Mar 22
Google is fixing things that are not broken. Added functionality is only worth adding if it has utility and if its simple to use. Making things complex drives people away. Sadly it looks like Google will continue on its war path for change nobody wants.
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Mar 14
Author: Jerry Pattison Date: March 5, 2012 Originally written a school paper. What is a Mainframe? Linda Cureton, CIO at NASA describes a mainframe as “…a big computer that is known for being reliable, highly available, secure, and powerful” (Cureton, 2012). More professionally IBM defines mainframes as “a large computer, in particular one to which …
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Mar 07
‘Does this make sense?’ or ‘is this causality of correlation?’ the data will often yield new information. This process shares much of its reasoning from the scientific method and the transformation from data to information is, at its base, the core of all research. Collecting, processing, displaying and evaluating data is the course of inquiry and the path to making sense of otherwise cold data.
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Feb 06
In honor of starting my Wedding, Portrait and Event photo class this evening I’ve been reading all sorts of guides and how to’s to get myself mentally back into photography. I’ve come across a few really great resources so I wanted to share them.
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Nov 17
There is some great commentary going around about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Rather than add my humble opinion to the onslaught I’ve collected articles from a variety of sources to share. I feel that SOPA is very, VERY dangerous and if passed it will signal the official decline of the United States …
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Sep 23
Rather than try to add my humble opinions to the flood of news about Windows 8 I’ve decided to defer you to the professionals Microsoft to stop Linux, older Windows, from running on Windows 8 PCs via ZDNet In Windows 8, Microsoft looks to join Apple as the world’s biggest app censor via …
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Aug 23
The fix for this issue is available in the forums or by a simple Google search, but I thought I’d repost it here. Sins of a Solar Empire is a real time strategy game. Players have to concur planets, manage resources, utilize the environment at hand (choke points, raw materials) and leverage anything …
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