If you bothered to pay any attention to politics, you'd notice Hillary's sprint towards center isn't being looked upon as favorable by anyone in the Dem party.
If the Dems do run Hil, I'd state that as proof they not only don't want to win, but are merely shills for the Repubs.
There's been a few politician names kicked around as The Candidate but that's for primaries to wash out.
Your party would be better served by running McCain. Maybe get some credibility back in there, potentially conscience and good ol' conservative values instead of the demon child Defense Democrat we have running the country. Well sort of Democrat - Dems were characterized by "tax and spend" instead of "tax cut and spend". But what did we expect? Bush Jr ran every business he was a part of into the ground, why would anyone expect differently when it was the country?
Is that redundant? No, because The Daily News is the name of the newspaper. I don't know if this is the case here, but I suspect you're just being pedantic. Like me. Yay!
Is the implication that insurance salesmen make peanuts because their base is 20k/yr. The + commission is a pretty important piece of the sales puzzle, as anyone reasonably competent in math should know.
Some of the highest paid careers are sales, and almost 80% of CEOs come from Sales.
Not that they're a particularly noble breed of people, but they do make teh lootz.
A somewhat longer answer is:
It's your accounting system of record. If you're audited, that's what gets audited. IT holds your chart of accounts. It holds all data necessary to develop your Balance Sheets and P&L statements.
That's the "core" module, and both SAP and Oracle have commonalities here, with an Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger module that is typically considered a "core" installation.
After that, you start getting complicated, as there's dozens of modules in both SAP and Oracle to extend your capabilities within the system. The big selling point of the additional systems is they're integrated with your GL. Makes the bean counters happy. And, to be honest, the integration is really a snap. . . unless your business departs from the "best practices" (aka this is how we coded it to work) at which point it gets a little more complicated. Some customizations are easy to do, some are hard, some are hideous. Oracle's current marketing campaign focuses on the fact that customisations are all Java (which is BS - they have a proprietary forms language that accomplishes most customizations within the ERP) whereas SAP is all ABAP (their own language). I haven't touched SAP in an implementation role since 1999/2000 so I'm unsure what's changed.
I do know this - if you implement serious changes in either system you're going to pay the piper. You'll need at bare minimum a contractor to be able to come in and fix them when broken, and more likely you'll be retaining one on a full-time basis.
I veered a little bit. Other modules for both software packages include their manufacturing sets (SAP -Materials Management, Purchasing, Production Planning Oracle: Inventory, Supply Chain Planner, Purchasing, Bill of Materials) and other suites, such as Order Management, Projects, CRM, etc.
It's all designed very modular so you can pick and choose. Also so it's easy for a sales guy to break it down to the Big Three (GL/AR/AP) and sell them that w/a rapid implementation cycle that may or may not be right for the company. Once they're in though, you've got a captive customer, and it becomes easier to sell them the other modules as SAP doesn't play well with Oracle. (one exception is the Oracle backend, which is a popular choice on SAP applications, which I'm sure drives SAP apeshit)
In terms of open source solutions, I highly doubt anyone's gone that route. It's such a big undertaking, I don't think OS has even come up with a reasonable, scalable accounting suite.
Those crazed note-takers always cracked me up in classes. I only wrote down what I didn't know or wasn't in the book. And sometimes not even that.
And I do agree with your assessment of teaching. I just get bored sooo easily if there's no real expansion of the material (read: significant) that I either stop going or (in crueller cases) attempt to find ways to undermine the arguments presented and begin asking questions along those lines. Worked better in fluffy business classes than something like chemistry. It's damned hard to argue against covalent bonds. Unless you love Jesus.
It's tons better than the Treo I used to underutilize.
The one thing I haven't figured out how to do (and wish I could find a way) would be to switch up the quick menu from the main screen. Other than that, though, the RAZR is perfect. And all the girls tell me it's so tiny. I finally like it when they say that!
Use the p and br tags to make it easier to read.:)
That pedantic crap out of the way, I'd like to state one thing that drove me nuts in college were teachers who taught based on the book material.
