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Are we all just cognitive surplus?: Clay Shirky, and his truly handsome hairline, is not into the ragehol like I am. That is, he does not anger easily. But he admits to nearly losing it recently, when after describing a Wikipedia skirmish to a TV producer, he got the question ...; Tags: Surplus, Shirky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wiki, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Recession fears squeeze tech budgets: Recession fears squeeze tech budgetsWouldn't Be In A RecessionIf a certain clown wasn't in the White House spending our money left and right searching for WMDs.RE: Recession fears squeeze tech budgetsYes, in the US. But other places on the planet earth are expanding ten times faster than the US. Look...; Tags: surplus, tech budget; Discussion threads 2008-01-28
Land value taxation and the stock market: According to economic theory, the shares of a public company should be worth the discounted net present value of its future earnings divided by the number of shares issued. That's theory, but Google today has a market cap of $100 billion on revenues of perhaps $6 billion while Sun has...; Tags: stock market, Sun Microsystems Inc., analogy, surplus, market capitalization, Google Inc., theory, stock; Blog posts 2005-11-04
India tries exam to boost quality of outsourcing: India tries exam to boost quality of outsourcingNo really......we can save you money and provide secure top-shelf service. Just look at these exam grades.You mean they didn't have them before?!?!What kind of company would outsource their work to another company whose credentials are unknown? Quality of individual tech supporters are...; Tags: outsourcing, Third World, third world country, surplus; Discussion threads 2005-08-24
Semiconductor surplus down to $500 mln in Q1 2005: iSuppli is estimating that the surplus has halved to $500 mln in Q1 2005 from $1.03 bln in Q4 2004. iSuppli had previously predicted that the value of the surplus would diminish by 24% to $780 mln in Q1 2005.; Tags: Q1 2005, surplus; Blog posts 2005-05-30

Sustainability of EU Public Finances: This paper provides an empirical assessment of the sustainability of public finances, in the sense of government solvency, in the EU, and in the US and Japan, using a simple policy rule approach and focusing on the response of the primary surplus to accumulated debt during the period 1977-2002. This...; Tags: Sustainability, Finance, Surplus, European Union; White papers 2005-04-01

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(Images: How to make your car run on tequila (sort of)): (Images: How to make your car run on tequila sort of)If sugar is in surplus......let's divert the land being used to grow sugar crops to growing the healthier crops that are in shorter supply.This sort of thing will only achieve the opposite.RE: (Images: How to make your car run on...; Tags: Free trade, car run; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Live Mesh: Microsoft hews to open standards rule: As reported pretty much everywhere already (I rarely "scoop" things, a trait that would make me a bad journalist were I ever to become one), Microsoft has provided more details about the new platform that it is calling "Live Mesh." They will likely have the same problem explaining it that...; Tags: Open Standard, Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh, RSS, .Net, Application Servers, Scripting Languages, Middleware, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Development, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-04-23
For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuff: For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuffNot sure of the point hereThe article didn't state much. Are they wanting to ban the sales on these items? If so, i wholely disagree. Nothing listed in this article is illegal. Nore should it be. If it was...; Tags: Government, uniform, MRE, biological protection, eBay Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-04-11
(Photos: Treasure trove for the pocket-protector set): (Photos: Treasure trove for the pocket-protector set)most of my problems are now solved - yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaTHANK YOU American Science & Surplus! - ZDNet as well...; Tags: treasure, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-03-27
Photos: Treasure trove for the pocket-protector set: Whether you need a lens to melt a penny or the makings of a killer robot, American Science & Surplus will help with even the geekiest of shopping lists. by CNET News.com; Tags: Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-03-26
Forget gold prices, or $100 oil--it's a coal day in hell: Coal is going to be the most talked-about commodity on earth in the coming months. We are used to heavy duty crude prices. And oil speculators are now puling back because the value of the dollar is so low and could go lower. Gold seems to have...; Tags: Coal, Wiki, Online Communications, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-03-21
Beta AdWords feature spends your budget automatically: Google has launched a very limited beta for some AdWords advertisers that aims to do "automatic matching". What does that mean? Well, theoretically, this feature will make advertising on AdWords as easy as 1-2-3. Sign up for Google AdWords Enter your credit...; Tags: Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-03-10
Vista SP1 - Day 1: Vista SP1 - Day 1WowSeems like you have a lot better luck that George Ou, who seems to have killed a laptop and his desktop is in need of surgery....Over a YearOver a year to stabilize and speed up Vista... or not... we'll see.There is a preoccupation with capital costs...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Day 1; Discussion threads 2008-02-07
R-word is good news and bad news: Good: energy prices are down. Today crude oil futures dropped again, now well below $90 a barrel. So if you are looking at prices strictly from a consumer's point of view, that's fine. Gasolline and heating oil should get cheaper. Maybe they'll sgave $5 off your...; Tags: R-word, Roi/Tco, Taxes, Free Trade, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Financial Planning, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-02-06
I just wrote a proposal for a big Mac rollout (?!?!?): For as long as I've been writing this blog, I've been fairly anti-Mac. This wasn't religious and I find myself personally really wanting to snag a Macbook. However, as far as I was concerned, I could never justify the premium price when PCs whether technically inferior or not...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-01-15
EMCO History Cleaner (exe): Most of the actions you perform on your machines are logged on your system if you are using Microsoft Windows 9.x or a NT operating systems. Your operating system stores information about the most recently accessed data whether it's Internet Web sites, registry values, or most recently accessed files. Along...; Tags: History, Operating System, Computer, EMCO History Cleaner, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2007-12-27
Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Dec 07/Jan 08: Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Dec 07/Jan 08it's not faster - ??????yr right the clock speed isn't any faster - but when u hit the enter key yr not waiting for the last job to finsh - you can run a virus check while yr doing a word DOC...; Tags: Corporate governance, Processors, PCI, Games, Hardware 2.0, hardware, CPU, Serial ATA, Digital Equipment Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-12-20
Advocacy in Education IT: Lots of the comments Chris and I receive from readers speak from the position of acceptance of deplorable funding levels and a sense of resignation that things will never get better. Well, I don't buy it! Few of us are happy with the state of educational funding in America today...; Tags: Education, Educator, Administrator, Information Technology, Marc Wagner; Blog posts 2007-12-17
Ireland, labor migration and globalization: It was great to see Ireland again, something I did as part of a trip to London (for those looking for cheap trips to Europe, try flying to Shannon, Ireland then using one of the many discount airlines that fly into that airport, like EasyJet, RyanAir or CentralWings). ...; Tags: Barrier, Ireland, Tax, Migration, Globalization, Taxes, Free Trade, Strategy, Management, Financial Planning, Finance, John Carroll; Blog posts 2007-12-17