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- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilcho. Zero.
- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilcho. Zero.Sub-Contractor High-FiveANY subcontractor who can get millions out of a company and deliver nothing gets my applause.. do you realize how hard it is to keep taking money when you're not really doing anything viable?Maybe Im just twisted, but this speaks a lot more to me...
- Tags: FUBAR, sincerity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
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- Microsoft, In Search Of Itself
- Microsoft, In Search Of ItselfTo Microsoft, the future is yesterdayWith the addition of control by Microsoft..........I posted this on another talkback...but this just shows the lack of sincerity from MS. They can't even be straight forward with us. Their user want XP and not Vista. Until MS admits this and...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Google gets business from Yahoo and heat from Microsoft
- Google gets business from Yahoo and heat from MicrosoftThis is just too funnyHow is MS wanting to acquire Yahoo any better than Yahoo 'partnering' with Google.Seems to me Yahoo will loose its openness once MS gets their mits on them, yes?Nothing new hereThis was an ancient strategy when Nixon went...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google gets business, Google Get
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Countering the Microsoft cynics
- Countering the Microsoft cynicsBenefit of the doubt[i]That’s why I am willing to give Ballmer more benefit of the doubt than Foley.[/i]It's much easier to trust the guy with the gun when you're standing next to him instead of in his sights.Can take years to build trustI certainly hope you're right,...
- Tags: open-source developer, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, open source, snake
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Another great contribution to humanity from the folks who brought you Chuck E. Cheese and Atari
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk explores the latest high-tech concept in dining from Nolan Bushnell, of Chuck E. Cheese and Atari fame. We all have our bad waiter stories. I confess that recently, in Europe, I sat in a restaurant for almost an hour waiting for a...
- Tags: Restaurant, Atari Inc., uWink, Squares, Games, Personal Technology, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Windows, Linux, and the Kyoto Climate Protocols
- I read a blog, yesterday, by one Randall Hoven, titled "Kyoto Schmyoto" which started with this: One would think that countries that committed to the Kyoto treaty are doing a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would also think that...
- Tags: Emission, Treaty, Climate, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- SAP, Oracle, Babies, and Wonks: Competition, American-style
- SAP as a company has always been risk-averse, even as it takes some risky steps. But its perhaps most risky step ever – the acquisition of TomorrowNow – in 2005, has apparently turned the already anodyne company into an almost non-competitive stupor, and frankly, it's becoming a problem. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Problem, SAP AG, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Poll of the Day - Vista vs. Leopard
- Poll of the Day - Vista vs. LeopardLeopard wins so far...It appears that out of the approx 19 votes so far, Vista was a disaster and Leopard was great. I apparently voted with the popular opinionAh, but the second Vista machine!Went flawlessly. Once I knew where the issues were...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Scanners, Microsoft Windows XP, operating system, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Leopard, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- On deck: Critical Windows, Office, IE patches
- On deck: Critical Windows, Office, IE patchesCool, good to see them on top of things.Like it or not, regardless of the OS and apps you use, patchs will always be with us.Wonder if they fixed this one."If you are running Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets, they are subject to cross-site scripting...
- Tags: Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, SECURITY, pity, Microsoft Corp., cigarette, Microsoft Internet Explorer, patch management
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- More anti-file-sharing rhetoric in Washington
- More anti-file-sharing rhetoric in WashingtonFundingI don't suppose that this bill contains funding that will not result in other activities, ie: education, being cut during the process of trying to convert colleges and universities to selective law enforcement agencies?Do they know who has control?I find it so funny when people talk...
- Tags: rhetoric, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Day 6 of the old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick
- Here we are in the the sixth day of my coffee-in-the-keyboard adventure. Here's a quick review of the situation: My post describing day 1 presented how I stupidly allowed coffee to slosh into my new laptop and did my best to engage Dell Computer's service department in the hopes of getting...
- Tags: off topic
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- WV senate wants out of Real ID
- WV senate wants out of Real IDThe modern equivalant of 'Show me your papers!'Thanks to modern technology it's 'Give me your Chip!'In the future it will be 'Your chip has already been scanned.'I hope enough states have the fortitude to block implementation. If residents of only a minority of states...
- Tags: REAL ID
- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
- Microsoft ending Vista family discount
- Microsoft ending Vista family discountVista: a mess and a halfAnother bad PR situation for MS.Just what is MS thinking with these bone head moves???Heck, they should let them run multiple versions of the SAME program for $50 more. Why not make some good deals for families that are running multiple...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., EULA, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Picking the right Safari download (Securing Safari: How to run Apple's Web browser securely)
- Picking the right Safari download (Securing Safari: How to run Apple's Web browser securely)Thanks for the instructionsbut wouldn't it simply be simpler to tell people not to install Safari at all? If Quicktime, iTunes, and Safari are all about convincing me that I should switch to OSX due to Apple's...
- Tags: Digital music, Web browsers, Digital media, Web browser, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Bonjour, beta
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- The era of open source negotiation
- It is just possible the latest exchange of notes between Jonathan Schwartz and Linus Torvalds signals the start of a new era in business.Call it the era of open source negotiation.Taking the notes at face value, Linus has concerns about Sun's strategy as well as GPL V. 3, and Schwartz...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems, Strategy, management, Linux, Legal, GPL, General, FOSS, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- The TJX data breach: Why loss estimates are overblown
- The TJX data breach: Why loss estimates are overblownA gibe at your jiveThe word is jibe, unless you mean the data aren't dancing together 1940s style.Who carries the real costs?The issue is that TJX won't recompense people who have to clean their credit reports, check the statements for illegal charges...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Who/what, TJX, credit card, bank, Sears Roebuck & Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- Hillary Clinton in command for 'when' President
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”An in command Hillary Clinton sought to assure the American public last evening that she is ready and able to command the U.S. armed forces in decisive action if needed, “when” she is President...
- Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, User Generated Politics
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Microsoft adds security muscle
- Microsoft adds security muscleMicrosoft has no business in securityThey should devote their efforts to making their software more secure, not to charging their customers for protection against flaws in their software. This is just another case where they have created the need for other companies to provide a service,...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Loverock, Microsoft Corp., security, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- Microsoft to blast Google over copyrights
- Microsoft to blast Google over copyrightsSame song different targetMicrosoft managed to nearly destroy Netscape and Real Networks before their MO was clearly established. Their level of success with Linux was not nearly as impressive and I suspect that both Symantec and Google have seen this tactic often enough that...
- Tags: Web browsers, Like Sun, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microcrap EULA, Netscape Communications Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- UFOs, Global Warming, and AI
- A UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object and its rather obvious that there really are quite a lot of those around. Ive seen them, and Ill bet you have too - the issue, of course, is that most people use the term to mean something else entirely: an...
- Tags: global warming
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
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