Two years ago, when Dell revealed its enterprise strategy, I mentioned that the company will drive industry standards even if such standards happen to be proprietary, presumably because of its customer focus. Hell, I was wrong. Dell’s recent announcement that it will start shipping AMD-based servers was not about putting customers first. If the company… Read More »
From The Economist:Two Shanghainese entrepreneurs are offering themselves as verbal and physical punch-bags to frustrated office workers. Fed up with your boss? Underpaid? The founders of Wantong Ltd certainly hope so. Chen Jun and Zhang Li are offering Shanghainese a novel service: for 100 yuan they will lend a listening ear; for another 20 yuan… Read More »
The mystery of the vanishing header…
X-Men: The Last Stand is possibly the best of the three X-Men films so far. Why? Because it’s no long a simple good versus evil, mutant against homosapiens, “if you’re not with us, you’re with the enemy” kind of flick. But is this the final installment of the Marvel comics trilogy? If you’d stayed on… Read More »
There are some ructions amongst Chinese in New Zealand at the moment, as Tze Ming Mok link summarises on the Public Address site. Reading that, Keith Ng’s defence of student magazine Salient’s satire and the entries on Cokemaster’s Geekzone blog about Chinese students at Massey University in Palmerston North taking umbrage at the varsity rag… Read More »
Fancy building a computer case that looks like an atomic bomb? Well, you’re in luck. Bit-Tech, an independent hardware review and PC modification site in the UK, has conjured a Project WMD that allows you to break free of the boxy design of traditional computer cases. Worried about the complexity of such an undertaking? Fear… Read More »