It seems the world is devolving into Keller MBAs and fake-reality television stars. Bottom feeding Keller MBAs have infiltrated every company it seems. They have the following main mantras Any job which can be done by two people can be done by one at half the cost. Do more with less. “Priced right” is the only qualification that matters. Even if they have a diploma from a different school, if they utter even one of … “Priced Right” Developers Will Put You Out of BusinessRead more
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Why did the Intel Itanium microprocessors fail?
I really hate Quora making me join and follow 10 things I don’t care about just to answer this question. What a truly pathetic business model! You are probably too young to know the entire story. It’s one of bribes, misinformation, and corporate espionage on a scale that makes China look small time today. This is the story as I remember it after having lived through it. The story starts with the Alpha processor and … Why did the Intel Itanium microprocessors fail?Read more
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Why is network-byte-order defined to be big-endian?
The big-endian question comes up on those Internet chat places young techies like to hang out in. To us old-timers it falls under the heading of “Kids these days!” Here is the tale for those too young to remember. Around 1987 AST Research introduced the AST Premium which won the InfoWord Editor’s Choice award. There were many different models differing in memory and hard drive capacity. If you had the Model 140 shown in the … Why is network-byte-order defined to be big-endian?Read more
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Iowa Caucus 2020 – AGILE’s Third Mega-Failure
Because AGILE allows companies to commit SOX accounting fraud companies are adopting it in droves. Because it is yet another name for hacking on the fly without a plan kids, not professionals, kids, love it. No. Getting paid to do something doesn’t make you a professional. Winning $20 shooting hoops in the park does not make you a member of the NBA and neither does getting paid to hack on the fly without a plan. … Iowa Caucus 2020 – AGILE’s Third Mega-FailureRead more
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Some LibreOffice and OpenOffice Differences
Regular readers of this blog will note I posted about the ham fisted decision of the Ubuntu world to force in the “O” versions of Linux Libertine fonts instead of the “G” versions which come bundled by default with LibreOffice. Some of my fellow authors and people I “know” on-line asked me to kick the tires on OpenOffice. I had a Ubuntu 18.04 Mate minimal VM set up so I decided to kick the tires. … Some LibreOffice and OpenOffice DifferencesRead more