I used to be the sort of person who thinks: why would I pay for a software if I can get the same, or rather the same result, for free?
While I still look around for free software, and definitely love it, I think I’ve come to acknowledge the value of paid software.
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06
Sep
Blogging with MarsEdit
Après des mois de recherche d’emploi, je me pose désormais les questions suivantes : l’intelligence économique est-elle un concept franco-français ? Est-il possible de trouver du travail à l’étranger avec des connaissances basées sur ce concept ?
D’une manière générale, à la première question je suis tenté de répondre oui, à la deuxième de répondre non.
Surtout dans la mesure où la traduction du terme en Anglais pose problème. La traduction qui revient le plus souvent donne business intelligence, alors que la traduction la plus exacte serait plutôt competitive intelligence, tel que défini par Michael Porter en 1980 avec son ouvrage Competitive-Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. Il est tout de même ironique d’avoir des difficultés à traduire en Anglais un concept qui a été le mieux défini par un anglophone…
Le fait est qu’en Anglais le(s) terme(s) competitive intelligence est rare et est souvent assimilé à business intelligence, ce qui explique aussi que intelligence économique soit le plus souvent traduit par business intelligence.
Pour quelqu’un qui comme moi recherche du travail dans des pays anglo-saxons, je crois pouvoir affirmer avec certitude que intelligence économique ≠ business intelligence.
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There is a quite interesting post on Phil Ryu’s blog in which he explains how he thinks Apple is getting rid of the Aqua look-and-feel to move to a new space-themed UI experience.
Though I haven’t had a chance to try Leopard, I am personally not a big fan of this Time Machine / Space look we see on the demo videos of the Apple website. Phil Ryu is predicting great things, saying:
I think that OS X’s interface, over the next few years, will adapt the most radical facelift for the desktop OS since the jump to a GUI in 1984.
Now, that’s not a light statement, but I hope he’s right because it really looks like Aqua is slowly but surely dying…
26
Aug
Arrived in Germanland!
Well alright, it didn’t take me a week to get there, but I was too busy for the last few days to update this page. So we spent a few days in Berlin and now we’re back in good old Bayern.
17
Aug
Off to Germanland!
I haven’t precisely been doing a lot of updating on this site lately, and that’s not likely to get better since I’ll be off to Germany real soon, first in Berlin and then in Bavaria.
The journey to Berlin is not going to be fun, I’m taking a Eurolines bus from Clermont-Ferrand to Berlin. I’m leaving on Sunday morning at 9am and I should arrive in Berlin on Monday morning at 6am. That’s right, it’s a 21 hours ride!
But hey, this is as cheap as it gets, and I’ll meet my very special person when I get there, which is more than worth the long bus trip!
Following a blog post earlier today, the answer is yes, Apple did update its dotMac service.
The answer to the other question is no, I’m not disappointed at not having renewed my membership. As I was saying, Apple would have had to go a long way to make the offer worthwhile, but I don’t think I could be happy even though they did upgrade the service quite a bit.
But let’s go back to this later on and see what exactly has been announced today.
I’ve recently purchased an Xboard 25 Midi keyboard but so far I didn’t quite have time to use it much.
But yesterday I had a sudden drive for checking it out a bit more thoroughly and I’ve done a fair bit of research on free VST/AU/RTAS plugins.
I’ve found quite a few of them, starting with Orca. It’s got quite weird interface to be honest, but it’s particularly great for producing crystal clear, deep bass sounds. I like the Flapping preset pictured below.
I’m writing this before it actually happens later today: ever since I left dotMac last week (because I’ve decided not to renew my account), I’ve had this feeling that Apple is going to update the dotMac offer real soon.
Yesterday, dotMac users reported that they’ve received an email from Apple telling them that the service would be unavailable for 2 hours today. First, it’s rare enough for Apple to actually warn users before maintenance happens. Second, Apple has announced some time ago that there would be a special event today, meaning they’ve got some new stuff coming our way.
Now, it’s not very difficult to make the link between the two and guess that dotMac may be updated.
Should I be disappointed at not being a member anymore? I’ll have the answer later tonight, but to be honest Apple has to go a long, long way to make the offer worthwhile. 99 € a year is a steep price…
Oh man, I can’t wait to watch the Simpsons movie, this is killing me!
So anyway, to stay in the mood I’ve taken this stupid test to figure out which Simpsons character I am. And by stupid I mean it, there aren’t a lot of questions and they’re not particularly simpsonesque.
But it turns out I’m Duffman, who would have thought?
Which Springfield Resident Are You? |
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You are Duffman. You take life by the horns and the bottle by its neck. Your confidence and sense of fun, however, can occasionally get in the way of sensitivity for others. |
| Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com | |
Little bit of a spoiler from the 7th Potter book…
There’s a group on Facebook called “NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!”: Mrs. Weasley Appreciation Group.
I have to say it made me smile quite a bit, there’s more than 40 000 members. I liked the pictures and especially this one below, hippity hop style:
