| 
Results for sort survive. Search took 0.09 seconds.
Can the G8 solve climate change?
in Sox First, on July 6, 2009
... to getting some agreement on fighting climate change so what hope is there of the G8 reaching some sort of agreement. As the Carbon Positive newsletter suggests, there is still a standoff in negot...
The Month in Twitter - A Nobel Prize Coming?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on July 5, 2009
...l talking about the end of the Twitter World ( The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive? ,) and then the next thing you know, Twitter is saving the world - or Iran, at least.
Bus...
The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
So, after running across the CIO Dashboard of Twittering CIOs last week , I had been toying with the idea of doing a post on dashboards in general. I'm of mixed opinions on them, generally; I think it's valuable and important to have relevant metrics available as close to real-time as possi...
Madoff's jail survival guide
in Sox First, on June 26, 2009
...s unlikely to leave prison alive. Madoff is likely to be sent to a medium security jail. And those sorts of jails have violent inmates. Chances are he will be targeted by prisoners with family member... ...
Bernard Madoff, 71, gets sentenced on Monday and the tips are coming in on how he could best survive jail. Whether it's 12 years, as his lawyers have asked, or longer. Lawyers have told CNN...
E-mail traffic analysis reveals disruptions
in The CIO Weblog, on June 23, 2009
...As a n00b system administrator in a variety of organizations coming up through the ranks I saw this sort of behavior manifest around business deals, mergers, and client catastrophes. It's an open ...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
...east it's work. Speaking to Reuters , CIA spokesman Ron Patrick concedes it takes a different sort of mindset. "Typically the people that come to the CIA want to serve the government, they ...
EMI collides with GrooveShark
in Digital Music - The Future, on June 18, 2009
...s such have whacked a big lawsuit down on the startup. One wonders how well the company is going to survive with a big financial commitment hanging over them...
More as we know it!
...
LG starts the 3D bandwagon
in The Digital TV Weblog, on June 18, 2009
3D TV has always been one of those things which has been set to catch on "this year" or "next year", but it seems that LG are really about to start the push toward it becoming mainstream with the 47 inch LH50. Of course, it still requires funny little glasses...but LG seem t...
How MySpace fell behind
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
...he banks should be so lucky) and will have to radically change their business models if they are to survive....
FIA 公布 2010 年 F1 参赛名单
in Wangtam, on June 14, 2009
...me: Facebook to sort of bring back the old site design
• New study shows iPhone users to be in a class by themselves
• China's Computer Folly
• Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell M...
Book: Fluorishing with Food Allergies
in Allergies, on June 11, 2009
I have to admit, I've stopped buying books on food allergies. My son has outgrown all but his peanut and tree nut allergies and my second-born does not seem to have any at all (we haven't tried nuts so far, though). But if you're a parent of a child that has just been diagnosed with ...
Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...
in Supplychainer, on June 11, 2009
...ees; early retirement; and sick bank contributions.
Even though UPS needs much more initiatives to survive such periods, joint efforts with union organizations seem like good starting points as they ...
Who would buy a newspaper?
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...twork that all newspapers will be digital within 10 years. While Murdoch says the Boston Globe will survive, he has just effectively talked down the price. But then, he has done the same for his own m...
The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?
in Wangtam, on June 10, 2009
...• The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?
• Apple security is 'struggling,' researcher says
• Why The iPhone 3G S May Be A Sucker's Bet Right Now
• Could Twitte...
The Man Who Might Have Saved General Motors
in carzz.org, on June 10, 2009
...al Motors awoke to the realisation that maybe it needed a genuine "car guy" if it was to survive, Bob Lutz returned to his roots. GM product planning had, until then, been dominated by ac...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 7, 2009
...% of blacks. American might have elected a black president but the country has a long way to go to sort out its racial issues. The subprime crisis is a mirror that reflects the deep-seated problem of...
美国终身制教授的苦与乐
in Wangtam, on June 5, 2009
...雇了3000多人，其中包括83个终身或者终身制教授。随后，德克萨斯大学就被告上法庭……
有了白发到老的承诺，终身制于是成为一个非常有吸引力的诱饵。助理教授就是带着博士帽自愿上钩的鱼儿。有些专业有些人，运气好，博士毕业就拿到了助理教授的职位。也有些专业不习惯招新鲜出炉的博士，博士要再煎熬几年博士后才有可能成为助理教授。每个取得终身制的教授无论智商是否超过160，当年都是从助理教授做起。...
