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Submission + - Google to invest in Geothermal energy (cnn.com)

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david.emery

on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @10:55AM

david.emery writes: "CNN has a story about Google investing in geothermal energy: http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/08/19/google-invests-in-drilling-for-geothermal-energy/ Could we see data megacenters relocating to geothermal areas? But aren't those geologically sensitive, e.g. prone to earthquakes? How hard would it be to engineer an earthquake-proof "data bunker"? The story mentions an effort to map geothermal resources in the US, could this be the start of a new energy land rush?"

Submission + - AFNOR proposes convergence of OOXML and ODF (afnor.org)

Submitted by david.emery on Monday October 15, 2007 @12:02PM

david.emery writes: In a press release here (http://www.afnor.org/prt_actualite.asp?ref=7021&PageActu=Portail&lang=English), AFNOR (the French member body for ISO) is proposing convergence of OOXML and ODF into a single standard:

Through a large number of contributions, the different stakeholders have demonstrated the need to have an OOXML format having a quality to be recognised by ISO. In the context where multiple document format specifications exist, the French experts, who have put considerable efforts into this work, have shown that a convergence is feasible between OOXML and the ODF format — the latter being already standardized today as ISO/IEC 26300 — thereby tending towards a single revisable document format standard.
The press release has details of the French proposal.

Submission + - Microsoft's 'Clippy' is also a security hole...

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david.emery

on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @12:09PM

david.emery writes: "According to an article in extremetech, there's an (ActiveX, of course) vulnerability in Windows 2k 'Clippy': http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2182388,00.asp

Well, this just confirms what we always thought. Not only is "Clippy" annoying, he's actively evil :-)"

Submission + - DCMA suit against Apple iPod for not using MRT?

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david.emery

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @05:01PM

david.emery writes: "According to this posting, http://playlistmag.com/news/2007/05/10/mrt/index.p hp , MRT has sent Apple a Cease & Desist letter under the terms of the DCMA. It appears to me that the gist of the MRT argument is that Apple is in violation because they're not using MRT's technology.

Well that's a new wrinkle on the DCMA. MRT seems to think that the DCMA can be used to force the use of (only) their technology.

dave"

Submission + - Microsoft ordered to pay $1.52b to Alcatel-Lucent

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david.emery

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @05:32PM

david.emery writes: "CNN [ http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/22/technology/microso ft_alcatel.reut/index.htm?postversion=2007022215 ] has a short item on a Jury award of $1.52b in damages to Alcatel-Lucent, from Microsoft, for violating a patent relating to computer audio files."

Submission + - Sun announces winners of "Try and Win" con

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david.emery

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @03:46PM

david.emery writes: "Sun Microsystems had a promotion where you submitted a proposal to evaluate one of their new multi-core machines. They lent you the machine for 90 days, and if they were sufficiently impressed with what you did with it, they'd let you keep the machine.

Here are the results: http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/prm/perf/winners.jsp

Most of these projects demonstrate the ability of the machine to do transaction kinds of things, like web servers, where you load up the cores through the transaction load. A few, such as the Grebyn Corporation project, instead loaded up all of the cores working collectively on a single problem. In other /. postings, various people have commented on our inability to write software that makes use of large numbers of multiple cores. The Grebyn application demonstrates that at least some people on some problems can keep 8 cores fully occupied."

Submission + - Ctrl-Z: Justin Long denies he's no longer "A

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david.emery

on Monday November 13, 2006 @07:01PM

david.emery writes: "In a report on his website, http://www.justinlong.net/ , Justin Long denies rumors that he has been removed as "the Mac" in the Apple "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ads.

From the posting (somewhere in the middle of the latest blog freetext): "as for the mac commercials, i don't know where that report came from that said i wasn't going to do anymore — i literally setting my alarm right now to wake up for a mac shoot tomorrow — if i'm not doing anymore i guess i can sleep in on my day off"

I guess we'll have to wait for the next series of ads to see who shows up."

Submission + - Apple to replace it's "I'm a Mac" star?

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on Friday November 10, 2006 @08:05PM

david.emery writes: "MacWorld is reporting that Apple will be replacing Justin Long as its "Mac" in their "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ad campaign. John Hodgman, the personification of (nerdy) PC, is reported shooting new commercials. http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/11/10/justinlong /index.php?lsrc=mwrss."

Submission + - Washington Post on "5 years of WinXIP"

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david.emery

on Sunday September 24, 2006 @11:57AM

david.emery writes: "In an article in the Washington Post entitled If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP, Post Technology Columnist points out the 5 year legacy of Windows XP. The article starts "Windows XP is turning five years old, but will anybody want to celebrate the occasion?". This is (IMHO) a very well-reasoned critique of WinXP, although it does fail to credit XP as being markedly better than its precedessors."

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