Bonds reportedly considered therapeutic-drug-use
When Barry Bonds was told he had failed an amphetamines test last season, the first thing he did was suggest that he had taken some kind of substance that belonged to teammate Mark Sweeney. (Read on Source)
SearchBrains
Ive been waiting all week for the calendar to say Friday so that I could have a little fun and mention this, and now the day is here. Huzzah! Okay, so earlier this week the Washington Post had a (free) article entitled OMG My Boss Wants to Friend Me On My Online Profile that touched on what to do the horrifying day that your boss tries to ... (Read on Source)
Eating Disorders Are Associated With Use Of Supplements
FARGO, N.D. - Researchers have found that people with eating disorders also tend to use nonprescription and herbal supplements, with most reporting an adverse effect. Full story on lexis.com
Veoh Networks and Collegiate Images Team Up to Bring NCAA Football Content Online
--Dedicated NCAA Football channel to launch on Veoh.com this September -- Channel to feature exclusive customization features-- (PRWeb Aug 2, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U3VtbS1QaWdnLUNyYXMtU3F1YS1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Woman's World Magazine Features Scholarship Created By eLearners.com To Help Dreams Come True
Women Can Enter to Win a Scholarship to Continue their Education: For many people interested in going back to school, the biggest obstacle is the cost. A recent study, Degrees of Opportunity, indicates that half of all adults in the U.S. between the ages of 25 and 60 want to further their education. However, many people don't pursue this dream because of financial constraints. That's why eLearners.com is offering a $1,500 "Where Learning Begins" Scholarship Award, to be featured in the September 4 issue of Woman's World. (PRWeb Aug 16, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/SG9yci1JbnNlLUxvdmUtSGFsZi1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Student Loan Consolidation Information - What Is The FFELP - Federal Family Education Loan Program P
The FFELP is a Federal Government private lender partnership scheme and umbrella program that includes both Stafford loans, PLUS loans and Perkins loans, setup by an Act of Congress in 1965, it began operation in 1966 and since this time over half a trillion in money has been disbursed with over $50 billion alone in 2006.
Facebook opens profiles to public
Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates. The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to search for a specific person. (Read on Source)
Senators push for Internet tax ban (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Three Republican U.S. senators on Thursday called on Congress to pass a permanent Internet tax ban before a moratorium expires Nov. 1.
El Defensor del Pueblo pide retirar el vídeo de YouTube que se mofa de un deficiente
El Defensor del Pueblo ha pedido al fiscal del caso la retirada de la página web de Youtube del vídeo en el que aparecen imágenes que ridiculizan a una persona con discapacidad porque atentan contra la dignidad de la persona...
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Fake Steve Jobs For the Win (Read on Source)
SAP, Oracle Holding Out on Ubuntu?
As Canonical grows its Ubuntu partners, at least two important software vendors still do not support its version of Linux.
Prepared Remarks of Joe Biden to the Convention
Beau, I love you. I am so proud of you. Proud of the son you are. Proud of the father you?ve become. And I?m so proud of my son Hunter, my daughter Ashley, and my wife Jill, the only one who leaves me breathless and speechless at the same time. (Read on Source)
My First Linux Laptop is the Asus EeePC Netbook
ZDNet: "I could probably put a keyboard into one of the USB slots, assuming I could find a Linux driver, but that sort of voids the advantage of its small size."
In the Wireless World, 3 Things Matter: Location, Location, Location
Location-based mobile and Web services are increasingly delivering value and gaining adherents as service providers devote greater time and resources to developing them further. For example, Sprint's Xohm wireless broadband unit is working with a group of leading mobile Web application development companies to develop a set of personalized "geobrowsing" services.
Automated Bus Uses Magnets To Steer Through City Streets
The thought of a bus moving along city streets while its driver has both hands off the wheel is alarming. But a special bus steers not by a driver, but by a magnetic guidance system developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, with remarkable precision.
State of The Blogosphere: The More You Post, The Higher You Rank
All week, Technorati is releasing data from its 2008 State of the Blogosphere report. On Monday, Technorati told us that bloggers only need 100,000 visitors a month to make $75,000 a year (yeah, right). Today , it offers up something more believable: the more you post, the higher you are likely to rank on Technorati. Blogging is a volume game. ... (Read on Source)
All Your Sites Belong to Us
Three major web site redesigns in the last several weeks - Facebook, iGoogle and Yahoo - have sparked outrage from a small but influential group of users. ReadWriteWeb breaks each of these down. As I read their account it occurred to me that a dramatic shift has occurred. Companies don't really own their web sites anymore. We do. (Read on Source)
SMN Webcast, Tuesday Oct. 28: ?Measuring An Ad?s Value?
