Human cloning will destroy the human genome by introducing hideous genetic mutation into the gene pool at an ever increasing rate. We may be able to struggle our way out but "homo-sapiens" will become extinct. So lets come up with a scientific name before the clone geeks do...here are my ideas..
If you haven't noticed. All content is unavailable due to BIG MEDIA CONCERNS, denying them a distribution deal. The site toast.
And after vivendi bought mp3.com it has SUCKED royally. All the good musicians left and the scene was killed. Now all that is left is corporate shill promoting the same mp3's over and over again. Actually the charts on mp3.com are now rigged so only songs vivendi wants promoted get promoted.
Intead of spending hours looking and downloading potentially illegal material why not try going to see some local muisic. There are thousands of musicians playing great, honest music everyday, all kinds of music from classical, jazz, poka, folk hard-core etc...There is local theatre to be seen (better than most films), there is all kinds of arts to found locally and it's live and cheap. You also can rest assured whatmoney you spend to see local arts goes right into the hands of the artists presenting it.
Internet entertainment media content is pretty much controlled by four or five media companies now and if a site isn't it will be shortly. Look what happend to gargaband.com, mp3.com.
If you want to have more choices in your entertainment stop lining the pockets of big media. Get a clue and go see a recital at your local college, go to art gallery or museum, go to your community theatre, go see a local band, go to a bluegrass festival, get off the goddamn computer!!!
there are dozens of issues with letting cats roam free out of doors. Everyday thousands of cats are born in the wild that threaten native species including rare mammals and birds. A single group of cats can clear a huge area of nearly every small mammal and local birds.
Not to mention it is unhealthy for cats to be outside as they are no longer capable of withstanding the onslaught of disease and parasites. Even in an enclosed yard the risk is still great for the cat to contract disease and parasites including round worm
When we adopted our last cat from the Humane Shelter we signed an agreement to nueter and never let the cat roam freely outside.
Will win the honors for Best Picture and then Frodo and SamWise will get best actor and best supporting. As is the case in the Oscars it is not just about what was done this year...but can also recognize a high level of work over a few if not several.
When it is all said and done the three movies that will make up LOTR will be the greatest cinematic recreation of one of literatures greatest stories. It will overtake the violent, bloddy story of a ruthless criminal family (Godfather I,II and III) as the best series of films. LOTR will win more Oscars than any other series when it's all said and done.
The Fellowship was really a great movie it's only going to get better because the story gets so much better.....
Lets face it the music industry is going through the suckiest period in years. Boy band soda pop crap, teen girls dressed like transvestite hookers selling pepsi is not music. It really isn't! there is no melody anymore just vocal gymnastics over samples. The 11 year olds are even catching on that it sucks.
The baby boomers built the music industry and if they actually started marketing to the baby boomers again they would see a renewed financial gain. But NO! They have a formula that works and no one is going to wrest control of music from these sleaze ball cheese ball pedaphile producers. Listening to World Cafe on NPR shows what quality of music is out there.
One of the hottest selling albums of the year:
The soundtrack from "O Brother Where Art Thou" sold millions with no radio airplay or promotion. It slaps the face of the music industry because it was made by outsiders. This is exactly wht the industry DOSE'NT want. Music that is cheap to make using songs that are public domain and traditional. That would encourage more people to possibly pick up instruments and start entertaining themselves. And that would be really bad for Pepsi, Coke, Britteny and that fat slob guy in Florida who created n.sync. So if the RIAA moans about lack of sales and tries to blame it on piracy they are just clueless. They won't admit they screwed up in selling SODA to pre-teens rather than making music.
I tell my 11 year old daughter that some acts really suck in that they:
1. Don't play an instrument
2. Lip synch live perfromances
3. Use sex appeal more than talent
4. Can't write there own material.
5. Auditioned for the part
6. Will never be see them in a small club
So if the RIAA whines about declining sales maybe they should get out the "music whore suckometer" and take a reading. They'll see its way in the red.
