the curb!

I saw a television out on our street a couple of mornings ago when I left for my morning job/walk, waiting for pick-up by the garbage dudes. I resisted the urge to narc on my neighbors, since it's actually illegal to place said TVs curbside in New Jersey, but it...

Tags: Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-27

IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download

IE 8 Beta 2 ready for downloadRE: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for downloadIt's been a pleasure to work with the IE team to deliver some of the first Visual Search services out there. They're a cool team - and deserve some kudos. We're all looking forward to some user...

Tags: Web browsers, IE 8, IE 8 Beta 2, IE 8 Beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

HP reincarnates old ink cartridges as key part for new printer

HP reincarnates old ink cartridges as key part for new printerRecycling is the 2nd WORST thing you can do!You can't help but wonder how many millions of perfectly good, re-usable cartridges have been sacrificed at the alter of HP's "environmental mission". Recycling is the 2nd WORST thing you can do,...

Tags: cartridge, Hewlett-Packard Co., printer

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Terrible Halloween 3D Screensaver (exe)

Welcome to the most terrible and dreadful Halloween scene you ever seen before. The captive angel waits for her torture. The flying pumpkin and walking demon are ready for execution. But the stake in the fire is not empty yet. Perfect 3D graphics, music with scary natural sounds. You will...

Tags: OurScreensavers

Software downloads 2008-08-26