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So, what are we going to do about the cyber-gap?

We already had nuclear weapon gap, bomber gap, and icbm gap.

The cyber gap is here.

"Then the engineer would then fashion armor for tanks by strapping prayer imbued babies to the outside of it"

Mr President! We must not allow a baby gap! (With apologies to Kubrick)

blame America's financial problems on "The war on terror", what the hell about the expensive food, cloths, cars, houses, and other crap your favorite liberal democrat enjoys paid for by his government check coming from tax dollars??? you cant blame everything on Bush and conservative republicans...

Um, maybe because the expensive food, cloths, cars, houses, and other crap provides something back to the national industry, which is hard to say about the war on terror. Besides those government contractors that like to go around overcharging for their services, of course.

It looks like even though Tiger has only been out a few hours, Apple is well on its way to building three more "community economies".

I find it so interesting that the iPod (in all its flavors) and Mac mini have oodles of accessories for each.

With Spotlight, Dashboard, and Automator all generating the software equvalent of these accessories, it seems appropriate to explore the "community economies" Apple is creating.

Perhaps there is a better phrase than "community economies" to describe the markets that emerge from supporting a specific product as well as the communities that for from them (take for instance, iPod community websites). Whatever they may be called, it is interesting how Apple seems more capable than other manufacturers, even in other spaces, to develop these "community economies".

But why is this becoming common for Apple products? Apple seems second only to automobile makers in creating accessory markets and communities of owners & supporters. The same doesn't exist for GAP or Sony or even Microsoft, though an argument can be made that the latter has a huge community of PC software vendors.

But more than the vendors, it is the concept of little sub-economies and users so specific to a particular product that is very interesting to me.

So God must be a woman because I've only seen women going into or out out of the Gap.

The Gap also has normal colored denim jeans. I just bought some. Step in to the Gap before you tell people to get out of the Gap. IMHO the Gap is one of the few stores that consistantly stocks mostly stylish clothes. Shop for your jeans at Walmart and you might find yourself wearing "Grandma Jeans" although I guess they probably won't be stonewash bleached. If you haven't been to the Gap in a while, check it out and try a few things on. You might be surprised.

I don't normally shill for corporations but I thought little tip on dressing well may be more useful to the Slashdot crowd than a discertation on why Linux is better than Windows.

But the one hard fact that you provide, Levis, seems to have a other story that you forgot to mention.

During the 80's Levi's saw the trend that WalMart was going to tear down the small town stores that were selling things for way too high a profit margin. At the same time the malls were booming in America like never before. The "mall culture" if you will became a staple for many people including the youth. In steps the Gap.

Now joke what you want about the Gap but I'm sure that they are turning an excellent profit. Their online store seems pretty nice and while it runs IIS, I bet it does pretty good as well.

Anyway, I have heard the pro's and con's of the WalMartization of America and it seems to me that that that old saying holds true, "If you dance with the devil..." And then maybe another one too, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

In Japan is is absolutely critical for every teenage girl to have exactly the same stuff as every other, or else she faces some rather severe social consequences. It's no secret that these girls/sheep run the Japanese economy.

Yes. It's a good thing teenage American girls don't run their own economy...

Turn off the computer. Now.

No, I don't care if you're in Windows or Lunix or fucking Mac-Os. I'm guessing it's Lunix, since you're posting to slash-DOT right now.

Turn on the TV.

• And watch the fucking Superbowl!
  • Someday you will realize that there is more to life than SLASHDOT.
  • Take it from me: the lone cool guy on a site full of freaks and pathetic dorks.

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They built GAP.com, among other things. Operations in 30+ countries and all that stuff...

i wrote the financial software package that allowed The Gap to exploit third world children workers!!!

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Oh, and you should probably also get some new clothes.

I buy most of the clothes that I wear from Gap.com. The really nice thing about it is that if I don't like something I can return it at the local Gap store. I haven't had to do that yet, however.

Then none of the developers on the team are worth their weight in crap. Out of the box Site Server is just samples. It is schema independent and if you feel that you where locked into the schema you must really need some relational database design help. Now don't call me a M$ supporter but I feel that the Site Server product is a good product if your client tells you to use NT as the web server. You just have to learn that the out of the box crap is all you can do with the server software. Look at Costco's website, or Gap's or even Starbucks. These sites are using Site Server and every single one of them works, and the code behind them is nothing like a sample store shipping with the Site Server Commerce Edition box. In any venture it comes down to the developers skill. Not what product is used. Some are just better and easier to use.
I am not a M$ Salesmen I just use tools that work in the enviroments I am forced to work in.