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The worst games ever?
http://tech.msn.com/products/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1225420Just a reminder during the upcoming holidays... Buyer Beware!My personal unfavorite? Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.The worst?That must be 'the Secret of Arendarvon Castle
Tags: disappointments, rip-offs, anything to do with jdclyde, off-topic, games, Mickster269, game
Discussion threads 2006-11-21

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Photos: 10 tech disappointments...with cool names
Sometimes companies seem to put more energy into naming a product than into making it successful. Then, stuff like this happens.
Tags: photograph
Image galleries 2007-07-17
Demotivators: You'll laugh because they're true
I just posted a new gallery of Demotivators lithographs from Despair, Inc. Skip the delusions that motivational products induce and head straight for the disappointments that follow with these soul-crushingly depressing Demotivators.
Tags: DEMOTIVATORS
Blog posts 2006-02-24
Are the CMO and CFO Marching in the Same Strategic Direction?
The tenure of the average CMO is mostly less than two years. What explains the career-limiting disappointments of these high-level marketing executives? Just ask the CFO. If marketing is to credibly measure and demonstrate its impact, it must collaborate with the finance organization to define key metrics, gain support for...
Tags: SAS Institute, CFO, Marketing Research, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance
Webcasts
Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1: Managing a CCR Cluster Using the Exchange Management Console
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) introduces several high availability enhancements. This paper takes a closer look at the Clustered Continuous Replication CCR cluster management interface included in the Exchange Management Console EMC. One of the disappointments with the Exchange 2007 R version was that all CCR cluster related...
Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Console, Management Console, TechGenix, Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
White papers 2007-09-25
(Photos: 10 tech disappointments...with cool names)
The Dreamcast will be Sorely missedI could kick myself too as I sold mine at a yard sale 3 years ago for next to nothing. It was one of the best home console systems ever created IMO obviously. It was 'the' arcade killer. Especially when Soul Caliber...
Tags: Games, PDAs, Handhelds, seanryan52@..., Dreamcast, tech disappointment, game, photograph
Discussion threads 2007-07-20
What's in the air on Apple's MacBook Air?
At the Macworld Keynote address, Steve Jobs held the world in awe as he unveiled the world's thinnest notebook. But it turns out that opinion on the ultra-thin MacBook Air is mixed. Images of the MacBook Air are available from Crave. The notebook measures...
Tags: Ars Technica, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., MacBook Air, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-17
Microsoft Service Packs: A necessity before you deploy?
In case you hadn't heard, Microsoft watchers have been abuzz over the Excel display bug discovered a couple of weeks ago. Members of the Excel team tried to reassure users by posting an explanation of the bug in this blog entry, maintaining that even if certain decimal values are displayed...
Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Spreadsheet, Adage, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, William Jones
Blog posts 2007-10-11
iPods and the Penguin
i couldn't believe ita company that uses BSD as their base gives the Linux community the snub. that's really sad because the developers at gtk-pod have done such a good job. of course it's only a matter of time before they get around this.but i can say that the current...
Tags: Digital music, Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Handhelds, jlwallen@..., Apple iPod, N800 *is*, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., GPS, Linux
Discussion threads 2007-09-19
Offshore outsourcing set for a big year?
Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
Tags: Outsourcing, Strategy, NeoIT, offshore outsourcing, Gartner Inc.
Technical articles 2004-12-10
Aspiring consultants take heed: Here are some of the good and the bad sides about striking out on your own
If you're thinking about taking the plunge and becoming an independent consultant, it helps to know what kinds of obstacles and rewards await you. This rundown of some of the ups and downs of self-employment will prepare you for what lies ahead.Watching the animated children’s movie The Land Before Time...
Tags: Outsourcing, Strategy, Edwin Smith, consulting
Technical articles 2000-07-25
Product Review: Linksys 802.11a access point
Features and functionality of Linksys 802.11aBy Brian NadelThe affordable Linksys WAP54A Instant Wireless Access Point should appeal to small businesses looking to extend their office networks wirelessly using 802.11a equipment. In Turbo mode, this device delivers some of the fastest throughput we've seen, and it provides the highest level of...
Tags: Home networking, WIRELESS, IEEE 802.11, CNET, access point, WAP54A, Linksys Inc., Turbo Mode, network
Technical articles 2002-06-20
Mentorship depends on formulating the right questions and facilitating answers
One of the greatest disappointments I've encountered in my career as a consultant came from an unexpected source. It forced me to think carefully about a consultant's role and the value that we bring to organizations. It also clarified a nagging issue that had bothered me for some time.I was...
Tags: mentor, mentorship, Shannon T. Kalvar
Technical articles 2003-08-18
Is it just me... or have you noticed, too?
For many years, I have looked to TechRepublic for help and answers. Whenever I had a difficult situation, I could come here, do a search in the forums, and usually find someone else that had had a similar problem. I could then read the resolution and learn from the steps...
Tags: E-mail, Toboso, questioner
Discussion threads 2007-05-22
Get IT Done: Three tips for improving Lotus Domino/Notes performance
Learn three ways to improve Lotus Domino performance.Your sales guy called eight times today from a hotel room in Toledo complaining about response time. Your users feel compelled to keep every piece of mail received since 1996. The CEO’s mail database is about to explode from fragmentation.If your Notes server...
Tags: Storage, E-mail servers, Groupware, Databases, Enterprise software, performance, Jim Wells MBA, Get IT Done, IBM Corp., IBM Lotus Domino, database, location document, IBM Lotus Notes, new location
Technical articles 2000-05-31
Can Johnny still program?
Can Johnny still program?article rootHere's the DealOK, here’s the deal, if you want to enter the fields of software development and computers as a career, then be prepared to switch careers when you hit 40. Also, prepare to work 60 hours a week. Why is this? I...
Tags: information technology, dzabor@..., career
Discussion threads 2005-04-21
Deployment strategies for the new breed of e-learning
Thanks to Web delivery systems and the emergence of a standard format, e-learning is now more flexible and affordable than ever. Here are the details on modifying and deploying these new e-learning systems.The e-learning market is white hot. Over the past two months, the average e-learning stock has grown at...
Tags: e-learning market, e Advantage, e-learning, strategy
Technical articles 2001-07-05
Empower yourself—let it go!
There is a fine line between learning from your mistakes and obsessing over them. In this edition of Artner's Law, Bob Artner explains how history can help IT managers see the difference.In my family, we’ll sometimes say to each other, “Indiana, let it go.” This is a variant on a...
Tags: Bob Artner, Bourbons, royal family, outsourcing
Technical articles 2001-02-15
Anticpiating Minds
Anticpiating Mindsblog rootAnticipating MindsAI programming without the need for an advanced degree in Mathematics or some other impractical degree, I may have something for you. Anticipating Minds (www.anticipatingminds.com) produces intelligent development tools. <p>They offer a <b>FREE</b> SDK available for download at http://www.anticipatingminds.com/Downloads/details.aspx?download_id={6CCADCBF-179C-4D81-9E61-E470E3477038}. The SDK provides a .NET class library and...
Tags: Engineering, Sara Morgan Rea, algorithm, SDK, Anticipating Minds, Sakamoto
Discussion threads 2005-06-20
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