Why Your Boss Is Overpaid – Forbes.com: Workers are frequently ranked relative to each other and promoted not for being good at their jobs but for being better than their rivals. It is a natural response to the difficulty of true performance pay. Now, this is one interesting statement, and so very true. This also … Read more
Today marks the day when I yielded to a temptation thoroughly. I saw, I liked and I bought — a new bright and shiny Apple MacBook. A nice little white marvel that fits so comfortably on ones laps or an airplane table… By way of rationalization I bought it for my wife — she claims … Read more
Throw No Stones Originally uploaded by jurvetson. This is unbelievable — can anyone imagine anything like this coming out of Redmond?
Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer: Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism – it’s turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in … Read more
There May Be an End-run for Apple Around Windows After All: A souped-up OS X kernel with native Windows API support and the prospect of mixing and matching Windows and Mac applications would be, for many users, the best of both worlds. There would be no copy of Windows XP to buy, no large overhead … Read more
How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows: The proliferation of pirated copies nevertheless establishes Microsoft products — particularly Windows and Office — as the software standard. I could not agree more — this is exactly what I have been seeing in Russia, and it really is annoying. One would think that a country that is (used … Read more
Russia’s Putin Reclaiming Dominant Role in Former Soviet Union – COLUMN – MOSNEWS.COM: At the center of the Russian policy in the region is a determination to resist the West’s efforts to boost its influence at Russia’s expense, in what Moscow says is falsely portrayed as a bid to promote democracy. Let’s just take a … Read more
WinXP and OSX dual boot in MacBook Pro: Finally I’ve succeeded in installing Windows XP in MacBook Pro. Now it can dual boot between Windows XP and MacOS X. There’re few issues with windows xp but being able to boot smoothly between these 2 OSes are really amazing. I do consider myself a geek, and … Read more
Backup Files to DV Camera: Tape backup was once the norm for archiving files from home PCs. Consumer grade tape drives tended to be flaky and slow, but were the only alternative to using dozens of floppy disks. … The average price for MiniDV tape in consumer quantities is about $4 or as low as … Read more
A revelation has downed on me the other day during one of the endless meetings: It does not matter how elegant or smart a solution is (or can be). What matters is how timely it is and how well it addresses (especially a long-standing) immediate need. Case in point — procurement process (or rather lack … Read more