Slashdot Items Tagged "nomenclature"

Date / Time Story
Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:49PM You Think Discovering a Computer Virus Is Hard? Try Naming One
Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:33AM Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell
Tuesday March 15, 2016 @08:58AM AMD Announces 16 TFLOP Radeon Pro Duo
Thursday March 10, 2016 @09:57AM Contradictory Understandings of "Robot" Sow Confusion In US Law
Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:06PM Windows RT Could Make a Comeback
Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:23PM Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature
Monday February 01, 2016 @08:37PM Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React"
Saturday January 30, 2016 @06:54PM Air Force Firewall Now Designated a Weapons System
Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:09AM After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name
Thursday November 19, 2015 @09:23AM The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:02PM Symbolic vs. Mnemonic Relational Operators: Is "GT" Greater Than ">"?
Thursday October 22, 2015 @08:19AM EU Rules Bitcoin Is a Currency, Exchanges Are VAT-Exempt
Sunday October 18, 2015 @09:29PM Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly
Tuesday September 29, 2015 @08:55AM Doctors On Edge As Healthcare Gears Up For 70,000 Ways To Classify Ailments
Monday September 28, 2015 @11:04AM Romance and Rebellion In Software Versioning
Monday August 31, 2015 @01:11AM "McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali"
Sunday August 09, 2015 @10:05AM Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels'
Saturday July 11, 2015 @07:51AM Ask Slashdot: How Should Devs Deal With Trademark Trolls?
Friday July 10, 2015 @02:37PM The Uber Economy Needs a New Category of Worker
Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:50AM World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names
Thursday April 09, 2015 @08:48AM Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch
Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:24AM "Brontosaurus" Name Resurrected Thanks To New Dino Family Tree
Friday March 13, 2015 @08:17PM FAA Says Ad-Bearing YouTube Drone Videos Constitute "Commercial Use"
Sunday March 08, 2015 @08:21PM State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida
Monday February 23, 2015 @02:17AM Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons
Friday January 30, 2015 @08:47AM FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband
Sunday January 25, 2015 @07:40PM Verizon, Cable Lobby Oppose Spec-Bump For Broadband Definition
Saturday January 17, 2015 @02:33AM Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words
Friday January 16, 2015 @06:48PM The Anthropocene Epoch Began With 1945 Atomic Bomb Test, Scientists Say
Sunday January 11, 2015 @04:50PM Fields Medal Winner Manjul Bhargava On the Pythagorean Theorem Controversy
Friday December 19, 2014 @07:25PM Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics'
Thursday November 20, 2014 @02:44PM Apple Swaps "Get" Button For "Free" To Avoid Confusion Over In-App Purchases
Tuesday November 11, 2014 @09:31AM GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon
Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:07PM 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name
Sunday November 02, 2014 @09:49AM Real Net Neutrality Problem: 'Edge Provider' vs 'End User'
Tuesday October 21, 2014 @09:28AM 'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand
Friday October 03, 2014 @06:59PM Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility
Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:10PM Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads
Tuesday September 09, 2014 @08:11AM AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough
Tuesday August 19, 2014 @09:21AM Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation
Friday August 08, 2014 @04:21PM Can We Call Pluto and Charon a 'Binary Planet' Yet?
Tuesday August 05, 2014 @12:36PM The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @08:22AM Mozilla Offers FCC a Net Neutrality Plan With a Twist
Sunday May 04, 2014 @11:49AM Let's Call It 'Climate Disruption,' White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again)
Sunday April 06, 2014 @02:24AM FCC Orders Comcast To Stop Labeling Equipment Rental a Service Fee
Wednesday March 05, 2014 @09:16PM 'Data Science' Is Dead
Monday February 24, 2014 @11:17AM Naming All Lifeforms On Earth With Hash Functions
Thursday February 13, 2014 @01:14PM 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty
Tuesday January 14, 2014 @12:21PM Fedora 21 Linux Will Be Nameless
Thursday September 12, 2013 @08:15AM Linux 3.12 Codenamed "Suicidal Squirrel"
Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:30AM Android 4.4 Named 'KitKat'
Tuesday July 16, 2013 @02:18PM Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words
Friday May 03, 2013 @06:51PM Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map
Friday April 12, 2013 @05:57PM IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet
Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:57AM OpenStack To Crack Down On Incompatible Clouds
Thursday April 04, 2013 @10:41AM Major UK Retailers Mislabel Windows RT As Windows 8
Saturday February 16, 2013 @06:49PM UK Apple Shop Forced To Change Its Name
Friday October 12, 2012 @04:48PM S. Carolina Supreme Court: Leaving Email In the Cloud Isn't Electronic Storage
Friday September 28, 2012 @07:40AM Japanese Scientists Produce Element 113
Tuesday September 11, 2012 @12:39PM Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd?
