honestly, my answer to the question "aren't we efficient enough" raises a few questions in my mind.
i work in logistics, so to speak. manually finding and scanning barcodes takes three times as long as the alternative: electronic invoicing (where the supplier sends an invoice over the computer). not to mention the element of human error. any number of things can throw off the invoice quantities, and such errors must be (at high cost) hunted down and resolved.
to you, upcs are ambiguous. to me, they are a pain in the ass.
Many people fear the "end of times," "the mark of the beast," and all that.
Many catholics fear it as well, but what they do not realise is that the Catholic Church (by which i do not mean merely the RCC) pray for the return of Christ at every mass offered. This implies necessity of this "mark of the beast."
Regular people, many Christians, many Catholics hope to stave off the apocalypse by rejecting anything they construe as the mark of the beast. The first step in the sequence of all things apocalyptic. Yet the Catholic Church teaches that the the return of Christ (the apocalypse) FOLLOWS the mark of the beast. Additionally, the apocalypse is supposed to be a GOOD thing. Too many people are afraid of the wrong things.
You believe in the apocalypse? Fine. Welcome it. There is no reason to be afraid.
You don't believe in the apocalypse? Hey, your call.
Either way, there is no reason to live in fear.
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You're really hitting the nail on the head here. Though personally, I wonder why slashdot cares about AIDS so much. I mean, this is the singular largest body of people on the planet who are the least likely to contract it. (OK, don't kill me for that crack!;)
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Generally, the only movies that ever have good sequels are based on a tv show, or a line of open-ended books. Such stories are designed for later "episodes." I wish I could elaborate more on why it seems this way to me; the same reasons that make normal movie sequels suck play the same integral part in making the "based on tv" sequel actually work.
Either way, John Q Public will eventually get bored with Star Trek as a concept, and move on to Sex and the City or something else. I suspect pretty much anybody on slashdot could point out numerous cases of Star Trek jumping the shark.
You do not hear jokes about Columbia's re-entry because the topic has faded from the limelight. People are not all up at arms (bad joke) about the space race. People generally do not care about the shuttles, about the stardust probe, or about anything space related any more. We are entering another dark age; people had been told of the great things the future could hold. And it didn't. So no, they do not care about the current shuttle program.
Where is my flying car? Why don't I live on a moon base? Remember that geeks don't rule the world. Regular people do. As a direct result, nobody cares about nasa. Not any more. they bought the snake oil the first time, and lost 7 astronauts. They are not interested in another round of bus fare, as it were.
I am seriously trying to not sound like a troll here, but honestly, normal people don't care about probes hovering over the north pole, collecting stardust, or another failed shuttle mission. They are used to being disappointed by nasa so much, that they no longer pay attention to nasa at all.
You just have to remember, normal people don't care about nasa any more. They grew up with dreams of exploring space. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... can't get fooled again.
I agree completely! and while we are at it, let's change the national currency (pounds, dollars, cruzados, etc) into leaves. That will make everybody a lot richer, and enhance the quality of life all around!
No, seriously. A cheap, clean energy source is not market friendly. It requires a major industry to just "go away." You want to know why cheap, clean energy is not the norm yet? Ask the Benjamins. The simple fact is that governments are not in control. It is the industries that really control them, and the industries intend to rage against the dying of the light.
The technology is there. Why is it not being implemented? The market chooses the cheaper solution. The ideal solution wants too much money. Not to mention that the new market is already out of business. If light bulbs lasted for 80 years, there would be virtually no new light bulb purchases. Ever. It is not the governments calling the shots, here. It is the money.
It doesn't matter what store will replace the Blockbuster up the street.
The declining rentals and used movie purchases will compel the MPAA to whine about further lost sales on account of P2P piracy. See? It drove that Blockbuster Video out of business!
No matter what replaces that outlet, you know what will be blamed. it is a lose-lose situation, and you already know who wins.
It was never the legitimate online businesses you had to worry about, anyway. The impetus to comply with the law only means increased operating expenses for legitimate businesses, and working overseas for the rest.
You know, I used to think that Outlook was the worst email client ever, except for Outlook Express. I thought surely, there could not possibly be anything worse. Then I got promoted at work, and introduced to a whole new level of corporate infrastructure which previously was none of my concern.
This included email contact with many other people. The solution they chose to accomplish this task? A combination of Citrix and Lotus Notes. Start Outlook -> check mail periodically. Simple. it works.
The "solution" we have? login to the Citrix server. wait a couple of minutes for your desktop to appear. Try a few times to start Lotus Notes. Mouse jitter makes double clicking over a network a *bitch*. Retype your password, even though you had to provide a password just to get into Citrix.
