Always interesting to hear about these moves. GE made a similar (major) investment in a Silicon Valley software center, and the thinking is often to try to inject the Silicon Valley culture -- of speed, of software-driven...
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My staff has been running it on a number of monitoring and administrative machines. Everyone likes it so far. I'm waiting a bit on my main machine, but have dabbled in a VM. This release looks to undo all of the headaches...
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Although I am growing to like Windows 8.1, I can't wait to get my free upgrade to Windows 10, since Microsoft has promised to make this upgrade free to those who install within a year of its release. A preview is already...
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I do think Revolution is a good fit. Microsoft has been using a lot of R internally and most recently it introduced the cloud-based Azure ML service, which makes use of R. What they lacked was a platform and tools for data...
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In 1957 on the farm we still had a wooden wall phone with a crank on line 42 of the Bealsville Telephone Company in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Our telephone number was Bealsville 42R13. 42 was the line number,...
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Dave, I cant imagine what the 20th century could have been without telephones. Now we are actually killing them, we basically dont call anymore, except marketers... Just recently I received a press release about a new...
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Doug, do you think that Microsoft saw qualities in Revolution that made the company a particularly good fit, or was it just the first real target of opportunity in the space? And how important do you think the reliance on...
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I agree that you can't solve every problem and often if you do go down that path you end up resolving issues multiple times because they don't give deep thought to any changes you are making, they just go along because they...
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@Sunita I think this is why we have the HR manager during the interview process. They are more capable in understanding people better.
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@Henschen, I agree with you. We have done a similar thing. An individual who worked as a developer was prompted to Data Warehouse Engineer after identifying his talents.
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"Start Early" is a good initiative. IT firms can hire fresh IT graduates as Interns and see how they perform in their role. If it is satisfactory they can always absorb them as permanent employees.
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In my experience, the gap arises since they overpromise. Sometimes they are not aware of their capacity.
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This is an interesting article. We experience the same issue when it comes to working with IT vendors. From my experience they are always late.
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It's almost as though The Past is fighting back, as the horse has to rescue the then-modern truck. Imagine how monumental a task it must have been to lay down those wires. And, I don't think the audio amplifier had been...
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@Joe- Well, some of them don't come out until fall. When you get the last 7% they'll be waiting.
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@yalanand, many workplaces are like the military (or perhaps the old US military), where admitting mental or psychological stress is a sign of inferiority and weakness. If you can't cut it in the work world, putting in the...
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In the old days, if your battery ran out on your "dumb watch," you could either 1) pay $10-20 for a new watch battery, or 2) just get a new watch. Maybe I'm a bit of a Luddite, but it's hard for me to imagine anyone...
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Eh. I'm still working on 100%ing GTA V. (I'm at about 93% so far!)
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Even better human-made passwords are still easily hackable because humans tend to pick predictably patterned passwords. Some of the best passwords tend to be lengthy and computer generated. Of course, they're...
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Re: "Cats are not hats"
I beg to differ. www1.pictures.stylebistro.com/mp/x5iDv6ulAM2l.jpg
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Having entered the IT vendor world as a technician more than 30 years ago, I'll nominate the two worst cases of outrageous IT vendor hype that gullible buyers at the C-suite level fell for in my opinion: Dot-com and "replace...
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