This study focused on why the act of taking selfies and posting them to the Internet is a factor leading to an increase in narcissistic and selfish behaviors. This study examined whether the Millennial Generation believes the selfie phenomenon is a contributor to the rise in narcissism. A 12-item survey was administered to 93 female college participants. A single open-ended question asked wheth…
There are three different ways to connect or separate words: the hyphen -, the en dash –, a little wider than the hyphen, and the em dash —, wider still. The regular hyphen is easily accessible on any Mac or PC keyboard, whereas the en dash needs the combination option-hyphen on the Mac. The em dash is accessed by pressing option-shift-hyphen on the Mac. The use of these dashes depends on h…
The operating system is responsible for managing the hardware resources in a computer. It provides an abstract model of the computer system to user programs, giving the appearance that each program has full access to the CPU and the entire memory range. Programs that are run by the user cannot touch hardware without calling upon services provided by the operating system. In handling services th…
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (FS4SP) is Microsoft’s flagship enterprise search product and one of the most capable enterprise search platforms available. It provides a feature-rich alternative to the limited out-of-the-box search experience in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and can be extended to meet complex information retrieval requirements. If your organization is looking f…
When local area networks (LANs) first appeared in the business world, their primary functions were to share files and printers. These are still critical ap- plications for most business networks, but networks are able to provide many other functions as well. Virtually all business owners want to provide their users with access to the Internet and email, but they must be able to do so securely. …
Outsourcing Web Projects will teach you the fundamentals of finding, selecting, engaging, managing, and retaining an outsourcing firm that you can rely upon to serve your long-term business needs. Outsourcing and offshore development increase in popularity every day, and many would-be clients are overwhelmed by the huge numbers of companies, freelancers, moonlighters, nieces, nephews, off- shor…
Mobility is a hot topic these days. Regardless of industry or profession, there is a mobile application or ecosystem in development to serve it. The supply chain is no different. In fact, given its very manual and distributed nature, it is better suited to mobile application deployment than most business processes. For distribution and fulfillment services, where most of the activities take p…
With these words, John Finnis, while still in his late 30s, began his masterwork, Natural Law and Natural Rights—the book that would not only revive scholarly interest in the venerable, but deeply misunderstood, idea of natural law and natural rights, but also powerfully challenge dominant ways of thinking among philosophers of law and moral and political philosophers in the analytic traditio…
There are many ways to take advantage of the rich set of collaboration tools provided with Microsoft Lync. IT leaders should consider a cap-and-grow strategy where investment dollars in legacy systems are capped and the financial and IT resources are reallocated to grow Lync. Once the company has a cap-and-grow Lync strategy, IT leaders should consider retirement of legacy infrastructure and h…
IT organizations are under increasing pressure to meet the business goals of their companies. This challenge can be particularly daunting because it involves complying with regulations, such as the Sarbanes- Oxley Act (Sarbox) and Basel II. Compliance requires strong corporate governance capabilities that are demonstrable to outside auditors. Because IT plays such a major role in business proce…
For today’s small and mid-sized businesses, the risk and effects from any unplanned outage (downtime) grow with each additional critical application, network enhancement or system upgrade. We don’t have to look back very far to see the consequences of sudden or unexpected disasters affecting the IT infrastructure of major cities and businesses of every description. Consequently, IT man…
Enterprise software changed the face of business over the last decade. However, afters of aggressive enterprise software buying, corporations are now saddled with a large portfolio of solutions that are expensive to upgrade and have become equally expensive to maintain and support.
There is definitely a lot of hype regarding online marketing in today's Digital Mobile Age. In fact, the hype is so thick that you can cut it with a machete. Many online marketers and social media marketing firms throw a lot of jargon and buzzwords around. Still, at the end of the day, you don't really know what they are talking about. It seems they are simply throwing lots of complex-sounding …
Too often, business owners, managers, and decision-makers get fooled by the way they use language into thinking that their business is a “thing.” It is not. It is convenient and even necessary to use a noun to refer to your business when communicating with people, but when you visualize it for yourself, make sure you don’t ever do so. One of the lessons I have brought along to all of the …
Then Enron disclosed problems in its third-quarter report of 2001 and soon declared bankruptcy. All of a sudden people were interested in accounting at levels I had never experienced previously. During the first half of 2002 I had at least 500 interviews with the media, and I discussed at length issues about Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, and Arthur Andersen. My main message …
When I graduated with a doctorate in 1977, I researched and published articles on mainstream topics, particularly current value accounting and the interaction between earnings and cash flows. After a while, it occurred to me that these are not the crucial issues of financial accounting and reporting. Ethics and honesty and fairness to financial statement users comprise the foundational issu…
The purpose of the Oracle DBA Checklists Pocket Reference is to help Oracle DBAs quickly look up the procedures they’ll need to follow when performing key Oracle data- base administration tasks. This book is divided into three major sections covering the three main areas of an Oracle DBA’s responsibilities: data- base management, installation and configur…