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- Breaking the dialogues of the deaf
- Breaking the dialogues of the deafre:.I love how you think of everything in black and white terms... its refreshing. But what if you consider this cognitive dissonance in computing security to be a market itself? Most people don't actually understand very much about the subject due to not their capacity...
- Tags: security, information technology, Cognitive Dissonance
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
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- California algebra rule highlights basic math difficulties
- California algebra rule highlights basic math difficultiesYou are wrong.I teach Algebra, Geography, and 1 computer maintenance class. I have 65 Algebra students a day, and my budget for that is a share of the $500 the math department is alloted, so I get about $85. My Geography numbers...
- Tags: algebra
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- UK educator who called for teaching creationism should be fired
- When a clergymember is appointed as education head of Britain's Royal Society and he then advocates teaching creationism in science class, is he just looking out for the best interests of children or is he trying to sneak religion into the classroom? The latter, in the strong...
- Tags: Sir, Winner, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Apple market capitalization tops Google
- Apple market capitalization tops Googleit means nothingEasy comes, easy goes, that number is just that, a number; prosperity doesn't always last forever...This news comes as great relief to manyThis will totally make up for the fact that MobileMe doesn't work, the iPhone 3G doesn't work, Mac video cards don't work,...
- Tags: Investment, Apple Inc., market capitalization, Apple market capitalization, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Trax Lite (exe)
- Trax is a Language Independent Story Telling Puzzle Game (LIST-PG). Trax combines Pipe Tiles with Slide-Puzzle manipulation to guide power balls to their respective goals. Trax is a game that will improve your cognitive and problem solving skills. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Skill, Ethocybin, Trax, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- In lean times, a tale of two IT contractors
- In lean times, a tale of two IT contractorsCognitive dissonanceContractors are both hurt and helped by a slowdown; companies both get rid of contractors and hire them. What to make of this?Perhaps calculus would help - do companies increase or decrease the rate of this churn during a slowdown? What...
- Tags: IT Contractors, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Distributed decision making in IT
- Distributed decision making in ITMoving the SPOF rearrainging deckchairs.Lets make something clear - that the central SRSS/DumbRay server IS a SPARC. x86 just doesn't cut it for hosting so many users. SO please don't do the same thing as big blue and pull the old bait and switch - OF...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, information technology, server, decision-making
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Sticking with XP / Upgrading to Vista / Waiting for Windows 7 / Switching to Mac or Linux - There's no single right answer
- Sticking with XP / Upgrading to Vista / Waiting for Windows 7 / Switching to Mac or Linux - There's no single right answerI respect your opinion, but...I also don't feel you've articulated why we should move to Vista, should we have the horsepower.If, after all the tweaking, it's only...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adrian, Microsoft Windows 7, Upgrading, openSUSE, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- 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
- Drew pleads not guilty in suicide case
- Drew pleads not guilty in suicide caseBig TalkLet us know when that child of yours turns 13, then we can compare notes. I bet if that happened to your child you would be talking out of the other side of your mouth. We will never know exactly what...
- Tags: Lori Drew, CFAA
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Pigeons are as clever as 3-year-old children
- Japanese scientists from Keio University have found that pigeons have self-cognitive abilities higher than 3-year-old humans. They have 'trained pigeons to discriminate real-time self-image using mirrors as well as videotaped self-image, and proved that pigeons can recognize video images that reflect their movements as self-image.' Until recently, it was widely...
- Tags: Video Image, Video, Pigeons, Shigeru Watanabe, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Breaking the dialogues of the deaf
- How do you talk to people who just don't want to hear it? Every time I get into a conversation comparing Windows to any Unix option I discover the same thing: the people who will listen to rational argument already know the right answers,...
- Tags: Belief, Believer, Festinger, Dissonance, Security, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- What is Enterprise 2.0?
- What is Enterprise 2.0?Right on the EnterpriseI look forward to the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston and will definitely seek you out.I can't agree with you more about Enterprise 2.0 and the need for a quick, secure and scalable solution which will remove burden from IT departments and promote...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, social networking
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- The spreadsheet love affair
- I never thought I'd go on a tear about Excel in these pages, but Josh Greenbaum's correct assertion that Excel is pretty much everywhere and is probably the software industry's most successful product provides the perfect foil. Josh concludes: So, like the floppy disk icon that never dies, the...
- Tags: Spreadsheet, Error, Josh, Panko, Productivity, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Taking on Excel, and Winning, Sort Of.
- It's common knowledge that, when trying to find a true market leader in mid-market enterprise software, the "other" category is by far the largest, despite the efforts of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Lawson, Infor, and pretty much any vendor with dreams of high volume sales to capture true market dominance. ...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?
- In this month's CIO magazine, Bruce Schneier publishes one of his best columns ever. "How to Sell Security" starts with a common-sense argument about the psychological dynamics of why and how we as humans respond to sales pitches. It ends with this astute observation about why some computer security companies...
- Tags: Sales, Security, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- A robotic chef for your kitchen?
- The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...
- Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Are we all just cognitive surplus?
- Clay Shirky, and his truly handsome hairline, is not into the ragehol like I am. That is, he does not anger easily. But he admits to nearly losing it recently, when after describing a Wikipedia skirmish to a TV producer, he got the question ...
- Tags: Surplus, Shirky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wiki, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict
- I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...
- Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Delivering on the Promise of eLearning
- This white paper defines the framework to launch e-learning as a set of teaching, training, and learning practices not bound by a specific technology platform or learning management system. The use of eLearning is reemerging as a solution for delivering online, hybrid, and synchronous learning regardless of physical location, time...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-05-05
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