Try turning off electricity at 3pm, and then see which is most important. Sure, IT is important for the running of the business. Yes, IT can add value.
A smooth well run finance department can make a difference & add value as well.
In my opinion, IT workers generally have an over inflated view of their own importance. They serve a business function that helps the organisation run, same as personnel, finance, facilities, etc. So many IT folk think they are the company. The guys who bring in the money and make the actual product are the ones that count, the person maintaining the mail server is no more or less important than the person who makes sure the air conditioner is working correctly.
Probably sell for a lot of money, much like Boston Business Computing (BBC.COM) did many years ago. I was working for BBC (British Broadcasting Corporations) internet strategy consultancy at the time, and I know roughly how much it went for... BBC in Boston did nicely out of it:)
Not many. Most of the work is still done in Redmond, where they have such trouble finding new people they are more or less forced to outsource - not that cost isn't a factor.
The school system is, IMHO, fundamentally wrong. It rewards certain types of behaviour and learning which are simply not atypical. I know of many people who have grown up thinking they were stupid, and not until their 30's or 40's realised they were smart, but simply not adapted to the learning style of the mainstream school system.
Personally, I'm sending my kids to a montessori school. While montessori is certainly far from perfect, IMHO it has less problems than the main stream system.
There have been others immune found, and they are being studied. Been known about for many years, apparently started as an urban legend in the new york gay scene but was found to be true.
Only a portion of art created re-uses existing material. And probably a fraction of a percentage of consumers recreate it. This makes it sound like the act of passively consuming is dead. It's far from dead, and clear channel will make it stay that way.
I just laugh when I see stuff like this. I've spent years working in marketing, much of it working on systems that track that measure marketing campaign results (and I've worked on quite a number of software developer campaigns). Trust me, the majority of them work.
If you think marketing is simply "Oh, I just saw an ad for car X, I will now go and buy car X" then you have a lot to learn about marketing.
I believe the main reason for this is the inability to support it. They simply don't have the support staff to deal with linux issues. That's fair enough.
MS actually have more background in this than you might think. Windows Update uses some clever file transfer technology which is very robust and resumes well (I think it's called BITS or something). They also have some components called specifically designed to enable P2P apps. Their experimental app "3 degrees" used these components in some sort of P2P fashion for music distribution. Probably have done other stuff I'm not aware of.
So I followed the link and read the article. It says:
The command line interface to the Windows Server OS will be changed to the new Monad Shell (MSH), in a phased implementation to take place over the next three to five years. This confirmation comes from Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia in an interview published today by Microsoft.
Today's announcement is the first confirmation from a high-level Microsoft source that Monad--a project launched in summer 2001 by Microsoft software engineer Jeffrey Snover--will serve as the command line and scripting language for future Windows servers.
So, I ask again, where was it ever stated that monad would be IN longhorn?
I worked for MS for several years, I think it was two spams made it to my inbox in that time, and another 2 or 3 to my junk mail box. And yes, my email address is on the web & harvestable. No lost email that I'm aware of. I think that's a pretty good track record.
MS has had MT in production for several years. Check out the Spanish version of MSDN - 100% MT, since around 2002 I believe (not 100% sure of the year).
Like many others, I consider Real Player to essentially be spyware.
I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that Real are based in Washington State. So what's the impact here, for both current and future versions of Real Player? Would make an interesting test case.
I'll add you to my list of "people who believe that Microsoft is some sort of aggressive legal machine but have nothing to back it up". I've asked similar questions when this meme comes up maybe a dozen times, and have yet to see any evidence of this aggressive legal machine.
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Try turning off electricity at 3pm, and then see which is most important. Sure, IT is important for the running of the business. Yes, IT can add value.
A smooth well run finance department can make a difference & add value as well.
The guy in personnel (hopefully) put in place hiring procedures to make sure you were hired. So, personnel are equally or more important.
I'm not saying you aren't important, just keep it in check - they made money before they had IT.
In my opinion, IT workers generally have an over inflated view of their own importance. They serve a business function that helps the organisation run, same as personnel, finance, facilities, etc. So many IT folk think they are the company. The guys who bring in the money and make the actual product are the ones that count, the person maintaining the mail server is no more or less important than the person who makes sure the air conditioner is working correctly.
