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Gates Foundation funds NC's New Schools

North Carolina schools have recently received a giant financial boost to develop areas such as biotechnology and information technology. The $10.4 million award from the Bill Gates Foundation, coupled with the $11 million award given three years ago, will allow North Carolina to expand its New Schools project....

Tags: high school, New School

Blog posts 2006-05-31

The architect and the new school

In his 1981 book From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe wrote eloquently about how a group of arrogant, ideologically driven individuals spent much of the post-World War II period filling American cities with spare, lifeless office buildings of glass-and-steel. These self-styled “visionaries” were indifferent at best or disdainful (at...

Tags: new school

Blog posts 2005-06-08

Police question man over Slammer worm

Police question man over Slammer wormGood news!Arrest the cyber-hooligans. Make 'em squirm knowing the harsh punishment they'll receive..The Old School gives way to the New School.Old School: "Clubs" of teenage/early 20's crackers.New School: 'developers' working for Eastern European organized crime.On another article a day or two ago, someone asked...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, New School, cracker, Old School, SQL Slammer

Discussion threads 2004-12-01

Additional Resources

Are small cars doomed to fail in the American market?

Well, Americans will at least buy cars that get better gas mileage, and aresmaller when gas prices rise. It was not that long ago that US manufacturers had big problems with people switching over to Japanese crossover SUVs when gas prices spiked.Maybe the very smallest and best gas mileage will...

Tags: standout, car, small car, SUV

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave by year-end

dump MSFT shares next yearafter the last bump in stock price you'll get from Win7. It's all downhill from there.Why are the shareholders so greedy?Currently MSFT has around 18-19 PE which is very reasonable. It's pretty high seeing that we are in the great global recession. I know that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Investment, Financial accounting, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., stock

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers

Maybe "law" can become a GDP driverNow that America has seen virtually every domestic industry go down the toilet, maybe it can provide law services to the rest of the world.If this self-righteous lawsuit is any indication, the is no need to fear the loss of American innovation and savvy;...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, EULA, Microsoft Corp., cheater, contractual obligation, terms of service, law firm, Microsoft Xbox

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Longman Advanced American Dictionary for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

Longman Advanced American Dictionary for iPhone features full contents of the Longman Advanced American Dictionary, 185,000 words, phrases and meanings, 73,000 natural examples show words in context, thesaurus boxes with 10,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words, 5000 etymologies help you learn the origins of words, 6,000 new words for school...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Word, Pearson Digital Learning, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Swords and Sorcery: Peregrine's Song 1.07 (Windows)

Swords and Sorcery: Peregrine's song, is inspired by New World Computing's Might and Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum. Fans of old-school games such as Bard's Tale, Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Master or Wizardry will also reconnect with familiar game style, typical of 80s 3D perspective titles. Experience fantasy...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Creative Lab, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Is it time to go quad-core?

I need a new laptop. My oldest son's laptop finally bit the dust, and he's pretty well attached to it, both for personal and school purposes. As a likely film major, my Mac would serve him well (at least through the first year of college, at which point he'll...

Tags: Quad-core, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-23

The medical home is reform without objections, so far

Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Falling behind in science? No kidding!

Our school district is providing H1N1 shots to any students whose parents request it. It's an easy way to build some so-called "herd immunity" in the age group most vulnerable to this particular flu strain. In fact, my 7-year old was the very first in the district to...

Tags: Vaccine, Flu, H1N1 Flu, Science Education, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Is Wikipedia maxed out?

Interesting....I don't see a reason Wikipedia would max out considering that every day new younger participants are entering the field. It's timeless relevance could diminish as new and younger editors focus on more up-to-date matters as Twitter, Sexting and Cloud computing, and less on the Roman Empire, the Great Depression...

Tags: Wiki, Achilles, Wikipedia, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement

For me, non-starterA crippled, incompatible, ad supported product makes little sense to me, when Open Office and Google are alternatives.ExactlyThere's already a portable version of OpenOffice that runs on a USB stick - nothing new here.The excluded formats are used in only about 1% of documentsIt is well-known that macros...

Tags: Starter, Microsoft Works, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Starter

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chrome OS: More questions than answers?

And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, operating system, Google Inc., Chrome, HTML5, Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for good

RE: Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for goodIf you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. -Bruce SchneierCommon sense & best practicesFirst off social networking sites are a DISASTER waiting to happen, private data into a...

Tags: password, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Statbook 3.2.2 (Mac)

Statbook allows you to keep track of baseball or softball statistics, and now, with version 3.1, basketball and soccer, all for the same low price of $20. Easily enter statistics and then customize reports and create an entire website with the click of a button. The program was originally developed...

Tags: Statistics, Apple Macintosh, Baseball, Pachyderm Software, Statbook, Games, Web Site Development, Team Management, Web Technology, Personal Technology, Internet, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-21

Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?

Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...

Tags: Desktops, desktop, Google Inc., bad cloud, Desktop Application

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?

MS is the past Google is the future so NopeGoogle is the old MS, MS is the old IBM. PC_DOS never made it, MS_DOS did. The driving factor was openness and innovation.Today and in the near future, Google has bothToday MS sees profit only and based on thatdrives...

Tags: Operating systems, Leadership, BOOT UP TIMES, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

TanzProfi 3.0.1 (Mac)

TanzProfi is the brand new dance studio management software. Using TanzProfi you can record your customer data, manage your dance courses and events, choose rooms for your courses and set up the time table for your dance school automatically. TanzProfi has been developed for Mac OS X, uses the integrated...

Tags: School, Apple Macintosh, Thomas Dingler, TanzProfi, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-20