Please stop sullying the name of cockroaches everywhere by associating it with "manager," which, by association, leads to the subspecies "project manager." Otherwise known as "overhead."
Never done Heroin, have done video games, ahh, Pool of Radience, Zelda....
Anyway, if you can't get clean, there is a description on http://www.erowid.org/ about how to make your heroin pure chemically. As noted, I haven't used the technique, don't really vouch for it, and there is a warning about it making synthetic heroin poisonous, but if you are a user, you might want to check it out. Seems better than shooting up dirt or feces. Yuk.
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PS Generally a "pro-chemical" website, the user stories from the heroin section sound pretty hairy...
I've thought about it, done it, and I am thinking about it again. My guess is, like all references, this might give you a few pointers, and help you to avoid some common pitfalls, but you are probably better off doing something to help your business than spending a lot of time reading how to help your business. No one book's solution is going to fit your situation. That said, it is probably worth a quick skim.
One question about the review. Alex says two different people/corporations/entities coined the same term. See quote below. SO which is it?
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"Whats a micro-ISV, you ask? The term ISV or independent software vendor, was coined by Microsoft to describe the set of software companies that were not yet killed by Microsoft not yet bought by Microsoft too small and insignificant to present any interest to Microsoft, except for selling them developer tools and MSDN subscriptions
The term micro-ISV was coined by SourceGears Eric Sink, who was writing a "Business of Software" series of columns for Microsoft Developer Network, and relates to one- (seldom, two- or more-) person software development company.
Actualy, here in the good ol' US of A, some places DO charge you to make local calls. In some places in VT (at least) you are charged 1 cent a minute for local calls. It does have a monthly max of about $10. I used to keep two phone lines. One business/dialup, one family line. The bill would come and they would show the total, (which would be $432 if you stayed online all month) and then show the capped amount of $10.
Really Cisco should buy Sysco (food company, fairly huge) if only to clear up the brand confusion....I'll take my hamburg MAC address with all the TCP/IP fixins...
Weird, I was just in London, and I noticed it as being different. Sure the sandwiches in the Filling Stations are usually of higher quality (local sandwiches where I live in Vermont, USA, are quite good actually) but they are certainly not cheap. I also noticed the fish and chip shops all over and the import American fast food joints, so I am not sure the English should be held up as the exemplars of good eating. Just my perspective.
Very OT, but doesn't the trick seem to be working at something you like/enjoy/are proud of? It seems to me that there are plenty of rich people out there who have too much money and the time weighs heavily on them. Sacrificing for future payouts makes sense, but if their is no enjoyment in the process, how will you know how to enjoy life once you achieve your goal?
I personally don't care much for baseball, or cricket, but I do like pubs. Stats are okay. However, baseball is full of statistics of the slightly more complex sort than who won the game, etc. Things like Slugging Percentage (means how they hit the long ball, not their apptitude in finding shell-less mollusks), Batting average with runners in scoring position, and stuff like that keep spreadsheets whirring. FYI, but it still seems like it is already distributed public information and not intellectual property.
Dell has specifically set out to raise their margins, and they have given that guidance to Wall Street. The XPS line is one way they are hoping to do so. Good luck with that.
As a reseller to the gov, I sell a lot of Dell. Generally they make decent product, but their support is wretched in the extreme.
Badge numbers, customer service reps with no external email or web access, people who have no idea about you or your order, etc. They are focused on one thing: maximizing profit on each and every sale. No exceptions. -A
Any stats on the "most"? Anyway, you are mostly right, and truly, companies do need to protect their assets and they are within their rights to do so.
Really what they should do is debrief the employee before they let him/her go. Nicely ask him about any projects, deliverables, known issues that they are working on, etc. Bring in anyone who needs a direct data dump about how to run things, don't leave him alone with anything mission critical, politely remind about IP rights, NDAs, etc.
Then let them go, say something like good luck and take their keys. If they really are essential for the time of their notice, then you adapt to the circumstance, but in general you don't want someone who is moving on.