All you need to see the site of the moon landings is to drive to arizona!
Probably sell for a lot of money, much like Boston Business Computing (BBC.COM) did many years ago. I was working for BBC (British Broadcasting Corporations) internet strategy consultancy at the time, and I know roughly how much it went for... BBC in Boston did nicely out of it :)
Google dominates?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/44772.html
US figures of number of searches done last quarter:
Google: 37.6%
Yahoo: 30.4%
MSN: 15.6%
Leader? Yes. Dominate? I hardly think so.
Not many. Most of the work is still done in Redmond, where they have such trouble finding new people they are more or less forced to outsource - not that cost isn't a factor.
The school system is, IMHO, fundamentally wrong. It rewards certain types of behaviour and learning which are simply not atypical. I know of many people who have grown up thinking they were stupid, and not until their 30's or 40's realised they were smart, but simply not adapted to the learning style of the mainstream school system.
Personally, I'm sending my kids to a montessori school. While montessori is certainly far from perfect, IMHO it has less problems than the main stream system.
The most common packets intercepted by the FBI:
[Bill has just logged in]
Bob: Hey d00d!
Bill: wassup?
Bob: guess where I am?
Bill: where, d00d?
Bob: I'm 30,000 feet above Colorado!
Bill: No WAYY!
Bob: TOTALLY!
There have been others immune found, and they are being studied. Been known about for many years, apparently started as an urban legend in the new york gay scene but was found to be true.
Only a portion of art created re-uses existing material. And probably a fraction of a percentage of consumers recreate it. This makes it sound like the act of passively consuming is dead. It's far from dead, and clear channel will make it stay that way.
Why would you need a plural? Is there *really* more than one Lego Engineer in the world?
I just laugh when I see stuff like this. I've spent years working in marketing, much of it working on systems that track that measure marketing campaign results (and I've worked on quite a number of software developer campaigns). Trust me, the majority of them work.
If you think marketing is simply "Oh, I just saw an ad for car X, I will now go and buy car X" then you have a lot to learn about marketing.
I believe the main reason for this is the inability to support it. They simply don't have the support staff to deal with linux issues. That's fair enough.
MS actually have more background in this than you might think. Windows Update uses some clever file transfer technology which is very robust and resumes well (I think it's called BITS or something). They also have some components called specifically designed to enable P2P apps. Their experimental app "3 degrees" used these components in some sort of P2P fashion for music distribution. Probably have done other stuff I'm not aware of.
So, there is a pedigree there.
I've vaguely heard of VHS... isn't it a bit like Tivo?
So I followed the link and read the article. It says:
The command line interface to the Windows Server OS will be changed to the new Monad Shell (MSH), in a phased implementation to take place over the next three to five years. This confirmation comes from Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia in an interview published today by Microsoft.
Today's announcement is the first confirmation from a high-level Microsoft source that Monad--a project launched in summer 2001 by Microsoft software engineer Jeffrey Snover--will serve as the command line and scripting language for future Windows servers.
So, I ask again, where was it ever stated that monad would be IN longhorn?
Where was it ever stated that monad would be IN longhorn?
I assume you have evidence to back up your groundless rant?
I worked for MS for several years, I think it was two spams made it to my inbox in that time, and another 2 or 3 to my junk mail box. And yes, my email address is on the web & harvestable. No lost email that I'm aware of. I think that's a pretty good track record.
There is a special licensing agreement for ISPs to avoid these types of scenarios.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/11972.htm discusses people getting referrals from eval.google.com back in 2003, so it seems this has been around for a while.
MS has had MT in production for several years. Check out the Spanish version of MSDN - 100% MT, since around 2002 I believe (not 100% sure of the year).
Like many others, I consider Real Player to essentially be spyware.
I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that Real are based in Washington State. So what's the impact here, for both current and future versions of Real Player? Would make an interesting test case.
I'll add you to my list of "people who believe that Microsoft is some sort of aggressive legal machine but have nothing to back it up". I've asked similar questions when this meme comes up maybe a dozen times, and have yet to see any evidence of this aggressive legal machine.