"There are too many other responsible parties here that are DIRECTLY responsible"
We are directly responsible. We HAVE to have the next greatest and latest here in America. Our consumptive behavior is reinforced by the companies that make the products and we spread our poison around the globe and say..."It's not my problem."
I'm sick of "head in the sand" babble like yours.
It's your consumer world. Unfortunately we all have to live in it.
fear is the mindkiller....
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Indeed we are changing the way we interact. But I still feel that human nature will prevail and we will see the slow demise of the internet and TV into something of a combination of both....both of which will become "mostly useless"
But with every change in technology people adopt they slowly begin to reject it over time and they turn to more traditional means or social ineraction. We are very easily distracted after all (Look behind you!) I found that the lack of social connectedness offline was very detrimental to my "soul".
I have tried to return to the things that really matter in life and that is family, friends and living as experienced by my own sences by playing music with people, tai-chi, sailing, dining, skiing, partying!
As one gets older we lose the ability to make new friends. It becomes easier to stay home. Rather than meet the parents of my daughters friends, invite them to dinner. We fear what people will think of us on many levels. Its' not technology that is making us more distant it is our own fear of inadequecy.
It all boils down to who we think we are and who we really are. More often than not who we really are is the person we try to hide. Once we let go the fear we then become our true selves and we can walk into a room, meet new people face to face and invite them into our lives not fear or regret.
We have to recognize that we in addition to our communication technology we still must retain our traditional methods of social interaction or face the slow decay of humanity.
So put the game controller down and join a club, introduce yourself to people make a friend who is much older than you. Learn to play an instrument, Take a risk, have an adventure. It is so much more reward than anything you will find online and you may find it will make your online life richer.
I agree totally. The only use of this technology will ultimately be by advertising. Now companies will buy advertising space for ANY point in 3d space on the planet earth. Using your handheld GPS/Palm/Phone in the wilderness you will get annoying messages and targeted e-mail offers. "Got Oxygen?" when you are climbing, "Need Chapstick?" while you are skiing..... It will happen.
THere is nothing more satisfying than to tell a client that at any given time 30% of the names and addresses in a database are invalid. The internet has exposed itself to be "mostly useless" and the data that companies collect is also mostly useless.
Millions and millions of rows of data so detailed that it is meaningless. Companies are also collecting data that they know they can't use because it is illegal (at least for now) and for some unknow reason people want three years of history of the numbers of a chrome nut in a bin at hourly intervals on a manufacturing line. Golgafrinchins!
I was told once that in a set of millions the improbable becomes probable and that any thing can happen. We have to temper ourselves in personalization and think in terms of patterns and sets with data. This becomes more accurate as databases become larger and larger.
I once found Barney Rubble with an address of 123 Mockingbird Lane, Bedrock with valid bank accounts in a set of 3 million bank customers. I'm sure they mailed statements and offers to him.
Learning about human culture and beauty will go much further in the long run through life and will enrich and enhance your experience in the "real world".
Interesting that the BBC reviewer mentioned the immense battle scenes with thousands of orcs looking like what came from Mummy Returns. I wonder if the company contrated to do the sepecial effects of the massive army scenes was the same that did. Final Fantasy FF and Mummy Returns MR. I know that the figures in the MR and FF were very similar. The same articulation in the lower leg in the battle scene in FF shows up in MR as army of Anubus. Al that's needed was a new "wardrobe" to apply.
In the DVD extras for FF they mention the compay that does the army sequences.
It only makes sense to think of the giant armies as "actors" and they are for hire. So its not surpising to see them show up in multiple movies.
Corporate Crap.
Here is yet another example of technology creating corporate crap.
There are a host of idiots driving technology based products and services that do not have a clue about what the market is really willing to pay for.
