Jun 28

Michael Giberson
An article in the Washington Post discusses what you can do when building a new home to help keep energy costs low. Here Michael McKechnie of Mountain View Builders in Berkeley Springs, WV, provides a summary:
McKechnie outlined the major steps to building a house with the lowest possible energy costs and perhaps an […]

Jun 28

Michael Giberson
That is the goal. Few numbers show up in the Christian Science Monitor article to support that claim, but the people discussed are launching a business with the goal of improving the design further and then go to production. The key innovations appear to be in the cheaper process to produce the […]

Jun 27

Pamela Jones has been digging through SCO stuff again, and doesn’t like what she finds:

We learn two primary things from Jones’ testimony: first, what a cynical role Sun played in the SCO saga, and second, that all the time SCO was calling on the world, the courts, the Congress — nay heaven itself, if I […]

Jun 27

It has been clear since the mid 1990s that search engines are central to the Internet and its use. The rise of Google as the bellewether Net company has made their pivotal nature even more apparent. But there has been surprisingly little formal analysis of the dynamics of this market.
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Internet search (or perhaps […]

Jun 27

If you thought that software patents in Europe had been seen off, think again. The ever-alert Digital Majority has spotted the following:

Simon Gentry is back in software patents lobbying. Now his role is to push for legalisation of software patents via the creation of central patent court in Europe.
Mr Gentry is speaking this week […]

Jun 26

Failing to take the hint, NVidia decides to remain a pariah:

Nvidia reiterated that it won’t provide open source drivers for Linux because the company claims there is no need for it.
Nvidia provides binary Linux drivers and has open sourced some drivers such as the nv X driver and other utilities that work with the proprietary […]

Jun 26

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(innerredneckexposed on
Jun 23, 2008 11:40 AM)
Props where props are due: You got a response and it was actually thoughtful. Makes you wonder if he is up for re-election this year.
(odinseye2k on
Jun 23, 2008 11:56 AM)
“Our enemies communicate through more sophisticated means and in a more security conscious manner than in […]

Jun 26

Rand Knight picked up another endorsement yesterday, this one from the Georgia Association of Educators.
Know any good Democrats in Senate District 13? State Senator Joseph Carter, the lone Republican who qualified, has decided to seek a judgeship instead, leaving the seat wide open. The district covers all of Lee, Worth, Tift, Irwin, Ben Hill, Turner […]