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Pumping up the comp sci pipeline

Pumping up the comp sci pipelineWell...I'd think that unless ComSci is entrenched in schools initiatives like this conference will go the way of any other program that is outside the "core."So, how to get it into the core? It would seem that CTE is on the way to being declared...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Benefits, CSTA web site, grammar school

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

One more sign we're doing something wrong

One more sign we're doing something wrongYou stated the issue.First the kids learn the math and then they try to apply it your physics class. That's backwardsAll through high school any math beyond 2+2 just lost me. Then in college (against all my advisors recomendations.) I decided to...

Tags: grammar school

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Leading Scottish Grammar School Maintains High Standards Online

Hutchesons' Grammar School is Glasgow's largest independent school. It was established in 1641 and teaches more than 2,000 students aged three to 18 across its three sites. As part of the school's ongoing commitment to educational excellence, it wanted to create a Web site that: reflects the school's size and...

Tags: School, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Grammar School, Hutchesons, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Content Management, Channel Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2006-12-01

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News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home users

Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Apple invites press to 14 October notebook event

Apple invites press to 14 October notebook eventMy Bitterness May Finally EndI had the biggest sigh of relief today when I read the news of Oct 14. For months (years?) we've been wading through rumors and disappointment so to know that Apple will FINALLY give the non-iPhone/iPod community some attention...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, notebook event, Yay, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?

How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?RE: How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?apple make an 800 dollar laptop.... dont think so...maybe an 800 dollar netbook... that seems more in line with apple raping its customers...Maybe, maybe not.I know, it's a weak answer, but it really...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Apple Laptop, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology

It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...

Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computer

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computerprobably an arrogant kidI doubt that other kids don't wanna hang around with him due to his smartness. He probably likes to put other kids down trying to show-off himself. Why leave a computer logged into the school server? If you...

Tags: Kernell, e-mail, school computer, Palin

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Miss Chic (exe)

A vivid, stylish, glamorous girls; casual style game. While trying on new images, you'll learn to match styles and outfits, choose right colors and haircuts; get through a practical beauty school. It's high time to become lovely, beautiful, unique, fashionable, extravagant, elegant and refined, charming and delightful, posh and stunning,...

Tags: Divine, Meridian4, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computer

Hard-hitting news here: Sarah Palin's email wasn't the first time David Kernell applied guesswork to breaking into a computer system, Computerworld reports. The other incident allegedly occurred around 2000, when Kernell was in the seventh grade. Kernell and an accomplice guessed the password to a server...

Tags: Computer, Kernell, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Where are all the programmers?

I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...

Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry

No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...

Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Google is at your service

Google is at your serviceWe're not too clear on how an ISP worksI construct my web site then upload it to Google?Google holds every article,blog and comment entry forever?Google replaces my browser with theirs---Credibility is a trait that must be earnedHas Google earned that? To a very small degree, yes...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Teaching telecommuting

Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Teaching telecommuting

I had to commute this morning. I left the commuting behind about 5 years ago and dread the drive from middle-of-nowhere Massachusetts to Boston. We have a lot more horses than traffic jams out my way, so I've definitely lost my tolerance for traffic. The local troopers...

Tags: Boston, Tool, Telecommuting, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?

My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer  MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...

Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Google is your friend

Google is your friendThe underlying principles should determinewho is a freind, or who is not.There is nothing wrong with being a [b]for profit[/b] company, which is what Google is. It would be an entirely different issue should they hide their EULA agreements, or who they deal with, or what they...

Tags: Channel management, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07