Yes, I have been part of numerous successful ERP implementations over the past 15 years. You can look at my nickname to figure out which one I am part of:-)
Where is the missive from K'breel warning the martians about this impending disaster? Could it be that the methane has already taken out this planetary spokesman?
It's a law that's impractical. It's OK for green card holders, since the green card (which I don't think is actually green any more) is a credit card sized plastic card.
They have been green again for the past few years.
This might explain why they make it so ridiculously difficult to download the SAPGui. There was a time when they had it available on their FTP site. Now you need a OSS ID just to download the GUI. Of course the OSS ID supplied through my employer doesn't allow me to download and install the GUI. Thus, each time I get a new laptop it's a regular pain in the butt to get the latest version installed.
Just let me download the damn thing already! If anybody knows if a simple easy place to download the latest SAPGui then please let me know.
(Check out my slashdot name - I work with this stuff every day and I honestly can't figure out why they want to hide the GUI from anybody.)
"In 2007, one pilot recounted an instance when the navigational equipment on his Boeing 737 had failed after takeoff. A flight attendant told a passenger to turn off a hand-held GPS device and the problem on the flight deck went away." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/business/18devices.html
I have been implementing SAP for 13 years (look at my nickname) now and the majority of our implementations went live at the right time and within the original budget.
Of course occasionally you get a client that hires you and then proceeds to do the complete opposite of everything you tell them to do and eventually it turns into a disaster. That said, it's not unique to SAP, I have seen this problem when I was developing other kinds of software as well.
Yes, it really has taken me this long. I was unlucky in that I started my process back when it was still state driven instead of a federal process and my employer had an office in NY. It took almost five years just to get through the initial Labor Certification process.
No, I am not Indian. I'm European.
This is not quite true either. I have been in the Green Card process for almost 11 years now and have been steadily renewing my H1 every time it comes around. This is because they realized (to some extent) that they completely jumped the shark on the immigration process and allow us to keep renewing our H1 visa's while we are still in the Green Card process.
For the first 9 years of that process I was stuck with a pig of an employer that made sure he abused me as much as he could because I was unable to switch jobs. So once I hit the Employment Authorization phase I was out of there like a shot.
Yep, we had to upgrade the SAPGui to patch 21 to fix this problem. All of the help documentation was turned into blank screens by the IE7 update. It beats me why SAP chose to integrate IE that tightly into their product.
It should really have been a simple call to launch whichever browser was on your system and tell it to display an HTML file instead of the compiled HTML crap that they used.
Just in case you are curious - nothing has changed. I consult to IGS on various projects and the employees are constantly forced to work overtime to make their percentages. However, if they want something out of me then money has to change hands. That means the managers quickly realise that they need to think carefully about what they are asking you to do.
Employees unfortunately are "free", so their time can be spent on the daily / weekly / monthly reorg tasks with impunity.
Good luck with your site. I like most of it except for the little flashing icons next to a lot of the listings. Make them non-flashing and that's an improvement right off the bat.
I am also looking at somebody other than Ebay at the moment. My last sale earned me negative feedback because I had to ask the stupid seller twice for the tracking number which was supposed to be mailed automatically. He never got it right, but he gave me a negative rating after I rated him neutrally. That is out and out extortion and is one of the reasons I hardly ever use auction sites these days.
For the record, the "biggest" problem my power user faces is how the Enter key behaves after entering data across several horizontal cells. In MS, Enter will move the cursor down on row and back to the first column that data was entered. For example, B3 -> B4 -> B5 Enter C3. OO does not have this behavior. The Enter key can be customized, but only to go one cell down (default), up, left, or right. Searching the forums confirmed that other MS users are also frustrated by this missing behavior. I tried a quick macro, but no luck.
Here's how you do it.
Set the enter key to move down after entering. (Tools | Options | General)
Select cells C5..B3 (Note that I selected the range from the bottom right to the top left.
Customers care about results. If they guy of the boat can't speak english, can't interpret requirements, and doesn't know the clients business it won't matter that he works for $2 per hour.
Really? Why don't come and peddle that crap to my current employer? They obviously didn't hear about your theory before embarking on their current slapdash offshoring initiative.
We are talking here about sending our entire IT dept to a company which doesn't even have PC's for their employees. My numbskull employer agreed to buy them all laptops (at approx 1.7 times average market price).
Currently we are doing knowledge transfer via conference calls. The lines and the accents are so difficult for both sides to understand that we may as well be talking in different languages for the amount of knowledge that is being transferred.