I've seen things like consulting companies embracing eBusiness and eCommerce (gagging just typing these words) by hiring a bunch of consultants and then firing them and leaving the rotten heads to continue running the business into the ground.
Broadband is still hype. Some butthead at Gartner or Meta or some other "stink tank" decided this is the market segment that comm companies should persue.
Home broadband is still too expensive and flaky. I admire the folks who who are sigining up. They are brave. Anytime a company that resembles a phone company that gets into the broadband market its going to be a fiasco.
Neighborhood organizations should just treat themselves like a comapny that wants internet access to the desktop. Recommend standard PC configurations, negotiate access and wire it with ethernet or go wireless.
Then the US Gov would'nt have to, (as one developer told me once)
"...put up with all that Oracle crap."
Dirty writing is cool.
Re:Who could have predicted THIS nightmare
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Banks are funny like that. I was working at one doing some consulting and these little ladies would suffle down to the IS department and sit in the conference room with the ATM and after hours deposits and open each envelope and record each transaction on paper. They took that paper upstairs to process.
Banks have to have some "official" person to check the tiller's daily transactions and as usual deposits made after 2 p.m. are posted on the NEXT business day. Because that "official" is gone golfing after 2 p.m. After all they don't call them banker's hours for nothing....
Re:Who could have predicted this nightmare
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I herd they use rolm there....
Who could have predicted this nightmare
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The intentions of business to increase productivity and reduce costs by utilizing electronic devices was wrough with good intentions in 1954. People were still agog with the value of the computers to tackle boring tasks during the war. (artillery trajectories) It only seemed natural to extend that to tasks in the business place that were always considered a royal pain in the ass...payroll...
What noone figured was the effect of personal computers on business. People still believe they increase productivity and decrease costs. This is the biggest lie out there. The use of the PC in the business has reached and passed the point of dimishing returns and really manay people could better serve companies by shoving the PC aside and getting out a good old pad of paper. We have so lost touch with reality. How many of you do nothing when you can't login or access the network?
Man was doing business for thouysands of years before computers and in reality much of business is still done without them. We (us folks with PC in our face) have experience in business without computing...shame on us.
To schools....take a huge right-off. everyone is happy. All the kids have to sign up on passport to use them. Then MS will charge a fee to access "educational" content. Then MS will charge a maitenance fee for patching the x-box. Disney will partner with MSN to provide educational curriculum to schools. McDonalds will partner with Microsoft as MS centralizes the school lunch program and using the X-boxes as a portal to purchase meal tickets for happy meals promoting Disney's next cartoon.
Caves of Steel
Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
I Robot
In Asimov's robot books, besides the obvious robots, also bring up the sociological effects of a highly "wired" society. Long life spans result in creative stagnation, over use of robots create isolation and "viewing" becomes the main mode of communication. Individuals are more comfortable viewing each other than being face to face. Goverment uses technology to catagorize and control population.
As technology advances in our society it is gravely important to recognize and discuss the socialogical ramafications of implementing the technology on our culture. Asimov, I feel, was one of the first to provide this vision. At least that I read anyway.
Re:Microsoft diluting themselves
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Sure its a whole different venture. At a higher level, was the money that was spent on Xbox development and marketing the right business thing to do for Microsoft? When they have committed themselves to taking over enterprise level computing it would have been a better idea to spend gobs of money addressing issues of reliability and security.
I don't have a large problem with Microsoft other than if you are going to play in arena at least make the product as best as it possibly can be. And all I have seen so far is that NT has not been the savior of the enterprise and Windows 2k has been slow to be adopted by many shops because vendors are not ready with there apps yet.
Lets see while Microsoft is promoting the Xbox with millions of dollars, IBM is promoting the use of Linux on there hardware as an alternative to Windows NT, 2k....
Microsoft diluting themselves
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As an IS professional charged with the support of applications and databases running on NT and Windows2k I find it distressing that a company that has for the past few years devoted themselves to taking over the mid-range server OS market has invested this much time and energy into a video game box.
