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- Recreating 3.5 billion year-old genes
- A U.S. team of scientists wanted to determine what was the Earth's temperature several billions years ago. But because most of the team was composed of biologists, the researchers took an unusual approach. Instead of analyzing rock formations or measuring isotopes in fossils, they've 'resurrected' a variety of genes and...
- Tags: Earth, Protein, Environment, Gene, Opposite, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Pocket Outlook Mail Organizer (zip)
- As you know, Windows Mobile has an integrated email client called Pocket Outlook. It is fairly functional and meets the needs of the majority of users. However, it still lacks some useful features of its 'big brother'. Specifically, there is not sorting into folders. In fact, there are two problems...
- Tags: Message, Problem, Opposite, Pocket Outlook Mail Organizer, PDAs, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Desktops, Handhelds, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-12-25
- Microsoft, just give the protocols away
- Microsoft, just give the protocols awayI wonder sometimesif this isn't Microsoft's entire problem these days.[i]Microsoft just needs to trust that is the case, and resist the jitters which naturally comes from any attempt at tinkering with the cash machine that is Microsoft.[/i]They used to laugh at IBM because they couldn't...
- Tags: opposite, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- Ajax Design Patterns: Creating Web 2.0 Sites With Programming and Usability Patterns - Browser-Server Dialogue
- Call Tracking is about tracking calls and dealing with the asynchronous nature of Ajax. The next three patterns concern synchronization. With Periodic Refresh, the browser keeps requesting fresh information from the server. The opposite is Submission Throttling, where the browser keeps uploading new information to the server. An alternative to...
- Tags: Web, O'Reilly Media Inc., Web Browser, Programming, Call Tracking, Opposite, AJAX, Web Browsers, Servers, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Hardware
- Book chapters 2006-06-01
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- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3
- This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...
- Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal
- Lost in all of the inaccurate commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to...
- Tags: Platform, Plan, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, DDR3, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT Job
- GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT JobNot just CAFEI think it's more than CAFE, it's also the myriad of safety/crash regulations and other government requirements that the auto makers have to meet that makes it harder. How do you think the WWII jeep would do in a side impact test?...
- Tags: information technology, General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC, car
- Discussion threads 2008-11-08
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureYour definition of a video game console ...... must be any device on which games can be played. Cell phiones are thus the most popular consoles.For the term to mean anything, this defintion from Microsoft search is better:Definition of: video game console A specialized...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Microsoft Windows, console, game, game console, video game
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- No longer safe: WPA encryption cracked in 12 to 15 minutes
- It was only a matter of time. Sure, we can all expect that some hacker with enough time and processing power would eventually crack a WPA-protected wireless network to decrypt someone's precious data. But in 15 minutes? Yes sir, according to...
- Tags: WPA, Encryption, Erik Tews, Wi-Fi, Network Security, Wireless, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Ballmer calls Google's Android 'way behind'
- Ballmer calls Google's Android 'way behind'From what I understand Balmer was at first notimpressed with the iPhone and look at how good its doing:PPagan jimItanalyst2 Calls Ballmer's Fitness Level "Way Behind"Get on a treadmill you hog.RE: Ballmer calls Google's Android 'way behind'Christine Keeler - the prostitute at the heart of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Well Ballmer, Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Google Android, mobile, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Quantum Of Solace Screensaver (zip)
- Daniel Craig returns as agent 007 and stars opposite Judi Dench in this next installment of James Bond Quantum Of Solace. This screensaver features action audio and video clips from the movie in high definition for your desktop. Quantum Of Solace Screensaver includes the XVID video codec (required to properly...
- Tags: Screensaver, Quantum Corp., ScreenSaverAve
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software
- More optimistic views on the future of enterprise softwareBroad Brushes[i]So, let’s look at what’s tanking and try to find the solid, honest, well-managed sector that, despite its ability to deliver fair value and fair price, and reap fair profit, is dying on the vine: We can certainly exclude the bankers...
- Tags: Mortgages, enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is out
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is outTry the torrent instead, Adrian.I am using Shareaza to download the torrent instead of taxing the mirrors even further.Installed the RC of Ubuntu with Wubi.Now I am downloading the image of Kubuntu to test and see if KDE 4 is worth switching to before I...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.10
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Windows 7 - user interface is king
- Windows 7 - user interface is kingMaybe you should have used it a little more...You don't have to use XAML at all to build WPF apps. Every control, UI element etc is a .Net class, and if you like building up your object hierarchies with imperative code, then you can...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, XAML, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, markup, XML, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- The real health care change we need
- The real health care change we needThe HIPAA police are watchingIndeed medicine lacks quite a bit in the adoption of new tech. However, your doctor is quite correct in citing HIPAA as a big part of the problem. Unfortunately HIPAA was designed by, let's say, less technically literate folks and...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, HEALTHCARE, HIPAA, patient, patient information, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release
- Is it a major release or just a revamped Windows Vista? That's the big question surrounding Windows 7, which made its public debut in a keynote address by Steven Sinofsky today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft executives showed off the new Windows...
- Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows 7, Network, Window, Microsoft Windows Vista, Feature, PowerShell Scripting Language, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- The MacBook Pro's "glassy" screen and floating heads
- The MacBook Pro's "glassy" screen and floating headsThis is ridiculous...Why in God's name are people completely balking at the new MacBook simply because of the bloody screen? I've seen the new screen, inside a building, under very bright lights, and all I had to do to combat the glare...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, laptop computer, display, glare, Apple MacBook Pro
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- RIM: The next month is critical with Blackberry sales mixed
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs made it quite clear what company he wants to upend: Research in Motion. The next month will tell if RIM's response will be enough to silence the recently chatty Jobs. In fact, some analysts speculate that the next month will dictate RIM's performance in 2009 (and...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Storm, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Handhelds, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething — and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- First impressions of the Dell Inspiron Mini 12
- Dell has released its second Intel Atom-based laptop, the Inspiron Mini 12. Because it carries the Mini moniker and uses Atom, the Mini 12 is widely referred to as a netbook even though it blurs the lines with conventional laptops with its 12-inch display and Windows Vista Home Edition. The...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Laptop Computer, Intel Atom, Dell Inspiron, Mini 12, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
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