Robert Dow

The Workstation Market Regaining its Health, but the Road to a Full Recovery Won’t be Short

The Workstation Market Regaining its Health, but the Road to a Full Recovery Won’t be Short: Jon Peddie Research TIBURON, Calif— December 3, 2009. So far, the second half of 2009 for the workstation market is proceeding according to the script Jon Peddie Research (JPR) had written several quarters ago. A recovery is surely taking hold, but rather than the … Read more

Your locus of control and what it means to be super

In psychology, there is a term to describe how one sees himself or herself with regard to the rest of the world. If they feel they are in control of their lives and themselves they are said to have an internal locus of control. If they feel they are controlled by the environment, by bosses, family, government, etc., then they … Read more

The world at our fingertips

We are so enamored with our multifunction mobile phone, and our multifunction PC—devices that promise us the world at our fingertips—that we may have forgotten, those of us that ever even knew, about the machines that got us here. The Jacquard loom comes to mind as an early single-function machine, and I’ve commented on that before. But the idea of … Read more