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Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?: Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?DRM the real problemDRM and endless copyright are the real problem. The books at Project Gutenberg will never go out of print. They have already bee dublicated on hundreds of web sites and thousands, if not millions of devices.Only...; Tags: Digital media, environmentalism, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-12-03
The college library of tomorrow: The college library of tomorrowThe only problem is...Reading large passages of text on a computer screen is a pain. Yeah, it's handy to have search functions on text if you're looking for a particular passage, but if you want to actually read the book, staring at your screen gets...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Books, longevity, Fahrenheit 451, college library, computer, Reprint; Discussion threads 2005-08-03

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Summer reading for kids: A user on Slashdot asked yesterday for summer science fiction reading suggestions for his preteen kids. There were, of course, plenty of great thoughts from other Slashdot members that included all of the usual suspects from Bradbury to Asimov to Pratchett to Douglas Adams. However, the...; Tags: Kid, Slashdot, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Live Webcast: Email is Critical...and Out of Control!: More than 75% of the average company's intellectual property is contained in email messages and their attachments. As a result, email has quickly become the file server of choice for most of us - and a headache for compliance managers. The value of unified information access to...; Tags: Webcast, Compliance, Coveo Solutions Inc., E-mail, Online Communications; Webcasts 2008-06-19
Waste not. ElectraTherm turns "waste" heat into an electricity source: A couple of months back, I reported about an IBM data center project in Switzerland that was shunting its excess heat "waste" toward warming up a public swimming pool. Along those lines, a company from Carson City, Nev., has come up with a commercial waste heat generator called the ElectraTherm...; Tags: Electricity, KWh, ElectraTherm Green Machine, Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-07

US Internet audience profile in April 2008: Demographic Unique Audience (000) Composition(%) Sessions per Month Average PC Time Spent per Month Average Web Pages Viewed Per Month Male 79,763 48.48 61 70:05:57 2,483 Female 84,768 51.52 57 65:41:23 2,246 2 - 11 15,228 9.26 10 11:09:49 451 ...; Tags: Audience, Internet, Channel Management, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, NB; Blog posts 2008-05-23
Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air (updated): Remember the thermal paste problem with earlier MacBook Pros that was reported back in May 2006? Well, it's back. Read more about the grease problems in my earlier reports: Thermal grease theory - 01 May 2006 Thermal grease and the MacBook -...; Tags: Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-04-30
openQRM goes solo after Qlusters dumps open source strategy: openQRM is looking for a new sponsor following its separation from Qlusters earlier this month. On April 9, on the release of openQRM 3.5, Qlusters announced it decided to donate the open source data center management provisioning and monitoring project to the community on SourceForge. The project, which will continue to be...; Tags: Strategy, openQRM, Qlusters, Open Source, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Temperature Converter (exe): Convert 4 different temperature scales. You can convert to and from Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, and Rankine. Very portable program, no installer needed. Small enough (1.44MB) to be put on a portable drive. Version 2.3 has added a readme and changelog.; Tags: Ross; Software downloads 2008-04-03
Why flu virus prefers to strike in winter: You probably have been affected by flu several times in your life, and it has certainly happened in cold winter months, at least if you don't live in tropical countries. Why is the flu virus more infectious when it's cold? A U.S. National Institutes of Health NIH has an explanation....; Tags: Cold Calling, Flu, Virus, Cyberthreats, Sales Tools, Viruses And Worms, Security, Sales, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-03-10
3-D images of a virus at half-nanometer resolution: U.S. researchers have used a new technique named cryo-EM (short for 'Electron cryomicroscopy) to capture images of a virus at a resolution of 4.5 angstroms -- less than half of a nanometer. As said the lead researcher, 'This is the highest resolution ever achieved for a living organism of this...; Tags: Technique, 3D, Microscope, Electron, Imaging, Image, Virus, Imaging Technique, Cryo-EM, Productivity, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-03-06
MacBook Air Diary-Day 15: Temperature benchmarks: A big concern for anyone using a notebook computer for any length of time is the heat it generates. It actually came to a head a few years ago when the lawyers at most notebook computer manufacturers replaced the term "laptop" with "notebook" for fear of litigation. ...; Tags: MBA, Apple MacBook, Degree, Apple Inc., Temperature, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-02-14
Recreating 3.5 billion year-old genes: A U.S. team of scientists wanted to determine what was the Earth's temperature several billions years ago. But because most of the team was composed of biologists, the researchers took an unusual approach. Instead of analyzing rock formations or measuring isotopes in fossils, they've 'resurrected' a variety of genes and...; Tags: Earth, Protein, Environment, Gene, Opposite, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-02-08
Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?: Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That's what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary giants, with Nokia's purchase of Trolltech – announced yesterday - and Sun's buy...; Tags: Novell Inc., Open-source Company, Red Hat Inc., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Liquidity, Zurlocker, Alfresco, Open Source, IPO, Databases, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-01-29
Hey, folks...it's cold: I left my laptop in my car last night. For the first night in weeks, I actually went to be instead of working until all hours, so I completely forgot about it, sitting alone and cold in my trunk. For most of us here in the Northern Hemisphere,...; Tags: Cold Calling, Laptop Computer, Sales Tools, Notebooks, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-01-25
The best cameras of the Olympus Pre-PMA blitz: 20x megazoom and a new waterproof model: PMA 2008 doesn't officially begin until January 31, but the onslaught of new camera announcements has already begun. Olympus announced 10 new cameras in the U.S. today ranging from four new models in its FE line of compact cameras to the much-ballyhooed SP-570 UZ (which Olympus describes as having the...; Tags: Olympus Corp., Camera, Janice Chen; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Microsoft accused of patent violation in China: Microsoft accused of patent violation in ChinaMore frivolous claims...Microsoft does not need to infringe on patents. They have the most talented pool of software developers in the world. For a small fee, my rep brings me and my top-Top-TOP MCSDs to Redmond to watch some of Microsoft's developers in action....; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Development tools, Microsoft Corp., patent violation; Discussion threads 2008-01-18
Sharp to sell 108-inch LCD this year: Sharp to sell 108-inch LCD this year108" LCD HDTV -- Super-Deepest Blacks?Will this LCD panel, with 108" in diagonal, will be able to meet the quality of DLP or even surpass it?I don't think so!Such a Detailed ArticleDid they write that during a coffee break, or did they spend all...; Tags: Monitors & displays, Samsung LCD, LCD, Sharp Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-01-06
Going skiing this weekend? Slip one of these weather- and waterproof cameras in your pocket.: A recent e-mail from a reader reminded me of waterproof cameras. I love the idea and just wish Canon would come out with a great waterproof PowerShot SD870 IS! You'd think that waterproof cameras are all about summer, but in my family at least, the second favorite winter sport...; Tags: Pentax, Camera, Optical Zoom, Janice Chen; Blog posts 2008-01-04
UniquePVPers Temperature Converter (rar): This application will enable you to quickly convert several temperature units to each other. UniquePVPers Temperature Converter is the converter that can convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, Fahrenheit to Celsius, Celsius to Kelvin, Kelvin to Celsius, Kelvin to Fahrenheit, and Fahrenheit to Kelvin. Using this software, you will no longer need...; Tags: Converter, Paul Dexter, UniquePVPers Temperature Converter, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management; Software downloads 2008-01-04