Steve Jones scribbled:

> I'm not a BI guy and I don't see BI catching on as the next big thing, so I can't really comment on that.

Steve, what...

But what form would that legal responsibility take? The civil penalties are a joke. The civil actions only serve to enrich the attorneys involved.

I...

Amen. We trust these people with our personal information (regardless what their legalese says in the privacy policy). The least they can do is use notebooks as what...

I've been to Seattle a lot, and Denver once or twice. Neither one is ideal; perhaps adequate, but not ideal. (I'd actually be happier just flying over Denver if I...

As a victim of fraud and identity theft (and former law enforcement), I can say that most identity thefts start with exactly such low tech means as the linked article...

We all want to believe our government's agencies capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound (like Fox' imaginary CTU does in 24) because that belief makes a good security blanket....

To answer Jamie's question about Analysis Services, I'll point you to Project REAL (the overview) which describes ~10-billion rows of fact data in the Phase 1 implementation. The specifics of...

The production size issues for relational are one thing (and I agree with Rudy, I think the orders of magnitude are off), but the sizing is for use in development is another entirely different can...

As both student and instructor, I can say that my experience has that it takes two (or more) for any course to come out well.  I have on occasion learned more from watching/listening to a...

Unless you're a serious BattleBot building and into the DIY thing, why not just buy a cheap, "pre-owned" golf cart and see how that works for the kidlets?  The suspensions...

Through all of this, Steve, I can't help but wonder why you haven't simply disputed the charge with your credit card company.  It must be your latent martyr complex.

Stephen Hirsch eruditely scribbled: "Also, successful software is never finished. If a piece of software is successful, users will always think of new things that they want it to...

My biggest bitch about quality measurement tracks Steve's initial observation that quality measurement is most frequently begun waaay too late in the game.  It's trivial for QA to "find" zillions...