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- Royal Navy gets creative in attracting engineers - develop online game
- the govt needs to fix up its actwhy would anyone want to join engineering when the wall street guys paid million for doing nothing. As long as the pay compensation is not fixed engineers will be quitting to join financial industry.Call of duty 7: Modern Warfare 3?Could be.Engineering is much...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- 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. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note
- My budget administrator has made it very clear that I need to have all of my ducks in a row very early for the FY 2011 budget process. The nearly year-long delay that municipalities tend to feel in terms of budget crunches is certainly going to be on her...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Secure FTP Bean 2.5.13 (Windows)
- Secure FTP Bean is a Java library that allows a developer to incorporate Glub Tech's secure FTP technology in any Java application. We've had many requests to release a product that can do secure FTP and not be tied to a specific user interface UI. That request has now been...
- Software downloads 2009-10-19
- For ZDNet readers, tripods are casual accessories
- small tripodsI'd like to see a bit more about small table-top tri-pods. I haven't seen much out there I'd carry around. Bean bags might be good and some have fashioned their own at home with rice as the filler, but they require some surface area to work. I...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Bean 2.4.1 (Mac)
- Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean. If you use TextEdit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean. If you desire a simple, beautiful...
- Software downloads 2009-10-03
- Those darned kids and their multitasking
- Apparently, multitasking is a bad idea. Or so a media frenzy told us a month ago. Young people especially flip between tasks in what appears to be a completely natural way and seem able to take in multiple streams of information with aplomb. "Of course!" you say....
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale
- ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Argus Bean 5 Megapixel Carabiner Digital Camera - digital camera
- Argus should focus on quality not size of photosSince I'm training for a marathon and blogging as I go, I was in the market for a light camera to carry with me, so I can take pictures to enhance my online content. The camera was so light, I hardly...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Moderated Knowledge Sharing Bases
- There's so much going on in the cloud world you need air traffic control to figure out what solutions to your problems are safe to bring to earth and put to work. The instant gratification world of cloud - select solution> apply credit card to...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Macworld without Apple: The show will go on
- I get it.While at first blush, it really makes no sense; Apple quits Macworld?it sounds like Oscar quitting the Academy Awards. On the other hand, Oscar is a product of the Academy Awards and Macworld is actually more or less a product of Apple. While the linkage between...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Aussies give open source golden crumbs from Microsoft table
- Swine Flu...And now this!Swine flu, Windows 7...What other diseases are kids picking up in school?Maybe home schooling with low cost FLOSS systems ain't so bad after all!Dana, just to set the record straight,[b]FreeMind[/b], just like [b]Audacity[/b] is also available for [b]Linux[/b] ; I have it installed on my 64-bit [b]Ubuntu...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Cutting imaging proves a win-win-win
- Ionizing Radiation Is Very Dangerousand must be employed very, very carefully.If it's not absolutely necessary, [u]don't[/u].Anyone familiar with nuclear physics, engineering, or medicine knows that it only takes one ionizing radiation event to damage one single cell's DNA such that the cell becomes malignantly cancerous to start a life-threatening illness.Any...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- Chipotle iPhone app makes it too easy to order burritos
- Chipotle Mexican Grill announced its new iPhone and iPod touch ordering app, which makes it way too damn easy to order an $8 burrito. The free app, which is now available in the App Store, gives iPhone and iPod...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- The new Sony Reader Daily Edition may replace my Kindle and Reader 505
- And it's real easy for you to transfer, right?All you have to do is push a button, or make a phone call, or send an email, and all your Kindle stuff moves right over to the Sony?Of course notBut that's the risk you take when you deal with companies that...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Xbox 360: Played x5 more than Wii, x5 more likely to fail that PS3
- 360 is sorta like owning an old sports carYou love the thing, but hate that it breaks down all the time. The reason people are so loyal to the 360 is that the software and game library are fantastic. The controllers work great and are durable without any gimmicks. When...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- What happens if Google's Edu Apps aren't free anymore?
- There is no difference, Chris...With paid services, you always run the risk that they will suddenly start costing *more*.The price risk is therefore the same, with paid and free services alike. :-)RE: What happens if Google's Edu Apps aren't free anymore?I've moved completely to Open Office and haven't regretted...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Palm snags Apple veteran Zwerner to head brand design
- Apple veteran Jeff Zwerner has joined Palm as its new SVP of brand design. Zwerner's new duties include overseeing the company's web design strategies, global ad campaigns and public relations. That's a lot of message to handle, judging by the dicussion over Palm's...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Dead Finger Tech: BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone and multi-monitor manager DisplayFusion Pro
- Our editor, the most delectable Mr. Grober, put forward a suggestion to while away the dreary month of August, a month so intrinsically boring that it rivals that of a newspaper dedicated to the growth patterns of soya bean, to write about a piece of personal technology, which would in...
- Blog posts 2009-08-01
- Quick And Easy Cooking 1.0 (Windows)
- This book contains quick and easy way to prepare our favorite delicious recipes such as Baked Mac And Cheese, Beef and Rice Crisp, Beef And Scallop Saute, Berry Easy Barbecue Sauce, Cheap And Easy Bean And Hominy Stew, Easy Apple Relish, Easy Banana Nut Bread, Easy Banana S'mores For Kids,...
- Software downloads 2009-07-28
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