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Even in “retirement” I’d add Matthew Szulik who is such a beacon for many of us. I’d also add Eben Moglen because it is his legal vigilance that clears the way for open source to flourish as a business. Ditto for Mark Radcliffe who fuels the open-source startup pool with legal advice. Lonn Johnston at [...]
When I called the agency find out whether this was a one-off, agency spokesman Joe Fletcher told me there was “no guarantee it will happen in the future.”
Give me a break!
Let’s hope he’s playing cute. In the meantime, the hired help in Washington do read their mail, so here’s a great [...]
Electronic Arts confirmed on Tuesday to our sister site GameSpot that the ads have been appearing on virtual Obama billboards since October 6, and will continue to run until election day in November.
The ads will appear in the
Xbox 360 version of the game in 10 states, most of them hotly contested: Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Colorado, [...]
QuickJava QuickJava makes it easy to enable or disable Java and JavaScript in the browser with just a few clicks. It sits in the status bar until you need it. It’s a handy tool that’s extremely simple and efficient.
Being safe while you surf the Web is extremely important, yet safe surfing sometimes seems like [...]
Most everything else remains unchanged from the UltraSparc T2-based servers. As before, there’s embedded cryptography, a floating point unit for each core, eight threads per core, redundant hot-swap power supplies and fans, and integrated virtualization (LDOMs).
Now Sun has rolled out its promised dual-socket version of the UltraSparc T2–aka "Victoria Falls" or the UltraSparc T2 Plus–in [...]
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Eric Franklin/CNET Networks)
Basically, with this patch you get most of the new features expected with Wrath except for the new zones, quests, dungeons, battlegrounds, the new Death Knight class, and the ability to level to 80. We’ll still have to wait another month for that, but with all the new talents and achievements, at least [...]
“Microsoft has influenced the resale price of the software package–Office Home & Student 2007–in an anticompetitive manner,” Germany’s Bundeskartellamt said in an English-language version of its press release.
Regulators in Germany slapped Microsoft’s local subsidiary with a fine of 9 million euros ($11.8 million) for improperly influencing pricing of Office during a retail promotion.
Russia recently announced [...]
As for invitations for wedding ceremonies themselves, Gabel said they’re creeping in. “I see a couple of them a day,” he observed.
With the option of sending a pretty, well-designed electronic invitation now out there, they become more of a viable alternative for organizers of higher-end events who happen to be conscious of environmental impact, cost, [...]
UPDATED 12:45pm - A commenter below kindly posts a link to a Roughly Drafted post from Wednesday, where Dilger mentions that he owns Apple stock. Prior to Wednesday, and prior to at least one e-mail inquiry sent by me to Dilger on Tuesday, that information had not been disclosed. As of this update, Dilger [...]
What if you realized that you didn’t want to host your application on Google App Engine anymore? Good luck; almost everything you are given access to is proprietary–that means all your data is locked into BigTable in a format that isn’t like a traditional relational database. It’s also very tempting to use the APIs Google [...]
