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- Sometimes it takes a thousand words
- Sometimes it takes a thousand wordsA lot more often than "sometimes". NT.Oh, so true......but you need the diagrams...too many people get lost in the words. That being said, adhering too closely to any standard or methodology is a self defeating exercise.BLUE!I can't believe that you were allowed to do...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, parallel, software, real world, Bookkeeper
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Social Web: microcosm of 'real world' social, and anti-social, behavior
- Social Web: microcosm of 'real world' social, and anti-social, behaviorre:microcosmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/voip_ip_based_conferencing_presence_technology_unified_messaging.htmRE: Social Web: microcosm of 'real world' social, and anti-social, behaviorhttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/voip_ip_based_conferencing_presence_technology_unified_messaging.htm
- Tags: Social Web, anti-social, real world
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Why Satellite Internet service is so slow
- Why Satellite Internet service is so slowReal world is worse.Ping statistics for 75.104.128.61: Packets: Sent = 25, Received = 22, Lost = 3 (12% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 626ms, Maximum = 3690ms, Average = 1385msThis is the nameserver within WildBlue's...
- Tags: Network technology, Real World, Embarq, satellite, Satellite Internet Service, satellite Internet, latency
- Discussion threads 2008-02-24
- How+do+you+benchmark+real-world+work%3F
- How+do+you+benchmark+real-world+work%3Fagree ?You Jest I'm sure! FF3 is faster, very much so and has yet to Freeze Like IE7 which is a joke as far as browsers go!UsabilityThere are three things that would dramatically improve my real world work.The first thing is relatively small but it annoys me. It is...
- Tags: Operating systems, FF3, operating system, real world
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 2)
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk continues his examination of what it means to be a nerd in part 2 of his review of David Anderegg's new book, "Nerds." Last week, I wrote about the concept of being a nerd. And about a book called "Nerds: Who They...
- Tags: Dr., Real World, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- You won't believe this:govt official proposes tax on SecondLife, World Of Warcraft, etc. winnings
- When I first read my colleague Daniel Terdimans article "IRS taxation of online game virtual assets inevitable" early this morning, my first reaction was "what the..."Dans positioning of this as a very real public policy came from a Saturday panel called "Tax and Finance" at the New York Law...
- Tags: tax, Daniel Terdimans, trends, Regulatory, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Reality pricks the Second Life property bubble
- Did we learn nothing from the dot-com bust? Its just five years after everyone woke up to the absurdity of investing in loss-making petfood retailers promoted by sock-puppets and other wonders of the dot-com bubble. Yet the only advance we seem to have made is that our financial naivety has...
- Tags: Second Life
- Blog posts 2006-11-23
- In Second Life, those on 'Candid Copybot' aren't smiling
- Marty Schwimmer tipped me to the controversy swirling about use of a CopyBot tool in Second Life. (Go read Martys terrifically headlined post: CopyBot Terrorizing Residents Of SecondLife, Caught On Video.) Marty thinks this is an indication Linden Labs will have to bake more protective measures into its...
- Tags: Digital media, Linden Labs, real world, Second Life, CopyBot
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Why Google can't make it in the 'real world'
- Why Google can't make it in the 'real world'Client CenterGoogle recognizes the imporatnce of the human factor in its sales, which I beleive is the main force behind the Google Advertising Professional certification program and the multi-client center. Google is working hard to bring what amounts to a free sales...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Engineering, Sales force management, Google Inc., real world, sales, algorithm
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- Pick your poison: Porn or World of Warcraft
- Pick your poison: Porn or World of WarcraftAnd the difference is?Would you rather spend your life grinding away accumulating funds to pay the bills with your skills ignored, your promotions suborned and talentless people moving up the ladder away from you? All so you can own a house or...
- Tags: antidote, real world, Addiction, World of Warcraft
- Discussion threads 2006-10-17
- Visions of a virtual reality future
- Visions of a virtual reality futureIf everyone remained in the virtual world...... the games would soon run out of new players, and then, gradually, experienced players.With profits depending upon a supply of new players - and the ability of all players to pay bills - I think there'd be lengthy...
- Tags: vision, real world, virtual world, virtual reality, Aristotle, nanotechnology
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- Visions of a virtual reality future
- Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games MMOs have been in the news of late. A recent article on MSNBC discusses World of Warcraft, an online universe with 7 million subscription-paying virtual citizens. In many ways, the virtual world mimics the real world. In the real world,...
- Tags: real world, MMO
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Office vs. Office question misses the point
- Office vs. Office question misses the pointWhich is the standard?The brand name?The file format?The user interface?Because you've addressed the latter two, but Microsoft is tossing them and betting that the [b]true[/b] standard is the brand name. All of that investment in file formats, experience, training, etc. is about to...
- Tags: Groupware, Branding, Microsoft Office, real world, Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Cal
- Discussion threads 2006-03-30
- From World of Warcraft to the boardroom
- From World of Warcraft to the boardroomModels and WoWThe pseudo-science of economics and its mathematical models of markets and economies could learn a lot from WoW. Due to the impossibility of mirroring reality, economists make all sorts of handy assumptions about blocks of consumers, market forces etc and spend...
- Tags: real world, World of Warcraft
- Discussion threads 2006-03-15
- PCPro UK Real World Computing: Notes just keeps going and going
- This fits somewhat with my comments theother day about how Notes has a halo effect but is sometimes perceivedas outdated simply for being old.The fact that the Notesdemo concluded without interruption while the UMTS one fell over at thecrucial moment didn't seem to matter -...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes
- Blog posts 2005-11-15
- Integration cited by Scottish cops for foiling open source
- Integration cited by Scottish cops for foiling open sourceOther important facts...... given at the end of the article:A survey by analyst group Gartner of delegates to its conferences in the US and Europe, found that just 1% of enterprise IT users run any Linux desktops. It also estimated that the...
- Tags: Linux, Desktops, real world, people like, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2005-08-17
- The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?
- The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?I think incendiaryBroadband has totally pervaded the western world now, and we are on the brink of video on demand being common.the xbox360 is evolutionary, but the PS3 seems revolutionary, as it seems to be able deliver a realism that is beyond some...
- Tags: Games, Food & Beverage, Digital media, broadband, xbox360, EverQuest, mansion, game, real world, Incendiary
- Discussion threads 2005-05-22
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- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac
- I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
- Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application. In doing so they saw a big increase in conversion numbers and the customers have responded well to having the...
- Tags: Entellium, Sun Java Studio Creator, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Application, Video Game, Video, CRM, Desktop Application, Games, Desktops, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
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