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Tax The Virtual Cyberspace? Warcraft?!!!!
It's been a while since I've posted. I have noticed that many of you enjoy Warcraft and have a successful clan here. I thought it was an interesting read. It annoys me that they are thinking this and part of me understands, but come on it's a game for christ...
Tags: how much is that battle axe in the window?, jkaras, off-topic, Second Life, tax, virtual economy
Discussion threads 2006-10-19
Virtual goodies, real greenies
article rootMessage was edited by: adminnothing newReally, I don't think these "virtual economies" are anything fundamentally new. It's just the same old trade time for money we've always had. Someone with time farms virtual items, sells them to someone willing to trade money for that time. Big deal. Not to...
Tags: frylock
Discussion threads 2006-07-26

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Virtual economies translating to real world success
What is your relationship to the virtual economy?Do you sell characters, equipment, or other items in virtual games? Do you see yourself doing this in the future?
Tags: Games, Andy Moon
Discussion threads 2007-09-19
Images: Storming the virtual gates
Residents in Second Life stage a protest against CopyBot, a controversial software tool that could significantly affect the virtual world's economy.
Tags: tool, gate, protest, software
Image galleries 2006-11-15
Services in the New Economy: Research Issues
Globalization and the growth of the knowledge-based economy are perhaps the two key forces at work in the economy today. They are inducing changes in the economy and the nature of work in ways that one does not yet fully understand. Although the effects of these changes are pervasive throughout...
Tags: Economy, Globalization, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-09-01
'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy
Correct link to the image galleryStorming the virtual gateshttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-3513_11-37161.html
Tags: Sonja Thompson
Discussion threads 2006-11-15
HP 4050 or 1320n, setting economy mode, and saving toner
We have a customer who insists that even though the economy mode setting is set via Novell, that the printer option for economy on an HP 4050 and a 1320n are not functioning. The print looks virtually identical. The printer is set to economy as well, but economy does...
Tags: Printers, suze1220@..., HP 4050, economy mode, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Discussion threads 2007-11-01
Virtual economies translating to real world success
There is plenty of money to be made in cyberspace, but more and more people are finding themselves able to trade success in a virtual game environment for very real dollars. From World of Warcraft to Second Life, gamers are increasingly finding that they can sell characters, equipment, or...
Tags: Second Life, Economy, Games, Personal Technology, Andy Moon
Blog posts 2007-09-19
Virtual Server-SAN Connectivity: The Emergence of N-Port ID Virtualization
The concept of pooling resources to extend their use is common to many human endeavors: it is called leveraging in business, fiduciary currency in economy, and virtualization in information technology. To mask the complexity of sharing multiple resources across multiple users, virtualized resources or virtualized users are usually created. Virtualization...
Tags: Emulex Corp., Resource, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Storage
White papers 2007-04-01
The Intelligent Economy
Intelligence - the smarter alternative. It takes time and effort to get smarter, and some enterprises seem to get along without extra insight. Yet a Knowledge Economy needs investments in mobile facts for decision-makers to make wiser choices. The time is near when the seat-of-the-pants remnants of the Old Economy...
Tags: Mobile, SAS Institute, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
White papers
NEC High-Availability Fault Tolerant-Virtual Server Solution
IT organizations today are faced with pressure to lower facilities costs, limit the overall number of servers, and reduce administration and staffing required for their data centers. Any number of reasons, ranging from the one server-one application paradigm to the overall weak global economy in the past few years, can...
Tags: NEC Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2005-02-25
The Economy and the Information Era - What Next?: BetterManagement LIVE 2006
The presenter of this webcast discusses how the information age will affect the economy.
Tags: SAS Institute, Economy
Webcasts
Home Lab
Hello! I am in the process of creating a home lab and i need some pointers. I currently have2 Cisco switches(2900 and 1900)2 Cisco routers (2600s) 2 Linux servers Compaq 1 currently up2 501 Cisco Pix's1 Web serverI have enabled all the listed ports on my wireless router. Virtual...
Tags: Routers & switches, Servers, NETWORKING, ajnpapa11@..., Cisco Systems Inc., server
Discussion threads 2007-10-23
Why there is no point to TechPoints
For a long time, I was a big fan of the TechPoints system at work in or Technical Q&A forums. I loved the idea of a virtual economy, and preached for quite a while that all we had to do was increase the transparency of the feature--let ...
Tags: Question, TechPoints, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2005-07-15
Seven Data Center Challenges to Consider Before Going Virtual
One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual data center.
Tags: Data Center, F5 Networks Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2008-11-11
Malaysia Transitions Toward a Knowledge-Based Economy
The emergence of a knowledge-based economy (k-economy) has spawned a "new" notion of workplace literacy, changing the relationship between employers and employees. The traditional covenant where employees expect a stable or lifelong employment will no longer apply. The retention of employees will most probably be based on their skills and...
Tags: Virginia Tech, Employee, Knowledge, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-05-12
(Images: Tsunamis, hurricanes hit 'Second Life')
Just what we need, virtual emergency reliefAnd my taxpayer dollar is paying for this dog and pony show?Now people will be complaining about FEMA's lack of virtual preparedness and virtual response to virtual disasters. We'll have to set up virtual emergency evacuation shelters in virtual Superdomes, then move virtual...
Tags: LED_IT, Second Life
Discussion threads 2007-05-01
Media giving mixed signals on economy and tech sector
Every day that you read an article or listen to a news report, you're likely to get a different picture of what effect the current economy will have on the tech sector. by Toni Bowers
Tags: Technology Sector, Financial, Information Technology, Media, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Storage, Finance, Toni Bowers
Blog posts 2008-09-18
Video: Can IT strengthen the economy?
At the Gartner Symposium 2008, Cisco CEO John Chambers predicted that as the economy turns, many company heads will be looking for flexibility along with cost effectiveness--aspects that video conferencing and social networking can provide. by Jason Hiner
Tags: Information Technology, Video, Economy, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jason Hiner, John Chambers, Strategy, Management
Blog posts 2008-10-17
Creating a virtual CD-ROM to install software for virtual machines
The Virtual-CD-ROM control panel lets you create a virtual cd drive on your computer. If you are a fan of Virtual PC this tool can be very helpful. Learn how to use it in this post. by Steven Warren
Tags: Software, CD-ROM, Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Productivity, Steven Warren, ISO, Letter, Computer, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows, Quality, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Operating Systems
Blog posts 2008-11-10
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