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To nothing less than the Whole Earth: "We are as gods"

To nothing less than the Whole Earth: "We are as gods"Someone that gets it...And they are right, the government seems to mess everything up they get into. It's we the people that will have to be proactive in maintaining our environment and managing our resources, because government and greed seem...

Tags: Government, Monitors & displays, Vertical industries, irony, WEC, Whole Earth

Discussion threads 2007-12-13

Whole Foods bans execs from online forums

Whole Foods bans execs from online forumsPosting to Forums Affiliated with Press is Legally AllowedJust to clarify. For US citizens, no policy at Whole Earth or elsewhere can stop one from posting online when the forum is affiliated with a press. The reason for this is perhaps not as obvious...

Tags: Government, Federal government, Food & Beverage, suspicion, democracy, Whole Earth, Whole Foods

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

Additional Resources

Which antivirus is best at removing malware?

Run a Linux distro or a MacIt is funny, when you 'weld' a web_browserinto an operating system and viruses/worms/malware/trojans and spyware come in from outside sources it is amazing how insecureit makes an Operating System.Say what you will, Linux distro's power theInternet with Bind dns, dhcp, routers/switchesand they do not...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, MSE, antivirus, operating system, malware, Linux Distro, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal

Opera"Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal". . . and by "browser rivals" you really mean Opera, who has been whimpering and whining the whole time. A browser that barely appears on anybody's charts, but still retains a cult following.I think Microsoft is improving with IE7...

Tags: Web browsers, ballot screen, Web browser, Opera Software ASA, ballot screen proposal, Microsoft Corp., official complaint

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]

Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Microsoft refreshes Bing for touch phone users

but...nobody's 'touching' bing!No luck with bing for M$....even after they bribed people with cash back!Strategery"FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!??!!?? FULLY SUBSIDIZED WITH A PLAN! That is the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard!"But, we'll create a customized version of...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Bing, touch phone user, phone, phone user, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

My Top Scary Technology Trends

The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Climate change denial: only in America? Then, there's global cooling...

You don't want to know that the BBC,the most listened to source of news in the English language, is reporting on global cooling?There you go again, HarryYou almost made it - a whole week without enviro-whacko. But you didn't make it...Sad...Reading AssignmentPlease, take a look. Page 10 might enlighten...

Tags: climate change, Climate Change Denial, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has links to Cern

scarier access than the bomb?What if this person had been tapped to turn the collider into producing a blackhole that would've ate the whole Earth up? hehehe just had to put that out there :-) have a good weekend everyone!

Tags: al-Qaeda, CERN

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

How Verizon might ruin Android

Okay Dana - how might Verizon ruin Android?By not actually writing an answer to the posited headline, it sure appears to me that you are trying to get comments from people like me to write your article for you. It might work a little better if you actually posited an...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Is there more wind power in our future? Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, says we can cut our greenhouse emissions 80% by 2020, if we use the wind that's just out there for the world to use. Brown says "Ask what can be done, NOT...

Tags: China, Plant, Wind Energy, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

NVidia has a chanceNot all that surprisingly the concept of supercomputing on a small basis has finally filtered down to audio/video recording facilities, with the bulk of basics going to the CPU and the actual processing going to the GPU. This is a clear advancement when those of us...

Tags: NVidia Corp., supercomputer, big supercomputer player, supercomputing, supercomputer player

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...

Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-29

RIM signals price war potential; Fallout could be substantial

Thesis-changing?Potential MBAs racing to their pcs to start re-writes?RE: RIM signals price war potential; Fallout could be substantialWant to see consumers really scoop up smart phones? Have the carriers charge $5.00 a month for data plans... Some consumers don't see the value in paying $30 a month for mobile...

Tags: Keyboards, E-mail, Smart phones, Handhelds, Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

The earth: it's always blowing hot and cold

And That's The ProblemInstead of humans, use dinosaurs, plankton, what ever. But tell me where is the definitive study that quantifies the human activity contribution separate that contribution form the quantifiable contribution of other geologic, solar, and biological processes?And where, pray tell, is it written that climate will be...

Tags: tech site

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

IBM, Canonical partner to target Africa netbook market; Upend Microsoft

Their timing is quite goodRight at this moment, the Internet infrastructure in Central Africa is being upgraded with new underwater fiber optic cable links that will ultimately bring Africa's broadband capacity on par with the rest of the world by late 2010. Their timing couldn't be better.Why not red hat...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Divide-and-conquer, netbook, Language Support, Debian, Canonical, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...

a whole string of international meetings aimed at coming to some kind of globally acceptable agreement on global warming. Consider this a warm-up for the sci fi imagined event of the killer asteroid headed our way. Can humans really co-operate on the mega-scale? We haven't so far....

Tags: Agreement, Climate Change, Global Warming, Pittsburgh, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Why pre-roll app ads on the Zune HD are a dealbreaker

OptionsAs others have suggested, I guess MS could offer the apps for a fee, as well as free and ad supported. I think it would probably be a good idea if MS is very upfront about a free app being ad supported. I think so long as MS ensures that...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Zune HD, dealbreaker, Microsoft Corp., app ad, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-09-17