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- 2007 Lincoln MKZ
- Photo gallery:2007 Lincoln MKZThe design of the 2007 Lincoln MKZ incorporates a subtle boldness we appreciate from an American carmaker. Too often, a company produces homogenous products designed to offend no one, which end up appealing to no one either, especially when that company is drowning in red ink. But...
- Tags: Lincoln, wineglass, LINCOLN MKZ, THX, speaker
- Product reviews 2007-06-06
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- The opportunities in search
- The opportunities in searchEr, Murph, we already talked about this.MSR Lincoln is [i]"Lincoln is a Microsoft Research prototype which allows you to search for information about an object by just taking a photo of it.Your photo is matched against a set of images tagged with relevant web pages and comments...
- Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Paris for President: Energy crisis solved
- Paris for President: Energy crisis solvedActually...[i] "Only problem with Paris’s solution: any production from offshore drilling won’t kick in for five years..."[/i]Unfortunately, this shows an ignorance of how gas prices are arrived at. While production from those sources won't arrive in the markets for five years, the prices will...
- Tags: Hilton Hotels Corp., Energy Crisis
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware
- Today's dynamic Internet threatscape is changing so rapidly, that the innovations and creativity applied by malware authors can easily render an information security course's curricular on malware outdated pretty fast, or worse, provide the students with a false feeling of situational awareness about today's malware that's driving the entire cybercrime...
- Tags: Malware, Antivirus Software, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Considering a Windows Innovation Demo
- Considering a Windows Innovation DemoA narrow mind never innovates....Well Mr. Murphy, if you weren’t so narrow minded and stuck in the 70’s you might actually understand why Microsoft, and others, are making billions and you are stuck blogging on ZDNET.What’s next, a blog on how Charles Babbage ripped off the...
- Tags: Linux, Blogging, C/C++, Programming languages, .NET, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Best Apple App Store apps
- Best Apple App Store appsNot a buyer but am a developerI'm working on a new 3G app called 'Rose Garden'. It gives any i-based phone user the chance to grow a host of flowers and fruits including the traditional long-stem rose variety... the object is to somehow find a...
- Tags: 3G, WIRELESS, App Store, ebook reader, Apple App Store app, Apple App Store, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away
- Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters awayBajeebersIt's amazing what people can do when they have a good enough reason.RE: Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters awayAlso see the article on the SPIE Newsroom website "Novel method for remotely detecting explosives" using a pulsed UV laser, from MIT Lincoln Lab. http://spie.org/x24953.xml
- Tags: laser
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- 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
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...
- Tags: Republic, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Salesforce.com: Why the model is working
- Salesforce.com reported strong fiscal fourth quarter results and indicated that it is notching some wins against the large software vendors. Why are things falling in line for Salesforce.com? First the numbers, Salesforce.com reported fourth quarter earnings of 6 cents a share on revenue of $216.9 million, up...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer-relationship Management Software, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Pakistan+on+the+YouTube+black+hole%3A+Never+mind
- Pakistan+on+the+YouTube+black+hole%3A+Never+mindWhen will people live and let live?If these Pakistanis are really sorry, they should cut a check for their mess up, for all those folk's time out there. If they are not that sorry, fine them or put them in isolation for awhile.Soooo...So essentially what you're saying is Pakistan is...
- Tags: Government, YouTube Inc., invisible friend, religion, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted
- As discontent over Windows Vista (with or without Service Pack 1) continues to swirl, Microsoft is gearing up to launch on February 27 the "other" Windows: Windows Server 2008. Even though it is built from the same core as Vista, Windows Server is different from Vista in a number of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, General Motors Corp., Jason Perlow, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Workstations, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper (zip)
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper is an open source, multi-platform timer for speech and debate competitions. It has speech order and time limits preprogrammed for Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum, World Schools, Karl Popper, and miscellaneous debate formats as well as individual events. This timer gives visual and/or vocal time signals...
- Tags: Speech, Open Source
- Software downloads 2008-02-13
- Ballmer outlines Microsoft's eight long-term growth bets
- Ballmer outlines Microsoft's eight long-term growth betsAwesome speech...My rep and I flew in First Class to see this. I decided to miss the Super Bowl and attend a Windows Server 2008/Vista SP1 "Better Together" wine and cheese function on Sunday night. I heard the game was close, but not nearly...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating systems, Handhelds, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., long-term growth bet, growth bet
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Protectionism never works
- Protectionism never worksNow if you can just convince...those in the unemployment line that have lost their jobs to outsourcing... Or the parents of kids who have been chewing on lead based painted toys from China.Totally free markets work only in perfect economic models. The true answer lies in the middle...
- Tags: Protectionism, Daimler AG, free trade
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?
- Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?Well, well, well...Maybe our execs will quit selling us out for the sake of "cost cutting". Of course, I'm sure they will find some other reason, and another way to short the American IT worker.RE: Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?C'mon, folks......
- Tags: Benefits, cost-saving location, cost savings
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Is open just another word for nothing left to lose?
- Is open just another word for nothing left to lose?ATT vs Verizon on opennessWe'll see how open they are based on which devices they approve or reject and how quickly they respond to requests for approval.Other than that I think they have every right to require pre-testing as the devices/apps...
- Tags: ATT, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-08
- For those of us who forget to turn off the lights
- As a relative newbie to the green tech beat and therefore the energy beat in generally, I am still surprised by how many of the terms that the insiders use harken back to farming. People talk about "feedstock" for generators. There are nuclear "silos," of course. And there's daylight "harvesting,"...
- Tags: Daylight, Light, Axis, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- House rejects immunity for phone companies in spy suits
- House rejects immunity for phone companies in spy suitsbettersell your stock in those who are involved.....Abe Lincoln Said it BestHer are a couple of quotes from the first Republican President:"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, immunity, phone company, government, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- China's cyberwar: Is it all that surprising?
- China's cyberwar: Is it all that surprising?Why blog about it?Who cares? As long as Americans continue to be in love with the "sell for less" concept that essentially equals buying products made in China because you can save a couple bucks, they are in no position to complain about what...
- Tags: irony, cyberwar, free trade, IS IT, Cuba
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
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