microsoft training by quickstart

This was supposed to be published a while ago:

*The author makes no claims to coherence or correctness, read at your own hazard.

In San Jose right now attending Microsoft Training by Quickstart Intelligence (quickstart.com). I think I'll have to ask the instructor at the break about active directory, agpm's, etc. (because I wouldn't want to admit I don't know things in front of my IT "peers").

Sidenote: I wonder who would win in the competition of "Most Obscure Acronyms" contest: the Military or the IT industry?

In two days, my fellow cohorts and I will be learning the wonders of MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack).

Licensing: A method of selling software that is meant to be so confusing that the client ends up paying any price that is proposed.

Yikes, does anyone know how many applications Microsoft makes?

not artificial intelligence

Just something I thought about last Sol Day (05/11/08):

Instead of AI it should be called NBI where
NBI = Non-Biological Intelligence
and
BI = Biological Intelligence

Furthermore:
NBI(-) = Non-Biological Intelligence less than that of the average biological intelligence
and
NBI(+) = Non-Biological Intelligence greater than that of the average biological intelligence

*Note: There will be a standard error to the above two terms because our measurement of biological intelligence is not very reliable.

Lastly, in reference to when we merge with NBI:
ABI = Augmented Biological Intelligence (it is assumed that the augmentation is by a NBI(-))
CI = Companion Intelligence (it is assumed that the companion intelligence is NBI(+))

As for the issue of whether or not the superior intelligence of the "companion" will make all the decisions for the less intelligent biological aspect of the pairing, well, I'll leave that up to you, dear reader.

information exchange

Idea: (Copylefted by Scott Garrett Daniel, Inc.)

With the advent of information being a real commodity, how will it actually be exchanged? Well, if you take for example, the knowledge of how to solve a specific computer problem, that kind of information is usually esoteric and hard to generalize and apply to other problems. This is why, when I search for solutions in Microsoft Knowledge Base, it often takes extra experience-learned tricks to implement said solution. Now, if there was an artificial intelligence that recorded every one of my solutions to computer problems, that might be valuable information. But only if said AI could also find some way to generalize the solutions and find potential "buyers" of those solutions. Any input on this would be awesome.

it's official

I am now part of MoonKnight Networks, Inc. My official title is "IT Consultant". The sad thing is that I don't think I can serve my old clients now. With the caseload as it is. I suppose I can tell them I'm out of commission for right now, adjusting to this new position. That might work.

So much change. So little time. Where's my nano-machine neural implant to handle all this processing of multiple streams of data?

Oh, I am reading "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil. Awesome book. It makes me happy.