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Business @ the Speed of Stupid
Alan Morrison and Dan Burke have written the first meaningful post-mortem on the New Economy in their new book Business @ the Speed of Stupid. At its core the book clearly explains how the disregard for strategy and sound management principles doomed many a company and Internet project. If this sounds like a lot of other books currently hitting the shelves, then I should point out that Business @ the Speed of Stupid is one of the only books not willing to pull punches.
As you can probably tell by the title, Business @ the Speed of Stupid is not one of those cutesy sugar-coated business books. Consider the opening of Chapter 1: "Most companies of any size have a Web site. Most suck! They suck because they simply fail to communicate with the intended audience." And there's a lot more where that came from! The book is divided into two sections: "@ the Speed of Stupidity and Accelerating" and "Decelerating the Stupidity." This format proves to be a good way of presenting their observations and recommendations.
The "@ the Speed of Stupidity and Accelerating" section is filled with stories about companies that remain nameless to protect both the guilty and the innocent. Some readers may be disappointed that Morrison and Burke have chosen not to reveal the true identities of the companies and people they profile, but I think it actually strengthens the usefulness of the stories. You're not distracted by the sensationalism, and you're not fed the rose-colored version that things just didn't work out for these companies or their ventures. The stories are even more useful because they reveal the real situations, conversations, and decisions that led to failure.
Morrison and Burke are able get their ideas across without sounding like dusty old professors or techno-Latin writers trying to sound intelligent. They are quick to point out that there are no silver bullets and that cutting corners is a recipe for disaster. Consider their take on phantom sales predictions: "A common and widely held misconception is the idea of magic conversion ratios that convert the number of hits on a site to projected customer leads, e-commerce sales, or whatever. Let's be clear: This type of thinking is 100 percent crap."
A major theme in the first section of the book is how the apparent simplicity of the Web lulled business leaders into a trap. The brochureware sites that companies first launched appeared to be simple. But when it came to real e-commerce or real e-business companies quickly learned that these projects were much more complicated. The notion that you could throw together an Internet project without any planning, without any processes, and without experienced professionals was foolhardy. As the authors accurately point out, "the frequency of this type of foolishness is increasing dramatically as more and more projects are sponsored and managed by nontechnical professionals and staffed by zealously ignorant technologists."
This comment illustrates another main point of the "@ the Speed of Stupidity and Accelerating" section: "Get the right people in the right roles or you will find yourself facing insurmountable problems." The wrong people are those that consistently contradict their words through their actions. They say they want things done right, but they end up cutting corners to get the job done fast and cheap. They hire the best people or companies to do the work, but want to totally ignore the processes that create good work. The authors quip, "it is amazing how often executives hire experts and then completely ignore their advice" instead of remembering to "hire smart people and listen to them." Balancing people, processes, and systems is critical to being successful.
Business @ the Speed of Stupid also provides readers with a much needed smackdown about the importance of sticking to the "old rules" of business. Morrison and Burke contend that "technology must take a back seat to core business and customer needs, not the other way around" and that "the 'new rules' are simply a recipe for disaster, and those who continue to propagate them are completely irresponsible." The technology shakeout taught many business leaders just how important planning and communication were to developing successful initiatives. Of course Morrison and Burke get that point across in a less subtle way: "There is a generation of lemming managers who actually believe that telling people 'Just do it!' is the right way to manage because that's the way they've read it in a book or magazine."
The "Decelerating the Stupidity" section of the book tries to bring a lot of the key messages and concepts together, and offers a well-presented framework for putting the brakes on stupidity. I think the "Do's and Don'ts" at the end of each chapter of the first section will give readers more immediate solutions to their problems, but the second section takes a much more big picture approach. The framework the authors put forward is based on the concept that thinking strategically means always balancing the "Organizational Domain" and the "Competitive Domain."
