Well teh moderator throught you were insightful- but I guess I remember the 90's too well. I am in my late 20's, and watch all those companies that had foosball tables in the lobby go under. So perhaps I am prejudiced by facts.
Well, more standard MS ripping and Karma Whoring. But think about it... Have you ever paid money to google? I use their services all the time, and have for years, yet I have never clicked a paid link. I don't even notice their ads anymore. But like it or not, I have paid for a lot of MS stuff.
Do you really think that MS doesn't have the personell necessary to create a great search? Just because google has a "fun" work environment doesn't make them the greatest.
Also, as with anything else, direct causation is almost impossible to prove. 4+ cups of coffee leads to heart disease? I would postulate, not from scientific study but from anecdotal evidence gathered over years of stressful jobs, that the people under the most pressure and stress tend to drink the most coffee. So maybe the stress is what is causing the heart disease?
Also, coffee is so acidic that people who work out everyday are not likely to be able to drink 4+ cups a day (again, non scientific anecdotal evidence). Coffee is currently fashionable, but when I think of a stereotypical coffee addict like myslelf, I dont think of a slim trim health nut...
um... we also weren't allowed to have any pork products etc sent to us by friends and relatives back home. When you join the military, you give up one or two comforts....
I read the post right after my Boss was bitching at me, so perhaps I didn't give enough thought to it. Plus, I violated the don't post while irritated rule, and I apologize.
You make a very important point however- It is impossible to give cogent advice without knowing what type of business the GP works in, and the regulations that go along with it.
Look before you leap- Maybe they work somewhere they are required to save all their email (You may not yet be high enough on the corporate ladder to understand why, but it could have to do with Sarbanes Oxley).
Using GMail would be bad for a few reasons- one, it is unprof. to have a free email account for business purposes. And, once again, regulations may require them to keep emails indefinately, and as such they may want/need control over the server.
Last I checked, the onus of proof was upon the prosecution.
Uh... buddy, when did you check last? While your statement may be true based on, say, the constitution, it no longer seems to be correct in the real world.
The Michael Jackson case demonstrates what is wrong with the system. Either he was guilty, and being rich and the high powered lawyers that buys can get you off in many cases. Or, he really was innocent, and boy what would be scarier than having a prosecuter after you with a vengeance for a crime you didn'r commit? If he had been innocent, and not rich, he would have been screwed.
Not be an ass, but why not consult a lawyer? Or ask your question where the people have legal degrees, or have spent 5 or 10 or 20 years studying and practicing law, rather than a board where people have spent 5 or 10 or 50 yearss studying tech.
Would you ask a group of doctors how to rebuild you car engine? I would hope you would ask an auto mechanic.
Would you rather have revenues of 30 million on a 10 million dollar film, or revenues of 100 million on a 90 million dollar film? Sometimes (a lot of times) you make more money on smaller films. Keep in mind, in business, as in life, a number alone means nothing. You need a context or another number to compare it to.
Does anyone think congress reads any of these bills?
And if something sneaks by, everyone (the public) gets riled up for a few days, and then forgets about it. Short attention spans of the public are great for politicians...
I believe he was refering to this old joke....
Microsoft vs. GM
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement, "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
And...
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off.
Ugh- I just realized how rude my above comment sounded. Sorry...
Anyhow- check this out: D'oh! More know Simpsons than Constitution
It is almost funny that people think the right to own a pet is a first ammendment right...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11611015/from/RSS/
Not to seem nit picky, but it doesn't say "Congress Can make no law" It says Congress shall make no law...
I know that many people who aren't educated about the law, or who are still at a low level in companies (and thus don't deal with contracts etc.) don't need to know this, but where the law is concerned, shall and may (and can) have very distinct and separate meanings...
Normally I wouldn't correct you, but I hate to see inaccuracies perpetuated. Polls always show most people think the phrase "separation of church and state" appears in the constitution...
My understanding is that (save for an extreme smoke alergy) the air on planes was much cleaner when you could smoke on planes. They used to have to constantly change the air- Now you just get to breathe stagnant, germ filled, fart smelling smoke free air....
I almost never get sick, even when everyone in my office is sick. The only times I get sick, colds etc, is after an airplane ride....
My Verizon Moto V710 acts the same- anytime it is charging, or if I open it (which turns the backlight on, or right before it rings my radio gets staticy. (Granted, I listen to a lot of AM radio on a $10 radio...)
