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- Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreement
- Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreementI agree with your points and your questions...Way too many "loopholes" and bad decisions have been put into this bailout bill. Not the least of which is absolutely no accountability.To use Mr. Krigman's IT project analogy it would be like seeing that poor decisions...
- Tags: Taxes, Team management, Leadership, Free trade, Financial services, Economic Meltdown, insanity, disagreement
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future
- I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...
- Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
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- What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?
- There is no disagreementThere really never was. Scientists are in agreement that global climate change is happening you may have noticed the conferences.We will always have idiots. It's just that some of them happen to own media and political parties or are making way too much money with...
- Tags: climate change, mankind
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?
- One Alaskan scientist has been flying over the Arctic regularly for years. He has seen the ice disappearing. He doesn't need computer projections to warn him. He doesn't need models showing global cooling...or global warming. Shall we call it global disagreement? Where once the airborne...
- Tags: Ice, Scientist, Productivity, Real Estate, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- AT&T cries foul to FCC, uses Google Voice to spark Net Neutrality debate
- Google already responded Google already replied to AT&TBring on the lawyers!I don't pretend to understand the finer points of this AT&T-Google disagreement. But it does make me wonder how Apple fits into the Google Voice app hooha. Kind of seems like they're caught in the middle, doesn't it?
- Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Kind-of, Net Neutrality, FCC
- Discussion threads 2009-09-26
- Are IT grads learning the right skills?
- Not university level informationThe type of information they are referring to is not something that applies to a university level of education. What they are asking for is the specific skills on the implementation of technologies. For example, I can talk all day about certificates and the use of them...
- Tags: Businesses, IT Grad, information technology, developer
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents
- Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- For your safety and convenience
- Not intended as a political commentI cite Obama's disregard of the law and basic ethical principles because it's public, obvious, and widely known - not because it's dispicable (getting people to think about that is a bonus.)The right way to deal with policy opponents is to defend your own policies...
- Tags: Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-09-05
- Burning Man and geek culture
- total disagreement.At the urging of family members who love Burning Man and have been going for years, I attended the festival last year. The whole thing is a joke.It's a big party, basically. The "art" is for the most part incredibly bad. You have to give about 10% of the...
- Tags: Burning Man, Burning
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- denial:global warming=creationism:evolution?
- Wow!This is the first time 100% have agreed with me for a microsecond!RE: denial:global warming=creationism:evolution?Somebody hasn't done their homework on the Scope's trial. Just a quick overview; 1) The Scopes trial was sponsored by the ACLU (they wanted to test the Butler (anti-Darwinism act) in the court system;2) John Scopes...
- Tags: global warming, American Civil Liberties Union, Dover
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- SOA services: build now, worry about reuse later?
- LifecycleI agree with Dan Woods in that SOA deserves to be revived.However, I disagree with his "two stage" approach. To reiterate, he suggests that stage one is you build services willy nilly, and in stage two, you govern them.The disagreement stems from the following reality. 99% of the world is...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, SOA, sheep
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?
- Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...
- Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Global warming: what will American politicians do? Rest of world?
- Now that federally-funded researchers, government and academic, are no longer pulling their punches, the questions arises: what now? Will the national government act? What'll happen? There's a proposed energy and climate bill before the House of Representatives. Named for two Congressmen sponsoring the bill, it's the...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Google to sell e-books by end of 2009; what will Amazon do?
- Amazon, get ready: Google's throwing its hat into the e-book ring. Google has indicated its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google, according to a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Wolfram Alpha won't ask and won't tell
- Wolfram Alpha won't ask and won't tellwolfram alpha wants to be a brainbut it does not have all the data to deliver all the answers.I see it more like an academic atempt to data mining rather than a search engine.it is not a search engineI have commented on Wolfram Alpha's...
- Tags: INTERNET, SEARCH, Wolfram Alpha
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Hamburg threatens sanctions over Google Street View
- The city of Hamburg, Germany, is threatening to impose sanctions on Google if it doesn't bring its Street View program in line with the country's privacy laws, The New York Times reports. Johannes Caspar, the data protection regulator for the German city-state of...
- Tags: Sanction, Google Inc., Hamburg, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Microsoft, Linux Foundation issue joint letter opposing proposed software-licensing principles
- Microsoft, Linux Foundation issue joint letter opposing proposed software-licensing principlesTranslationWe linux and MS know most of our software is crap, and if you make us warranty it, we're screwed.I find this very interesting!The amazing thing about software, if written correctly, is that you CAN guarantee it will do the same...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., software, operating system, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- What do you want for free? Do users have to pay up to complain?
- What do you want for free? Do users have to pay up to complain?The right to complain is a part of our First Amendment rightsSo I say complain away. But I wouldn't expect any results unless there was a monetary incentive.RE: What do you want for free? Do users have...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Exchange 2010: Tier your workforce, split your domain, save money
- Microsoft today announced the public beta of Exchange 2010. This product is a natural extension and improvement over Exchange 2007 (and anybody on Exchange 2003 should really be looking at it), but it also introduces at least one important new capability: email archiving. But I'll let my...
- Tags: Mailbox, Environment, Domain, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Workforce, Exchange 2010, Knowledge Management, E-mail, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Data Management, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- The Open Cloud Manifesto
- The Open Cloud Manifesto, backed by its thirty-six firms that signed on with its debut, outlines core value propositions, points out challenges, sets goals, and then lists several principles of what an open cloud should accomplish. Until now, there has been no real attempt to define or restrict the term...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Open Cloud Manifesto, Cloud Market, Quality, Strategy, Channel Management, Business Operations, Management, Marketing, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
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