The "Organizational Domain" is made up of the people, processes, and systems that allow your company to get the job done. The "Competitive Domain" is made up of your presence in the market, customers, and your competitor's presence in the market. The connection between these two domains is your strategy, and it acts as the ultimate fulcrum to keep things balanced. The authors note that "to emphasize one thing (e.g., technology) while you slight another (e.g., people) guarantees you will look stupid."
Business @ the Speed of Stupid is a well thought-out book by two people who actually know what they're talking about. The 230 pages of content move at a steady pace, and the accompanying charts and illustrations don't require a PhD in fluid mechanics to understand. Footnotes throughout point readers to other outside resources and a handy "Glossary of E-Terms and Phrases" are nice touches as well. I'm sure you could scan through a lot of the book over an over-priced cup of coffee at one of those bookstores, but I think you'll quickly find it's a book you'd be stupid not to buy.
You can purchase this book at Fatbrain.
If I had to name a book like this, I would have chosen "Business at the Speed of Blight". It is so easy to create a book like this right now. The reviewer was right -- it would have been more delicious if we could point at real companies and real people.
Reminds me of Bill Gates's latest book. Didn't help me any.
Does it say anything about websites that don't change themes in over 5 years and have nasty color shades (ie - circuit board green)??
*cough* *cough*
Is this like the speed of dark?
where was this book 3 years ago?
A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle.
Huh?
Going by the (nicely written) review, it seems that this book might be of interest to newly-unemployed MBAs and PHBs, trying to understand what the **** hit them.
Not much in there that would be of interest to the typical
Perhaps if the book would have been written by Ed Yourdon...
Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom.
Can we really point at companies that failed and say "they were stupid"? It may be the case for some, but a number of companies run by very smart people failed the same way. They were just experimenting, and now thanks to the companies that failed and those that succeeded, we have a better idea of what works on the web, and what's "stupid".
Ceci n'est pas une sig
Unfortunately, the managers who need this the most will never see it. The ones who read this stuff are the ones who already have a tech clue.
1Alpha7
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Ain't hindsight a wonderful thing? (I'm not saying that a lot of people didn't for see the dot-bombing, but most were blindsided)
--- I used to moderate, then I read the -1 articles and decided having to filter through them was not worth it.
Sometimes I wonder if the only real thing that happened during the last 8 years since Mosaic was exploitation, lies, and hype. Even Netscape itself, when it went public, was largely an exploitation of Mosaic. I refused on principal to buy into their IPO.
There's still only one good way to success. And that's hard work. (Maybe a little luck)
A good review, tho.
Seriously though cynicism and critical hindsight is pretty easy to find these days. I'd respect the book much better if it were released 3 years ago. The sad thing is that the same people who today are bemoaning the terrible lack of planning and logic behind the net revolution (or alternately talking about how obvious the tech crash was to anyone with half a brain, which means most of you [bwahahahaha]) were the same people who were pimping the bubble or writing the next "How to e-volize your business!".
Having met both great and terrible programmers, periodic weeding is a necessary part of every industry. Books like these are no different to books that analyze the early years of a new industry. Perhaps a better question to ask or better book to write about is "why don't people learn from history?"
But then again maybe this book is written for a laugh and some humor.
I find myself wholely unimpressed with a book that documents the downfall of the Internet bubble that is published so long after the bubble breaks.
To have published this book during the "go go" days of the dotcom phenomon would have been another story.
Its kind of like reading a post mortem report on failed business philosophies. At best you might get some insight into what to avoid the next time. Still, "the next time" happens because people are too overcome with greed to consider the lessons of the last bubble.
I wish the authors would have included all the details, instead of protecting the guilty by anonymizing individual failure stories.
Well, the bit about "karma prostitution" and "John Dogz" in chapter 5 certainly was enough detail to clue me into what site he was talking about in that section.
1) Best viewed with IE/NS
2) "This page requires flash" (non skippable intro)
3) Be sure to click one or more of the dozen pop-uder ads!
