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Feet and Inches
Talkback "Teaching OpenSource IT in schools would be like teaching feet and inches rather than metric, totally valid to teach, but useless in the real world. Teaching an 8 year old how to use MS Office 2000 today is surely more like the Feet and Inches half...
[November 29, 2006, 18:12]
Everest cybercafe opens at 17,400 feet
News Climbers can now email friends and family from 17,400 feet thanks to the highest cybercafé in the world at the Mount Everest base camp. The Everest internet café has been launched to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest...
[May 28, 2003, 15:35]
Bare Feet
Downloads Feed a list into Bare Feet, either by importing one from a text file, or compiling your own from within the application. Then follow the GUI and test them. The results for each entry will be systematically displayed.
[August 11, 2004, 8:00]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: Sony shows 2-feet super-wide screen of dreams
News Las Vegas Comdex visitors in need of more monitor real estate saw their screen of dreams here this week when Sony demonstrated its "2-feet Trinitron". The monitor lets two A4 pages be shown full-size side-by-side at resolutions up to 1920x1200.
[November 21, 1996, 9:01]
Are nanoparticles going to attack your feet?
Talkback These conditions fail to disapear because the shoes and socks are often still infected and the patient is re-infecting their feet, even though they are treating the skin. I have just invested in a machien withe the nano silver technology by Klenz...
[October 7, 2006, 8:14]
Are nanoparticles going to attack your feet?
News Researchers believe nanotechnology could someday help build tiny supercomputers or solve many of the world's energy problems. More immediately, a company in Pennsylvania hopes to use nanoparticles to create less-stinky socks.
[September 28, 2004, 9:30]
Email analysis tools finding their feet
News John Petruzzi had a job that, until recently, few people would envy. As director of enterprise security at Constellation Energy, Petruzzi is the go-to guy whenever regulators request email records from the $12.5bn Baltimore utility and energy...
[January 26, 2006, 16:30]
Vote with your feet
Talkback Microsoft's monopoly position as the de-facto file format leads to a pricing policy that is totally out of line with the software's utility to home users. As a result a lot of home copies are pirate. The only reason windows is less pirated is all...
[October 31, 2006, 19:17]
Consolidated Platform Makes Bank Lighter on Its Feet
White Papers Abbey National is the fifth largest high street bank in the UK competing in retail and wholesale banking with a wide range of products and services. Computer systems and networks are the basis upon which the organisation can keep up the relentless...
[February 18, 2009, 0:23]
Life Under Your Feet: A Wireless Soil Ecology Sensor Network
White Papers Wireless sensor networks can revolutionize soil ecology by providing measurements at temporal and spatial granularities previously impossible. This paper presents an experimental soil monitoring network that it developed and deployed in a Baltimore...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Windows Live finds its feet
News Like most other two-year-olds, Windows Live is walking on its own but is still a bit wobbly. After months spent mastering the basics, though, the service is starting to move independently of its parent — MSN — and to carve out its own identity.
[November 7, 2007, 16:31]
Smart carpet can spot fires, steer feet and sell beer
News German chipmaker Infineon has unveiled an electronic textile that can make floors, walls and even building columns part of a building's security, maintenance or climate-control system. The textile contains a weave of conductive fibre studded with...
[May 8, 2003, 14:13]
Put your feet up -- it's National Techies Day!
News Today has been declared National Techies Day (NTD) across America in a government led effort to make computing professionals feel more appreciated. Oh and to encourage youngsters to get into IT. Organisers of the event, keeping the official Techies...
[October 5, 1999, 10:13]
I voted with my feet
Talkback None of these US companies have been able to justify the extra costs, and as I can remember what U S actually stands for, I tend to find alternatives wherever possible. One day they may see sense, but probably not when one listens to the MS rant...
[September 29, 2008, 15:16]
NASA: Keep feet on the ground for software success
News The key to success when it comes to business intelligence (BI) is keeping focus on the users of BI systems, according to a NASA project manager. Earlier this week, the Information Builders Summit, a user conference in Orlando, Florida was told by...
[April 27, 2006, 15:40]
Pocket Developer
Downloads Pocket Developer provides quick calculation of land costs, allowing the user to move seamlessly between acres and square feet. Pocket Developer provides the ability to calculate any one of the following parameters given the other two: total land...
[January 20, 2009, 11:24]
LaCie Porsche Mobile Hard Drive USB 2.0/FireWire review
Reviews The Titanium-hued LaCie Mobile Hard Drive measures 129mm long, 76mm wide, and a super-thin 17mm tall including the feet. Our only gripe with the design is minor: the rubber feet should grip better. The drive's sleek lines are broken only by a power...
[January 4, 2005, 9:15]
Decimal ease
Downloads At last here is a program to calculate between decimal yards, decimal feet or decimal inches and yards, feet or inches. If you are in engineering, architecture, design or just one of those people who are working with engineering drawings that give...
[March 3, 2001, 6:00]
Inventor's dreams take (short) flight
News It wasn't much by modern aviation standards -- just 20 seconds or so of hovering two feet above a parking lot in Sunnyvale, California. But there's a big difference between hovering a few feet above his company's parking lot, tethered to ropes to...
[January 17, 2002, 13:24]
Intel factors for the future with new factories
News The first will be a $1.3 billion, 800,00 square feet wafer fabrication plant to be called Fab 16, slated to go live by 1999 with 800 staff. The second is a $300 million, 400,000 square feet assembly and testing facility that is scheduled to begin...
[November 14, 1996, 14:52]
