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Microsoft exec shares some of the method behind the Windows 7 pricing madness

Microsoft exec shares some of the method behind the Windows 7 pricing madnessVista Ultimate to 7 UltimateI feel for the sake of those who paid $400 for Ultimate Retail before the price drop, they should keep upgrades free at least for a limited period of time. I simply didn't get...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 pricing madness, Windows 7 pricing, madness, pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Diebold ATMs infected with credit card skimming malware

Diebold ATMs infected with credit card skimming malwarethtas why i only use bank atms with my card and CC for everything elseThough cash is preferred.if they want a credit based world, they are going to have to protect it better.More reasons why Windows has no place periodAnother reason why Windows...

Tags: Network technology, Operating systems, NETWORKING, malware, Diebold Inc., credit card, ATM, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Cisco seeks for data center what Apple created with iPhone -- a new market that stops the madness

Cisco seeks for data center what Apple created with iPhone -- a new market that stops the madnessI see one big single point of failure.A small part of the data center goes down and the integrated rest of it fails as well.

Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, Apple iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

Extraordinary Collaboration Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Extraordinary Collaboration Delusions and the Madness of CrowdsRead about skunkworksA camel is a horse designed by committee.

Tags: Madness, camel, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security.  Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...

Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Prediction markets and the madness of crowds

Prediction markets and the madness of crowdsEntertainmentI can see the value in your suggestion as a form of entertainment, but unless you were somehow able to convince others of the accuracy of its predictive abilities, it would remain only a curiosity. And considering how many people in the world today...

Tags: Homeland security, Advertising & Promotion, madness, entertainment

Discussion threads 2007-02-14

Madness 5.0 (Windows)

Madness is an NCAA basketball tournament pool manager, which uses low-level, resolution-independent graphics to provide stunning presentation. Madness provides a robust leader board that offers graph or grid presentation and sophisticated scenario analysis options which hook right into the standard leader board. With exceptional print quality and customized scoring rules,...

Tags: Leader, Microsoft Windows, Analysis, Working Class Software, Madness, Leadership, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2000-12-22

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Falling behind in science? No kidding!

ScienceHow many people really know that you don?t throw up with the flu...Actually, according to Merck, nausea and vomiting are flu symptoms, particularly in children. http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec17/ch198/ch198d.html How many people realize that H1N1 vaccines are prepared in the same way as we always prepare flu vaccine?Actually this vaccine was...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, evolutionary theory, theory

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

jalada Rail Madness 1.0.0 (Mac)

Rail Madness brings the classic wooden rail on your computer. In this amusing game, you will live a funny adventure and depending on your driving reflexes, you will advance to the next levels. You become a virtual driver of a little railway engine and your challenge is to create the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wagon, Games, Policies And Procedures, Personal Technology, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Office 2010 Beta downloadable by MSDN, Technet subscribers today

MS was rightThe leaked 14.0.4514.1009 isn't Beta 2. It's actually 14.0.4514.1004! If that page is right, Beta 2 is actually older. This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened.http://windows7center.com/forums/office-2010/4949-office-professional-plus-2010-beta-x64-x86-now-msdn.htmlAgreed...just downloaded it with the same info. nt...RE: Office 2010 Beta downloadable by MSDN, Technet subscribers todayThe build...

Tags: Office 2010 Beta, Technet Subscriber, Office 2010, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Bloons Tower Defense for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Bloons Tower Defense for iPhone features all of favorite towers and upgrades, including the almighty super monkey. Battle your way through 50 challenging levels over 15 exciting tracks and unlock all the gold medals to become the tower defense master. It features five differently themed map packs with six classic...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Track, Mobile, Medal, Digital Goldfish, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Pinball Deluxe 1.0 (Windows)

Pinball Deluxe is an interesting arcade game for free. Enjoy the thrills and spills of a classic pinball game in our action packed remake. Take control of the flippers and try and keep the ball in play for as long as possible. Use the bouncers and bumpers to bounce your...

Tags: NowStat, Pinball Deluxe, Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Moonstone Madness 1.0 (Windows)

To win a Punununu competition you must ride a boar across the village and through swamps avoiding different obstacles and collecting the required number of moonstones. When you are riding the boar, the arrow keys serve to go faster/slower and to jump/crouch. Spacebar serves to hit the objects. Some objects...

Tags: NowStat, Spacebar, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-20

ATV Offroad 1.0 (Mobile)

See how far we've pushed the graphics envelope as you ride the new outdoor Nationals tracks. Tear up and down huge mountains with beautiful views of the horizon. Experience the rhythm-based style of racing we made famous with classic games like Motocross Madness and ATV Offroad Fury. Interested in extreme...

Tags: Mobile, 2XL Games, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-15

The EULA ... your views

The other day I called for an end of the EULA madness - the pages of meaningless legal gobbledygook that end users are expected to read, and agree to, when installing new software. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: EULA, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-10-09

News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Sony Vaio, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Eaton, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-09

It's time to bring the EULA madness to an end!

My gripe with EULA is when I'm patching software.Why do I need to read an EULA when I'm patching a piece of software (I'm looking at you iTunes)? Shouldn't the patch be covered under the same EULA agreed to when initially installing the software?As for understanding them I do. They...

Tags: EULA, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

It's time to bring the EULA madness to an end!

Why is it that every time I install a bit of software that I end up having to trawl through, or ignore, pages upon pages of seemingly meaningless legal gobbledygook collectively knows as the End User Licensing Agreement, or EULA? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: EULA, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-10-08