Start the replicator. Wait a few minutes. Learn you have no new mail, and just wasted 6 minutes of your shift.
Logout. Hey, even if you don't log out, Citrix will forcibly log you out after 10 minutes of inactivity.
It's a fucking joke.
To say Windows doesn't have a decent email client is laughable. To me, anything is decent if it takes less than six minutes to check for new mail.
The doctrine to which you are referring ("Ex Cathedra", which IIRC translates to English as "From the Seat" [of Peter]) is much, much older than you believe. It goes back as far as "You are Peter, and upon this Rock (petrus == "rock") I will build My Church -- And the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." Additional reference to the quote "what you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and what you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." If it were possible for the pope to declare something morally acceptable when God would not approve of it, then one could argue that the gates of hell most obviously *did* prevail.
This is why new documents and declarations made Ex Cathedra are rare; they all deal with a new topic, or an old topic in new light. Additionally, they are used to establish what is and is not a sin; papal "infallibility" has not the smallest thing to do with sinfulness or holiness.
And while the joke was admittedly cute, it is ultimately wrong; bishops, cardinals, and popes can and do confess their sins to priests or each other; all have been ordained priests, and the authority to forgive sins is conferred with this mandate.
Whether you believe any of what I have just said is theologically sound is irrelevant. If you want an explanation of the dogma, some insight into how the church thinks, there it is. Take or leave it as that, because that's all it is.
Obviously, this will ruin my excellent karma, because I bothered to stand up and correct an oversight, rather than make jokes about raping kids or something. Because we all know, while maybe not all priests are pedophiles, all pedophiles must be priests. right?
Fair enough, but remember: in this particular case, it is all about Google. Why don't you ever see MSN Search on slashdot? Because Microsoft just isn't doing anything newsworthy. Neither is Wal*Mart. Google does get a disproportionate slashdot presence, but it is an extremely active company, and nobody has found a very good way to compete with them. I wonder what will happen if Google ever captures 90% of a given market... would they continue to invest and dominate it, or let it slide for a while and work on something else (ala Microsoft)?
I believe there is a good chance you missed my point: Google is beginning to directly compete with a lot of major big-time players. Google sprouted up virtually overnight, and is already stealing marketshare from companies that have sprawled out their empire over the course of decades. This is an unprecedented level of growth, and Steve Ballmer is royally pissed that he hasn't found a way to compete with them yet. Wal*Mart is scared as well, because what if it's true? What if Google successfully leads people to consistently lower priced items? Especially lower priced, brand name, big ticket items? What is Wal*Mart going to do to compete? Their prices are already about as low as they can possibly get. You are right, that it is all about losing marketshare for Microsoft (and everybody else). If I indicated that I felt any other way about that, I apologise for the lack of clarity. I thought it was obvious that was the issue when I pointed out that these companies still have not found a way to compete with Google, which is quickly stealing away their customer bases.
Just a few years ago, Google was nothing. Now entire industries are shitting their pants, because they are incapable of understanding Google's business model.
Google has become ubiquitous; They make products people want to use. And they don't even feel compelled to say "customer satisfaction is our number one priority!" on every sign, railing, and even doormat in the building.
While other companies (and even industries) are struggling to lock consumers into their own little slice of the marketing pie, they have not figured out a way to get people to stop going to google for products or services. And that scares the bejesus out of them. It's not that hard; run the business and stay in the black. Give people what they want, instead of offering them a product and telling them that they want it because you want what's best for them.
That was my first thought as well, but then I realised: any machine you pull out of "excess capacity" is in its virgin state. Replace them if they must. It maintains the budget and whatnot. But anything in that room can legitimately be considered "safe" to sell, either through official channels or even on ebay. Suddenly, the budget is not only maintained, it is increased.
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Dude, give it a few hours. A day, tops, and you'll get your wish.
reminds me of a smothers brothers skit that went something like:
tom: apples! fresh apples! just $10,000 per apple! dick: you're not going to sell many apples with a price like that. tom: well, i only need to sell one, right?
i wish i had more of their work in my library. heh.
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Don't mod me, mod the parent. Mod it "Funny."
I would suppose that every price quoted in the linked article is in euros, and that logically, his acquisition of that unit was indeed not in the US.
honestly, my answer to the question "aren't we efficient enough" raises a few questions in my mind. i work in logistics, so to speak. manually finding and scanning barcodes takes three times as long as the alternative: electronic invoicing (where the supplier sends an invoice over the computer). not to mention the element of human error. any number of things can throw off the invoice quantities, and such errors must be (at high cost) hunted down and resolved. to you, upcs are ambiguous. to me, they are a pain in the ass.
