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Wipro: Cheap materials, shaky foundation
Talkback Wipro is amongst several large companies in India that compete for IT service outsourcing. This means that they go in and "manage" an organization's IT infrastructure, IT facilities and IT support because the organization doesn't want to hire...
About: Wipro to create 500 new UK jobs
[May 16, 2007, 17:47 by johncougar]
The potential problem with the IIS 6 issue is......................
Talkback At first glance, the issue with IIS 6 seems like little more than a possible problem for those with sensitive materials reserved for viewing by only authorised individuals. However, for those who are serious about security, this is perhaps a non...
About: Microsoft warns of new server vulnerability
[May 20, 2009, 1:54 by lumension]
Transparent solar cell? Can't see it myself
Blog News from the Far East: Japan's National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) has built a prototype boron nitride solar cell. Boron nitride (BN) is one of that interesting class of materials that can be both a semiconductor and transparent -- like...
[September 9, 2008, 15:17 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
IBM To Create The Great Brain Thinking Machine.
Blog IBM are going to lead a collaboration of neurobiologists, psychologists, computer and materials scientists to make solid progess in a field known as cognotive computing. I also figure that some resposibility will be given to machines assigned to...
[November 22, 2008, 17:13 in Homebrew Blog by roger andre]
RE: Nano Tech In The Extreme.
Blog Comment We're still miles away from having nanobots strip harmful materials from landfill waste atom by atom and reassembling them into useful materials or using bots to form and construct a brick! The real point here is, what will power the bots?
[September 29, 2008, 3:58 by thinkfeeldo]
Steorn's free energy seems curiously expensive
Talkback General studies on magnetism, mainly on soft magnetic materials, are performed at the Laboratory of Technical Magnetism including techniques to measure low-field hysteresis loops, fluctuating and temperature dependent switching field studies...
About: Steorn's free energy seems curiously expensive
[August 23, 2006, 10:45]
Open source awareness growing in Scotland
Talkback That means that for the same cost an enormous amount of flexibility is gained for both the government agencies producing materials and the public who will be using the materials. Further awareness of open formats is needed esp.for MS users.
About: Open source awareness growing in Scotland
[August 26, 2005, 12:16]
Copyright?
Talkback Why the hell these materials are still copyrighted? It comes really true that in near future there will not be devices that allows us replication of media materials even when we already paid for it. Looks like everyone forgot what copyright stands...
About: ISPs, rights groups react to gov't P2P proposals
[August 27, 2009, 10:08 by razer]
Microsoft adds IP indemnity to Linux fight
Talkback Our obligations will not apply to the extent that the claim or adverse final judgment is based on (i) specifications you provide to us for the service deliverables; (ii) code or materials provided by you as part of service deliverables; (iii) your...
About: Microsoft adds IP indemnity to Linux fight
[November 10, 2004, 9:13]
Intel removes lead from chips
Blog For many decades lead has been used in electronics because of its electrical and mechanical properties, making the search for replacement materials that meet performance and reliability requirements a significant scientific and technical challenge.
[May 24, 2007, 11:39 in News Blog by Andrew Donoghue]
RE: When does Copyrighted Software cease to be Copyrighted?
Blog Comment Clay is a mixture or a composite of a bunch of materials that are not really chemically connected to each other, just bunched up together. When you force the water into a matrix with the other materials in the clay by firing it in a kiln, then it...
[September 22, 2008, 7:56 by Xwindowsjunkie]
Is this story a waste of ink?
Blog The discovery lies in the new material -- a soluble semiconductor ink capable of carrying a negative electrical charge, said Philippe Inagaki, chief executive officer of Polyera Corp, a specialty chemicals company in Skokie, Illinois, that makes...
[January 22, 2009, 21:00 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: Is extensibility giving you a headache?
Blog Comment As to the general nature of the blog post - hopefully you'll also embrace the fact that the terms scalable, extensible, modular, componentised and flexible are becoming somewhat hackneyed as they repeatedly feature in so many of the press...
[May 22, 2008, 11:36 by Adrian Bridgwater]
Lone file-swapper takes on recording industry
Talkback Maybe its not stealing, but if the main argument of the RIAA is that people are trading copyrighted materials they don't own, then the RIAA is recharging for copyrighted materials people already may have owned.
About: Lone file-swapper takes on recording industry
[October 3, 2003, 19:19]
We don’t need no IT education. Or maybe we do?
Blog My second education themed bus to come along in as many days was an organisation called eLearnIT, who I got involved with when they needed some nice layout materials to explain their courseware approach.
[November 4, 2009, 6:33 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Spintronic doctors get silicon injection
Blog That spin IS the root cause of magnetism, though, and the way electrons couple spin to each other does lie at the heart of why some materials become magnets while others do not. Moreover, and just as importantly, they've done it using simple...
[December 5, 2007, 10:29 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Faking a fingerprint (part 1)
Blog Back in nineties I was working with TeKey Research group, supplying them raw materials for their tests. The task was to study if fingerprint sensors accept dead fingers. Yes, I was pathologist these years and got plenty of them :).
[June 27, 2008, 23:37 in Sentry Posts by pathologist]
RE: Where'd all the Green IT go?
Blog Comment Hmmm - extra space equals more light, more air-con and more materials for stands, carpets, marketing bumpf - not very green or efficient is it.
[March 4, 2009, 9:56 by Andrew Donoghue]
Criminal gangs blackmail Web users with porn threat
Talkback Would you like to review materials and give your opinion what possible to do now. I would like to send you some links to publications about my criminal case. I have consequences hard to live now. My case are getting public attention now as an...
About: Criminal gangs blackmail Web users with porn threat
[August 3, 2004, 20:22]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback More proof of lazy journalism, when the writer bases his conclussions on a company's PR materials. If Mr. Colley wanted to do a bit more digging, he could head over to Groklaw.net, which has become the definitive website for examining the truth...
About: SCO keeps disputed code secret
[December 16, 2003, 14:49]
