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- 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
- 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
- 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
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy
- Funny how the mind works. Sometimes it just makes associations whether you want it to or not. And now that I've read the feature article on Google's Marissa Mayer in San Francisco magazine, the images from that profile are etched into my mind whenever I think of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Image, Cat, Ray, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3F
- How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3FThat's a better way of looking at it.Compared to yesterday's piece, this is a much more informed look at the supposed issue.I agree that changes that are made to a GPL code base should, in the spirit of the license all of them, be given back. Your use of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Bogus hardware test error messages on Mac Pros
- Apple refreshed its Mac Pro and Xserve lines on Tuesday. That's a somewhat interesting move, since it's in advance of the Macworld Expo. Some folks wonder why the release came out now and not next week at the expo. At the same time, the 4-core and 8-core...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Google applies for image text patent
- Google applies for image text patentOh Google, you're so grand and growingcould you please take over every aspect of a person's life and data, kind master.RE: Google applies for image text patentThis patent should not go through because its Google applying for it. Google has been known to steal...
- Tags: Thre, patent, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Customer intimacy not strong at SAP
- Just as my fellow Irregulars are getting ready to tackle SAP executives at the company's 'Influencers' Summit' in Boston comes a mea culpa from Steve Rogers, SAP UK's managing director. According to a report from Stuart Lauchlan, Rogers said at the company's recent UK user conference: "When I joined,...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Product Marketing, Business Operations, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- The telephone blame game gone gonzo
- The telephone blame game gone gonzoWitchhunts the only way?Surely anyone honest enough to evaluate their own behaviour sufficiently to recognise this kind of problem is almost certainly not going to have the problem in the first place? You're suggesting that people actively go against the very human tendency to self-justify...
- Tags: Games, game, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday
- Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader MondayPrice PointAfter reading about Sony's attempt bust at an even lower price point, I wouldn't expect this to be successful either. At $399, you can get a fully functioning laptop and read all the eBooks and other media you want there.I don't think...
- Tags: E-books, PDA, e-book Reader, e-book, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did)
- The buzz around the XO Laptop, aka the One Laptop Per Child group's "$100 laptop" is growing, with an innovative donation program coming in time for the holidays. But this colorful, rugged computer could have come from Apple, and in another time, it did. The...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, XO Laptop, eMate, Keyboards, E-mail, PDAs, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Handhelds, Management, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Grokking the iPod
- Apple's Wednesday announcement of new iPods appear to have shaken some otherwise smart people. Perhaps its the forest-for-the-trees analogy: they can't tear their eyes away from the shiny iPod in the hand towards the boxes that will be sitting on the shelves during the holiday season. Here...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Shuffle, Apple Inc., iPod Platform, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Why Apple doesn't get more of my cash
- One question that I get asked on almost a daily basis is why I don't abandon the Windows platform and shift over to using Mac. When I posted my "30 things I've learned from using Linux …" post, the point that raised the most discussion was #27:The more I use...
- Tags: Security, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Exploding heads in the open source community
- Exploding heads in the open source communityIt would be better if MS would just use the BSD or MIT license, they aresimple, and very friendly to proprietary software, you can even make proprietary extensions that you do not need to release.But, all eyes are on Microsoft here. It is more...
- Tags: Quality, open-source community, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- Exploding heads in the open source community
- Late last week, Tim O'Reilly announced at his company's open source convention that Microsoft would submit its shared source licenses to the Open Source Initiative OSI to be certified as true open source licenses. It's a curious notion, but makes a lot of sense. Microsoft probably wants to find a...
- Tags: Open Source, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Securing Safari: How to run Apple's Web browser securely
- Securing Safari: How to run Apple's Web browser securelyThe the cognitive dissonance continues30 million Macs is too small a blip for malware writers, but 1 million Safari downloads is a significant target.I have a far easier solutionControl Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Uninstall Safari.That is the best way to secure...
- Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Apple Safari, security, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- Fear and loathing in the Internet echo chamber
- Ever since Leon Festinger first formulated his theory of cognitive dissonance people have, usually reluctantly, accepted the reality that we seek out information confirming our beliefs while actively avoiding contrary information. The obvious lesson for people who are aware of this is...
- Tags: Unanswered questions, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
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