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The new railroad era?

The new railroad era?Is this a joke?Trains, the entire infrastructure is in shambles, the railroads died about 20 years ago.More Obongo socialism to put the future generation in debt for 100 years.good grief, someone call Al Gore, the train will destroythe environment and cause us to self destruct!The horror, the...

Tags: railroad, railroad era, new railroad era, car

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

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Next-gen AMD Radeon GPU powers six 30" displays

But will it Fold?My version of "Can it Play Crysis"What were they thinking?It takes 7680x4320 for UHDTV. This is what they should have shot for. It's such a shame to far just short of it. Oh well they can fix it when they double it because to be...

Tags: Games, TVs, Monitors & displays, AMD Radeon GPU, GPU, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

The new railroad era?

Will Americans become train trained? Europe and Japan have long had high-speed rail systems linking major metro areas. Can America rediscover rails or are we too much in love with the shoeless security probes and two-hour waits at the local airport? President Obama wants to...

Tags: Barack Obama, Mph, Health Care, Speed, Rail, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Underwater Cloud Break

In my previous post I discussed how historically railways were the supply chain backbone of the US economy as was the case with many other nations 120 years ago. Globally the internet is remarkably similar today: although we tend to think of it...

Tags: UK Guardian Newspaper, Internet, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-30

Information Age versus Tactile Experience

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, an early stage fund specializing in investing in IT enabled services 'that have the potential to change the structure of markets', blogged ideas yesterday about the internet's disruption of retail. This is epitomized by the sad state of...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Mail-order, Internet, Sales Strategy, Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-27

Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutional

Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutionalBad, bad decisionThat court is flat-out wrong. Spam has nothing to do with the First Amendment. No one has any "right" to put their email on any server, period. It has ZERO to do with content.Spammers should pay.Perhaps...

Tags: Spam, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Publius, spammer, antispam law, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2008-09-13

Is GPS liability next?

Is GPS liability next?RE: Is GPS liability next?The driver is the one at fault, not the maker of the GPS. It was their lack of driving skill if anything that got the car stuck, not the GPS.GPS Provider should not be liableThe GPS providers offer a device that provide...

Tags: Handhelds, GPS Software, GPS, GPS liability

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

FirstGov gets into holiday (sales) spirit

Every retailer in the world works hard to take maximum advantage of the holiday season - and Uncle Sam is no exception. Over at FirstGov.gov, citizen-consumers can meander through a shopping site that includes books, museum souvenirs, holiday ornaments, folk recordings, jewelry, art and souvenirs. For example, the...

Tags: Martha Dorris, FirstGov, Government technology, GSA

Blog posts 2006-12-20

Is there an economics of demand-side scarcity?

There's a debate about the meaning of economic scarcity going on all over the Web, most recently set off by Chris Anderson's "Economy of Abundance" talk at Pop!Tech, that David Hornik and Ross Mayfield have commented on and Doc Searls began talking about a while back when he introduced the...

Tags: Chandler

Blog posts 2006-10-27