However, to expect the now soon-to-be ex-employer to act like nothing is going on is a bit too much to ask. It is sort of like telling your significant other that you are going to break up with them in two weeks. Most people say "hit the road." (I really don't have any statistical backup for that "most" either;-)
A "regular coffee" used to refer to coffee with both cream and sugar. However, the term did have significant regional variations, with some places having 2 sugars instead of just one, or no sugar at all. In a restaurant you would say "I want two regular coffees, please."
This, of course, was before Starbucks, etc. Coffee was just coffee then, no lattes, mocha frappachinos, etc (and Sanka for those who wanted decaf).
True. Apple often would not have enough of their "hit" products. But usually not at launch (unless there was a manufacturing glitch). From my experience selling Apple and other computers, it would seem that Apple, like most MFRs, does not really know HOW popular a particular product would be. Newton, not so popular, lots of Newton's were available. Same with the Cube. First PowerBook though was very difficult to get for awhile. Same with iPods in the early going. Apple would have LOVED to sell more of those products while the demand was hot (well, it still is on the iPods...)
I use both Apple and MS products and there are advantages and disadvantages to both. Work computer: Compaq laptop, cheap, dependable, runs 24x7 (with rebooting!), no hardware failures in almost 2 years, it cost $649 after rebates at Best Buy. Home computer: TiPowerbook G4, 4 years old, EVERYONE uses it, I got a deal on it and bought it used for $750.
Who knows, maybe Apple does play the artificial shortage game, but so far my perspective has been that when they run out of something, it is due to either underestimating demand or a production glitch.
Very true. I am a reseller, and I do all my own buying and selling. I always check froogle/google/other search to both track down products, but also to compare the pricing and to see who is considered to be a good vendor.
Another way that the Internet facilitates commerce and efficiency is in rating both specific products as well as vendors.
Bad products tend to fail more quickly (note, no supporting data to back up that hunch), and I definitely use other people's ratings to adjust from whom/what I am going to buy. If overall someone's ratings indicate "DON'T BUY FROM THESE WEASELS!* that is extremely valuable information.
That said, the phone is also ESSENTIAL to commerce. What about studying phone usage? Seems like the biggest thing that has only gone up since it started with Mr Bell long ago.
Some of Card's first work appeared in Omni (as well as other periodicals). I read "A Thousand Deaths" in the early 80s as a kid in Omni. Pretty freaky. I had a class of college freshmen English students read it in 2001. It held up pretty well.
Anyway, I just went to OSCs website to find the title of the story, and it seems like he also allows you to download electronic copies of selected books, short stories, reviews etc as long as you on have only one digital and one printed copy. Interesting.
Much of his writing is quite good. Some of it is dreadful. His whole Memory of Earth series was a bit too much like a Sunday School class. It seems like he is at his best when he is describing the life of a young, talented, but usually misunderstood genius boy.
"You will always read how simple and loved Windows is on forums like Slashdot,"
Are you new here? By your user number I guess not. From my Desk of Anecdotal Statistics it seems like most/. posters HATE Windows, Bill Gates, Borg, etc. Most people I know who use Windows do so because they have to for their job. Or they buy a personl Windows computer because they already know it from their job. So much CAN'T be done properly with other OSes in the biz environment that you have to have the standard to avoid communication problems.
A couple of High School students re-made Raiders of the Lost Ark in its entirety over a period of a few years./. ran a story on it here is a link to an article about it. More interesting than a musical princess bride....
And, most of them were pretty close time-wise. The winner was only about 10 minutes or so ahead of the 2nd place finisher. From zero to five competitive finishers...of course all of these results will only be put to peaceful purposes. Isn't Darpa like a branch of the Peace Corps???
Slashdot Mirror
Please stop sullying the name of cockroaches everywhere by associating it with "manager," which, by association, leads to the subspecies "project manager." Otherwise known as "overhead."
Never done Heroin, have done video games, ahh, Pool of Radience, Zelda....
Anyway, if you can't get clean, there is a description on http://www.erowid.org/ about how to make your heroin pure chemically. As noted, I haven't used the technique, don't really vouch for it, and there is a warning about it making synthetic heroin poisonous, but if you are a user, you might want to check it out. Seems better than shooting up dirt or feces. Yuk.
