Post #77,351
1/27/03 7:24:05 PM
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IWE revamps site look.
Initial impression: A little less cluttered, not sure if this is better or not.
I found my way to Ed Foster in about half the time, realized it was a repeat, and closed it. Not enough time spent there to make a judgement...
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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Post #77,362
1/27/03 8:07:03 PM
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I noticed that, too.
They've lost that "Lead with Knowledge" slogan, too.
Wade, who also hasn't spent enough time there yet to evaluate it properly.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #77,365
1/27/03 8:34:17 PM
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SNAFU: buggy and unfinished
And Lyndall seems still to be the forum honcho.
Can't get to Pavlicek's OS forum, get:
.ee7507c: This location was not found. It may have been deleted.
(And.. well it may have been..)
Ditto other places. Voice of The Enterprise Titanic
Ashton
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Post #77,432
1/27/03 10:50:32 PM
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VoT! You're hilarious Ashton! :-)
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Post #77,484
1/28/03 5:55:39 AM
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{chortle} Well, since I subscribed from almost the first --
and watched IW deteriorate / Sell Out / echoing and intensifying the decline into the present morass, I tend to blame those Corp/IDG bastards particularly, for their huge contribution to the negative synergy.
Had IW retained it's original POV, Billy n'Bally might have had a much harder time milking the sheep - and killing off all those stolen or purchased Ideas rotting forever in their lair.
Now IW's just the typical pointless rag, as all here know. But they coulda been a contender! IT is truly a shitty moribund 'industry', just at the period where it should be engaging in clever experimentation. Bizness kills thought, always just to try for 90-day cheap 'gains'. It has no soul, and that must take its toll on the talented Ones.
And as for De Sitter's little pique - that if'n you ain't sellin-Everything for max-$$, it ain't worth doing?
Pshaw,
Ashton
who hates seeing the talent around here producing such tawdry End Product {ugh} dbases for More &#$# Cold Calls.
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Post #77,639
1/28/03 5:55:37 PM
1/28/03 6:02:42 PM
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IT is dead, long live EBI!
Enterprise Business Integration
The problem is that IT is boring now, and apparently not worth very much...
[link|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20030127/bs_nf/20580|Business Integration Spending to Surpass IT]
Companies want to focus on "business integration", and "making it all work together". That's the cool, sexy stuff. Redesigning processes. Linking systems.
Forget about the poor schlops who trudge around day to day running fixpaks on mundane things like SQL Server. Those fixpaks just don't matter do they?
Might as well hire a $6 an hour flunkie or H1B to do them, right?
So, think in terms of learning Mercator, BEA, TIBCO, WebSphere, MQSeries, etc. That's where the jobs are... Until enough SQL Servers crash and burn that business leaders decide that IT is "important" again...
Glen
Edited by gdaustin
Jan. 28, 2003, 06:00:55 PM EST
Edited by gdaustin
Jan. 28, 2003, 06:01:55 PM EST
Edited by gdaustin
Jan. 28, 2003, 06:02:42 PM EST
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Post #77,656
1/28/03 8:52:47 PM
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And That isn't even sarcasm!___:( Ignorance is Hard --
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Post #78,104
1/30/03 2:47:38 PM
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Re: And That isn't even sarcasm!___:( Ignorance is Hard --
At least they are consistent... [link|http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/24/2002TOY-sb_1.html|Their TestCenter's 2002 Technology of the Year Award winners] includes Award Winner, XML Web services: Microsoft Office 11
Part of XML's mission has always been to manage the data that lives in ordinary business documents. The forthcoming Office 11, with its deep support for XML Schema, will help make that vision real.
Test Center Analysis: XML for the rest of us
Test Center Review: Microsoft Office 11 Beta: Cornering the office
Test Center Analysis: Open for business
Still giving awards to BETAs!
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Post #78,197
1/30/03 8:06:21 PM
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Letters to Editor time? -- the futile Can be Fun ;-)
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Post #78,162
1/30/03 6:40:46 PM
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Bliss is harder
I've never been able to remain blissful. It's damned easy to stay ignorant.
-drl
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