I moved from techie into sales, and I find your statements completely ridiculous. A poor sales person lies, just a like a poor techie. A good sales person focuses on client or customer needs, and attempts to match the capabilities of the product or service they offer with the customer's needs. When there is a match, then a sale can move forward. When there isn't - then thank them for the opportunity, keep in touch, and move on to the next opportunity.
Sales people who lie will have a short lifespan, their reputation being damaged. I have provided pricing for work that was requested in a non-competitive environment, knew it fit their capability to pay, and knew it was exactly what they asked for - and then I told them they should not pursue the project, becuase it had no measurable business value. They thanked me for my honesty, and I have done about 7 times that amount of work for them since then on other projects.
While the desire for money is powerful, if there are dishonest people in sales, it is because they are dishonest people, not because they are in sales.
Ted Kennedy is a procrastinator, as evidenced by when Mary Jo Kopechne told him she was pregnant, and he said "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
I used it with Novell servers in 1997 and it worked right out of the box;frankly i was shocked and pleased. I also used it as my first POP3 client and liked it, but like most of the world eventually migrated to Outlook for email. It is just too convenient to have calendar/tasks/contacts and email all in one place.
The first time I heard "Street Cred" is when Kobe Bryant accosted a white maid in a hotel room; among youths who but expensive sneakers like he was pushing for Nike, it supposedly "it made him a man", hence "credibility on the street". Let's hope it doesn't ever require actually killing somebody to get that...
I have never replied on/. but had to on this one alone -- great reply. You captured not only the essence of three major sites, you also captured the soul three generations. Nice Job!
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I moved from techie into sales, and I find your statements completely ridiculous. A poor sales person lies, just a like a poor techie. A good sales person focuses on client or customer needs, and attempts to match the capabilities of the product or service they offer with the customer's needs. When there is a match, then a sale can move forward. When there isn't - then thank them for the opportunity, keep in touch, and move on to the next opportunity.
Sales people who lie will have a short lifespan, their reputation being damaged. I have provided pricing for work that was requested in a non-competitive environment, knew it fit their capability to pay, and knew it was exactly what they asked for - and then I told them they should not pursue the project, becuase it had no measurable business value. They thanked me for my honesty, and I have done about 7 times that amount of work for them since then on other projects.
While the desire for money is powerful, if there are dishonest people in sales, it is because they are dishonest people, not because they are in sales.
Ted Kennedy is a procrastinator, as evidenced by when Mary Jo Kopechne told him she was pregnant, and he said "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
I used it with Novell servers in 1997 and it worked right out of the box;frankly i was shocked and pleased. I also used it as my first POP3 client and liked it, but like most of the world eventually migrated to Outlook for email. It is just too convenient to have calendar/tasks/contacts and email all in one place.
I think Howard Stern is already there.
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if someone figures out how to take a TiVo and install a linux distro on it and a mythtv install
I believe that is called a "PC", you can buy them, or do like I do and just buy the parts you need and build it.
Interesting combination: the "F" word and a request to help start a catholic discussion board. Not sure I would ever see that, but I have.
I was thinking the same thing - maybe h could show how cool the Mac is by smoking a joint.
The first time I heard "Street Cred" is when Kobe Bryant accosted a white maid in a hotel room; among youths who but expensive sneakers like he was pushing for Nike, it supposedly "it made him a man", hence "credibility on the street". Let's hope it doesn't ever require actually killing somebody to get that...
Actually what surprised me was:
loose one drive without data loss and only loosing
instead of:
loose one drive without data looss and only loosing
Just get rid of the mod points and let's get on with it already.
And when you say 'take back our country' do you mean wait for the U.S. to show up and kick the germans out? Twice?
I agree with that regarding VB...I am still trying to stop usinh strHungarianNamingConventions, and start using camelCase. :)
You mean like when they supported Windows 98 up until July 11, 2006?
I have never replied on /. but had to on this one alone -- great reply. You captured not only the essence of three major sites, you also captured the soul three generations. Nice Job!