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Centrino Atom Computers Coming Soon
The first computers based on Intel's new chip package are expected in June.

Paying Taxes Takes More Time, Money
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 (11:32 a.m.) Tax season became a little more taxing this year, with the average person spending more than a day and more than $200 collecting, calculating and compiling those numbers for the tax man, according to a report based on Internal Revenue Service figures.

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)
A professor has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a given subject, turn them into books, printed on demand or delivered digitally.

Paying taxes takes more time, money
Tax season became a little more taxing this year, with the average person spending more than a day and more than $200 collecting, calculating and compiling those numbers for the tax man, according to a report based on Internal Revenue Service figures. If it's any consolation to the individual still trying to get receipts in order a day before Tuesday's filing deadline, businesses have it far ...

Oscar nominations pushed back by inauguration
What's more significant: the inauguration of a new U.S. president or the announcement of the year's Oscar nominees?

$50 computers designed to spark learning
Hand-held device developed by a Chicago-based non-profit teaches students reading and math and lets teachers program tools, track their progress A Chicago-based non-profit organization has found a way to put a computer into the hands of Chicago's youngest learners for just $50.

Users petition to keep Windows XP
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system.

Users fight to save Windows XP
Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it's someone running Windows XP, a version Microsoft wants to retire.

Inauguration Alters 2009 Oscar Calendar
What's more significant: the inauguration of a new U.S. president or the announcement of the year's Oscar nominees? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided politics takes precedence, announcing Monday that it has delayed the nominations announcement by two days.

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Re: Retiring Agent - after 15 years

... Usenet anymore. Duane It sounds like you have every reason to either (1) Stop using Agent because of crashing problem (2) or getting more computer experience because Agent has been very stable for many years. - Few years ago, one version had some problem eating up memory and I had to ...

Server market: Virtualization is dragging sales down, but HPC is pulling it up

... downward pressure on the overall server market, allowing users to get more application mileage out of less hardware. But at this point, high performance computing has resisted the effects of virtualization. The typical HPC application demands more compute cycles than are typically available in a single server, so sharing that server would defeat the ...

Re: DSLR with wide dynamic range - Fuji S5 Pro only?

... built in a digital camera. One response indicated that HDR technique needs more computing memory and time to process, and therefore not efficient to be included as a ... of HDR prints is weird, very flat, and look more like a painting than a photograph. ...between 5 and six stops. So any image with more range than that must be either reduced in contrast...

Re: DSLR with wide dynamic range - Fuji S5 Pro only?

... directly built in a digital camera. One response indicated that HDR technique needs more computing memory and time to process, and therefore not efficient to be included as a ... of HDR prints is weird, very flat, and look more like a painting than a photograph. Remember, printing ... 5 and six stops. So any image with more range than that must be either reduced in ...

Re: DSLR with wide dynamic range - Fuji S5 Pro only?

... HDR feature that is directly built in a digital camera. One response indicated that HDR technique needs more computing memory and time to process, and therefore not efficient to be included as a process in the ...? Thanks for info. This feature has it drawbacks. You will lose more detail than you will gain by using the in camera HDR feature. ...

Re: Can a machine think? (Artificial intelligence)

...Test, which essentially postulates that if a computer can fool a human into thinking he...mentions the promise twenty years ago, and every day since, that with more computer power and more clever programming, AI was just around the corner. That ...operations and does *not* operate like a computer program [i.e., the process of ...in the brain is nothing like a computer program] and (2) our attempts at ...