When I read the story about the massive shellacking Intel® stock was taking I cannot say I was surprised. AMD® has been mopping the floor with them for years. It’s a case of management shooting itself in the foot, knee, and twice in the gut. Wall Street analysts have been trying to put a spin on it to claim they know what is causing it, they don’t. Intel ignore their market responsibilities. You Have to … The Fall of Intel®Read more
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FDupes
We are all pack rats. “Safety copies” is how we justify duplicate files. Duplicate files used to require we kept stacks of floppy disks, remember those? Sony used to sell shrink wrapped bricks of 100 that I used to go through every few weeks. They were much nicer than the bails of 5 1/4 disks. How many of you had one of those big wood 3-drawer floppy storage cabinets for 5 1/4 floppies? I did. … FDupesRead more
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The Great Visa Worker Purge
Welcome to the Great Visa Worker Purge! Here we have corporate America running a fake cover story about a recession so they can purge well over a quarter million visa workers without going to prison. Why do they need a cover story? Because perjury comes with a prison sentence just like wire fraud does. More than 11 years ago the CEOs testified under oath in Washington that there was a “skills gap” in America and … The Great Visa Worker PurgeRead more
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The Death of Commercial Application Frameworks
I was going to title this post “The Death of Qt” but it is really all commercial event driven application frameworks. To understand this you need to take a journey with me. Most of you reading this aren’t as old as me and didn’t live through all of it. What brought this on? Continually getting questions about why things are the way they are in Qt and application frameworks in general has been a big … The Death of Commercial Application FrameworksRead more
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In Praise of the Z2 G4
I have a hatred for HP that the English language can’t really articulate. From them getting in bed with Microsoft and being paid to kill off OpenVMS to selling printers with “starter cartriges” holding just enough ink to print the alignment page, to any number of other underhanded things. One cannot forget they also allowed the rise of Carly Fiorina. Y’all saw her presidential run. She lost because her staff failed her. That’s her story … In Praise of the Z2 G4Read more