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The software industry: So efficient, we invented shelfware
Have you considered helping customers to stop overspending?
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Are you being robbed of sleep by badly designed servers?
Sysadmin Blog Mornings, nights, they all blur into one for our man Trevor
British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Chuck away your e-reader - everyone else is
Bitcoins: A GIANT BUBBLE? Maybe, but currency could still be worthwhile
Lessons from tulip-hoarding Dutch speculators of 1634
CIOs: Are you your CEO's business partner or their GIMP?
CIO Blog A Machiavellian guide for the modern CIO
I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER
¡Bong! Investor Steve directs the baroness's funeral
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- Tim Worstall
- Trevor Pott
- Verity Stob
Tim Worstall is an Englishman who has failed at many things. Thus his turn to writing, the last refuge of many who could make a living no other way. He is, as an example of his business and financial perspicacity, the head of the international scandium oligopoly: the only commodity which has not risen in price in the past decade.
Bitcoins: A GIANT BUBBLE? Maybe, but currency could still be worthwhile
Lessons from tulip-hoarding Dutch speculators of 1634
The Bitcoin economy is a bubble and it'll all end in tears. Bitcoin is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will change the world forever. What might surprise some of you is that there's no contradiction between these two statements. Whether the internet currency is in a bubble or not, and whether that bubble bursts and …
Will Michael Dell become the Marlboro man of the PC age?
Comment You've come a long way baby... now get off the stock market
The mooted Dell takeover, the one to take it private again, is now happening. The big question is why?
Why come off the public markets to operate as a private company again? The obvious and logical answer here being that the people buying the company think they can make more money this way than by not doing it. Why do they think …
Why mergers LOSE money, but are GOOD for the economy
Takeovers never deliver... and disties are no different
So the distribution sector has had yet another round of consolidation. Mergers, takeovers - these are the things that make an M&A banker's heart* thumpety-thump with joy.
The big question, though, is whether this actually does any good for the shareholders of the various companies - you know, the people who actually own them? …
Hm, nice idea that. But somebody's already doing it less well
So you can push off and take your economic growth with you
We know there's massive amounts of invention going on. Innovations are popping up all over the place. And while this should be increasing economic growth, none of this invention and innovation is being reflected in our economies. My own diagnosis: when it comes to the "creative destruction" that capitalism is supposed to be good …
Feeling poor? WHO took all your money? NOT capitalist bastards?
Comment Actually it was nurses and firemen and teachers
Lies, damned lies and statistics: we all know the saying, but you'd be surprised just how many of these “facts” manage to enter the national consciousness, emerging as Guardian headlines and stories on Radio 4's Today.
Allow me to tiptoe through the process as to how this happens.
Let's start with this lovely little chart:
A …
El Reg man: Too bad, China - I was RIGHT about hoarding rare earths
A monopoly isn't enough, you have to be able to use it
So this is where El Reg's rare earths spiv gets to do the victory dance. That would be me then, bopping around the dance floor as only a middle aged white man can. For I've been saying for years now that this "China will control all the rare earths" thing is nonsense and so it has turned out to be: nonsense.
Not that it hasn't …
