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"There is a sub-genre of historical fiction one could loosely call 'what-ifs'. The computer industry also has a number of such obvious what if scenarios. What if Bill Gates and Paul Allen hadn't lucked into the IBM contract for DOS, which was the basis for Microsoft's eventual hegemony?
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Linked by Adam S on Mon 29th Aug 2005 21:37 UTC
Linuxwatch.com is running a great story called " Five Reasons NOT To Use Linux ." It includes a nice list of reasons why one might want to steer clear of Linux, along with a nice comparison to how easily these reasons are addressed in Microsoft Windows.
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Between December 2005 and July 2006, Atum Mambe, 27, used closed credit card accounts to order large numbers of cell phones, televisions, laptop computers and other electronic products from companies.
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AMD ships new 'performance' gaming chip
Chip allows gamers to safely run Phenom-processor-based systems at speeds of more than 3.0GHz using a technology AMD calls "Advanced Clock Calibration."
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Microsoft menaced by open source
Microsoft says it is under attack by open source.
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Former CAFB airman tabbed for ENMU’s new aviation program
Robert Elliott doubts that he’ll ever meet his students in person. With his computer serving as a virtual classroom, Elliott will teach online courses in aviation science from Eastern New Mexico University’s Roswell campus. His students are located across the country and in South America and Africa.
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Mobile Me launch was a mistake
Steve Jobs has made an unprecedented move by admitting that Apple made a big mistake rolling out its paid-for cloud computing service Mobile Me in one go.
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Altoona police officer charged in teen sex case
An Altoona police officer has been arrested after authorities say he had sex with a 16-year-old girl from out of state that he met over the Internet. ...
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Delta Air Lines to offer wireless service on entire fleet as way to woo fliers
Delta, others use new technology to attract fliers Airlines are pitching new technologies to woo the flying public, even as they raise fares and charge fees on everything from checked baggage to soft drinks.
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Downloadable Content Rakes in the Big Bucks
Lots of people like horse armor: Games with paid downloadable content sell, on average, $21...
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Russian gang hijacking computers in new form of attack
The security breaches indicate that little progress has been made in defusing the threat of botnets, networks of infected computers that criminals use to send spam, steal passwords and do other forms of damage.
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EIU unveils new Web site design
CHARLESTON — In the few days since the new Eastern Illinois University Web site has graced computer screens, the response has been an enthusiastic thumbs up.
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Man gets prison time for computer theft
CHARLESTON — A residential burglary charge that would have required prison time was dismissed when a Charleston man admitted stealing computer equipment, though he still received a prison sentence for the conviction.
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Brief: Microsoft offers peek to protection firms
Microsoft offers peek to protection firms
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Georgia Tech, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Fund New Curriculum Using Personal Robots at 28 Schools
Through the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE)--a partnership between Georgia Tech College of Computing, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Research--28 high schools and universities are being provided the opportunity to enhance their introductory Computer Science curriculum using personal robots as a context for teaching foundational computing skills. Winners will share $250,000 and ...
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Secret swimming hole has public problem
Jessica Selby This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it WEST GREENWICH — The discovery of a “hidden treasure” within the confines of the Big River Management Area has pointed to problems with which officials say they have become all too familiar.
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The Best Gets Better: AMD Extends Its Desktop Platform Advantage for Performance PCs
AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced the availability of the industry's preeminent performance desktop platform, the AMD 790GX. Packing a host of innovations, the AMD 790GX integrates advanced performance tuning for AMD Phenom(TM) processors, plus ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3300 graphics - the world's fastest motherboard graphics processor (mGPU) - to take media aficionados beyond HD. In addition to AMD ...
Centre Daily Times |
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AMD Drives Adoption of Industry Standards in GPGPU Software Development
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced efforts to help further increase the ease and efficiency of software development using AMD Stream(TM) processing with an extensive set of upgrades planned for future versions of the Stream Software Development Kit (SDK).
Centre Daily Times |
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AMD 790GX: RV610 For Enthusiasts?
Unprecedented Phenom overclocking? The fastest graphics core to ever live on a motherboard plus CrossFire support? A brand new southbridge with enhanced storage? AMD's new 790GX combines all of those features and more in a package aimed at enthusiasts.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Aug 2006 16:11 UTC
MSDN's Channel 9 has two videos in their 'Going Deep' series which dive, well, deeper into Singularity , the operating system in development at Microsoft's research department.
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Are you a Dog or a Cat?
 All this Vista versus XP versus Windows Server 2008 stuff got me thinking. Maybe its not just technological issues with Microsoft's latest desktop OS that is creating strife between the user bases. Perhaps -- if we take a page from Jungian theory -- there is a...
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Reuters Canada Business Summary
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday released a recount of the vote for its board that revealed a strong protest vote against five of nine directors, including Chief Executive Jerry Yang. The Internet company said revised vote tallies showed 33.7 percent of votes withheld for Yang, the company's co-founder, or more than twice the opposition to his reappointment to the board as in the ...
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Yahoo vote count overstated support for Yang
Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday revised the number of votes cast in the Sunnyvale Internet company's board elections last week after learning a technical error by an independent vote-processing firm exaggerated the results. Although it did not change the outcome of the...
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