"IT"

[Benjamin]

So.. what do you think "IT" is??
I have no clue.

Well, Clara Bow was the IT girl. So what do you think?

[barrk]

IT is the dawning of the Days of Aquarius......

[HarryW]

I have no idea what the Days of Aquarius are/were, or who (whom?) Clara Bow might be, but Dennis, I think what you're looking for is "Information Technology", is that reasonable? Some people call it ICT nowadays, for "Informations & Communications Technology". Basically, it's the field of Computing.

[Benjamin]

"IT"

is supposedly a new invention that will revolutionize everything. nobody knows what it is yet, and it wnt be released till 2002

[parksie]

Well...unless it's an A-Level, in which case it's about as far removed from Computing as it gets.

Trust me...I'm doing it...and haven't seen a SINGLE LINE of code taught to us :angry:

[HarryW]

Sounds like some marketing department somewhere has invented it for the sake of stirring up hype. I'd ignore it until you hear something substantial about it if I were you.

Parksie, I did A-Level Computing and we did quite a lot of coding. Nothing complicated, but we spent quite a lot of time sitting at computers with VB on-screen (VB3 this is) on the premise that we were programming ;) Most of the time though we just hung around talking. Maybe your school/college/whatever (I went to college, not sixth form) just teaches a crappy course.

[parksie]

Oops...it's A-Level ICT that I'm doing... :rolleyes:

I can't find where he got it, but my world history teacher had several articles on "IT" which is nicknamed "Ginger"


the parts fit in 2 duffle bags and a box, and it can be assembled in 10 minutes with only a screw driver and a set of hex wrenches.

only a few peopole know what it is.... the inventer, of course, Bill gates, the owner of Apple, and a few other people....

I think it's all a hoax, but they say it will revolutionize how people travel... the inventors name is kamen(I am not sure of the first name)...

I did a quick search on IT +Ginger and landed in the middle
of a flame war on something called Riven.

What the Hell is Riven?

[Benjamin]

oh -- to clear things up, I am not an idiot... I know what IT means..... :rolleyes:

[Fox]

In a world full of idiots.. who's the idiot?

(sorry just stumbled into the thread and had to say something ;))

[parksie]

Me.

[Fox]

Hey that was not a question ... however ;)

[HarryW]

Sounds like a load of bollocks to me. Excuse my frankness. Or not, doesn't really matter to me either way.

[Benjamin]

me either... would be cool if it was real.... whatever the hell it is.... but I don't give a crap... because if it is a transportation device.... even in 2002 I would be too young to drive it :(

[Benjamin]

if WW is IT, than what is arnie?

[tumblingdown]

Dennis, you feeling ok?


td.

[Benjamin]

no i just woike up, it's 6:20 am here.... and I can't even see what I am typing.... (I don't bother to wear my glasses this early, it doesn't make that much of a difference when I can hardly open my eyes all the way)

The Mysterious 'IT' (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/01/11/inventing.it.ap/index.html)

[Benjamin]

yeah, I know that..... is arnie "husband of IT"?
you know.... like "Bride of frankenstein"


;)

[JPRoy392]

more stuff on "IT"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/515311.asp?bt=nm&btu=http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/d/news_menu.asp&cp1=1 stuff on "IT"

[Benjamin]

whoever wrote that article didn't think very much when they wrote it...


Mysterious gadget
is rumored to be
a high-tech unicycle


the picture in the article has 2 wheels :rolleyes:

[JPRoy392]

I thought the same thing. Who the hell would want to go 60 miles an hour on that? What if you had a blow out? I'd rather be in a Pontiac Fiero with an drunk/drug addict!

FUD

[parksie]

Well JP - if you've got the Pontiac...I'll be the driver :rolleyes:

[JPRoy392]

Parksie - Ha!

Der Farm - What is FUD?
Found Under Desk

It would seem to me to be unlikely that the result will be
some form of single wheeled motivation device. Among other
things, I believe a jet-propelled unicycle has already been
patented. The descriptions I've read would tend to show
that this thing the papers are talking about is a re-
statement of that with a different power source ....
shouldn't be patentable.

But then, I've been wrong before.

Fear
Uncertainty
Doubt

[JPRoy392]

I think that "IT" is going to unlock all the secrets of women. Oh wait! That's impossible!

[Guv]

Riven is the sequel to Myst.

"IT" is the short name of a not terrible SciFi movie from the fifties or sixties, and remade a few years ago (perhaps under a different name). "IT" took place at an Arctic Research station. I think the old version was better than the newer one.

[Benjamin]

I've watched a movie made by steve king, called IT, about a monstrous clown that takes shapes as anything and everything you are afraid of......