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- Singularity Summit 2007: Dancing with Dr. Doom
- Singularity Summit 2007: Dancing with Dr. DoomThem vs UsThe thing that Dr. Doom and others concerned about the eventual takeover and/or deadly plundering or blundering by our cybernetic overlords fail to bear in mind is that these are extensions of our own intelligence, essentially our progeny - they are us,...
- Tags: progeny, Singularity Summit 2007
- Discussion threads 2007-09-08
- Progeny Linux leader takes new job
- Progeny Linux leader takes new jobadviser?never heard of that position. i assume he meant advisor. but nonetheless, im the first post. so nyah!Legitimate spellinghttp://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=define:adviser&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8And no one cares if you're the first poster. Grow up.
- Tags: Leadership, Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Progeny Linux leader, Progeny, leader, job
- Discussion threads 2006-02-18
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- The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying
- This Cablevision decision looks like it may make its way to the Supreme Court on questions of the interpretation of the Copyright Act, so I'd like to take an in-depth look at the decision PDF. It's long so I'm dividing it into several posts. Technology First...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Buffer, DVR, Memory, Digital Video, Development Tools, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Spike in enterprise 'events' spurs debut of Event Processing Technical Society
- The recent growth -- and expected spike -- in business event data in enterprises has led a group of IT industry leaders to form the Event Processing Technical Society EPTS, designed to encourage adoption and effective use of event processing methods and technology in applications. Among the...
- Tags: Event, Podcasts, Utility Computing, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emerge
- D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emergeMicrosoft should not emulate appleMacintosh sales come from iPod sales which come from aggressive marketing campaigns. Microsoft needs to ignore Apple and focus on improving software that people use to get the work done. While the Apple may have cornered beatnik and trendy...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Microsoft opens philosophical can of worms with Live Search Cashback
- Talk is bubbling up across the blogosphere, Gillmor Gang and Techmeme daily about social graph personal information. This may be among the most important discussions and topics of our time. How the "social mesh" works out now will affect our lives and businesses for a long time. It may even...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Data, Agreement, Commerce, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Data Portability, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- NYC prosecutors back ban on sex predators
- NYC prosecutors back ban on sex predatorsI'm torn on this issueBeing the father of an 11yo daughter who uses facebook & myspace, I want her to be protected. She is not allowed to talk to anyone online who she doesn't know in real life. I monitor her usage, and she...
- Tags: sex predator, sexual offender, sex offender, offender
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Voyage Century Online (exe)
- Voyage Century is the first 3D nautical online game in MMORPG history, gives priority to scene of sea, with scene of land as supplement. The story in Voyage Century Online begins on Mediterranean Sea from 16th Century a pivotal episode in history which big powers played the despot and great...
- Tags: Internet Gaming Gate, Voyage Century, Internet, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-12-29
- Busy weekend: Kindle and Facebook beatings
- Robert Scoble spent the last week giving his new Amazon Kindle ebook reader a test drive, reading a couple of books and declaring the progeny of Jeff Bezos a failure. He thinks the usability and user interface suck and it lack features such as a touch screen, social networking and...
- Tags: Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Laptops are not a luxury...
- Laptops are not a luxury...We can always get rid of a few bureaucratsWe can always get rid of a few bureaucrats to save money, but that will probably never happen. There's plenty of wasted money that can supply teachers with perfectly good dual-core 802.11 a/b/g/n capable laptops with nice...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Laptops ARE
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- More obvious misgivings about Microsoft and SOA
- InfoWorld blogger and MuleSource CEO Dave Rosenberg has some thoughts on Microsoft and SOA in light of, and in advance of, the recent spate of BizTalk announcements and partnerships. Like myself, he takes exception to Microsoft's claims of SOA support and affinity. Here are some excerpts from...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Is Debian dead?
- Is Debian dead?Desktop Linux Survey?That survey is worthless in determining the actual use of Linux distros on the desktop.Let me enlighten youCheck distrowatch and you'll see Red Hat at #30 and Novell at #36. Does this mean these companies and their commercial offerings are irrelevant? Just like the...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Debian, Ubuntu, Feisty, Linspire, Ubuntu 7.04, Linux, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- (Photos: Bezos rocket inches closer to space)
- (Photos: Bezos rocket inches closer to space)This for of SSTO makes more sense to meIt's a much more versatile vehicle. While the winged lander is no doubt more fuel efficient, it requires a runway. Not likely to find many of those anywhere other than Earth. This way the same vehicle...
- Tags: photograph, SSTO, VentureStar, DC-X, moon
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0Can SLATES overcome the need for a science?Your blogs are a learning experience. However, this one favors a direction (Enterprise 2.0) for the future enterprise. The stakes are high. The corporate email population is over 600 million. Collaboration is poor....
- Tags: Channel management, Strategy, IBM Corp., vision, replication technology, SOA, Web 2.0, USD, Web, collaboration, knowledge, information technology
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
- IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimedia
- IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimediaCan't count to 10.It only counts to 9 ... 0 to 9, not 1 to 10. :) Still, it's an interesting way to go with processors.here comes Skynet!if a computer can do 2+(2*3-10/2.5)/2 without a binary conversion, then it's not much longer...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, multimedia, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., processor, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-10-10
- The Achilles Heel of open source?
- The Achilles Heel of open source?They need to learn how to solicit the non-programmerThis is the sort of contribution someone like myself should be getting into. I know nothing about programming languages, but I can do most anything else, including simple scripting. The more we non-programmers can contribute to F/OSS...
- Tags: Operating systems, SUSE SLED, operating system product, operating system, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, open source
- Discussion threads 2006-10-02
- HTML & XHTML: Quick Start
- HTML is simple to read and understand, and it's simple to write. And once someone has written an HTML document, they have nearly completed their first XHTML one, too. So let's get started without first learning a lot of arcane rules. This paper includes a brief summary of the many...
- Tags: HTML, O'Reilly Media Inc., Xhtml, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-10-01
- Open source ESB initiative goes into Apache incubation
- My first meeting at the EclipseWorld conference this week in Cambridge, Mass. turned out to be one of the best. IONA Technologies detailed its bear-hug embrace of open source as a burgeoning market driver for the company. IONA is not just dabbling in open source, it does appear now...
- Tags: Apache Software Foundation, Iona Technologies, Apache Incubator, open source
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- Ian Murdock, cat herder
- Ian Murdock, cat herderSounds interesting.Sounds interesting.Here's their blurb from their website - I'll copy/paste too, to save you clicking the link.http://www.freestandards.org/about/The Free Standards Group is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. Key Free Standards Group projects...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-04-22
- Great contest for innovators and other creative thinkers
- Great contest for innovators and other creative thinkersInteresting......Along these Lines there was a really great program before the turn of the century by iWorker called ModelSheet too bad it did not get anywhere....Although these products you mention seem very similar....if not its progeny....For the past several years have been using...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, inspiration, FreeMind, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, MindManager
- Discussion threads 2006-04-06
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