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The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New ClothesNot So FastI am not normally moved to gesture on your posts Steve - because, normally, you're with the beat.But this time you're way, way, off.True: At some point last mile competition will, eventually... [checks watch, checks calendar, checks last 10 diaries yawn] kick in.True: New, small,...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Network technology, NETWORKING, ideal, New Clothes, Emperor

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

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MB Fashion Astrology (exe)

MB Fashion Astrology is a Western zodiac based software that describes the fashion profiles of the different sun signs. This tells your more about your sun sign profile and fashion profile. Astrology rules over fashion styles adopted by people all over the world. People belonging to different sun signs have...

Tags: Sun, MysticBoard, MB Fashion Astrology, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-18

Shop Assistant (exe)

Shopping assistant software with many items available from jewelry, watch, clothes, computer, iPod, MP3, home, houseware, sport, bed and bath, gift, toys, electronics, phone, cable, cellphone, DVD player, and bike. There are 12 main categories in this software. You can find anything you want with this software, just one click...

Tags: Software, Houseware, Jewelry, Antsoft, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-14

Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit

Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruitSO at AA level is still SOAI fully appreciate Burton Group's view that SO is best applied to business/enterprise architecture. That's where the biggest payoff is ostensibly to be found."The service is only built for one application and it’s never going...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, emperor, SOA, Anne, application architecture, Burton Group, silo, Web service, mentality

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security.  Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...

Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law

Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-LawIt's not Vista Stupid It's YouI hate when people try to blame problems on Vista that don't belong to it. If you're having problems with AOL IM working with Vista, then the problem is AOL. They have had over 2 years to get their...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Mother-in-Law, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Cheat High Tech Cheaters

Cheat High Tech CheatersOld-fashioned wayOh, heck, consider the old-fashioned way. Years ago a Japanese father got caught dressing up as a girl to take his daughter's exams that are used to determine which high school the child can enter. Of course, the best universities basically only take students...

Tags: Laziness, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Chinese antitrust and Microsoft

Chinese antitrust and MicrosoftTo the previous poster...Truer words have never been spoken posted this at the wrong levelIrony...Chinese Government is the biggest monopoly of all.RE: Chinese antitrust and Microsoftwhy would China care about the retail price of microsoft products in light of such cheery articles as these: "only 244...

Tags: Corporate law, Regulations, Microsoft Corp., Chinese antitrust, antitrust, Chinese Government

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Are all (Microsoft and Apple) sync services created equal?

Are all Microsoft and Apple sync services created equal?Obviously it's relative.If you lost your home and still commute 100 miles per day, it's downright cheap relative to the cost of gas.What idiotcommutes 100 miles a day when they've lost their house. MOVE CLOSER TO WORK. It's not like you have...

Tags: Obviously IT, Sync Framework, Live Mesh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., emperor

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Programming stream of consciousness

My wife is out of the country now visiting family. That, combined with the fact that I quit Microsoft last week in order to pursue full-time a startup project that concentrates, in the near term, on Africa, means that I am spending every waking hour programming. ...

Tags: Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Maplestory Europe (exe)

At Maple world, hunting and battling are not the only options. With intricate maps of medieval villages, modern cities or even fantasy toy towns, players can venture into totally new worlds. Through an enhanced avatar system, characters can sport ravishing clothes and accessories and even attract other users. Players can...

Tags: Character, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-05-28

Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims

I was reminded today that it has now been a year since Microsoft made its claim that Linux violates hundreds of its patents. In the year since Microsoft has used this FUD like a bargaining chip. It has sued no one. It has not pressed its patent...

Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., Claim, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-21

RIP OLPC

Here are two priceless bits from a long comment on problems within the one laptop per child community published on his personal blog by Ivan Krstic - he works for Sun now, I think, but was the long term go to guy on the programming...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Mako Hill, Sugar, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?

Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?My replyAh, so you admit that Sugar is limiting because it's essentially for children. Perhaps third world countries want exactly what first world countries have and that is to be adults."Only on a limited basis because our district has invested a...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Office, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Sugar UI, Sugar, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2008-05-18

(Images: How to make your car run on tequila (sort of))

(Images: How to make your car run on tequila sort of)If sugar is in surplus......let's divert the land being used to grow sugar crops to growing the healthier crops that are in shorter supply.This sort of thing will only achieve the opposite.RE: (Images: How to make your car run on...

Tags: Free trade, car run

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Where's the money in open source?

Where's the money in open source?The comparison is not vaildMass production is a concept. Software is a work product. Those who mass produced still had to buy the work product of others to implement the concept assembly line components are not free of cost. The people that provided those parts...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2008-04-22

Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise

Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterpriseWhat a ContrastThis is a deep and insightful post, not a lot to add on the details of the announcement. But I did want to draw a contrast to the old world. Microsoft and SAP with Duet attempted something similar and...

Tags: Sales force management, Google Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., Google team, team

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Arrrghhhh! Windows is collapsing! Run! ... but where to?

Arrrghhhh! Windows is collapsing! Run! ... but where to?I went back begging forgivenessI used Mac OS on two Macs running 10.0 and 10.3/10.4 respectively. I would definitely recommend Vista over Tiger - haven't tried Leopard but it seems like a point release with some new visual effects.Once...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, operating system, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuff

For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuffNot sure of the point hereThe article didn't state much. Are they wanting to ban the sales on these items? If so, i wholely disagree. Nothing listed in this article is illegal. Nore should it be. If it was...

Tags: Government, uniform, MRE, biological protection, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

Sears and the dishwasher that didn't

Sears and the dishwasher that didn'tI figured it out right away....I saw "Sears" and "Dishwasher" and pretty much figured out that it had nothing to do with virtualization. I also figured out that it's Dan's blog and that he can write about whatever the hell he wants to write...

Tags: Financial services, Sears Roebuck & Co.

Discussion threads 2008-04-10