Come on!! It really isn't about the games, at least not for me. The games are great, don't get me wrong. You can't go wrong with the classics... But what really brings me back is not the games themselves, but the memory of playing them.
Seaside Heights, New Jersey, 10 years old or so... Mom loved to be on the beach, and bake herself. After about 1/2 hour in the ocean, I was done with the sun for the day. Mom would give me a few bucks, and I would head up to the boardwalk, for the darkness and light of the cool air conditioned arcades. With their sounds and atmosphere... there was nothing like it. A greasy piece of boardwalk pizza in one hand, a cheap cardboard cup of ice, with a little bit of soda in the other. The smells of cheap boardwalk food, and suntan lotion in the air, the distracting sounds of game hawkers, and bells and whistles in the background... a quarter put up on the machine, waiting for your turn at the 1 Tempest machine in this arcade... Classic...
It wasn't what games you played, because there weren't many you cared to play. It was about the whole feeling while you played. You really can't capture that today, and in todays arcades.... It's just not the same.
Ah, yet another expensive solution that requires us to change the way users work, as well as our whole backend systems.
So we should impliment a mainframe in a small business, or maybe a VAX system, because we all know those are better solutions than the current antiquated system we have now.
What IT people (read ME) are looking for is a inexpensive (read cheap or free) solution than we can migrate to, that allows our workers minimal training for the same functionality.
As far as I know, Lotus Notes is in the same boat that Exchange is. The problem is, that it is less mainstream, and requires someone with dedicated Notes experience to deploy, and maintain.
While I have experience maintaining users in a Notes environment, deploying a Notes server is just beyond my experience level.
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The MS-Outlook / MS-Exchange is probably the most burdensome and should go first.
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You are kidding, right? With shared calendars, and scheduling options, there is really no alternative. If you are in THAT KIND of shop, you need to stay there, because there is no other option. If it was just a matter of email, then it wouldn't be a big problem, but Exchange is about more than just email.
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I would rather have an easy-laid woman that doesn't chat at all.
Or his uncle with the guitar and broken string! "OOooooooohhhhh.... Froggy went a courtin' he did right...."
Come on!! It really isn't about the games, at least not for me. The games are great, don't get me wrong. You can't go wrong with the classics... But what really brings me back is not the games themselves, but the memory of playing them. Seaside Heights, New Jersey, 10 years old or so... Mom loved to be on the beach, and bake herself. After about 1/2 hour in the ocean, I was done with the sun for the day. Mom would give me a few bucks, and I would head up to the boardwalk, for the darkness and light of the cool air conditioned arcades. With their sounds and atmosphere... there was nothing like it. A greasy piece of boardwalk pizza in one hand, a cheap cardboard cup of ice, with a little bit of soda in the other. The smells of cheap boardwalk food, and suntan lotion in the air, the distracting sounds of game hawkers, and bells and whistles in the background... a quarter put up on the machine, waiting for your turn at the 1 Tempest machine in this arcade... Classic... It wasn't what games you played, because there weren't many you cared to play. It was about the whole feeling while you played. You really can't capture that today, and in todays arcades.... It's just not the same.
Ah, yet another expensive solution that requires us to change the way users work, as well as our whole backend systems. So we should impliment a mainframe in a small business, or maybe a VAX system, because we all know those are better solutions than the current antiquated system we have now. What IT people (read ME) are looking for is a inexpensive (read cheap or free) solution than we can migrate to, that allows our workers minimal training for the same functionality. As far as I know, Lotus Notes is in the same boat that Exchange is. The problem is, that it is less mainstream, and requires someone with dedicated Notes experience to deploy, and maintain. While I have experience maintaining users in a Notes environment, deploying a Notes server is just beyond my experience level.
--- The MS-Outlook / MS-Exchange is probably the most burdensome and should go first. --- You are kidding, right? With shared calendars, and scheduling options, there is really no alternative. If you are in THAT KIND of shop, you need to stay there, because there is no other option. If it was just a matter of email, then it wouldn't be a big problem, but Exchange is about more than just email.
or maybe it is all that heavy metal music... wait.. no... it must be the violence in cartoons.... or perhaps it's the video games?!?!