The only people who enjoy using it are the bean counting compliance officers. For everyone else, its horse apples. They will do anything to get your business. Pretend to be in development on something, free support for the first 2 years, etc. etc.
They are the Microsoft of their particular area of business. They use alot of force and will drop their pants on the price of any one of their products in order to prevent losing business deals.
Anyone who buys their ERP product will be in professional services hell for 1-2 years, will be told that they need to check with them before implementing any new products, and yes, they will never get it running as sold.
I worked in that industry for one of their $3B purchases.
I remember that one day we found bugs implanted under the desks in the executive board room. Or that they one day found bugs implanted in the area where we invite our customers to view products, get briefed on recent purchase, or have the experience of the corporate culture.
The point here is that this industry is so competitive, that I sincerely doubt that Oracles' S*** does not stink.
SAP and Salesforce.com are "Eating Larry Ellison's Lunch" and hes off racing boats, flying planes under the Golden Gate Bridge, etc. etc.
Get to work and show us how you have integrated all these purchases (recently they bought Hyperion for $3B +) have come to create performace. What the lawsuit really shows us is that they are losing the battle.
American Parents need to be prosecuted by our laws for the actions of their children. Growing up, I was constantly reminded by my teachers and my parents that if I commit a crime as a minor, my parents could be held equally accountable.
Not knowing if that was actually true then, it seems like a pretty good idea to me.
Placing the entire responsibility in plain view like this would be a positive post-action to this decision. Sure the liberals will quip "but what if [substitute a situation]", but lets get one thing straight here: You are the conscious of your children until they are 18 years old. Therefore, the ultimate responsibility for protection from all things evil and wrong is the parent.
"What if my child is just wild, and just commits a crime to get me in trouble?"
Let me say this: If you have a precedence set which shows you have done everything imaginable to prevent that crime from happening, how can you be held accountably negligent? In itself, this wipes out the majority of slacking little fund sucking little freeloading parents in the US that are basically asking Legislators to raise their children- in the schools, in the afterschool programs, and on the weekends.
I'm sick of all the oversite. Childporn is wrong, disgusting, and a very real problem. However, the gating point for access to my children is me
Once you are put into one of those "gifted " programs, parents take the leash off their kids. I was in several honors programs every year of my life it seems, and usually what happend was that we would figure out better ways to screw things up than our peers and predecessors. For example, we poured an expanding compound into the toilets that reacted with water rather than dropping in water proof cherry bombs.
Heavy Metal as a character trait?
I'm still waiting for them to say "gifted children are 4x as likely to wear blue socks than red, according to the Norwegian Swede Liberal-Communist Scientific Union's recent study"
The reality here is that they have no idea NONE about what to do with the batteries after 7 years. At some point those batteries will need to be changed because their capacity will deteriorate. There is also a danger of leaking which they have not addressed to date.
The level of pollution of just one of those batteries is extremely toxic to the environment in that it will remain in the ground. Imagine the entire public of automotive drivers owning a hybrid- what the heck are they going to do then? Some of the 1st generation Prius vehicles are due for that 7 year mark very very soon.
I am not anti-prius, but what I am against is skewed fact. Banging away at a vehicle such as the H2 is a joke to me when considered against other vehicles such as the Cayenne Turbo, the Cayenne S and the Cayenne. These vehicles are just a hairs length above the H2, so why is the Hummer getting stuck?
And then there is the new Audi SUV, and the Volvo SUV, and on and on. They are all crappy gas guzzling jokes which see less than 10% off road time and are often in 4 wheel drive in winter conditions that most often are unnecessary.
The absolute unfortunate truth in this case is that it will not matter what requirements the state of California sets forth, because in the end it serves not the people but the income of the government.
You see, in California, we have this precedence of hiring under-motivate, under-educated, people into roles to fulfill status-quo on the premise of serving equality.
This results in a rule that I call "Factor 4" where by you can take the initial cost of any related project, service or resource requisition, and thereby multiply it by factor of 4 in order to obtain the actual cost to the government.