If that money slated for the Xbox had been put to work on XP maybe the general reception to XP would not have been as cool. And companies are left with OS's that are rapidly becoming obsolete because efforts to maintain a consistent OS were subjegated by the quest for the "perfect" game box.
Be realistic, in any corporation there are huge tradeoffs for funding of projects. Regardless if the Xbox is a success, the damage to MS's already shaky IS relationship has been magnified in my view.
This only feeds the perception that many IS people feel, that Microsoft is only really good at making a platform for games and not a serious platform for business. In the end the Xbox might be seen as the best thing to happen to Linux.
Xbox log ripped from OSX IE
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The stop button on MS's version of IE is exactly like the X Box logo.
They must have the same designers.
Yes. I stopped listening to all the people that were telling me what I wanted. I packed up my car, my guitar and left without looking back. I then proceeded to live a rich life not rich in terms of money but rich in experience. Over twenty years, while I was a ski patrol director, a newspaper photographer, bartender, wood cutter, business owner and always a musician and now a DBA, I managed to find a wife and have a great kid and grab that 6 figure income.
All without that precious degree.
I'll never forget this old gentleman that I ran into in the lobby of the Franklin Hotel in deadwood South Dakota, I was 18 and he told me and my ski buddies that is was great that we were having fun and living life. He work his whole life and never did the things he wanted to do but what he "should do" and now at the end of his life we could see the deep regret in his face.
Life is short. Take a few years off, go be a ski bum, bartend, work for a cause, there are enough corporate drones and computer geeks creating throw away crap in this world. You don't have to do it!!!
The point here is empower these kids with some skill that will provide a return to the community. Were not talking about creating websites for GE starting a dotcom here. learning web development opens pretty much the whole realm of IT to people. How mnay of you learned programming, troubleshooting and a host of other skills just creating a simple HTML wep page.
From reading/. for more than a year now I have rarely seen any social issues that touch on race. Well this topic has certainly uncovered the vast amount of racial ignorance on this board.
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Human cloning will destroy the human genome by introducing hideous genetic mutation into the gene pool at an ever increasing rate. We may be able to struggle our way out but "homo-sapiens" will become extinct. So lets come up with a scientific name before the clone geeks do...here are my ideas..
Homer Sapiens
HS-V2R1
Homo-XP
Homo OhNo
If you haven't noticed. All content is unavailable due to BIG MEDIA CONCERNS, denying them a distribution deal. The site toast.
And after vivendi bought mp3.com it has SUCKED royally. All the good musicians left and the scene was killed. Now all that is left is corporate shill promoting the same mp3's over and over again. Actually the charts on mp3.com are now rigged so only songs vivendi wants promoted get promoted.
Intead of spending hours looking and downloading potentially illegal material why not try going to see some local muisic. There are thousands of musicians playing great, honest music everyday, all kinds of music from classical, jazz, poka, folk hard-core etc...There is local theatre to be seen (better than most films), there is all kinds of arts to found locally and it's live and cheap. You also can rest assured whatmoney you spend to see local arts goes right into the hands of the artists presenting it.
Internet entertainment media content is pretty much controlled by four or five media companies now and if a site isn't it will be shortly. Look what happend to gargaband.com, mp3.com.
If you want to have more choices in your entertainment stop lining the pockets of big media. Get a clue and go see a recital at your local college, go to art gallery or museum, go to your community theatre, go see a local band, go to a bluegrass festival, get off the goddamn computer!!!
there are dozens of issues with letting cats roam free out of doors. Everyday thousands of cats are born in the wild that threaten native species including rare mammals and birds. A single group of cats can clear a huge area of nearly every small mammal and local birds.
Not to mention it is unhealthy for cats to be outside as they are no longer capable of withstanding the onslaught of disease and parasites. Even in an enclosed yard the risk is still great for the cat to contract disease and parasites including round worm
When we adopted our last cat from the Humane Shelter we signed an agreement to nueter and never let the cat roam freely outside.