Each time I mention the problems that are going to come our way as a result of this ridiculous approach I am told that I cannot see the "big picture" from my lowly "techie perspective" and these guys are really cheap. I wonder why.
But of course, all companies wait 'til the very last moment before hiring someone. I have not ONCE been hired when the roof wasn't on fire already. It's NOT really what I consider a dream job when you get like 2 days to familiarize yourself with a few megs of source before you're pressed into the schedule.
That's funny. My previous contract worked out exactly that way. I walked in on the Monday morning directly to the weekly team meeting. My name was up on the board and I was listed as 100hours behind schedule. It was my second time around working for these guys so they knew me, but still. Wow!
It seems there was some snafu between the project team and the HR guys and the project guys planned on having me there 2 weeks earlier. They stood there with straight faces and wanted to know how I planned to catch up the time.
Oh and btw, I have 7+ years experience in ABAP and my rates are not astronomical. I do, however, make a tad more than the average Java guy.
Besides... the name is just great with one of the other tools in the Google pack: Firefox and Foxit;)
Now we just needs a Foxbar, Deskfox, Fox-aware, Foxasa, Anti-fox (hmm, that doesn't sound good), Planetfox, Foxsaver.
Don't forget the automatic updater: ReFox. And then we can read all about the new products on Fox News... Oh, I think I just discovered the problem.
Yes. I agree totally. Here's another idea which Tivo should be able to jump on right now;
Let me give each advert a thumbs up or down and over time I get more of the same kind of advertising that I give an "up" to and less of the adverts that I give a "down" to.
I am sure some genius can come up with a scheme to make sure you cannot give every advert a thumbs down. In fact that is already built into my scheme. If you thumbs down everything then you are simply back at square one.
Although I doubt God will be listening, as he's upgrading his SUSE Linux...
No, God is more of a "close to the metal" kind of guy. He is compiling his Gentoo box. Of course he has access to those nice quantum boxes so it goes really fast especially when He pushes them through a time portal...
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Unless you're also applying for a green card in which case you're tied to your current job for the next 3-12 years.
Yes, I have been part of numerous successful ERP implementations over the past 15 years. You can look at my nickname to figure out which one I am part of :-)
Where is the missive from K'breel warning the martians about this impending disaster? Could it be that the methane has already taken out this planetary spokesman?
It's a law that's impractical. It's OK for green card holders, since the green card (which I don't think is actually green any more) is a credit card sized plastic card.
They have been green again for the past few years.
This might explain why they make it so ridiculously difficult to download the SAPGui. There was a time when they had it available on their FTP site. Now you need a OSS ID just to download the GUI. Of course the OSS ID supplied through my employer doesn't allow me to download and install the GUI. Thus, each time I get a new laptop it's a regular pain in the butt to get the latest version installed. Just let me download the damn thing already! If anybody knows if a simple easy place to download the latest SAPGui then please let me know. (Check out my slashdot name - I work with this stuff every day and I honestly can't figure out why they want to hide the GUI from anybody.)
and you could collapse/resize the sidebar. for some moronic non-reason, that's not possible now.
Do you want to collapse the sidebar in google reader? Press U on your keyboard.
"In 2007, one pilot recounted an instance when the navigational equipment on his Boeing 737 had failed after takeoff. A flight attendant told a passenger to turn off a hand-held GPS device and the problem on the flight deck went away." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/business/18devices.html
So now GPS devices *emit* signals?
Thunderbirds are go! I can see Thunderbird 2 being dispatched to rescue an operator trapped in a life threatening rockfall.
I have been implementing SAP for 13 years (look at my nickname) now and the majority of our implementations went live at the right time and within the original budget. Of course occasionally you get a client that hires you and then proceeds to do the complete opposite of everything you tell them to do and eventually it turns into a disaster. That said, it's not unique to SAP, I have seen this problem when I was developing other kinds of software as well.
Yes, it really has taken me this long. I was unlucky in that I started my process back when it was still state driven instead of a federal process and my employer had an office in NY. It took almost five years just to get through the initial Labor Certification process. No, I am not Indian. I'm European.
This is not quite true either. I have been in the Green Card process for almost 11 years now and have been steadily renewing my H1 every time it comes around. This is because they realized (to some extent) that they completely jumped the shark on the immigration process and allow us to keep renewing our H1 visa's while we are still in the Green Card process. For the first 9 years of that process I was stuck with a pig of an employer that made sure he abused me as much as he could because I was unable to switch jobs. So once I hit the Employment Authorization phase I was out of there like a shot.