4) PSST! You must have cookies enabled (a la microsoft.com) with big brother overtures.
A host of others I forgot that said "Warning! WARNING! Danger Will Robinson".
Oh, and didn't www.cluetrain.com do something like this?
Suppose the summation of most business plans/venture capatialists could have come down to one question:
Got Clue?
Cheers.
If it is not on fire, it is a software problem.
From the review, this book seems to have the same theme as many other business books - "don't be an asshole". If that's the case, I don't know that it'll have any effect other than increasing the bank balances of teh authors.
Scott Adams has made a career out of clueless managers; to an extent so has the BOFH. Both frequently cite PHBs reading up on the latest advice, and forgetting it ten minutes later.
I'm not saying that the book isn't well written - I haven't read it - but I am saying that I don't think it'll accomplish anything except in the immediate term. Let's face it; anyone who needs to be told they should listen to the advice of experts isn't going to be swayed by a mere book.
And how about selling groceries over the internet. Who wouldn't pay more just for the privilege of buying food online? Who really wants to select their own fruit and vegetables anyway? And who wants a good selection of food? I guess if they got another $1 billion in financing they were going to make it up on volume.
And of course everyone knew the future of cinema was watching a 1" by 1" sized picture on your monitor that takes 12 hours to download over a 56k connection.
But the
Sounds like this should be a great book. It confirms what I've observed just from being in college and now just getting out into the world. I really couldn't believe that all these dot-com failures that the market has been so scared about were a myth to begin with. I mean there wouldn't have been any start up money to fund these businesses that have eventually failed if the "potential" wasn't there. So i surmised a short while ago that it had to have been faulty business practices. Not to say some weren't doomed to begin with just because they were a fad. Many others though could have had a chance. But i'm just an observer right now looking through a sheltered window in a sense since i have yet to really get my hands dirty in the IT world. I can say this though, coming from my own interests in history, the business world will learn from this and in time will take on the internet as a tool. When they do there will be much more attention payed to how they use it. Overall I still believe E-commerce will have its day, business just need to respect its disadvantages, instead of turning a blind eye to them.
Who makes you Sig?
I talked with United Airlines a couple years ago about how bad their site was, bulky, difficult to navigate, lacking information and the IT guy I talked with agreed, but it was already their *new* site.
Too many minds don't think three dimensionally and others think a presense on the the web is all that it takes to succeed, although that old paradigm should be breathing its last gasp, after the fall out of the past year.
It's the duty of every websurfer not just to point out difficult to navigate or uninformative sites to webmasters. I take the opportunity whenever I can. Some appreciate input, others seem to ignore it (maybe it's a precious design, close to their heart and criticism hurts too much to ever consider that they may be wrong.) Telling someone their site or design sucks isn't going to improve anything, now it's worth emailing bad site hosts and designers and telling them about a book they might read. Include this link, too.
FWIW, I come from the school of design where it doesn't have to look pretty, but better work. Checkout my own site and feel free to tell me how much I don't live up to that ;-)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Your basic brochure is something that a lot of people can do, but even there, a good eye for design is needed to get the balance right. Design philosophies for websites are probably available by the dozen in the bazillions of books that have been published on the subject.
Key point being: Don't Drive the Customers Away.
of course when people want site that will actually do something, that requires a whole additional level of expertise. This is an obvious point to most readers here, but often the technical view is radically missing from managers.
We have all known the type that says "just make it happen"
[insert diatribe against clueless managers here]
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
That kind of book should be used in the formations of the deciders.
Now, every company leader wants to be on the Internet, and has to be on the Internet.
First, because it makes them feel more confortable when they're talking to their friends of other companies, second, a lot of them think it will help them to reach new markets, and third, you're not seen as serious if you're not.
The problem is not to be or not to be on the Internet, the problem is to find a good use for the wonderful tool that the web is.
