Posted by Johan Cyprich on 29 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Business
Why does most software suck? Is it because the software engineers behind it are incompetent? Or should we blame their managers for wanting to rush out products before they’re ready so they can make money for the shareholders?
A philosophy that many of us were indoctrinated in from an early age is that anything worth doing [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 29 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Business
Once referred to as the Canadian Peso, the Canadian dollar is gaining ground against the US dollar. On July 27, it closed at just under $0.94 USD. Its only a matter of time before the Canadian dollar is worth more. Why is the US dollar losing value against almost all international currencies? Should the blame [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 27 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Tips
I’ve been having nothing but problems getting Java programs to run on Java 6. The Adobe CS3 suite requires Java to work properly. With Java 6 installed, certain features didn’t work. I also couldn’t get Eclipse to run on Windows with this version of Java either. All of these problems were solved by uninstalling all [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 22 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: General
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program seems noble. Make a low cost laptop computer and give it to 3rd world children to help them in their studies. The mission statement of OLPC Foundation is
To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.
Instead, what’s happening is that the children [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: General
If you’ve ever taken chemistry in high school or university, you’ll know what a periodic table is. This is a table which classifies all of the known elements according to their atomic number and groups together elements with similar properties (i.e. alkali metals, lanthanides, noble gases, etc.). I’ve always enjoyed studying the table myself with [...]
