I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBSI, Cringely is the blog of Robert X. Cringely. Copyright 2006 PBS Online.Apple to the Core- April 25, 2008 Apple this week bought a fabless chip company called PA Semiconductor and pundits far and wide are trying to explain the deal with broadly varying ideas, some of which are close but none seem to really understand what the deal is about. In the short term this acquisition means precisely nothing to Apple users. In the long term it could be quite significant, however, and gives a number of tantalizing hints about Apple's hardware strategy. Why would Apple, having already jumped from PowerPC to.http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080425_004775.html The Truth About IT Consultants- April 18, 2008 These days everyone in IT is a consultant, employs a consultant, or both. I'm a consultant, aren't you Outsourcing, offshoring, LEAN management, a lousy economy, and covering one's IT butt have led organizations of every type and at every level to look outside for answers to their IT questions and often even to ask those questions in the first place. This has led to the greatest disconnect I have seen between job requirements and apparent internal capability in the 30 years I've been around..http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080418_004737.html You Never Write, You Never Call- April 11, 2008 If you use Microsoft's Windows or Apple's OS X and for some reason an application crashes, you know the drill. A dialog box opens automatically ready to report what just happened back to Redmond or Cupertino. It is an opt-in procedure so you can decide not to send the report, which is what I tend to do the third or fourth time the same crash happens. For an Apple or a Microsoft this capability of seeing, immediately and automatically, what went wrong is invaluable for planning that next...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080411_004695.html Ozzy Knows Best- April 4, 2008 Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way What's the matter with kids today -- Paul Lynde, Bye Bye Birdie Every generation disapproves of the one that follows and barely claims to understand the generation that follows that. It's the way we are, simply because we tend to see everything in the context of our own experience -- an experience that is changed by age, the times we grew up in, and yes by technology. I'm from the Baby Boom generation and we, by our sheer numbers, have had...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080404_004650.html |