No, there are actual managers that work that way. I am currently working on a project run by a similar type of PM.
He has said, and I quote: "4h for an ECN? Are the drawings done? That takes like 2 minutes, I'll do it right now" Generates ECN number. "There, done!" *smh*
Two years ago in Singapore, a text + address will get you a response with an accurate ETA and a cab number within a minute. I've never tried in New York, but hopefully they at least have something like this working?
Close, somewhat unwittingly.
I buy fresh eggs locally. I was visiting a friend and was in charge of breakfast the Saturday. Bacon and eggs, and he said 'wow, these eggs are good. Fresh?' I laughed and said yes, told him where they are from. Two weeks later, he's at my place. I again serve bacon and eggs...he has his and said "these aren't the fresh ones, are they? He was right, my supplier was out.
I always knew the difference was there, but him being able to pick it out just like that cemented the difference for me. Sure, I knew which were which, but they all got fried!
Koha is something I use everyday at my small town library. It is a great resource for a library that needs to be tied to other libraries for cataloguing etc. As hazem said it would be overkill for sure. But for a one off collection I would suggest Winnebago Spectrum. I have also used that system in another library and it was the perfect thing to manage a small collection, and is used quite frequently by school libraries.
The summary got it right on this one.
Everyone's on ridiculously low cap plans now. They have one with a 2GB cap! Hello? 1995 called, they want their plans back.
But now that they have these caps, and onerous overage fees in place, of course, turn off the shaping and let the suckers (err...customers) have at it!
Incredible that this topic attracts a total of 51 comments a couple of hours after being posted. Has anything lost relevance as quickly as it has.
Ok. Maybe Nortel.
I've already got something pretty close with the Toshiba M700.
I know, price point, is out of line with the products being mentioned here, but it's a very good device. I works very well as both. Heavier than a pure tablet for sure, but still light and comfortable enough to use as one.
I am SO disappointed in the lack of Leisure Suit Larry references in this thread!
"Hey everyone, this weirdo wants a libbed, colored, rough-cut, plaid, peppermint condom!"
What you maybe don't realize is that most companies don't handle their own rebates. They sell them to a rebate company, whose best interest it is to not pay them out - and they don't have to worry about the end effect near so much.
It's like the 'don't pay a cent' events at furniture stores. They sell the account, and you have to deal with a nasty credit agency - and if you do default, it's not pretty.
Indeed. Back in the day [/old gravely voice] when I was with Bell Northern Research it was primarily mainframes and Sun Sparcs on the network.
PC's were just starting first being commonly connected. People were writing their own network stacks. Inevitably, someone would write a bad one, install it on a couple of machines, and a broadcast storm would result.
Which meant someone from our group would go over with a pair of sidecutters...
iTunes got turfed from my machine for this reason - my son had it installed on another account, and I kept getting requests to update Bonjour and a bunch of other stuff. And no option to say 'don't ask me again'.
Agreed, I could've fallen for this myself.
I got a ticket about a year ago in a city I didn't live in, and lo and behold, it had a website on it for paying online.
Ticket looked official, but on second thought, I couldn't be sure, having never seen one from that city before. I blindly typed in the URL...
I'd like to believe I would have picked off a phishing scam, but still, I took the first step.
Ok, that ad is without a doubt the funniest damn thing I've seen in a while.
If you like it, you have to like the ol' Mel Lastman commercials for Bad Boy furniture as well - and this guy became the mayor of Toronto!
Here's an example NOOOOBODY!
to the OP - yes, simcasting sucked this year, and last. Frito Lay seems to buy about half the airtime.
I agree, and this is what it was all about, from the state's perspective. They couldn't give a rat's ass what he burns, as long as they get their tax money. He was using the gov't 'pay to play' infrastructure for free.
Could there be a way to asses road taxes more fairly? I'm sure. Some sort of per mile tax or something, including bicycles, etc, but I'm sure that would be considered an invasion of privacy.
This has absolutely nothing to do with oil producers, etc. If you were using heating oil, you'd still get fined, and the oil companies see the same amount of money. They don't see any of the tax money.
If he wants to be environmentally friendly, go ahead, but pay the state the taxes they so desperately want.
Ya, they're horrible. My father had a U-Haul dealership for exactly one month. He had been a small businessman in a small town for years and added it as a sideline.
Between other dealers stealing the vehicles off his lot (they belong to corporate, any dealer can grab them) and vehicles that he was afraid to rent out, he got out, and fast.
He started fixing the ones that came up to bring them to minimum standards - y'know, working brakes at the least, and charging it back to them. They told him to cut his shop rate to about 1/3rd, or to cease and desist.
Yes - they claim it. But that's useless to the recycling guys if they can't easily identify it!
Here's some text from a recent mail conversation with GE over their blister packed lightbulbs:
Some of our packaging includes a plastic shell or "blister pack" made of
polyvinyl chloride (PVC). PVC has a SPI resin identification code of 3
(also known as the plastic container code; it is the number you usually
see inside the recycle triangle, although it may not be stamped on our
packaging). These packages are accepted by recycling centers that allow
this code number.
Notice they say it may not be stamped on our packaging. Answer is: It isn't.
Well put. I repeat something similar to really important to define the problems you're trying to solve and the problems you're *not* trying to solve. so often at design meetings, sometimes I think it's my mantra.
Perhaps, but fire breathing Ornithopters were a great addition to any flying red deck, giving you cheap flying creatures, capable of delivering quite a punch...
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No, there are actual managers that work that way. I am currently working on a project run by a similar type of PM.
