Tags Results for 'years'

Toms shoes years - (Friday 17th of May 2013 06:27:00 AM)
The toms shoes best gas and electric shaver could be the what all your family members not only
can they want almost any morning for those times when all your family members searching
gorgeous honeymoons as well going to be the ideal shave as [...]
iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years - (Wednesday 15th of May 2013 02:13:00 AM)
Colinneagle sends this quote from an article at NetworkWorld: "I run a very nifty desktop
utility called Rainmeter on my PC that I heartily stand behind to anyone who wants to keep an
eye on their system. One of its main countenance is it has [...]
Bill Gates Opens Up About Steve Jobs - (Monday 13th of May 2013 05:15:00 PM)
Nerval's Lobster writes "Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates displayed a bit of emotion when
talking to CBS's 60 Minutes about Steve Jobs. The call didn't focus entirely on the relevance
between the two men, with most of its running time devoted instead to [...]
Real World Stats Show Chromebooks Are Struggling - (Thursday 09th of May 2013 07:45:00 PM)
Recoiledsnake writes "The first real world stats for Chromebooks show that they're struggling
to have any traction in the marketplace. In its first week of monitoring general usage of
Google's Chrome OS, NetMarketShare reported that the shake of web traffic [...]
The NSA's Own Guide To Google Hacking and Other Internet Research - (Thursday 09th of May 2013 03:37:00 PM)
Wired has published a book review of sorts of a freely downloadable book called Untangling the
Web: A Guide to online network Research. If that title came from O'Reilly, Apress, or other big
name in tech-publishing, it might be fully nice but less interesting. [...]
Energy Production Is As 'Dirty' As Ever - (Wednesday 01st of May 2013 09:50:00 PM)
Kkleiner writes "A recent report (PDF) from International Energy Agency delivers some dire
news: despite 20 years of efforts toward clean energy and a decade of growth in renewable
energy, energy result remains as 'dirty' as ever due to planetary copyrights:cite [...]
BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying - (Tuesday 30th of April 2013 07:27:00 PM)
Nerval's Lobster writes "BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins believes that tablets will be dead by
2018. 'In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,' he told an
interviewer at the Milken decretum conferring in Los Angeles, according [...]
Graduate From College Using These Great Tips - (Tuesday 30th of April 2013 06:27:00 AM)
Do you require some recommendations about college? If you understand exactly what you are
getting yourself into, college can be a successful experience.Attempt to establish outstanding
relationships with all your teachers.Tips For College Years Professors [...]
Moore's Law and the Origin of Life - (Tuesday 16th of April 2013 05:50:00 PM)
DoctorBit writes "MIT stereos Review is running a story about an arXiv paper in which
geneticists Alexei A. Sharov and Richard Gordon propose that life as we know it originated 9.7
billion years ago. The researchers estimated the genetic intricacy if [...]
Could Twitter Have Stopped the Media's Rush To War In Iraq Ten Years Ago? - (Wednesday 20th of March 2013 08:12:00 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "On the tenth jubilee of the U.S. raid of Iraq, Eric Boehlert writes that
if Twitter had been around during the winter of 2002-2003, it could have on the assumption a
forum for critics to badger Beltway media crush who abdicated their [...]
We Should Be Allowed To Unlock Everything We Own - (Monday 18th of March 2013 04:42:00 PM)
An nameless reader writes "When cell phone crack became illegal last month, it set off a
firestorm of debate over what rights people should have for phones they have legally purchased.
But this is really just one facet of a much larger problem with real [...]
How Scientists Know An Idea Is a Good One - (Sunday 17th of March 2013 12:27:00 PM)
Physicist Chris Lee explains one of the toughest judgment calls scientists have to make:
figuring out if their crazy ideas are worth pursuing. He says: "Research takes resources. I
don't mean money—all right, I do mean money—but it also requires [...]
Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost - (Friday 15th of March 2013 02:54:00 PM)
Nerval's Lobster writes "The one and only Jeff Cogswell is back with an article exploring an
issue famed to anyone who works with C++. It's been two years since the ISO C++ council
approved the final draft of the newest C++ standard; now that time [...]
Berkeley Scientists Plan To 'Jurassic Park' Some Extinct Pigeons Back To Life - (Friday 15th of March 2013 05:01:00 PM)
Phenopticon writes "Researchers at Berkeley are attempting to revive the extinct pilgrim pigeon
in order to set up a remote island theme park full of resurrected semi-modern extinct animals.
(Well, maybe not that last part.) Quoting: 'About 1,500 rider [...]
Growing Consensus: The Higgs Boson Exists - (Thursday 14th of March 2013 04:39:00 PM)
It's a long, slow road from tentative discovery, to various forms of peer review, to wide
acceptance, never mind theory and test design, but recent years' work to pin down the Higgs
Boson seem to be bearing fruit in the form of cautious announcements. [...]
