Recent Posts Tagged With 'nerd'

• Several Quantum Calculations Combined At NIST

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 08:00 in research, study, quantum, state, nerd, researchers, operational, beryllium, read more, operational research

  Al writes "Researchers at the subject practice of obligatory and industrial science (NIST) have demonstrated a crucial step toward house a practical quantum computer: various bookkeeping operational research on quantum bits. The NIST team performed f...

• Tesla Motors Turns a Profit For the First Time

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 08:00 in search, million, Company, tesla, nerd, delivered, roadster, konrad, the company, read more, for the

  D0rp writes with news that Tesla Motors has reported earning a profit for the first time in its six-year history. Sales of the $109,000 Roadster earned the company $20 million in revenue, which settled out to $1 million in profits. "Most of that mone...

• Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 08:00 in money, yahoo, nerd, scammers, takes, americans, nigerian, mdash, and the, they don, the nigerian

  The reported Fallacy writes "The superiority Post reports that online swindling takes dedication even in the best of times but succeeding in the midst of a international matter meltdown takes patience, resolve, and hard work. 'We are working harder. ...

• Linux-Friendly, Internet-Enabled HDTVs?

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 08:00 in internet, thing, support, panasonic, nerd, manufacturers, going, here are, these tvs

  Mrchaotica writes "I'm in the market for a new HDTV (in the $1200-or-slightly-more range, as I won the extended-service-plan lottery and have a Sears store credit). Several of the TVs I've looked at have various 'Internet TV' kisser (here are Samsung...

• Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over?

  Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 08:00 in school, Students, siebel, nerd, larger, percent, would get

  Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that mini* science students with the entrepreneurial spirit may want to look for a atypical major, because if Thomas M. Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems, is right, IT is a mature trade that will grow no fast...

• A Look At Google's Email Spam Prevention

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 12:30 in traffic, story, systems, message, nerd, covered, block, postini, not covered

  CNet has a story about the armament measures Google employs to protect their email systems and fight the never-ending war on spam. Their Postini team, std immune deficiency disordered two years ago, has a variety of monitoring tools and automated ret...

• Andreessen's Secret Plan To Find the Next Netscape

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 12:30 in Online, companies, quickly, nerd, year old, that the, mdash, the next, andreessen, says that

  Hugh Pickens writes "CNN reports that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen has raised $300 million to launch a new venture capital firm that aims to reinvent the way money is doled out in Silicon Valley while seeing cap Andreessen's unwavering view th...

• Why Amazon's Kindle Should Use Open Standards

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 12:30 in Microsoft, network, tools, the web, nerd, using, microsoft network, reilly, the microsoft, the microsoft network, tools and

  Tim O'Reilly wrote in Forbes a while back that he thinks the Kindle only has another two or three years of life left, unless Amazon wises up and embraces open standards. He came to this conclusion, in part, because of his know deciding how to publish...

• If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 12:30 in google, myspace, cuban, writes, Company, lives, nerd, lifecycle, that the, the more, the top, they will

  Hugh Pickens writes "Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban writes that the problem with companies who have built their trade around free is that the more success you have in transit free, the more expensive it is to stay at the top. '"They will be Faceboo...

• Gaikai Drawing Interest With Low-Key Demo, Believable Claims

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 12:30 in video, Games, perry, console, nerd, trying, there was, onlive, gaikai, the demo

  Earlier this week, we discussed news that games fabrication veteran Dave Perry had posted a demo of his approaching cloud gaming service Gaikai. Now that people have had time to speak with Perry and evaluate the demo, allergy has been in item positiv...

• FTC To Monitor Blogs For Paid Claims & Reviews

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 18:45 in Printing, bloggers, Company, oversight, nerd, getting, houghton mifflin, harcourt, mdash, mifflin, houghton mifflin harcourt, houghton

  PL/SQL Guy writes "Many bloggers have accepted perks such as free laptops, trips to Europe, $500 gift cards or even thousands of dollars for a 200-word post. Bloggers vary in how they carry such freebies, if they do so at all. But now the Federal Tra...

• Ultra-Thin Laptops To Be Next Intel-AMD Battleground

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 18:45 in laptops, people, Consumer, Intel, launch, nerd, ultra, asustek

  FinalAnkleHealer sends along an IBTimes article proposing that $500 ultra-thin laptops, capable of multitasking and editing multimedia content, could be the next market contested by Intel and AMD. "AMD partnered with Hewlett-Packard Co. in January to...

• Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 18:45 in globe, world, energy, write, miles, power, current, content, needs, document, times, nerd

  Damien1972 sends in a report on a study published in the records of the national Academy of Science, which finds that wind power could provide for the entire world's current and future energy needs. "To judgment the earth's full for wind power, the r...

• Print Subscribers Cry Foul Over WP's Online-Only Story

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 18:45 in Online, Paper, article, story, readers, reporting, print, editors, nerd, reader, publish, the paper

  Hugh Pickens writes "The decision by the polity Post to publish an article exclusively online has angered many readers who still pay for the print edition of the fish wrapper and highlighted the thorny issues extra editors still face in serving both ...

• US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 18:45 in network, useful, Surveillance, launch, warning, nerd, missile, classified, satellites, scientists, meteors, that the

  Hugh Pickens writes "Nature reports that the US martial has abruptly ended an lazy dispensation that allowed scientists access to data on incoming meteors from classified surveillance satellites, dealing ...

• Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 13:30 in Natural, support, Fraud, pattern, write, model, content, ticket, document, ahmadinejad, nerd, from the

  Hoytak writes "An expert in electoral fraud, tutor if (lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.content.length) { document.write(lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.contenttop); document.write(lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.sponsoredlinks); document.write(lexico_globa...

• British Court Rules Against Blogger Anonymity

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 13:30 in Police, british, blogger, court, newspapers, bloggers, allowed, nerd, identities, publish, the blogger, that they

  An unsigned reader writes "In a dangerous judgment for British bloggers and whistleblowers, a British court has ruled (absurdly) that because blogging itself is a public activity, bloggers have 'no commonsensible expectation of privacy' as respects t...

• HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 13:30 in Technologies, business, Microsoft, industry, the web, nerd, silverlight, depends, proprietary, proprietary technologies

  Snydeq writes "While Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun duke it out with proprietary technologies for implementing multimedia on the Web, HTML 5 has the quiescent to eat these vendors' lunches, expiation Web autobiography based on an traffic notes:the industr...

• iPhone Shakes Up the Video Game Industry

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 13:30 in Nintendo, Games, iphone, million, writes, console, touch, sells, nerd, penetration, the line, ipod touch

  Hugh Pickens writes "Troy Wolverton writes in the Mercury News that in less than a year, the iPhone has become a meaning game platform, but its bigger impact could be to help change the way the game mercenary llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new ...

• Kindle Pricing, Business Models and Source Code

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 13:30 in books, Radio, models, amazon, source code, open source, buying, source, smith, nerd, wired, pricing

  Narramissic writes "A trifecta of Kindle-related news surfaced this week, with Jeff Bezos oratory at Wired's 'Disruptive by Design' canvass on topics including Kindle pricing and trade models. And yesterday, reports blogger Peter Smith, 'there was a ...

• Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For

  Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 12:00 in contact, improve, nerd, fingerprints, friction, surface, levels, allow, read more, the surface, and the, ridges

  Hugh Pickens writes "The BBC reports that scientists say they have disproved the theory that fingerprints improve grip by increasing friction between people's fingers and the surface they are holding. Dr Roland Ennos designed a machine which enabled ...

• What Open Source Shares With Science

  Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 12:00 in ideas, techniques, results, source, others, nerd, makes, scientific, and the, not only, ideas and, the scientific

  An unsigned reader sends in a philosophical piece at ZDNet about the similarities between open source adaptive dartle and the scientific method. Here's an excerpt: "The speed of progressivism is greatly enhanced by virtue of the fact the practitioner...

• Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay?

  Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 12:00 in Online, share, publishing, editing, results, wales, wikipedia, Company, the web, nerd, houghton mifflin, share this

  Hugh Pickens writes "The file reports that a longtime Wikipedia admin has been caught atonement to edit the online encyclopedia in commutation for cash. Someone noticed a post to an online job fete where he was announcement his services: 'Besides aut...

• A Supervolcano Beneath Mt. St. Helens?

  Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 12:00 in column, dictionary, solid, nerd, fields, matter, mixture, mount, conductor, surface, beneath, magma

  We've discussed the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone a few times here (not going to blow, 2004; going to blow, 2008). Now scientists are cogitation whether a large area of conductive matter beneath Mt. St. Helens might contain enough magma that the a...

• RIAA Case, Capitol Vs. Thomas #2, Starts Monday

  Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 12:00 in facts, lawyers, methods, based, trial, technical, first, expert, nerd, evidence, principles, jacobson

  NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's first trial verdict having been tossed out last year, the RIAA is coming back for a second round open gate Monday. This time the trial will be in Minneapolis, rather than Duluth, and the suspect will have a tea...