A unit of mouse movement typically set at 1/200th of an inch.
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- Kids NetLinks Mickey Mouse Edition (zip)
- Kids NetLinks Mickey Mouse Edition provides an easy to use browser with button links to the top Mickey Mouse Web sites for kids. Links to games, crafts, music, learning, screensavers, wallpaper images, and also links to all of the disneyland / disneyworld parks and disney shopping sites. This version is...
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- Apple is the tech equivalent of Disney World?!??!!!!
- Apple is the tech equivalent of Disney World?!??!!!!I think the gist is that computer tech is the equivalent of Disney.That would make Apple The Pirates of the Caribbean.I would assume that continuing the analogy would make MS the equivalent of It's a Small World.I allways thought their productsa little "Mickey...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Beatles music saved from public domain!
- Beatles music saved from public domain!To us Texas bumkins ....To us backwards Texas bumkins this reads like:"California saves beaches from public access!"It is all about GREED!Next someone will figure out how to tax ourdecendents for out death.It's about money.If there is a nickel to be made out of something, the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Europe seeks to brand open source quality
- Europe seeks to brand open source qualitySounds more like a effort at securing EU funding, not exclusionLooks like a reasonable idea. It does not seem like a very active project though. Their www.sqo-oss.eu site has not had any news for a year.To me it seems to be claiming it is...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- 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
- eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball?
- eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball?Spin out PayPal or Skype???Someone's not doing their homework!! Those two properties are equally (or more?) valuable to Microsoft than eBay's "core" auction biz. M$ would love to have the predominant method of web payment...not to mention Skype for its "Mickey-phone". ...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- News to know: Google-Yahoo; Twitter; IE8; Cable follies
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo's Google ad deal: Savior or mistake? Icahn's plan goes kaput as Microsoft talks end Garett Rogers: Microsoft and Yahoo stop talking, and Google wins Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo says it won't sell its search biz to Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Photos: At Epcot, hydroponics and Mickey Mouse pumpkins
- Squash shaped like a Disney character? The greenhouses at Epcot Center boast those--plus advanced methods of plant cultivation. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-12
- The value in name patients
- The value in name patientsYour assuming of course ....... that the surgery is successfull. What if he dies on the table or within 60 days after? Will people still want to use Duke?Probably won't make any difference unless...Dr. Friedman severely blunders. According to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200926.html?hpid=moreheadlinesthis is very...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- AMD launches 'business class' Phenom, Athlon chips
- AMD launches 'business class' Phenom, Athlon chipsOne thing AMD has better...than Intel is the way the heat sink mounts. The four little pins holding the Intel heat sink to the main board is very mickey mouse. I've had the outer portion of the pin, what expands to hold the sink...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- SportsNetwork CEO: Site back up; A look at the recovery plan
- Sports Network, victim of a Chinese hacker drive-by, is back online as it recovers and revamps security following a Sunday attack. In an interview, Sports Network CEO Mickey Charles detailed some preliminary parts of its recovery plan and a few more details of the attack, which began...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Frustrations with development languages
- Last week's discussions of Java suggested to me that most of the response people have to programming language choices is driven first by the lack of real choices and secondly by issues of scale and perception. Setting aside embedded uses of Java, I get the clear impression...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Google to Buy Skype?
- Google to Buy Skype?I for one woudl welcome thisI use Skype on a daily basis. And I have not been real happy with it as a product. If anybody could improve it, it would be Google.RE: Google to Buy Skype?Darn, just when I was getting ready to sign up for...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- Secunia: Skype, Java, QuickTime, PDF patches oh my; It's been an ugly 24 hours for Windows users
- Secunia: Skype, Java, QuickTime, PDF patches oh my; It's been an ugly 24 hours for Windows usersagain, Linux is safe folks!only windoze can have so many security holes in a single day.Haven't heart of security issues on Linux for a long time!Why not 89%?Given independant probabilites of 61%, 47%, 34%,...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Microsoft replaces one Scott with another as CIO
- Microsoft replaces one Scott with another as CIOSince he worked for DisneyHe should be right at home in another Mickey Mouse organization.Replace one mickey mouse job with another.I suppose more H1Bs would instantly do the trick; but plenty of displaced American workers would not only clean up Vista's mess, but...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Scrabble ownership and the public domain
- Scrabble ownership and the public domainBe careful JohnYou're starting to channel Lawrence Lessig.Is "2067" a typo?1993 + 70 = 2063Or is it not as simple as that?Incentives to CreateGood post, John. Modern copyright law is simply ludicrous. When originally enacted, copyrights were intended to give incentives to creators and balance...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Macworld Expo Las Vegas 2009!
- Every year I have to decide between attending Macworld Expo in San Francisco and the Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas. It's becoming increasingly diffcult to justify a two week junket away that doesn't involve family and Mickey Mouse or a destination somewhere in Europe. Macworld always wins. ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?
- I will resist suggesting I am starting off the New Year with a bang when I reveal that a new and very important and/or disturbing depending on whether you have laced your cornflakes with a David Copperfield mushroom or two thesis has now been published as a book. ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Google must demand open spectrum
- Our own Michael Kanellos has an insightful piece on Google's mobile telephony plans which begins Can Google grovel? In it he correctly identifies the gatekeepers in the present mobile market, and expresses concern that Google and its Android unit will be unable to break through them, despite...
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- (Photos: 'Hunter-killer' takes to Afghan skies)
- (Photos: 'Hunter-killer' takes to Afghan skies)securityI just hope the government keeps this one to ourself and not sell it to other countries. Not even our allies. It could be the one edge we have on the enemy no matter who.New Killer........in our 'War for Oil' , oops , I mean...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
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