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Pols fighting over greenhouse gas, emit hot air

Pols fighting over greenhouse gas, emit hot airI personally hope that they fight FOREVER on this issueAnd nothing gets done, because global warming and 'greenhouse gases' are the biggest scare since global cooling 20 years ago.Rush, is that you?Hoping for someone to fail? Congress moves slow enough - without adding...

Tags: Pol, Forever, greenhouse gas

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

News to know: Terabyte drives; Motorola whacked; Pols in Second Life

News to know: Terabyte drives; Motorola whacked; Pols in Second LifeLinkYour terabyte drive story link is bad.fixedthanks for the catch

Tags: Pol, Second Life, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-01-05

Google, feds face off over search records

Google, feds face off over search recordsCan't there be a compromise?Isn't there a way to satisfy both parties? In my opinion, the ACLU will not be satisfied unless things are 100% unprotected and 100% unregulated, but here's my suggestion, anyway.Why doesn't the government pass a law that more effectively...

Tags: Government, INTERNET, lib, pol, med, org, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-03-14

Additional Resources

Will more expensive gasoline be the salvation of General Motors?

GM's now saying the fuel efficiency for their plug-in volt will be the equivalent of 230 MPG in city driving. If the EPA concurs that would make the 2010 Volt the first mass-produced car to top the triple-digit MPG barrier. Volt. This preliminary 230...

Tags: Car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, General Motors Corp., Volt, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Craigslist becomes political pinata

Craigslist becomes political pinataCraigs List Last time I checked The Washington Post and the Yellow Book in this area the ads there were nothing like what is posted in the Wash DC Erotic Services section of Craigs. A photo of a naked woman on her knees giving a blow...

Tags: Craigslist, Craigs List, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

Craigslist becomes political pinata

If you're a pol who wants to garner some headlines there's one easy route to news coverage: Kick Craigslist. Now it's South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster's turn (Techmeme, statement, letter to Craigslist). McMaster has informed Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster see his reply that he has to remove...

Tags: South Carolina, Craigslist, McMaster, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-06

The Journey Forward: Passive Optical LAN for the Corporate Wide Enterprise - How Passive Optical LAN Solutions Enable The-Journey to Enterprise IT Resource Optimization

These days, virtually everyone who works in an office environment is struggling with the enterprise-wide mandate to do more work with less money and resources. Based on the same proven and standards based technology as Verizon's successful FiOS service, a Passive Optical LAN POL is a point-to-multipoint network in which...

Tags: Optimization, Information Technology, Network Connection, Motorola Inc., LANs, Network Technology, Ethernet, Networking

White papers 2009-05-01

Transformation of the Enterprise Network Using Passive Optical LAN

The rapid growth of bandwidth requirements and the changing role of enterprise networking are causing disruptive change in the enterprise Local Area Network LAN. Incumbent vendors are recommending upgrading Ethernet switches to 10 Giga-bit Ethernet GbE uplinks which typically require single-mode rather than multimode fiber optic cable and replacement of...

Tags: Enterprise Network, TCO, Motorola Inc., Ethernet, Roi/Tco, Network Technology, Networking, LANs, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-05-01

Can open source make Apple deal with Adobe?

Can open source make Apple deal with Adobe?Apple is becoming more and more irrelevantIf Apple thinks it will be immune to the pressures that open source are applying to Microsoft, they are drinking far too much of their own kool-aid. Apple has no answer to Android, nor does it have...

Tags: Desktops, open source, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presidency

Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama PresidencyAm I the only one creeped out by this posterIt looks just a little bit too much like this one.http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/LENIN%203.jpglyvegyde - links to live, inaugural webcastsMy brother and I created a website called lyvegyde (http://www.lyvegyde.com) that provides links to live, online events....

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Internet Streaming, Interactive Introduction, Internet Inauguration, Obama Presidency, Interactive, TV, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

Why "cheap" energy is really costly in the long run

The TVA coal sludge mess is like most disaster stories. In the first days estimates get continually worse until something close to realistic appraisal is reached. Then the lawsuits and finger-pointing begin. We've just hit that stage. TVA is now facing lawsuits. ...

Tags: Ash, Coal, TVA, Coal Ash, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-02

This is a Corker: Detroit's Shrinking Three may get help from feds

A junior Republican senator has crafted a plan that has a business-ignorant, vacation-thirsty Congress looking for a fast vote and a plane home. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn) has a direct three-prong plan: cut union wages to match those at foreign-owned, non-union plants in the US, reduce the value of...

Tags: Payment, U.S. Congress, Duck, House, Operational Accounting, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-11

Kindle Economics

Kindle EconomicsMainstreamI own a kindle and I love it. However, at it's current price point it is only appropriate for a) people who read tons of books and can justify the purchase I know of very few people who read so avidly or b) people with a lot of disposable...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Notebooks, Fermi, Kindle Economics, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Canadian pol demands rural Net access as a 'human right'

Canadian pol demands rural Net access as a 'human right'HMC will go along with itThis country is so screwed up when it comes to human rights, I would not be surprised in the least if they agree wih Carr. After all, it is not "fair" that people who live in...

Tags: Internet access

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

Canadian pol demands rural Net access as a 'human right'

Internet access is a human right! So argues Canadian Tory candidate Jack Carr, who has filed a complaint with the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission over the lack of Net in rural parts of the province, the Daily Gleaner reports. "It is...

Tags: Internet Access, Complaint, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-21

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...

Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Is Apple good or evil?

Is Apple good or evil?Rotten to the Core nt.Who cares?The debate of "good vs evil" for companies is getting a bit tired. Since we did we start treating companies like superheroes? Every company has its good and bad points. Can we just leave it at that and quit talking like...

Tags: Apple Inc., Evil

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Bali highs and lows

The big climate change enviro-bash continues in Bali. Here's the conference's official website. Tomorrow BaliTalk enters the final phase with ministerial level participants arriving (that's Cabinet-level to us Yanks). It's not likely there'll be a big international agreement out of this conference even though it's aimed at finding the...

Tags: U.S., China, Associated Press, Story, Headline, Conference, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Politician files charge over Nazi symbols on Wikipedia

Politician files charge over Nazi symbols on WikipediaWasn't the Pope part of Hitler's Nazi kids?I don't mean disrespect for the Pope, but wasn't that the case that he was one of the Hitler's youth group?People have to understand that the internet is GLOBAL. If you don't want it displayed...

Tags: World War, Nazi, Hitler, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Path Of Least Resistance (POL-R) 1.01 (Windows)

In POL-R Path Of Least Resistance you must prevent as many drips from successfully completing their natural trip down the game board. You've got to think fast, predict where the drips will go, and block them all as the game evolves. Colorful, fast paced, and many different difficulty levels to...

Tags: Board, Drip, Sethland, Corporate Governance, Games, Microsoft Windows, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-04