That's were so many companies are lost, spending a lot of maney for sites of poor quality, without any practical use for their consumers.
I've noticed that for a lot of companies, their web presence isn't measured up to the same standard as their bricks and mortar company. One of the best examples of this is publishing companies, mostly because it's these that I would expect to have the best idea of what constitutes a good looking site. An early poor example was apcmag.com which had a complete refit of their web site a few years ago, even involving the server being down for a few days. When it came back up, it had a new look. One of the factors in the new look was that the link for the contact addresses was in blue type on a blue background.
I'm sure that everybody else here has examples of the same problems.
I'd like to pose a challenge:
Give one example of a site which uses java, javascript, or frames, where the same think couldn't have been done better with simple, single frame HTML.
"but I wish the authors would have included all the details, instead of protecting the guilty by anonymizing individual failure stories."
"I should point out that Business @ the Speed of Stupid is one of the only books not willing to pull punches."
hmm
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I do a lot of product checking online, and I'm amazed by how few businesses there are that follow even the simple step of putting their current junk mail pamphlet on the web. I'm wondering how effective they think the advertising would be if the paper flyer which was widely distributed showed the product, listed features, and then asked the customer to call them for a price.
I think that there is a middle ground between giving name and address and offering online shopping.
I know that they want the feedback, but for a lot of the equipment I'm searching for, mainly scientific apparatus, price variations of 10 times the cheapest price are not unusual, this is really stupid.
Why can't they use the same trick as the paper version and print a disclaimer about the price changing without notice?
In other words, the word "fail" sorta implies that there was a snowball's chance you would succeed. I mean, let's say that I'm going to create a business that will build rockets and provide vacations on the moon. When the business fails, you don't do a post-mortem and ask why it failed. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
The same was true of the dot-com era. There was a suspension of disbelief -- people actually thought we really could provide moon vacations. BTW, I use "rockets" because I suspect that the next overhyped tech bubble is going to space (that, or biotech).
We geeks are often frusterated by websites that come up blank because we use Netscape on Linux without Flash. This isn't the cause of their failure, but a symptom that businesses were run by people that didn't understand business.
For example, in order to tested out the famous flop "boo.com", I attempted to buy something from their website. It was very pretty and artistic, but no matter which browser combination I tried, I simply could not get the website to work. To the business owners, actually fulfilling customer wishes was a minor details that the techies could work out. Like building rockets, business owners couldn't build what they were promising -- an much of what they were promising would be impossible to build.
BTW, I created an enormously successful new-economy business that was profitable for 3 years. We had to be profitable. We went to the VCs with the business model that we were going to build a better mouse-trap, and leverage word-of-mouth. They laughed at us and told us it wasn't about product, but "branding", and how naive we were. Since we got no VC funding, we didn't have the luxary of building a loss making business.
There are no lessons to be learned from the failed dot-coms, any more than lessons to be learned from a failed moon vacation business. This means that there is no magic formula for building a successful new economy business.
PS: The funny thing is, despite the lack of super bowl commercials and absolutely zero advertising, we built a strong brand. The VCs are right -- you do need branding, it's just that vapid commercials don't build strong brands -- satisfied customers do.
Slashdot must have some sort of contract to sell only books from FatBrain (stupid name, BTW). If you want the absolute best price on a book, check out Add All.
Step 1. Use words and phrases such as 'sucks!', '100 percent crap', 'let's be clear', 'lemmings', etc.
Step 2. Complain about everything anyone does in the field you are studying.
Step 3. Forge a 'correct' way of doing things from whatever someone else is not doing. Do not actually spell out this 'correct' way of doing things using full descriptions or logic - but through insults of the current methods and twisted catch phrases.
Step 4. Edit, publish, and hope people can use your book as an excuse to use common sense.
(Optional) Step 5. Wait one economic cycle, go to step 1.
