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I wonder if it's big enough to affect the tides...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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If your enterprise hasn’t already adopted a DevOps approach, there’s officially no excuse anymore. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life"
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Microsoft is privately testing a public-facing version of its Cosmos big-data service, which features new analysis and storage engines, plus a new SQL-IP language. How many records does it support? "Billions and billions"
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One-quarter of the company could be let go in the next month. (Big) "Blue eyes cryin' in the rain"
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My first thought on seeing this headline in the Insider was, "I wonder what (professional IBM basher) Cringely" thinks about it. Then I clicked the link and saw that IT World had posted a dumbed down version of an article Cringely had written for Forbes[^] which in turn was a cleaned up version of a post he'd made to his blog[^].
TLDR Should've linked to either the original or to the cleaned up version on Forbes; not the crappy content regurgitater repost. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Fixed the caption for you. 
Marc
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Last summer, Mozilla launched a very experimental version of Firefox with support for web-based virtual reality apps that could be experienced through the Oculus Rift. Earlier this week, support for WebVR also landed in Firefox’s Nightly and Developer Edition release channels. http://thanks_but_no_thanks.com
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According to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the iPhone has secret spyware that allows governments to watch users without their knowledge and consent. "We want information... information... information."
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Flip phone users (or androiders) unite!
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Quote: Apple has been actively making the iPhone harder for security services to spy on, with the company having stated that iOS 8 made it impossible for law enforcement to extract users' personal data, even with a warrant.
Like the wolf crying wolf!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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 Yeah pretty much!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It's offering the first-ever per-user Windows subscription. I have seen the future, and it involves my credit card
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Ugh. I really don't like subscriptions. I imagine a world where my credit card is hit with a couple dozen subscription payments every month. It might seem inexpensive for one product, but think of how much you might be spending per product, per month if most everything went to a subscription model (and not just Microsoft's software.) Software products, IMO, should not be sold like a service unless it's actually a service.
Marc
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MS Enterprise has been subscription based for many years; this is just the newest version of the same old same old.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If it does happen that end users will have to pay a montly subscription fee, then that'll probably push some into the linux camp...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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In a recent interview, John Zachman said: 'If we as enterprise architects are not doing diagnosis and prescription, then we're the technicians; we're just taking x-rays.' So... they need to take your blood pressure and tell you to lose weight?
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The Zachman Framework lays the foundation for enterprise architecture, providing a series of classifications based on "What, Where, When, Why, Who and How," cross-indexed by organizational perspectives, including "Executive, Business management, Architect, Engineer, Technician, and Enterprise" perspectives. In the interview, Zachman pointed out that the framework is comparable to the periodic table of elements, which are a series of immutable elements (or "primitives") from which an infinite amount of composites can be created.
Dear Mr. Zachman, it would be really nice if took a look around you and realized how archaic your organizational model concept is. It would also help if you stopped speaking in ridiculous analogies and gibberish like "infinite amount of composites."
Marc
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That guy is all over the place with his metaphors.
Mentions doctors, then engineering, then chemistry, all of the while using verbs to describe actions that we should be performing.
However, if you go check out his "Highly Regarded" (I would like to know by whom) , Zachman Framework, it says "This is not a process or methodology for how to build something, it's only a predicted structure of patterns that I recognized."
Too bad, I would have bought into the entire concept if he had a Phd after his name 
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What a moron.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Technically Incorrect: Speaking at Davos, Google's executive chairman explains that we'll all be experiencing our digital connections as a seamless part of our everyday world. "Fish don't know they're in water"
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We've heard rumors for some time that Apple's been less than pleased with the purported battery life of its upcoming Apple Watch. And now, it looks as though it has plenty of reason to be worried. According to a new report from 9 to 5 Mac, the Apple Watch the battery is looking at just 2.5 to 4 hours of "active application use" before it dies. Extension cord not included
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How can you call watch 'smart' if it can't even show the hour after 4 hours of use?
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