-A
PS Generally a "pro-chemical" website, the user stories from the heroin section sound pretty hairy...
Slashdot 2006: Non-News for Non-Nerds
Just buy lots of the Sonic Youth silent track, a la Cage.
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I've thought about it, done it, and I am thinking about it again. My guess is, like all references, this might give you a few pointers, and help you to avoid some common pitfalls, but you are probably better off doing something to help your business than spending a lot of time reading how to help your business. No one book's solution is going to fit your situation. That said, it is probably worth a quick skim.
One question about the review. Alex says two different people/corporations/entities coined the same term. See quote below. SO which is it?
-A
"Whats a micro-ISV, you ask? The term ISV or independent software vendor, was coined by Microsoft to describe the set of software companies that were
not yet killed by Microsoft
not yet bought by Microsoft
too small and insignificant to present any interest to Microsoft, except for selling them developer tools and MSDN subscriptions
The term micro-ISV was coined by SourceGears Eric Sink, who was writing a "Business of Software" series of columns for Microsoft Developer Network, and relates to one- (seldom, two- or more-) person software development company.
http://mobilitytoday.com/article.php?a=iPAQ_Blueto oth%20Virtual%20Keyboard_iTECH_2P&p=1.html
Haven't used it myself.
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Actualy, here in the good ol' US of A, some places DO charge you to make local calls. In some places in VT (at least) you are charged 1 cent a minute for local calls. It does have a monthly max of about $10. I used to keep two phone lines. One business/dialup, one family line. The bill would come and they would show the total, (which would be $432 if you stayed online all month) and then show the capped amount of $10.
-A
Really Cisco should buy Sysco (food company, fairly huge) if only to clear up the brand confusion....I'll take my hamburg MAC address with all the TCP/IP fixins...
Weird, I was just in London, and I noticed it as being different. Sure the sandwiches in the Filling Stations are usually of higher quality (local sandwiches where I live in Vermont, USA, are quite good actually) but they are certainly not cheap. I also noticed the fish and chip shops all over and the import American fast food joints, so I am not sure the English should be held up as the exemplars of good eating. Just my perspective.
-A
Very OT, but doesn't the trick seem to be working at something you like/enjoy/are proud of? It seems to me that there are plenty of rich people out there who have too much money and the time weighs heavily on them. Sacrificing for future payouts makes sense, but if their is no enjoyment in the process, how will you know how to enjoy life once you achieve your goal?
I personally don't care much for baseball, or cricket, but I do like pubs. Stats are okay. However, baseball is full of statistics of the slightly more complex sort than who won the game, etc. Things like Slugging Percentage (means how they hit the long ball, not their apptitude in finding shell-less mollusks), Batting average with runners in scoring position, and stuff like that keep spreadsheets whirring. FYI, but it still seems like it is already distributed public information and not intellectual property.
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Three go in, one comes out. Only the strong survive.
Who bets for OSX?
Who bets for Linux?
Who bets for Windows?
Dell has specifically set out to raise their margins, and they have given that guidance to Wall Street. The XPS line is one way they are hoping to do so. Good luck with that.
As a reseller to the gov, I sell a lot of Dell. Generally they make decent product, but their support is wretched in the extreme.
Badge numbers, customer service reps with no external email or web access, people who have no idea about you or your order, etc. They are focused on one thing: maximizing profit on each and every sale. No exceptions.
-A
Any stats on the "most"? Anyway, you are mostly right, and truly, companies do need to protect their assets and they are within their rights to do so.
;-)
Really what they should do is debrief the employee before they let him/her go. Nicely ask him about any projects, deliverables, known issues that they are working on, etc. Bring in anyone who needs a direct data dump about how to run things, don't leave him alone with anything mission critical, politely remind about IP rights, NDAs, etc.
Then let them go, say something like good luck and take their keys. If they really are essential for the time of their notice, then you adapt to the circumstance, but in general you don't want someone who is moving on.
