Second life has a growning corporate presence. Companies have started holding virtual meetings in SL. Some education organizations hold classes in SL (I don't mean SL classes). A company(I apoligize I don't remember the company name) held a virtual "camp" to practice emergency crisis management.
I'm not saying we're going to a virtual office or anything soon. I feel like their is some exploration in this area
The MC10 will forever be my favorite. I had the Atari and Commadore also listed. MC10 was the first computer I bought with my own money. I was in FT Bragg (dad doing work there) and got tired of sitting in the hotel so I walked across the street into a pawn shop. There it was. MC10 with memory expansion for $60. I had to scrounge for loose change to pay the sales tax.:) For the next two days I sat in the hotel keeping myself entertained.
as long as it's given to Americans with valid American citizenship and not illegals or foriegners....
I know that might sound racist or otherwise prejudice, and I certainly am not desiring to sound that way. I have no complaints against any person of any nationality.
But it's not right to take money from citizes (via taxes) and give the free education to non-American citizens.
So up front, I'm mostly a windows developer (mostly because I've hack around unix and linux variants since SR5 but I never made much of it beyond the very basics).
I've installed Ubuntu recently. I have been very impressed how easily it installed on my system. I love the their own version of "Add/remove" programs. So for day-to-day web browsing, music listening, etc...I've found Ubuntu great. USB plug-in and play works just fine. SMB with my windows machines, works fine. Terminal services....wow....
But, it "fails" me on the development level. At home, I typically build websites and website related "stuff" using ASP.NET. I cannot find any development tools for ASP.NET beyond standard text editors.
I've tried getting some of my windows tools to run under Wine. And that has been painful and so far not very successful for me.
I'm def sticking with ubuntu for general desktop work.
Matt
This mid-air mouse is nothing new. I had a gyro based mouse in the mid 90s. It would work on a flat surface OR by just moving it about in the air like a pointer. It was expensive...like $100 bucks. It worked pretty well though. Stupid cat chewed the cord and ruined it for me. It didn't become a big hit, but I would love to have been able to replace it.
Just for the heck if it, I did a bit of a search and found a mouse that does this today.
So with the technology having been around for a while, I'm not quite sure why the author thinks that now such mice will become the must have mouse.
There may be more jobs, but they are not anything like 90s. For one, I would get tech recruiter calls every day. I don't see that now. Two, the $ isn't there. I know, I had this "fortunate" event to get my pre-dot.com-bust salary locked in since 2000. No one wants to pay me my current salary.
I suppose some could say I need to update skills etc...and I know I can learn more things...but, I'm not working with ancient technologies either. I'm working with C#, WinForms, ASP.net. I have architect and proj. mgmt experience as well. This is pretty standard fare stuff these I think...
Right now if I wanted to get a job badly enough, and I'm getting to the point of seriosly considering it, I will have to take $15K to 20K USD cut in salary, plus the other losses.:(
So no I do not think the job market is all that good.
I would hope, but doubt that it will happen, that they would also including stories of good things done about the environment. Not everything that man has done is bad for the environment, and because of the environmental movement itself, we are making positive changes. I think these should be noted. For example, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) State of the World's Forests 2001 reports that North American forest cover expanded nearly 10 million acres (4 million hectares) over the last decade. I'm sure theres lot more: land preserves, toxic sites cleaned up, etc....
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They might be on to something here.
Second life has a growning corporate presence. Companies have started holding virtual meetings in SL. Some education organizations hold classes in SL (I don't mean SL classes). A company(I apoligize I don't remember the company name) held a virtual "camp" to practice emergency crisis management.
I'm not saying we're going to a virtual office or anything soon. I feel like their is some exploration in this area
The MC10 will forever be my favorite. I had the Atari and Commadore also listed. MC10 was the first computer I bought with my own money. I was in FT Bragg (dad doing work there) and got tired of sitting in the hotel so I walked across the street into a pawn shop. There it was. MC10 with memory expansion for $60. I had to scrounge for loose change to pay the sales tax. :) For the next two days I sat in the hotel keeping myself entertained.
mod parent up as funny!
as long as it's given to Americans with valid American citizenship and not illegals or foriegners.... I know that might sound racist or otherwise prejudice, and I certainly am not desiring to sound that way. I have no complaints against any person of any nationality. But it's not right to take money from citizes (via taxes) and give the free education to non-American citizens.
So up front, I'm mostly a windows developer (mostly because I've hack around unix and linux variants since SR5 but I never made much of it beyond the very basics). I've installed Ubuntu recently. I have been very impressed how easily it installed on my system. I love the their own version of "Add/remove" programs. So for day-to-day web browsing, music listening, etc...I've found Ubuntu great. USB plug-in and play works just fine. SMB with my windows machines, works fine. Terminal services....wow.... But, it "fails" me on the development level. At home, I typically build websites and website related "stuff" using ASP.NET. I cannot find any development tools for ASP.NET beyond standard text editors. I've tried getting some of my windows tools to run under Wine. And that has been painful and so far not very successful for me. I'm def sticking with ubuntu for general desktop work. Matt
This mid-air mouse is nothing new. I had a gyro based mouse in the mid 90s. It would work on a flat surface OR by just moving it about in the air like a pointer. It was expensive...like $100 bucks. It worked pretty well though. Stupid cat chewed the cord and ruined it for me. It didn't become a big hit, but I would love to have been able to replace it. Just for the heck if it, I did a bit of a search and found a mouse that does this today. So with the technology having been around for a while, I'm not quite sure why the author thinks that now such mice will become the must have mouse.
There may be more jobs, but they are not anything like 90s. For one, I would get tech recruiter calls every day. I don't see that now. Two, the $ isn't there. I know, I had this "fortunate" event to get my pre-dot.com-bust salary locked in since 2000. No one wants to pay me my current salary. I suppose some could say I need to update skills etc...and I know I can learn more things...but, I'm not working with ancient technologies either. I'm working with C#, WinForms, ASP.net. I have architect and proj. mgmt experience as well. This is pretty standard fare stuff these I think... Right now if I wanted to get a job badly enough, and I'm getting to the point of seriosly considering it, I will have to take $15K to 20K USD cut in salary, plus the other losses. :(
So no I do not think the job market is all that good.
I would hope, but doubt that it will happen, that they would also including stories of good things done about the environment. Not everything that man has done is bad for the environment, and because of the environmental movement itself, we are making positive changes. I think these should be noted. For example, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) State of the World's Forests 2001 reports that North American forest cover expanded nearly 10 million acres (4 million hectares) over the last decade. I'm sure theres lot more: land preserves, toxic sites cleaned up, etc....