Swatch did this for us already back in 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

--magusnet

1) mainframes, terminals
2) minicomputers, dumb terminals (VT52/VT100/etc.)
2.5) personal computers (PCs = laptop/desktop with "powerful" CPU and "lots" of local storage for both applications and data)
3) servers (cheaper minicomputer?), PCs (from above), later thin clients (PCs without local storage)
3.5) virtualized server (minicomputer or mainframe hosting servers), PCs, thin clients (netbooks, iPads, Android/Chome devices, WinCE/Mobile, etc.), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI, {{reducing need for local storage}}
4) cloud (mainframe) via server, PCs, web operating systems, netbook, VDI, Android/Chrome {{device usage limited without Internet connection}}
4.5) "InterCloud", replace cabling with sub-standard RF communication and return to the mainframe beginning (1)

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Hey I just published my new $1 App on iTunes that was free on Fred Fish 20 years ago and did more. {{psych}}

Movies will more likely inspire kids to jump to unsubstantiated conclusions and think that their shortcuts can save the day.

Now all the Fortune 500 companies need to pay licensing fees to MS, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Apple, AutoDesk for all the software that was ever transferred during mergers and acquisitions.

The software companies just earned billions and billions of dollars on this ruling.

#idiots

Did you want to know the annual or hourly rate my soul is worth?

--Mike

1) Buy a comprehensive insurance policy
2) Write a detailed implementation plan that you copied from a Google search
3) Wait the 3-6 months the plan calls out before actual "work" begins
4) Burn down the building using a homeless person as the schill
5) Submit an emergency "continuity" plan that you wanted to deploy all along
6) implement the new plan in one third the time of the original plan
7) come in under budget by 38.3%
8) hire a whole new help desk at half the budgeted payroll (52.7% savings)
9) speak at the board meeting: challenges you over came to saving the company
10) Graciously accept the position of CIO

(send all paychecks and bonuses to numbered bank account and retire to a non-extradition country) :)

I've been working in MIS/IS/IT for twenty+ years and I don't ever remember any glory. Paper cuts from punch card and fan fold green bar printouts sure, glory no.

You might get a little recognition now and then, but the person stocking the frig with the free soda got more respect.

And to the person who thinks that people are more technically savvy and need less IT these days, I say, "Idiot!" Just because you can twitter and logon to Pandora does not make you an IT person. Write me a report pulling data from multiple DBs (MSSQL, MySQL, and Oracle) and then display it with charts/graphs and pivot tables. Oh and make sure all 800 nodes in the compute cluster are all working on the same data set, and that they all submit their required daily status, and swap to the new data set within the weekly 5 minute maintenance window. Crap, appointments and meetings are only being scheduled on 1/3 of the 2000+ employees' calendars. Now drop everything because Enterprise CRM is not sending notifications to the 5000+ global call centers staff! Or my personal favorite, figure out why the five thousand servers purchased by the National Telephone company of a small Central American country refuse accept any voice mail passwords from their 200,000 customers...

None of that was glorious, but did get me some good bonus checks.

--Magus

I'm sure he will be happy these pills didn't work when he drops the soap in the shower.