8 05, 2017

Dude, You’re Getting A Chromebook! Why Windows S Will Accelerate Chromebook Sales

The year of the disposable OS is here. With last week’s announcement of the Surface laptop brings to the table Windows S. For those who don’t know Windows S, it’s a stripped down version of Windows - 3rd party app wise. Apps can only be delivered via the Windows Store, which is a good and a bad thing. For starters, this prevents end users from finally downloading toolbars, useless software, and of course, malware. For your K-8 student, or your AARP-death customer, this OS seems to be the fit us in IT management have long been craving: An OS that someone besides Microsoft cannot possibly mess up. (Don’t worry – The company that first brought you an OS that required you to hit start before shutting down will soon sc [...]

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20 03, 2017

Is Bitcoin losing its gold standard? Why Bitcoin Unlimited Scares The Heck Outta Me

Sometime change is good. It’s 2017 – we now have LEDs that don’t suck, cars that can (somewhat) drive themselves, and a fine choice of 3 Big Mac sandwiches – But two bitcoins? Not so much.   Look, let me be quite straight with all of you: I have no vote in this core / unlimited debate. I’ve checked out long ago after my bitcoin farm of 9 GPUs decided to Chernobyl and shut my operations down. But the one thing this community needs to question is: Is the light at the end of the tunnel really a light? Or a train? The bitcoin community has seen a lot over the last 3 years. We organically came back from a Mt. Gox / negative news bonanza, several pump n dump runs, and (again) media intervention partnered with those ima-get-rich quick guys. However, although [...]

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13 02, 2017

You, (Windows) ME, And The Future Have a Lot In Common

The time was June of 2000.

Your Chevy Silverado got a new face lift. Your AOL logins got a little quicker, and, your desktop took a change. The internet was here, the future was clear, and with Windows 98 behind us, we knew exactly how the world was going to work – for the world was a friendly place and all would work out in the future, right? Wrong. Sandwiched somewhere between the rise of McDonalds and the explosive end of the dot com bubble lies the product of what happens when your bitcoin portfolio explodes too quickly and you have no exit strategy: Windows ME. Where were you in the summer of 2000? If you were me, you were stuck in a house all day, smashing away at a keyboard. No, I wasn’t stuck in some miserable desk job that will drive me to become a divorce stat [...]

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