I was about to mention those (he said three hours later), I worked at BB corporate up until a couple of years ago and Circuit City et al. were completely off the map. They're sweating over exactly the retailers that you mentioned, especially Wallmart.
Once upon a time, a guy I worked with created an Excel workbook where the user would paste in a ginormous list of parts and it would go through about five minutes of gymnastics to parse it out into a bunch of shipping lists. After he left, guess who got to attempt to fix it when it (inevitably) broke?
I own a Sansa, and most of what was posted here applies. I'd add that the shuffle is a real, playlist based shuffle, rather than the random play that my Sansa firmware uses. I don't know which type iPods use.
To clarify the difference:
Shuffle: Create a playlist, shuffle it, then play the shuffled playlist.
Random: Play a song, then randomly play another song with a chance, however small, of playing the same song again or within a few songs.
I was GravityZood last year...it was horrible. The...the nightmares! I...my...my wife left me, my therapist committed suicide, my dog *SOB* I can't talk about it any more. Run! RUN! While you still can!
I worked at Best Buy corporate when they bought MLG. My manager and a couple of other people in my group went to their central warehouse soon after to get a feel for their processes and systems and such. When they got back all they could talk about was what a mess the place was - CDs and tapes all over the floor, product in the wrong bins, that sort of thing. I guess they had a pretty neat semi-automated boxing system, though. No one was really surprised that they were having the trouble that they were. Not that Best Buy was ever able to fix it - they dropped 'em like a hot potato within a few years.
I worked with the part of Geek Squad that manages the stores that aren't in Best Buys (there are a couple in Minnesota, California, Colorado, and Texas and some inside Office Depots in Florida) from mid '05 to the end of '06. Most of the team was made up of guys who had been agents before Best Buy bought Geek Squad (or before Geek Squad acquired Best Buy as Robert Stephens likes to put it) and they fought tooth and nail to keep the retail attitude out of their stores - they knew it was a service environment and concentrated on metrics that made sense, not selling gift cards and PSPs. They actually fired a chief who had come from a Best Buy store and focused too much on revenue. It was kind of amusing watching them try to explain the concept of a service organization to people from the retail side; the utter, innocent confusion in their eyes when they just couldn't understand why we didn't want to stack shitty eMachines up to the ceiling.
Way OT, but I have been trying to figure out what that tune is called forever! Finally I can put it on my laptop to play at appropriate moments during meetings. I knew it was worth coming to work today.
I've heard that analogy and I think the fundamental flaw is that P2P is a lot more like making a hojillion "mix" tapes and leaving them in a high traffic area with a 'free' sign. It's not really 'effectively' the same thing.
Don't take this to mean that I'm hardcore anti P2P. I've d/l'd a couple of CDs rather than paying some outrageous sum for an import of a CD by an American band that was released in America and should still be available here.
I agree completely. Heaven knows there weren't any fanboys on Slashdot before Firefox.
Ah, those were the days... rational discourse, on topic discussions, no spelling errors...Why, I remember one time, I said that I thought that Gentoo could be a little easier to install, and nobody modded me down. Dammit, I promised myself I wasn't going to cry!
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I was about to mention those (he said three hours later), I worked at BB corporate up until a couple of years ago and Circuit City et al. were completely off the map. They're sweating over exactly the retailers that you mentioned, especially Wallmart.
Once upon a time, a guy I worked with created an Excel workbook where the user would paste in a ginormous list of parts and it would go through about five minutes of gymnastics to parse it out into a bunch of shipping lists. After he left, guess who got to attempt to fix it when it (inevitably) broke?
So many VLookups...
I own a Sansa, and most of what was posted here applies. I'd add that the shuffle is a real, playlist based shuffle, rather than the random play that my Sansa firmware uses. I don't know which type iPods use.
To clarify the difference:
Shuffle: Create a playlist, shuffle it, then play the shuffled playlist.
Random: Play a song, then randomly play another song with a chance, however small, of playing the same song again or within a few songs.
Curiously, yes.
You keep using that mod. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The important thing is that he remembers his PIN number.
I was GravityZood last year...it was horrible. The...the nightmares! I...my...my wife left me, my therapist committed suicide, my dog *SOB* I can't talk about it any more. Run! RUN! While you still can!
What?!? And take the creativity out of the hands of the artists?
For shame!
I worked at Best Buy corporate when they bought MLG. My manager and a couple of other people in my group went to their central warehouse soon after to get a feel for their processes and systems and such. When they got back all they could talk about was what a mess the place was - CDs and tapes all over the floor, product in the wrong bins, that sort of thing. I guess they had a pretty neat semi-automated boxing system, though. No one was really surprised that they were having the trouble that they were. Not that Best Buy was ever able to fix it - they dropped 'em like a hot potato within a few years.
I worked with the part of Geek Squad that manages the stores that aren't in Best Buys (there are a couple in Minnesota, California, Colorado, and Texas and some inside Office Depots in Florida) from mid '05 to the end of '06. Most of the team was made up of guys who had been agents before Best Buy bought Geek Squad (or before Geek Squad acquired Best Buy as Robert Stephens likes to put it) and they fought tooth and nail to keep the retail attitude out of their stores - they knew it was a service environment and concentrated on metrics that made sense, not selling gift cards and PSPs. They actually fired a chief who had come from a Best Buy store and focused too much on revenue. It was kind of amusing watching them try to explain the concept of a service organization to people from the retail side; the utter, innocent confusion in their eyes when they just couldn't understand why we didn't want to stack shitty eMachines up to the ceiling.
Radar Rat Race with dual GPUs and 5.1 surround? Sign me up!
I was right there with you until you said Poison was quality music. Ah, well. Different streaks for different freaks, I guess.
Hell, I made it on a plane to Canada with a 2" keychain knife. Not so much luck on the way back.
That's it. I'm turning off my PC and going to bed. There's no way I'm going to see anything funnier than this today.
Well done.
Focus? Luxury!
Sure, but how do you measure it?
Personally, I'm all about the weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Way OT, but I have been trying to figure out what that tune is called forever! Finally I can put it on my laptop to play at appropriate moments during meetings. I knew it was worth coming to work today.
My thanks, sir.
In Soviet Russia, joke gives up on you?
*tap* *tap* Is this thing on?
I've heard that analogy and I think the fundamental flaw is that P2P is a lot more like making a hojillion "mix" tapes and leaving them in a high traffic area with a 'free' sign. It's not really 'effectively' the same thing.
Don't take this to mean that I'm hardcore anti P2P. I've d/l'd a couple of CDs rather than paying some outrageous sum for an import of a CD by an American band that was released in America and should still be available here.
Not that I'm bitter.
I can't for the life of me remember where I read this:
Programmers are called Developers
Developers are called Engineers
Engineers are called Architects
And Architects are hardly ever called
You can at mine - and they have the coolest delivery cars!
I agree completely. Heaven knows there weren't any fanboys on Slashdot before Firefox.
Ah, those were the days... rational discourse, on topic discussions, no spelling errors...Why, I remember one time, I said that I thought that Gentoo could be a little easier to install, and nobody modded me down. Dammit, I promised myself I wasn't going to cry!
C'mon, man. At least RTF summary. They are clearly going to steal your login/pwd the next time you access your bank or CC site so they can do the buying for you.
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