Automation will reduce the size of IT Departments.

Self driving vehicles will replace truck drivers.
Amazon has a physical store with no employees, this will replace cashiers.

I can just picture companies deliberately bringing in people for a few days at low wages and no benefits and doing it over and over and over again to get...

"...it helps to counter the natural instincts that so many people have to minimize their expenditures for their own benefits".

Hi Steve

Normally I find your comments right on target, but not...

I have installed Sql Server 2000 and sp4. When I open EM and select Meta Data I get the msg: An error occurred while trying to access the...

Since "fairness" is part of this topic/conversation...

One and perhaps the only fair way to do a ticket sale to a special event is to have a lottery type sale. ...

"Forrester said that CEOs will now be less clueless about technology because this changing dynamic will demand from them a fighting level of technology know-how."

What evidence does he have that...

Let's see...

The computer systems run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so the IT management types expect YOU to work 24 x 7 if only that means sleeping...

The question that was posed was:  "Would you encourage your daughter to pursue an IT career?"

Long hours, working holidays and weekends, outsourcing, layoffs...

When I am asked, I always discourage young...

After 21 years of IT work in many different environments I have come to the conclusion that the typical manager will try to hire someone who is similar to the manager.

I suspect...

How exactly do I find the pdf file?

I must be missing something.

Thanks!

Hi Steve

I read with interest your comments on the American auto companies and especially your "I've watched the US auto industry decline for most of my life with the introduction...

I read the editorial under discussion.

"the Luddite"'s first paragraph could not be more wrong:

By Tony Long

"Let's get something straight from the get-go. The First Amendment is sacrosanct....

And now for something completely different...

Who OWNS the music or movie or tv show or other piece of "work"?

The creator or the buyer?

Why shouldn't the creator/owner have the right to profit...