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Sid Meier's Railroads demo (exe)

The greatest railroad building game of all time is back in a vibrant 3D world delivering exciting multiplayer options, in-game customization tools, streamlined interface and unmatched gameplay, that's easy to learn yet challenging to master. Combining the best of real-world and model railroads, Sid Meier's Railroads! puts you in charge...

Tags: Train, Railroad, Demo Scenario, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-10-28

Losing net neutrality will harm the IT vendors and startups

Losing net neutrality will harm the IT vendors and startupsPerhaps they're quiet......because they understand the folly of collectivism.We MUST have true Net NeutralityWe MUST have true net neutrality if the internet is to continue to flourish. If we don't, then the telcos and the cable companies will decide for us,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, information technology, VoIP Traffic, Net Neutrality, telecommunications company, special consideration, railroad, cable

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

Avaya's IP solution to nuke waste accident risk

Fellow VoIP blogger and TMCnet President Rich Tehrani is at his company's VoIP Developer Conference in San Francisco.Last night, he put up a fascinating blog entry that he titled Avaya Touts Just In Time Communications.Rich recounts a session yesterday in which IP telephony solutions provider Avaya's director of application enablement...

Tags: Avaya Inc., Rich Tehrani

Blog posts 2005-08-04

Additional Resources

GoogolChooChoo3D for Mac (dmg)

GoogolChooChoo3D for Mac is a 3D model railroad simulation program. It is easy to make your own layout by dragging and dropping track items, or other items, on your layout. You can see the layout in 3D from driver's seat of a running train or from several other locations. If...

Tags: Train, 3D, Apple Macintosh, Layout, Googolplex

Software downloads 2008-06-16

Two radically opposed views of global warming bill: fighting it will bring health and welfare, or end our currently blessed state of being. You get to watch the battle.

Two radically opposed views of global warming bill: fighting it will bring health and welfare, or end our currently blessed state of being. You get to watch the battle.Just let the earth burn up and then say to St. Peter"goodness, there was some REALLY greedy people down there."Let the...

Tags: Vertical industries, global warming, health care

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

We got your microtransactions right here

Ever since the Web was spun, nearly 15 years ago now, one story has come around, and around, and around like a bad penny. Microtransactions. A penny here, a penny there. Buy this story, it's super-cheap. And of course there are always tales of...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Extended Loops for Distant Phones and Fax Machines, Higher Ringing Voltage and Loop Current

Enterprises are turning to Voice-over-IP VoIP and IP telephony solutions for voice communications in corporate and branches so that they can reap the benefits of converged networks and feature-rich IP-based telephone systems. While enterprises are making the migration to IP telephony, on many occasions legacy analog phones, modems, and fax...

Tags: Fax Machine, Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Fax, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-04-01

OOXML vs. ODF - Should Ed Tech care?

OOXML vs. ODF - Should Ed Tech care?Well...It's not as though OOXML is going to be viable as a standard in the intended sense of the word. It's more like where Microsoft wants to go.The major issue is that already Microsoft itself isn't following what they submitted as a standard,...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-03-30

Conrail on Track Using Diplomat Transaction Manager

Conrail is a switching and terminal railroad headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Conrail's finance department exchanges customer transaction data with eight different banks using a variety of methods. When SunTrust Banks Inc. announced it was discontinuing the dial-up service that Conrail had been using, Conrail had two months to set up...

Tags: Coviant Software, Conrail, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management

Case studies 2008-03-17

Easy does it

Easy does itMisleading responsesWhat's an "energy level"? Here's the quote:Both of the exercise groups had a 20 percent increase in energy levels by the end of the study, compared to the control group.[End quote.]Perhaps it means that the people who exercized produced more adrenalin, and they were still affected...

Tags: physical activity

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Motorola Case Study: New Mexico Dairy

A dairy in New Mexico, which needed to build a communication link between their office and a new warehouse complex to track their multiple fluid milk product lines, was soured on the costs to trench and bury conventional communication cables beneath railroad tracks and paved lots. For help, the dairy...

Tags: Dairy, Motorola Inc., Wireless, Broadband Internet, Cable, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing

Case studies 2008-02-13

Microsoft Kool-Aid and the cloud

Microsoft Kool-Aid and the cloudNot Kool-Aid...Just common sense. My rep and I were talking about Cloud Computing. We both came to the assumption that clouds portend storms and rain. Hence, cloud computing would cause disruptions to the agile enterprise when answering the question where they want to go today. I...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Kool-Aid, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Microsoft Kool-Aid and the cloud

Responding to my recent assertion that Microsoft's software-plus-services mantra is bunkum, Gianpaolo Carraro — the company's chief thinker about SaaS architecture — wonders if he's drunk too much Kool-Aid. The answer, my friend, is 'yes'. Here's Gianpaolo's justification for still wanting to buy an Office licence and...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Transportation, Tools & Techniques, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-02-08

OpenOffice still two trains running on one line.

Since its introduction Microsoft Office has grown well beyond its initial bundle. (Picture from This Space for Rent, the blog of a railroad fan in Portland, Oregon.) There are now 15 products listed with Office, including such offerings as Visio charting software and Project, its scheduling software....

Tags: Train, IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Bridges Screensaver (zip)

A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle. Designs of bridges will vary depending on the function of the bridge and the nature of the terrain where the bridge is to be constructed.

Tags: Screensaver, Bridge

Software downloads 2008-01-29

Is GPS liability next?

Is GPS liability next?RE: Is GPS liability next?The driver is the one at fault, not the maker of the GPS. It was their lack of driving skill if anything that got the car stuck, not the GPS.GPS Provider should not be liableThe GPS providers offer a device that provide...

Tags: Handhelds, GPS Software, GPS, GPS liability

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

Ten more ways SOA made a difference in 2007

From planes to trains to phones to hotels, SOA played a key role in advancing many businesses in 2007. I culled several more working examples of where SOA made a difference over the past year from my SOA in Action Website over at ebizQ, which tracks SOA success stories. More...

Tags: Airline, British Telecommunications, SOA, EasyFIDS, Marriott, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-27

China gets onto the fast track

China now has the second fastest railroad train in the world. Only France has a bullet train a little faster. The U.S. long ago turned its back on passenger trains and is far out of the running. The first of the new Chinese-built bullet trains...

Tags: China, Train, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-22

Saving Internet freedom - for users - from telcos

Mighty Google is worried about getting the shaft from telcos. Shouldn't you be too? Larry Downes imagines the worst Larry Downes' arguments against net neutrality are button-pushing propaganda designed to inflame, not illuminate. I expect better from a University of Chicago trained lawyer. ...

Tags: QoS, Internet, Network, Adobe PDF, Telecommunications Company, Broadband, Mr., Net Neutrality, Briscoe, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-12-13

Save Internet freedom--from regulation

Save Internet freedom--from regulationIf only.....it were that simple.What the writer fails to acknowledge is the fact that ethics subverted by greed within some companies have done harm to people for the sake of expanding profit thereby inviting regulation on themselves by the representatives of the people whom they were abusing.Given...

Tags: Regulations, Telecom & Utilities, Rogers Cable, regulation, Save Internet freedom, telecommunications, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2007-12-12