I used to live in a state where westborough was east of eastboro, southboro was also to the east of westboro. There was no northborough or borough or central borough to be found anywhere.
Using touch screen controls on a car is akin to texting on your mobile; taking eyes off the road to see your dashboard or stereo controls is an inherently bad idea.
I guess the only problem with the distraction thesis is that accident rates every year since 1990 have remained pretty much the same. So apparently cell phones, touch screens and so forth have no effect on how much attentive time people spend while driving, or they just replaced some other distraction, or having distracted drivers doesn't lead to more accidents.
It also means the war on drunk driving had no effect whatsoever.
I remember shitty drivers in the 70's when we had none of this stuff. We usually impugned their sex, race or presumed religion, or yelled at them to stop putting on makeup while smoking and reading a magazine. At least blaming the gadgets is more socially acceptable.
It isn't a part of Hack Culture.. its a part of immature people who associate with hacker culture
Sort of This.
It has nothing to do with hacking, or even the workplace. Sounds like the harassment was done during party atmospheres after the conference while everyone was drinking to excess. The same stuff happens in bars all over the world, every day. Granted, it'd be pretty sweet if drunk men would keep their hands off of women at parties, but according to the few commercials I watch, thats standard operating procedure.
I'm sure to be repeatedly slugged for this, but despite best efforts I don't think we'll change the basic biological properties of men. Perhaps the best solution is to not hang around after-conference parties where everyone is half to fully in the bag when you're a 17 year old girl?
I've been to a thousand conferences over four decades, of all types. The only time I saw the sort of described behavior was late at night after hours of drinking, and everyone still hanging around had one idea on their minds, male or female. I also have never in my life seen a man bold enough to stick his hand up a womans dress and grab the vajayjay and then either be interested or fast enough to disappear before she turned around. So I think that part was made up to sensationalize the problem and create a data point that nobody would argue with.
Alternative solution if this is really an issue is to stop having parties and ban alcohol at conferences. If we want it to be all straight up business and no late night shenanigans that seems to be the way to go. Good news is there won't be anyone at the conference, so you'll get a lot of swag.
There are people out there who will know the open source software inside out too
When I worked in technology, many many people wanted to champion specific technologies or solutions but often couldn't rationally state a business reason why someone would ever want to buy it. Cool sure, but will it sell?
When someone makes a decision, they need to factor in all of the risks and benefits. Seems to me that the one 'risk' to skipping open source is the cost, which I'm pretty sure will end up being expended elsewhere, many times over. The risks to open source for a burgeoning business where the owners will be taxed at 200% plus vs a regular job are enormous.
Therefore, I'd suggest that you never open a restaurant!:)
Going cheap here and cheap there, pretty soon nobody is coming into your restaurant because you cut too many corners. I'm looking at this guy saving maybe a grand or two, then paying that back 10x when he has to figure stuff out himself or has to run into the restaurant and fix a broken something or other on his one day off a week.
Cost savings that won't stick or is a bad decision isn't a savings.
In fact, not to be mean but I've been pondering this whole thing the last few days. First off, a restaurant is tough and I can't imagine a seasoned restaurateur wanting to mess with open software during an open, so I'm guessing this is the OP's first restaurant. Challenging, but if you have good ideas and make good decisions, it might fly. But the open software thing isn't a goop decision. Neither is opening a restaurant with your wife and friends, because most likely they'll be an ex-wife and ex-friends within a few years...so another not well thought out decision.
So rather than quibble over the benefits of open source accounting software, I'd suggest he rethink the entire idea and shelve it.
Seems rash, but I do loans on Lending Club and you really have to examine the loan information and what people say to find subtle hints of "I may not be paying this back". I have an extremely low default rate (four tenths of one percent), so apparently I'm good at detecting the subtleties. I'm seeing those subtleties here.
" It simply didn't work properly, giving me incorrect results on both sorts and selections. I was kind of surprised. Been a while since I used excel but I've been face deep in spreadsheets since visicalc on the apple ii, so I don't think it was me."
I think it was you. I've been using Open Office (and now Libre Office, since Oracle's acquisition) for around 10 years, and other than a few exotic formatting issues, I've been able to read in large and VERY complex spreadsheets from Excel and use them natively. I have never encountered the kind of problems you are describing.
