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| Dec 22, 2023 | Best of the Web: Pivots, robots and the end of sleep | article-article-body
No sleep needed: New technologies are emerging that could radically reduce our need to sleep – if we can bear to use them, writes Jessa Gamble for aeon magazine.
Imagine a disease that cuts your conscious life by one-th... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Speed matters: How Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps… and beyond | Enlarge
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With Ethernet turning 50 this year, Ars is resurfacing this feature on the development and evolution of Ethernet that was originally published in 2011.
Although watching TV ... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | Dilbert creator Scott Adams was a comic-strip star. After racist comments, he says he's lost 80% of his income. | Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams built a career based on his pointed and humorous views on the workplace. When it comes to describing his own current work environment, he summed it up on Sunday in two words: "train wreck."
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| Feb 27, 2023 | Dilbert creator Scott Adams was a comic-strip star. After race comments, he's a "train wreck." | Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams built a career based on his pointed and humorous views on the workplace. When it comes to describing his own current work environment, he summed it up on Sunday in two words: "train wreck."
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| Nov 13, 2022 | Как НЕ надо строить надежные системы | При проектировании системы знание анти-паттернов и подвохов зачастую оказывается более полезным, чем знание самих паттернов. Отталкиваясь от этой идеи, я решил написать данную статью, чтобы рассказать о факторах, которые, на мой взгляд, при... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Использование STL для обработки сигналов в реальном времени. Доклад в Яндексе | Компьютерные игры, обработка аудиосигналов в режиме реального времени и другие подобные приложения низкой задержки требуют, чтобы код был не только корректным. Он также должен исчислять требуемый результат надёжно за детерминированный срок ... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | With a higher IPO valuation, is Bumble aiming for Match.com’s revenue multiple? | The IPO frenzy is not letting up, Bumble informed the world this morning.
Per a new SEC filing, the dating company raised its target IPO price range, indicating that its previous attempt to quantify its per-share value was an undershoot. Th... |
| Feb 16, 2020 | Can All Of Bitcoin Be Hacked? | $280 billion rides on the proposition that cryptocurrency is impregnable. Maybe it isn’t. |
| Jul 26, 2019 | Smack down! It's Tulsi Gabbard vs. the Digerati of Silicon Valley! | Putting your "thumb on the scales." That’s how many pundits have described Google’s continued meddling with the search results for hot-button social and political topics. The tech giant’s reputation has taken a hit in recent years... |
| Oct 31, 2017 | Last Laugh? Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Talks Plans for Token Launch | When Scott Adams announced his company would embark on an initial coin offering (ICO) on his blog Friday, he wrote without sarcasm that the day might be one of the "biggest" of his life.
Quite the statement from the creator of the... |
| Aug 15, 2017 | From Isaac Asimov to Aimee Mann, ‘robophobia’ plagues humans | ASSOCIATED PRESS
“Actroid,” a robot made by the Japanese company Kokoro Co., welcomes visitors in 2006 during a preview of a robot show in Taipei, Taiwan. The company says it can recognize speech in four languages.
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Robot jo... |
| Apr 13, 2017 | Are Remote Workers Good or Bad For Business? | For years, businesses have treated remote work and telecommuting as an occasional thing which an employee can do on a Friday. But thanks to the constant march of technology, more people are now working remotely on a regular or even a full-t... |
| Dec 22, 2014 | After Google Files Suit, Mississippi’s AG Calls For “Cooler Heads” | The slap fight between Google and the state of Mississippi has reached what could be its conclusion. It seems that Google will win its battle against a wide-ranging subpoena filed by a state employee, which it thinks exceeds the jurisdictio... |
| Jul 10, 2014 | Satya Nadella’s Vision For A New Microsoft | This morning Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella released an internal memo detailing his vision for the company’s future. The new chief executive used the missive as a way to signal an intentional break with the past.
