Development by Davis: “A scientist calls for open access to research publications” plus 5 more

A scientist calls for open access to research publications
Celebrating 10 years of Creative Commons
Faster WMI queries
Urgent requirement for Powershell Developer @ New York
AMD Announces Global Distribution Agreement with Symmetry Electronics for Embedded Products
Could the Girl Scouts position themselves as a tech giant?

A scientist calls for open access to research publications

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:00 AM PST

As a child I remember being fascinated by science, and developed an overwhelming urge to learn how everything worked. I loved science fiction, seeing authors explore the very edges of possible futures, extrapolating out the possibly feasible to its very limits. As I grew older and began a degree in Physics, I became even more certain I wanted to be a scientist and had a vision of what real science was all about. I remember the first few months of my PhD work being quite disappointing, learning that papers often lacked the necessary details to reproduce key reactions, or that I didn't have access to certain papers due to their age or the journal they had been published in.

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Celebrating 10 years of Creative Commons

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 01:00 AM PST

How will you celebrate Creative Commons' 10 year anniversary?

Release new work under a Creative Commons license

Attend a user group meeting

Remix existing work

Tell a co-worker

Get a friend to use a Creative Commons license

Other (tell us in the comments)

Creative Commons is celebrating 10 years of helping artists, writers, technologist, and other creators share our knowledge and creativity with the world. We've been able to maximize our digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. For example, governments are using Creative Commons for their open data portals.

Earlier this year, the UC Santa Cruz library adopted a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license for all of its content. YouTube now has over 4 million videos available under Creative Commons, allowing everyone to remix and edit the videos.

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Faster WMI queries

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 07:01 PM PST

In theory, which WMI query should return objects fastest?

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product |
Where-Object {$_.Name -match "EndNote"}

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Filter "Name LIKE '%EndNote%'"

Get-WmiObject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Product WHERE Name LIKE
'%EndNote%'"

Urgent requirement for Powershell Developer @ New York

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 02:50 PM PST

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AMD Announces Global Distribution Agreement with Symmetry Electronics for Embedded Products

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 12:00 AM PST

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a new global distribution agreement with Symmetry Electronics, a distribution leader in the embedded market which includes digital signage, industrial control, automotive, manufacturing and machine-to-machine technol...

Could the Girl Scouts position themselves as a tech giant?

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 03:00 AM PST

Now that full-fledged computers are approaching the size of a USB Flash drive and are being sold for less than $75, my interest in designing a Linux computer of my own has been re-awakened.

As an educator, I would stock that computer full of free creativity and learning software, logic puzzle games, tutorial screencasts, engaging multimedia and artwork created with open source software. Naturally, I would use Linux as the operating system for that computer.