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Written 2005-07-20 Those of you who’ve been reading my notes for a long time know that I’ve been a Global Warming Skeptic from the get-go. I can still remember in the mid-to-late ’70’s when scientists were saying we were about to enter a new Ice Age. A “computer model” is a tool used to make […]

I offer further evidence that words have lost their meanings. Yesterday, on July 4th, 2002, I was reading up on wireless Internet technology. I came across the definition of FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum), a method of radio transmission. There I learned that the frequency of the transmission changes in a “… random but predictable […]

We’ve seen it in the movies — someone shoots a gun aboard an airliner and a vast, gaping hole opens up in the fuselage through which passengers are sucked out followed by seats ripped right out of the floor. It’s exciting to see in a James Bond film but it’s Phony Physics and no more realistic […]

That’s when my head felt like it might explode. First Excel, then Access and now Outlook. My neurons overloaded. It was not even 8:30 in the morning and I’d already overdosed on Microsoft.

The truth of the matter is that, for the vast majority of computer buyers, clock speeds and data path widths have little significance; the machines they buy will be only as capable as the commercially available software for their machine of choice. And that is determined largely by the marketing of the machines themselves.