You do know I tried to use the web for translations right? The blackberry browser made it insanely time consuming to quickly get the translations I needed constantly.
I was recently on a business trip and had my blackberry at my hip. On a trip, I needed translator software, so went to RIM app world and found my options limited, i "trialed" their $30.00 french translator. (Let me say first I tried to use the web interface for google, but it took so long and so many clicks on the BB it was unusable consistently).
Well it was useless. Didn't do phrases, no real options, only did 1 word at a time. WTF? $30.00?!?
Luckily I had my ipad handy and saw what was available on the app store there. For 1.99 I got an offline app that KILLED the blackberry app in terms of features and usability.
So, in real work business usage, I have to say, RIM, you've lost me personally, but do continue to make back bench, locked in deals with CEO's to get your phones locked into corporations while you can.
Smart people use smartphones and want usability and fart apps for novelties to take their brains away from work once in awhile..I will never go back to blackberry.
As a business grunt, I was just alluding to a string of good sites/companies being gobbled up by bigger fish. Makes me cringe as I've never seen the parent company take the product or service in a better direction.
Yes, SF continues to win contracts from Dynamics or whatever MS is calling their latest CRM this week.
SF are just WAY too nimble in their catering to companies needs while MS expects companies to buy upgraded hardware, software, consultants, etc to conform data to THEIR system.
SF: Here you go, we figured out how to provide x for no extra charge. MS: Sorry we can't do that without $100,000 and even then there's no guarantee.
So yeah, SF is kickin MS's a$$ets and putting their attempts at a CRM to shame.
Red Cross is notorious for only spending what they feel they need to. In other disasters only 10% of the money donated ever reached the actual disaster, and of that, there was a huge overhead.
Sorry folks, just not worth it. Do a little digging first, there are MUCH better charities out there that have a LOT more (or all!) of the money you donate going directly to Haiti.
Every time I've seen them scanning osmeone its a hot chick with big boobs.... And all the guys are over looking at the screen... It's never Nanna or Billy Ray with his beer gut....
Apparently you don't know how this works. The people out front have no way of seeing the scans, that's the job of specially trained people who watch in back and who can't see the line coming so no "tehee watch this one" since it's done in real time.
IF there's a reasons to suspect anything, the backroomers radio the floor to search.
It's crucial that the government be able to break its own sponsored monopolies to ensure it won't get unnecessarily squeezed and can still function. Informed private parties are well aware this is always a danger when selling to the government, and can simply choose not to if they don't want to be impacted by it.
Funny, the company/manufacturer I work for does a LOT of selling software to the Government. In all the contracts I deal with (on a daily basis) the fact that the company may not be there is simply solved by putting the code in escrow.
Problem solved, software companies rights of term of use are protected while the government gets their protection against future software issues when the company's not around.
Oh on a side note, the Government gets caught pirating our software 4-5 times a year. Mostly in error. They (for the most part) take it VERY seriously even in times of budget crunches and cutbacks. If the person doesn't take it seriously, the procurement arm sure does.
As a manager I can tell you the list of employees that will have "protection" has already been made by management opinion. No use trying to change yourself now.
I would suggest updating the CV, but stay on, and keep a positive attitude about the shift in culture.
1) If you're getting downsized, they owe you severance. If you leave, you don't get it. After 8 years, it might be worth it.
2) People who are negative usually go first. Look at the positives, do some preliminary work researching the new systems, culture, expectations etc which will help you make new contacts and increase your "corporate worth". Make sure to name-drop those connections and forward looking technologies around your manager and higherups.
3) Ride it out. If you're a good employee, you'll survive with more opportunity then you think. If you were a sub-par employee always doing the minimum, you can ride it out for the severance. Either way you're covered.
4) Put your feelers out to headhunters. They may be greedy, pushy, and rude, but they're on your side and have a better idea of your market value then anyone else. Just don't use a headhunter that is corporately known. People looking for a job has a way of leaking out, especially if Management deals with them on a regular basis.
I survived a few downsizes and shifts. My positive attitude while the sky was falling was always greeted with appreciation by the new overlords.
Had 3 of them "snap" off of 2 separate motherboards after only a few connect/disconnects.
And before people tell me "it must be you", I had a technician call me and tell me he had to replace the mobo because he broke the remaining one off when he unplugged it to test a new HD.
Granted it was one of the first generation mobo's, but we're talking ASUS boards here, not asrock (and YES I know, god you guys are picky!)
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App World => Search => French Translator
3 options, all in the $30.00 range.
Need it in a hurry for contract details, didn't have the luxury of a pc to surf and find hte right app THEN sync it to blackberry.
You do know I tried to use the web for translations right? The blackberry browser made it insanely time consuming to quickly get the translations I needed constantly.
Yo Grark
All achievable with iphone's. Up here in Canada anyway.
Yo Grark
I was recently on a business trip and had my blackberry at my hip.
On a trip, I needed translator software, so went to RIM app world and found my options limited, i "trialed" their $30.00 french translator. (Let me say first I tried to use the web interface for google, but it took so long and so many clicks on the BB it was unusable consistently).
Well it was useless. Didn't do phrases, no real options, only did 1 word at a time. WTF? $30.00?!?
Luckily I had my ipad handy and saw what was available on the app store there. For 1.99 I got an offline app that KILLED the blackberry app in terms of features and usability.
