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- Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Sam Diaz, wrote an interesting piece yesterday highlighting a vital message from Intel Chairman, Craig Barrett, during his keynote at the Intel Developers' Forum. Quoting both Barrett and Sam's paraphrasing, "Nations are as strong as their educational systems," he said, noting that in...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- The war against tobacco escalates
- I know why tobacco became popular. The "high" makes you feel wired and relaxed, all at once. Many smokers are rail-thin. Not being able to smell or taste is a good thing if you live around rotten food. But your freedom ends, in my mind, where my nose begins....
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Gasoline Quiz: the answer
- One great thing about blogging for ZDnet, the readers here are smart. The most popular answer to my quiz was the correct one. The picture of cheap gasoline above was taken at a typical suburban gas station near Quito, Ecuador. I was there...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- U.S. health care not getting better
- U.S. health care not getting betterThe study has predetermined the result[Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, summed up what's wrong with the study: "The report does nothing more than reveal which nation does the worst job of satisfying the subjective preferences of the people who conducted...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Apple ships (long overdue) iPhone security patches
- Apple ships long overdue iPhone security patchesProbably not a good ideato link to your article where you go on a rant about Apple neglecting iPhone security 8 days before a software update.You sound like a basher. Kind of like a guy who would rail on MS for not patching a...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- A Twitter About Twitter
- The outages are over maybe. Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos ae putting $15 million into Twitter. "Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model,'' promised the company's aptly named co-founder Biz Stone. Which was followed last week by Gene...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- What putting off health care means
- What putting off health care meansPreventionI used to get severe headaches occasionally migraine whenever the weather changed. If a thunderstorm was coming, I would get a bad headache. When the weather was turning nice again, I would get a severe headache. I had a couple of dental...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.It's the sun, stupid.The earth has been cooling for the last 10 years. If the current low solar activity keeps up, we could be in deep doodoo.RE: First scientist to warn Congress on Global...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- iPhones, PPC, and DLC
- iPhones, PPC, and DLCheh.http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/is offline.Ever considered warning people before you link their site into a blog that sees heavy traffic?Apple designs the chips...... but doesn't make them and the PA Semi acquisition doesn't change that. Apparently from the linked article Samsung provided the manufacturing. That could mean Applehas...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Can Silicon Valley's San Jose find its way?
- San Jose suffered a massive calamity just a few years ago that cost it 225,000 jobs - nearly one quarter of its entire population - the worst job loss anywhere in the US since the Great Depression. The dotcom dotbomb from 2001 to 2003 was a period...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- There'a zero-emission car now, but you can't have one. BTW: the Pres doesn't wanna hear you "squawk" about gasoline prices.
- There'a zero-emission car now, but you can't have one. BTW: the Pres doesn't wanna hear you "squawk" about gasoline prices.Talk to the elbow...Please add me to the list of people who don't want to hear whining about higher gas prices. No, I don't like having to pay more...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Yo Philly: iSepta perfect for Philly iPhone users
- Having spent almost 20 years in Philadelphia iSepta is one application that I can relate to. SEPTA, for the uninitiated, is the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. SEPTA runs Philly's popular Regional Rail line which is a series of trains that connects downtown Philadelphia with its suburbs....
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Railway Ticketing Agency Improves Performance and Eases IT Management
- Voyages-sncf.com is the online travel agency for the Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais SNCF, a public enterprise that operates rail services for passengers and freight throughout France. With more than 9 million Web site visitors a month, Voyages-sncf.com needed to ensure that its ticketing Web site is available...
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Discover this: "Discover" and its own carbon footprint
- "Discover" Magazine profiled their own publication's carbon footprint. Here's the whole article, a brave move not likely to be popular among mag publishers. Here's some of what they found: "Two and one-tenth pounds of carbon dioxide. That is our best estimate of what is emitted...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Volvo recall due to airbag software problems
- Swedish automaker, Volvo, recalled 65,000 cars due a software problem related to side impact airbags. I spoke with Volvo spokesperson, Maria Bohlin, who told me the problem was discovered by Euro NCAP, a European automotive testing agency, which found the "inflatable curtain deployed milliseconds too late." She added that Volvo...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- iPhone coming to Canada
- iPhone coming to CanadaAs a Rogers customerI'm really curious to see what data rates Apple has squeezed out of Rogers.Wireless Telcos in Canada are keeping basic data-only packages high to I suspect use the bandwidth to sell higher margin nonsense like TV and their own silly downloads.Personally, I hope Apple...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Psystar: Go-to-jail-free card
- Psystar: Go-to-jail-free cardI Don't Think It's THAT Easy ....Hopefully this is a high-profile enough scam that the FBI will actually do something about it.For instance, Best Price Cameras has been scamming online buyers for years (at least since late 2004). They don't want your money, just your cc info. A...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Psystar: We're legit, but our merchant gateway dropped us
- Psystar: We're legit, but our merchant gateway dropped usRe: VisaIts my understanding that they were a small company before that did local IT work. Now they have grown a huge amount basically overnight. I am sure they will plan on getting a credit card setup, however, that does not happen...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- 55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computer
- 55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computerSweet findI still think that would be ideal at packing a case with hard drives. I always wanted multi tiered file servers and thought that if I build several computers into a single system, I would be better off than if I...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
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