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- Why tech jobs are beating the employment odds
- Why tech jobs are beating the employment oddsCan somebody tell me whenan economist has ever called it right? Every piece of economic news includes the line "more than" or "less than" what economists predicted.Why do we even listen to these folks?I'd have just put it more brutally...US companies have wanted...
- Tags: employment odd, tech job
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4
- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.Get the environazi boot of our neck.Build more refineries.Reduce government regulations.Eliminate the Endangered Species Act.Build more dams for flood control.Build more highways to relieve traffic congestion.Relax nuclear power plant requirements to build more reactors.Your mindset is...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, vision, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users loseCompetition?Does Viacom think that a 10 minute pixellated clip of a show or movie is really competition for seeing the entire show/movie on a TV or big screen? This is getting ridiculous. If anything, having these clips on YouTube is free...
- Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Viacom Inc., Google IP, YouTube Inc., IP, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Laser-aided software for tunnel construction
- If you ever have cruised on California's Highway 1, you know it offers spectacular views of the Pacific ocean. But several areas of this road are potentially dangerous because they can be affected by landslides. This is why the U.S. National Science Foundation NSF is helping the California Department of...
- Tags: Software, National Science Foundation, Tunnel, Laser, gVT, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Colormancer (zip)
- Colormancer is a color enhancement filter for Adobe Photoshop. It allows photographers to breathe life into their images through tweaking the contrast, brightness, and saturation. Advanced color science The filter is designed to sacrifice speed in order to avoid shortcuts in processing color. It uses linear light processing to ensure...
- Tags: Image, Colormancer
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A ComputerThinking Machines Are Truly Science FictionMan can never build / create anything more intelligent than himself: natural law prevents this from happening. It is the lack of recognition of the law which states that nothing can create something substantially greater than itself, which...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- A nice customer service experience with Dell?
- Our central office needs a new server. Configuration is hardly rocket science: it's a mission critical application, DNS, and DHCP server, as well as a domain controller for the office. Fortunately, there are never more than 10 people accessing it, so a single server can get the job...
- Tags: Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA
- Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...
- Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?
- Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?physics is not a fundamental application of mathsPhysics is the basis for understanding any physical phenomenon. I do not see any sense in studying biology w/o a strong physics curriculum, as w/o physics you will have a hard time understanding what...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, raw deal
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?
- A British study, as reported by the BBC has found that physics is not only being taught less and less by those who specialize in the subject, but also not emphasized outside of a general science curriculum. While the research is focused on the UK, it brings up some...
- Tags: Physics, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Cell phones tracking nightlife activity
- A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town....
- Tags: Application, Phone, Columbia University, Cell Phone, Macrosense, GPS, Cellular Phones, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- "IT is boring," scoff students
- "IT is boring," scoff studentsIT is like any other career.Some of it is interesting and some of it is boring. There is also a misconception that once you have a degree in computer science you are automatically the cats meow. That is, IT graduates don't believe they need to pay...
- Tags: Professional development, Outsourcing, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- What programming language should we teach?
- What programming language should we teach?Re: What programming language should we teach?How about Javascript? No, seriously... it's free, it's cross-platform, it's already available on virtually ANY computer without needing to install anything at all, it's not terribly complicated, and it greatly resembles many of the other languages in use.When it...
- Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, C#, Scripting languages, programming, programming language
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- What programming language should we teach?
- I had a discussion shortly before the end of the year with one of our exchange students regarding a programming class I wanted to teach. My goal was simply to introduce programming concepts and algorithmic thinking. Heck, I'd be happy if the kids could walk out of the...
- Tags: Java, Programming Language, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- The French way to open source
- The French way to open sourceTop down short term thinking will harm youAnd you vote for the idiots who don't listen.RE: The French way to open sourceDana - I agree that if OSS is to grow past its current niche in servers and developing nations who mistrust US high-tech companies...
- Tags: French way, open source, OSS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic Ocean
- Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic OceanThey're having similar problems on Mars.Seems the polar ice caps on Mars are warming and thawing as well.It must be all of those CO2 spewing space probes we've sent there.Funny thing is...the level of CO2 in the Martian atmosphere is something to the...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide, ice cap
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic Ocean
- This map of Greenland at end of last year, courtesy NASA. This may the first time in history that the North Pole is open water, not ice. We've blogged about the disappearing ice cap on Greenland, and the opening of the northwest passage between...
- Tags: Ice, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- What do the British really believe about global warming?
- What do the British really believe about global warming?lolu got ot be kidding meRE: What do the British really believe about global warming?You have got to be kidding! I can not remember when it really snowed properly in the UK, we are seeing greater instances or extreme weather such...
- Tags: Now Let, global warming, climate change, British Public
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
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