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- Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic
- Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logicFinally, The man gets a taste of his own chocolateThis has been one heck of a delightful tale, finally The Bill himself goes through the same hell the Windows users have to face every time that dreaded Update Icon enters the fray.Now let's see...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Channel management, Operating systems, Strategy, Now Let, Bible Story, Babel, Bill Gates, idiotic logic, web experience, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Photos: Tower of Babel crumples with new tech
- Photos: Tower of Babel crumples with new techI've seen that before!In "The Last Starfighter", the bad guys had the red monocule . . .
- Tags: Babel, photograph
- Discussion threads 2005-10-27
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- Google Translate for iPhone has lots of potential
- Google recently launched a new translation tool for iPhone that turns your device into a free plus data costs and very good pocket translator. That got me thinking though -- Google has the technology, and ability to make this application far better than any other pocket translator, and a...
- Tags: apple iphone, google inc., speech recognition, emerging technologies, garett rogers
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic
- Analyzing IT program management failures with the perfect vision of hindsight often leads the observer through a senseless and convoluted maze of past decisions. Studying the Byzantine and idiotic logic behind many IT failures, one wonders, "How did we get here from there?" Bill Gates experienced this Tower of Babel...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows Update, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., MovieMaker, Zoliblog, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Translate.Net (exe)
- Translate.Net is free and open source client to many language services available online (translators, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries). 20 sites, 31 services, 37 languages, 1352 translations directions. Services: Google dictionary and Google translator, Wikipedia and wiktionary, Yahoo Babel Fish translator, SYSTRAN translator used by Yahoo Babel Fish, Merriam-Webster dictionary and...
- Tags: Dictionary, Oleksii Prudkyi, Translate.Net, Wiki, Open Source, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-06-12
- A hard lesson in Internet values, and the Internet's value
- I screwed up yesterday. I wrote from memory rather than checking out the history of Symphony and Open Office. What happened next reinforced my original point, but also demonstrated what a sea change the Internet has made, and continues to make, in how we...
- Tags: Wikipedia, OpenOffice, Wiki, Internet, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?FUD?While Chinese owned companies (and being Communist, the government owns those companies) has been responsible for some things, no doubts there as the pet food and tooth paste can confirm, shouldn't a proper distinction be confirmed before empty blaming?How do we know the guilty hackers aren't...
- Tags: Hacking, INTERNET, blackout
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the vote
- OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the voteIt's capitalism, all right!A capital offense against mankind.And all the sheep bleat happily as they line up to be sheared.This is fantastic newsThis means that the man on the street can sponsor Penelope and Rupert's riches through their...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, OOXML, ISO, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- OOXML+vs.+ODF%3A+What%27s+happening+this+week
- OOXML+vs.+ODF%3A+What%27s+happening+this+weekYour headline says much. ODF vs OOXMLAnd as usual the "press" Mary Jo would like others to see it that way when in fact it is not. Folks, its just another standard that offers users CHOICE in what they use. Nothing more, nothing less.The only reason the...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), No_Ax, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Mary Jo
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Nokia dismisses Google Android threat at its peril
- `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Sometimes, you have to laugh.(Picture from Juan Cole, who was writing about someone else at the time.) Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, "Olli-mandias" and CEO of Nokia, sneeringly dismisses Google's Android effort with a figurative...
- Tags: Google Inc., Nokia Corp., Handset, Apple Inc., Motorola Inc., Olli-mandias, Open Handset Alliance, Linux, Cellular Phones, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.
- Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.www.craigslist.com has been my freecycle.com for years. NT.RE: Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.Obviously you're unaware of all the problems with The Freecycle Network TFN. You might find the following articles helpful.http://tiny.cc/zNafihttp://tiny.cc/20jxihttp://tiny.cc/1wDXO http://tiny.cc/9nN6m TFN is still...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, Yahoo Groups, Freecycle Network, http://tiny.cc/1wDXO http://tiny.cc/9nN6m TFN
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- Specialty formats burn EMR market
- Specialty formats burn EMR marketDon't worry... the solution is in the works. New equipment won't put out human-readable results; it will only be accessible via EMR transfers. Thus, paper won't work any more.As for the Tower of Babel effect, it's headed the same way office documents are: Microsoft's...
- Tags: Quality, EHR Project Failure, EMR, CCHIT
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- What else did Evans survey say?
- What else did Evans survey say?Asking the choir for a responseDoes Bill Gates worry about a Penguin? - no because the overwhelming majority of computer users don't know it's related to Linux.So you think we'll have more Linux desktops even without the hardware sales - how? Every geek that...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, survey, Linux, Apache Software Foundation, O-O
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- Microsoft Search 2.0: New tabs on tap
- The LiveSide.net guys have posted screen shots of what looks like the new version of Live Search that Microsoft is set to unfurl on September 26. There are a few changes between the old and new search interfaces: The addition of new Video and MSN search tabs;...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Justice Department, states differ on Microsoft settlement
- Justice Department, states differ on Microsoft settlementExtension of Penalties is UnavoidableThe idea that all of attorney general Gonzales' problems and his recent resignation are related to getting Slade Gorton, long time Microsoft supporter, into the Attorney Generals office where he can further Brad Chase's goal of further corruption of the...
- Tags: IT Still, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- SOA will fold into general enterprise architecture, Linthicum tells Open Group crowd
- While enterprise architects EAs and services oriented architecture SOA architects are often at loggerheads today, the two will working hand in hand toward the same goals in a matter of a few years."In five years I don't think there will be SOA ... it's all going to fold back into...
- Tags: Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, Enterprise 2.0, datacenters, Agile Development
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- The 'isms' of the Desktop/Browser war and why the web community should engage the desktop more
- The 'isms' of the Desktop/Browser war and why the web community should engage the desktop moreReligions of RIAI agree that the web community needs to interact with the desktop more. I don't see the browser replacing applications, so much as applications being extended from the desktop.For these web-based applications to...
- Tags: Web browsers, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Web browser, Application Streaming, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- The beginning of the end of DRM?
- The beginning of the end of DRM?Jobs is such a liarTaken from his blog:[i]Apple has concluded that if it licenses FairPlay to others, it [b]can no longer guarantee[/b] to protect the music it licenses from the big four music companies.[/i]Fair enough. Of course, the measure of honesty in the statement...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, DVD, digital-rights management, Fairplay, music, job, guarentee, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-08
- Macworld Focus: Steve Jobs answers the call
- Macworld Focus: Steve Jobs answers the call2 1/2 years?Probably could have gotten it out sooner if they used a good source code control tool like AccuRev. :-)Great "MOBILE"this mobile is just what we were waiting for. I will get one of these "i" babies ---Monthly service charges?That is the question...
- Tags: Keyboards, Corporate communications, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Digital music, phone, RIM BlackBerry, keyboard, GPRS, Steve Jobs, video
- Discussion threads 2007-01-09
- Babel Deluxe (exe)
- Travel through time to a land where words have yet to be invented. Test your word skills in 25 unique game types and watch your tower soar. Succeed, and your tower will reach heights never imagined. Stumble, and your tower will fall. Featuring stunning graphics, addictive game play, and hours...
- Tags: Tower, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-11-26
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