But seriously- even if cell phones pose zero risk, if they are going to have them on planes, I hope they have cell phone sections, like smoking sections used to be. My guess is that no one will sit there, because while many people want to be able to use their cell phones whenever, wherever, they don't think anyone else should be able to... (I am guilty of this- for example, I think cell phones should be illegal while driving, but of course I also think that i should be able to make a quick call if I need to from behind the wheel. But at least I recognize my hypocracy)
It gets better- verizon charges you for airtime when someone leaves you a voicemail. So if you dont answer it, you still pay if they leave a message... Fun stuff
Say what you want, and don't admit it, but we are all secretly trying to figure out how to do this with our picture phones so we get topless images of drunk coeds (by mistake) at 3 am.
Yes, but keep in mind that the reason people use Ebay isn't because it is the best as far as service/experience, but because it is the biggest. You can try and sell your stuff on one of the other auction sites, but no one will see it.
I would welcome a service where I could sell my stuff that was better than ebay. Keep in mind that there are a ton of services (be it a kitchen remodeling company or a restaurant in your town) that are ripe to be smashed by someone who comes in with a new business and provides better service...
What is that quote, "Computers allow us to do, in half the time, tasks that were completely unneccesary before computers..." Think powerpoints...
But I will say, for complex projects, it is nice to have computer generated Gantt and PERT charts, which used to take forever to create before computers (so I am told).
Hmmm. You haven't discovered anything new... I think it is. It's called being paid by the hour (or by the year, if you are salary, but it's the same thing). It's vastly more popular than paying by measuring the quality or quantity of the actual work done which would be more fair but much more difficult to implement; skill is very hard to measure objectively.
I know Slashdot hates MBAs, but let you share with you something called piece work. Many people are paid by the job (or "piece") Think of flat rate vs. hourly mechanics. Piece tes used to be fairly common. It is just that with a service economy it is tough. With fungible goods, if you make 10 and I make 1, it is fairly simple to say that you should be paid 10 times as much. But with a service economy it is different For example, if I write ten buggy programs, and you write 5 flawless ones, how would you pay?
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Well teh moderator throught you were insightful- but I guess I remember the 90's too well. I am in my late 20's, and watch all those companies that had foosball tables in the lobby go under. So perhaps I am prejudiced by facts.
Well, more standard MS ripping and Karma Whoring. But think about it... Have you ever paid money to google? I use their services all the time, and have for years, yet I have never clicked a paid link. I don't even notice their ads anymore. But like it or not, I have paid for a lot of MS stuff.
Do you really think that MS doesn't have the personell necessary to create a great search? Just because google has a "fun" work environment doesn't make them the greatest.
Also, as with anything else, direct causation is almost impossible to prove. 4+ cups of coffee leads to heart disease? I would postulate, not from scientific study but from anecdotal evidence gathered over years of stressful jobs, that the people under the most pressure and stress tend to drink the most coffee. So maybe the stress is what is causing the heart disease?
Also, coffee is so acidic that people who work out everyday are not likely to be able to drink 4+ cups a day (again, non scientific anecdotal evidence). Coffee is currently fashionable, but when I think of a stereotypical coffee addict like myslelf, I dont think of a slim trim health nut...
Old joke- The Americans spent millions of dollars and several years developing a pen that would write in space. The Russians just used a pencil...
It reminds me about the joke about the kid who says to his parents:
I am sooo sick you telling me what to do! I am running away to join the army!
um... we also weren't allowed to have any pork products etc sent to us by friends and relatives back home. When you join the military, you give up one or two comforts....
I read the post right after my Boss was bitching at me, so perhaps I didn't give enough thought to it. Plus, I violated the don't post while irritated rule, and I apologize.
You make a very important point however- It is impossible to give cogent advice without knowing what type of business the GP works in, and the regulations that go along with it.
Look before you leap- Maybe they work somewhere they are required to save all their email (You may not yet be high enough on the corporate ladder to understand why, but it could have to do with Sarbanes Oxley).
Using GMail would be bad for a few reasons- one, it is unprof. to have a free email account for business purposes. And, once again, regulations may require them to keep emails indefinately, and as such they may want/need control over the server.
Last I checked, the onus of proof was upon the prosecution.
Uh... buddy, when did you check last? While your statement may be true based on, say, the constitution, it no longer seems to be correct in the real world.
The Michael Jackson case demonstrates what is wrong with the system. Either he was guilty, and being rich and the high powered lawyers that buys can get you off in many cases. Or, he really was innocent, and boy what would be scarier than having a prosecuter after you with a vengeance for a crime you didn'r commit? If he had been innocent, and not rich, he would have been screwed.
