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- Hardware Drivers
- Hey folks, Microsoft is not in the business of generating drivers for every single third party gadget you may buy. It makes no financial sense for them to do that, unless the hardware manufacturers were to pay them to do it for them. They do provide third party...
- Tags: drivers, hardware, it management, lee0078, leewillis@..., Microsoft Corp., operating system, programming, software, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-26
- Absolutely's global warming debate - 'team yes' prep thread
- Let's get started.We need to build an outline of principles to be covered & the means to ...demonstrate them.Some suggested starters:1) The crucial difference between [i]thermal energy[/i] and [i]temperature[/i] must be made clear. Many engaged in other discussions re. this matter seem to either confuse the 2, or perhaps...
- Tags: Absolutely, analogue, capitalism, deepsand, environmentalism, global warming, off-topic, physical system, politics, science, team
- Discussion threads 2007-01-10
- Absolutely's global warming debate - 'team no' prep thread
- Gentlemen, start your engines!:DI know you will anyway, so I can at least have a laugh about it...:(
- Tags: Absolutely, capitalism, environmentalism, global warming, off-topic, politics, science, team
- Discussion threads 2007-01-10
- Attempt to formalize global warming debate, step 1
- This thread is merely for announcing your position, and your intention to participate in a debate, about whether or not global warming is in significant part caused by humanity.Please just answer "yes" if you believe humans do contribute significantly to global warming, and "no" if you believe humans don't contribute...
- Tags: Absolutely, global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-01-07
Additional Resources
- What is Politics?
- A boy asks his father what is Politics an the father explains: Father brings money home so I am CapitalismMother manages the money she is the GovernmentGrandfather take care that every thing is under control he is the SyndicateOur home maid is the Working ClassWe all work together for you...
- Tags: deqani@...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- Bad bosses promoted, not punished
- When profit is the only passion tyranny is only optionThroughout the history of Capitalism it has been more profitable to reward incompetent bosses who could drive their workforces than to reward good bosses who could lead their team.
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Gary-Jackson@...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- "Open source sounds like a great idea
- Sounds Logical But So Does CapitalismYou have some reasonable points but lets face it, at all depends on what your'e objective is.A hands-on perspectiveI disagree with most of this, having built the last 4 years of my career on Open Source t
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, robertmro, open source, OSS
- Discussion threads 2006-10-14
- outsourcing security - backdoors, trojans
- Am I alone in thinking that in this heightened atmosphere of security threats that the biggest threat is outsourcing and programming.If we don't know who we can trust and terrorists can be highly educated individuals isn't this an open door for anyone with a grudge against the USA to plant...
- Tags: outsourcing, outsourcing security, security, terrorism, support@..., trojan horse
- Discussion threads 2006-07-31
- Strips (dmg)
- Play Strips, a classic game of nightlife and capitalism. In this Monopoly-like game, buy, trade, and develop Manhattan real estate and put your rivals out of business. Buy, trade, and auction real estate in eight Manhattan neighborhoods. Develop thriving businesses to increase cash flow. Conduct high-stakes trades to build up...
- Tags: Manhattan, Real Estate, Games, Business Operations, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-11-08
- Net neutrality bill may die this year
- America leads the world......in corporate profits. As far as broadband competition, cost and availability...we suck. Current rules are not enforcable.still not sure I see the problemthat requires additional regulation. Boxer says"All of a sudden, we're going to have ISPs setting up toll roads, charging Web sites different rates"Really? Then why...
- Tags: wmlundine@..., net-neutrality, networking, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-09-13
- Way to go!
- Way to turn an MS bashing thread into an America bashing thread! KUDOS!EU knocks Microsoft with $357 million fineArrogance?"Microsoft has told me they are now devoting substantial resources to compliance," Kroes said. "It is a great pity they didn't do this two years ago...If they had begun in earnest...
- Tags: GOVERNMENT, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-12
- Sony CD threats continue to emerge
- Can Sony be this dumb?What do you think? Is this an accident or can there be a deeper agenda with Sony trying to teach people they should never put a CD in a PC?Corporate IndulgencesesSimply put its Sony/BMG bullying there way through a problem. I see this as being more...
- Tags: CD, security, sony, Sony Corp., Sony Product, Tech Locksmith
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
- Three Platonic Caves
- If there are 10 political questions and each admits of only 2 answers there are 1024 possible opinion collections. However, in practice there is quite a lot of clustering of opinions, so we can cover a lot of political ground reasonably systematically. I use economic opinion as the basis. ...
- Tags: john.a.wills@..., cave, corporatism, liberalism, socialism, triangle
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- How a geek hacked his way to a billion dollar business -- and it's not Bill Gates
- Sometimes you would think that there aren't any interesting characters in the technology business whose names are not Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. While Gates and Jobs have both had fascinating journeys over the past three decades, if you want to hear about some of the most colorful and influential...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Bill Gates, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Why there is no point to TechPoints
- For a long time, I was a big fan of the TechPoints system at work in or Technical Q&A forums. I loved the idea of a virtual economy, and preached for quite a while that all we had to do was increase the transparency of the feature--let ...
- Tags: Question, TechPoints, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-07-15
- United States trailing in Net access speed
- The United States is lagging behind other countries when it comes to the speed at which citizens can connect to the Internet. Our median access speed is less than a 30th of Japan's, South Korea boasts a median speed over 22 times ours, and even France's median speed is...
- Tags: Internet Access, Verizon Communications Inc., Speed, Wireless LANs, Internet, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Wi-Fi, Optical Networking, Wireless, Networking, Telecommunications, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Tech companies, investors clash over patent law
- Oil companies - - Prime exampleJust like the oil companies that bought up hundreds of ground breaking inventions that would make the internal combustion engine obsolete. They consealed, shelved and hide these new inventions when they realized they would put themselves out of the oil business. This...
- Tags: apotheon, investor, venture capital
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- Technology's growing acquisition appetite
- Oracle's acquisition of Siebel and eBay's purchase of Skype are the most recent of many large mergers completed this year. This acquisition boom is driven in part by the notion that large companies are better able than small ones to maintain profit margins and to withstand pricing pressures--so getting...
- Tags: acquisition, acquisition appetite, it management, mergers, profit margin, Sonja Thompson
- Discussion threads 2005-09-15
- Telecom in US is not competive market
- In most areas, there is one or maybe 2 providers for broadband internet, the cable company and phone for DSL. Both have been granted limited monopoly status in most cases but have to agree to certain common carrier limitations. Both have been subsidized, if by nothing else but...
- Tags: DSL, telephone, telecom, isp, net neutrality, george ou, broadband, kpotter@..., networking, telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2006-06-12
- What would the loss of RedHat Linux mean?
- Recently it came to my attention that Oracle has attempted to undercut RedHat Linux. How you ask? Well Oracle is basically taking RedHat software, removing all mention of RedHat and all RedHat trademarks, releasing the new operating system with "bug fixes" (says an Oracle company press release.) Next, Oracle sells...
- Tags: Fedora, Gpl, Linux, Open Source, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Redhat Linux, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-10-30
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