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2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for debate nonetheless

2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for debate nonethelessjobsi ssee you are still no making an honest living!2 million jobs made how many will be put out of work 10 millionRE: 2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for dI don't...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Propaganda, good topic

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

Global warming makes you sick

Global warming makes you sickActually, reading blogs like this, makes me sick.Global warming is a farce, with last years average temperature down by a full degree, the same temperature average as 100 years ago.Climate changes happen...From ice ages to tropic ages. A couple of good volcano eruptions put out...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Microsoft Loses EC Case

Microsoft Loses EC CaseAgain, the penalties are just a slap on the wrist. This is all about PR nowand MS is already starting the spins and trying to appear to be a kindler gentler Microsoft. But, behind the scenes, they will be fighting tooth and nail with dirty tricks like...

Tags: Propaganda, Microsoft Corp., European Court, stay, EU Court

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

eBay, Google strategic bedfellows

eBay, Google strategic bedfellowsAttaching the Plan is Most EffectiveGoogle and Sun were both Stanford Univeristy projects and it is not by accident that when Microsoft was warring it attached plans for Sun's Java inititive and Google's Internet search computing. I think today Microsoft's plans to design software by legals...

Tags: Homeland security, Taxes, Propaganda, strategy, Google Inc., terrorism, tax, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-28

Web titans gear up to battle over milliseconds

Web titans gear up to battle over millisecondsThe race is on, Google and Yahoo will win, they are not hobbled by the needto use an insecure, buggy, OS that does not scale well for the infrastructure. Google and Yahoo can build on the collective smarts of the best and brightest...

Tags: Propaganda, Web, global warming, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., environment

Discussion threads 2006-06-14

Microsoft pitches new Visual Studio .Net tools

Microsoft pitches new Visual Studio .Net toolsNirvana has arrived...I have always told my MCSD developers to hang on for the next version of Visual Studio. Being here at VSLive with my rep has been an unbridled joy for both myself and my employees. Seeing demonstrations of new tools made me...

Tags: .NET, Microsoft development tools, Application servers, Middleware, Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., Nirvana, propaganda, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic, tool, Microsoft Visual Studio

Discussion threads 2005-02-07

Additional Resources

How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)

How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)Adrian - why would Apple write good Windows software?Apple has historically had an edge with video editing / graphical design applications. Now, since they've moved to an Intel platform, any hardware advantages...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Desktops, Digital media, Operating systems, software, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Vista behemoth, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple QuickTime, quad-core

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Microsoft bad cop is up against the wall

Microsoft bad cop is up against the wallEnough open-source propagandaIf this was about a technical violation of a license, focus on that and leave out the bias. I think we've all seen enough crappy and inept open source code that your comment about "being in retreat" against it is laughable.As...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., cop, open source, bad cop

Discussion threads 2008-10-05

Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop

Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopMicrosoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopThis is a great plan brought to you by Microsoft. This laptop will run the Microsoft Windows XP operating system allowing these school children to be compatible with the rest of the world. They can share...

Tags: Notebooks, software, laptop computer, cheap Portuguese laptop, Portuguese laptop, Microsoft Launches, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...

Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Texting? Pull Over ...

Texting? Pull Over ...re: Texting? Pull Over ...It's scary. I went through line in a grocery store, everytime the cashier had two seconds between ringing up customers her head was down texting. I can't imagine that kind of person on the road.RE: Texting? Pull Over ...TST: None of...

Tags: Cellular phones, stat, headset, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app

Obama campaign unleashes iPhone appLMAO ntntYou know...the more you post here......the more apparent it becomes that you are a complete imbecile .Let me guess your age.From the sounds of your ramblings on ZDNet, I'll bet you're no more than 14. Which, by the way, is probably fairly close to your...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Obama, iPhone App

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

I... B... Wha?

I... B... Wha?I. B. AmazedYou have to think though, after the 90's the markets are flooded with consumer products based on technology. People associate with what they are exposed to. However in the 70's and better part of the 80's if you wanted a PC, it had to be "IBM...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Desktops, Operating systems, Mindshare, IBM Corp., Wha

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

India's outsourcing bubble is bursting

India's outsourcing bubble is burstingIndia's outsourcing bubble is burstingProbably because outsourcing doesn't work.Long overdueIt's about time. It never should have gained traction in the first place. It makes me cringe everytime I hear out political leaders saying how "education" is how we must compete in the global economy....

Tags: outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome

Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's ChromeWhat to do?I can find loads of information on what it is this vulnerability can do. But as a user what can I do to minimize the risk of this happening to my machine?www.GetFirefox.comReally, why even bother with Chrome, especially when there are solid...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, DoS vulnerability, vulnerability, DOS, exhaustion, Google Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Can interactive whiteboards impair learning?

Guest post: Morgan Panting is at her first year in college equivalent junior in high school. Besides being the bane of my life, she's also an opinionated little madam with her own rants and raves on technology and student life. The other day at college (our equivalent...

Tags: Interactive Whiteboard, Whiteboard, Teacher, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-21

Is open source politically attractive?

Is open source politically attractive?Do you think Canadians are so obsessed with software...... that a reference to open source as software is significant?I suggest the endorsement is a statement of political principle. Though it may not be accurate, open source might be considered an expression of an old principle:...

Tags: open source, Bloc Quebecois, voter

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Palin conducted state business from Yahoo email

Palin conducted state business from Yahoo emailknuckleheads in the newsI totally agree with the "government by yahoo_ statement. I'm sorry, but what knucklehead of a public figure would have such an obvious email account as gov.palin@yahoo.com? You would have THOUGHT that someone on the McCain campaign would have...

Tags: Public Figures, NOW IT, Palin, e-mail, state business, Yahoo Email, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?

One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?Still it is insufficient evidenceAt least for the hard line Republicans it is.Over a hundred years of data? Wow, that's like...Standing in your front yard for one minute between 0742 and 0743 while smoking a cigarette and extrapolating the next...

Tags: Climate Change, cigarette, weather record

Discussion threads 2008-09-16