That reminds me, an agency compliance guru at a telco once commented "Those fancy plastic bezels you guys all design to differentiate your product? We rip them off and throw them away before the equipment goes in a rack."
Brain Drain has most often referred to the draw the US has had for educated professionals from other countries, particularly Europe and the UK. It was quite pronounced from the late 40s to mid 60s, and I believe our old immigration laws encouraged it. Now it seems to be reversing, not a happy sign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_drain
Just pot it all! Can't put my fingers on the facts, but non-operating hard drives are now close to triple-digit G ratings I believe, and SSDs should be pretty robust.
Makes me think of the time I downloaded a very large app disguised as a.wav file - after three hours of downloading, Windows kindly told me it wasn't a valid wav - poof, gone!!
Common wisdom about MRP systems used to be that yes, you could certainly roll your own - it would take you three years, and you would then own a system three years out of date, and designed for where your company was three years ago. Yeah, you could totally code that in 2-3 months. After a year or two is spent on specification, stakeholder buy-in, budgeting, project planning and all that stuff the suits do. And no, you can't fork the project because you got your feelings hurt!!
Yup, that's why Paychex, ADP and many others are worth every penny. Anyone with more than 10 or 20 employees is incurring a lot of overhead doing their own payroll.
Puts me in mind of the numerous (see Pop Sci and Radio & Electronics from the 50s) attempts to power submarines with the "free" power of the earth's magnetic field.
My company is all about the non-meeting. It's not all you'd hope for, believe me. In general, having an agenda (rare thing in most companies) and someone to step through it (rarer) without trying to solve the world's problems can make meetings a thing that employees can handle without dreading boredom. No chairs, lots of whiteboards, and each victim standing in front of his/her own section is tremendously productive:-)
And it's pretty obvious that copy editors have been the biggest casualty of that philosophy, as the quality of print spelling and grammar sinks to the level of wired.com
I had a Loft in SoHo - the old URL still works, but you can't wander the blocks in the neighborhoods any more, not for a long time. Sad, there was community there. Way to go Yahoo, spend a boatload of cash on the Ur-MySpace, and do......nothing? Had a flat in Corel Towers in Fortune City too!
Absolutely true. My beloved 16 year old Micron 486 died recently. Hoping the 1GB Quantum SCSI drive is still okay. This machine cost $4100 - without a monitor, I bought a 21 inch NEC separately for $2500. It was a serious workhorse for 5 years (the monitor for 10), when it was replaced by a machine that cost 1/3 the price. For 500 bucks you should be able to build a kick-ass system that will last him 5 years. If he budgets a maintenance reserve of $10/week, he'll have another screamer in five years.
There was a mass exodus to personal computers so we would no longer have to deal with IT or MIS or whatever the keepers of the temple were called back then.
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That reminds me, an agency compliance guru at a telco once commented "Those fancy plastic bezels you guys all design to differentiate your product? We rip them off and throw them away before the equipment goes in a rack."
Here's a good reason to do it three years early - http://www.globalorgasm.org/
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom.
Brain Drain has most often referred to the draw the US has had for educated professionals from other countries, particularly Europe and the UK. It was quite pronounced from the late 40s to mid 60s, and I believe our old immigration laws encouraged it. Now it seems to be reversing, not a happy sign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_drain
Just pot it all! Can't put my fingers on the facts, but non-operating hard drives are now close to triple-digit G ratings I believe, and SSDs should be pretty robust.
Ever seen a rack mount hard drive for a HP3000?
Ah, tripods - maybe someone in Texas can get Homeland Security funding for razor-sharp ground-grazing windmill mazes along the border.
The mortgage biz is slow, gotta find something new
I thought I'd seen everything, but I must have missed hexagonal close-packed pr0n - damn!
Makes me think of the time I downloaded a very large app disguised as a .wav file - after three hours of downloading, Windows kindly told me it wasn't a valid wav - poof, gone!!
Common wisdom about MRP systems used to be that yes, you could certainly roll your own - it would take you three years, and you would then own a system three years out of date, and designed for where your company was three years ago. Yeah, you could totally code that in 2-3 months. After a year or two is spent on specification, stakeholder buy-in, budgeting, project planning and all that stuff the suits do. And no, you can't fork the project because you got your feelings hurt!!
Yup, that's why Paychex, ADP and many others are worth every penny. Anyone with more than 10 or 20 employees is incurring a lot of overhead doing their own payroll.
Puts me in mind of the numerous (see Pop Sci and Radio & Electronics from the 50s) attempts to power submarines with the "free" power of the earth's magnetic field.
WTF? There's no turns on a strip - drag or Main. And the chicks have no clue waht a Ferrari is.
Yep, RIP CBS motorized color wheel - thank god!
> Seems like it would have been a perfectly valid statement if they added ".... in bed." to the end of the sentence.
Fixed that.....
Sorry, GM already killed Olds
And at what point do you need someone else to know what you're doing?
Just like a session with a shrink - sob, that's what... I'm sorry, our time is up!
that would be epididymis, not epidemy
My company is all about the non-meeting. It's not all you'd hope for, believe me. In general, having an agenda (rare thing in most companies) and someone to step through it (rarer) without trying to solve the world's problems can make meetings a thing that employees can handle without dreading boredom. No chairs, lots of whiteboards, and each victim standing in front of his/her own section is tremendously productive :-)
And it's pretty obvious that copy editors have been the biggest casualty of that philosophy, as the quality of print spelling and grammar sinks to the level of wired.com
I had a Loft in SoHo - the old URL still works, but you can't wander the blocks in the neighborhoods any more, not for a long time. Sad, there was community there. Way to go Yahoo, spend a boatload of cash on the Ur-MySpace, and do......nothing? Had a flat in Corel Towers in Fortune City too!
Absolutely true. My beloved 16 year old Micron 486 died recently. Hoping the 1GB Quantum SCSI drive is still okay. This machine cost $4100 - without a monitor, I bought a 21 inch NEC separately for $2500. It was a serious workhorse for 5 years (the monitor for 10), when it was replaced by a machine that cost 1/3 the price. For 500 bucks you should be able to build a kick-ass system that will last him 5 years. If he budgets a maintenance reserve of $10/week, he'll have another screamer in five years.
There was a mass exodus to personal computers so we would no longer have to deal with IT or MIS or whatever the keepers of the temple were called back then.