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The software industry: So efficient, we invented shelfware

Have you considered helping customers to stop overspending?
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Alan Pelz-Sharpe, 22 Apr 12:06

Are you being robbed of sleep by badly designed servers?

Sysadmin Blog Mornings, nights, they all blur into one for our man Trevor
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Trevor Pott, 22 Apr 06:31

British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Chuck away your e-reader - everyone else is
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Alistair Dabbs, 19 Apr 11:00

Bitcoins: A GIANT BUBBLE? Maybe, but currency could still be worthwhile

Lessons from tulip-hoarding Dutch speculators of 1634
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Tim Worstall, 15 Apr 13:04

CIOs: Are you your CEO's business partner or their GIMP?

CIO Blog A Machiavellian guide for the modern CIO
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Warren Burns, 14 Apr 21:02

I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER

¡Bong! Investor Steve directs the baroness's funeral
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Steve Bong, 12 Apr 11:44

Oh S**T, here comes a ROBOT to take my JOB

Robo doggy doo
Workers of the world, dump on your masters' doorsteps
The enormous lump of shit sat steaming directly outside the publisher’s door facing the first-floor landing, welcoming early morning office workers as they arrived with a cheeful “Hello! I’m a giant turd! And I smell really bad!”
12 Apr 11:04

Industry upstart: You know what high-end HPC needs? More DAY-GLO

Thought we were going to say faster compute, dintcha?
One of the best things about industry events like the GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2013) is walking around the trade show floor. It gives me a chance to talk to smaller, niche companies who don’t get the media coverage given to the titans of the high-performance computing industry. (Or to Titan the supercomputer, for that matter.) One foray onto the shop floor brought me to CreativeC, an HPC consulting and hardware company based in New Mexico.
11 Apr 07:30

Damn you, world! WHY can't I have an object store on my desktop?

Who will rid me of these hostile cloud mutterings
Another year, another conference season sees me stuck on this side of the pond watching the press releases from afar, promising myself that I’ll watch the keynotes online - or "on demand" as people have it these days. I never find the time and have to catch up with the 140 character synopses that regularly appear on Twitter.
09 Apr 12:44

Why I'm hiring the BRAINS and BALLS of CONSERVATIVE 2.0

Welcome, visionary Rahul Sativa
"Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture." - Mao Tse Tung, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1959)
05 Apr 14:29

The healing hands of guru Dabbs

spok
I command you IT devil... get out!
A colleague strides purposefully across the open-plan office to the production desk. She has the wrinkled brow and wild eyes of someone who is simultaneously baffled and angry. She’s on deadline but her computer is “doing stupid things” and she doesn’t understand what or why or how to stop it.
05 Apr 12:00

Gaming's favourite platters get another stir of the pot

Gears of War: Judgement
BioShock Infinite, Gears of War: Judgement, SimCity, Luigi’s Mansion 2 and more...
Another month goes by and, as ever, gaming isn’t short of its share of news and controversies. While recent reveals of Battlefield 4, Metal Gear Solid V, The Witcher 3 and Thief: Out of the Shadows show us what the future holds, there's no getting around the fact that we're currently entrenched in a present in which regurgitations of old recipes is standard. If you need evidence of that, look no further than Gears of War: Judgement and God of War Ascension.
05 Apr 09:04

I am NOT a PC repair man. I will NOT get your iPad working

Personality glasses - Joe 90
Everybody needs good technology loving neighbours
“My nephew bought me one of those iPad things for my birthday.”
29 Mar 12:04