This reads much like articles we've seen for several years, just with Twitter substituted for email/blog/message board post.
No, it is completely logical if the utility that you gain by enjoying the use of the item exceeds the utility you would have gotten from the money gained by auctioning it to the highest bidder.
With Montreal hosting the 2009 NHL All-Star Game, Canadiens fans are obviously excited to vote online to get their players into the starting lineup for the Eastern Conference. The league found, however, that after barely a day of voting, the "Flying Frenchmen" were in position for all six starting spots, with
One step that some companies are taking is to migrate their COBOL apps from a mainframe down to an iSeries (AS400), which provides rock-solid stability and scalability at a much lower cost. It's not a trivial effort, but poses far less risk than migrating to an entirely new app developed in "modern" languages.
A major annoyance to such firms are the software vendors who are forcing them away from COBOL (or RPG) applications to newer versions built around Java, for example. While there are some obvious benefits, the risks involved in replacing mission-critical systems and the likely obsoleting of IT employees familiar with the legacy app just don't make it worthwhile.
OK, here's the scoop; I may, through my own stupidity, have fried the motherboard in my desktop PC at home, and am facing the prospect of getting a new one, and I'd like to get some input on which direction I should take, since it's been almost 5 years since I last did this.
At the risk of starting a classic flame war, I have a pressing request for assistance.
I've recently been tasked with leading the integration effort for a large systems implementation here at work, and am facing a challenge more daunting than any mere technical obstacle; how does one best get hardcore old-school programmers to embrace a new way of integrating our applications?
Just when you thought managerial spying was the exclusive field for tech-savvy firms like HP, the details are now coming out about an electronic spying scandal that brought down the head of the National Hockey League Players Association, Ted Saskin. Over the course of fifteen months, Saskin a
This morning's Indianapolis Star profiles a local programmer who is raising funds to put Tux on a race car for the Indianapolis 500, which runs in later this month. His website has already raised over $11,000 for the cause, which hopes to promote Linux during one of the
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
