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Comment Accessibility (Score 1) 192

(My guess is Infor. They have a terrible UI)

Your UI need to keep up with the competition, but make sure that you consider accessibility. If done right a new UI can be more compliant, but it is easy for UX geeks to push flashy new features without regards to 508/WCAG. This can present all kinds of legal and contractual issues, especially if you sell to the Feds.
Cloud

Submission + - Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by dcraid
dcraid writes: Microsoft's cloudy platform, Windows Azure, is experiencing a major outage: at the time of writing, its service management system had been down for about seven hours worldwide.

A customer described the problem to The Register as an "admin nightmare" and said they couldn't understand how such an important system could go down.

"This should never happen," said our source. "The system should be redundant and outages should be confined to some data centres only."
The Courts

Submission + - 'Bigfoot' takes free speech fight to NH high court (boston.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: On a whim two years ago, performance artist Jonathan Doyle paraded around the bustling peak of New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock in a $40 Bigfoot costume from iParty. He thought his deadpan video interviews with hikers describing their Bigfoot sightings would be worth a few chuckles on YouTube, and might boost the profile of his other artwork. But the staff at Monadnock State Park found the Yeti act abominable. When Doyle returned with friends to shoot a sequel, the park manger quashed the production and ordered Doyle off the mountain, insisting he needed a state permit to film a movie in the park. Bigfoot stepped up with a lawsuit, alleging that the park’s permit regulations are unconstitutional. The New Hampshire Supreme Court next month will hear Doyle’s complaint. Though many elements of the dispute border on the absurd, the case raises some serious free speech issues.
Education

Submission + - A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Matt Richtel writes that many employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard send their children to the Waldorf School in Los Altos where the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. Computers are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home. “I fundamentally reject the notion you need technology aids in grammar school,” says Alan Eagle whose daughter, Andie, attends a Waldorf school, an independent school movement that boasts an 86 year history in North America. “The idea that an app on an iPad can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that’s ridiculous.” Advocates for equipping schools with technology say computers can hold students’ attention and, in fact, that young people who have been weaned on electronic devices will not tune in without them. But Paul Thomas, who has written 12 books about public educational methods, disagrees, and says that a spare approach to technology in the classroom will always benefit learning. “Teaching is a human experience,” says Thomas. “Technology is a distraction when we need literacy, numeracy and critical thinking.”"

Comment Re:The originals really are something else (Score 4, Interesting) 140

by dcraid (#33431394) Attached to: Homebrew Cray-1

For those of you in/visiting the DC area you can check out a couple of old Crays @ the National Cryptologic Museum on the outskirts of Ft Meade. http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/museum/virtual_tour/index.shtml

On exhibit in the museum are two Cray supercomputers. The XMP-24 on display is the upgrade to the original XMP-22 that was the first supercomputer Cray ever delivered to a customer site. It was in operation from 1983 to 1993 and was arguably the most powerful computer in the world when it was delivered. It used serial processing to conduct 420 million operations per second.

The second generation Cray, the YMP, replaced the older version in 1993. It had a 32 gigabyte (32 billion bytes) memory capacity. In 1993 most personal computers held only 16 million bytes. The YMP used vector processing, a very powerful form of overlapping, parallel processing to conduct 2.67 billion operations per second. The YMP was decommissioned and went on display at the museum in 2000.

The museum is lots of fun and definitely worth a visit.

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