Reality TV, French style
in Sox First, on June 5, 2009
...TV station says this will ruin reality TV in France. But what's more interested is whether that sort of ruling would be taken up in other countries. Or is it just a French thing?...
Supply chain video:ERP market overview in 2009
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
...es will dry up. Of course this doesn't include giants like Oracle and SAP which have enough cash to survive. Furthur consolidation is being expected especially on bigh companies' side (SAP and Microso...
Mommy has a grandma too?
in Noah's and Lily's Blog, on May 22, 2009
So it turns out even our 'oldish' parents have grandma's. Jeez everyday we learn something new here.
To impress here we bought new clothes and put our smiles on.
Well - I think it worked out fine!
Your Noah
Geomate Jr GPS Is One Way to Get Kids To Play Outside
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 21, 2009
...tch a kid's eye. It features a monochrome LCD screen, but it is not backlit; after all, it is a sort of technical toy. The Geomate.jr is not a traditional GPS, your kid won't be able to cruise...
How to introduce a carbon tax
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...e to fall to keep it revenue neutral. And because it is regressive, he says, there needs to be some sort of rebate for low income earners. But he warns that a carbon tax might only be one of many tax...
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
I see Gartner is finally getting on board the "Skip Vista" bandwagon, a bit too late to be of much use to any audience which might have made productive use of the analysis, but anyway, you know, welcome.
More surprising is the quote later in the same article from Senior VP for Wi...
Iomega eGo USB Drive Brings Data Backup Cost Down
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...ect your drive heads in case of a fall. Iomega is reporting that the eGo drives should successfully survive a fall from up to 51 inches. Iomega QuickProtect, McAffee Virus Scan, and MozyHome all come ...
More bad news: Housing foreclosure activity remains at record levels
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 14, 2009
... RealtyTrac reported that one in every 374 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing of some sort in April. That's the highest monthly foreclosure rate that RealtyTrac has reported since it...
Climate change and health
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...to the report, much of the impact will be felt in developing countries that don't have the same sort of health infrastructure as the developed world. There will be an increase in insect-borne dise...
Jelly Gladiator Sandals auf dem heißen Asphalt?
in Das Schuh-Fashion-Blog, on May 11, 2009
© iStyleThis
Für gerade mal umgerechnete 11,70 Euro könnte ich diese ASOS Jelly Gladiator Sandals erstehen. Wäre genau das Richtige für den anstehenden Urlaub am Meer. Hier stimmt auch die Belüftung, was bei manch anderen Schuhen aus Plastik öfter mal zum Problem werden könnte. Der hier kan...
Jelly Gladiator Sandals auf dem heißen Asphalt?
in Das Schuh-Fashion-Blog, on May 11, 2009
© iStyleThis
Für gerade mal umgerechnete 11,70 Euro könnte ich diese ASOS Jelly Gladiator Sandals erstehen. Wäre genau das Richtige für den anstehenden Urlaub am Meer. Hier stimmt auch die Belüftung, was bei manch anderen Schuhen aus Plastik öfter mal zum Problem werden könnte. Der hier kan...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...ployees who are demanding higher wages rather than pay up; such has been a historic reaction to any sort of worker or wage protection efforts. On the other hand, it's difficult not to see the very...
Microsoft's prospects
in The CIO Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...ability to tie those diverse products together somehow into a mutually reinforcing monopoly of some sort. I believe they have the vision to achieve that again; if they can't muster the execution, ...
Squarespace as a Situational App programming model
in The CIO Weblog, on May 4, 2009
...y implemented; it's just a matter of finding the module and putting it where you want it.
This sort of front-end is exactly what is needed in the situational application market. It builds off of ...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...ill be return to bridge with this recession. But what's really needed, the authors say, is some sort of system that harnesses these animal drivers without creating bubbles and without selling them...
H.P. Labs Pulls Out the Measuring Stick
in Wangtam, on May 1, 2009
... 7 Release Candidate Is Available From Microsoft
• Amazon starts charging by the megabyte
• Finally: Disney, Hulu Deal Announced
• Kindle Personal Documents
• Web tool 'as important as Goo...
