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Your efforts are noticeable and appreciated! It was always a mystery to me why the Windows console was stuck in time from the NT days, and your work sends a signal to all those doi…

I found this talk to be really interesting, as SuperH chips were used in so many applications in the 90's. One significant application I'm familiar with were Roland synthesizers. I…

When I wrote my comment I wasn't thinking of lots of up-front planning. I was thinking along more simple lines like root cause analysis using a human factors or equipment taxonomy …

In other industries, such as petroleum refining, pipelines and nuclear power, their are structured methodologies for determining root causes. Some of these take into account equipm…

This reminds me of Gerstner's OS/2 move with IBM in the early 90's. Does anyone have insight into why Palm (pre & post HP) struggled to get the hardware right and remove glitchy be…

I think the conceptual switch in licensing model is fair.. from cpu-cores to vRAM entitlement.. But the vRAM allocations per license are not right. It puts sysadmins in a real bind…

That's a good point, and poor cost accounting practices.. I have a friend (an engineer) who is doing his MBA right now. At his school he said there is a big focus on ethics and eth…

A counter argument to this was Carlos Ghosn's experience with Nissan. He said that one of Nissan's problems was engineers making cars for engineers, but that people did not want to…

I've performed some of those audits, and that was not my response.

It's sad when you can't be candid in a company and have to resort to sending an external letter to get through to management. I think lack of candour when problems abound is the ki…

One of the reasons I ditched my Torch was I would often get "java.lang.NullPointerExceptions" dialogs when I received SMS's. Pretty bad from a user experience standpoint. Also lots…

BES is yet another piece of software to manage if you are a mail administrator, and it is a pretty complex beast at that. You can have just as secure a sync solution with straight …

This reminds me of when Microsoft was hyping touch user interface features in the run-up to the Windows 7 launch (without anything tangible in the field). Then Apple released multi…

RIM has been releasing products with terrible software and usability bugs for a while. My torch would regularly report java.lang.NullPointerExceptions when receiving SMS's. Playboo…

This topic could be boiled down to "nerds crapping on other peoples work". I've had a few direct emails with rim, and regarding playbook, they're listening. This is a new platform,…

I went through the same process, but didn't think it was that bad. RIMs web signup download process needs to be cleaned up, and the Mac installer thing was a bit weird, but I thoug…

Offshoring is an economic phenomenon involving organizations that only know how to measure their IT effectiveness using cost. Personal experience is that I've never seen it work, b…

This is really about conflict of interest. Perhaps it is time for regulation mandating the split of telecom from media content ownership. In Canada, the telecoms own most of the ma…

They also operate their own internet backbone and sell access to corporate clients.

It is bad. We never started with caps in Canada so we're losing a lot. In australia you get ripped so badly for broadband it is not funny. This affects not only consumers, but also…

This could snowball with a nasty public backlash. Can anyone tell me if this is specific to bell? If so, how would this affect us out west where our wholesale provider might be tel…

I think that's a good point. The scale of the gulf weather events on urban populations (also thinking of Rita and the Houston evacuation) is just astounding. I guess all reminders …

I think your poke at Rudd was somewhat justified, since we all know Rudd as a media whore. :-) But yeah, nice to see the politicos getting dirty, and I think it's pretty clear even…

Ex-PM assisting with flood clean-up. Compare with Bush response. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqTnJK3uEi8

This kind of platform volatility doesn't bode well for developers. Who wants to invest their time learning something that will just be deprecated shortly after? Before RIM started …