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- Fusion, or confusion?
- Fusion, or confusion?Fusion could be feasibleThere are a few very steep problems to over come in terrestrial fusion. The biggest I have heard of was creating a field capable of forming a dense sphere of hydrogen. In space gravity over a long period of time causes a mass of hydrogen...
- Tags: hydrogen, environmentalist, fusion, fusion reaction
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- Nuclear fusion as future power source
- Nuclear fusion as future power sourceok, so the radio waves allow them to control the plasma.. butdoes it allow the fusion reactor to actually produce more energy than it takes to run?Not quite accurateFusion reactors are not emissions free. They produce hard neutron radiation during operation. Some of this can...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Fusion Reactor, fusion reaction, Nuclear Fusion, hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
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- What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week
- Watch for movement on these matters Last night, Oracle’s annual mega event, Oracle Open World, opened. This event draws some 37,000 people to San Francisco to hear, see and speak all things Oracle. With the keynotes starting in mere minutes, I thought I’d offer up my thoughts...
- Tags: Probability, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Open World, Software As A Service (SaaS), Databases, Managed Hosting, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy
- Business ToolsI recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.Patriciahttp://dataentryjob-s.comdude, you can't even spell his name rightits KANYE...
- Tags: Kanye West, Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Latest "Laptop Hunter" ad - Lauren and Mom
- Latest "Laptop Hunter" ad - Lauren and MomWhy do we need a commercial...to prove what everybody has known for years, that Apple computers are rip-offs.Um, same name, different women...These are two different Laurens... And the Lauren in this add is not helping her mom, she's buying the laptop herself, for...
- Tags: advertisement, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp., Now Microsoft, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Fusion, or confusion?
- Laser chamber. National Ignition Facility, Livermore. An MSM columnist seems to be touting fusion as a future cure for our energy problems. Turning mass into energy. E=mc2. Fusion powers the planet as it does our Sun. Nirvana for all except the oil...
- Tags: Fusion, Wiki, Online Communications, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Nuclear fusion as future power source
- MIT researchers have used their Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor, in operation since 1993, to bring the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality. As you probably know, fusion is the reaction that produces the sun's energy and it has an 'enormous potential for future...
- Tags: Plasma, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Fusion, Fusion Reactor, V, Construction, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Where flash belongs
- Putting flash into disk packaging, while convenient, is sub-optimal. Disk latency is so great that no one worries about adding a few hundred microseconds to an I/O. But once you've got low-latency storage those microseconds start to add up. But I didn't really get the underlying advantage...
- Tags: Disk, Latency, I/O, Disk Latency, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- The kids like Vista
- The kids like VistaWhy did you toss that in?You were doing well until you reached:Most kids have largely recognized what only a small number of adults have come to grips with: the OS is irrelevant. It's all about the web browser, folks. Google Docs, Zoho, and OpenOffice all work quite...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- 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
- Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaks
- Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaksWe certainly do know what to do with the waste.The waste from fission reactors can be reprocessed to recover unused fuel, while the rest can be condensed and stored. We have a waste repository waiting in Nevada (you know, the place...
- Tags: leak, renaissance, nuclear energy, Nuclear renaissance, Nuclear Waste
- Discussion threads 2008-08-10
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?Sure it canIf you are using gnome (Ubuntu's default desktop envrionment) just go to gnomelook.org and look at the screen shots people have posted. There are a lot of creative folks out there. It's pretty easy to make gnome look and act like auqa....
- Tags: Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Compiz-fusion, Even Linux, Ubuntu, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- My kid hates Linux
- My kid hates LinuxPlease avoid AutomatixAutomatix has ruined many a system, especially after processing regular updates. The cause of a lot of mysterious and unsolvable problem reports on the Ubuntu fora.Thank God that the Automatix project has been abandoned and won't be available for Ubuntu 8.04. Furthermore, there is no...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Automatix, Linux, Ubuntu 8.04
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- SAP under the microscope post Agassi
- The departure of SAPs Shai Agassi may not change much for the enterprise software companys daily operations, but the company is likely to be examined more closely now that its software architect is gone. On Wednesday, SAP announced that Agassi...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, SAP AG, Shai Agassi
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- TechNet takes on green energy agenda
- TechNet takes on green energy agendaGuess they forgot aboutall that nuclear waste with minimum 10000 year half life.Whatever happened to the multi billion dollar federal project to build long term storage facilities for this stuff that has yet to work and had all kinds of problems with leaks and what...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, nuclear energy, fission, fusion, Nuclear Power Plant, Microsoft TechNet
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Filming molecules of hydrogen
- I doubt that youll be able to take pictures of hydrogen molecules with your digital camera anytime soon, but German researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have done it. Theyve shot photos of a molecule of deuterium using ultrashort laser pulses. In order to do this, theyve...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, molecule
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- HP CEO Mark Hurd offers his formula for fixing IT
- Preceded by blasting heavy metal and a new Madonna song "Sorry," with lyrics about being sorry for lying (he didn't choose the music), HP CEO Mark Hurd made his first major appearance in the post-HPGate era. In his OracleWorld keynote address, Hurd started out by saying he hadn't executed a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- About face: The re-architecting of Oracle’s Fusion strategy
- About face: The re-architecting of Oracle’s Fusion strategyEnterprises need Software as a WEB ServiceForget the monolithic ERPs, Fortune 500 companies need Software as a WEB Service. We need flexible, agile, point solutions.Creates as many questions as it answersSo, this is good news on the surface: no one needs to ditch...
- Tags: Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, Application servers, strategy, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- Road rally hawks hydrogen cars
- Road rally hawks hydrogen carsSafety?I do not want to drive a car that could end-up like Hindenburg Zeppelin.FantasyAbsolutely amazing the fantasy people are buying into.10,000 PSI?!? Why don't you just strap a bomb to the car?Eliminate dependence on foreign oil? And just where do you think the power is going...
- Tags: hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2005-09-30
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