Opinion: You can't fix stupid
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IT has never been able to prove it's true value to the business, and as such it is treated as a cost center, which is the first thing to get cut in poorly run companies. But with Web 2.0 booming, all the assumptions that you hold about IT should be put on notice: change is in the air. Web 2.0 companies have had to grow their own technology for economic functionality. Free means crap right? Wrong. How many of you keep Yahoo! Mail running on your BlackBerry's along with Exchange because you know Exchange will be down sooner or later?
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If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
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This book attempts to demolish the notion that ''new is better.&quot; For the most part, it succeeds. Sergio Zyman and coauthor Armin A. Brott build a solid foundation for their argument that innovation can be disastrous for the bottom line. Innovation is like a sugar high, they say -- a quick fix that just doesn't work.
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Given the wealth of evidence that smoking damages your health, you would have to be stupid not to kick the habit. Now a study suggests this could be a self-fulfilling prophecy, because smoking reduces your IQ.
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One Foolish contributor holds himself accountable.
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Comment is free: Rebecca Front: Being a liberal, loving parent doesn't mean letting your children turn into tyrants.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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Sending a teacher to prison for dealing badly with a classroom porn storm does not address the root of the problem: fear that traces back to ignorance. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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ItÃ¢ÂÂs not easy being a presidential lame duck. A senator wants to slug you. The leader of your own client state snubs you. Even Air Force One causes trouble, blowing out six tires while you are on an overseas trip.
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âOvertreated,â by Shannon Brownlee, is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve â but is so often misunderstood.
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As a nation, we have a serious problem. Weâve got some pretty big issues, and ultimately the recent foolish actions of quite a few have resulted in an extremely unnescessary tragedy.
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It wouldn't be good for either company. Here's why.
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The stupid moves the recording industry makes generally outweigh the smart ones.
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Comment is free: Andrew Rawnsley: His ideas for modernising our democracy are both exciting and risky. Politicians can never be sure where reform will take them.
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Both candidates have plans for dealing with our fiscal mess. But neither are addressing the real problems. By PERRY BACON JR. John Kerry uses all the right terms for a solution, complaining of &quot;deficits as
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Don't let the so-called experts fool you.
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The FCC has some meaningful duties, but regulating content shouldn't be one of them. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.