Zeros used to fill a field that do not increase the numerical value of the data. For example, all the zeros in 0000006588 are leading zeros.
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- Mossberg's review of iPhone 3G: Newer, Faster, Cheaper
- The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg has been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks and today posted his review. As you'd expect, he loves the "between three and five times as fast" 3G networking, "wireless synchronization with corporate email" and the App Store which gives iPhone 3G...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Hardcore math at the speed of the Net
- From its inception, the Internet has been about connecting researchers and research institutions to each other (and, of course, about national defense). As the Web continues to explode, though, it's interesting to see how new generations of researchers work, collaborate, and criticize online. A particular example...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign
- A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what looks like over five different exploits attempt to automatically infect the visitors next to the malware binary fireworks.exe. Historically, Storm...
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up
- The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- DirectPrompt (exe)
- Direct Prompt is teleprompting software that was written with Microsoft Direct X and .NET technology for the Windows Operating System. It allows for ultra-smooth, flicker-free scrolling text by harnessing the raw power of your video card. Direct Prompt is the ideal solution for anyone searching for an affordable prompting solution...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Brightening outlook for solar energy?
- Wanted to add another couple of links related to Harry's post yesterday about SolarCity. The actual news of the day is the company's new 8,200-square-foot facility in Phoenix, from which it will run its SolarLease program. One thing that Harry didn't mention in his post is...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- UK builder switches email to Google Apps
- A leading British construction company switched 1,800 users over to Google Apps on May 2nd, becoming the largest live deployment in the UK so far. Its IT director firmly refutes the notion raised here yesterday that Google apps aren't fit for enterprise use. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'knowledge-at-point-of-careGreat review of Mike Lynch's article.ISABEL, a clinical diagnosis reminder system based on Autonomy is a sign of things to come in the vast and underexplored area of point-of-care knowledge and expertise management in healthcare; the current generation of...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'
- An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al GoreApple's Jonathan Ive helped with robot designApparently Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive helped with the design of the futuristic robot Eve.Fortune magazine:" A call from Stanton to Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple's behind-the-scenes design guru, driving across the San Francisco Bay to...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- "Family Guy" creator and Google team up
- "Family Guy" creator and Google team upUh, How is this good?Is this part of Google's BS "do no wrong"? That family guy show isnt exactly one of the most family friendly shows out there. Honestly, it sucks. I wouldnt have a thing to do with the...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- 2009 Nissan GT-R
- Photo gallery:2009 Nissan GT-R It must be Christmas, because a 2009 Nissan GT-R showed up in our garage. Just like how we spent 1973 transfixed by commercials for the Vertibird Rescue Ship toy, we slathered over every specification sheet and photo of the new GT-R since the concept was shown...
- Product reviews 2008-06-27
- House of Brides (gadget)
- Introducing the House of Brides and Amazon Search gadget. The House of Brides has 6 retail stores in Chicago and 79 years experience in dressing brides and their wedding parties. Bringing wedding shopping to the next horizon with leading designers and display more than 20,000 products including: Bridal and Bridesmaid...
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium
- Interesting bit of news coming out of the FIRST Conference in Vancouver today: Five big-name IT firms have created a non-profit consortium aimed at "proactively driving excellence and innovation in security response." The group -- called ICASI Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet --...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- America's blocked labor policies
- A little known fact about the H-1B work visa program - the special visa used by most foreign technology workers who come to work in the United States - is that fashion models must compete for the same category of visa, a fact about which The Economist reminded me in...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?
- Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?Gates will be missedI believe Ray Ozzie would be a great replacement for Gates on the speech / giving a MS vision front. Ray speaks very well. Maybe Ballmer could make him make 6 or more speeches a year and so some light promotion work....
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote
- Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence voteSounds like the testers and MS are doing good work[i]The best thing that happened in response to this latest action is that the Entity Framework team responded to it immediately[/i]Good for the testers for demanding better, and good for MS for responding immediately....
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killer
- Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killerOpen sores are good, but when is it too many?It's about time Symbian went open sores. I guess, Nokia, Mot and others saw the writing on the wall. Never mind Android, the real fear is Apple iPhone. The juggernaut is unstoppable if...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?How do you define a speculator?The problem is not the guys who buy and sell commodities on an ongoing basis, it is the investors who have discovered a new asset class called "natural resources" and who take, and hold long positions betting...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees
- A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 as reported by Stanford University former and current Standford University employees. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I'm...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
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