It's not a question of bad eyesight but of bad design by windows.
The system font is increasingly small and can't be changed.
All they need to do is fix that issue and then this wouldn't matter. A 3000dpi moniter is great if it displays letters a reasonable size but not if it displays them 13 pixels high regard less of the resolution.
The companies which I have personal experience with that collect my personal information and share it with their affiliates charge me higher prices than those that do not.
The companies which I have personal experience with that do not collect my personal information and share it with affiliates charge substantially lower prices.
Not debate quality information or based on a survey.
But not bullshit either.
Since I'm getting calls to my 18 month old unlisted number by name, I know someone's given away my information (if they didn't actually sell it). These companies in their privacy policies state they do not sell it. However, as I said above, "affiliate" companies can number in the thousands for a large corporation and trading my personal information with them isn't "selling" it.
The college graduate may also have better communication skills and an improved ability to create reports.
There are a lot of bright people out there with 4 year degrees, 2 year degrees, and even no degree period.
But do you want to risk a large amount of money on someone that might flame out on you? Businesses feel more comfortable putting a big budget on someone who showed they can complete a long term commitment to getting a degree under all the various stresses that most likely occurred during the 4 to 6 years it took them to get the degree (illnesses, dating problems, unfair professors, learning large amounts of material within six weeks, etc.).
The only way to know it is true for all companies would be to survey every company that offered affiliation programs and compare their prices to competitors who did not. Since they use legal weasel words to obfuscate and companies are frequently caught breaking their policies (and the law), I'd probably need to do legal research as well to see if their behavior matched their actions.
While i do typically put some effort into casual internet discussions, I have not yet engaged in expensive, long surveys & extensive research nor do I think will start doing so any time soon.
Well, since I'm going to spout off, I'll be as through as possible on the follow up. Okay... it first looked like I was completely incorrect and that *only* Kroger used the information.
It is your choice to provide Kroger with your personally identifiable information.... Kroger and its affiliates may use personal customer information to create merchandising and promotional programs tailored around specific purchases, the frequency of store visits, volume of purchases, and other data.
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However, technically it's not a sale- only use by affiliated companies.
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So I could be contacted by many companies (the list is too long to post here but is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger), including (it appears) Disney, but my information isn't sold to them.
Randalls has the same situation. per their policy "only related third party companies" can use my information.
I was at a company that was part of Beatrice Foods Corporation back in the 80's. We had 3,000 "related" companies.
You know the funny thing about companies that collect and sell my personal data?
Their prices are higher than companies who do not.
Krogers and Randalls both do this.
HEB & Foodtown don't.
Yet the same product at randalls and krogers *with the affinity card discount* is more expensive than the same product at HEB and foodtown. Sometimes dramatically so (25% or more- example, whipcream $5.29 with discount card vs $3.99 every day without card).
You can starve yourself to lose weight but it can put your body into high efficiency mode where your body extracts every calorie possible from the food you eat.
One of the ways doctor's get your body out of that mode is to give you very high calorie diets for 6-8 weeks. Then you go to normal levels of calories and your body passes some through and doesn't absorb them (it got "lazy" at absorbing calories since it had plenty of food).
Exercise machines lie too. Treadmills give the calorie count for walking. Try walking a mile vs treadmilling a mile. They are not the same exercise. Generally a treadmill is overstating by 1/3 the calorie burn.
Actually, Houston has improved a lot and is going off the EPA list based on the old standards. However, they are tightening the standards some more and Houston will be back on the list.
Houston is a refining town and a car town (150 miles across on one axis) so I don't know that it will ever be pristine. Of course, the opposite edge of town is 100 miles away from the refining areas down by the coast (which are technically in the Pasadena area).
Houston has 8 months of great weather followed by 4 months of heat. The first 2 months are okay-- it's summer after all. But then the heat continues for another 60 days. It's very humid here normally (dew every morning, some fog in areas at night) but we had a drought this summer (my car was shocking me it was so dry out).
