Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • Good marketing

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    Apparently, if you don’t send a steady influx of cash to Redmond, you are a dinosaur and should be extinct.  No matter that the version of MS-Office that you have has more features than you will ever use.  Here are your marching orders; upgrade or become extinct.  What a great message to send to customers! …

  • Stoned On E-Mail

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    Using E-mail and other messaging technologies excessively can lower your IQ as much as if you smoked some weed, according to recent research sponsored by Hewlett-Packard.InformationWeek Daily, 5 May 2005Soon there will be meetings for E-mail Anonymous to go with How to Run a Microsoft-Free Shop.

  • Put a Tiger in your tank

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    My copy of OS X Tiger (10.4) arrived yesterday afternoon from Apple.  The installation went very smoothly; except for having to re-establish my Wi-Fi connection.  So far I’ve only done the install, and played with Spotlight and looked at the updates to Safari, but it appears to be another winner from the Apple stable.

  • Outsourcing

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    Success with outsourcing mirrors that in the divorce rate; that is, one in five deals end within a year, and 50% of all deals end in five years.Ken Landis, Deloitte Consulting

  • Really?

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    There’s a big difference between making one tiny transistor and connecting a billion of them together to do a useful function.Gordon Moore, co-founder and chair emeritus of Intel, explaining why he is skeptical of the promises claimed for nanotechnology.  Infoworld 18 April 2005

  • Living in a hardware vacuum

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    People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like.  Otherwise, the programs that they write will be pretty weird.Donald Knuth, Introduction to Computing Systems (McGraw Hill, 2004)Which isn’t suprising, considering how much people think software engineers are weird to begin with.

  • Hello, my name is Jeem

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    Over the weekend, I took in the BBC’s “The Kumars At No. 42”–a hilarious sitcom/talk-show hybrid featuring an extended Indian family that has immigrated to London.  To help pay the bills, these fictional Kumars, incongruously, host a chat show from a television studio they’ve bolted onto their modest home in Wembley.  Real guest stars appear…