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The Oracle Tax is progressive

The Fortunate 1000 are far more likely to pay the "Oracle Tax" of a proprietary database than other firms, making this one of the few true progressive taxes in our business system. (The picture is of Oracle's headquarters, aka the Ellison Kremlin, the Capitol of LarryWorld.) ...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Planning, Fortunate 1000, Hardware, Open Source, Oracle Corp., Oracle Tax, Productivity, Software, Storage, Taxes, Tool

Blog posts 2008-04-03

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Poll: How old is your work computer?

Poll: How old is your work computer?Not that oldThe one I use is 2 years old, The company as a whole the oldest PC's are 5 years old and we only give those to interns.I've seen some old computersI'm not working right now, but most places I've worked at so...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Processors, computer, laptop computer, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

MSDN+subscribers%3A+Vista+SP1+to+hit+by+the+end+of+this+week

MSDN+subscribers%3A+Vista+SP1+to+hit+by+the+end+of+this+weekTechNet subscribers will probably get screwed...Because we had the guts to complain in public.JUST PUT OUT SP1 ALREADYI swear, is Microsoft trying to make me go up and slap them! Just put out SP1 now, and allow people to download a disk image with SP1 already installed on the disk.......

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), digital-rights management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Corp., MSDN Subscriber

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Handy Minesweeper 2.0 (Mobile)

The exciting mobile version of the classic windows game Minesweeper for mobile phones. The object of Minesweeper is to find mines which have been hidden at random by the computerCellphone on a grid. At the Beginner''s level, the grid is 9x9 and there are 10 mines to be found. The...

Tags: Mobile, Player, Grid, Square, CamelMedia Soft, Beginner', Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-10-28

Handy Minesweeper for BlackBerry 1.0.55 (Mobile)

The exciting mobile version of the classic windows game Minesweeper for blackberry handheld devices. The object of Minesweeper is to find mines which have been hidden at random by the computerCellphone on a grid. At the Beginner's level, the grid is 9x9 and there are 10 mines to be found....

Tags: Mobile, Player, RIM BlackBerry, Grid, Square, CamelMedia Soft, Minesweeper, Beginner', Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-06-19

The final word on the 'megapixel myth'

Theres been a lot of talk of the "megapixel myth" lately all started by David Pogue of the New York times declaring that megapixels are a "big fat lie". Fellow blogger David Berlind also did an entire series of blogs with his own sets of tests declaring "theres a...

Tags: Security

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Taking the plunge into open source

Taking the plunge into open sourceI hope Arras makes itPTC and Dessault ask a fortune for their PLM products which require implementation costs that rack up a seat charge of around $10K a seat. This is after you already spent a nice chunk of change of their $5000+ dollars...

Tags: OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2007-01-15

Microsoft recalls small-business product

Microsoft recalls small-business productlooks like the "many eyes" works for MStoo and not just OSSCFSD doctrineIs it not true that Decision Makers who own stock in Microsoft are more likely to tolerate trash, even praise it? Do they not in their missery love company? The church is fortunate today in...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Benefits, church, small business, Microsoft Corp., software

Discussion threads 2006-07-28

Gates foundation to promote synthetic biology

Gates foundation to promote synthetic biologyGates foundation to promote synthetic biologyHey! Don't knock Rhode Island! Thats where I grew up and I'm not afraid to get midevil if you talk bad about it.An antivirus from the Gates Foundation?Nuff said.It makes sensesynthetic brains are the best MS can hope for...

Tags: Gates Foundation, Microsoft Corp., E-Coli, synthetic Biology, biology

Discussion threads 2004-12-13

Digital cinema moves closer to local multiplex

Digital cinema moves closer to local multiplexBad journalism" Studios have to create a film print for every theater that shows their movies, costing an estimated $800 million..."$800 million for what????Total per film?Total per US cinemas?Total per US total?Total per Worldwide distribution?That figure seems too high or too low. I...

Tags: B!tch, theater, Digital Cinema

Discussion threads 2004-09-09