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- Geek Trivia: First to the Fourth
- OK, so we didn't send out a Geek Trivia newsletter, as TechRepublic shut down in observance of the U.S. Independence Day holiday. Never fear, GT-addicts, as the ol' Trivia Geek has your back with this this Classic Geek, which originally ran July 5, 2006. Every year, the...
- Tags: Earth, Constellation, Guest, Artifact, Nebula, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Geek Trivia: Science-fiction double feature
- Who are the only four writers to have two books win both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best science-fiction/fantasy novel? If the Hugo Award is the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent of the Oscar, then the Nebula Award is geekdom's Emmy. Together, these two prestigious paperweights single...
- Tags: Nebula, Jay Garmon, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, novel, science fiction, fantasy, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Hugo, Scott Card, Clarke, Games, Corporate Communications, Professional Development, Personal Technology, Marketing, Career
- Technical articles 2006-10-03
- Geek Trivia: First to the Fourth
- What artifact suggests that Native Americans may have also documented the Crab Nebula supernova? Every year, the United States celebrates its collective birthday—July 4th—in the usual fashion: Detonating enough fireworks to shoot down a small national air force. But once this annual episode of pyromaniacal patriotism...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Crab Nebula, guest star, Native Americans, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Earth, Constellation, Guest, Artifact, Nebula, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Technical articles 2006-06-30
Additional Resources
- Images: Google Earth beams you into space
- Google Earth's new feature Google Sky takes you on a trip through the universe with interstellar photos and cosmic descriptions.When you find a highlighted star, nebula or galaxy, you can zoom in. The diamond shape indicates more information is available. The Orion Nebula is located in the Orion galaxy--it''s the...
- Tags: galaxy, Google Inc., Google Earth, constellation, Eiffel, diamond, 360-degree, alien, wind, Alaska, photograph, beta, mouse, tool
- Image galleries 2007-08-23
- Nebula Accounting Winforms (zip)
- Complete Accounting System with Source Code and Distribution Rights for VB Dot Net 2.0 with an Outlook-Style Winforms Interface. Uses SQL Server 2005 Express for it's database. Basic Accounting functionality includes AR, AP, GL, OE, Purchasing.Version 1.091007 improves interface.
- Tags: Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-09-13
- Nebula Accounting for Access (zip)
- Complete Accounting System with Source Code and Distribution Rights for Microsoft Access 2003 ADP Format. Includes all basic accounting functionality, AR, AP, OE, GL PO, and includes report writer and menu builder. Modern Outlook-type interface. Uses SQL Server 2005 Express.
- Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Access, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-07-02
- Logic error w/respect to 4 doubles
- In the Sci-Fi double feature article you stated, "Actually, only 14 authors have had novels win both the Nebula and the Hugo, meaning that four sci-fi/fantasy scribes have pulled off the legendary awards two-step twice." It does not to be four scribes that each received two doubles, it could have...
- Tags: hschoenman@..., doubles, scribe
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- Space Hack (exe)
- Space Hack is a sci-fi Action/RPG title with Diablo-inspired game play mechanics, presented in real-time 3D graphics. The story puts you on a colony transport ship that suddenly gets trapped inside a Black Nebula, but that's only your first problem. While trapped, the ship is boarded by aliens that take...
- Tags: Story, Ship, Space Hack, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-12-01
- Nebula Wars (exe)
- Includes a vector graphics ship editor, online leader list, custom sounds, and an acid trip graphics engine. Customize everything about your ship from mass to rate of fire. Use physics to create powerful ships. Massive ships take more hits, less massive ones take less engine power. Big projecties connect easily...
- Tags: Graphics, Ship
- Software downloads 2006-06-21
- 3D Master Thief Demo Mission (zip)
- The Phoenix Gemstone has been stolen by the Russian Mafia - the Kombati. Your mission is to steal it back for a billionaire collector. Break into the Kombati Stronghold and find the hidden vault room. In there, you will find the gemstone protected by armed guards. You will be paid...
- Tags: 3D, Mission, Real Estate, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2004-01-22
- Video: Animated 'Rendezvous with Rama' movie trailer
- While he may be best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey, most science fiction fans and critics would agree that Rendezvous with Rama is Sir Arthur C. Clarke's best work. After all, it won both the Nebula and the Hugo. While we're still waiting on a real, big-budget Rama film...
- Tags: Movie, Video, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Starwraith 3 Shadows of Orion (exe)
- Starwraith 3, Shadows of Orion features a player-selected, dynamic campaign of over 25 missions with two endings, environments spanning nebula clouds, asteroid fields, planetary terrain, subterranean caves, and millions of square miles of open space. Plus, this action-packed game offers dogfight and team-versus-team, multi-player combat; instant action; in-game mission creation;...
- Tags: Mission, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-07-28
- Where is M13 (exe)
- Where is M13 is a revolutionary new astronomy application that helps you visualize the 3-D locations and physical properties of common deep sky objects. Using paired face-on and edge-on views, the Galaxy View shows you where that cluster or nebula you enjoy viewing in your telescope is actually located relative...
- Tags: Object, Think Astronomy, Night Sky
- Software downloads 2006-05-29
- Space Fighters 3D (exe)
- For a long time now, conflict has been brewing between the humanoid Gollians and the insectoid Szaarth Collective over the overlapping boundaries of their star systems. That's why the area between the blistering Gal'tur Nebula and the Myzon Abyss is considered a hot zone and is avoided by civilian space...
- Tags: 3D, Enemy
- Software downloads 2007-05-28
- Geek Trivia: Science-fiction double feature
- No!! There HAS to be a mistake!!In looking over the list I was dismayed at the absence of one name... Robert A Heinlein! This man was the Jolly Green Giant of SF in the 60s. I feasted on works by Isamov, Clarke, and Heinlein using a...
- Tags: career, Clarke, Dune, Heinlein, Hugo, movie, Nebula Awards, quibble, Retro Hugos, semantics, TomMerritt
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- Nebulous application requirements
- A TechRepublic download explains how to transform a nebulous application requirement like "take a flat file that was produced by an upstream mainframe application and produce an XML document for a downstream application," into a flexible working solution.http://techrepublic.com.com/i/tr/downloads/home/xml_legacy_dataPDF.pdf[b]What was your most nebulous initial application requirement? How did you handle it?[/b]That's...
- Tags: Nebulous, application requirement
- Discussion threads 2005-03-29
- God Help Me
- Three gods A , B , and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A , B , and...
- Tags: C/C++, NumberOn3, G.O.D., God Help, god
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- Geek Trivia: A CEO by any other name
- What famous college-dropout-turned-Silicon-Valley-millionaire completed college under an alias? According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has recently adjusted its notoriously laborious and demanding hiring process because it can't seem to find enough Ivy League-educated Ph.D.s looking to work for a search engine. But that's probably a...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Jay Garmon, Bill Gates, Harvard University, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Steve Wozniak, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Technical articles 2006-11-07
- Images: Microsoft telescope puts the universe on your desktop
- Stargazers can find black holes, radiation fields, and supernovas right from their desktops with Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope. Microsoft released the first free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope which is software that lets amateur and professional stargazers explore the universe from their PCs. The WorldWide Telescope is a rich Web...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Corp., Image, WorldWide Telescope, CNET News.com, news, Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
- Image galleries 2008-05-15
- Book Review: 'American Gods'
- Neil Gaiman has something of a reputation in geek circles, but ironically it has little to do with his Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel American Gods. That's a shame, because setting aside Gaiman's well earned acclaim as the writer of the exemplary fantasy comic series Sandman, American Gods is a...
- Tags: America, Novel, Character, Neil Gaiman, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
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