Saturday September 08, 2012 @01:00AM Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook
Friday August 17, 2012 @07:12PM Gartner Buzzword Tracker Says "Cloud Computing" Still on Hype Wave
Monday August 13, 2012 @11:11AM How Big Data Became So Big
Thursday August 09, 2012 @01:29PM Flickr Photo Leads To New Insect Discovery
Monday July 16, 2012 @01:38PM Is Pluto a Binary Planet?
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:07PM 'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky
Saturday January 28, 2012 @01:22PM Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi
Thursday December 08, 2011 @10:09AM RIM Gives Up After Losing Initial Battle Over BBX Trademark
Tuesday November 22, 2011 @09:57AM The Many Names of Linux Kernels
Tuesday October 25, 2011 @11:32AM Vint Cerf Answers Your Questions About IPv6 and More
Tuesday October 18, 2011 @08:00AM Renaming the Very Large Array
Tuesday October 11, 2011 @08:01AM Netflix Kills Qwikster
Tuesday September 27, 2011 @11:08AM SCADA Problems Too Big To Call 'Bugs,' Says DHS
Friday September 02, 2011 @07:02PM Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage
Monday August 29, 2011 @06:23PM When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane?
Saturday July 23, 2011 @12:31PM GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name
Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:12PM Apple Hits 15b App Store Downloads, But Loses "App Store" Name Skirmish
Monday June 20, 2011 @07:10PM Indian Village Renamed Snapdeal.com
Saturday February 26, 2011 @10:18PM UK Gov't Says Open Standards Must Be Royalty Free
Thursday February 24, 2011 @09:32PM Drupal Competes As a Framework, Unofficially
Sunday January 30, 2011 @06:59PM Naming Bi-Directional Streams In an API?
Tuesday January 25, 2011 @10:52PM Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme
Thursday January 20, 2011 @04:06PM No More Version Numbers For HTML
Wednesday January 12, 2011 @01:11AM Microsoft Fights Apple Trademark On 'App Store'
Thursday December 30, 2010 @08:12PM World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought
Friday December 17, 2010 @07:25PM ITU Softens On the Definition of 4G Mobile
Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:08PM ITU's Definition Aside, T-Mobile Pushes 4G Label In New Ad Campaign
Saturday October 23, 2010 @12:05AM ITU Rules That WiMax, LTE Don't Qualify As 4G
Tuesday September 21, 2010 @04:14PM The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel
Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:47PM How 6 Memorable Tech Companies Got Their Names
Monday August 30, 2010 @03:45AM It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand
Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:15AM Boomer the Dog-Man
Monday July 19, 2010 @06:45PM 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care?
Saturday July 03, 2010 @03:35PM Spectral Imaging Reveals Jefferson Nixed 'Subjects' for 'Citizens'
Friday June 18, 2010 @12:31PM Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
Thursday June 17, 2010 @07:02PM FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of the Web
Friday May 28, 2010 @08:54AM XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support
Thursday May 20, 2010 @01:40PM Australian Women Fight Over "Geekgirl" Trademark
Thursday May 13, 2010 @02:34PM UK Man Renames Himself "Stormhammer Deathclaw Firebrand"
Saturday May 08, 2010 @12:58PM Google Resolves Gmail Name Dispute In UK
Friday May 07, 2010 @06:48PM In AU, Court Rules Downloaded Software Is Not "Goods"
Monday April 12, 2010 @12:56PM The Fruit Fly Drosophila Gets a New Name
Saturday April 10, 2010 @02:37AM Dwarf Planets Accumulate In Outer Solar System