It wasn't me. I was doing some fairly elaborate filter selection and sorting and it just simply didn't work. Items that fit my criteria were excluded and items that didn't were included, the sort didn't work reliably on the filtered/selected data either. I also set multiple filter points and that just simply didn't work at all. I broke out an old copy of microsoft office and did basically the same thing and got the right results.
But like I said, this was about a month ago, maybe two...and I know libreoffice had a lot of funky bugs as its rolled out. Perhaps I had a bad build with a bug they fixed a week later. But I had no confidence in the product after that. Used OpenOffice for many years without trouble, but never tried any sophisticated spreadsheet stuff.
Deciding to avoid a few hundred or thousand dollars on a core system during a restaurant launch that usually runs in six figures seems to be a bit of a myopic focus. If three grand sinks the launch, they shouldn't open. They don't have enough money.
I watch Restaurant Impossible on the foodnetwork and the first mistake any struggling restaurant makes is not knowing costs, revenue, and profit per item. The second is poor food quality.
Don't forget 10+ year old decor, bugs and mice in the kitchen, unclean facilities, mismatched furniture, menu's with 5000 items, stupidly poor locations, apathetic owners, etc.
Contact Restaurant Impossible because you are putting focus on open source software to save a few hundred dollars when customer focus, a great menu, and marketing is what you need now.
DING DING DING, we have a winner.
Really enjoyed that last episode where they ran the place to 500k in debt in 5 years, and swore they were making money on their catering business that was keeping the restaurant open. But nobody ever did the food costs and profit margins, and when Robert did they were losing over $100k a year on the catering business, and also losing money on the restaurant.
My experience with libreoffice spreadsheet is that it's really good.
My experience with libre office spreadsheet wasn't as good as yours. Granted it was about a month ago that I dug into it but I had problems just loading a big set of data and doing sorts and conditional selection. It simply didn't work properly, giving me incorrect results on both sorts and selections. I was kind of surprised. Been a while since I used excel but I've been face deep in spreadsheets since visicalc on the apple ii, so I don't think it was me.
My experience with linux is that its better than it was a million years ago, but 98% of the time when I install it, I have to edit text files, download obscure drivers, and one or two things never works. If you ask the 'community support' a question, they harass you and ask you to read 10,000 pages of stuff in the hopes of finding it on your own. Meh, I think I'll just reinstall windows and move on with my life.
Hell, I've had easier times hackintoshing a box than installing ubuntu on it and having everything work.
Yeah, unless you're able to actually devote time to fixing issues within the code its too risky to actually do accounting yourself. I do it myself, but that's do to the specific requirements I have that most people do not have.
I still wouldn't do it, unless his partners are also fluent in the open source package, what he's done with it, and how everything works.
Hit by a bus, etc, etc. You can get on the phone and get a quickbooks or peachtree expert to your business by later the same day to sort out your inventory and payroll when the techie has a heart attack and nobody else knows what the hell is going on.
While I've never owned a restaurant, I've watched enough Restaurant Impossible to realize that most people starting and running restaurants cant sort out food and service issues, let alone fix a broken application...
My first thought is that opening a restaurant is one of the hardest things in the world to do. If going open source helps lighten your load or costs in a significant manner and makes the restaurant launch more likely to succeed, then swell.
If however its going to be a case where you cant get support, stuff doesn't work, and nobody is available to help bail you out when fixing your software isn't in the top 50 on your priority list...
They just showed the movie as the 'dvd on tv' special. Besides the fairly hot blonde on the show, they mentioned that they had a freaking ton of NASA assistance, including modeling their computers and setups to mimic NASA's control center and having cameras mounted on the gantry during a shuttle launch.
They said that the computer stuff was so close that actual NASA employees could walk up to one of the machines and actually use it without any training.
If asteroids approach earth, we should simply have them form a committee. Five hundred meetings later where they're still arguing what to name themselves, the asteroids will probably fly right by us and forget to slam into the planet entirely.
