Duncan Dominates, Nash--Not So Much
The story of the San Antonio-Phoenix series will ultimately boil down to two things: (1) the Spurs have the best player on either team, Tim Duncan; (2) the Spurs can win at the Suns' preferred uptempo pace but the Suns cannot win at a slowdown game. Duncan had 33 points, 19 rebounds and three blocked shots as the Spurs defeated the Suns, 108-101, ... (Read on Source)
WHAT’S NEW IN SCANTRON TECHNOLOGIES
- FROM THE ARCHIVE - The Scantron 8950 (A.K.A. ?Lil? Helper?). Attention, teachers! How many times have you arrived at the scantron machine with your stack of answer sheets and realized that you forgot to fill out the answer key? And where is your pencil? Hang on, because help is on the way. The 8900 may [...] (Read on Source)
Microsoft Gives Customers Something to Fall Back On
Q&A: Rich Kaplan, vice president, Supportability and Customer and Partner Experience at Microsoft, discusses the second part of the Daylight Saving Time extension to come in North America and other upcoming international changes, lessons learned from March?s ?spring forward,? and the effects these changes have on customers around the world.
Startup Bets Investment Wiki Will Make Financial Sense
Startup Wikinvest will formally launch its investment information wiki on Monday, and will announce that it has secured venture-capital funding. The question is, can a wiki provide reliable investment advice?
Ailing NHLer Bergeron leaves hospital
Boston Bruins centre Patrice Bergeron was released from hospital on Sunday, a day after suffering a concussion and broken nose after being hit from behind by Philadelphia's Randy Jones. (Read on Source)
Patching CVE-2008-0600, Local Root Exploit
KernelTrap: "Patches for a much publicized Linux kernel local root exploit were released today as 2.6.24.2, 2.6.23.16, and 2.6.22.18..."
Yahoo sends letter to shareholders over Microsoft bid (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang cited the growing online advertising market and his company's position to take advantage of that growth as reasons for shareholders to reject Microsoft's acquisition bid, he said in a letter to shareholders Wednesday.
Where technology helps Army recruits train
While old stalwarts like the obstacle course and the firing range live on, digital technologies such as battlefield simulators are gaining a prominent role in training recruits.
Data Brawn Meets Interface Brains
The larger the business or government agency is, the bigger the volume of data it deals with. That translates into massive efforts to manage that data to meet ever-increasing compliance regulations for adequately maintaining electronic records. Any software company that can figure out how to manage this process better than its competition can become king of the vendor hill.
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Mastercard, Inc. is bucking the trend in early trading so keep it on the...
Age Old Conundrum: Which Came First, the Microsoft Reorg or the Kevin Johnson Departure?
I’m sure you’re one of many generations to ask the question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg the top exec resignation or the company reorganization? Your brain will get balled-up in a knot today, with the news that Microsoft will reorganize its online services and Windows groups as top exec Kevin Johnson leaves to [...]
Prototype Test For Predicting Clinical Outcome For Melanoma Patients
Investigators have developed a test to predict whether a patient will progress rapidly from Stage III melanoma to metastatic Stage IV cancer and death. More than 70% of patients with Stage III melanoma ? melanoma that has spread to the lymph nodes ? will typically have a rapid time to progression (TTP) to Stage IV melanoma, and pass away within five years of their diagnosis.
US Sugar buyout: sweet deal for the Everglades?
Miami - Banged out in secret meetings, a $1.75 billion taxpayer-funded plan to buy 187,000 acres of US Sugar's cane fields in the Lake Okeechobee basin marks one of the largest conservation buyouts of a major industry in the US, promising to break a major chokehold on the slowly dying Everglades. (Read on Source)
Intel Laptop Platform to Boost Graphics, Power Use
Intel said its next-generation platform for laptops will provide more visually stunning graphics and better power management...
Seven Things That Reality Could Borrow From The Internet
Posted by Jane Copland
The Internet, as fragile, infuriating and enigmatic as its features can be, certainly does some things that I'd really like to see implemented, at least for beta testing, in real life. I am not a programmer, so this is piecemealed together from things I do know... but in my ideal world, I'd be able to solve most of my problems with a couple of simple instructions and a hard refresh.1. Redirecting phone numbers. When I moved to Seattle (two years ago last Saturday), I acquired a local number. In the days before Facebook became microchipped into everyone's forehead, I had little means of getting in touch with everyone I knew and letting them know that my number had changed.
I would like to take the hassle out of changing my phone number. I should be able to text my service provider with this:
Redirect 301 3456 1-206-555-2387
This would be far more convenient than trying to email everyone in my phone book.
Additionally, upon receiving a new number, it came to my attention that the number was only one digit different to that of a large parking garage in Seattle. No, I cannot help you get your car out of the Union Square garage at seven a.m. on Sunday morning.
2. To deal with the people who'd abandoned their cars in the garage whilst out drinking in Seattle, I'd like to text in:
if ($question=="parking garage")
echo "Your car has been impounded.";
else
echo "Hello.";
3. Another thing I found infuriating upon moving to the U.S. was your addresses. In New Zealand, we have addresses like:
23 Smith Street
Wadestown
Wellington
New Zealand
I shall not entertain the idea that New Zealand may have, in the time I have been away, instigated postal codes. Here, and in various other countries too cool for simple addresses, you've made things far too complicated. In the United States, they number street addresses like it's a contest to count to one-million. I've not lived at a street address below 1000 since I came here. And Britain: what is with those postal codes? EC1M 5UJ? W2 1JU?