Sadly, Factor 4, is a direct result of the mediocrity that has taken up residence within all of our government agencies. I cannot imagine a bigger nightmare than this one that I just read about. Half of the institutions within the government are filled with people that have no idea what that means, and lack the education to understand it.
With this being true, we open the door to committees, educational round-tables to determine educational requirements, requisitions for training, then post-comittees to evaluate if the needs were met, then another comittee to determine if the proper mixture of minority members were upheld, then further we'll add layers of evaluation to insure that all submissions qualified with the sole purpose of perpetuating a verification process that checks itself sometimes 3 times over- with absolutely no guarantee that said process is: accurate, predictable, or effective.
All this does is allow state governments the ability to ask for additional funding, which they will earmark with non-related items, and then fund other programs with the initial request.
Translation- the greater good for which said items are presented will be moderately served.
Outcome: Ho hum and whatever. Can't we think of better things to do with my tax money than fuddling around with this area of business? I say they throw out this status quo requirement and start paying people what they are worth so that we can get some really bright minds into our state governments.
If going to a bar/ club were my only pastime outside of my career, then I would be playing a game like WoW.
Popular culture seems to create a certain level of narrow-mindedness that limits your opportunities to be happy and socially content, and illustrated by this type of defensive comment.
NASA's internal documentation on the causes of that disaster are well documented and self presented in their own report, a documentary,a Movie of the Week, and etc.
It was a major portion of study in college for us from 1990. Presented by a professor of psychology that was also a member of Stanford University. Call me lazy, but I dont feel like pulling the documents for you. Go out to the internet and find them youself.
Group Think was the major reason why the O-Rings were not updated or repaired due in fact to this effect.
It's called "Group Think" and it was a major factor of evidence in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia. We've already read this, been over this, and done this. Is this a presentation of a new idea, or an idea restated in a new light?
Either way, it's always a good idea to realize that in most cases, people are in a situation to satisfy themselves first, then those who are most related to that self next.
I find that in meetings I lead, I spend more time chairing the discussion than growing the actual discussion from the seeds of creation. Group think tends to be the by-product of that one person in your meeting who wont let go of their own idea and continues to bludgeon the group into submission.
The point of my opinion is in fact wrapped around the difference between real world and MMORPG's.
Those parallels that would be drawn around TV and Music are not necessarily similar in that neither one of those mediums are interactive. There is an output that requires no input.
In either case, Im not arguing the merits or demerits of other forms of entertainment, I am only stating my opinion on this one aspect of PC entertainment.
Playing online games that keep you cocooned in your home, alone, is not really a past-time- its social aversion. Making the quests shorter, the game less time consuming, and on the whole much more aesthetically pleasing with better UI and etc. isnt really an upside to something that has caused people so much pain.
There is no reason for this product to be heralded, in my opinion, because, in life, no one should have to pay anyone in order to have friends.
Protest all that you would like about this post, however, I do believe that there are plenty of people who have posted their experiences which often end in marital problems, economic problems (job loss, financial traumas) and mental health problems. All of these seem to correspond with social problems that may or may not have existed before hand, and are now exasperated to the point of extremes.
Your point is well taken. In fact, it's a well known fact that it is widely held opinion that a high dosage of radiation, administered across most of the Middle East, could very well resolve some of the problems we are having with terrorism.
Turns out that Terrorists are like Cancer, and if we'd only administer radiation treatment, we'd be free of the problem and in full remission.
This person isnt telling us everything.
Likely what has happend is that they were hired, marched into work and said "I'll give you two weeks but I have another job" and went on his merry way.
As word around the office circulates, because our bright commentator here has probably told at least 3 people (so the FBI says in their study of secrets and human behavior), the word gets back around to key managers, executives, and HR. They confirm this with their competitors HR department, and proceed to tell our author "hey buddy- thansk for the heads up, but you didnt tell us it was a competitor".
I work in Silicon Valley, and have been at a fair number of competitive companies where the war in digital widgets is waged daily. The truth be know, that most agreements are at will- in that you dont have to give any reason, any time to act, or otherwise. You can march in and say "Im done" and sign your exit papers that day.