Many people fear the "end of times," "the mark of the beast," and all that.
Many catholics fear it as well, but what they do not realise is that the Catholic Church (by which i do not mean merely the RCC) pray for the return of Christ at every mass offered. This implies necessity of this "mark of the beast."
Regular people, many Christians, many Catholics hope to stave off the apocalypse by rejecting anything they construe as the mark of the beast. The first step in the sequence of all things apocalyptic. Yet the Catholic Church teaches that the the return of Christ (the apocalypse) FOLLOWS the mark of the beast. Additionally, the apocalypse is supposed to be a GOOD thing. Too many people are afraid of the wrong things.
You believe in the apocalypse? Fine. Welcome it. There is no reason to be afraid.
You don't believe in the apocalypse? Hey, your call.
Either way, there is no reason to live in fear.
You're really hitting the nail on the head here. Though personally, I wonder why slashdot cares about AIDS so much. I mean, this is the singular largest body of people on the planet who are the least likely to contract it. (OK, don't kill me for that crack! ;)
Generally, the only movies that ever have good sequels are based on a tv show, or a line of open-ended books. Such stories are designed for later "episodes." I wish I could elaborate more on why it seems this way to me; the same reasons that make normal movie sequels suck play the same integral part in making the "based on tv" sequel actually work.
Either way, John Q Public will eventually get bored with Star Trek as a concept, and move on to Sex and the City or something else. I suspect pretty much anybody on slashdot could point out numerous cases of Star Trek jumping the shark.
You do not hear jokes about Columbia's re-entry because the topic has faded from the limelight. People are not all up at arms (bad joke) about the space race. People generally do not care about the shuttles, about the stardust probe, or about anything space related any more. We are entering another dark age; people had been told of the great things the future could hold. And it didn't. So no, they do not care about the current shuttle program. Where is my flying car? Why don't I live on a moon base? Remember that geeks don't rule the world. Regular people do. As a direct result, nobody cares about nasa. Not any more. they bought the snake oil the first time, and lost 7 astronauts. They are not interested in another round of bus fare, as it were. I am seriously trying to not sound like a troll here, but honestly, normal people don't care about probes hovering over the north pole, collecting stardust, or another failed shuttle mission. They are used to being disappointed by nasa so much, that they no longer pay attention to nasa at all. You just have to remember, normal people don't care about nasa any more. They grew up with dreams of exploring space. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... can't get fooled again.
I agree completely! and while we are at it, let's change the national currency (pounds, dollars, cruzados, etc) into leaves. That will make everybody a lot richer, and enhance the quality of life all around!
No, seriously. A cheap, clean energy source is not market friendly. It requires a major industry to just "go away." You want to know why cheap, clean energy is not the norm yet? Ask the Benjamins. The simple fact is that governments are not in control. It is the industries that really control them, and the industries intend to rage against the dying of the light.
The technology is there. Why is it not being implemented? The market chooses the cheaper solution. The ideal solution wants too much money. Not to mention that the new market is already out of business. If light bulbs lasted for 80 years, there would be virtually no new light bulb purchases. Ever. It is not the governments calling the shots, here. It is the money.
It doesn't matter what store will replace the Blockbuster up the street.
The declining rentals and used movie purchases will compel the MPAA to whine about further lost sales on account of P2P piracy. See? It drove that Blockbuster Video out of business!
No matter what replaces that outlet, you know what will be blamed. it is a lose-lose situation, and you already know who wins.
It was never the legitimate online businesses you had to worry about, anyway. The impetus to comply with the law only means increased operating expenses for legitimate businesses, and working overseas for the rest.
You know, I used to think that Outlook was the worst email client ever, except for Outlook Express. I thought surely, there could not possibly be anything worse. Then I got promoted at work, and introduced to a whole new level of corporate infrastructure which previously was none of my concern.
This included email contact with many other people. The solution they chose to accomplish this task? A combination of Citrix and Lotus Notes. Start Outlook -> check mail periodically. Simple. it works.
The "solution" we have? login to the Citrix server. wait a couple of minutes for your desktop to appear. Try a few times to start Lotus Notes. Mouse jitter makes double clicking over a network a *bitch*. Retype your password, even though you had to provide a password just to get into Citrix.
Start the replicator. Wait a few minutes. Learn you have no new mail, and just wasted 6 minutes of your shift.
Logout. Hey, even if you don't log out, Citrix will forcibly log you out after 10 minutes of inactivity.
