As others have said it's still being used. I'm using it right now in fact.

Savage 2, also made by S2 games, has this functionality already. At the end of the match you are given the chance to give either good or bad karma to one player, as well as rating the commander.

Maliken rules! (yes, I've played a little too much Savage 2)

I'd also suggest trying to teach people something. Usually you'll see some sort of pattern in their requests. If they're having problems with their email a lot, maybe it would be good to spend some time showing them how Outlook works. A lot of people have no idea on what you can do with it. It's a great opportunity to be proactive and help them out. IT has an interesting role in an organization where your job is to assist everyone else to get their job done (for the most part). Try treating people as customers for a while and things get a lot better.

I speak from some experience. I had a "manager" (more a senior admin) at a smaller 40 person company and everyone thought he was the BOFH. After he was basically forced out of the job (office politics got really bad for a while) I had the opportunity to change things. We set up a quick 15 minute weekly meeting to let people talk about issues they're having so that we could hear what's going on. The perception of IT changed drastically to that of IT helping them rather than IT doing some black magic or playing games all day. I think some of the perception issues were due to a lack of understanding and visibility, which lead people to believe that IT didn't do anything.

We have an enterprise app that requires IE. I tried IE tab, but it crashes Firefox every time I try and load it. It's riddled with ActiveX.

I'm going to Bing myself.

Don't forget all the 3rd party apps that have a "web GUI" that requires IE6. They're the only reason our hospital doesn't upgrade. I'm not holding my breath waiting for vendors to upgrade their crap off of IE6.

I'm not sure they'll let it fall by the wayside. MySQL can fill the "smaller company" niche market that Oracle can't due to licensing costs. They already have a vested interest in InnoDB. I wouldn't be too surprised to see MyISAM go away though.

I'd love it if the Roku player would support Hulu and Youtube videos. Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand are a good start, but having more recent content would be a plus.

I just hope I don't have to install the expansion "Slashdot: Goatse Edition" to get the other content.