Here in the capital city of the state of california (go ahead and look it up, i'll wait), I have three choices for internet: comcast, comcast and comcast.
Who this year decided they could raise rates and not offer any existing customer promos, so I had to pull the plug. Wife went into bestbuy the next day and signed up as a new customer. Since they were willing to offer promos to people with cable tv (I have directv), I'm guessing they're squeezing the cord cutters by raising their internet costs to make up for the lost cable tv revenue. Seems its a zero sum game after all. Five years from now instead of a $50 cable bill and $50 internet bill, you're going to have a $100 internet bill. Maybe $110 in my neighborhood.
Speed is fine, but cost and choice are another matter that I think calls for a little more attention. Still way too many places in the US where you have a single, often expensive choice.
Its entirely possible that whichever candidate will get the nod had his wikipedia fixed up a couple of months ago, to avoid notice of this. The other candidates fixing theirs up might just be window dressing in case there is a problem with the first candidate and they need a replacement.
I'm not particularly sure, because if I'm reading something and its depressing I stop reading it. So which one that I stopped reading was the most depressing isn't easy to determine.
And the point OP was making is that used goods are bad for manufacturers in any market. And it still stands. So...congratulations on your pedantry?
The funny part is, this is completely wrong. A used market serves the customers who can't afford new, and is an entry point for a customer to become a new product purchaser. It very rarely harms the manufacturer as the used market 'customer' would rarely be a new product customer due to the price points. In fact, the manufacturer often benefits from the used market in terms of spare parts, add-ons and so forth.
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As someone who currently does work in technology, and knows several restaurant owners...
So do any of your restauteurs use open source software as suggested by the OP? If not, why not?
Disregard parent post, Canada is well known to be too cold, full of euro-trash and a socialist hellhole ;)
Yes, but they have poutine with slices of foie gras on top.
Bonus in the winter you can't tell if the women you're hitting on are thin or fat under the 14 layers they're wearing.
Three quarters of which are in Missouri.
I used to live in a state where westborough was east of eastboro, southboro was also to the east of westboro. There was no northborough or borough or central borough to be found anywhere.
Its impossible...
To shove a Caddilac up your nose...
Its just impossible....
impossible.....
impossible.
Using touch screen controls on a car is akin to texting on your mobile; taking eyes off the road to see your dashboard or stereo controls is an inherently bad idea.
I guess the only problem with the distraction thesis is that accident rates every year since 1990 have remained pretty much the same. So apparently cell phones, touch screens and so forth have no effect on how much attentive time people spend while driving, or they just replaced some other distraction, or having distracted drivers doesn't lead to more accidents.
It also means the war on drunk driving had no effect whatsoever.
I remember shitty drivers in the 70's when we had none of this stuff. We usually impugned their sex, race or presumed religion, or yelled at them to stop putting on makeup while smoking and reading a magazine. At least blaming the gadgets is more socially acceptable.
But eh...carry on...
Quoth the 2nd link in TFS (I know, I'm relatively new here):
A rectenna is a rectifying antenna, a special type of antenna that is used to convert microwave energy into direct current electricity.
(Boldface in the original)
Absolutely 100% incorrect. This is a rectal antenna. I knew the cell phone companies would find a way to stick it up our butts eventually.
It isn't a part of Hack Culture .. its a part of immature people who associate with hacker culture
Sort of This.
It has nothing to do with hacking, or even the workplace. Sounds like the harassment was done during party atmospheres after the conference while everyone was drinking to excess. The same stuff happens in bars all over the world, every day. Granted, it'd be pretty sweet if drunk men would keep their hands off of women at parties, but according to the few commercials I watch, thats standard operating procedure.
I'm sure to be repeatedly slugged for this, but despite best efforts I don't think we'll change the basic biological properties of men. Perhaps the best solution is to not hang around after-conference parties where everyone is half to fully in the bag when you're a 17 year old girl?
I've been to a thousand conferences over four decades, of all types. The only time I saw the sort of described behavior was late at night after hours of drinking, and everyone still hanging around had one idea on their minds, male or female. I also have never in my life seen a man bold enough to stick his hand up a womans dress and grab the vajayjay and then either be interested or fast enough to disappear before she turned around. So I think that part was made up to sensationalize the problem and create a data point that nobody would argue with.
