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whitepaper A large part of any attorney's job consists of trying to persuade someone (a client, opposing counsel, an arbitrator, a judge) that the legal arguments one is making are not only factually and legally correct, but logical as well.
[12 May 2008]
Comment Addressing all the arguments is pointless, grounded as they are for the most part in subjectivity. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged superiority of PCs. Partly because it seems to be a shortcut to a proper...
[17 Apr 2008]
Round-Up Another eternal reoccurrence is endless arguments that take place between fans of competing operating systems and silicon.com last week enthusiastically poked the wasps' nest of OS discord with the stick of online polling.
[16 Nov 2007]
Comment Hardware projects - OLPC and Intel's Classmate - are liable to get tangled in arguments about the location of manufacturing plants. So there is certainly a question about whether it is sound policy for developing countries to accept the IPR...
[17 Jul 2007]
Comment And if you could concoct a mash-up showing me the location of all the nearest Wimpys, that would be helpful too - settle a lot of arguments. What's the point of dual-mode mobiles, VoIP phones and laptops with built-in wireless cards when wi-fi on...
[14 Dec 2006]
whitepaper In the first two papers of this series, the authors' considered arguments by those who claim tag prices would fall below ten cents, and arguments by those who reject the idea. The authors' showed how both could supposedly use Moore's Law and...
[09 Nov 2006]
Comment So what do we need to know, if we're not going to get perfect definitions and cost/benefit arguments? But I took his point. You sometimes see people's eyes glaze over after the mention of SOA or web services.
[29 Sep 2006]
News Judge Harry Edwards, who had called the FCC's arguments "gobbledygook" and "nonsense" during oral arguments before the appeals court, dissented. If law enforcement can demonstrate to Congress a need to extend Calea to the internet - something the...
[24 Jul 2006]
Comment Partially because - love it or loathe it - the company continues to produce interesting and agenda-setting technology and partially because the arguments were getting rather tedious. Meanwhile, the company's market share in the US sits at 3.6 per...
[12 Jun 2006]
News A federal judge hearing arguments in the Department of Justice's records fight with Google said on Tuesday that he would grant federal prosecutors at least part of their request for excerpts from the search giant's massive database.
[15 Mar 2006]
News Dr Adam Joinson, senior lecturer at the OU, said: "The results of the study suggest that removing people's choice about whether or not to have an identity card not only reduces public support but also leads to a 'tipping point' where those...
[13 Mar 2006]
Comment Strategically, Microsoft, after years of attempting to ignore the threat from the open source community, is now looking for the arguments that reinforce both its own paradigm model and customer loyalties that exist in the enterprise market.
[23 Nov 2005]
News Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. The whole point of a grid computing environment is to achieve the...
[20 Apr 2005]
whitepaper There are well-articulated arguments promoting the deployment of finite-state (FS) processing techniques for natural language processing (NLP) application development. This paper adopts a point of view of designing industrial strength NLP...
[12 Apr 2005]
Comment This is an important debate and it should not be trivialised by elevating pub conversations about offshoring to the point where those arguments are considered as fact.silicon.com is a good example of a media source that has worked hard to...
[06 Dec 2004]
News Paul, Minnesota, is scheduled to hear arguments on Wednesday morning. I think at this point, it's silliness - frankly, a waste of resources. US federal regulators have asserted their control of internet phone service but have not yet fleshed out...
[16 Nov 2004]
Leader And at this point let us say that beyond the reasonable arguments over privacy, this publication has largely stopped publishing any 'RFID marks the coming of The Beast 666'-type comments. Research out today shows a surprisingly high awareness of...
[22 Oct 2004]
Comment This leads to arguments that justify substantial spending on business continuity and security, on the grounds of the high cost of downtime. Our conception of efficiency involves systems being pared down to the point that they are almost failing.
[21 Sep 2004]
Leader In truth that might be the one inescapable fact of life which undermines all other arguments and starts getting bums on seats in the classroom. One silicon.com reader wrote in this week to point out that any IT expert worth their salt would...
[27 Aug 2004]
News In Monday's decision, the court did not side with the arguments involving the Nazi goods of either Yahoo! The web portal claimed that the French courts had no authority over material hosted by its servers in the US and then took legal action to...
[24 Aug 2004]
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