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- Stop coddling the computer illiterate
- I was listening to NPR on the way home yesterday when they aired a story regarding teenagers coming of age in this digital world, and how this is the first generation of children to have mastered current technology before their parents did. It went on to describe all the horrible...
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- The competence of IT outsourcing
- The competence of IT outsourcingI'm not worried about outsourcingI hear my fellow IT pros whining all the time about how their jobs will go overseas. Why am I not worried?1. I investigate the market. I know what is being outsourced and what is not. 2. ...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-01
- Out-Sourcing and Competence
- Out-Sourcing and CompetenceDefining "Competence"I think part of the problem is defining competence. An IT person can be extremely technically adept, responsible, and have a desire to meet his customers' needs and still fail miserably to meet them, because he doesn't understand them. He can't understand them, because he...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-28
- How Will You Deliver Strategic Human Resources Beyond Domain Competence?
- Hiring, retaining, and developing scientists and engineers who are specialists in technical domains and simultaneously able to serve as managers is a major concern in specialized technology-based organizations today, especially in countries lacking a strong social science tradition such as India. HR directors, when hiring, primarily look for specific domain...
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- Domain of Competence of XCS Classifier System in Complexity Measurement Space
- The XCS classier system has shown a high degree of competence on a variety of data mining problems. But to what kind of problems XCS is well and poorly suited is seldom understood, especially for real-world classification problems. The major inconvenience has been attributed to the difficulty of determining the...
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- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple's coming notebook transitionBarking up the wrong tree?I think it might be something else.I think Hell may have frozen over again.What if this 'transition' is actually Apple making MacOS X available for the general PC public as a purchasable product?Think about it. Everyone said Apple would never use Intel....
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to roll
- Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to rollActually...You should ask THAT to Apple, not Microsoft...Because Apple's usage agreement only allows OSX to run on Apple hardware?And while Psystar might be avoiding a lawsuit, it's very unlikely that Apple would hold back if MS tried to enable it's customers to easily...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?
- Is Microsoft accessible without Bill Gates?Gates will be missedI believe Ray Ozzie would be a great replacement for Gates on the speech / giving a MS vision front. Ray speaks very well. Maybe Ballmer could make him make 6 or more speeches a year and so some light promotion work....
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Dumbing down our math tests?
- Dumbing down our math tests?Two factors at work.One, the "we mustn't make anyone feel bad" syndrome.And, two, the old adage: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. You and I both know there's more than a little truth in that saying.Combine the two, mix in a little union, and...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrum
- SAP's software runs the world's largest enterprises 24/7 x 365. As a mission-critical infrastructure provider of enterprise applications, SAP's cultural DNA is hard-wired to deliver stable and reliable backbone software to large organizations. Given this background, one might ask whether that "perfection-oriented" culture is ideally suited to meeting the needs...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost
- Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lostStuff and nonsense>From day one, the purpose of Philly’s network is to increase digital inclusion and economic development. The measure of their success should be how lives and businesses are being helped in disadvantaged communities.The city to stick to...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- RPG, PHP, and history
- RPG, PHP, and historyIf it works for you, use it - but it doesnt work for me.If it works for you, and especially if it has an elegant simplicity, then go for it.However,[i]So what’s the model? simple: business applications are user interfaces to business data.[/i]I think that in many cases...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Secure coding: the invisible elephant
- The last couple of weeks, I've been trying to vaguely connect the dots between social computing, cloud computing and traditional process based systems. There are multiple legs to the story but one that had pretty much escaped my attention was the security angle. I will not claim any special expertise...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Buy techies with trust and freedom, not dollars
- Buy techies with trust and freedom, not dollarsLet them playBeing "fair" is much more difficult to achieve than most everything else. First off, only P-types think in terms of fairness (whilst J-types think in terms of morals (right/wrong,black/white)). Most management types are J-types - because of their aptitude to organizing....
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
- I've been fired!
- I've been fired!He did say at the end :"I know this: yesterday wasn’t April fool’s - and tomorrow maybe somebody will think this is funny - but right now it’s about 1:15 in the morning and come 8:30 - I’ll be on the phone to the lawyers."Yes, smells fishy to...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Industry analysts and corporate weasels
- Industry analysts and corporate weaselsThere are shades of grayYour point is well-taken, however pitching issue was raised by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations, as quoted in the post.I think it comes down to shades of gray: when does the briefing become merely a selling exercise? Also, what about briefings...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hype
- Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hypeHow's all this Google specific?So...''" if you want to show financial data to an end user, you will have to allow Google’s servers a pass through your firewall to make the web service call.That’s a basic security issue. Nothing...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- SaaS and the global virtual stack
- When people argue that SaaS is just another deployment option for software, they really are missing the bigger picture. It's as hopeless as a carriage-builder in the early 20th century saying that using motors instead of horses is just another locomotion option for carriages. It ignores the wider revolution that's...
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- A Vista SP1 FAQ
- A Vista SP1 FAQVista SP1 changesGood article. My questions: Does Vista SP1 reduce or increase the number of times the user is asked to confirm an action? Does it still do so by blanking the screen?Standalone?Am I wrong to think that the standalone installer is standalone? That is, self-contained?...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-09
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