Ryan Fenton
that there are a lot more bad ideas still out there. Okay maybe they're not all bad, but I still don't want to:
Use wireless when I could be using a cable
surf the web on my phone.
have my personal documents on somebody else's computer.
do anything in virtual reality.
oh, and I'm never going to bug groceries, clothes or pets over the web, or install linux on my grandmother's computer.
Here's a great business plan: If nobody wants to buy what you're selling........
Sell it on the web.
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So, rest easy there, guy.
I mean, some of that stuff was already obvious 2 years ago, before the big crash, now there's no audacity anymore in saying that "eToys sucked" and "Boo.com was bound to fail".
"almost certainly"? How scientific.
There were a whole lot of really smart business people who seemed to turn their brains off when they started talking about making money on the web. They thought that since they were doing business on the web, then needed the newest technology, to give them the competitive edge, when the reality was their sites sucked because their content sucked, and their business was crappy because they had ignored all of the basic principles they should have learned in Business 101.
Stupid people exist in all professions. As a race at least 90+% of people are idiots. I've yet to work for a company that doesn't have an idiot for a boss, nor yet seen a company without at least one primodana engineer.
If your full of sh*t to begin with, you're not going to listen.. REALLY listen to others opinions because you're too judgemental already.
Open minds, good reserach, well thought out plans and executed strategies will give you the best survival ratio out there.
-M-
Ps.. Schooling really doesn't matter.. School gives you a foundation of knowledge. I've had little schooling but I've been a magazine cover artist to Manager to Director of technology .. Its all about how you apply yourself and having the will to get there.
"Life is all about strategy, mathematics and psychological perceptiveness."
If we could? get rid? of al?l those ?question?marks?
324006
Real eye openers, these:
"There's no point in flash intros".
"Website hits don't mean instant cash."
"If you hire experts, listen to them."
"Get the right people into the right places."
Seriously, I don't think any of this is a problem anymore. Perhaps this book would have made sense two years ago, but working in the business today is a totally different experience. VC funding for the stupid dried up a while ago, and this just seems like a dumb attempt to cash in on hindsight.
So how does this compare to the Cluetrain Manifesto, do its central points agree with or contradict that book? Is Cluetrain still valid today? One thing I noticed was that this book talked about following the "old rules" of business, whereas Cluetrian proposed about a new set of rules, though not the "new rules" that the dot-bombs followed.
Speaking of other media where ideas failed.. Who remembers the goofy Commodore Amiga ad that ran during a Super Bowl? Science fictiony man walks down a hallway of shimmering walls, climbs a stairway and puts his fingers on the keyboard of an Amiga as a voice over says something like "get ready for a whole new experience in home computers" They shot around $1 Million for 30 seconds and left everyone thinking, "Huh?" IIRC, at the same time IBM was using a Charlie Chaplin look-alike to successfully move PC's and sign businesses.
Communication is the key, but often the suits pay too much attention to style over substance, as presented by ad or web design agencies. A good web designer should care about the welfare of a client, because repeat and ongoing business with a client is less costly than trying to bring on new ones, also works great for building good references.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
When I see these books, I always cringe and then scan to see if I see my company's name mentioned. I don't think that it would be, of course, which is why I cringe. Thus far no mention, but like it says, most of the books are anonymous about it.
www.HearMySoulSpeak.com
Probably sitting in a bar somewhere, drowning their sorrows and commiserating with Cassandra and Diogenes.
KFG
This review looks excelent. With my father-in-law starting his own company and wanting to use me as one of the group IT directors, I see a few more points I need to address. These types of book are invaluable for those starting their own companies.
I do find that all too many points brought up with this book are completely true. One of the things we're persuing, is re-doing the current web pages for several of our customers. Most, if not all of the ones we've looked at are absolutely horrible!
I guess the best reason for using this book is to at least show you that pile of shit that the last few failed companies stepped in on their path to wealth.
Anyway, bookpool.com usually has the lowest prices for new tech books.
