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- Flint sparks change
- Flint sparks changeNo surpriseCouple of thoughts:(1) The white population is Europe is declining in general, due to couples having fewer children than needed to even maintain stasis. In sharp contrast, Muslim immigrant families are reproducing at a far higher rate. Estimates are that many of the "traditional" European...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Flint
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Flint sparks change
- Flint, Michigan. Infamous in Michael Moore's doc on dying factory jobs. Infamous as hometown of largest bankrupt corporation in America, General Motors. It's hereby downgraded to Sergeant Motors. That Flint is changing urban planning in America. Data indicates it has the furthest to go to...
- Tags: City, Flint, Real Estate, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
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- Google Maps and the mystery of the non-existent town
- anagram softwareDid you get the words "not real" out of it? With an extra "G" left over?Brilliant!Good find! If that isn't the solution, then it sure is one heck of a coincidence.It wouldn't surprise me at all if that is it. Similar things -- adding a fictional item...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Network technology, Zack, Yahoo Maps, Google Inc., Google Maps, Argleton
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Destination: Treasure Island 1.0.4 (Mac)
- Four years have passed since the end of the adventure recounted in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. Jim Hawkins has become an upstanding adventurous young man, attentive to those around him. Imagine his surprise when, one morning, he sees a parrot enter his bedroom window : none other than Captain Flint,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Treasure Island Inc., Coladia, Jim Hawkins, Jim, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Software downloads 2009-09-02
- Secret of the Lost Cavern 1.1.1 (Mac)
- Secret of the Lost Cavern plunges the player into an inspiring adventure that takes place during the Paleolithic period in prehistoric time, 15,000 years B.C. At this time, our ancestors were able to communicate with one another, create fire, cook meat, cut flint and make spears for hunting... They also...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Journey, Adventure, Wall, Coladia, Construction
- Software downloads 2009-09-02
- News to know: Nokia; Salesforce; Mozilla; Google; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and open source face-off...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Flaw, Palm Inc., Mozilla Corp., Keyboards, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Can you go without gadgets for a week?
- Can you go without gadgets for a week?Sure, I could do it...well, within reason I could. I probably wouldn't be too happy trying to go with dark-age-style gadgetlessness but today, if I was to shut off my computer, cell phone. ipod, etc, I think I'd be fine. Much of what...
- Tags: E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Swedish greentech will miss the Bush Admin
- The U.S. Ambassador to Sweden appointed by Bush will likely be replaced. And Swedish greentech companies will likely miss him. He took his cross-cultural duties seriously and worked to promote the Swedish greentech companies in the American market. That matters hugely because the U.S. population is over...
- Tags: Sweden, Biofuel, Administrator, Chrysler LLC, Michigan, Ambassador, Swedish Biogas, Chemrec, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- I won't have to blog about the Detroit automakers again until next year
- Congratulations, fellow American, you and I are now part-owners or at least managers in absentia of two of the most crippled manufacturing companies on earth--that being General Motors and Chrysler. Should we urge a merge? How many more billions of dollars will we fork over before this nightmare...
- Tags: Detroit, Blog, Chrysler LLC, Loan, T, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Economic crash = car crash in America
- Chrysler is stopping all auto production for at least a month, effective tomorrow. General Motors and Ford are going for longer holiday furloughs than usual. Ford added a third week to its holiday shutdown. GM is shutting over 20 auto plants for at least part of Q1 next...
- Tags: Car, General Motors Corp., GMAC, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Chrome loses beta label, tackles privacy
- Chrome loses beta label, tackles privacyHopefullyHopefully what this will mean is a superior web browsing experience for all concerned - the day when IE is relegated to almost nothingness will be the day when web developers will be liberated to use technology that has been available for quite some time...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Web browser, Google Inc., Web
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- Christmas Rock'n'Roll 1.0 (Mobile)
- Christmas is coming to Flint Island but the evil sky spirit clearly hasnt heard that this is supposed to be the season of goodwill! While stealing the childrens presents from under the Christmas tree he accidentally takes our hero Rock and will only let him go if his good friend...
- Tags: Mobile, Note, Tag Games, Christmas, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-11-25
- People lived in Paris 10,000 years ago!
- The theme of this post is slightly off focus of this blog. But it's not often that archeologists make an exciting discovery in my own town, Paris, France. In fact, these archeologists have found that human groups of hunter-gatherers were living in Paris around 7600 BC during the Mesolithic period....
- Tags: Paris, River, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?
- The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?Netbooks and SmartphonesThose keyboards on the smartphones are just too small for me to use effectively. I'll take a netbook and a cheap cellphone.RE: The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tI still see netbooks and smartphones as...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Notebooks, Handhelds, Netbooks, Laptop cannibalization, cannibalization, Smartphone, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday
- Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader MondayPrice PointAfter reading about Sony's attempt bust at an even lower price point, I wouldn't expect this to be successful either. At $399, you can get a fully functioning laptop and read all the eBooks and other media you want there.I don't think...
- Tags: E-books, PDA, e-book Reader, e-book, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Open source content moves forward
- Open source content moves forwardBarfliesIf you want to really see the process in action, start hanging out in Baen's Bar.[i]The Ram Rebellion[/i] isn't the first book, by any means, where authors relied heavily on reader participation before the fact. Before Baen and even before the Internet, quite a few...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- Open source content moves forward
- Right now I'm enjoying a sort of open source novel.1634: The Ram Rebellion has a standard, proprietary license on it. But it was produced through an open source process, a Web site where fans of Eric Flint's novel 1632Â expand on the alternate history universe he created.Many popular books have fan...
- Tags: publishing, Internet, General, Development, content, business models
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Multiplying "Hello World"
- Multiplying "Hello World"Guilty![i]...the programming language you think in shapes the algorithm choice and therefore affects both how you think about a problem and how you solve it - that's why COBOL programmers working in Perl usually just write COBOL using Perl notation.[/i]This is very true. When I first started...
- Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, C/C++, Now IT, Mark-Jason Dominus, Perl, COBOL
- Discussion threads 2007-06-05
- BBC to screen Second Life documentary in-world
- The Money Programme, a well respected and long running television documentary series from the BBC is to screen a special episode tomorrow, focusing on the virtual world Second Life, and it's burgeoning in-world economy. If you're in the UK, you can watch the show on television as normal, but appropriately,...
- Tags: Second Life, Virtual Worlds
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- ODF, OOXML...and now UOF?
- ODF, OOXML...and now UOF?Data representationWell I would say there is a well-founded standard theoretical model for data representation. On the basis of this standard watching Microsoft move from archaic methods where the only way you can get at the data is through the application to the almost as archaic hierarchical...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Few People, KARMA, Steve B, OOXML, Company-A, OpenDocument Format, Company B, UOF
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
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