I would like to be able to rewrite a complicated address, sending this on a postcard to the post office:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^30 Brown Street Seattle $ComplicatedAddressLongPostalCode
4. Real life should also be programmed such that I don't waste my time trying to get into bars and clubs that I'm not going to be allowed into. It's just a risk you take when you're underage: you can guarantee that some bars in some towns either aren't going to ask to see identification, or they'll let you're in because you're a female and you're wearing lots of make-up. But most won't.
A simple system of cue cards would save us all a lot of time. A bar that will definitely ask you for ID posts a 401 on their doors. Those that will also not fall for fake IDs should make it clear with a 403. A simple 502 indicates that the bar is at capacity.
5. Unplugging and re-plugging-in anything that doesn't work properly should immediately result in it working again.
6. I would like to be able to establish a secure connection to my pizza delivery place. Encrypting the information that I send to the person on the phone at Palermo's would make me feel a bit better when they repeat both my name and my credit card number aloud in the store whilst taking my order. Fantastic work, telephone guy. Now everyone knows all my basic financial details, including my card's expiration date and my middle initials and my address.
7. Given how many friends I have living in different time zones, it would be useful to employ IP delivery on my mobile phone. If someone calls my phone from Australia or New Zealand, they're delivered the me who knows how to pronounce words like "g'day" and who says "eh" instead of "huh." When my grandmother calls, I can serve up the version that passes all the Safe Search requirements. Americans are served a Jane who says "soccer" instead of "football." Without such a feature, speaking the correct version of English at the correct time is far too difficult.
If someone would get onto that, I'd appreciate it. Especially the bit about cleaning up my language around my grandmother.
Google Patches Security Vulnerabilities in Chrome
... for anyone looking to test its security chops against rival browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apples Safari. For example, security researcher last week demonstrated a proof of concept ...
Rackspace UK Adds Virtualization (Web Host Industry Review)
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Fail and You Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty
... he would look down his nose at an ops manager to provide: data storage, web hosting and caching. Web developers are too busy to worry about the app to figure ...
LongJump Extends Itself With New Developer Suite
New Dev Suite Lets LongJump Work With Other Apps When LongJump first launched, the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) model was only just taking off. Since then, we've seen Google launch their App Engine and more services than ever are taking advantage of Amazon's EC2 . Today, the Sunnyvale, California-based PaaS provider, LongJump, tries to one-up ... (Read on Source)
Sony Vaio TT ultra-portable laptop officially launched: 11.1-inch, 2.8 lbs and Raid0 dual-SSD
Specs were partially published on Sony's website yesterday, but now the cat is out of the box. The Sony Vaio TT is a sub-3 lbs ultraportable laptop that packs an impressive list of features, including:
- 2x128GB RAID0 SSD drive (one logical 250GB HDD)
- A Blu-ray + multi-format DVD burner
- 1080p HDMI output
- 11.1" LED backlit display (1366x768)
- Sprint EVDO
- 4GB of RAM (Windows 32 sees only 3)
It is powered by Intel's Centrino 2 and that means that it has WiFi-N and that its integrated graphics can decode a Blu-Ray movie without sucking the power of a nuclear plant, as it was the case with the first generation Blu-Ray laptops. We have an image of the official complete specifications in the photo-galley, so take a look to see the small bits.
I wonder how much performance the SSD RAID array will bring to things like boot-time, because depending on the configuration, the price goes from $2000 to $2750). Also, we assume that the battery can survive at least for one full Blu-Ray movie, but we can't wait to test it.
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Crisis at Princeton
You know that Paulson produced a lemon when Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw have basically the same objections to the plan that I do. The plan doesn’t directly address the key issue of undercapitalized financial institutions; instead, it relies on the assumption that mortgage-related toxic waste is underpriced, and that the Treasury can wave ... (Read on Source)
Remapping PC Keyboards
Reader Roger Vaught would like to bring a little more Mac goodness to his PC keyboard. He writes:
Dodgers still believe ahead of home trio
The Los Angeles Dodgers are in a big hole against the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League championship series, but can turn things around with the first of three games at home on Sunday night. (Read on Source)
FCC Report: White-space Devices Able to Sense Other Signals
An FCC report says prototype wireless broadband devices were generally able to sense signals from TV stations and wireless...
Leaving Deals in the Contact Form of Local Businesses
Clever online marketing tip of the day: Go to local companies and tell them about a deal for their employees through their web site contact form. Hope they send a company-wide email about it like they did at OrangeSoda. (Read on Source)
wednesday update
SHORT TERM: selling continues, DOW 411 Overnight the Asian markets were mostly...
PHP Specificity Part IV: Debugging
Yes, I'm aware that a spider isn't technically a bug, but the cool thing about spiders is they eat bugs. This mechanical spider by Belgian sculptor Stephane Halleux looks especially menacing. But we're not here to talk about spiders, we're here to talk about software bugs, and more specifically, debugging PHP code. In this fourth installment of...
Pelosi: 'Not helping the auto industry is not an option'
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that not helping the faltering auto industry is "not an option." In an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," Pelosi said Congress is willing to help the Detroit automakers if they lay out a thorough plan in the coming days. (Read on Source)
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