Inventorying an incoming pallet simply isn't as easy as reading the manifest. You have to physically check that the contents of the pallet match what is on the manifest or you will have stock loss (and lost money!).
One major area of stock loss for many companies is transit. Either the company who shipped the goods didn't manifest them correctly, or they accidentally shipped the wrong goods, or stock was misplaced or stolen while in transit. When you receive an order you need to count what is actually on the pallet against what is on the manifest and then have another person verify this. Depending on the goods, this can take time. Big jugs of milk - easy. Clothing, small domestic appliances - not so easy. Items like small TVs, mobile phones, laptops, game consoles, MP3 players and cameras are all high-value, low-profile, and easy steal goods that need to be physically counted at easy stage of transit.
After this you still need to have someone (usually a clerk dedicated to this task) add the goods to the electronic inventory of the receiving company, raise discrepancy issues, etc.
I've spent ten years working in inventory, and I'm currently the inventory specialist for a national company. RFID tagging is an excellent idea for tracking stock movement and Wal-mart's initiative into this is ahead of it's time. RFID will be way that all stock control will go in the next decade, but it will never replace the need to physically inventory goods. Their charge for the both tag and labour on Wal-mart's part is actually pretty reasonable, but it only tracks pallets and not the goods on them, which is what is important for companies.
I worked for Currys for eight years, and that manager is talking rubbish. We as a company won't resolves issues that stem from you changing your operating system, but for an actual hardware fault your warranty is still good.
Please contact me.
Rubbish, I've yet to see such and I've worked for an electronic retailer for the past six years who offer a 110% price guarantee.
All these companies purchase the same items from the same firms. While there are some common sense clauses attached - it can't be an online or otherwise special offer price, and has to be a store within five minutes, for instance - I've yet to see something rediculous like that crop up.
I only use finder when I have to do "quirky" work, personally.
I've found it much easier to use ln -s, mv and cp for most of my file management.
Now if you had a Rox Filer port to Darwin...
The UK may be a smaller market, but its been shown time and again that a greater amount of downloading goes on their. I guess the four month+ delays between US and UK (I'm in Ireland, Irish channels don't even carry any of these shows) debuts gives people the incentive they need to download. On top of that, there's also the high cost and sparse extras in DVD boxed sets, compared to the US.
I use Fluxbox and Rox Filer on all my Linux systems and between them they provide everything I need from a window manager.
If Longhorn will be anything like XP, by itself it will probably eat half my memory even before I run applications.
Personally I just use my Shuffle as a glorified pen drive. I'm not really one for music, but in between toting around Damm Small Linux, 200mb of Linux and Windows utilities (now I've no excuse not to have Firefox to give to people:p), miscellaneous files and the odd Battlegar Galactica episode, I still have room for a full album. The fact I don't have to mess with batteries if I do want to listen to an album is another plus.
I hope they take a long, hard look at the new Battlestar Galactica before they make any move on a new Star Trek series-fanbois are drooling over it for a reason.
I agree with you. KDE is nice, it has lots of great gizmos...but its not for me. Too many superfluous features, imo. Gnome gets the same job done, but its far more minimal, which is how I've always liked my desktops.
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Inventorying an incoming pallet simply isn't as easy as reading the manifest. You have to physically check that the contents of the pallet match what is on the manifest or you will have stock loss (and lost money!). One major area of stock loss for many companies is transit. Either the company who shipped the goods didn't manifest them correctly, or they accidentally shipped the wrong goods, or stock was misplaced or stolen while in transit. When you receive an order you need to count what is actually on the pallet against what is on the manifest and then have another person verify this. Depending on the goods, this can take time. Big jugs of milk - easy. Clothing, small domestic appliances - not so easy. Items like small TVs, mobile phones, laptops, game consoles, MP3 players and cameras are all high-value, low-profile, and easy steal goods that need to be physically counted at easy stage of transit. After this you still need to have someone (usually a clerk dedicated to this task) add the goods to the electronic inventory of the receiving company, raise discrepancy issues, etc. I've spent ten years working in inventory, and I'm currently the inventory specialist for a national company. RFID tagging is an excellent idea for tracking stock movement and Wal-mart's initiative into this is ahead of it's time. RFID will be way that all stock control will go in the next decade, but it will never replace the need to physically inventory goods. Their charge for the both tag and labour on Wal-mart's part is actually pretty reasonable, but it only tracks pallets and not the goods on them, which is what is important for companies.
I worked for Currys for eight years, and that manager is talking rubbish. We as a company won't resolves issues that stem from you changing your operating system, but for an actual hardware fault your warranty is still good. Please contact me.
It's Eastern Standard Tribe made real.
How long until we see Adblock for the Xbox 360?
...but will it run Firefox?
Rubbish, I've yet to see such and I've worked for an electronic retailer for the past six years who offer a 110% price guarantee. All these companies purchase the same items from the same firms. While there are some common sense clauses attached - it can't be an online or otherwise special offer price, and has to be a store within five minutes, for instance - I've yet to see something rediculous like that crop up.
And a lil ol' probe named Cassini
I only use finder when I have to do "quirky" work, personally. I've found it much easier to use ln -s, mv and cp for most of my file management. Now if you had a Rox Filer port to Darwin...
The UK may be a smaller market, but its been shown time and again that a greater amount of downloading goes on their. I guess the four month+ delays between US and UK (I'm in Ireland, Irish channels don't even carry any of these shows) debuts gives people the incentive they need to download. On top of that, there's also the high cost and sparse extras in DVD boxed sets, compared to the US.
I use Fluxbox and Rox Filer on all my Linux systems and between them they provide everything I need from a window manager. If Longhorn will be anything like XP, by itself it will probably eat half my memory even before I run applications.
I'm suprised no one has mentioned the new Battlestar Galactica yet...
Except for here in Ireland, apparently, where its quite popular.
Personally I just use my Shuffle as a glorified pen drive. I'm not really one for music, but in between toting around Damm Small Linux, 200mb of Linux and Windows utilities (now I've no excuse not to have Firefox to give to people :p), miscellaneous files and the odd Battlegar Galactica episode, I still have room for a full album. The fact I don't have to mess with batteries if I do want to listen to an album is another plus.
How do you view those files under Linux?
Its probably just you. I actually prefer it.
I hope they take a long, hard look at the new Battlestar Galactica before they make any move on a new Star Trek series-fanbois are drooling over it for a reason.
To get better gaming support on Linux we need more Linux gamers, but to get more Linux gamers we need better Linux gaming support.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm/
Actually they're more of a case of unpacking the game from the .gcf archives so it'll run without Steam.
I wound up with as admin on my school's network. Come lunchtime, every other PC got locked out of the ISDN line.
There's also hdparm, for tuning. If you set it right, you can get a big performance boost.
So why not switch to Linux and use GPL'd OS and accounting software?
Actually the already are planning it with the JIMO probe-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/22/jupi ter_probe/
I agree with you. KDE is nice, it has lots of great gizmos...but its not for me. Too many superfluous features, imo. Gnome gets the same job done, but its far more minimal, which is how I've always liked my desktops.