Will win the honors for Best Picture and then Frodo and SamWise will get best actor and best supporting. As is the case in the Oscars it is not just about what was done this year...but can also recognize a high level of work over a few if not several.
When it is all said and done the three movies that will make up LOTR will be the greatest cinematic recreation of one of literatures greatest stories. It will overtake the violent, bloddy story of a ruthless criminal family (Godfather I,II and III) as the best series of films. LOTR will win more Oscars than any other series when it's all said and done.
The Fellowship was really a great movie it's only going to get better because the story gets so much better.....
When you talk slow you have plenty of time
to not say something stupid.
Lets face it the music industry is going through the suckiest period in years. Boy band soda pop crap, teen girls dressed like transvestite hookers selling pepsi is not music. It really isn't! there is no melody anymore just vocal gymnastics over samples. The 11 year olds are even catching on that it sucks.
The baby boomers built the music industry and if they actually started marketing to the baby boomers again they would see a renewed financial gain. But NO! They have a formula that works and no one is going to wrest control of music from these sleaze ball cheese ball pedaphile producers. Listening to World Cafe on NPR shows what quality of music is out there.
One of the hottest selling albums of the year: The soundtrack from "O Brother Where Art Thou" sold millions with no radio airplay or promotion. It slaps the face of the music industry because it was made by outsiders. This is exactly wht the industry DOSE'NT want. Music that is cheap to make using songs that are public domain and traditional. That would encourage more people to possibly pick up instruments and start entertaining themselves. And that would be really bad for Pepsi, Coke, Britteny and that fat slob guy in Florida who created n.sync. So if the RIAA moans about lack of sales and tries to blame it on piracy they are just clueless. They won't admit they screwed up in selling SODA to pre-teens rather than making music.
I tell my 11 year old daughter that some acts really suck in that they:
1. Don't play an instrument
2. Lip synch live perfromances
3. Use sex appeal more than talent
4. Can't write there own material.
5. Auditioned for the part
6. Will never be see them in a small club
So if the RIAA whines about declining sales maybe they should get out the "music whore suckometer" and take a reading. They'll see its way in the red.
You wrote:
"There are too many other responsible parties here that are DIRECTLY responsible"
We are directly responsible. We HAVE to have the next greatest and latest here in America. Our consumptive behavior is reinforced by the companies that make the products and we spread our poison around the globe and say..."It's not my problem."
I'm sick of "head in the sand" babble like yours.
It's your consumer world. Unfortunately we all have to live in it.
Indeed we are changing the way we interact. But I still feel that human nature will prevail and we will see the slow demise of the internet and TV into something of a combination of both....both of which will become "mostly useless"
But with every change in technology people adopt they slowly begin to reject it over time and they turn to more traditional means or social ineraction. We are very easily distracted after all (Look behind you!) I found that the lack of social connectedness offline was very detrimental to my "soul".
I have tried to return to the things that really matter in life and that is family, friends and living as experienced by my own sences by playing music with people, tai-chi, sailing, dining, skiing, partying!
As one gets older we lose the ability to make new friends. It becomes easier to stay home. Rather than meet the parents of my daughters friends, invite them to dinner. We fear what people will think of us on many levels. Its' not technology that is making us more distant it is our own fear of inadequecy.
It all boils down to who we think we are and who we really are. More often than not who we really are is the person we try to hide. Once we let go the fear we then become our true selves and we can walk into a room, meet new people face to face and invite them into our lives not fear or regret.
We have to recognize that we in addition to our communication technology we still must retain our traditional methods of social interaction or face the slow decay of humanity.
So put the game controller down and join a club, introduce yourself to people make a friend who is much older than you. Learn to play an instrument, Take a risk, have an adventure. It is so much more reward than anything you will find online and you may find it will make your online life richer.
