Thanksgiving 2007 LinkfestSome high-quality links to feast on over the looong weekend: The Channel How to make your state VAR-unfriendly: Maryland To Tax Computer Support Services. The comment thread is also quite entertaining. Forewarned is forearmed: 2008 Security Threats. You'll also find a slide show on the Top 10 Security Threat Predictions For 2008. Hewlett-Packard has crossed the $100-billion revenue mark. Craig Zarley looks at 10 Reasons Why, including both the hiring, and firing, of Carly Fiorina. As Thank Carly reminds us, the better HP does, the better some of Carly Fiorina's decisions look. My favorite line from Clerks is "This would be a great job if it weren't for the f***n customers." SitePoint examins how to Learn to Love Complaining Clients. Operating Systems You can't blame them for trying: Microsoft: Give Windows Vista Another Chance. Apple has certainly picked up on this theme in their latest ads. One Microsoft product partners would love get their hands on is that cool coffee table. But not yet. Speaking of surfaces, Apple already has it's iPod Touch. Could they have more tablets up their sleeve? They do, says Forbes' David Ewalt. Information Week tries out small-footprint Linux distributions in Linux Lite: 5 Tiny Distros That Pack A Big Bang. Is the internet an operating system? It's getting there. My slide show on The Best RSS Feed Readers demonstrates one way for the web to be your control center. Careers Are you a double-threat? Actor-Director? How about manager-techie? 'Hybrid' workers are more effective in the field, so don't kick yourself too much for not being a specialist. Dilbert agrees--Scott Adams provides some Career Advice, and recommends becoming "very good (top 25%) at two or more things." Programming Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 is attracting praise in the developer community, particularly for Visual Studio Shell, a tool to produce custom-purpose IDEs. Along those lines, ActiveState has launched Open Komodo, their own tool-building tool. But if all of today's programming languages are just too jejune for you, you can look forward to the product launch of Microsoft's F# language for functional programming. Games, Math and Science Finally, we know the answer. Played exactly right, checkers should always be a draw. Just like tic-tac-toe. Meanwhile, the optimal solution to any Rubik's Cube problem is now down to 26 moves. So easy. Never give up: after a seventeen year gap, thanks to the Wii, Nintendo is back to being the "number one maker of console gaming systems". I know my kids want one! Finally, don't miss this Star-Trek styled home theatre. Engage! Have a great Thanksgiving! Posted by Joe Caponi at 12:28 PM, November 21, 2007 This is a public forum. United Business Media and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. United Business Media makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of United Business Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in United Business Media's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business. |
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