There are pros and...

I really agree with the advice to work on a practical skill outside your area.

It's too easy to become completely walled in a silo. If you wait till you've...

Do you really want your boss finding your recently updated resume online?

Metrics, even when well intentioned, can distort. Particularly when you are dealing with something as amorphous as health treatment outcomes. A better hospital may actually have a higher mortality rate...

At our site we have some low partition cubes and high partition ones. The low cubes are supposed to be the 'new collaborative thing' but in truth they just immerse...

Depending on how the data is gathered, there could be legal problems. For exemple, it is possible that a general uncontrolled survey approach could reflect racial or ethnic biases of...

Not just the Prius, many (if not most) cars are like this now.

There was...

Toby Harman (3/25/2013)

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Just on the key thing, a number of manufacturers are going the "smart-key" route, and they are very nice to use. Not fumbling for keys etc. and proximity...

John Hanrahan (3/25/2013)

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Another type of data stored is video. Recently a meteor exploded over Russia. The event was captured on lots of dashcam's. Imagine storing all of...

It's not just lost keys. Drop a mechanical key in a puddle, no big deal. Electronic key?

Fortunately a replacement key for my car costs about $2. That's fine with...

roger.plowman (3/12/2013)

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I don't know if I'd want backup information in the database or not. On the one hand I could see it, and you're right, having information about the backup...

"In relation to the editorial, the question is whether Orbitz has lost the trust of their potential consumers. Only time will tell. "

"And by doing as you suggest there is...

DavidBrown-731687 (2/26/2013)

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I resent the notion that, just because I may be more affluent than another person, I should be expected to pay more for everything I buy. I purchased...

Carla Wilson-484785 (2/22/2013)

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LOL! Does anyone remember APL, "A Programming Language"? That's what hooked me in 1975, because it was an interactive terminal (keyboard, no CRT) back when all...

pdanes (2/22/2013)

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Bill Wehnert - The Tom Swift books (I had a set, too) weren't written by Asimov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift

... My first experience with computing hardware was mechanical Marchant calculators, in the...