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- Geek Trivia: Planetary (m)alignment
- Geek Trivia: Planetary malignmentarticle rootA thousand pardons, your imminence . . .Another enjoyable Geek Trivia fix, but in your closing paragraph should not "Therefore, it's imminently plausible . . ." be eminently plausible?gosh...I had no idea that Geek Trivia Quibbles had anything to do with grammar.oh yes they do!I say,...
- Tags: Neptune, trans-Neptunian, grammar, gfisher@..., career, plausibility, trans-Neptunian object, Geek Trivia
- Discussion threads 2006-02-08
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- Policy Analyzer (zip)
- This program will analyze a policy in four areas, and help in presentation. It focus's on four areas as plausibility, conclusion correctness, valid transformations, and with five types of transformations to use the right sentence for your audience. The advantage of this program is that you can determine how off-shoots...
- Tags: Transformation, Policy Analyzer, Government, Vertical Industries, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Software downloads 2007-07-27
- One man's definition of science fiction
- Author S. Andrew Swann has posited a discrete definition of science fiction as opposed to other genre work, like fantasy, superheroes and horror found via SFSignal: "SF is SF because the author consciously or instinctively believes that the universe runs by predictable and knowable laws. In addition, the author's world,...
- Tags: Star Wars, Author, Fantasy, Science Fiction, SF, Author S. Andrew Swann, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Finished 'Accelerando' yesterday
- I'm well ahead on at least one New Year's resolution (Read 20 books in 2006? Yes. Work out three times per week? Sort of. Publish at least three short stories in 2006? Not a chance.) thanks to finishing my read of Accelerando last night. It's the fifth...
- Tags: Story, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-02-08
- Geek Trivia: Shedding some (laser) light
- Editor's note: Once again, the Trivia Geek has bailed on his commitment to originality and instead scavenged a Classic Geek from the archives, which originally ran on April 11, 2006. He swears this will be the last time it happens until Christmas (yeah, right). This week, we...
- Tags: Community, Editor, Laser, Einstein, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Members fuel debate on hacker fate, metric system, and raises
- Between the constant firefighting you face each week and the sheer speed at which the IT industry moves, not to mention the short Labor Day week here in the U.S., it's easy to let important or interesting news and information slip through the cracks. So, to kick off the week,...
- Tags: John Sheesley, Linux, Novell Inc.
- Technical articles 2003-09-08
- Do More with Less: An alternative to Office that is free
- By Peter LowberInstalled-base inertia, fear, uncertainty and doubt, and skepticism about the plausibility of any alternative make Microsoft's dominance appear inevitable for the near future. However, Microsoft is vulnerable to alternative models, especially in the consumer market. The high license cost of Microsoft Office makes it unaffordable for many low-income...
- Tags: Gartner , Microsoft Office, SimDesk
- Technical articles 2003-10-03
- Geek Trivia: Ahead of its time(piece)
- What ancient shipwreck artifact suggests the ancient Greeks could build complex clockwork devices? In the rarified circles of analog computing, today is a somewhat reverent anniversary. On June 14, 1822, Charles Babbage first proposed his difference engine to the Royal Astronomical Society, which many view as the...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Charles Babbage, difference engine, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Artifact, Productivity
- Technical articles 2006-06-13
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