So, they point out a whole bunch of obvious flaws and recommend using standard business practice. The tone sounds somewhat rantish, with very little new or profound insight.
Granted, they do have situational anecdotes to illustrate this, but anyone with any business sense and a peek into the failed dot-com era could have put this together. This book is only of value to those still interested in the billion-dollar start-ups of 2 years ago.
Any spoon would be too big.
Tesco is doing pretty well at the moment: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/21713 .html...
For the first half of the year, they made £146 million of sales (~= $211 million) and made a loss of £3million, much of which was due to costs in setting up their wine retailing business. They expect to make a profit by the end of the year.
That's not bad considering Tesco.com hasn't been going very long.
Tesco claim to be able to deliver to 90% of the UK population.
I use both Teso and Sainsburys online shopping, and they're very useful. It seems many other UK shoppers agree with me. However, I can see that it is the kind of thing that could work better in the UK than US... The UK is much more densely populated, making deliveries more economical (especially as 80% of the population is urban...), and because of the thinner roads (less space to make 'em in, and a lot town centres are many hundreds of years old) driving to the supermarket is considerably less attractive due to congestion...
Hang on though. Two wrongs don't make a right. Not doing things wrong does not mean that you do them splendidly.
Now if only you could write a book that explains in foolproof ways how to do the latter ...
A review for slashdot about stupidity shouldn't have those oxymoronic smart quotes in it.
Much more fun, and plenty of actual examples.
Many businesses knew they had bad business plans, but that didn't mean they couldn't get money or have the chance to get obscenely rich anyway. We weren't in the business of building solid companies, we were in the business of making money. Given the free flowing VC money tap, I think the only stupid people were the VCs.
I was making a list of stupid sites to post here, but one of then crashed my browser while I was composing the message.
Is this book more authoratative than the de facto chronicle of disingenuity?
What value does this book add? I sense some irony here.
I'd love to send a couple dozen copies to my former employer.
She'd surround herself with lots of smart folks and then just ignore what they had to say.
It might also explain the 50% turn-over rate thay have.
However, The one thing about books like these is that the "folks in charge" won't read them. As a front line techie building websites, we often have to explain to the account reps the why and how things work on the internet. No matter how many times you tell them that it's not "business as usual" and that the "if you build it, they will come" mentality is off base, they still want things their way.
In many ways I wish things were like it was two years ago. Far too many stupid people willing to throw money at a project. Now, it seems that they've all gone the way of the dinosaur.
Thank god for the brochureware sites or I'd be out of a job!
Goran
Carpe Scrotum - The only way to deal with your competition.
Aimster's ceo is a complete idiot. We kept telling him things like "no, people don't want the program's skin to randomly change every 8 seconds" (yes, that was really one of his ideas) but he insisted. In that case we won out, hooray. Too bad he's such a piece of shit and fucked everybody over!
No, you don't speak for everyone. You speak, like every other time you open your mouth, for the retarded.
Where did venture capitalists fit in?
Did they belong among the ranks of the "Stupid" or were they shrewd almost beyond belief?
I have often wondered how many venture capitalists were really smart underneath all the hype. The shrewd venture capitalist would have recognized in a second that the dot-comers' business plans were stupid to non-existant, but then he would realize, "Wait a minute, there is real big money to be made here! It doesn't matter whether I, the venture capitalist, know that the idea is sophomoric, it only matters whether all the born-a-minute suckers out there will swallow it hook, line and sinker.".
In particular, if investors swallow it, the plan is bound to succeed in a perverse kind of way. Once the bandwagon is rolling everybody wants to get on. "Momentum investors" will buy the stock if the price can be persuaded to rise on the basis of a little hype. Once it is rising, more "momentum investors" will jump on keeping it rising, and so on. Does the company make or sell a good product or have a good web site? Who cares, the stock price price is going up! Stock market analysts can be bought who will hype just about anything, "as long as the price is going up". Even the government eventually jumps on board, "We have an election to win, we've got to keep this boom going.". Al Gore even invented the internet!