Thank you! It's so irritating that BOFH doesn't appear in the Odds and Sods feed.
Yep, we had to upgrade the SAPGui to patch 21 to fix this problem. All of the help documentation was turned into blank screens by the IE7 update. It beats me why SAP chose to integrate IE that tightly into their product.
It should really have been a simple call to launch whichever browser was on your system and tell it to display an HTML file instead of the compiled HTML crap that they used.
Just in case you are curious - nothing has changed. I consult to IGS on various projects and the employees are constantly forced to work overtime to make their percentages. However, if they want something out of me then money has to change hands. That means the managers quickly realise that they need to think carefully about what they are asking you to do.
Employees unfortunately are "free", so their time can be spent on the daily / weekly / monthly reorg tasks with impunity.
Good luck with your site. I like most of it except for the little flashing icons next to a lot of the listings. Make them non-flashing and that's an improvement right off the bat.
I am also looking at somebody other than Ebay at the moment. My last sale earned me negative feedback because I had to ask the stupid seller twice for the tracking number which was supposed to be mailed automatically. He never got it right, but he gave me a negative rating after I rated him neutrally. That is out and out extortion and is one of the reasons I hardly ever use auction sites these days.
Here's how you do it.
Great. It doesn't look as if it will be on BBC America.
Customers care about results. If they guy of the boat can't speak english, can't interpret requirements, and doesn't know the clients business it won't matter that he works for $2 per hour.
Really? Why don't come and peddle that crap to my current employer? They obviously didn't hear about your theory before embarking on their current slapdash offshoring initiative.
We are talking here about sending our entire IT dept to a company which doesn't even have PC's for their employees. My numbskull employer agreed to buy them all laptops (at approx 1.7 times average market price).
Currently we are doing knowledge transfer via conference calls. The lines and the accents are so difficult for both sides to understand that we may as well be talking in different languages for the amount of knowledge that is being transferred.
Each time I mention the problems that are going to come our way as a result of this ridiculous approach I am told that I cannot see the "big picture" from my lowly "techie perspective" and these guys are really cheap. I wonder why.
How many blind drivers are there on our roads?
Depends, in California I would rate it at about 1 out of every 3 drivers.
But of course, all companies wait 'til the very last moment before hiring someone. I have not ONCE been hired when the roof wasn't on fire already. It's NOT really what I consider a dream job when you get like 2 days to familiarize yourself with a few megs of source before you're pressed into the schedule.
That's funny. My previous contract worked out exactly that way. I walked in on the Monday morning directly to the weekly team meeting. My name was up on the board and I was listed as 100hours behind schedule. It was my second time around working for these guys so they knew me, but still. Wow!
It seems there was some snafu between the project team and the HR guys and the project guys planned on having me there 2 weeks earlier. They stood there with straight faces and wanted to know how I planned to catch up the time.
Oh and btw, I have 7+ years experience in ABAP and my rates are not astronomical. I do, however, make a tad more than the average Java guy.
Looks like a new and novel application of the word 'dodge'. Let's take it for a spin:
Tsk. One thing you didn't dodge was the trademark infringement on our use of the word 'Dodge'. Our lawyers will be contacting your lawyers.
But basicly what you are saying is that public pics are illegal, while pubic pics are okay?
Of course! There is one 'ell of a difference between public photos and pubic photos.
Besides... the name is just great with one of the other tools in the Google pack: Firefox and Foxit ;)
Now we just needs a Foxbar, Deskfox, Fox-aware, Foxasa, Anti-fox (hmm, that doesn't sound good), Planetfox, Foxsaver.
Don't forget the automatic updater: ReFox. And then we can read all about the new products on Fox News... Oh, I think I just discovered the problem.
Yes. I agree totally. Here's another idea which Tivo should be able to jump on right now;
Let me give each advert a thumbs up or down and over time I get more of the same kind of advertising that I give an "up" to and less of the adverts that I give a "down" to.
I am sure some genius can come up with a scheme to make sure you cannot give every advert a thumbs down. In fact that is already built into my scheme. If you thumbs down everything then you are simply back at square one.
Although I doubt God will be listening, as he's upgrading his SUSE Linux...
No, God is more of a "close to the metal" kind of guy. He is compiling his Gentoo box. Of course he has access to those nice quantum boxes so it goes really fast especially when He pushes them through a time portal...