http://www.millisonecological.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:21:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After three straight days of traveling to close my quarter, I needed to unwind tonight. Given that I don't drink or smoke crack, I chose to create a video: "The Challengers of Open Source." Cheesy title, but I had The New Pornographers' song ("Challengers") running through my head and car stereo ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/09/04/open-source-challenging-the-incumbents-the-video/ Microsoft isn't a turkey, but a profitable, boring mastodon that entertains fantasies about being able to fly. Yahoo, for its part, is an ageing hippy who invented hang- gliding but aspired to fly 747s and then discovered that he wasn't very good at it. The mastodon hopes that by ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/29/microsofts-botox-fantasy-time-to-burn-the-boats/ In summary, developers are enamored of the iPhone and hope that Apple sells hundreds of millions of units, but they will spend their development time and dollars on whatever platforms have volume. Loopt's Altman gave Android credit for being more open and capable of running background processes. Jason Devitt of Skydeck ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/24/mobile-platform-tug-of-war/ The Archos 605 WiFi PVP already does a lot of things. It's an MP3 player, a video player, a photo viewer, a PDF viewer, and a Web portal. Now, it can be your personal navigator. Today, Archos announced the GPS In-Car Holder, an add-on accessory that brings the features of ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/24/add-gps-to-your-archos-605-wifi-pvp/ In the report, it appears Yahoo is floating the idea that it might consider an offer of at least $40 a share. I'm not in the boardroom, but all of this--the leak, the wording--sounds like more of a negotiating tactic than a final rejection. CNET News.com's Elinor Mills contributed to ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/24/report-yahoo-to-reject-microsoft-bid/ Yahoo is closer to outsourcing its core ad search business to Google, after favorable testing of Google's advertisements on its search pages, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The Times report, citing sources, noted Microsoft not only paid $800 million to acquire Tellme Networks but spent an additional $100 million ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/24/google-and-yahoo-looking-good/ Can I exchange my TV converter box for another one? If the retail store permits exchanges, you can exchange the converter you purchased for another coupon-eligible converter box. So if you get a defective DTV converter box--or even if you don't like the one you bought--you can take it back for ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/24/free-dtv-converter-boxes-cant-be-returned/ Intel promotes the Turbo Boost technology in its new Core i7 Mobile processors as a way to adapt to the needs of the software and get more performance from the chip, but this isn't the real reason the technology exists. I haven't seen any good benchmarking comparisons between these two ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/24/explaining-intels-turbo-boost-technology/ However, IBM has been steadily tearing down the wall between the two lines. Both i and p have used the same Power-family processor for several years now. Still, this week's announcement represents the first time that the wall is truly gone. System i is System p and vice versa. They're ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/24/ibm-i-p-power/ Back in your worksheet, select the cell containing the new formula, and change the formula value you noted in step 3 to the row containing the data you're looking for. To display the value of another row in that column, simply change the value again. In my ... http://www.millisonecological.com/index.php/2010/08/24/find-cell-values-easily-using-excels-lookup-wizar/