Fermilab astrophysicist Jason Steffen got to thinking about an everyday problem we all can agree needs some brianpower applied to it: how to make passengers board airplanes more efficiently. By design, he thought, passenger jets seem to encourage people to waste time. How to fix it? After a bit of tinkering, Steffen found a way:
Read More...Prelude You should never, ever, allow somebody you don’t know to build something for you where your safety is actually up for grabs. Invariably, when you are not looking, they will flub the job just enough to send you to an emergency medical establishment, where their uncles work and will pay them a handsome fee
Read More...Jean-Louis Gassée on Steve Jobs: When I first met Steve, in February 1981, he was sitting cross-legged on a credenza in the Apple board room, picking his toes. Since then I’ve watched with glee as he went against received wisdom, causing pundits to have fits at every turn. I picture them as a gaggle of
Read More...Contrary to what some backstreets of the ERP rumor mill will say, there’s a strong roadmap ahead for PeopleSoft, including a new current release of HCM and even a major release next year. Here’s InformationWeek’s Doug Henschen talking about what that means for Fusion and what mindset customers should consider adopting: …if PeopleSoft’s getting all
Read More...Initially I thought Twitter was some gimmick through which celebrities (insert your own definition of celebrity) fed their own egos by posting snippets of their life. I didn’t care, so Twitter did not interest me much. I did not even watch Entertainment Tonight, so following some “celebrity du jour” as they tweeted arcane details of
Read More...(Ed. Note: Lenore S. Litwin is MIPRO’s Director of HR.) Bear with me for a self-congratulatory moment? I was so proud to receive the announcement last week that MIPRO has once again been named one of ‘Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For.’ This makes six consecutive years that we have been so
Read More...I used to be able to read a big book easily, in a matter of days. I tore through The Shining in 48 hours, The Stand in a week and I would read long memoirs like Oh The Glory of It All in three nights. I used to write longhand — in pencil, no less,
Read More...As I begin my 26th year in this business, it surprises me how many companies fail at a successful vendor selection. The primary objective of a vendor selection is to find an organization that can assist your team in reaching your project goals and, ultimately, your company objectives. Unfortunately, cost is often one of the
Read More...Derrick Harris, writing for GigaOm: At Structure 2011 last month, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels told the crowd that S3 was storing 339 billion objects. At this same time last year, the service was only storing 262 billion objects. One might also draw a parallel to the ever-growing cloud revenues at Rackspace, the incredible amount of computing capacity AWS adds
Read More...Paul Thurrott: And I’d also point out that Google licenses Android for free. So by raising the price of Android by imposing licensing fees on technologies Android is in fact using, Apple, Microsoft, and others are arguably simply leveling the playing field and taking away an artificial Android advantage, forcing the OS to compete more
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