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The Impact of Disk Fragmentation on Servers
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Silicon Valley's recession rebound: Optimism or Arrogance?
The latest unemployment figures are in for Santa Clara County, California - aka Silicon Valley - and it doesn't look good: 11.8 percent in the county is among the highest in the entire San...
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The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debate
In August 2007 I posted a piece asking if Mac users were smug and arrogant. Over 4,000 of you voted in the poll at then end of the story with 64 percent stating that Mac users are smug and...
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Google's Eric Schmidt: "What kills a company is not competition but arrogance. We control our fate."
Ken Auletta's "The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capital Hill critics" article in the recent New Yorker has some good tidbits about how Google operates. He sits in on a product review...
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Pleasantly surprised by Oracle
Over the last year, I've railed against Oracle for its arrogance in the face of major project failures. We're talking world-class, spit-in-your-face arrogance here. So, it was with pleasure that...
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Drones, arrogance, and fate
Sometimes, particularly when you look at someone else's mess, you can see the rock coming but not get them to move out of the way - and in that situation the only thing you can do is speculate...
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Lack of media monitoring by Apple = arrogance
I think that arrogance can be measured by how much a company pays attention to what is being said about it in the mediasphere. By mediasphere I mean the entire landscape of traditional media...
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RantWatch: Shoddy AppleCare - arrogant Apple
On the one occasion I've had to use AppleCare, the Apple extended warranty, abut 5 years ago, I had a good result. This time I had a very bad experience and I'm wondering if Apple is getting way...
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Silicon Valley's recession rebound: Optimism or Arrogance?
The latest unemployment figures are in for Santa Clara County, California - aka Silicon Valley - and it doesn't look good: 11.8 percent in the county is among the highest in the entire San...
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Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac
I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane
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A tale of consulting arrogance
The role of third-party consultants on IT projects is tricky. Here's a classic example of consultant arrogance in the extreme.
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Study: Early gadget adopters 'conceited' and 'arrogant'
In a new study by Mindset Media and Nielsen Online emerges a more nuanced profile of gadget lovers who tend to buy new technology early and often. The old profile? Wealthy young males. The new?...
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The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debate
In August 2007 I posted a piece asking if Mac users were smug and arrogant. Over 4,000 of you voted in the poll at then end of the story with 64 percent stating that Mac users are smug and...
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Google's Eric Schmidt: "What kills a company is not competition but arrogance. We control our fate."
Ken Auletta's "The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capital Hill critics" article in the recent New Yorker has some good tidbits about how Google operates. He sits in on a product review...
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Apple arrogance - part II
Almost 4,000 readers of this blog voted overwhelmingly that Apple users are smug and arrogant, but what about Apple itself? Mike Elgan seems to think so based on a Steve Jobs interview where he...
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Are Mac users smug and arrogant?
One recurring meme that frequently gets trotted out on Digg.com and other forums is that Mac users are smug and arrogant. Many Windows users claim also that Apple users love anything that comes...
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Pleasantly surprised by Oracle
Over the last year, I've railed against Oracle for its arrogance in the face of major project failures. We're talking world-class, spit-in-your-face arrogance here. So, it was with pleasure that...
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Greed, Arrogance, Inexperience, and Stupidity
Greed, arrogance, inexperience, and stupidity are the essential quartet driving many IT project failures. Bring this set of factors together, and failure is practically inevitable. All...
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IBM exec: MS 'arrogant' on open source
Big Blue is going nose to nose with Microsoft over open source. One exec says Microsoft is swimming against the tide as a single-platform approach won't work.
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The arrogance of the OS majority
In my last column, I noted that when overzealous proponents of some fringe operating systems rant about criticism of their favorite platforms, they hinder rational discussion. But supporters of...
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The arrogance of the OS majority
In my last column, I noted that when overzealous proponents of some fringe operating systems rant about criticism of their favorite platforms, they hinder rational discussion. But supporters of...
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