The discover dome show proposed the ability to open areas of the dome to provide air flow. Picture a chimney effect. However, I'm not certain you wouldn't have a greenhouse stronger than the chimney or that there would not be dead air zones. The idea is really impractical tho. While the dome would survive a hurricane in theory, my gut feeling is that hurricanes are a bit rougher than just having 180 mph winds. It's 180mph winds plus a ton of debris.
Shakani, In china, there are 1,200 equally qualified people to the executive in question. With such a gross oversupply of talent, the only reason we are paying these bozo's extra is that the current shareholder laws have removed all shareholder power to do anything about it.
Likewise, with regard to the article, there is an *ENORMOUS* amount of entertainment. This presents two problems for the potential consumer.
a) Most of us are able to spend, maybe, $200 to $400 a month on entertainment. Filling an Ipod would take $10,000. Do the math. Consumers are not going to cripple their life to fill an ipod. They will find a way around that price point. Once they *lose* the songs on the ipod and are asked to lay down ANOTHER $10,000 for the same songs- they get really pissy. yet this is the primary goal of the entertainment industry- rental payments anytime you use any entertainment until "forever-- less one day".
b) On the flip side, the sheer amount of entertainment is exploding. I spent 3 hours the other night just watching homemade stuff for free on Youtube. And there were a couple hours spent watching Star Wreck. There are cable stations with real programs, there are multiple real programs, which I'll never see. I ruthlessly trade down to less expensive entertainment and, in many cases, simply wait 6 to 8 months and get the same entertainment for pennies legally. The price of entertainment is not supportable-- too many people want our entertainment dollar.
Now are being sued because the 100% reliable dogs are not nearly as reliable and the suspects turned out to probably be innocent (at least of the crimes of which they were sent to jail for.
I don't have a problem with new ideas. The problem is that police, government officials, and business executives all become completely naive and believe in the complete infallibility of things like this until they are shown to be grossly incorrect.
Turns out 50% of the landlines are now at least partially fiber and no longer pull power from a central power station. Once the 4-6 hour backup batteries went, so did phone service.
I used to vote for republicans and against democrats because republicans were thrifty and for small government. I used to vote for democrats and for republicans because republicans were religious extremists forcing me to live by their religious rules.
So if the position was city controller, it'd be republican. If it was city council, it'd be democratic.
I'd also mix up the council vs the mayor, and so on.
Now the republicans are still religious extremists AND they also spend like drunken sailors AND they sell out my interests and freedom to corporations. Now the democrats spend like drunken sailors AND they sell out my interests and freedom to corporations.
I tried voting for Ron Paul (religiously extreme but at least a certified small government type).
I'm really at a loss tho. It looks like we are hell bound for a corporofascist oligarchy.
A reasonable argument unless you hope to collect social security.
And unless you plan on living in a concrete bunker to stop the nihilist uneducated thug/revolutionaries coming to take your stuff because they were not properly brainw... socialized in a public school.
I knew someone that took her hair dryer to europe and used an adapter to plug in her hair dryer.
It was basically changed from a hair dryer into a hair melter. Fortunately she wasn't seriously burned. She related how the jet turbine sound should have warned her but it was already swinging up to her head at that point.
So... I'm just at the start of this ERP process (about 12 months). Any war stories or pointers? They are riding the ERP staff pretty hard and I do not think they realize just how long this project will really be. They seem to think (multi-billion dollar corporation) that this will be rolled out in 24 more months which I can see from where I am is impossible regardless of how many 60 hour weeks people put in.
I have a couple friends at ERP companies so most of what i know comes from them. In their case, the ERP projects took about 8 years each. We are freezing old programs thinking without replacements because ERP is going to replace them. I'm concerned that in 12-24 months, the old programs will really hit the wall and there won't be a replacement for them (and none possible for another 3 to 4 years).