Even more fun were the ones that did that and took attendance. If you're assigning me reading, I'll do the reading. If I heard the professor parroting what I'd read prior to the class, though, I'd shut off, do something else (normally defacing property in the school; I was a dick) and I'd never go to the class again except at test days.
The classes I loved were ones that not only addressed book material but went far beyond it into applications of said material in the world. If the class was 40% or less directly out of the book I was thrilled and would go all the time. As the number crept up to 100% I'd become more and more disgruntled. I can teach myself, thank you, and for a lot cheaper than $150-$250/cr hr.
Napster, AFAIK, does not allow for that portability, and instead requires a connection to the net at all times in order to use their service.
That and the whole lock-in . . . I don't sign up for 2 year cell phone plans anymore because of that. When you're a captive customer, your service level goes down dramatically.
Well at least I know to avoid the game now. After Planetside and EQ I was skeptical about ane SOE title, and after the pain and suffering of the Galaxies crew my decision was cemented.
My assumption has always been that the electronic devices are a distraction, and therefore need to be turned off in case of any sort of emergency announcement by pilots or stewardesses.
I.e. it's not that they're interfering with the instruments, it's that they're making you unable to hear announcements during the two most dangerous parts of a flight.
Cell phones have to be turned off for the duration of the flight. Nobody's yacking until you land, and then there's a veritable symphony of cell phones turning on.
My RAZR does that too!
For a while I thought I was a psyker and was actually utilizing precog, and it was manifesting as "speaker noise". But then a coworker said she heard it too, and she's so dumb she can't be psychic. It's debateable whether she's even sentient, if you ask me. Which you didn't. But you were going to. Hey, maybe I'm psychic!
I mentioned Foucalt's Pendulum.
I never claimed to enjoy DaVinci's Code. In fact, I think it was a suck book. Not because of the "inaccuracies" but because it simply wasn't that good. Transparent plot, basic whodunit.
The only thing about it that's entertaining is the Christian world's reaction to it.
wahhhhh it's like writing a denigrating book about your mom wahhhhhh
wahhhhh it says mean (fictitious!) things about the church wahhhhh
Just hilarious. Seriously, I don't think Brown even had an agenda when he wrote it, other than write a story that sells a lot of books.
The Christians get all pissy about a fiction book, when if we really want to boil down the meat of it, we can go to fact and paint a really fucking ugly picture of both the Protestants and the Catholics. No reason to make shit up. Just write about the Inquisition, or the witch hunts, or the Hundred Year War, or any ov the myriad injustices performed in Christ's name.
The bitch-fest about Brown seems to me to reek of supressed doubt lashing into anger at an easy target.
People who have trouble with the idea of fiction are the only ones that should have trouble with it. And heck, those are the people you religious types need to talk to anyway, as they're your next set of recruits!
I know that was kind of dickish. My Diner's Club got rejected this morning and while I have no trouble discerning fiction from reality, I have incredible amounts of trouble choosing proper targets for my anger.
If you want to read a really good grail conspiracy theory, read Foucalt's Pendulum
I think Name of the Rose is another, I didn't read it. Eco's a very thick writer, with plenty of big words. Great sense of humor as well, I really enjoyed Pendulum.
Christians (some) really don't like the DaVinci Code.
I forgot where I heard it, but someone had a fantastic joke about it:
Christians are protesting the DaVinci Code and developing texts refuting it. Apparently they're having difficulty believing that a book can be fiction.
Boy did I mangle that one.
Anyway. -1 Overrated for ME!
the point is an economy where you are not compensated for your education and not compensated for your work is not an economy which encourages education OR work at all.
That's a fallacy.
Simply because what you may have become educated in and/or worked hard for isn't rewarded as you believe it should be, does not imply immediately that the economy is failing.
In fact, it may imply that the economy is working as-intended. If you're bad-ass at FORTRAN your skillset is limited, no matter how hard you work there's a high likelihood that you're not going to get paid much as you're niche to a field (scientific applications mainly) that doesn't receive a heckuva lot of funding.
Just because your individual results aren't worthwhile doesn't indicate that the system is broken. Perhaps you're overvaluing yourself.
Walk. Really, you make it sound as if the world owes you a living because you're a "hard worker".