Alternative solution if this is really an issue is to stop having parties and ban alcohol at conferences. If we want it to be all straight up business and no late night shenanigans that seems to be the way to go. Good news is there won't be anyone at the conference, so you'll get a lot of swag.
There are people out there who will know the open source software inside out too
When I worked in technology, many many people wanted to champion specific technologies or solutions but often couldn't rationally state a business reason why someone would ever want to buy it. Cool sure, but will it sell?
When someone makes a decision, they need to factor in all of the risks and benefits. Seems to me that the one 'risk' to skipping open source is the cost, which I'm pretty sure will end up being expended elsewhere, many times over. The risks to open source for a burgeoning business where the owners will be taxed at 200% plus vs a regular job are enormous.
Therefore, I'd suggest that you never open a restaurant! :)
Going cheap here and cheap there, pretty soon nobody is coming into your restaurant because you cut too many corners. I'm looking at this guy saving maybe a grand or two, then paying that back 10x when he has to figure stuff out himself or has to run into the restaurant and fix a broken something or other on his one day off a week.
Cost savings that won't stick or is a bad decision isn't a savings.
In fact, not to be mean but I've been pondering this whole thing the last few days. First off, a restaurant is tough and I can't imagine a seasoned restaurateur wanting to mess with open software during an open, so I'm guessing this is the OP's first restaurant. Challenging, but if you have good ideas and make good decisions, it might fly. But the open software thing isn't a goop decision. Neither is opening a restaurant with your wife and friends, because most likely they'll be an ex-wife and ex-friends within a few years...so another not well thought out decision.
So rather than quibble over the benefits of open source accounting software, I'd suggest he rethink the entire idea and shelve it.
Seems rash, but I do loans on Lending Club and you really have to examine the loan information and what people say to find subtle hints of "I may not be paying this back". I have an extremely low default rate (four tenths of one percent), so apparently I'm good at detecting the subtleties. I'm seeing those subtleties here.
" It simply didn't work properly, giving me incorrect results on both sorts and selections. I was kind of surprised. Been a while since I used excel but I've been face deep in spreadsheets since visicalc on the apple ii, so I don't think it was me."
I think it was you. I've been using Open Office (and now Libre Office, since Oracle's acquisition) for around 10 years, and other than a few exotic formatting issues, I've been able to read in large and VERY complex spreadsheets from Excel and use them natively. I have never encountered the kind of problems you are describing.
It wasn't me. I was doing some fairly elaborate filter selection and sorting and it just simply didn't work. Items that fit my criteria were excluded and items that didn't were included, the sort didn't work reliably on the filtered/selected data either. I also set multiple filter points and that just simply didn't work at all. I broke out an old copy of microsoft office and did basically the same thing and got the right results.
But like I said, this was about a month ago, maybe two...and I know libreoffice had a lot of funky bugs as its rolled out. Perhaps I had a bad build with a bug they fixed a week later. But I had no confidence in the product after that. Used OpenOffice for many years without trouble, but never tried any sophisticated spreadsheet stuff.
Deciding to avoid a few hundred or thousand dollars on a core system during a restaurant launch that usually runs in six figures seems to be a bit of a myopic focus. If three grand sinks the launch, they shouldn't open. They don't have enough money.
I watch Restaurant Impossible on the foodnetwork and the first mistake any struggling restaurant makes is not knowing costs, revenue, and profit per item. The second is poor food quality.
Don't forget 10+ year old decor, bugs and mice in the kitchen, unclean facilities, mismatched furniture, menu's with 5000 items, stupidly poor locations, apathetic owners, etc.
Contact Restaurant Impossible because you are putting focus on open source software to save a few hundred dollars when customer focus, a great menu, and marketing is what you need now.
DING DING DING, we have a winner.
Really enjoyed that last episode where they ran the place to 500k in debt in 5 years, and swore they were making money on their catering business that was keeping the restaurant open. But nobody ever did the food costs and profit margins, and when Robert did they were losing over $100k a year on the catering business, and also losing money on the restaurant.
My experience with libreoffice spreadsheet is that it's really good.