That's about what I tell my friends. "Using IE is like walking around the internet with a "Kick Me!" sign on your back."
My best friend hates no-script but has grudgingly come to accept it after I spent some time training her to permanently accept sites she likes instead of temporarily accepting them, to notice the red S (which means some functionality has been blocked), and when I pointed out some of the javascript shenanigans that were occuring when she allowed the entire site (as if she didn't have noscript) like pop-ups and even attempts to execute C libraries (caught by Vista anyway but still) and so on.
ERP makes legal compliance a lot less expensive. Many things just happen automagically in the next release.
From what I've been told, if you want to successfully roll out ERP, your business complies to the package. If you want a failure, then go right ahead and try to customize it.
It's a question of degree tho. If customization will make you boatloads of money, then it's worth it. My company has many custom processes for smaller customers and customers who are gone. We have business processes that were there for a reason but no longer make sense. I'm certain we sometimes spend two or years worth of profit to write custom code to retain a customer (i.e. they provide $20k a year of profit- and we spend 6 months writing a custom process for them).
We mainly differentiate by providing excellent service with a good customer focus and by being huge and having the lowest prices for reasons of scale (i.e. they have 1 employee to $1000 of profit. We have 1 employee to $5,000 of profit because we are so big).
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It's not a question of bad eyesight but of bad design by windows.
The system font is increasingly small and can't be changed.
All they need to do is fix that issue and then this wouldn't matter. A 3000dpi moniter is great if it displays letters a reasonable size but not if it displays them 13 pixels high regard less of the resolution.
Yes.
The "windows" font is tiny and cant' be changed.
If you go to "large fonts" then some buttons disappear out of frames and you can't click them.
I have no clue why that *ONE* font can't be changed (you can change everything else in the system-- even icons).
The companies which I have personal experience with that collect my personal information and share it with their affiliates charge me higher prices than those that do not.
The companies which I have personal experience with that do not collect my personal information and share it with affiliates charge substantially lower prices.
Not debate quality information or based on a survey.
But not bullshit either.
Since I'm getting calls to my 18 month old unlisted number by name, I know someone's given away my information (if they didn't actually sell it). These companies in their privacy policies state they do not sell it.
However, as I said above, "affiliate" companies can number in the thousands for a large corporation and trading my personal information with them isn't "selling" it.
The college graduate may also have better communication skills and an improved ability to create reports.
There are a lot of bright people out there with 4 year degrees, 2 year degrees, and even no degree period.
But do you want to risk a large amount of money on someone that might flame out on you?
Businesses feel more comfortable putting a big budget on someone who showed they can complete a long term commitment to getting a degree under all the various stresses that most likely occurred during the 4 to 6 years it took them to get the degree (illnesses, dating problems, unfair professors, learning large amounts of material within six weeks, etc.).
The only way to know it is true for all companies would be to survey every company that offered affiliation programs and compare their prices to competitors who did not. Since they use legal weasel words to obfuscate and companies are frequently caught breaking their policies (and the law), I'd probably need to do legal research as well to see if their behavior matched their actions.
While i do typically put some effort into casual internet discussions, I have not yet engaged in expensive, long surveys & extensive research nor do I think will start doing so any time soon.
Well, since I'm going to spout off, I'll be as through as possible on the follow up.
Okay... it first looked like I was completely incorrect and that *only* Kroger used the information.
However... Per their policy here: http://www.kroger.com/company_information/Pages/privacy_policy.aspx
It is your choice to provide Kroger with your personally identifiable information. ...
Kroger and its affiliates may use personal customer information to create merchandising and promotional programs tailored around specific purchases, the frequency of store visits, volume of purchases, and other data.
---
However, technically it's not a sale- only use by affiliated companies.
---
So I could be contacted by many companies (the list is too long to post here but is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger), including (it appears) Disney, but my information isn't sold to them.