On the other hand, you are bound by the terms of your initial contract, many of which require disclosure of any and all material knowledge of impending or existing conditions that could damage the corporation you are working for.
Being hired by a competitor and not sharing that is the most common form of violation I see in the workplace. I've been hired by a competitor, and I walked into work that very next day and said "thanks for the role I have had here, I would like to submit my intent to terminate our agreement effective two weeks from this day. I have been hired by company X, would like to offer you two weeks of my time and an opportunity to counter offer."
Counter offers failed after 6 hours of conversation, conference calls, lunch, and such. At which time, because it was a competitor, they asked me to empty my pockets, fill up a cardboard box with my personal effects under secure supervision, and surrender my cellular phone and laptop. I signed an NDA for information specific to non-public information, promisary to return all digital information + copies in my possession within 48 hours, and was handed a termination check for all time unpaid, sick days, vacation, plus an addition 4 weeks and a pro-rated benefit from my accrued bonus cap.
THAT is how you leave a job in good graces of an employer and go to a competitor. What I read in this is that full disclosure did not exist. For all we know, this person also was downloading data, and prepping himself to be competitive against his former company.
Whatever- purely innocent people rarely recieve collateral damage.
The moment that you give them to someone outside of your corporate security blanket, you are at the mercy of the person whom you release that publication to.
Your business card is no different than if your content information to a telephone pole and then complained because someone who wasnt a target audience called you after reading it. Or if a contact aggregator added you to a business journal of businesses that provide a specific type of service.
The "morale" of your story should be: "don't put your direct line on your business card if you dont want to risk being called directly by unwanted parties".
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The only people who enjoy using it are the bean counting compliance officers.
For everyone else, its horse apples.
They will do anything to get your business. Pretend to be in development on something, free support for the first 2 years, etc. etc.
They are the Microsoft of their particular area of business. They use alot of force and will drop their pants on the price of any one of their products in order to prevent losing business deals.
Anyone who buys their ERP product will be in professional services hell for 1-2 years, will be told that they need to check with them before implementing any new products, and yes, they will never get it running as sold.
I worked in that industry for one of their $3B purchases.
I remember that one day we found bugs implanted under the desks in the executive board room. Or that they one day found bugs implanted in the area where we invite our customers to view products, get briefed on recent purchase, or have the experience of the corporate culture.
The point here is that this industry is so competitive, that I sincerely doubt that Oracles' S*** does not stink.
SAP and Salesforce.com are "Eating Larry Ellison's Lunch" and hes off racing boats, flying planes under the Golden Gate Bridge, etc. etc.
Get to work and show us how you have integrated all these purchases (recently they bought Hyperion for $3B +) have come to create performace. What the lawsuit really shows us is that they are losing the battle.
American Parents need to be prosecuted by our laws for the actions of their children. Growing up, I was constantly reminded by my teachers and my parents that if I commit a crime as a minor, my parents could be held equally accountable. Not knowing if that was actually true then, it seems like a pretty good idea to me. Placing the entire responsibility in plain view like this would be a positive post-action to this decision. Sure the liberals will quip "but what if [substitute a situation]", but lets get one thing straight here: You are the conscious of your children until they are 18 years old. Therefore, the ultimate responsibility for protection from all things evil and wrong is the parent. "What if my child is just wild, and just commits a crime to get me in trouble?" Let me say this: If you have a precedence set which shows you have done everything imaginable to prevent that crime from happening, how can you be held accountably negligent? In itself, this wipes out the majority of slacking little fund sucking little freeloading parents in the US that are basically asking Legislators to raise their children- in the schools, in the afterschool programs, and on the weekends. I'm sick of all the oversite. Childporn is wrong, disgusting, and a very real problem. However, the gating point for access to my children is me
Once you are put into one of those "gifted " programs, parents take the leash off their kids. I was in several honors programs every year of my life it seems, and usually what happend was that we would figure out better ways to screw things up than our peers and predecessors. For example, we poured an expanding compound into the toilets that reacted with water rather than dropping in water proof cherry bombs.
