Elmer

• Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing Async – Simplifying Asynchronous Programming

  Oct 29, 2010 at 4:47 PM

  Did anyone else find themselves checking their inbox while watching that video ?

• Bill Hill: One Ocean

  Jul 05, 2010 at 3:29 PM

  Actually, although it makes for a terrific fable, Jarred Diamond's assertions are quite tenuous and based on a lot of assumptions. It's commonly agreed by archaeologists that introduction of disease from Europeans was primarily responsible for the demise of the native Easter Island inhabitants, rather than the environmental impact of cutting down all the trees or any social traditions.

• Bill Hill: One Ocean

  Jul 04, 2010 at 4:30 PM

  Oil supplies are unlikely to last anything like 150 years, but that's almost beside the point.

   

  The falling rate of discovery, the inflated figures of OPEC and the rampantly increasing demand from China and India, means that it will very soon become far too expensive to use as a means of powering a motor vehicle.

• Bill Hill: One Ocean

  Jul 04, 2010 at 4:25 PM

  USA Military budget for 2010 (including contingencies) is: $664 billion

   

  You could do an awful lot of R&D into energy solutions for part of that.

• Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures

  Dec 02, 2009 at 7:26 PM

  I agree, the performance is abysmal, and I've given up trying to view or download videos from CH9.

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Don Box - Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M

  Oct 30, 2009 at 12:20 AM

  'M' is already in use as the name of an existing ANSI-Standard language (X11.1-1995) with quite a long history behind it.

• The History of Microsoft - 1988

  May 08, 2009 at 1:45 AM

  Notable New Hires: David Cutler
  
  Now I'm getting interested.

• Swine Flu (H1N1) Tracker Web Slice Released

  May 01, 2009 at 8:05 PM

  I'm not arguing against any of that, and not really even arguing for/against anything... more questioning if we really need to be able to do something like track swine flu in detail ?
  
  More of a general feel thing really... I just look at the way the press love hysteria, the way every nutcase on the planet seems to have a blog announcing imminent doom, and the way people love to gawp at and devour it all, and shudder a little bit at the whole "big brother" & "jerry springer" type of "reality entertainment" focus the internet is developing.

• Swine Flu (H1N1) Tracker Web Slice Released

  May 01, 2009 at 4:33 PM

  The question was more along the lines of wondering what actual use the information was ? i.e. how is it actually of benefit ??
  
  stay safe out there!    ???
  
  I don't think so, and unless you are actually a researcher in the field, I suspect its only value is voyeuristic.
  
  With no disrespect intended, I do wonder sometimes if this sort of thing is not just another You-Tube type of distraction that is beginning to define the internet.
  

• Swine Flu (H1N1) Tracker Web Slice Released

  Apr 30, 2009 at 8:38 PM

  Why? What do you plan to do with the information ??

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