Randalls has the same situation. per their policy "only related third party companies" can use my information.
I was at a company that was part of Beatrice Foods Corporation back in the 80's. We had 3,000 "related" companies.
You know the funny thing about companies that collect and sell my personal data?
Their prices are higher than companies who do not.
Krogers and Randalls both do this.
HEB & Foodtown don't.
Yet the same product at randalls and krogers *with the affinity card discount* is more expensive than the same product at HEB and foodtown. Sometimes dramatically so (25% or more- example, whipcream $5.29 with discount card vs $3.99 every day without card).
Then female goo programmers could be goog'ls
I've had more than one friends with IE absolutely owned. None with firefox so far and the firefox crowd is bigger.
It's yours free if you can find it posted on the web with or without a robots.txt.
You can starve yourself to lose weight but it can put your body into high efficiency mode where your body extracts every calorie possible from the food you eat.
One of the ways doctor's get your body out of that mode is to give you very high calorie diets for 6-8 weeks. Then you go to normal levels of calories and your body passes some through and doesn't absorb them (it got "lazy" at absorbing calories since it had plenty of food).
Exercise machines lie too. Treadmills give the calorie count for walking. Try walking a mile vs treadmilling a mile. They are not the same exercise. Generally a treadmill is overstating by 1/3 the calorie burn.
Actually, Houston has improved a lot and is going off the EPA list based on the old standards. However, they are tightening the standards some more and Houston will be back on the list.
Houston is a refining town and a car town (150 miles across on one axis) so I don't know that it will ever be pristine. Of course, the opposite edge of town is 100 miles away from the refining areas down by the coast (which are technically in the Pasadena area).
Houston has 8 months of great weather followed by 4 months of heat. The first 2 months are okay-- it's summer after all. But then the heat continues for another 60 days. It's very humid here normally (dew every morning, some fog in areas at night) but we had a drought this summer (my car was shocking me it was so dry out).
The discover dome show proposed the ability to open areas of the dome to provide air flow. Picture a chimney effect. However, I'm not certain you wouldn't have a greenhouse stronger than the chimney or that there would not be dead air zones. The idea is really impractical tho. While the dome would survive a hurricane in theory, my gut feeling is that hurricanes are a bit rougher than just having 180 mph winds. It's 180mph winds plus a ton of debris.
We use a tool run a synthetic transaction every 15 minutes and record the execution time. That execution time database can be queried.
Stephen
I went to flat text. Then hitting return works.
There is a code- I think it is or
.
Wasn't worth the hassle for me.
Shakani,
In china, there are 1,200 equally qualified people to the executive in question. With such a gross oversupply of talent, the only reason we are paying these bozo's extra is that the current shareholder laws have removed all shareholder power to do anything about it.
Likewise, with regard to the article, there is an *ENORMOUS* amount of entertainment. This presents two problems for the potential consumer.
a) Most of us are able to spend, maybe, $200 to $400 a month on entertainment. Filling an Ipod would take $10,000. Do the math. Consumers are not going to cripple their life to fill an ipod. They will find a way around that price point. Once they *lose* the songs on the ipod and are asked to lay down ANOTHER $10,000 for the same songs- they get really pissy. yet this is the primary goal of the entertainment industry- rental payments anytime you use any entertainment until "forever-- less one day".
b) On the flip side, the sheer amount of entertainment is exploding. I spent 3 hours the other night just watching homemade stuff for free on Youtube. And there were a couple hours spent watching Star Wreck. There are cable stations with real programs, there are multiple real programs, which I'll never see. I ruthlessly trade down to less expensive entertainment and, in many cases, simply wait 6 to 8 months and get the same entertainment for pennies legally. The price of entertainment is not supportable-- too many people want our entertainment dollar.
Now are being sued because the 100% reliable dogs are not nearly as reliable and the suspects turned out to probably be innocent (at least of the crimes of which they were sent to jail for.