How do you measure the value of an ad if it’s one of several in a campaign? If a customer purchases your product after clicking on 3 search ads, which ad should get credit for the sale? Should branded search get more credit? What about the combination of online and offline ads? Next Tuesday,... (Read on Source)
KKR Delays IPO......Again
Cant we just call it quits n this It been over a year now...
On The Importance Of Unfettered Broadband
A little over a year ago, I tried to explain why metered broadband or capped broadband slows down innovation. However, many have responded that as long as the basic caps are reasonably high, it shouldn't be a big deal, because, "how much bandwidth do you really need?" People note that the only ones who might be using up the 250GB caps announced from Comcast can only be downloading non-stop movies. But that's not really the point. The real question is what innovations are we not seeing because of limited bandwidth. Not so long ago, the very idea of something like YouTube was preposterous, but thanks to abundant bandwidth it became possible. But something like YouTube is just a tiny way down the path to what's possible.
Tim Lee has a great post making the point that it goes well beyond just "how much bandwidth does a single person need" or even looking at what specifically they're downloading, to recognizing the change in tradeoffs for creating applications if bandwidth is effectively unlimited. As he notes, in any engineering situation, there are resource tradeoffs. If you're building an application, there are tradeoffs to making a client side app vs. a web-based app, for example. However, if bandwidth is truly abundant, the very nature of those tradeoffs change and it allows for entirely different types of development, often in ways that are difficult to fathom right now.
Lee gives a few random examples of what unlimited bandwidth might allow as the tradeoffs change:
People with cable or satellite TV service are used to near-instantaneous, flawless video content, which is difficult to stream reliably over a packet-switched network. So the television of the future is likely to be a peer-to-peer client that downloads anything it thinks its owner might want to see and caches it for later viewing. This isn't strictly necessary, but it would improve the user experience. Likewise, there may be circumstances where users want to quickly load up their portable devices with several gigabytes of data for later offline viewing.So the question is not how much bandwidth does any person really need. It's how will the entire ecosystem of what we can do change when bandwidth is completely abundant?
Finally, and probably most importantly, higher bandwidth allows us to economize on the time of the engineers building online applications. One of the consistent trends in the computer industry has been towards greater abstraction. There was a time when everyone wrote software in machine language. Now, a lot of software is written in high-level languages like Java, Perl, or Python that run slower but make life a lot easier for programmers. A decade ago, people trying to build rich web applications had to waste a lot of time optimizing their web applications to achieve acceptable performance on the slow hardware of the day. Today, computers are fast enough that developers can use high-level frameworks that are much more powerful but consume a lot more resources. Developers spend more time adding new features and less time trying to squeeze better performance out of the features they already have. Which means users get more and better applications.
The same principle is likely to apply to increased bandwidth, even beyond the point where we all have enough bandwidth to stream high-def video. Right now, web developers need to pay a fair amount of attention to whether data is stored on the client or the server and how to efficiently transmit it from one place to another. A world of abundant bandwidth will allow developers to do whatever makes the most sense computationally without worrying about the bandwidth constraints.
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Debian Security Advisory - hf (DSA-1668-1)
... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - Debian Security Advisory DSA-1668-1 security@debian.org Steve Kemp November 22, 2008 - Package : hf Vulnerability ...
Three Better Ways To Tell Its not Cloud Computing?
... paper processes, it's not cloud computing. 1. I disagree because of David Weinberger's core Web design pattern of . Often integration is left to the user, which is no bad ...
New Sonic and the Black Knight Screenshots
Following up on the initial screenshots and debut trailer, Sega has released more than 30 new screenshots from Sonic Team's Sonic and the Black Knight. Inspired by the tales of King Arthur, the Sonic-starring swordplay-oriented title hits Wii in spring 2009.
Virus ancestor to HIV older than believed
An ancient predecessor to the virus that causes AIDS evolved in wild primates many millions of years earlier than previously believed, according to research published Monday from the Stanford University School of Medicine. (Read on Source)
UN-BROKEN-UP
SIENNA Miller (above) and Balthazar Getty are still cooking - because they never actually split up. British papers recently quoted Miller as saying, "I'm single at the moment . . . I'm cool being on my own." But a rep for Miller told Page Six...
10 Newbie Mistakes, and What's Broken in Linux?
There's nothing like the approaching dawn of a new year to make a person sit down and take stock of things. Apparently the folks over at Infoweek were feeling a similar urge last week, if their article titled "Fixing Linux: What's Broken and What To Do About It" is anything to go by.
The magical free MMORPG world! Posted By : Roy Tzayag
Dragons, powerful sorcerers, elves, hobits ... this all sounds like another big budget Hollywood fantasy blockbuster. So how would you feel if you could play in that movie? Sounds impossible but not anymore.
Weekly Ten (12-22-2008)
Tech Source From Bohol: "9. Hard Work and Practice in Programming
There's a long arc in computing that teaches us how much we gain through advances in ease-of-use, with the iPhone being the latest breakthrough success..."
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