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- According to a Michigan State University MSU news release, 'Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier,' nuclear physicists can now start a new career as isotope designers. These scientists can build specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. The lead researcher says this approach...
- Blog posts 2008-05-10
- Genius Maker (exe)
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- Software downloads 2008-04-30
- TechNet Webcast: Firewall Transversal in Communications Server 2007 (Level 300)
- The ability to transverse firewalls is very important to how Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows VoIP calls in a secure manner. The presenter of this webcast talks in depth about the how Interactive Connectivity Establishment ICE and TURN are used to allow media to transverse firewalls in a secure...
- Webcasts 2008-04-29
- The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies
- Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL550
- There are a number of wrappers for Mercedes Benz's all-aluminum 5.5-liter V-8 engine: the flagship 2007 Mercedes Benz S550 relies on the 382-horsepower plant to get from private airport to movie premiere to golf club parking lot; the 2007 E550 relies on the engine to get down the autobahn at...
- Product reviews 2007-03-19
- Unix vs. Windows or: sometimes a fool is just a fool
- The December 19th issue of the Economist had an unsigned article under the title Consumer technologies are invading corporate computing, celebrating the end of corporate IT control - in the form of praise for an out-sourcing to google of various services at Arizona State University. The...
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Nanocosmetics are used since the Pharaohs
- French researchers have found that Egyptians, Greek and Romans were using nanotechnology to dye their hair several thousands years ago. In "Nanotechnology in Cosmetics - 2000 Years Ago...," Nanowerk Spotlight reports they were using lead compounds which generated lead sulfide PbS nanocrystals with a diameter of only 5 nanometers. At...
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- How to avoid train derailments
- Do you know that there are more than 2,200 annual train derailments in the U.S.? One third of these accidents can be attributed to hard-to-find defects in steel railroad tracks. Now researchers at University of California at San Diego UCSD have developed a new ultrasonic technology to find defects in...
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- GeoDataSource World Cities Database (Gold Edition) (ZIP)
- GeoDataSource World Cities Database Gold Edition contains 2.9+ million entries with city names in original language and English, feature type classifications, country names in FIPS and ISO, regions, sub-regions, state, county, longitude and latitude in degree, and decimal, Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate grid and Joint Operations Graphic reference.
- Software downloads 2006-08-09
- Convoy College
- "10-4, good buddy, I am rolling into Nashville cramming for a midterm on the Semiotics of the Post-Modern Society." InCab University, an accredited university for truckers on the go, is an idea who time has come. At least that's the hope of TransMarkets Technologies, a software and e-commerce provider for...
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- Make the jump from SQL Server 2000/7 to SQL Server 2005 with these notes and tips
- There are a number of changes you should understand before you begin planning the leap from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7 to the recently released SQL Server 2005. Migrating from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7 to SQL Server 2005 is not a project...
- Download resources 2006-02-07
- Unix vs. Windows or: sometimes a fool is just a fool
- The December 19th issue of the Economist had an unsigned article under the title Consumer technologies are invading corporate computing, celebrating the end of corporate IT control - in the form of praise for an out-sourcing to google of various services at Arizona State University. The...
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- Bricklin: OK, so where are the ODF developer kits?
- Bricklin: OK, so where are the ODF developer kits?Universal file format has been doneThe Amiga IFF file format was used for documents as well as sound and graphics. There were tools and an ecosystem around IFF too. Of course it was a BINARY format . . .AcornsWell, if you're looking...
- Discussion threads 2005-10-13
- Protecting astronauts from the Van Allen radiations
- The Van Allen radiation belts are two regions of space located about 20,000 kilometers above the Earth and filled with energetic particles coming from solar winds. The high energies of these particles, trapped by Earth's magnetic field, can reach millions of electron volts, and can represent a hazard to satellites...
- Blog posts 2005-09-08
- Could Californians who distribute Kazaa/Skype go to jail?
- Well, it could happen.A bill introduced into theCalifornia State Senateby State Sen. Kevin Murray (D-Los Angeles) would hold file-sharing services such as Sharman Networks' Kazaa liable for not taking "reasonable" care that files distributed over such networks are not used for illegal purposes.Such "illegal purposes," the bill implies, could involve...
- Blog posts 2005-01-22
- Health care IT coming of age
- If you look around, you'll notice that health care is inching its way to the brink of a major technology overhaul. According to The New York Times (thanks to IT Facts, our sister blog, for pointed it out) yesterday, a group of 13 health and information technology organizations gave the...
- Blog posts 2005-01-19
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