He has said, and I quote: "4h for an ECN? Are the drawings done? That takes like 2 minutes, I'll do it right now" Generates ECN number. "There, done!" *smh*
Two years ago in Singapore, a text + address will get you a response with an accurate ETA and a cab number within a minute. I've never tried in New York, but hopefully they at least have something like this working?
Close, somewhat unwittingly. I buy fresh eggs locally. I was visiting a friend and was in charge of breakfast the Saturday. Bacon and eggs, and he said 'wow, these eggs are good. Fresh?' I laughed and said yes, told him where they are from. Two weeks later, he's at my place. I again serve bacon and eggs...he has his and said "these aren't the fresh ones, are they? He was right, my supplier was out. I always knew the difference was there, but him being able to pick it out just like that cemented the difference for me. Sure, I knew which were which, but they all got fried!
Sounds like you likely read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore's_Dilemma as well. I did, and it, as well as a little more research changed my supermarket buying habits.
Koha is something I use everyday at my small town library. It is a great resource for a library that needs to be tied to other libraries for cataloguing etc. As hazem said it would be overkill for sure. But for a one off collection I would suggest Winnebago Spectrum. I have also used that system in another library and it was the perfect thing to manage a small collection, and is used quite frequently by school libraries.
The summary got it right on this one. Everyone's on ridiculously low cap plans now. They have one with a 2GB cap! Hello? 1995 called, they want their plans back. But now that they have these caps, and onerous overage fees in place, of course, turn off the shaping and let the suckers (err...customers) have at it!
Incredible that this topic attracts a total of 51 comments a couple of hours after being posted. Has anything lost relevance as quickly as it has. Ok. Maybe Nortel.
That's what I was thinking - going after a homebrew community that uses hardware that been manufactured in 10 years? Wow...
I've already got something pretty close with the Toshiba M700. I know, price point, is out of line with the products being mentioned here, but it's a very good device. I works very well as both. Heavier than a pure tablet for sure, but still light and comfortable enough to use as one.
I am SO disappointed in the lack of Leisure Suit Larry references in this thread! "Hey everyone, this weirdo wants a libbed, colored, rough-cut, plaid, peppermint condom!"
What you maybe don't realize is that most companies don't handle their own rebates. They sell them to a rebate company, whose best interest it is to not pay them out - and they don't have to worry about the end effect near so much. It's like the 'don't pay a cent' events at furniture stores. They sell the account, and you have to deal with a nasty credit agency - and if you do default, it's not pretty.
Indeed. Back in the day [/old gravely voice] when I was with Bell Northern Research it was primarily mainframes and Sun Sparcs on the network.
PC's were just starting first being commonly connected. People were writing their own network stacks. Inevitably, someone would write a bad one, install it on a couple of machines, and a broadcast storm would result.
Which meant someone from our group would go over with a pair of sidecutters...
iTunes got turfed from my machine for this reason - my son had it installed on another account, and I kept getting requests to update Bonjour and a bunch of other stuff. And no option to say 'don't ask me again'.
Even Windows Update give you that.
Agreed, I could've fallen for this myself. I got a ticket about a year ago in a city I didn't live in, and lo and behold, it had a website on it for paying online. Ticket looked official, but on second thought, I couldn't be sure, having never seen one from that city before. I blindly typed in the URL... I'd like to believe I would have picked off a phishing scam, but still, I took the first step.
Ok, that ad is without a doubt the funniest damn thing I've seen in a while. If you like it, you have to like the ol' Mel Lastman commercials for Bad Boy furniture as well - and this guy became the mayor of Toronto! Here's an example
NOOOOBODY!
to the OP - yes, simcasting sucked this year, and last. Frito Lay seems to buy about half the airtime.
I actually followed a 'tinyurl' link from Slashdot. I had to peek between my fingers as I clicked on it. But anyways, many tx for that
I agree, and this is what it was all about, from the state's perspective. They couldn't give a rat's ass what he burns, as long as they get their tax money. He was using the gov't 'pay to play' infrastructure for free.
Could there be a way to asses road taxes more fairly? I'm sure. Some sort of per mile tax or something, including bicycles, etc, but I'm sure that would be considered an invasion of privacy.
This has absolutely nothing to do with oil producers, etc. If you were using heating oil, you'd still get fined, and the oil companies see the same amount of money. They don't see any of the tax money.
If he wants to be environmentally friendly, go ahead, but pay the state the taxes they so desperately want.
Ya, they're horrible. My father had a U-Haul dealership for exactly one month. He had been a small businessman in a small town for years and added it as a sideline.
Between other dealers stealing the vehicles off his lot (they belong to corporate, any dealer can grab them) and vehicles that he was afraid to rent out, he got out, and fast.
He started fixing the ones that came up to bring them to minimum standards - y'know, working brakes at the least, and charging it back to them. They told him to cut his shop rate to about 1/3rd, or to cease and desist.
You probably side with the owners in baseball, too. Why should anyone make $5million/year to play baseball, right?
That about sums it up SP. I fail to see how playing any sort of game could possibly improve RL shooting skills.
Well put. I repeat something similar to really important to define the problems you're trying to solve and the problems you're *not* trying to solve. so often at design meetings, sometimes I think it's my mantra.
ok - u got my vote for funniest post of the day!
Perhaps, but fire breathing Ornithopters were a great addition to any flying red deck, giving you cheap flying creatures, capable of delivering quite a punch...
Hey, unloading both barrels of the double barrel shotgun was always the nastiest thing going in Doom as well!