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You have this idea of how your child should be and what they should like, and then they shatter your dreams when they start playing sports and getting girlfriends.

Three-quarters of nearly 1,000 IT professionals surveyed said that they would 'definitely recommend' a career in the business to their offspring.

I'm part of that 75%.

I would unhesitatingly recommend a career in IT to my offspring, were I having kids.

Except that I don't want kids. So I would also unhesitatingly have a vasectomy, were I planning on having sex.

Except that this is Slashdot... So even the sex part is a pretty big stretch.

But if I were to hypothetically have sex, and if I were hypothetically not going to sterilize myself to prevent kids, and if I were hypothetically to have kids, then by all means, I'd be damned if I wasn't going to get at least some measure of revenge on 'em.

twistedsymphony writes "I work for a medium-sized aerospace manufacturer, we've got about 1500 employees across 3 divisions in the US. We've been in business for nearly half a century and our database system is nearly as old. At some point our old mainframe data was simply dumped into an AS400 without rethinking how the data should be stored, and we're still using that archaic structure today. I've been trying to get my company to improve it's thinking using actual relational structures for their data and possibly migrating to a more modern database platform. I've finally been given the opportunity to write a proposal for such a move. Now I have the problem of summing up the benefits of over two decades worth of advances in technology and methodology to a group of IT tyrants who treat new developments like they're still working on a mainframe. I know some of what I'd like to say but how can I present this argument simply, and tactfully?"

twistedsymphony writes "Nintendo-Scene's WiiTracker now has a pool over 1,000 unique serial numbers that is uses to track Wii hardware data. Not only is there a massive pool of data to pull from but that data has helped over 80,000 people who have used the search page to determine what is inside their Wii console.

For those of you who don't know what the WiiTracker is: the WiiTracker is a database that contains Wii serial numbers and information about the specific hardware that specific Wii contains. Through the tracker you can enter a serial number of any Wii console and the system will give you an estimate of what hardware is inside based on similar serial numbers and manufacturing trends. This allows you to know what is inside your Wii without even opening it. In addition to the estimate, the data provides an excellent base for the creation of charts and graphs to map out hardware trends in Wii production."

twistedsymphony writes "Nintendo-Scene has a report up of a Homebrew DVD player application released for the Nintendo Wii. The Application requires the use of a modchip with Dual Layer Disc support. It's basically a stripped down version of GameCube Linux with a DVD player application so you'll also need a Gamecube controller to control the DVD playback.

While this might not be the DVD playback feature everyone was waiting for Nintendo to deliver it certainly proves that it's technically possible to do with the Wii."
http://nintendo-scene.com/470