The Science of Hugo Chavez's Long Term Embalming - (Saturday 09th of March 2013 10:01:00 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Discover broadside reports that Hugo Chavez will ostensively get an
preserve job designed to keep him looking alive for decades similar to that of Russia's
Vladimir Lenin, whose body still lies in a sanctuary in Moscow's Red [...]
Tesla Motors To Pay Off Government Loan 5 Years Early - (Friday 08th of March 2013 04:45:00 PM)
Fredan sends word of a post at the Tesla Motors blog architectural plan how the company will be
paying off its $465 million empire loan 5 years early. Quoting: "This is a llc.cite this source
roget's ii: the new thesaurus announcement both for Tesla and [...]
For ESA's Herschel Mission, the End Is Near - (Wednesday 06th of March 2013 06:14:00 AM)
Trapezium Artist writes "The portuguese Space Agency's far-infrared space observatory,
Herschel, will soon run out of its liquid helium coolant, ending observations after more than
three years of highly successful scientific operations. Predictions by [...]
NASA's Space Colony Designs From the '70s - (Friday 01st of March 2013 09:09:00 PM)
New submitter oag2 writes "Discover bimonthly has a new slideshow of NASA's pie-in-the-sky (or,
rather, toroid-in-the-sky) mock-ups of what space colonies would look like,
supplement roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:round part of
speech:adjective definition:not [...]
A School in the Cloud - (Wednesday 27th of February 2013 10:35:00 PM)
Gurps_npc writes "Recently there was a poorly designed study that claimed transistors don't
help teaching. Here with the opposing control is Sugata Mitra in his recent TED talk. He went
to a tiny village in India and put a headwork machine* there with [...]
Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says - (Wednesday 27th of February 2013 01:01:00 AM)
Trailrunner7 writes "In the current climate of unfailing attacks and intrusions by APT crews,
government-sponsored groups and others organizations, cryptography is enchanting less and less
important, one of the fathers of public-key cryptography said [...]
Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean - (Monday 25th of February 2013 04:19:00 PM)
Ananyo writes "The drowned remnants of an ancient micro-continent may lie scattered beneath the
waters between Madagascar and India, a new study suggests. documentation for the long-lost land
comes from Mauritius, a volcanic island about 900 kilometers [...]
Can Dell and HP Keep Pace With An Asia-Centric PC World? - (Saturday 16th of February 2013 04:30:00 PM)
MojoKid writes "If you've paid any reflection to the PC crowd in the past few years, you're
aware that things aren't as rosy as they used to be. After decades of annual growth, major
manufacturers like HP and Dell have both either floated the idea [...]
Ask Slashdot: Best Alternative To the Canonical Computer Science Degree? - (Monday 11th of February 2013 05:00:00 PM)
Connorblack writes "I want to be a web developer, and quotidian I ask myself the same question:
why am I wasting my time getting a data processor science degree? I feel like I'm trapped- most
of the courses I spend all my time on are [...]
Slate's Mini-Biography of Aaron Swartz - (Friday 08th of February 2013 09:47:00 PM)
New submitter ElDuque writes "Slate's top story today is a long, heavily-researched article
about the life of, and case against, Aaron Swartz. It covers the impressionable years of both
Mr. Swartz and the free earful* / open the latest flight he felt [...]
Slate's Mini-Biography of Aaron Swartz - (Friday 08th of February 2013 09:47:00 PM)
New submitter ElDuque writes "Slate's top story today is a long, heavily-researched article
about the life of, and case against, Aaron Swartz. It covers the formative years of both Mr.
Swartz and the free break* / open science journeying he felt so strongly [...]
Ask Slashdot: Job Search Or More Education? - (Friday 25th of January 2013 10:31:00 PM)
Matt Steelblade writes "I've been in love with camcorders since my early teens. I took out
books from the library and just started messing around until I had learned QBasic, then Visual
Basic 5, and how to take apart a computer. Fast forward 10 years. [...]
To Open Source Obama's Get-Out-the-Vote Code Or Not? - (Tuesday 22nd of January 2013 07:59:00 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "There's a battle brewing amongst Obama's ticket team. The lobbyist
folks want to keep the get out the vote code closed source so republicans never get access to
it, but the programmers want it open sourced so it can be improved [...]
Patient Access To Electronic Medical Records Strengthened By New HHS Rules - (Saturday 19th of January 2013 03:33:00 PM)
Dstates writes "The unit of Health and Human welfare work has released newly revised rules for
the Health illumination Privacy and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to ensure patient access to
ebanking copies of their web banking medical records. Several years [...]
US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide - (Sunday 13th of January 2013 02:14:00 PM)
Theodp writes "The e-mail that litigant Swartz's pointless minute (pdf) cites as eminent to
his fifth motion to suppress [evidence against him] is relevant, but not nearly as great as he
tries to make it out to be,' quipped United States fixer Carmen [...]