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- The emergency room myth busted
- ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Mosquitoes in schools
- Mosquitoes in schoolsThe question I have is why are people so worriedabout teenagers 'congregating' in places? I mean, it isn't like they are harder to deal with than adults, in fact from what I have seen most of them (excluding 'tough boys' who would never get near my home or...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-15
- Manes: in today
- Manes: in todayGood advice in any climateI have a lot of respect for Manes. Her analysis and explanations are always worth a read.I'm really glad that she's writing more about "don't sell SOA" but she's a bit late to the party. Selling SOA (or OO, or EAI, or any of...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
- Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP?
- Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP?Im guessingthat you did not post exact times so as to get around the no-benchmarks part of the EULA? Unfortunately how much better one is compared to the other matters. Is it insignificantly faster? a small...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-01
- Axialis CursorWorkshop 6.33 (Windows)
- Use a professional authoring tool to create, edit and manage cursors for Windows, web sites and applications. Create professional looking static CUR and animated ANI cursors. The new generation of cursors uses variable transparency alpha channel. This feature permits creating beautiful cursors with smooth borders and shadows. CursorWorkshop fully supports...
- Software downloads 2008-12-27
- Wheels spinning, Congress speeds around the parking lot
- They're still test-driving the newest proposal to lend money to General Motors and Chrysler, two of Detroit's "Shrinking Three" automakers. Quick aside: which manufacturer has sold the most cars in America this year? Answer: GM, not Toyota. Seems the car-loan package is in a nasty cul-de-sac with...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- A plethora of PaaS options
- A plethora of PaaS optionsApple and Oranges Compliment One AnotherGreat piece that gets beneath the oversimplification that often 'clouds' the discussion. ISV needs are definitely different than the enterprise. We are big fans of several platforms including Force.com (http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/02/may-force.php) and Amazon Web Services. In fact Appirio has...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Credibility in online health care
- One reason readers here respond so strongly -- both positively and negatively -- when I mention Google lies in how it finds things for you. (Picture from AlignedStrategy.Com.) The PageRank algorithm, at its heart, is a popularity contest. If all the popular sites point to you then...
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Social Network Dead-Ends
- For all the hype of the Summer of Facebook, the direction social networking is headed will lead only to dead ends. A discussion of social networking at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit the other day demonstrates that, for the most part, social network providers only want to keep their members on...
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- The 'isms' of the Desktop/Browser war and why the web community should engage the desktop more
- Simon Morris puts an interesting spin on the evolving world of Rich Internet Applications by giving us all some 'isms' to subscribe to as we try to find the path of light in a world that is constantly changing and being influenced by many, many different parties that all have...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Pew Report notes, part three: He shoots, he scores... telling the story that makes a winner
- The Pew Internet & American Life Projects report, A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, has raised a lot of questions in the mediasphere in the past couple days. Despite the concerns that social media, or "Web 2.0," are not catching on with rapidly or broadly enough, the report...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Is expecting a Vista system to support XP asking too much?
- Is expecting a Vista system to support XP asking too much?OEMs don't need to give backwards compatable driversWhy should they support something that almost nobody wants.Vista has its flaws but why should HP do all the work if you want to install "legacy" software. Finding manufacturer drivers is much easier...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- The eBay Chronicles: Dreams of an eBay Mashup
- The eBay Chronicles: Dreams of an eBay MashupDon't Hold Your Breath...If I had a dime for every time someone said, "why doesn't eBay just do x" I'd be as rich as Meg Whitman. The problem is, eBay is in a uniquely complicated situation. They want to attract buyers, but sellers...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-23
- Social media--the new growth hormone
- It seems that every new Web site now has a social media angle, whether it needs it or not. Nearly every startup now wants to pump itself up with the new form of digital human growth hormone, trying to take a page from MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, Flickr, TagWorld even the...
- Blog posts 2006-06-12
- Muncy's Plat Pronto 2.1 (Windows)
- Muncy's Plat Pronto produces a professional quality plat quickly and easily from deed descriptions as well as raw survey data. Standard, old, and ancient distance measurements as well as bearings, azimuth, and rotation angles are supported. The program calculates acreage, computes closure, produces boundary descriptions and survey reports, prints plats...
- Software downloads 2005-10-17
- Yahoo's new search master
- The arms race for scientists with expertise in various areas of search, data mining and data analysis is in full flower, as in the tug of war between Google and Microsoft over the services of Kai Fu Lee. Meanwhile, Yahoo is making a major investment from its nearly $500 million...
- Blog posts 2005-08-04
- File swapping war takes a dangerous turn
- File swapping war takes a dangerous turnVery dangerous, indeedThis total [u]perversion[/u] of copyright law has gotten completely out of hand. This is the kind of thing we can look forward to for our children. History is only accessible for those with the "proper permission". This link is indicative of where...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-28
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