I agree totally. The only use of this technology will ultimately be by advertising. Now companies will buy advertising space for ANY point in 3d space on the planet earth. Using your handheld GPS/Palm/Phone in the wilderness you will get annoying messages and targeted e-mail offers. "Got Oxygen?" when you are climbing, "Need Chapstick?" while you are skiing..... It will happen.
THere is nothing more satisfying than to tell a client that at any given time 30% of the names and addresses in a database are invalid. The internet has exposed itself to be "mostly useless" and the data that companies collect is also mostly useless. Millions and millions of rows of data so detailed that it is meaningless. Companies are also collecting data that they know they can't use because it is illegal (at least for now) and for some unknow reason people want three years of history of the numbers of a chrome nut in a bin at hourly intervals on a manufacturing line. Golgafrinchins! I was told once that in a set of millions the improbable becomes probable and that any thing can happen. We have to temper ourselves in personalization and think in terms of patterns and sets with data. This becomes more accurate as databases become larger and larger. I once found Barney Rubble with an address of 123 Mockingbird Lane, Bedrock with valid bank accounts in a set of 3 million bank customers. I'm sure they mailed statements and offers to him.
Learning about human culture and beauty will go much further in the long run through life and will enrich and enhance your experience in the "real world".
Interesting that the BBC reviewer mentioned the immense battle scenes with thousands of orcs looking like what came from Mummy Returns. I wonder if the company contrated to do the sepecial effects of the massive army scenes was the same that did. Final Fantasy FF and Mummy Returns MR. I know that the figures in the MR and FF were very similar. The same articulation in the lower leg in the battle scene in FF shows up in MR as army of Anubus. Al that's needed was a new "wardrobe" to apply.
In the DVD extras for FF they mention the compay that does the army sequences. It only makes sense to think of the giant armies as "actors" and they are for hire. So its not surpising to see them show up in multiple movies.
I guess this is the new character actor.
Corporate Crap.
Here is yet another example of technology creating corporate crap.
There are a host of idiots driving technology based products and services that do not have a clue about what the market is really willing to pay for.
I've seen things like consulting companies embracing eBusiness and eCommerce (gagging just typing these words) by hiring a bunch of consultants and then firing them and leaving the rotten heads to continue running the business into the ground.
Broadband is still hype. Some butthead at Gartner or Meta or some other "stink tank" decided this is the market segment that comm companies should persue.
Home broadband is still too expensive and flaky. I admire the folks who who are sigining up. They are brave. Anytime a company that resembles a phone company that gets into the broadband market its going to be a fiasco.
Neighborhood organizations should just treat themselves like a comapny that wants internet access to the desktop. Recommend standard PC configurations, negotiate access and wire it with ethernet or go wireless.
Then the US Gov would'nt have to, (as one developer told me once) "...put up with all that Oracle crap." Dirty writing is cool.
Banks are funny like that. I was working at one doing some consulting and these little ladies would suffle down to the IS department and sit in the conference room with the ATM and after hours deposits and open each envelope and record each transaction on paper. They took that paper upstairs to process.
Banks have to have some "official" person to check the tiller's daily transactions and as usual deposits made after 2 p.m. are posted on the NEXT business day. Because that "official" is gone golfing after 2 p.m. After all they don't call them banker's hours for nothing....
I herd they use rolm there....
The intentions of business to increase productivity and reduce costs by utilizing electronic devices was wrough with good intentions in 1954. People were still agog with the value of the computers to tackle boring tasks during the war. (artillery trajectories) It only seemed natural to extend that to tasks in the business place that were always considered a royal pain in the ass...payroll...
What noone figured was the effect of personal computers on business. People still believe they increase productivity and decrease costs. This is the biggest lie out there. The use of the PC in the business has reached and passed the point of dimishing returns and really manay people could better serve companies by shoving the PC aside and getting out a good old pad of paper. We have so lost touch with reality. How many of you do nothing when you can't login or access the network?