So, in real work business usage, I have to say, RIM, you've lost me personally, but do continue to make back bench, locked in deals with CEO's to get your phones locked into corporations while you can.
Smart people use smartphones and want usability and fart apps for novelties to take their brains away from work once in awhile. .I will never go back to blackberry.
Yo Grark
No, Leisure Suit Larry skipped 4 on purpose: No 4-play for Larry!
And yes, I'm aware of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_4:_The_Missing_Floppies
Yo Grark
Here's a link to the new species taken from a camera attached to one of the subs
http://www.dynamicaqua.com/raingear_files/sw_black_lg.jpg
Laugh, it's a joke.
- Yo Grark
Kinda like this: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Special:Support
?
Yo Grark
As a business grunt, I was just alluding to a string of good sites/companies being gobbled up by bigger fish. Makes me cringe as I've never seen the parent company take the product or service in a better direction.
Yo Grark
Yes, SF continues to win contracts from Dynamics or whatever MS is calling their latest CRM this week.
SF are just WAY too nimble in their catering to companies needs while MS expects companies to buy upgraded hardware, software, consultants, etc to conform data to THEIR system.
SF: Here you go, we figured out how to provide x for no extra charge.
MS: Sorry we can't do that without $100,000 and even then there's no guarantee.
So yeah, SF is kickin MS's a$$ets and putting their attempts at a CRM to shame.
Next up, MS buys SF.com. *sigh*
- Yo Grark
No, what's sad is that you remember 21 Jump Street. :P
- Yo Grark
Because you sure as hell won't be buying another Xbox360!
Yo Grark
Red Cross is notorious for only spending what they feel they need to. In other disasters only 10% of the money donated ever reached the actual disaster, and of that, there was a huge overhead.
Sorry folks, just not worth it. Do a little digging first, there are MUCH better charities out there that have a LOT more (or all!) of the money you donate going directly to Haiti.
Yo Grark
I won't goat you, I herd it's dead Jim.
Ewe!
Yo Grark
Anyone know of a way to get Hulu in non-US countries?
Yo Grark
You're right, that was TIVO:
http://snarkiness.typepad.com/snarkattack/2002/11/my_tivo_thinks_.html
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SETI@HOME?
Just wonderin.....
Yo Grark
A duh, they have all the money!
Yo Grark
Years? Crimminy with the most recent election threat we're talking MONTHS!
Yo Grark
Every time I've seen them scanning osmeone its a hot chick with big boobs.... And all the guys are over looking at the screen... It's never Nanna or Billy Ray with his beer gut....
Apparently you don't know how this works. The people out front have no way of seeing the scans, that's the job of specially trained people who watch in back and who can't see the line coming so no "tehee watch this one" since it's done in real time.
IF there's a reasons to suspect anything, the backroomers radio the floor to search.
Wow you kids don't know jack.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, select, start.
Yo Grark
It's crucial that the government be able to break its own sponsored monopolies to ensure it won't get unnecessarily squeezed and can still function. Informed private parties are well aware this is always a danger when selling to the government, and can simply choose not to if they don't want to be impacted by it.
Funny, the company/manufacturer I work for does a LOT of selling software to the Government. In all the contracts I deal with (on a daily basis) the fact that the company may not be there is simply solved by putting the code in escrow.
Problem solved, software companies rights of term of use are protected while the government gets their protection against future software issues when the company's not around.
Oh on a side note, the Government gets caught pirating our software 4-5 times a year. Mostly in error. They (for the most part) take it VERY seriously even in times of budget crunches and cutbacks. If the person doesn't take it seriously, the procurement arm sure does.
Yo Grark
As a manager I can tell you the list of employees that will have "protection" has already been made by management opinion. No use trying to change yourself now.
I would suggest updating the CV, but stay on, and keep a positive attitude about the shift in culture.
1) If you're getting downsized, they owe you severance. If you leave, you don't get it. After 8 years, it might be worth it.
2) People who are negative usually go first. Look at the positives, do some preliminary work researching the new systems, culture, expectations etc which will help you make new contacts and increase your "corporate worth". Make sure to name-drop those connections and forward looking technologies around your manager and higherups.
3) Ride it out. If you're a good employee, you'll survive with more opportunity then you think. If you were a sub-par employee always doing the minimum, you can ride it out for the severance. Either way you're covered.
4) Put your feelers out to headhunters. They may be greedy, pushy, and rude, but they're on your side and have a better idea of your market value then anyone else. Just don't use a headhunter that is corporately known. People looking for a job has a way of leaking out, especially if Management deals with them on a regular basis.
I survived a few downsizes and shifts. My positive attitude while the sky was falling was always greeted with appreciation by the new overlords.
Yo Grark
"Convenient how you failed to mention that it *WOULD* be illegal if you burned a copy of the CD for your friend"
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if I were to burn you a CD, it's perfectly LEGAL here in Canada.
Yo Grark
It was called Tremors.
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Tell me about it.
Had 3 of them "snap" off of 2 separate motherboards after only a few connect/disconnects.
And before people tell me "it must be you", I had a technician call me and tell me he had to replace the mobo because he broke the remaining one off when he unplugged it to test a new HD.
Granted it was one of the first generation mobo's, but we're talking ASUS boards here, not asrock (and YES I know, god you guys are picky!)
Yo Grark