I was a big critic of Windows 8 but with 8.1 they have fixed many mistakes. With update 1 they are fixing more. I have upgraded my laptop to Windows 8.1 and so far I am happy with it. One of my few complaints is making you...
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The potential here is really limitless! Think of the military apllications - it would be impossible to surprise a soldier, because the device could be "trained " to pick up the faintest sounds and recognize them as an enemy's...
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Doug - Although I've been doing quite a bit of reading, I'm still trying to get my head around just what makes something an In-Memory DBMS. One of my touch stones for comparing what appears to be a relatively new...
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Ben, you are entitled to have your own opinion. But your claim that we haven't spoken in a long time is not true. Just last week we exchanged email regarding the past business relationship involving money. I am not debating...
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Duracell has a cloud service? That's how you know that the market is saturated. Look, the players who will win this battle are the ones that are best integrated with other services. Google Drive is and example. Same...
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It seems that the wearables war will begin soon. I still personally do not see the value for something like a smartwatch. However, I know many people who have them, and that the notifications are useful. There...
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I like the concept, but I would be concerned about this type of audio just becoming "noise" to a person. With frequency comes familiarity and a lack of cognition. My question is: How can this be used without becoming...
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Landing a presidential innovation fellowship is a prized position - but those who have taken on the challenge say they would do it again, but were surprised by the lack of resources. It definitely requires thinking out-of-the-box...
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The fact that the government still does not know what Snowden took means encryption is more powerful than most in the technical community realize. Many believe that since the government had a hand in its creation that it...
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I think that implementing a hardware solution is a good idea. This just makes it much harder for malicious actors to be able to break in - hardware is another gauntlet to get through. And it is a tough one to crack. ...
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Rob, I like your comment about getting out and talking to your firm's customers -- it can be the best part of the CIO's job! (http://www.enterprisingcio.com/588/customer-contact-best-part-cios-job)
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At Xtrant.com we've created a cloud-based project and collaboration platform–a way for people to use the habits and protocols they are familiar with in the social sphere to get things done, we call it "Productive Sharing"...
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I've been in the IT field 30+ years but never attained the executive office because of quotas.
The ideal candidate would be a single black mom who's gay.
My wife works for yale univ, awash in women.
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Thanks for the reply. VMware picking up Cumulus is an interesting idea, but it also sort of goes against the story they've worked very hard to promote about NSX working over any hardware--VMware says that with network virtualization,...
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Laurianne - Sorry for tardy reply. The Swiss angle simply has to do with privacy concerns. By basing their servers in Switzerland, Silent Circle (as well as a host of other company's) , are not subject to the same reporting,...
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Weather Underground is collecting 20 TBs a day but doesn't need to save it all. At the same time, what a contribution to weather history and understanding worldwide patterns if it did. Granted, Weather Underground is not...
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They stopped coming for the Lucky Charms... I had to diversify to stay relevant. I mean, I've got a family to think about now...
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My intent is certainly not to engineer people out of every process. The human mind and its insights are still not able to be replicated. Yes, Watson can win Jeopardy, but despite speech nuance, that is still rapid and massive...
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The first line mentions the "highly regulated banking industry". I would propose that was a true statement many decades ago. But we have been slowly but surely chipping away at those regulations since the 80's, which of...
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