That break? Sharpening its “de... |
| Jun 24, 2014 | Dilbert's Scott Adams Has The Best Explanation Of Innovation In Silicon Valley Today That You'll Read | Having spent nearly two decades in Silicon Valley, it’s always interesting to see how different people try to understand or explain the innovative process that happens here. Remember last week’s discussion on “disruptive innovation?” That’s... |
| Jun 20, 2014 | Best of the Web: Pivots, robots and the end of sleep | No sleep needed: New technologies are emerging that could radically reduce our need to sleep – if we can bear to use them, writes Jessa Gamble for aeon magazine.
Imagine a disease that cuts your conscious life by one-third. You would clamou... |
| Mar 26, 2014 | Proof that literally everyone is doing a startup right now: Dilbert creator has an app (interview) | Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams and his friend, Quin Harker, had better things to do than manually transfer their kids’ game schedules sent by coaches. So they created a free tool for schedule updates called CalendarTree – an “incredibly sti... |
| Mar 24, 2014 | Who will win the day in the exploding health data analytics market: EHR vendors or specialty analytics vendors? (VIDEO) | Dan discussed the ability that retail giant Target has in consumer analytics, and went on to highlight the Gartner hype cycle and quickly walked through the Gartner Hype Cycle methodology which gives a good view of how a technology or appli... |
| Jan 19, 2014 | How do you know if you’re overthinking development? | Stack Exchange reader comments 37 with 31 posters participating
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| Aug 13, 2013 | Put a fork in ‘big data’ — it’s done | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by entrepreneur Dave Fowler
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| Aug 13, 2013 | Put a fork in ‘big data’ — it’s done | This is a guest post by entrepreneur Dave Fowler
Big data is a much-exploited term. It is now little more than jargon, and is often misunderstood and ill-applied. It is time that the industry stops using the words “big data” to market softw... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | Dilbert skewers Microsoft … but he’s flat-out wrong | As anyone who reads Dilbert or who has picked up one of cartoonist Scott Adams’s books knows, Adams is something of an eccentric genius.
He knows technology, having been a computer programmer, and he knows business, as an economics major an... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | Dilbert skewers Microsoft … but he’s flat-out wrong | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As anyone who reads Dilbert or who has picked up one of cartoonist Scott Adams’s books knows, Adams is something of an eccentric genius... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Dilbert Takes On Patent Trolls; Will Congress? | Last summer, we were pleasantly surprised to see Scott Adams use Dilbert to highlight some of the absurdity of the patent system. It looks like Scott Adams has decided to tackle the subject again, with a specific focus on the rise of patent... |
| Mar 25, 2012 | The Future Of The Virtual Personal Assistant | Editor’s Note: Norman Winarsky is the Vice President of Ventures and Bill Mark is the Vice President of the Information Computing Sciences Division at renowned research and technology development organization, SRI International. Norman and ... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | When Even Dilbert Is Making Fun Of The Absurdity Of The Patent System… | The general awfulness of the patent system seems to be reaching deeper and deeper into the mainstream these days. As a whole bunch of you sent in, even Scott Adams is mocking the patent system via a recent Dilbert strip: When the idea of in... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | Speed matters: how Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps… and beyond | Photograph by David Davies reader comments 94 with 77 posters participating, including story author
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Although watching TV shows from the 1970s suggests otherwise, the era wa... |
| May 11, 2011 | Dilbert Takes On The Paywall | As a few of you have sent in, it looks like Scott Adams isn’t a huge fan of paywalls, and has expressed that with his latest Dilbert strip: It’s a nice way to put things succinctly: setting up a paywall equals destroying revenue… I think th... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | An Open Letter To All Companies Who Grew Revenue By 200% Last Year | I loathe press releases like this one from Ooyala, who I must say is our trusted video platform provider in the interest of full disclosure. I’m singling the company out today, because I’m quite fed up, but this is an honest plea for every ... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | Dear Gary Larson: Your Kids Go Out At Night; Let Them Be | A whole bunch of you sent over this note from Gary Larson, which gently asks fans of The Far Side to stop posting his comics online: |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Do We Want To Monetize Every Business Idea? | For many years we’ve pointed out that ideas are easy but execution is hard. Unfortunately, as a society, we seem to romanticize and celebrate the idea over the execution — and our policies, such as patent policies — codify that into law. Th... |
| Oct 21, 2010 | The New Children's Health Plan Is Videogames? | theodp writes “Remember how Catbert once declared ‘The new company health plan is Google’? Well, for some kids, the new health plan may be videogames. While health insurer Humana has opted out of ‘child-only’ health insurance coverage to sk... |
| Jun 7, 2010 | Scott Adams: Ideas vs. Execution | For many years, we’ve pointed out over and over and over and over and over again, that ideas are easy, whereas execution is hard. People get way too hung up on ideas, but lots of people have ideas, and no two people (or groups of people) ar... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Scott Adams: The Economic Value Of Content Is Going To Zero, But Maybe It's Okay | Regular readers may recall a few years ago that I got into a short debate with Dilbert creator Scott Adams, on the issue of copyright. I usually find Adams’ musings on various subjects to be interesting and insightful, but I thought he was ... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Dilbert prods at the lost iPhone 4G prototype | Scott Adams, everybody. If he’s not one of your heros, you probably just need to read up on him a bit more.