Venture capitalists, by nature, invest in early startups, and after the company is launched, they cash out and recycle their money in "the next big thing". So the shrewd and cynical venture capitalist should have made out like a bandit. I am sure ther are many venture capitalists out there who are saying, "What dot-com bust, for me the dot-com bubble was a success beyong belief! Web sites were amateurish? It sure didn't matter to me!".
what I think is most forgotten is that the Internet boom was not stupid. Failure is a part of this sort of technological explosion. It's easy to feel stupid if you thouht it would grow that way forever. It's easy to feel stupid if you compare with 1998. But if you look a scant 5-6 years back you will see that everything is MUCH advanced.
iow, it was a good idea to let us blow all the money. It was necessarry to ensure the better ideas also got funded.
Maybe I'm biased, I was at a bunch of poorly run companies that succeeded anyway (although not always according to the plan as seen by execs).
-pyrrho
Business for stupids... it's easy to quip about who's right and who's not on this book, but that's only because it's "after the fact". If you were smart enough, yes, with hindsight you could of seen the .com burst and the mp3 burst, and jumped on the wagon but it's easier to sit back and realize what works and what doesn't. and the net was here longer than most engineers were net engineers.. i'll admit the net is much older than i, but i'm also smart enough to know i don't know everything. it's always a balancing act. to much of one thing is not good. it would have been a great laugh at the companies but many have made the same mistake. it feels at time, though, i'm a cattle hearder and i'm just watching the masses go "MOOOO".... there is a definite gap between computer user's now... it' s much to dynamic and in the beggining it was easier to pick up a book and see exactly what this chip set did. if you don't bend the "wire" by your fingers, then you will find yourself being bent. the world of the baud is now bigger than anyone could of imagined. it's alive.
if applied here, people would realize that while it sounds simplistic and silly therefore... why isn't it that people DONT DO IT?! Because they are PHB's that care more about running in place with their army of fellow PHB's communicating by forms and red tape. If people would prioritize WORK and RESULTS as number 1, then stuck to it, you would avoid crap like this
I don't see what's so difficult about the .com buisness model:
1) Make a website
2) ?????
3) BIG PROFIT!
it's not that hard, really!
The previous has been a secret message to my comrades.
Did someone forget to demoronise their MS-HTML? Or are you really that unsure of yourself?
I can explanate how to administrate your network. You must configurate and segmentate it, so it can computate.
Okay, I couldn't resist. Newbies, all of you.
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Why we have comparison shopping portals if we still have to look at several site is beyond me, though...
It amazes me that books like this continue to be pumped out of the publishing industry. Of course they don't have to pull punches - of course they are accurate...hindsight always is.
Step 1. Generally criticize the subject's use of colloquial words and phrases, without giving a logical reason why they should not.
Step 2. Portray the subject as intolerant and a know-it-all, while attempting not to come across as intolerant and a know-it-all.
Step 3. Condemn the subject's analysis as illogical, trite, and insulting, simply because you weren't spoon-fed the way you like to be.
Step 4. Act like it's common sense to know what the subject is saying, in spite of previous attempts to discredit them.
(Optional) Step 5. Wait for a new subject, go to step 1.
Notnef Nayr
What's a second? An hour? A day?
It has much more to do with
the Earth's rotation than with cesium.
This site uses java to do things that can not be done in HTML. Note that java is only needed to actually play the games, not for anything else. How would you write a NES emulator in HTML? Java, ActiveX, or a downloadable executable or plugin are the only ways.
http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/one.html
Thanks!
:^)
Ryan Fenton
Remember investment money led people to believe in stupid things. Without easy capital (other people's money) and several international financial crises (Mexico,Asia,Russia) filling the stupid pool, most believers people would not have been baptized.