The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
...you didn't care about dying and were insane. Leeson says pirates today don't have the same sort of system. For a start, they spend very little time together at sea and they are often contract...
Pandemic preparation in the IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...der-reaction. Still, it's a healthy reminder for CIOs that electronic viruses are not the only sort which can lay operations low... for all the automation in today's IT environment, it's s...
SM-HE16 RFID Tag: Survival of the Fittest
in The RFID Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...
How about an RFID tag which survives in temperatures where even lead fails to maintain its shape? This is what William Frick intends to achieve with its latest range of RFID solutions aimed at hi...
Will Biofuel Make It?
in IfEnergy, on April 23, 2009
...ls is a tough business. Even as the industry develops, many of the companies-probably most-will not survive. It looks like the biofeul industry will be a graveyard for start-ups whose pockets are too ...
Can Ztail reinvigorate Online Shopping?
in Bizinformer, on April 23, 2009
...I'd usually look for a more techie sort of forum to discuss a company like this, but the Ztail business model is what I found intriguing about this article.
Ztail is a relatively new company ...
Back door bank nationalisation
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
...it's a political minefield as there are potential conflicts of interest. Treasury would have to sort out the problem of looking after the broader economic interests while maximizing the value of t...
How Long Until Free Sites Fade Away?
in The Dating Weblog, on April 18, 2009
... David Evans has a good point... In order to make enough money to survive, free dating sites are currently stuck in a revenue rut. All they can do to earn enough money to keep the lights on and the s...
Madoff: Club Fed for dummies
in Sox First, on April 14, 2009
... spell in the slammer, Bernard Madoff's niece has just a hired a consultant to teach her how to survive in jail and, if possible, get an early release. As the New York Post reports, Shana Madoff...
10 secrets of the downturn leader
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
...
What are the secrets of the downturn leader? What sort of strategies are needed during a recession. I identify 10 of them in my piece here . The 10 secrets are communication, keeping up staf...
DigiHeal: Medical Tablet with the power of RFID
in The RFID Weblog, on April 7, 2009
...incorporates sealed buttons and ports apart from integrated carrying handle and is sturdy enough to survive three foot drops and is not only water resistant but also thwarts dust. Apart from all this,...
Sanyo Introduces HD Waterproof Video Camera
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...our video camera in the ocean while I am slaving away behind my desk. If you are worried about this sort of technological nightmare happening to you, then you might want to consider the Sanyo VPC-WH1Y...
Deluxe...
in WebKinzBlog, on April 5, 2009
...ve of our accounts. I'll post stuff from it just as soon as I get a chance... some aspects seem sort of silly, like changing colors of dock stuff but I figure the bonus gifts and estore points eac...
Yet Another Amazon Web Service
in The CIO Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...ir larger competitors.
Forward thinking users who already saw the potential of EC2 to service this sort of large-scale processing had been running Hadoop on privately rented instances already, but th...
A service pack milestone
in The CIO Weblog, on March 27, 2009
...t processing on the desktop still? It's a serious question; I'm terrible at predicting this sort of thing, I either underestimate adoption rates or overestimate organizations abilities to make...
Ideas for social entrepreneurship in crisis times
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 22, 2009
...ng difficulty. One may apply the idea of companies like Zopa to Africa...The idea is to create some sort of communal hedge fund and allow community members to submit ideas that the community gets to a...
Cisco's Unified Computing System
in The CIO Weblog, on March 20, 2009
...y.
The project represents Cisco's first entry into the datacenter server market. The device is sort of a downsized version of the shipping container data centers that were all the rage for a whil...
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
...ll running in the car park, they brought their kids to pick the shelves clean. The report says this sort of thing has happened at two other places in Israel. The question is whether this is a sign of...
Freecom Rugged Hard Drive is a Must for Adventurers and Dads
in The Gadgets Weblog, on March 20, 2009
...e a nasty habit of stepping on things. Personally, I don't try to understand it; I just want to survive it, but so far I have not been lucky. The other day, my messenger bag was lying on the floor...
Too Many Choices...
in The Dating Weblog, on March 19, 2009
...at actually match what you're looking for. The simple fact is that the more stuff you have to sort through, the more difficult it become for your brain to decide what's relevant.
Of course,...