My experience with libre office spreadsheet wasn't as good as yours. Granted it was about a month ago that I dug into it but I had problems just loading a big set of data and doing sorts and conditional selection. It simply didn't work properly, giving me incorrect results on both sorts and selections. I was kind of surprised. Been a while since I used excel but I've been face deep in spreadsheets since visicalc on the apple ii, so I don't think it was me.
My experience with linux is that its better than it was a million years ago, but 98% of the time when I install it, I have to edit text files, download obscure drivers, and one or two things never works. If you ask the 'community support' a question, they harass you and ask you to read 10,000 pages of stuff in the hopes of finding it on your own. Meh, I think I'll just reinstall windows and move on with my life.
Hell, I've had easier times hackintoshing a box than installing ubuntu on it and having everything work.
Yeah, unless you're able to actually devote time to fixing issues within the code its too risky to actually do accounting yourself. I do it myself, but that's do to the specific requirements I have that most people do not have.
I still wouldn't do it, unless his partners are also fluent in the open source package, what he's done with it, and how everything works.
Hit by a bus, etc, etc. You can get on the phone and get a quickbooks or peachtree expert to your business by later the same day to sort out your inventory and payroll when the techie has a heart attack and nobody else knows what the hell is going on.
While I've never owned a restaurant, I've watched enough Restaurant Impossible to realize that most people starting and running restaurants cant sort out food and service issues, let alone fix a broken application...
My first thought is that opening a restaurant is one of the hardest things in the world to do. If going open source helps lighten your load or costs in a significant manner and makes the restaurant launch more likely to succeed, then swell.
If however its going to be a case where you cant get support, stuff doesn't work, and nobody is available to help bail you out when fixing your software isn't in the top 50 on your priority list...
They just showed the movie as the 'dvd on tv' special. Besides the fairly hot blonde on the show, they mentioned that they had a freaking ton of NASA assistance, including modeling their computers and setups to mimic NASA's control center and having cameras mounted on the gantry during a shuttle launch.
They said that the computer stuff was so close that actual NASA employees could walk up to one of the machines and actually use it without any training.
If asteroids approach earth, we should simply have them form a committee. Five hundred meetings later where they're still arguing what to name themselves, the asteroids will probably fly right by us and forget to slam into the planet entirely.
Here in the capital city of the state of california (go ahead and look it up, i'll wait), I have three choices for internet: comcast, comcast and comcast.
Who this year decided they could raise rates and not offer any existing customer promos, so I had to pull the plug. Wife went into bestbuy the next day and signed up as a new customer. Since they were willing to offer promos to people with cable tv (I have directv), I'm guessing they're squeezing the cord cutters by raising their internet costs to make up for the lost cable tv revenue. Seems its a zero sum game after all. Five years from now instead of a $50 cable bill and $50 internet bill, you're going to have a $100 internet bill. Maybe $110 in my neighborhood.
Speed is fine, but cost and choice are another matter that I think calls for a little more attention. Still way too many places in the US where you have a single, often expensive choice.
Do we really want our political leaders decided on baseless rumors, guilt until the target proves innocence, and purely partisan/tribal cheerleading?
Versus the current system where two trillion dollar parties backed by billionaires select two nearly identical people to run for office?
Ah yes, the "presume incompetence rather than malice" theory...
Its entirely possible that whichever candidate will get the nod had his wikipedia fixed up a couple of months ago, to avoid notice of this. The other candidates fixing theirs up might just be window dressing in case there is a problem with the first candidate and they need a replacement.
I should also point out that I find very few things depressing.
I'm not particularly sure, because if I'm reading something and its depressing I stop reading it. So which one that I stopped reading was the most depressing isn't easy to determine.
And the point OP was making is that used goods are bad for manufacturers in any market. And it still stands. So...congratulations on your pedantry?
The funny part is, this is completely wrong. A used market serves the customers who can't afford new, and is an entry point for a customer to become a new product purchaser. It very rarely harms the manufacturer as the used market 'customer' would rarely be a new product customer due to the price points. In fact, the manufacturer often benefits from the used market in terms of spare parts, add-ons and so forth.