Not be an ass, but why not consult a lawyer? Or ask your question where the people have legal degrees, or have spent 5 or 10 or 20 years studying and practicing law, rather than a board where people have spent 5 or 10 or 50 yearss studying tech.
Would you ask a group of doctors how to rebuild you car engine? I would hope you would ask an auto mechanic.
Would you rather have revenues of 30 million on a 10 million dollar film, or revenues of 100 million on a 90 million dollar film? Sometimes (a lot of times) you make more money on smaller films. Keep in mind, in business, as in life, a number alone means nothing. You need a context or another number to compare it to.
Does anyone think congress reads any of these bills?
And if something sneaks by, everyone (the public) gets riled up for a few days, and then forgets about it. Short attention spans of the public are great for politicians...
Look up the term "Groupthink."
On a related note- I would be all for censoring "pop stars"
Because you know when the gov't gets involved... It can't get screwed up...
Thank you-
Are violent people more likely to play violent games, or are the violent games making people violent....
or neither....
I believe he was refering to this old joke....
Microsoft vs. GM
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement, "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
And...
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off.
Ugh- I just realized how rude my above comment sounded. Sorry...
Anyhow- check this out:
D'oh! More know Simpsons than Constitution
It is almost funny that people think the right to own a pet is a first ammendment right...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11611015/from/RSS/
Not to seem nit picky, but it doesn't say "Congress Can make no law" It says Congress shall make no law...
I know that many people who aren't educated about the law, or who are still at a low level in companies (and thus don't deal with contracts etc.) don't need to know this, but where the law is concerned, shall and may (and can) have very distinct and separate meanings...
Normally I wouldn't correct you, but I hate to see inaccuracies perpetuated. Polls always show most people think the phrase "separation of church and state" appears in the constitution...
My understanding is that (save for an extreme smoke alergy) the air on planes was much cleaner when you could smoke on planes. They used to have to constantly change the air- Now you just get to breathe stagnant, germ filled, fart smelling smoke free air....
I almost never get sick, even when everyone in my office is sick. The only times I get sick, colds etc, is after an airplane ride....
My Verizon Moto V710 acts the same- anytime it is charging, or if I open it (which turns the backlight on, or right before it rings my radio gets staticy. (Granted, I listen to a lot of AM radio on a $10 radio...)
But seriously- even if cell phones pose zero risk, if they are going to have them on planes, I hope they have cell phone sections, like smoking sections used to be. My guess is that no one will sit there, because while many people want to be able to use their cell phones whenever, wherever, they don't think anyone else should be able to... (I am guilty of this- for example, I think cell phones should be illegal while driving, but of course I also think that i should be able to make a quick call if I need to from behind the wheel. But at least I recognize my hypocracy)
It gets better- verizon charges you for airtime when someone leaves you a voicemail. So if you dont answer it, you still pay if they leave a message... Fun stuff
Say what you want, and don't admit it, but we are all secretly trying to figure out how to do this with our picture phones so we get topless images of drunk coeds (by mistake) at 3 am.
Yes, but keep in mind that the reason people use Ebay isn't because it is the best as far as service/experience, but because it is the biggest. You can try and sell your stuff on one of the other auction sites, but no one will see it.
I would welcome a service where I could sell my stuff that was better than ebay. Keep in mind that there are a ton of services (be it a kitchen remodeling company or a restaurant in your town) that are ripe to be smashed by someone who comes in with a new business and provides better service...
What is that quote, "Computers allow us to do, in half the time, tasks that were completely unneccesary before computers..." Think powerpoints...
But I will say, for complex projects, it is nice to have computer generated Gantt and PERT charts, which used to take forever to create before computers (so I am told).
Hmmm. You haven't discovered anything new... I think it is. It's called being paid by the hour (or by the year, if you are salary, but it's the same thing). It's vastly more popular than paying by measuring the quality or quantity of the actual work done which would be more fair but much more difficult to implement; skill is very hard to measure objectively.
I know Slashdot hates MBAs, but let you share with you something called piece work. Many people are paid by the job (or "piece") Think of flat rate vs. hourly mechanics. Piece tes used to be fairly common. It is just that with a service economy it is tough. With fungible goods, if you make 10 and I make 1, it is fairly simple to say that you should be paid 10 times as much. But with a service economy it is different For example, if I write ten buggy programs, and you write 5 flawless ones, how would you pay?