Man was doing business for thouysands of years before computers and in reality much of business is still done without them. We (us folks with PC in our face) have experience in business without computing...shame on us.
To schools....take a huge right-off. everyone is happy. All the kids have to sign up on passport to use them. Then MS will charge a fee to access "educational" content. Then MS will charge a maitenance fee for patching the x-box. Disney will partner with MSN to provide educational curriculum to schools. McDonalds will partner with Microsoft as MS centralizes the school lunch program and using the X-boxes as a portal to purchase meal tickets for happy meals promoting Disney's next cartoon.
Caves of Steel
Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
I Robot
In Asimov's robot books, besides the obvious robots, also bring up the sociological effects of a highly "wired" society. Long life spans result in creative stagnation, over use of robots create isolation and "viewing" becomes the main mode of communication. Individuals are more comfortable viewing each other than being face to face. Goverment uses technology to catagorize and control population.
As technology advances in our society it is gravely important to recognize and discuss the socialogical ramafications of implementing the technology on our culture. Asimov, I feel, was one of the first to provide this vision. At least that I read anyway.
Sure its a whole different venture. At a higher level, was the money that was spent on Xbox development and marketing the right business thing to do for Microsoft? When they have committed themselves to taking over enterprise level computing it would have been a better idea to spend gobs of money addressing issues of reliability and security.
I don't have a large problem with Microsoft other than if you are going to play in arena at least make the product as best as it possibly can be. And all I have seen so far is that NT has not been the savior of the enterprise and Windows 2k has been slow to be adopted by many shops because vendors are not ready with there apps yet. Lets see while Microsoft is promoting the Xbox with millions of dollars, IBM is promoting the use of Linux on there hardware as an alternative to Windows NT, 2k....
As an IS professional charged with the support of applications and databases running on NT and Windows2k I find it distressing that a company that has for the past few years devoted themselves to taking over the mid-range server OS market has invested this much time and energy into a video game box.
If that money slated for the Xbox had been put to work on XP maybe the general reception to XP would not have been as cool. And companies are left with OS's that are rapidly becoming obsolete because efforts to maintain a consistent OS were subjegated by the quest for the "perfect" game box.
Be realistic, in any corporation there are huge tradeoffs for funding of projects. Regardless if the Xbox is a success, the damage to MS's already shaky IS relationship has been magnified in my view.
This only feeds the perception that many IS people feel, that Microsoft is only really good at making a platform for games and not a serious platform for business. In the end the Xbox might be seen as the best thing to happen to Linux.
The stop button on MS's version of IE is exactly like the X Box logo. They must have the same designers.
Yes. I stopped listening to all the people that were telling me what I wanted. I packed up my car, my guitar and left without looking back. I then proceeded to live a rich life not rich in terms of money but rich in experience.
Over twenty years, while I was a ski patrol director, a newspaper photographer, bartender, wood cutter, business owner and always a musician and now a DBA, I managed to find a wife and have a great kid and grab that 6 figure income.
All without that precious degree.
I'll never forget this old gentleman that I ran into in the lobby of the Franklin Hotel in deadwood South Dakota, I was 18 and he told me and my ski buddies that is was great that we were having fun and living life. He work his whole life and never did the things he wanted to do but what he "should do" and now at the end of his life we could see the deep regret in his face.
Life is short. Take a few years off, go be a ski bum, bartend, work for a cause, there are enough corporate drones and computer geeks creating throw away crap in this world. You don't have to do it!!!
The point here is empower these kids with some skill that will provide a return to the community. Were not talking about creating websites for GE starting a dotcom here. learning web development opens pretty much the whole realm of IT to people. How mnay of you learned programming, troubleshooting and a host of other skills just creating a simple HTML wep page.
/. for more than a year now I have rarely seen any social issues that touch on race. Well this topic has certainly uncovered the vast amount of racial ignorance on this board.
From reading