I’m the type of guy who talks to his computer … not just anytime … I’m not crazy … I mean when it crashes. You know. The kind of person who says things like *!!@ or &#@5!! or ?*$@!Xii-oo and when that doesn’t work pleads with it – and, of course, when that doesn’t work, […]
My business partner had a frustrating tech experience recently. Here’s how he described it: “There I was, sweating over an important sales proposal that I was trying to get out by 5:00 PM. The graphics program I used to illustrate my documents, however, was not being friendly. It was missing an important function. But when […]
The world of software is in a complete mess today. As a result, software, to be vulgar, “sucks.” Strangely, when I try to translate this into socially acceptable terms, it doesn’t quite work. I could say “Software is bad,” or “Software has problems,” or “Software doesn’t work well,” or “Software is inadequate,” or “Software is […]
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s Monster In 1817, Mary Shelley wrote her startling novel “Frankenstein.” This gruesome tale struck a nerve in society at the time and for many years thereafter. That fear has rippled right through to modern times. The whole idea that an intelligent entity of artificial creation could exist and that it could […]
You can define computing as doing something with information so that the result is more useful to you than what you started with. There are two ways of doing computing: The way people would insist on it being done if they could. The way it is done today, which is actually the way hardware wants it done.