Per record seems far too small. One benefit of the $/GB is that the price is a whole number of dollars, even though that number is $3000. You'd have to charge minute fractions of a penny for a single database record.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them.
What a very 1980s view of IT. We work in partnership with the business to both deliver the expected value from existing services and to identify where additional business value can be gained from process changes. We're service driven rather than sales though, sales is something of a dirty word in my industry at the moment.
To me, that sounds like the same thing, euphemised.
Yeah, SalesForce is one of these run-your-whole business-through-us things that I'd imagine needs to go to some lengths to convince people to trust them. Absolutely stellar downtime policies would make a lot of sense.
It's the kind of thing that you basically couldn't live without once you have. When I was a student I had the "I can write essays in anything" mindset because it's true but I've worked places where they'd put a lot of thought into a workflow involving some highly specific programs and that's where it matters.
Yeah, the upper limits for Excel are silly numbers (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-specifications-and-limits-HP010342495.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HP005199291)
If you're hitting them, power to you. That's very impressive.
*Solely* based on ideology, remember.
The idea is to bring in a little bit of real world experience to your decision making too. You shouldn't just write Microsoft with a dollar sign and decide that anything is going to work better and you equally shouldn't do the opposite of that.
I'm uncomfortably reminded of the Facilitated Communication scam, except replacing holding their hand with an fMRI scanner. I'd hope no one dies based on cutting edge research into interpreting brain scans.
But then everyone in your secure location has to keep checking if your iPhone is one of the ones using the enterprise management scheme or one where the camera hasn't been disabled.
No it's not. If you get dropped off in the Amazon rain forest you are going to have to learn about many things you wouldn't normally be concerned with or you are dead. It's a survival skill and it has nothing to do with stateism.
Ok, what if you aren't dropped off in the Amazon rain forest? That seems like a shaky assumption to me.
Not to mention that in life, you have to learn and retain things that you aren't interested in.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.~ C.S. Lewis
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Per record seems far too small. One benefit of the $/GB is that the price is a whole number of dollars, even though that number is $3000. You'd have to charge minute fractions of a penny for a single database record.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them.
What a very 1980s view of IT. We work in partnership with the business to both deliver the expected value from existing services and to identify where additional business value can be gained from process changes. We're service driven rather than sales though, sales is something of a dirty word in my industry at the moment.
To me, that sounds like the same thing, euphemised.
Yeah, SalesForce is one of these run-your-whole business-through-us things that I'd imagine needs to go to some lengths to convince people to trust them. Absolutely stellar downtime policies would make a lot of sense.
And here I thought that your 's' key had broken and you were forced to use the dollar sign instead...
It looks like a few people in the thread are suffering from that same fault.
It's the kind of thing that you basically couldn't live without once you have. When I was a student I had the "I can write essays in anything" mindset because it's true but I've worked places where they'd put a lot of thought into a workflow involving some highly specific programs and that's where it matters.
Yeah, the upper limits for Excel are silly numbers (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-specifications-and-limits-HP010342495.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HP005199291) If you're hitting them, power to you. That's very impressive.
*Solely* based on ideology, remember. The idea is to bring in a little bit of real world experience to your decision making too. You shouldn't just write Microsoft with a dollar sign and decide that anything is going to work better and you equally shouldn't do the opposite of that.
I'm uncomfortably reminded of the Facilitated Communication scam, except replacing holding their hand with an fMRI scanner. I'd hope no one dies based on cutting edge research into interpreting brain scans.
You may have read that backwards.
Not necessarily. There're plenty of developers in the FOSS community who won't chew your food for you either.
Well that's a huge big strawman you've got there.
Yeah, but can you "could not be happier" and still be "stressed"?
In fact, quite a good way to avoid those profits you're not aiming for is to pay high wages.
I for one always take my movie reviews from anonymous people who apparently live on continents where the movie hasn't yet been released.
Nice quote.
They want the shelter, food and safety.
Why would a microscope need to run on IPv6?
Yeah, more than anything else that seems to pigeonhole the writer.
But then everyone in your secure location has to keep checking if your iPhone is one of the ones using the enterprise management scheme or one where the camera hasn't been disabled.
No it's not. If you get dropped off in the Amazon rain forest you are going to have to learn about many things you wouldn't normally be concerned with or you are dead. It's a survival skill and it has nothing to do with stateism.
Ok, what if you aren't dropped off in the Amazon rain forest? That seems like a shaky assumption to me.
Not to mention that in life, you have to learn and retain things that you aren't interested in.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.~ C.S. Lewis
That's an ironic message given your signature.