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Comment What goes around comes around.... (Score 0, Troll) 237

by ankarbass on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @06:48PM (#22228130) Attached to: BSA's Tactics and Motives Questioned

"We hired a guy to go through and audit and get us legal, but he didn't work out," the business owner said. "So we fired him and that's when he went and ratted us out."

What, are we supposed to feel sorry for the business owner aka software pirate? Watch out, here comes the clue bat...don't fire people who you hire to clean up your illegal messes. What is it with incompetent business owners who blame their employees. If you don't have the competence to manage your company's finances without breaking the law, maybe it's NOT the guy you hired who isn't working out.

Submission + - The CPU redefined: AMD Torrenze and Intel CSI

Submitted by

janp

on Monday March 05, 2007 @06:59AM

janp writes: "In the near future the Central Processing Unit (CPU) will not be as central anymore. AMD has announced the Torrenza platform that revives the concept op co-processors. Intel is also taking steps in this direction with the announcement of the CSI. With these technologies in the future we can put special chips (GPU's, APU's, etc. etc.) directly on the motherboard in a special socket. Hardware.Info has published a clear introduction to AMD Torrenza and Intel CSI and sneak peaks into the future of processors."

Submission + - DIY Laptop literally from scratch!

Submitted by Brietech on Monday March 05, 2007 @04:17AM

Brietech writes: Ever felt like building your own laptop from (almost literally) scratch? This is a microcontroller-based "laptop" built from the ground up from a handful of chips and other hardware found lying around. It runs a self-hosted development environment, allowing the user to write and edit programs in "Chris++" on the machine, and then compile and run them. The carpentry looks like it could use some work, but it's a neat project!

Feed Patent Fights Are a Legacy of MP3’s Tangled Origins (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday March 05, 2007 @01:12AM

The $1.5 billion settlement against Microsoft is only one result of the music format’s tangled history.

Feed Time Change a ‘Mini-Y2K’ in Tech Terms (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday March 05, 2007 @01:12AM

Companies are scrambling to reset computing devices as daylight saving time begins three weeks earlier.

Journal Journal: Books to Go Digital this decade

Journal by wii1991 on Sunday January 28, 2007 @02:12PM

Have you ever considered that this decade may be the end of main stream paperback and hard cover books? As we have seen in the last couple of years physical music sales have gone down at a rapid speed. But on the otherhand Digital music sales are taking a good share of the loses on physical copies of songs..... This story is at http://digitaljournal.com/article/101247/Will_this_decade_b

Feed Cavaliers Lead E-Ticketing Charge (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Sunday January 28, 2007 @02:12PM

The Cleveland Cavaliers deem paper tickets "arcane" and provide completely paperless transactions. Ticket brokers scoff but the hoopsters say it's the future. By the Associated Press.

NASA Commemorates Space Shuttle Tragedies 100

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 28, 2007 @02:08PM from the in-memoriam dept.

eldavojohn writes "Space.com is covering NASA's commemoration of the Apollo 1 crew & the last shuttle crews of both the Challenger and Columbia orbiters. The Apollo 1 crew was lost forty years ago yesterday to a fire while testing their spacecraft on a launch pad. From the article: 'While the nearly two decades separating NASA's three space disasters allowed room for the agency to grow complacent, the relatively short time between the 2003 loss of Columbia and the end of the shuttle program could avoid a repeat of such behavior.'"

Journal Journal: Great new addicitve online puzzle game: Bloktonik

Journal by pixcom on Sunday January 28, 2007 @02:03PM

Quite possibly the next Bejeweled, a very addicitive online puzzle game by Robotube Games: Bloktonik http://robotubegames.com/play_game.php?gameid=33 The latest puzzle game addiction has arrived. Bloktonik, already available around the world on Mobile Phones, is now playable online in this new, deluxe version! Bloks come raining in from 4 directions, and it's your job to land them on the central cluster, based on the direction they

Submission + - OSSDI to Distribute OpenOffice.org in Schools

Submitted by

Xampper

on Sunday January 28, 2007 @01:29PM

Xampper writes: "The Open Source Software Distribution Initiative (OSSDI) is a new organization planning to distribute open source alternatives to expensive commercial software packages, primarily in education. Initially, OSSDI will be focusing its efforts on giving away professionally pressed CD-ROMS containing the OpenOffice.org software suite within school districts in poverty-stricken regions. These distributions will give students access to a professional office suite, which they might otherwise be unable to afford, while spreading awareness of open source software."

Gates Proclaims Internet to Revolutionize TV in 5 Years 314

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 28, 2007 @01:07PM from the for-some-of-us-it-already-has dept.

adamlazz writes "With an explosion of online video content on sites like YouTube and Google Video, Bill Gates believes that the Internet will revoloutionize the television within the next 5 years. 'I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had,' Gates told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum. "

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