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A cheesy, ebullient, woefully outdated term from the 90's, which means "Internet". Coined when all the people were massively wowed by the sheer awesomeness of the Intertubes. Nowadays in disuse unless you use it for comedy.
"With my brand new computer and the Internet, I have all the information I want within a single click of my mouse! If I want to find out how to look after a cat, I just have to type it in a search site, and WHAM! There it goes! How to buy a car? You can find it! Today's newspaper? You bet! Information for my daughter's chemistry paper? The Internet has it! Want to know about my son on student exchange in Norway? No problem! I just write him an e-mail, click "Send", and my letter travels all the way through the Atlantic and reaches him instantly and for free!"
You heard it: the Internet is the future of computing! Call now, and join the new Information Superhighway!
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The great link between Business (or end process) and Computer Science
Involving the way information is gathered, processed, and used in a meaningful way.
Computer Science Majors – boast about how many lines of code they can write
Information Systems Majors – boast about how much money they have saved and created for overall business.
Business Majors – boast about their new sports car after high earnings and cut cost - dependent on the performance on their Information Systems which is dependent on Computer Science.
Information Systems creates logical use out of organizing and processing data through information technology.
IS makes CS useful
IS makes Business actually work (and increasingly so in the new Information Era)
Top IS programs: MIT and Carnegie Mellon
IS has yet to find a permanent home in the School of Computer Science, Business, Humanities
Professionals in IS who are really good at what they do are an asset to any company and are normally paid accordingly. Or can leave and find their place somewhere else (sometime creating their own business – usually successful)
IS professionals also have bigger hard drives than CS and Business professionals as well as cocks.
Hey man, did jimmy order those parts before he got fired?
No dude, our Information Systems does that automatically now.
CFO: "we need to be able to process 9 million transactions integrated with EDI and have our production line update automatically while being able to offer real time analysis and GPS tracking as well as electronic invoicing. Oh, and if one thing does not work correctly (even if the correct way contradicts our business logic) YOU ARE FIRED"
CIO: "Okay"
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having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
It's obvious that the best way to explore a city is with a friend who is courteous, humorous, intelligent and - this is essential - extremely well-informed.
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The "back side of the Internet", the opposite of Al Gore's Information Superhighway. The meeting place for all the defecations of information that are the byproduct of giving billions of people unfettered access to the World Wide Web. Tends to overflow when certain events occur such as the capture of a terrorist or celebrity motorcycle accidents. Flows downhill to nowhere in particular.
The news of Dan's promotion went trickling down the Information Sewer.
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Once respectable multi-platform gaming magazine that has, within the last several years, made a concerted effort to exclude coverage on PC games and PC gaming.
Game Informer's famous byline proclaiming that they are "The World's #1 Computer and Video Game Magazine" is total bullshit since they don't seem to write about, cover or review PC games anymore.
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Noun: Exactly the same as real information except it is false. Most often used in the business world to conceal one's incompetence
"I didn't have anything prepared for the meeting so I presented a report of false information
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I researched the subject of my essay using the Information Superhighway.
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