I don't have a problem with new ideas. The problem is that police, government officials, and business executives all become completely naive and believe in the complete infallibility of things like this until they are shown to be grossly incorrect.
Our phone system did not survive Ike.
Turns out 50% of the landlines are now at least partially fiber and no longer pull power from a central power station. Once the 4-6 hour backup batteries went, so did phone service.
I used to vote for republicans and against democrats because republicans were thrifty and for small government.
I used to vote for democrats and for republicans because republicans were religious extremists forcing me to live by their religious rules.
So if the position was city controller, it'd be republican. If it was city council, it'd be democratic.
I'd also mix up the council vs the mayor, and so on.
Now the republicans are still religious extremists AND they also spend like drunken sailors AND they sell out my interests and freedom to corporations.
Now the democrats spend like drunken sailors AND they sell out my interests and freedom to corporations.
I tried voting for Ron Paul (religiously extreme but at least a certified small government type).
I'm really at a loss tho. It looks like we are hell bound for a corporofascist oligarchy.
I10 west in Texas. :)
Drive it once to go skiing and you just added 2000 passenger miles for you and your three buds.
Last time there were 7 speed traps and i think we still averaged over 70 miles per hour.
A reasonable argument unless you hope to collect social security.
And unless you plan on living in a concrete bunker to stop the nihilist uneducated thug/revolutionaries coming to take your stuff because they were not properly brainw... socialized in a public school.
putting on makeup, shaving, eating your takeout burger which just spilled over your lap, drinking your coffee that just burned your mouth, and so on.
I understand the problem- I was almost T-Boned by a cell phone driver. They do things that are illogical ( because they really are not home ).
But there are lots of kinds of distracted driving. Hell, most people on the road are in a partial trance anyway.
I knew someone that took her hair dryer to europe and used an adapter to plug in her hair dryer.
It was basically changed from a hair dryer into a hair melter. Fortunately she wasn't seriously burned. She related how the jet turbine sound should have warned her but it was already swinging up to her head at that point.
So... I'm just at the start of this ERP process (about 12 months). Any war stories or pointers? They are riding the ERP staff pretty hard and I do not think they realize just how long this project will really be. They seem to think (multi-billion dollar corporation) that this will be rolled out in 24 more months which I can see from where I am is impossible regardless of how many 60 hour weeks people put in.
I have a couple friends at ERP companies so most of what i know comes from them. In their case, the ERP projects took about 8 years each. We are freezing old programs thinking without replacements because ERP is going to replace them. I'm concerned that in 12-24 months, the old programs will really hit the wall and there won't be a replacement for them (and none possible for another 3 to 4 years).
That's about what I tell my friends. "Using IE is like walking around the internet with a "Kick Me!" sign on your back."
My best friend hates no-script but has grudgingly come to accept it after I spent some time training her to permanently accept sites she likes instead of temporarily accepting them, to notice the red S (which means some functionality has been blocked), and when I pointed out some of the javascript shenanigans that were occuring when she allowed the entire site (as if she didn't have noscript) like pop-ups and even attempts to execute C libraries (caught by Vista anyway but still) and so on.
ERP makes legal compliance a lot less expensive. Many things just happen automagically in the next release.
From what I've been told, if you want to successfully roll out ERP, your business complies to the package.
If you want a failure, then go right ahead and try to customize it.
It's a question of degree tho. If customization will make you boatloads of money, then it's worth it. My company has many custom processes for smaller customers and customers who are gone. We have business processes that were there for a reason but no longer make sense. I'm certain we sometimes spend two or years worth of profit to write custom code to retain a customer (i.e. they provide $20k a year of profit- and we spend 6 months writing a custom process for them).
We mainly differentiate by providing excellent service with a good customer focus and by being huge and having the lowest prices for reasons of scale (i.e. they have 1 employee to $1000 of profit. We have 1 employee to $5,000 of profit because we are so big).