Lateral thinking
October 28, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Lateral Thinking
Q: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
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Definiton: Master data
October 28, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Definition
Master data, also called reference data master data is any information that is considered to play a key role in the core operation of a business. Master data may include data about clients and customers, employees, inventory, suppliers, analytics and more.
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Quote
October 28, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Quote
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Profile: Joe Stump
October 28, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Profile
Joe Stump is CTO and co-founder of SimpleGeo, a location-based service for web developers. Before SimpleGeo, Stump was the Lead Architect of the social bookmarking site Digg.
Born in 1980 in Michigan, US, Stump spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn, Michigan.
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Quote
October 14, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Quote
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
~ Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb’s Journal
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Lateral thinking
October 14, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Lateral Thinking
Q: Bad Boy Bubby was warned by his mother never to open the cellar door or he would see things that he was not meant to see. One day while his mother was out he did open the cellar door. What did he see?
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Definition: e-discovery
October 14, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Definition
e-discovery is short for electronic discovery, it’s a term used to describe the compiling, storing and securing of digital information, such as e-mail, files and other data.
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Profile: Steve Ballmer
October 14, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Profile
Steve Ballmer is the chief executive of Microsoft. Following the company’s iconic boss Bill Gates, Ballmer was appointed as CEO in 2000, but has remained a relatively unknown name for the general public.
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956, Ballmer has a degree in mathematics and economics from Harvard where he shared the same halls of residence as Gates. In 1980 Ballmer was hired by Gates as Microsoft’s product manager.
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Profile: Stephen Elop
September 29, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Profile
Stephen Elop is the president and chief executive of Nokia.
Appointed in September 2010, Elop is the first non-Finnish CEO of the phone manufacturing company.
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Definition: Edge switch
September 29, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Definition
Edge switch is a switch that is located at the meeting point between two networks. The edge switch typically connects an end user’s LAN to an ISP’s network or backbone. An edge switch also is called an access node or a service node.
via Webopedia Computer Dictionary.