However, to expect the now soon-to-be ex-employer to act like nothing is going on is a bit too much to ask. It is sort of like telling your significant other that you are going to break up with them in two weeks. Most people say "hit the road." (I really don't have any statistical backup for that "most" either
I thought "Cache" was "lorry" in en_GB and "boot" was the trunk of the software tree. Might be wrong 'bout that though.
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A "regular coffee" used to refer to coffee with both cream and sugar. However, the term did have significant regional variations, with some places having 2 sugars instead of just one, or no sugar at all. In a restaurant you would say "I want two regular coffees, please."
This, of course, was before Starbucks, etc. Coffee was just coffee then, no lattes, mocha frappachinos, etc (and Sanka for those who wanted decaf).
-A
True. Apple often would not have enough of their "hit" products. But usually not at launch (unless there was a manufacturing glitch). From my experience selling Apple and other computers, it would seem that Apple, like most MFRs, does not really know HOW popular a particular product would be. Newton, not so popular, lots of Newton's were available. Same with the Cube. First PowerBook though was very difficult to get for awhile. Same with iPods in the early going. Apple would have LOVED to sell more of those products while the demand was hot (well, it still is on the iPods...)
I use both Apple and MS products and there are advantages and disadvantages to both. Work computer: Compaq laptop, cheap, dependable, runs 24x7 (with rebooting!), no hardware failures in almost 2 years, it cost $649 after rebates at Best Buy. Home computer: TiPowerbook G4, 4 years old, EVERYONE uses it, I got a deal on it and bought it used for $750.
Who knows, maybe Apple does play the artificial shortage game, but so far my perspective has been that when they run out of something, it is due to either underestimating demand or a production glitch.
-A
Very true. I am a reseller, and I do all my own buying and selling. I always check froogle/google/other search to both track down products, but also to compare the pricing and to see who is considered to be a good vendor.
Another way that the Internet facilitates commerce and efficiency is in rating both specific products as well as vendors.
Bad products tend to fail more quickly (note, no supporting data to back up that hunch), and I definitely use other people's ratings to adjust from whom/what I am going to buy. If overall someone's ratings indicate "DON'T BUY FROM THESE WEASELS!* that is extremely valuable information.
That said, the phone is also ESSENTIAL to commerce. What about studying phone usage? Seems like the biggest thing that has only gone up since it started with Mr Bell long ago.
-A
I think the Fresh Prince refers to upgrading RAM as "gettin' jiggly wit it."
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Some of Card's first work appeared in Omni (as well as other periodicals). I read "A Thousand Deaths" in the early 80s as a kid in Omni. Pretty freaky. I had a class of college freshmen English students read it in 2001. It held up pretty well.
Anyway, I just went to OSCs website to find the title of the story, and it seems like he also allows you to download electronic copies of selected books, short stories, reviews etc as long as you on have only one digital and one printed copy. Interesting.
Much of his writing is quite good. Some of it is dreadful. His whole Memory of Earth series was a bit too much like a Sunday School class. It seems like he is at his best when he is describing the life of a young, talented, but usually misunderstood genius boy.
-A
"You will always read how simple and loved Windows is on forums like Slashdot,"
/. posters HATE Windows, Bill Gates, Borg, etc. Most people I know who use Windows do so because they have to for their job. Or they buy a personl Windows computer because they already know it from their job. So much CAN'T be done properly with other OSes in the biz environment that you have to have the standard to avoid communication problems.
Are you new here? By your user number I guess not. From my Desk of Anecdotal Statistics it seems like most
A couple of High School students re-made Raiders of the Lost Ark in its entirety over a period of a few years. /. ran a story on it here is a link to an article about it. More interesting than a musical princess bride....
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http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/20
See other article about Kevin Mitnick on /. front page.
Some people are hiring him. Well, according to him, an admitted defrauder.
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And, most of them were pretty close time-wise. The winner was only about 10 minutes or so ahead of the 2nd place finisher. From zero to five competitive finishers...of course all of these results will only be put to peaceful purposes. Isn't Darpa like a branch of the Peace Corps???
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Sounds fair, as I know that things said or written aren't always (usually?) taken as they are meant.
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