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Project “Omega” Announced

APRIL 20, 2012 – Richmond Hill, ON — Dacris Software Inc. today announced the formation of an exploratory committee to research the real potential of starting a solar panel manufacturing business in North America. The full details of this project, codenamed “Omega”, remain to be determined. The viability of this project, if viability is confirmed, [...]

New Blog: Truth In Silver

I am happy to announce the launch of my new baby (blog) Truth in Silver. Truth in Silver will be focused on identifying investment strategies and trends for an increasingly dark and uncertain future. I believe I now have sufficient knowledge to help others in their journey to discover the truth and invest in sound [...]

The Job of the Future

I’m trying to look to the future and see what the job of the future might be like, in light of the post-industrial era now emerging. For that, we first need to look at the job of the past. The Industrial Job What were some of the attributes of the industrial job? 9 to 5 [...]

Dylan Ratigan is Right

Before any political reform can be achieved in America, there must first be a separation of business and state. I agree with that 100%, as I discussed previously in my separation of capitalism & democracy article. This is what Dylan Ratigan is advocating right now amid the Occupy Wall Street protesters. It is a constitutional [...]

Node.js: Microsoft’s Web Empire is Coming to an End

It appears that Microsoft has just sown the seeds for their own demise. In June, 2011, they announced that they would port Node.js to Windows. Fast-forward to now. Node.js now runs in IIS with the help of an open-source library called iisnode. I know what you’re thinking… What’s Node.js? Node.js is an open-source web server [...]

Lifetime Value Method of Investing

In thinking about the value of passive income investments today, I came up with an ingenious valuation method for passive income investments (versus capital gains) which could lead some to rethink their investment strategies. It’s a simple formula: L = 12Ym Here’s how I break down the theory: As an individual, you want to earn [...]

Is the PC Dying?

The following is an in-depth look at how the PC is evolving as a form factor, and whether or not its survival is threatened by the proliferation of smaller form factors now occurring. Signs Pointing to End of PCs HP recently announced it wants to end its PC business. HP represents 17.5% of the PC [...]

Unique Keys, Hashing, and Encryption

In this blog article I will discuss various methods of generating unique keys, hashing, and encryption, examining their benefits and drawbacks. I thought of writing a separate article for each, but that would result in very short articles, and I don’t like that. I like long articles. OK. Here we go. Unique Keys What is [...]

Sandy Bridge Benchmarked

Thanks to our enthusiastic Dacris Benchmarks fans (yes, that means you!), we have now obtained the first exclusive, unbiased benchmarks of the new Intel Sandy Bridge series of chips. Without further adieu, here are the results: CPU Average Score (MIPS) Memory (MB/s) i7 2600k 44500 25000 i7 2630QM 30300 22000 i7 960 (Reference) 41700 19700 [...]

Web 3.0 = Distributed Intelligence

The world of Web 2.0 was dominated by content. Content was king, as far as advertisers were concerned. Facebook, Google, YouTube, and all of the other giants have created wonderful business models around stealing (I mean, licensing) other people’s content. Hey, it’s not really stealing if you can hide it somewhere inside a giant terms-of-use [...]