http://dipshits.com/word Dippy and Friends help explain the world Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:36:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In technology we've gone through cycles of boom and bust. One of the latest trends is to 'outsource'. This usually means taking an existing product and sending maintenance or future development of it to Asia. This sounds good on paper, because designers in those countries are ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=15 I'm incensed. I'm all for marketing and capitalism. I remember once long ago when some tobacco company was going to introduce some new cigarettes. They were going to be marketed to lower-income female buyers. Kind of like the Jaclyn Smith Collection at KMart. ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=14 I hate Internet Explorer. I have a lot of reasons- the foremost being that it is insidious. I often use a Solaris workstation and even at my own company run across web pages that only work in IE. Screw that. They don't make IE for Solaris, ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=12 (Dip has released this rant early because one of his editors has lost his way. It will be updated and republished soon). North Carolina is implementing a State Lottery. The reason is "For Education" Even better, it is represented (no, I'm not making this up) as "North Carolina Lottery For ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=6 Dear Congressman, Please do not allow any kind of immigration 'amnesty'. There are legal ways of immigration- my parents were both immigrants. I find it so ironic that we are considering rewarding those who have broken- and continue to break the law. And peripherally- those who brought them ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=11 I signed up for an online bank. The name is 'Emigrant Direct', but I'm not going to bother linking to them to give them even web bot link referrals. They give great rates- 4%, which was about 800% more than what I was getting with my local bank. ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=7 Obviously people don't know anything about dual core and benchmarks. Here's a hint: two CPUs can do two things at once. One CPU can only do one thing at any instant. To make a single CPU do multiple things (multitask), it has to devote a small amount of time ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=5 I just read a fascinating story about a poor actress who thought she was being chased by paparazzi ended up hitting another car in a parking lot... Says the LA Times Actually, it wasn't fascinating at all. It was boring. I've never heard of the actress, ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=3 What I want to know is what the heck is wrong with people. Well, I think that's going to be a common theme for this blog, so I guess I need to be a bit more specific. Doesn't everyone know that soda is bad for you? I ... http://dipshits.com/word/?p=2