Heavy Metal as a character trait?
I'm still waiting for them to say "gifted children are 4x as likely to wear blue socks than red, according to the Norwegian Swede Liberal-Communist Scientific Union's recent study"
So does this mean the Easter Bunny wont be coming to my house this year for the egg hunt?
The reality here is that they have no idea NONE about what to do with the batteries after 7 years.
At some point those batteries will need to be changed because their capacity will deteriorate.
There is also a danger of leaking which they have not addressed to date.
The level of pollution of just one of those batteries is extremely toxic to the environment in that it will remain in the ground. Imagine the entire public of automotive drivers owning a hybrid- what the heck are they going to do then? Some of the 1st generation Prius vehicles are due for that 7 year mark very very soon.
I am not anti-prius, but what I am against is skewed fact. Banging away at a vehicle such as the H2 is a joke to me when considered against other vehicles such as the Cayenne Turbo, the Cayenne S and the Cayenne. These vehicles are just a hairs length above the H2, so why is the Hummer getting stuck?
And then there is the new Audi SUV, and the Volvo SUV, and on and on. They are all crappy gas guzzling jokes which see less than 10% off road time and are often in 4 wheel drive in winter conditions that most often are unnecessary.
Editing my link- doesnt seem to work
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http://www.lao.ca.gov/2006/major_features/major_f
So what you are saying is:
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The total cost of most projects in California occur under budget.
I'll allow you the opportunity to see how well we are doing right here:
http://www.lao.ca.gov/2006/major_features/major_f
California is so ontrack that there are a ton of revisements.
Yeah- Im an idiot.
Thanks for flaming me- I think if you read what I said we are actually in agreement.
The two things are parallels on the same plane- you cant have what I say without what you say.
Forest for the trees and all, ya know?
The absolute unfortunate truth in this case is that it will not matter what requirements the state of California sets forth, because in the end it serves not the people but the income of the government.
You see, in California, we have this precedence of hiring under-motivate, under-educated, people into roles to fulfill status-quo on the premise of serving equality.
This results in a rule that I call "Factor 4" where by you can take the initial cost of any related project, service or resource requisition, and thereby multiply it by factor of 4 in order to obtain the actual cost to the government.
Sadly, Factor 4, is a direct result of the mediocrity that has taken up residence within all of our government agencies. I cannot imagine a bigger nightmare than this one that I just read about. Half of the institutions within the government are filled with people that have no idea what that means, and lack the education to understand it.
With this being true, we open the door to committees, educational round-tables to determine educational requirements, requisitions for training, then post-comittees to evaluate if the needs were met, then another comittee to determine if the proper mixture of minority members were upheld, then further we'll add layers of evaluation to insure that all submissions qualified with the sole purpose of perpetuating a verification process that checks itself sometimes 3 times over- with absolutely no guarantee that said process is: accurate, predictable, or effective.
All this does is allow state governments the ability to ask for additional funding, which they will earmark with non-related items, and then fund other programs with the initial request.
Translation- the greater good for which said items are presented will be moderately served.
Outcome: Ho hum and whatever. Can't we think of better things to do with my tax money than fuddling around with this area of business? I say they throw out this status quo requirement and start paying people what they are worth so that we can get some really bright minds into our state governments.
Actually- my bad- it was Challenger.
If going to a bar/ club were my only pastime outside of my career, then I would be playing a game like WoW.
Popular culture seems to create a certain level of narrow-mindedness that limits your opportunities to be happy and socially content, and illustrated by this type of defensive comment.
NASA's internal documentation on the causes of that disaster are well documented and self presented in their own report, a documentary,a Movie of the Week, and etc.
It was a major portion of study in college for us from 1990. Presented by a professor of psychology that was also a member of Stanford University. Call me lazy, but I dont feel like pulling the documents for you. Go out to the internet and find them youself.
Group Think was the major reason why the O-Rings were not updated or repaired due in fact to this effect.
