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How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutes

Over the past few days we've talked on this blog (I've made a few posts and you, through the TalkBack, have expanded on them and added your views) about what makes Apple different to, say Dell or Best Buy. With that in mind, I came across this post by Canadian...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Apple Inc., Civilization, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Stargates and time travel

Stargates and time travelAnother angle.Let's say for a moment that the wormhole thing isn't workable and that the speed of light really is a drop dead barrier to travel. So advanced civilizations could communicate but not visit. Now, let's further assume that they do in fact use electro-magnetic...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Games, Now Let, SETI, radio, civilization

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

F**k China

F**k ChinaThank you......for being a voice for civilization. Not that it'll do any good; I'm sure you'll get lots of reasons why it's a Good Thing for bloggers to be so crude/insulting/mysogenistic. Makes me ashamed of the human race sometimes.Carl RapsonI agreeThis is pretty sad, and a monumental waste of...

Tags: Blogging, WTF, blog, civilization, Wiki

Discussion threads 2007-04-25

Pakistani groups offer animal sacrifice via Net

Pakistani groups offer animal sacrifice via NetBarbarism At Its FinestI think this article pretty much speaks for itself.Animal and human sacrifice was done away with by the advent of the New Testament, which in turn begat the basic tenants of our advanced Western Civilization.As the wonderful sage, Paul Harvey often...

Tags: CIVILIZATION, Civilizations, animal sacrifice, New Testament, Pakistani

Discussion threads 2006-12-20

Keeping track of sun's power

Keeping track of sun's powerBad IdeaWhen people realize that it's going to take them 15-20 years to recoup the costs of their solar panels, demand will shrivel up.This whole obsessions with making use of 1 kilowatt per square meter (under perfect conditions with 100% collection and conversion efficiency) to power...

Tags: ROI/TCO, INTERNET, Wind-Power, kW, civilization, solar panel

Discussion threads 2006-10-13

Vista takes a serious stab at malware

Vista takes a serious stab at malwareDoesn't change the market placeNo matter what the current cituation is for Windows XP (which can be locked down fairly well with hardware enforced DEP which the Mac doesn't have and locking down the browser), it will not change the market place or shift...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, SuSE, malware, Linux, civilization

Discussion threads 2006-03-22

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Achieving magical results in IT

Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?

diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?thank uGood article and great research. Somthing different from usual posts. It is very sad that not all people are treated the same at work.Free will...Orientation may or may not exist in terms of genetic factors, but that does not take away the...

Tags: Professional development, career

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...

I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first focuses on the history of American public utilities and makes a very plausible case for...

Tags: Collaboration, Information Technology, Nicholas Carr, Nicholas, Collaboration Initiative, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Put some IT pros in jail

Is IT a "profession?" Certifications and professional organizations are window dressing. IT won't be a profession until IT people start going to jail. People who shred paper can go to jail. Why not negligent people whose info system design and operation have the same effect? ...

Tags: Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Microsoft opens philosophical can of worms with Live Search Cashback

Talk is bubbling up across the blogosphere, Gillmor Gang and Techmeme daily about social graph personal information. This may be among the most important discussions and topics of our time. How the "social mesh" works out now will affect our lives and businesses for a long time. It may even...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Data, Agreement, Commerce, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Data Portability, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Microsoft blames users for Vista infections

Microsoft blames users for Vista infectionsyes, yes. yesJust blame everything on the users. Its like if Honda came out and said: "Well our car is the safest we ever build, but since so many people drive and crash it, the car safety rating went down."Just another reason to switch to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Operating systems, NT-kernel, Macintosh user, Microsoft Corp., Vista infection, infection, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-05-16

Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up with computer scientists to build the most detailed landscape map of the southern state of Oaxaca in order to learn...

Tags: NASA, Scientist, Satellite, Satellite Imagery, Bill Middleton, ScienceDaily, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-14

How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?

How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?What's wrong with walking to workAlthough I accept that "nobody wants to sit in the dark" the notion that "nobody wants to walk to work" is ridiculous.It is the car addiction of countries like USA that has led...

Tags: Self-Interest, Oil Prices, oil

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!

If this be a harbinger of things to come, life is gonna get bleak here pretty soon. I'm not talking about recession or no recession, health care or not health care, not even worried about food prices going up 50% in a year. I eat too much anyway....

Tags: Hop, Food & Beverage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Questioning IT

Questioning ITLose the rhetoric = better articleYou started out strong, but you lose everyone when you slide into what appears to be a vendetta against CIPS. What does "their Windows only website and addiction to hiding important email in floods of junk" have to do with business continuity? ...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, disaster recovery, Questioning IT, IBM SVC, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

2008 Audi R8

Photo gallery:2008 Audi R8Audi previously impressed us with its handling technology in the Audi TT, but even that car feels a little staid when compared with the 2008 Audi R8. The R8 holds the pavement as only a low-slung car with all-wheel-drive and massive tires can. Then Audi throws in...

Tags: Audi R8, Audi AG

Product reviews 2008-04-14

Towers for PC (exe)

You have to clear the game field by pressing the cards on the field, the number of which is bigger or less by 1 than desk card at the bottom. You can place a King or Two over an Ace. If there are no moves, press the desk to get...

Tags: Card, PC, XI-ART, Bonus Point

Software downloads 2008-03-31

Penumbra: Overture (exe)

Like all good nightmares, Philip's begins with something all too real--his mother's death. The days following the funeral are characterized by nothing, save for an incessant feeling of abandonment. Until, that is, he receives a letter from a dead man. Philip's father left before he was born, taking his reasons...

Tags: Graphics, Overture Services Inc., Frictional Games, Penumbra, Philip, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-03-31

Are trolls the rednecks of the social media world?

Are trolls the rednecks of the social media world?Calling a troll a 'redneck' would be entirely too graciousWhile one can make the argument that trolls and rednecks might not "know no better" when it comes to minding their manners, I have a troll who deliberately visits to make pointed comments...

Tags: Blogging, redneck, troll, social media

Discussion threads 2008-03-25