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Vote for open source

Vote for open sourceTalk about FAIL...Why do you need these kinds of desperate measures just to get something accepted when it is supposed to be so much better to begin with? Can't it stand on its own?OSS, the ultimate FAIL.Pathetic, really...OSS needs some form of affirmative actionEU should learn...

Tags: Party Discipline, open source, OSS, Talk about FAIL

Discussion threads 2009-05-22

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eBay's Q2: PayPal, Skype growth offset by declines at marketplace sites

eBay today reported solid second quarter financial results that were slightly better than Wall Street's expectations but revenue growth of PayPal and Skype was offset, in part, by declines in the Marketplaces business. For the quarter ending June 30 statement, the company reported net income of $479...

Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Watch that reference you write on LinkedIn and other sites

No good deed goes unpunished I get requests from time to time to post a referral for someone on LinkedIn. Apparently, headhunters and recruiters like to see these especially for sales professionals. I’ve done a couple and demurred from doing so on others. ...

Tags: LinkedIn, Referral, Branding, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Mozilla wants help to reinvent browser tabs

Mozilla wants help to reinvent browser tabsNo, No, NO!!!I hate this change for changes sake. Tabbing in Firefox is just about perfect.Leave it Alone!RE: Mozilla wants help to reinvent browser tabsSafari's "Top Sites" is already pointing the way ..........Personally, I like the All-in-one-sidebar forsearching my favorites. To be...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, browser tab, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Can Apple survive Jobs?

Let's hope it doesn't come to that Today's Apple annual meeting was dominated by questions about the charismatic founder's health - and the board's refusal to say much more. At bottom is the fear that Apple can't survive without Jobs driving the company. Hogwash. Apple and...

Tags: Job, Apple Inc., Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Desktops, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Apple's Macworld saga and Jobs absence: Leadership signals and succession plans

Apple's Macworld saga and Jobs absence: Leadership signals and succession plansThis is nauseating, and not because of Jobs' healthAfter the financial meltdown that was driven primarily by greed and corruption in the financial services industry, I find it amazing that an Oppenheimer analyst would have the nerve to manipulate Apple's...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Jobs absence, succession plan, leadership, job

Discussion threads 2008-12-17

Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open source

Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open sourceA few questions+ can you give me an accounting open source software that is accepted by accountants that produces year in year out up to dates forms accepted by the fiscal administration ?+ can you give me the name of an...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, recession, MySQL, open source, software

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails

Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsAnother Fishing Expedition ....... funded by the taxpayer and brought about by partisan politics. I suspect the rumors and the interest will subside shortly after the election.RE: Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsIf there was anything criminal in those messages, the Dems...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo! Inc., e-mail, Yahoo Email

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computer

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computerprobably an arrogant kidI doubt that other kids don't wanna hang around with him due to his smartness. He probably likes to put other kids down trying to show-off himself. Why leave a computer logged into the school server? If you...

Tags: Kernell, e-mail, school computer, Palin

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Outside school doesn't equal online carte blanche

Outside school doesn't equal online carte blancheTime to teach the little buggers, and the idiot parents, a lesson.If I were the principal, I'd file a defamation of character & libel suit against the kids involved, AND their parents...two of whom are obviously low-grade morons at best. Then see what they...

Tags: principal

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Open source extremism lives

Open source extremism livesNot the same thingI admit there's a continuum of opinion. Those who are advocating ogg aren't advocating defiance of the law, but a format more in keeping with the ideals of FOSS, which is a different thing.Userama decided to laugh at Democrats, but he made an apt...

Tags: ZD Net, F/OSS, extremism, Open source extremism, extremist, open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you'll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you're going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don't actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, environment, Microsoft Corp., development environment, server, Sun Solaris, Solaris Servers, Wintel, open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in"

Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in"Australian Senator Kate Lundy is on target about softwareSenator Kate Lundy is very well placed to make the comments she made - and to be heard where it matters. She is a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory ACT which was created as...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Political and scientific values in health care debates

Political and scientific values in health care debatesExpounding further"A morality which rejects stem cell research doesn't halt science, however."I would add that it doesn't necessarily reject science, either. Science and morality, like science and religion, don't have to be opposed; as in so much else, it's politics that sets them...

Tags: Vertical industries, health care, scientific consensus

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Laptops...can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em

Laptops...can't live with 'em, can't live without 'emThe OLPC program sure has got the debates going about the utility of onecomputer for every student. It evened spawned the complimentary Classmate PC by Intel. One thing is for sure, we ARE going to have lots more options for schools that want...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Learning, One Laptop Per Child project, computer, laptop computer, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-16

Is getting rid of Vista's UAC prompts worth $30 to you?

Is getting rid of Vista's UAC prompts worth $30 to you?What a great solution......after you have paid $hundreds for your shiney new Vista machine, you find that in order to make it work you need to spend $30 more actually to be able to use it.What were they thinking at...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, UAC Prompts, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-24

Microsoft closes $6 billion Aquantive buy

Microsoft closes $6 billion Aquantive buyOn Motly Fools and Virtical IntigrationAny university level course on math of finance or stock investing will lead the student to question Virtical Integration, which is what the Aquantive buy is all about. If memory serves me right Aquantive use to count Microsoft as one...

Tags: Financial accounting, theory, American Programmer, aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion deal

Read a full transcript of the discussion.How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, wont that require a level of governance to...

Tags: SOA Governance, Enterprise 2.0, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Podcasts, Oracle, Microsoft, management, Internet, Interarbor Solutions, IBM, Google, business intelligence, Amazon

Blog posts 2007-04-23

When (and why) social media fails...

Im just getting back to real life after having lost power after the storm that hit Seattle last Thursday night—we got electricity last night. It was interesting to me that all the blog/social media created around the event, mostly by the various news outlets, managed to add precisely nothing to...

Tags: Blogging, social media, blog, journalism, power company

Blog posts 2006-12-18

Microsoft puts key security under Windows umbrella

Microsoft puts key security under Windows umbrellaAn expertThat happens to tout a German company as an American one?In what sense?An expert in the George Ou sense? The John Carroll sense?Also, I'm not sure I should be claiming you had wit if I were you.Wit?You claim to be a wit?I think...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, security, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-12