Systems and the AIG catastrophe
in The CIO Weblog, on March 18, 2009
...IG seems to be) then in fact it's just "salary" albeit salary structured in a certain sort of way.
Still, whether it was legally prudent to withhold that chunk of money from those peopl...
CIO Weblog now powered by Amazon
in The CIO Weblog, on March 18, 2009
Just a quick note; this is my first post since the change over yesterday of the CIO Weblog to run using Amazon's EC2 and S3 systems on the back-end. I can feel it running faster already!
The blog remains unaffiliated with Amazon despite my occasional cheerleading; in fact, if it blows up, ...
The seven deadly sins of executive pay
in Sox First, on March 18, 2009
...en parachutes" and issuing share options that can only be cashed out after five years. In this sort of environment, it's a package that's likely to be considered by politicians. Meanwhil...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...ple in the industry, there isn't much acceptance yet of the tremendous cultural shift that this sort of technology represents. The IT department is still seen as a bastion of sorts (the "sole...
Try The Orbitz Travel Blog For Digital Photo Help
in Digital Shot, on March 16, 2009
...
You never can tell what sort of useful information you'll run into on the Internet while searching for something else.
It seems that, "Orbitz", the well known travel site, offers di...
Hacking as a Service
in The CIO Weblog, on March 13, 2009
... as an outsourced service.
I suppose in some senses most crime is a service-oriented business of a sort. The problem with cybercrime in that respect is that service businesses require a certain level...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...o result in a major shake-up at the SEC. Let's just see. The kind of culture that produced that sort of neglect will be hard to change.
...
Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...larly at a time like this when scientists are meeting in Copenhagen to lay the foundations for some sort of global accord on the climate crisis. Economist Nicholas Stern has warned that the effects ...
Argus Bean Rugged Camera Should Take a Beating
in The Gadgets Weblog, on March 12, 2009
...mera for quick and fast action shots; you won't be using it to create works of art, but it will survive in the wild and stay out of the way when you don't need it.
The camera is available no...
Depression
in WebKinzBlog, on March 10, 2009
...;t playing with a pet, they are still 'alive' and get hungry and bored. I'm sorry, that sort of irks me since this is a game for fun and enjoyment, not to be obsessed over. But Webkinz tol...
Our Favorite Volvo Takes to the Road in Palm Springs
in Classical Drives, on March 9, 2009
...ed from the P1800 coupe, described in an ad by the Carl Ally ad agency thusly: "It's a sort of souped-down Ferrari." It was never sold as a pure sports car but instead was positioned...
超过 80 款 Delicious 工具与资源
in Wangtam, on March 8, 2009
【Blog Widgets 和工具】
del.icio.us custom size
del.icio.us linkrolls
Del.icio.us Search
del.icio.us Spy
Delicious Preview
Popular Bookmarks on Delicious
Share on Del.icio.us
【官方工具】
Blog Posting
"Bookmark this on Delicious" buttons
Bookmarklet buttons for any browser
...
What's Up At Kodak?
in Digital Shot, on March 8, 2009
...ere's no doubt that the world's imaging industry has taken a hit, but so far has managed to survive.
Imaging, or photography, will never go away, that's a given. That's also why I cho...
The complex reality of end-user application development
in The CIO Weblog, on March 6, 2009
...er might have been in the past.
There is a lesson here for CIOs, which represents another cyclical sort of realization: don't let your users get ahead of you on the technology curve. There are go...
Counterpoint: Employers snoop away!
in The CIO Weblog, on March 4, 2009
...ay were these questions presented directly in an interview room.
It's certainly true that this sort of screening doesn't unearth people who engage in these activities, but don't post abou...
Opmanager online
in The CIO Weblog, on March 2, 2009
... lower yet: $5 per monitored node per month. Considering the amount of background traffic that this sort of monitoring requires, that has to make for some razor thin margins. It also has implicati...
Manhattan sales are up 16%
in Supplychainer, on February 28, 2009
...our industry-leading supply chain solutions will give them the capabilities they need to not just survive the downturn but thrive when the upturn comes."
...
Rapid web-based app development: good or evil?
in The CIO Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...heets and the modern enterprise mash-up.
I think the resulting "virtual conversation" (a sort of mashup of its own) is probably worth further exploration and deserves a broader audience so ...