I don't get who "They" are but it sounds like you were outsourced and another company hired you for cheaper. Welcome to the new economy, bub.
If you're a pure code-monkey, then you'd better get some business skills under your belt. People who can code to a spec are being rapidly commoditized. Even if there was no globalization/outsourcing, you'd still see downward pressure on salaries as IT became more lucrative, it's economics.
Get some skills that aren't easily replaceable, like people skills and business analysis, and you can become indispensable.
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If the Dems do run Hil, I'd state that as proof they not only don't want to win, but are merely shills for the Repubs.
There's been a few politician names kicked around as The Candidate but that's for primaries to wash out.
Your party would be better served by running McCain. Maybe get some credibility back in there, potentially conscience and good ol' conservative values instead of the demon child Defense Democrat we have running the country. Well sort of Democrat - Dems were characterized by "tax and spend" instead of "tax cut and spend". But what did we expect? Bush Jr ran every business he was a part of into the ground, why would anyone expect differently when it was the country?
Is that redundant? No, because The Daily News is the name of the newspaper. I don't know if this is the case here, but I suspect you're just being pedantic. Like me. Yay!
Time to buy more shaving cream and hand-safe razors.
I'm very very sorry for the joke.
Some of the highest paid careers are sales, and almost 80% of CEOs come from Sales.
Not that they're a particularly noble breed of people, but they do make teh lootz.
telecommuting rules.
A somewhat longer answer is:
It's your accounting system of record. If you're audited, that's what gets audited. IT holds your chart of accounts. It holds all data necessary to develop your Balance Sheets and P&L statements.
That's the "core" module, and both SAP and Oracle have commonalities here, with an Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger module that is typically considered a "core" installation.
After that, you start getting complicated, as there's dozens of modules in both SAP and Oracle to extend your capabilities within the system. The big selling point of the additional systems is they're integrated with your GL. Makes the bean counters happy. And, to be honest, the integration is really a snap. . . unless your business departs from the "best practices" (aka this is how we coded it to work) at which point it gets a little more complicated. Some customizations are easy to do, some are hard, some are hideous. Oracle's current marketing campaign focuses on the fact that customisations are all Java (which is BS - they have a proprietary forms language that accomplishes most customizations within the ERP) whereas SAP is all ABAP (their own language). I haven't touched SAP in an implementation role since 1999/2000 so I'm unsure what's changed.
I do know this - if you implement serious changes in either system you're going to pay the piper. You'll need at bare minimum a contractor to be able to come in and fix them when broken, and more likely you'll be retaining one on a full-time basis.
I veered a little bit. Other modules for both software packages include their manufacturing sets (SAP -Materials Management, Purchasing, Production Planning Oracle: Inventory, Supply Chain Planner, Purchasing, Bill of Materials) and other suites, such as Order Management, Projects, CRM, etc.
It's all designed very modular so you can pick and choose. Also so it's easy for a sales guy to break it down to the Big Three (GL/AR/AP) and sell them that w/a rapid implementation cycle that may or may not be right for the company. Once they're in though, you've got a captive customer, and it becomes easier to sell them the other modules as SAP doesn't play well with Oracle. (one exception is the Oracle backend, which is a popular choice on SAP applications, which I'm sure drives SAP apeshit)
In terms of open source solutions, I highly doubt anyone's gone that route. It's such a big undertaking, I don't think OS has even come up with a reasonable, scalable accounting suite.
Unfortunately, it was worth every penny.
And I do agree with your assessment of teaching. I just get bored sooo easily if there's no real expansion of the material (read: significant) that I either stop going or (in crueller cases) attempt to find ways to undermine the arguments presented and begin asking questions along those lines. Worked better in fluffy business classes than something like chemistry. It's damned hard to argue against covalent bonds. Unless you love Jesus.
But there's always the LAPD
The one thing I haven't figured out how to do (and wish I could find a way) would be to switch up the quick menu from the main screen. Other than that, though, the RAZR is perfect. And all the girls tell me it's so tiny. I finally like it when they say that!
That pedantic crap out of the way, I'd like to state one thing that drove me nuts in college were teachers who taught based on the book material.
