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- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reformOur health insurance dollars at workIn this case, patents allow medical equipment companies to charge premium prices to medical offices and hospitals, who pass the costs on to insurers, who pass the costs on to employers and taxpayers. Eventually, it's the patients who...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Benefits, patent, Jefferson
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
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- ADD makes dieting harder
- ADD makes dieting harderI comiserateI struggle to keep an appointment book, but how well do you do with daily exercise routines?Interesting fact I got out of David McCullough's biography of John Adams: Thomas Jefferson kept track of every penny he spent for most of his life, but still couldn't get...
- Tags: Keeping Track, John Adams, David McCullough
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Achieving magical results in IT
- Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded age
- The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded ageLump of Coal or Coke to build the next empireAlthough from the past, I do recall in my mind the perception of comparing Gates to Carnegie. I never realized the connection all this time, esp. given what you report (i.e. backgrounds, culture, beliefs,...
- Tags: Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Woodruff, Carnegie, Coke
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discoveryPatents are the greatest threat to the software industryIt should be written in our constitution, that no idea should be able to be patented or receive some kind of legal protection - only the [b]implementation[/b] of the ideas. Virtually every software developer is...
- Tags: patent
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Got science?
- Got science?Great article!I'd love to believe that a political regime change (that we'll hopefully see in November) can bring us some progress in this area. Hopefully not more business as usual if the Dems can be believed. We'll see.Chris DawsonLeading Nuclear Research is now done in...India.Remember when the...
- Tags: Nuclear Research, ozone, Thomas Jefferson
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Neil Young gives his name to a spider
- Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University ECU professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...
- Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Earth Day – have a gas
- Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...
- Tags: Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?
- Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?give me IntelI would pay more for the Intel Q6600 because it has been out in the market longer with no serious issues unlike the phenom processor.RE: Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?We...
- Tags: Processors, Phenom, quad, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., dual-core
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- Big storage is watching you
- Kudos to Larry Dignan for an informative post on the system that caught NY governor Eliot Spitzer canoodling with a prostitute. Modern information technology enables 24 hour surveillance of every citizen. Should we care? Of course not. Every citizen is a potential terrorist. You want to...
- Tags: Database, President, Surveillance, Information Technology, Storage, Personal Responsibility, GPS, Government, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- California court order effectively erases Wikileaks
- California court order effectively erases WikileaksOh yes! Judges are so wonderful! *sweet*LOL!Judges are so wonderful who are so illiterate in computer technology and the Internet... :D ]:)Aren't judges wonderful?I think everyone should have one or two in their pocket (like many large organizations obviously do.)InternationalThey need to register the site...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Currency & Foreign exchange, Pandora, Constitution, GW Bush, Wikileaks, California Court
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Surveillance cuts both ways
- Surveillance cuts both waysExcellent readI wish there was more we could do to combat improper government activity but it is good to see someone suggest possibilities. As a veteran your last statement was the most touching to me.Nothing to hide?Only an honest government with nothing to hide is notafraid...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Surveilance, camera
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Big Telco wants to ream you with "deep packet inspection"
- Big Telco wants to ream you with "deep packet inspection"You just don't get itWhat's good for AT&T is good for America. Internet traffic isn't the only potential gold mine, by the way: monitoring your telephone calls has vast potential for revolutionary new services.For instance, if you call an auto...
- Tags: Government, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Eternal Vigilance, Big Telco, deep packet inspection, packet inspection, telecommunications company, MSE
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- School District Enhances Educational Experience With Improved Technology Tools
- Jefferson County Public Schools wanted to increase its teachers' use of and comfort with technology for a more dynamic classroom environment. The district opted to standardize on Tablet PCs running the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, rather than desktop or portable computers running Mac OS X or Windows...
- Tags: District, Teacher, Tool, School District, Tablets, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Mac OS X, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Open Source Microsoft, plus an iPhone SDK
- Open Source Microsoft, plus an iPhone SDKI expect patent holders will enforce......otherwise, what's the point to holding one? The real questions are:1. Should the patents have been granted in the first place?2. Does the existing patent system actually promote the progress of science and the useful arts,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, SDK, open source, patent, Microsoft Corp., patent-owning company
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Jobs to $599 iPhone buyers: that's tough. He's right, you know
- In Thursday morning's USAToday, you'll find an interview with Steve Jobs. Steve essentially says that if you paid the full $599 price for an iPhone more than two weeks ago, and on or close to the June 29 craziness, well, then you should...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Product, Holiday Season, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Stallman's dream and GPLv3
- Stallman's dream and GPLv3You begin with a false premis"If you don't share his views, and work in the propriety software industry, then this might be a very scary thing."I don't believe anyone is "scared" by Stallman, his views, or open source. No more than they scared by the whacko...
- Tags: Linux, Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Wind River VxWorks, GPLv3, Free Software Foundation, Stallman, software
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Sun sets on SunRocket
- SunRocket, an innovative VoIP service that claimed 200,000 subscribers, announced today that it is closing for good this evening.As of now, the site's up but as if that tells us something. Could stay up for months as a frozen moment in time.Yet meanwhile:Om notes that this morning, Sonya Jefferson, then...
- Tags: News
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Jobs, AT&T's Stephenson:no problems anticipated
- For an article in today's USA Today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and AT&T Wireless CEO Randall Stephenson sat down with USA Today's Jefferson Graham to talk about the big day- iPhone's first day of sale at Apple retail outlets, AT&T Wireless stores and online.Supply chain issues informed some of their dialogue:Q:...
- Tags: SBC-AT&, T, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
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