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- Summer reading for kids
- Summer reading for kidsIn the beginningI think one has to start earlier with this. I am a programmer, my wife is running an e-business and our TV is unplugged, we watch some thing on the PC but that's it. We have one child of the age of 17 Months and...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, Greek Mythology, Iliad
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- diversITy: the lack of women in the IT industry
- This series of entries, called diversITy, will cover a number of topics all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. Whether we discuss women in industry, sexual orientation in the workplace, religion or ethnic background; these are all topics which will have an effect on students, if not...
- Tags: Women, Information Technology, Industry, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- Microsoft Biz Unit Chief Jeff Raikes to head Gates Foundation
- Microsoft Biz Unit Chief Jeff Raikes to head Gates FoundationNice...So he'll be the man in charge of the foundation that this year awarded me the Gates Millenium Scholarship...nice to know.An Executive CatamaranJiminy Cricket. Some coasters in this world have sails that are miles wide. Not only did...
- Tags: biz unit, Gates Foundation, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changer
- Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changere: Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changerFrom the linked article:[i]NOTE: DVD Shrink can break the copy protection on most DVDs without issue, but if you're having a problem, try running previously mentioned DVD43, which promises to remove copy protection from virtually...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Fair Use, DVD, ultimate DVD-changer, copy protection, DVD-changer, DMCA, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Life in extreme environments
- U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to radiation which would be deadly to most other organisms. Their model shows how these bacteria adapt themselves in response to their environment....
- Tags: Genome, Environment, Gene, Bacteria, Cell, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-30
- What does fair-use really mean?
- Prior to passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or just DMCA, for short), the fair-use rules were pretty clear. Quoting from the U.S. Code (TITLE 17, CHAPTER 1, SECTION 107, "Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use"): Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of...
- Tags: Educator, Use, Copyright Law, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Politicians just don't get it
- Once again, Congress is trying to throw technology at a problem that could be fixed as simply as telling our students Thou shalt not steal! and holding them accountable when they do! Now eSchool News reports House bill reopens campus file-sharing battle. Last time, it was the Senate but...
- Tags: Use, P2P, Kazaa, Music, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Today's debate: S-CHIP debate becomes an inconvenient truth
- Today's debate: S-CHIP debate becomes an inconvenient truthSmear???How is pointing out the fact that a child's parents made the decision to send their children to private school rather than buy them medical insurance smearing? Why should I as a tax payer pay for their medical insurance so that their child...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, S-CHIP
- Discussion threads 2007-10-13
- Teen wonders if we'll leave an 'IT wasteland'
- Out of the mouths of babes or, actually, teens, the truth seems less filtered.I was just writing an opinion column about a totally different topic tech talent, when I read this essay by Louis Wegner, a college student from Racine, Wis., who just won a $5,000 scholarship in an essay-writing...
- Tags: Teen, Information Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- Free tuition for math/science majors?
- Free tuition for math/science majors?Good idea, but only if outsourcing is stoppedStudents won't pick up a major where most of the related jobs are moved overseas.Carry it fartherAs one of those victims of outsourcing now working in a mundane industry with a BS in Physics and advanced database, networking and...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, industry, job, outsourcing, education, tuition
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Free tuition for math/science majors?
- The Billings Gazette is reporting on a proposal by Montana Senator Max Baucus D, calling for free tuition in certain fields to increase our competitiveness with foreign countries. Intended as part of his "Education Competitiveness Act," the funding would providefree college tuition for math and science majors as part...
- Tags: Science, Billings Gazette, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- A Mac-to-school guide
- A Mac-to-school guideSorryBut an Ivy League student's opinion about what computer is the best won't go very far - considering parents can get a PC notebook or desktop for half of the price of a Mac. Save the TCO arguement, it's all about upfront cost to a parent. ...
- Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Macintosh, computer, Vista WOW, notebook
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Microsoft: "Windows Vista computers epitomize form, function, self-expression"
- Microsoft: "Windows Vista computers epitomize form, function, self-expression"I'm completely . . . .Dumb-founded. It reads like something Mike Cox tm would have written as a parody . . .Granted, I LIKE the idea that FINALLY, we have a choice better than the equivalent of the Old Ford Model T...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- Kodak boosts digital camera sensitivity
- Kodak boosts digital camera sensitivityNew look at an old ideaThe mathematics to do this have been around for years. The Kodak PhotoCD YCC format is analogous with a luminance channel and two color channels. NTSC television does the same thing. About 30 years ago, R. W. G. Hunt proposed a...
- Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, Strategy, Biotechnology, digital camera, Eastman Kodak Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- Don't hide from global competition
- Don't hide from global competitionAnother piece required.Let's say that the sensible cushion-and-train protections are in place and operating. Let's say further that the training works so effectively that approximately every person displaced is able to obtain a new job on graduation.What proportion of those new jobs will pay -...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Who needs Facebook? Students fight back
- YES, there is rain on the Facebook parade, despite Mark Zuckerberg & Company's best efforts today to create, cajole and control public and popular opinion via a splashy and flashy multi-media show from the heart of San Francisco pre-designed to crown Facebook the Web's star from here on in.Fresh faced Zuckerberg...
- Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Will $60 billion dollars make us competitive?
- The United States Senate overwhelmingly passed the America Competes Act Wednesday. This act is designed to boost funding significantly for educational efforts in math, science, and technology. According to CNN.com, "The increase would boost total spending in these programs to $60 billion over the four-year period, said Sen....
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Don't expect Education IT to "fix" your school
- Don't expect Education IT to "fix" your school"The motivation to achieve"? Garbage.People are seeing offshoring and what it is truly doing. That alone would drive far more competent people than I to suicide.http://alum.mit.edu/ne/whatmatters/200408/index.html addresses this "motivation to achieve" problem, and others that should scare the nimrods at (a...
- Tags: TVs, Outsourcing, TV & Home Theater, tutorial software, TV
- Discussion threads 2007-04-09
- Protecting genetic storage
- Protecting genetic storageWonderful movie, GatticaQUOTEDuring this time society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life...born with a congenital heart condition assumed to be genetic which would cast him out of getting a chance to travel in space...one of the last "natural" babies born into a sterile, genetically-enhanced...
- Tags: Biotechnology, Insurance, Strategy, Benefits, storage
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Students sue plagiarism service for copyright infringement
- Turning the tables on an anti-plagiarism service, four high school students have brought suit against the online service claiming that it violates copyright law, Turnitin, a service that compares student term papers and essays against a database of more than 22 million student papers, online sources and journal archives, to...
- Tags: Legal Issues, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
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