bleggett

I liked the illustration of the trolley problem that The Good Place did in one of their episodes. They took a person who struggled to make decisions and made him live the trolley problem repeatedly. Funny stuff. I remember reading some of these type decisions applied to robots and evaluated in Asimov's stories. As humans…

I've only ever seen vendors fire customers a couple of times, and in each case things had gotten so far past the point of unhealthy in the relationship that there was no path forward. It seems odd to reach a point for a vendor to say "We don't want your money," but there is definitely a line somewhere that can be crossed. 

Wow, hard to believe that Windows 7 is reaching that last station, and Windows Server 2008 along with it. Ahh, the hype machine that preceded those releases.

Could be that there are folks out there that don't care, don't have time, or something else and don't get to run reports or track outcomes. It's all about putting out the next fire. I've seen places like that.

Not to worry, there will be another next big thing after cloud, X-as-a-service, software-defined-X, etc. Predicting what that next big thing will be isn't easy, but I'm guessing it will be some type of bring-your-own-IT. The more individuals can provide their own IT infrastructure, the less that businesses, governments,…

Perhaps the most amusing aspect of the UK's departure, assuming that any part is amusing, has been the strange tangential call to welcome the UK into the US as the 51st state. That idea strikes me as so odd that it's almost satire.

What happens when a business goes to hosted Exchange or O365 or some other cloud-y entity?

Wow, scary stuff with the nuclear and GMO near-misses. I bet there are many more we'll never know about.

Use NPM and SAM. Both are useful on a day to day basis. Really looking forward to NPM 12 with NetPath, to add one more layer of visibility, particularly for removing the network from the list of potential culprits.

If one were starting a new business today, where does one draw the line between the convenience and near-ubiquity of credit/debit cards, and the burden of maintaining compliance? Almost seems that cash-only is path of least resistance.

Microsoft Reveals First Hardware Using Its New Compression Algorithm And then they open sourced the technology, making it available for anyone to use, including AWS. More evidence that this is the new Microsoft. These are indeed strange days. Heard a Microsoft rep on stage at a recent conference bragging about the majority…

Facebook...aaargghh...Facebook!

On the one hand, breakfast bacon seems a tad redundant. Of course bacon is for breakfast. On the other hand, it's also for lunch, and supper, and maybe even some of those hobbit meals at odd hours of the day. Why limit one's options when considering bacon for a meal?

Good to know. Be nice if it would be in the next release. One can hope.

Can't find what you can't see, right? Gotta be able to see everything.

Ha, ha, fake 5G, ha, ha, ha. That is such a non-surprise.

I don't know that I believe in one tool for everything. I think we're all accustomed to the right tool for the job, regardless of integration or fit with other products. I like the flexibility of multiple approaches to solving a problem.

I like this idea. I've seen other devices that have differences between startup and running. Comparison profiles would also be useful to allow certain features with the same command name that behave differently to be compared differently.

Please pardon me for not knowing, but are the goals or intentions of federally owned/operated/maintained websites different than corporate or other websites? Without discounting or disagreeing at all with the premise or points of this article, I'm curious if there are in fact differences in the approach? From my…

I don't feel like I ever have a firm grasp of all the dependencies. It's a never-ending battle.

Does anyone other than Pats fans take note of Belichick's stance on the Surface tablets?

Great articles again this week! The 3-2-1 is a great reminder.

Thanks for the constructive feedback link. That's a gem.

I picked the 2128 just for fun, since it's clearly not on the list. Big red X. I think that means that the correct, but still wrong answer, is now the 3735.

Still not sure if I can stomach the thought of a Microsoft browser on Mac, even if it's Chromium underneath.

Really like that Mississippi River animation. That was kinda cool.

Friends don't let friends use IE. Or Edge.

I think this product warrants a new portmanteau to describe it's brilliance. Let's call this thing oxymironic, joining oxymoron and irony. Does that work?

Ok, I only caught a couple of the Ikea references when I watched Deadpool. Guess I'll have to suffer (not really) through it again to catch the rest. Regarding the parenting in the digital age, I think the tech challenge for parents starts much earlier than the teen years. A lot of kids are pretty tech savvy by age four or…

Seems it's not really as much about the environment as it is about the 'feel-good' statement that someone makes when they say they drive an electric car. South Park kinda called that one with the hybrids years ago. But maybe I'm just cynical.