For all ICS 642 & Linux geeks.
MS alleges that
- The Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents.
- The Linux GUI's - run afoul of another 65
- The Open Office , which is analogous to Microsoft Office, infringes 45 more.
- E-mail programs infringe 15
Read the full article here.
CICS geeks might be familiar with the book - "Execution - The discipline of getting things done" which was one of the required course material in 601. The author , Ram Charan has been termed as "The Homeless Consultant to the Fortune 500." Click here to find out why.
This year's Fortune 500 is led by America's most loved and most hated company. Click here for checking the Top 50 companies in the Fortune 500.
Epic 2014 is a flash movie created by Robin Sloan for the Museum of Media History. Set in 2014, it charts the evollution of the internet, how it affects the media and the waning effects of the Fourth Estate.
Click here to watch this exciting movie.
I was browsing the net, trying to catch up on what’s going on in the World Wide Web (catching up on the World is not enough), when I found articles which map directly to the predictions of IDC. Read the first blog on it here. So here is an attempt to map each 10 predictions to the world’s happenings as and when I find them. You could help me out too, by simply shooting an email on what you found...
Also I thought I shall try and demystify some of the topics by giving a simpler explanation on them.
Hyperdisruption? When I first came upon this word, I was hyperventilating. My thoughts were ventilating, trying to find meaning in the context of where this word was used. Turns out that like I had suspected the word connotes disruption in quantum leaps. And they were talking about the IT industry for 2007......
Vinod Khosla is one of Silicons Valleys most astute Venture Capitalists. He founded SUN Microsystems and then later went on his own and funded technology oriented companies which fared well.
Microsoft Project (MS Project) is project management software, which is easy to use and assists managers in planning a project from scratch to production. I have found MS Project very useful and I have used it in very many of my projects. I am at posting some tips for those would like to better acquainted with it.
Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline,
And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed?
Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine?
I name thee, O Shakuntala, and all at once is said.
(Eastwich's translation of Goethe's paen on Shakuntala)
"A few gifted people may become leaders; most of mankind must be led. Leadership potential is inborn, but it will develop only if a proper education is begun early and system-atically continued."
Source : http://www.education.umn.edu/EdPA/iconics/reading%20room/6.htm
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This famous drawing called "The Vitruvian Man" was made around 1490 by Leonardo Da Vinci in the Renaissance period.
The first thing I do when I get up in the morn is go the loo... Though the first thing I wish I could be doing is checking my email. I wish I had the audacity to check my email while on my potty... Sooner or later I think ill come to it...
Given such a scenario, it would be natural for geeks like me, to hit Google for finding information about anything that I need...
Rang De Basanti is a movie about the youth in India. The movie starts with a London based filmmaker Sue McKinley. Sue stumbles about her grandfathers (a British Army Captain in India, when India was a British Colony) and is mesmerized by the stories about the young freedom fighters and decides to make a docudrama about these freedom fighters
Accenture — connotes "Accent on the Future". The ">" over the logo's t points forward towards the future. Prior
to 2001, the company was called Andersen Consulting.