Add another device to your overladen 3G network!

Relative to the 1970's and 80's the prices now are a real bargain. I recall Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 being something like $50 at first.

First, it is way too easy to hide information from the PCI assessors. BTW, they are NOT auditors, they are assessors, there is a big difference. But it is too easy to hide stuff because to really dig into a complex system for every last detail is already cost prohibitive.

Which brings me to my second point. If liability gets pushed to the assessors (or SOX auditors which are real auditors) then the cost of being assessed/audited are going to skyrocket because they will just pass the cost of liability right back to the company that hired them. The companies being assessed/audited are being held at 'legal gunpoint' to comply and pay whatever cost. Then, the cost of being assessed will be passed on to the consumers or the company will go out of business.

If you believe the Christians, then the most recent bottleneck was 8 humans after the flood.

This is what PMI says to do, cherry pick what you need out of the vast standardized body of knowledge (PMBOK in PMI terms). However, if you don't have a good grip on the BOK, how do you know what to cherry pick and what to ignore? I'm not saying you need complete mastery of the PMBOK, but a course in the groundings of it helps immensely. I'm working on my SANS GIAC certification in PM and would be lost just picking up the PMBOK without the background of the class. The work project I'm doing right now is small and so some things like Budget Management and HR Management don't apply, but that might not be the case for the submitter.

Here is one site I found yesterday with templates, white papers, articles, etc. http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management.aspx

http://forums.zonealarm.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=Off-Topic&message.id=19903

When I started on Slashdot I would have been outraged at a lack of choice for number of Frags or Headshots or something more geek-oriented. Now I'm so old I can recite the Hippos Go Berserk without needing the book.

You are spot on and I would mod you up if I had points. I don't think the HDD manufacturers are behind this though. The simpler (and I think correct) reason is that older media used to be easier to recover data from. Newer hardware is different and the old methods do not apply. http://shsc.info/DataRecovery#titelanker5

Our 80/20 rule is well out of whack. http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

I can do better for myself on my own, thank you. We already have too many people in IT who aren't skilled enough to be here. Thankfully the Dot-bombs of the early part of this century weeded out quite a few. When I start hearing stories about the woefully oppressed, underpaid, dis-enfranchised IT workers then I'll say we have a need. Considering most IT jobs are far easier than being a ditch-digger, we don't need a union bureaucracy to take care of us.

Get off my lawn whippersnapper!