It's a fucking joke.
To say Windows doesn't have a decent email client is laughable. To me, anything is decent if it takes less than six minutes to check for new mail.
The doctrine to which you are referring ("Ex Cathedra", which IIRC translates to English as "From the Seat" [of Peter]) is much, much older than you believe. It goes back as far as "You are Peter, and upon this Rock (petrus == "rock") I will build My Church -- And the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." Additional reference to the quote "what you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and what you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." If it were possible for the pope to declare something morally acceptable when God would not approve of it, then one could argue that the gates of hell most obviously *did* prevail.
This is why new documents and declarations made Ex Cathedra are rare; they all deal with a new topic, or an old topic in new light. Additionally, they are used to establish what is and is not a sin; papal "infallibility" has not the smallest thing to do with sinfulness or holiness.
And while the joke was admittedly cute, it is ultimately wrong; bishops, cardinals, and popes can and do confess their sins to priests or each other; all have been ordained priests, and the authority to forgive sins is conferred with this mandate.
Whether you believe any of what I have just said is theologically sound is irrelevant. If you want an explanation of the dogma, some insight into how the church thinks, there it is. Take or leave it as that, because that's all it is.
Obviously, this will ruin my excellent karma, because I bothered to stand up and correct an oversight, rather than make jokes about raping kids or something. Because we all know, while maybe not all priests are pedophiles, all pedophiles must be priests. right?
No, we aren't. 121 days to "us" is spitting against the wind. Running in place.
A Windows box that stays up for 121 days? I suppose that's impressive, if it's windows. But as for me and my peers, 300-600 days is the norm.
Fair enough, but remember: in this particular case, it is all about Google. Why don't you ever see MSN Search on slashdot? Because Microsoft just isn't doing anything newsworthy. Neither is Wal*Mart. Google does get a disproportionate slashdot presence, but it is an extremely active company, and nobody has found a very good way to compete with them. I wonder what will happen if Google ever captures 90% of a given market... would they continue to invest and dominate it, or let it slide for a while and work on something else (ala Microsoft)?
I believe there is a good chance you missed my point: Google is beginning to directly compete with a lot of major big-time players. Google sprouted up virtually overnight, and is already stealing marketshare from companies that have sprawled out their empire over the course of decades. This is an unprecedented level of growth, and Steve Ballmer is royally pissed that he hasn't found a way to compete with them yet. Wal*Mart is scared as well, because what if it's true? What if Google successfully leads people to consistently lower priced items? Especially lower priced, brand name, big ticket items? What is Wal*Mart going to do to compete? Their prices are already about as low as they can possibly get. You are right, that it is all about losing marketshare for Microsoft (and everybody else). If I indicated that I felt any other way about that, I apologise for the lack of clarity. I thought it was obvious that was the issue when I pointed out that these companies still have not found a way to compete with Google, which is quickly stealing away their customer bases.
Just a few years ago, Google was nothing. Now entire industries are shitting their pants, because they are incapable of understanding Google's business model.
Google has become ubiquitous; They make products people want to use. And they don't even feel compelled to say "customer satisfaction is our number one priority!" on every sign, railing, and even doormat in the building.
While other companies (and even industries) are struggling to lock consumers into their own little slice of the marketing pie, they have not figured out a way to get people to stop going to google for products or services. And that scares the bejesus out of them. It's not that hard; run the business and stay in the black. Give people what they want, instead of offering them a product and telling them that they want it because you want what's best for them.
That was my first thought as well, but then I realised: any machine you pull out of "excess capacity" is in its virgin state. Replace them if they must. It maintains the budget and whatnot. But anything in that room can legitimately be considered "safe" to sell, either through official channels or even on ebay. Suddenly, the budget is not only maintained, it is increased.
Dude, give it a few hours. A day, tops, and you'll get your wish.
Which raises the age-old question: how many politicians do you want to buy today?
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/11/00 12220
And that's all I've got to say about that.
reminds me of a smothers brothers skit that went something like:
tom: apples! fresh apples! just $10,000 per apple!
dick: you're not going to sell many apples with a price like that.
tom: well, i only need to sell one, right?
i wish i had more of their work in my library. heh.
You forgot to list my completely legitimate and not at all fake escrow service. Please consider using this service in the future!
...he was the CEO, and you're still down in the cube farm trying to get your cover sheet right for those TPS reports. ;)
So let me get this straight. You're saying a judge (and jury) might give Steve Ballmer jail time?
Enough said.
That is perhaps the single most underrated troll I've ever seen, and deserves some serious mod points, people!