I found this very interesting article about Best Buy’s training program. The RetailAccess program (sponsored by Intel) and the ExpertZone training program (sponsored by Microsoft) provide readings about the newly-released and upcoming technologies. Every employee at the tech bench (now called the Geek Squad) had to read these articles and take quizzes over their content …
Tag: hardware
Aug 31 2009
Kindle…the future of book burning
Amazon’s Kindle is appropriately named, as to kindle means to “catch fire” or to “cause to start burning” (Wordnet 3.0, n.d.). The newest generation of Kindle products support the downloading of books without even having a computer connection, allowing the consumer to get a new book “anytime, anywhere” (Amazon.com: Kindle, 2009). At first glance, this …
Aug 30 2009
Arch Linux server maintenance page
You may look at the title and wonder why I didn’t post this topic under “Computers” or even the “Linux” subtopic. My reasoning is that this isn’t really any type of discussion relating to computers, but rather just an image that I found to be priceless. Instead of just making their “server down for maintenance” …
Thought for the Moment
