Everybody knows how IBM made the machines the original nazis used in their genocide of the Jews, but we never talk about how IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and others today makes the technology China uses in their genocide of the Uighur. Why not?
Generally speaking, and with some exceptions, the amount of hype associated with a new technology is inversely proportional to how important that technology will actually be in the long run.
Anyone here interested in pensions, poverty, fairness? Multiple choices are ok.
A short thread. Part of the pensions world (the best) is the old-style "defined benefit" schemes. They mostly closed to new employees years ago.
Suddenly, because interest rates, those old schemes are swimming in money.
Good news, here's an FT piece saying some big US companies are reopening their DB schemes.
1/3 #pensions#poverty#IBM
Could a US pensions revolution be on the cards? - https://on.ft.com/3Taoc4H
"Once a customer builds an application or application suite on mainframe then it’s difficult or expensive to move to another platform so it’s sticky and the monthly payments keep coming in to IBM. If a new function is needed, the easiest place to do it is likely on the mainframe with everything else."
OK, so I have those genuine blue #IBM socks with the bee logo (as in eye-bee-M) designed by Paul Rand, given to me by an IBM sales rep last year.
They are new and have never been worn.
Not my style but if you are an IBM nerd or #design fan and want them they can be yours. DM me or share if you are hanging out in circles that may be interested.
Please note you will need to be based in the UK as I won't have the nerve to deal with customs and send them overseas.
I wonder, why does #VGA use synchronization pulses, and not a pair of sawtooth signals for controlling #CRT deflection directly? Then the display could change modes faster (nothing to resynchronize), and a non-sawtooth signal could be used to implement a vector display if desired.
There must be a reason why #IBM didn't do this. Anyone know why?
So IBM made a decision that managers must be in the office 3 days a week, or else (they're fired). Which is hilarious given that people don't work for companies they work for managers. Good leaders will just bounce and over a year or two will take the good people from their team with them.
But of course the EY (or whoever) consultants knew this and is probably where they're doing this in the first place because it's cheaper than layoffs.