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Message To West Point
It is time we take the words “Patriotism” and “Freedom” out of the hands of today’s Archie Bunkers and put them back into the hands of people like Bill Moyers
Microsoft Vista: Companies Can Wait
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But Microsoft (MSFT) faces another challenge. Many corporate buyers don’t believe there’s enough pizzazz in the new software to increase their budgets to deploy new products right away. The Society for Information Management, a trade group of business tech buyers, polled its members in October and found that 58% haven’t decided when they’ll roll out Vista. Another 27% plan to do so in 2008 and beyond.
One company that’s going to wait is Boise Cascade. The Idaho wood-products company isn’t planning to add either Vista or Office 2007 to company PCs until 2008. Employees are happy enough with existing versions. And training and supporting the new software is an expense Chief Information Officer Robert Egan doesn’t feel he needs to make just now. “We are all on [Windows XP], and we’d like to enjoy that for an extra year,” Egan says.
Well, I’d like to “enjoy” Windows XP as well, but that’s not likely to happen at all, now is it? Apart from the snark, it appears that Microsoft will depend a lot on sales of new PC’s…
Origin of Quake3’s Fast InvSqrt()
Code that makes you go “Whoa!”
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Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned
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Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country “cannot be made secure,” according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
The assessment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, one of the government’s premier research centers, is the most sweeping condemnation of such voting systems by a federal agency.
Cartoons
Makes you wonder if there’s any point in having product upgrade cycles that are shorter than 5 years… for enterprise customers, anyway.