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Vendor AMD Announces Development of DTX Open Standard

Submitted by OSTG Marketing on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @11:33PM

AMD wants to enable to broad adoption of small form factor PCS with the development of DTX , and open standards specification. "The DTX standard will take advantage of the existing ATX infrastructure and benefits, including cost efficiency, system options and backward-compatibility, to allow for ground-breaking PC design. The DTX standard will be designed to embrace energy-efficient processors from AMD or other hardware vendors,

Submission + - How can we convert the US to the metric system?

Submitted by

thesolo

on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @10:43PM

thesolo writes: "Despite past efforts of the 1970s and 1980s, the United States remains one of only three countries (others are Liberia and Myanmar) that does not use the metric system. Staying with imperial measurements has only served to handicap American industry and economy. Attempts to get Americans using the Celsius scale or putting up speed limits in kilometers per hour have been squashed dead. Not only that, but some Americans actually see metrication efforts as an assault on "our way" of measuring.

I personally deal with European scientists on a daily basis, and find our lack of common measurement to be extremely frustrating. Are we so entrenched with imperial units that we cannot get our fellow citizens to simply learn something new? What are those of us who wish to finally see America catch up to the rest of the world supposed to do? Are there any organizations that we may back, or any pro-metric legislators who we can support?"

Vendor Windows Vista and AMD to Send a Person to Space

Submitted by OSTG Marketing on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @10:20PM

If you've been dying to ride into sub-orbital space , then sign up for the 'Vanishing Point' sweepstakes. Sponsored by Microsoft and AMD, the sweepstakes is a large-scale online and offline collaborative puzzle game to celebrate the forthcoming consumer release of Windows Vista. "There are nearly a half million dollars in prizes, and the eventual winner will secure a ride into sub-orbital space, courtesy of Rocketplane Lim

Do You Tell a Job Candidate How Badly They Did? 702

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @07:45PM from the let-the-job-market-sort-it-out dept.

skelter asks: "I have been lamenting with friends in the industry about interviewing woes and the candidates that we find. Consider a hypothetical job candidate comes in after some how making it through screening. In the team technical interview they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any code base. Do you tell them? Quietly step away, usher them out and say nothing? Play with them on the whiteboard the way your cat plays with injured mice? Should you leave them as their own warning to others? Is there any obligation to guide them to gaining real experience? Can you give them any advice or is it all liability?"

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