It's called "Group Think" and it was a major factor of evidence in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia. We've already read this, been over this, and done this. Is this a presentation of a new idea, or an idea restated in a new light?
Either way, it's always a good idea to realize that in most cases, people are in a situation to satisfy themselves first, then those who are most related to that self next.
I find that in meetings I lead, I spend more time chairing the discussion than growing the actual discussion from the seeds of creation. Group think tends to be the by-product of that one person in your meeting who wont let go of their own idea and continues to bludgeon the group into submission.
The point of my opinion is in fact wrapped around the difference between real world and MMORPG's. Those parallels that would be drawn around TV and Music are not necessarily similar in that neither one of those mediums are interactive. There is an output that requires no input. In either case, Im not arguing the merits or demerits of other forms of entertainment, I am only stating my opinion on this one aspect of PC entertainment.
Playing online games that keep you cocooned in your home, alone, is not really a past-time- its social aversion. Making the quests shorter, the game less time consuming, and on the whole much more aesthetically pleasing with better UI and etc. isnt really an upside to something that has caused people so much pain.
There is no reason for this product to be heralded, in my opinion, because, in life, no one should have to pay anyone in order to have friends.
Protest all that you would like about this post, however, I do believe that there are plenty of people who have posted their experiences which often end in marital problems, economic problems (job loss, financial traumas) and mental health problems. All of these seem to correspond with social problems that may or may not have existed before hand, and are now exasperated to the point of extremes.
Just my opinion, and I am free to share it.
Your point is well taken. In fact, it's a well known fact that it is widely held opinion that a high dosage of radiation, administered across most of the Middle East, could very well resolve some of the problems we are having with terrorism. Turns out that Terrorists are like Cancer, and if we'd only administer radiation treatment, we'd be free of the problem and in full remission.
This person isnt telling us everything. Likely what has happend is that they were hired, marched into work and said "I'll give you two weeks but I have another job" and went on his merry way. As word around the office circulates, because our bright commentator here has probably told at least 3 people (so the FBI says in their study of secrets and human behavior), the word gets back around to key managers, executives, and HR. They confirm this with their competitors HR department, and proceed to tell our author "hey buddy- thansk for the heads up, but you didnt tell us it was a competitor". I work in Silicon Valley, and have been at a fair number of competitive companies where the war in digital widgets is waged daily. The truth be know, that most agreements are at will- in that you dont have to give any reason, any time to act, or otherwise. You can march in and say "Im done" and sign your exit papers that day. On the other hand, you are bound by the terms of your initial contract, many of which require disclosure of any and all material knowledge of impending or existing conditions that could damage the corporation you are working for. Being hired by a competitor and not sharing that is the most common form of violation I see in the workplace. I've been hired by a competitor, and I walked into work that very next day and said "thanks for the role I have had here, I would like to submit my intent to terminate our agreement effective two weeks from this day. I have been hired by company X, would like to offer you two weeks of my time and an opportunity to counter offer." Counter offers failed after 6 hours of conversation, conference calls, lunch, and such. At which time, because it was a competitor, they asked me to empty my pockets, fill up a cardboard box with my personal effects under secure supervision, and surrender my cellular phone and laptop. I signed an NDA for information specific to non-public information, promisary to return all digital information + copies in my possession within 48 hours, and was handed a termination check for all time unpaid, sick days, vacation, plus an addition 4 weeks and a pro-rated benefit from my accrued bonus cap. THAT is how you leave a job in good graces of an employer and go to a competitor. What I read in this is that full disclosure did not exist. For all we know, this person also was downloading data, and prepping himself to be competitive against his former company. Whatever- purely innocent people rarely recieve collateral damage.
The moment that you give them to someone outside of your corporate security blanket, you are at the mercy of the person whom you release that publication to. Your business card is no different than if your content information to a telephone pole and then complained because someone who wasnt a target audience called you after reading it. Or if a contact aggregator added you to a business journal of businesses that provide a specific type of service. The "morale" of your story should be: "don't put your direct line on your business card if you dont want to risk being called directly by unwanted parties".