Adams wanted Dilbert to touch in on the lost iPhone prototype — but unfortunately, there wasn’t an open slot in his publishing queue... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Lost iPhone case enters Dilbert territory | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The case of the missing iPhone is a story that can’t decide whether it wants to be serious or ridiculous.
In the circle of Apple blogge... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Lost iPhone case enters Dilbert territory | The case of the missing iPhone is a story that can’t decide whether it wants to be serious or ridiculous.
In the circle of Apple bloggers, the story about how an Apple engineer lost a valuable prototype of an iPhone that may reveal secrets ... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | Dilbert Explains Why Just Copying Others Is A Dumb Business Model | One of the common claims that is brought up by patent system defenders when we discuss the idea of a greatly limited or eliminated patent system is that it doesn’t make sense for anyone to innovate, because others will just copy them. Of co... |
| Nov 15, 2009 | Skip The Hand Shake Now Has A Wristband | No Righteous Cause is complete without a colored wristband. That’s why I’m so excited that the no-hand shake movement (yes, movement) now has an official blue wristband for people who want to show that they support the effort. Get a ten pac... |
| Jan 27, 2009 | Wishing For A Mental Rewind Button | In a recent blog post by Scott Adams, he notes his desire for a rewind button on life. The post starts out by talking about seeing something through a window that he didn’t quite catch, and wishing for a rewind button on the window — like a... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | Self Plagiarism And The Creative Process | Last year, we had a post looking at the question of joke “stealing” and if it should be seen as infringement. Basically, there are tons of comics who are known for “stealing” the jokes of other comics, and there’s even been some questions a... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | Scott Adams To Try Crowdsourcing Dilbert's Jokes? | While I’ve had my own minor run in with Dilbert-creator Scott Adams, I remain a fan of the strip. Adams has always received many of his ideas for the strip from readers, incorporating them into the storylines and jokes. Now, it looks like h... |
| Jun 28, 2002 | Amazon.ca: If It Walks Like A Canadian Goose, Honks Like A… | theodp writes “Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos delayed his flight back to the States to respond to allegations that the newly launched Amazon.ca site violates Canada’s investment regulations, which require businesses that distribute, publish or retai... |
| Oct 9, 2001 | The Brain Fingerprinting Debate Continues | The brain fingerprinting debate continues. First we posted about the idea when Infoseek and Propel founder, Steve Kirsch, suggested it as a way to combat terrorism. Then we posted again when Thomas C. Greene of the Register pointed out how ... |
| Aug 28, 2001 | Scott Adams And IDEO Create Dilbert's Perfect Cubicle | Dilbert creator Scott Adams hears a lot and thinks a lot about office culture and what the perfect cubicle would be like. So, he teamed up with famed industrial design firm IDEO, to create the perfect cubicle. It looks pretty cool. It’s com... |
| Who will win the day in the exploding health data analytics market: EHR vendors or specialty analytics vendors? (VIDEO) | At the recent Healthcare Think Tank, At the Crossroads: Technology and Transformation in Healthcare, sponsored by Dell, we had some very interesting discussions on a wide variety of topics. I will be highlighting some of the topics we cover... |
