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Unleash Your “cognitive surplus”

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A recent meme - cognitive surplus - has risen that describes the resources that have been brought to bare to accomplish a useful task once people get tired of wasting their time. The discussion started with a talk that shows how people have so much free time to work on improving the Wikipedia (the estimate […]

Automating Lunch

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

From Wikipedia:
Automation (ancient Greek: = self dictated), roboticization[1] or industrial automation or numerical control is the use of control systems such as computers to control industrial machinery and processes, replacing human operators.
We are talking about handing off some of the chores that humans used to handle in favor of those same tasks being handled by […]

Great Art != Great Databases

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

A great piece of art has many characteristics, including uniqueness. Great works created of ceramic tiles have many different shapes and colors with pieces fitting together perfectly, as per required by the design. Some tiles may be cut into odd shapes while others are positioned on an angle or placed inside other sections. […]

How Your Job Changes with GridApp Clarity

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Your job, no matter how you interact with the database, changes with GridApp Clarity. You can absorb Clarity with whatever rapidity makes sense in your organization, and since there is such a breadth of functionality, it makes sense to use it to solve current problems now while thinking future to what issues can be […]

Constant Progress, No Quagmires

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

I am frequently involved with customers who are struggling incredibly hard with a project they are trying to complete. Once part of the project stalls, there are two options - try harder to move forward or try to find a way around the obstacle. Customers push their vendors to fix the issue at […]

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