Even more fun were the ones that did that and took attendance. If you're assigning me reading, I'll do the reading. If I heard the professor parroting what I'd read prior to the class, though, I'd shut off, do something else (normally defacing property in the school; I was a dick) and I'd never go to the class again except at test days.
The classes I loved were ones that not only addressed book material but went far beyond it into applications of said material in the world. If the class was 40% or less directly out of the book I was thrilled and would go all the time. As the number crept up to 100% I'd become more and more disgruntled. I can teach myself, thank you, and for a lot cheaper than $150-$250/cr hr.
Just the $.02 of a graduate.
About half the Seinfeld episodes would have never happened if cell phones were around.
good point. Now I kind of want it. Hold me.
Napster, AFAIK, does not allow for that portability, and instead requires a connection to the net at all times in order to use their service.
That and the whole lock-in . . . I don't sign up for 2 year cell phone plans anymore because of that. When you're a captive customer, your service level goes down dramatically.
Thanks, SOE, for giving me a reason to stay away!
I.e. it's not that they're interfering with the instruments, it's that they're making you unable to hear announcements during the two most dangerous parts of a flight.
Cell phones have to be turned off for the duration of the flight. Nobody's yacking until you land, and then there's a veritable symphony of cell phones turning on.
My RAZR does that too!
For a while I thought I was a psyker and was actually utilizing precog, and it was manifesting as "speaker noise". But then a coworker said she heard it too, and she's so dumb she can't be psychic. It's debateable whether she's even sentient, if you ask me. Which you didn't. But you were going to. Hey, maybe I'm psychic!
The game was good, but it was WAY too short.
I never claimed to enjoy DaVinci's Code. In fact, I think it was a suck book. Not because of the "inaccuracies" but because it simply wasn't that good. Transparent plot, basic whodunit.
The only thing about it that's entertaining is the Christian world's reaction to it.
wahhhhh it's like writing a denigrating book about your mom wahhhhhh
wahhhhh it says mean (fictitious!) things about the church wahhhhh
Just hilarious. Seriously, I don't think Brown even had an agenda when he wrote it, other than write a story that sells a lot of books.
The Christians get all pissy about a fiction book, when if we really want to boil down the meat of it, we can go to fact and paint a really fucking ugly picture of both the Protestants and the Catholics. No reason to make shit up. Just write about the Inquisition, or the witch hunts, or the Hundred Year War, or any ov the myriad injustices performed in Christ's name.
The bitch-fest about Brown seems to me to reek of supressed doubt lashing into anger at an easy target.
I know that was kind of dickish. My Diner's Club got rejected this morning and while I have no trouble discerning fiction from reality, I have incredible amounts of trouble choosing proper targets for my anger.
Next on the list to attack is Pee Wee Herman.
If you want to read a really good grail conspiracy theory, read Foucalt's Pendulum
I think Name of the Rose is another, I didn't read it. Eco's a very thick writer, with plenty of big words. Great sense of humor as well, I really enjoyed Pendulum.
I forgot where I heard it, but someone had a fantastic joke about it:
Christians are protesting the DaVinci Code and developing texts refuting it. Apparently they're having difficulty believing that a book can be fiction.
Boy did I mangle that one. Anyway. -1 Overrated for ME!
That's a fallacy.
Simply because what you may have become educated in and/or worked hard for isn't rewarded as you believe it should be, does not imply immediately that the economy is failing.
In fact, it may imply that the economy is working as-intended. If you're bad-ass at FORTRAN your skillset is limited, no matter how hard you work there's a high likelihood that you're not going to get paid much as you're niche to a field (scientific applications mainly) that doesn't receive a heckuva lot of funding.
Just because your individual results aren't worthwhile doesn't indicate that the system is broken. Perhaps you're overvaluing yourself.
I don't get who "They" are but it sounds like you were outsourced and another company hired you for cheaper. Welcome to the new economy, bub.
If you're a pure code-monkey, then you'd better get some business skills under your belt. People who can code to a spec are being rapidly commoditized. Even if there was no globalization/outsourcing, you'd still see downward pressure on salaries as IT became more lucrative, it's economics.
Get some skills that aren't easily replaceable, like people skills and business analysis, and you can become indispensable.