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Guy Steele's new programming language

Guy Steele's new programming languageEver heard of APL?Great for formulas.You can write in ASCIIAccording to the manual you can use ASCII keywords for all the special symbols. So if you were just using a text editor you would write it kind of like a conventional program. But if you used...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, ASCII, APL, Fortress, programming, programming language, Guy Steele

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

Views from the smartest people in Sun's orbit

A JavaOne panel with some of the smartest people orbiting Sun provided some insight into where Java, porgramming models, Google and man-machine relationships are heading. Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow and a key participant in Java's creation, talked about his latest language project, Fortress, which he described as "doing for...

Tags: Fortress, Sun Microsystems Inc., Danny Hillis, Guy Steele

Blog posts 2005-06-30

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Iceberg for students: developing made simple

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the enterprise side of Iceberg, check the post over at Enterprise Alley (that's right readers, I'm cheating on you). Some bits are the same and used in both entries; ain't easy posting the same thing for different audiences. ...

Tags: Web, Microsoft .NET, Server, Iceberg, Cynicism, Channel Management, Storage, Web 2.0, Databases, Marketing, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Silicon Valley's gender gap

Silicon Valley's gender gapGet to the point please...I'm sure she has some good things to say, if you can get through all the um's and uh's...found myself saying "get to the point", and "say something already" ...can you tell the guy listening to her is also having a hard...

Tags: Gender and diversity, gender gap

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Dell repair adventure, conclusion

Dell repair adventure, conclusion"less than optimal or expected"The phrase I have heard for this is "opportunity for improvement." Glad to hear your machine got fixed.Dell serviceDell has no where near the skill level of the old DEC field service reps and probably never will.I have had 3rd parties from...

Tags: Manufacturing, NEXT BEST, outsourced tech, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Intel's Nehalem gets a new name

Intel's Nehalem gets a new nameBecause Intel screwed up with VistaIntel, going from good guy to stinkers, twisting weak Microsoft's arm and screwing us generally with 'underperforming chips' for Vista owe us ...So, to redeem themselves, initial Core i7 processors in production in the fourth quarter will be at 3.2GHz...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Intel Nehalem, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Seinfeld

SeinfeldHow did this make it past focus groups?My theory is that they told the focus group subjects it was for a different company, and the subjects responded favorably. Therefore, we're all wrong and Microsoft is right.Wow, that's just brilliant!Windows' image is no longer tarnished. They are now being associated with...

Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Microsoft Student Technology Day UK

Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...

Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-04

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....

Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List

Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...

Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Facebook: when targeted ads cause offense

Facebook: when targeted ads cause offenseAs I have said before......anyone stupid enough to post all of their personal information on these lame social networking sites, disserves whatever comes their way.Don't whine. :-(RE: Facebook ads cause offenseyeah, all the Obama ads are getting tedious...Indeed...Not to mention make little to no sense......

Tags: advertisement, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Family entertainment act

Family entertainment actGnR"...from aperformance of such work in a motion picture exhibition facility,shall–..."My understanding was that the works in question were not aquired from a "peroformance"Am I wrong?I Didn't say that he wasn't guiltyHey Rich,While I'm glad one of my comments is sufficient to become a blog entry itself, apparently...

Tags: Sales strategy, marketing, sales, Family Entertainment, lawsuit, entertainment

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Linux netbook buyers are cheap and plentiful

Linux netbook buyers are cheap and plentifulYou do relize your ....... title states that it is the buyers that are cheap and plentiful, don't you? I don't know that I would classify them as such!Notebook vs Laptop>> A netbook is distinguished from a laptop by its size smaller, its...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, netbook, notebook, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'Very strong words...RE: Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'how did this music get to the web? everything that gets to the web should be free! go after the persons who do the uploading not the down loaders. it got there some how. how...

Tags: Piracy, album poster, Rot, RIAA, Cogill

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Revenge of the techies

Revenge of the techiesThink of it this way.You fired me, i had planned on living my life as it were, i might have a house and kids to take care of, you have essentially ruined me. Now it might not seem right to destroy and take information, but that...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Revenge, job

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...

Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

XenCare SoftLock (msi)

If you are using your computer system in a harmful way which could be as simple as clicking on an e-mail attachment from a stranger or visiting unknown Web sites, XenCare SoftLock can lock your system and protect from ever evolving threats not identified by conventional popular brand like Symantec,...

Tags: Guard, XenCare Software, Productivity, E-mail, Web Site Development, Viruses And Worms, Security, Branding, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-03

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we’re afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Enterprise buyers: Spare us the Web celebrities

Enterprise buyers: Spare us the Web celebritiesEnterprise buyers: Spare us the Web celebritiesI wouldn't read anything Micheal Arrington or TechCrunch has to say. The guy is an idiot and does nothing but whine all the time.Avoiding "no"What you have to remember about large enterprises is that there are 100...

Tags: Channel management, Enterprise Buyer, Web celebrity, social media, celebrity, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Code is law

Code is lawCopyrighted state codes?Any chance you could provide a list of states that do that? This is definitely something voters should know.RE: Code is lawReceived this from Carl and I tried to edit the post to get it right:***Usually, the states don't claim copyright but the people who...

Tags: Government, State Laws

Discussion threads 2008-09-02