Would it be a bit more appropriate to get rid of junkmail and phonebooks first? Some offices REQUIRE hard copies of things. Junkmail and phonebooks have short-lived usefulness (if at all) and waste tremendous amounts of other resources (like the postman driving around to very postbox and delivering it.)
Macs can run Trisequel as well. Apple bundles iOS with the Mac and you cannot buy a Mac without paying for iOS. I am so sick of everyone making this an MS-only problem. Does everyone forget that Apple's computer price includes the price of the OS? Just because Apple sells the software and hardware in one go doesn't mean that the same thing is happening here---i.e. you are paying for the OS if you want it or not.
And the worst art critic of our generation award goes to...Camille Paglia. Honorable mention goes to Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for hiring this tool. Even Jar Jar Binks was quoted as saying, "Meesa thinks she's a nutcase." This is the same idiot that describes herself as a "dissident feminist" (whatever that is). Perhaps she is also a dissident art critic. Let's call a duck a duck. She's a heretic.
The ERP field is filled with so much hype, it's very hard to discern the winners from the losers. Sure, consulting firms have "portfolios". Do YOU believe everything in sales literature?
I am sure that there are some successes. When there are, the institution tries to keep it a secret so their competition cannot find out what system they use. They also often keep mum about the additional facilitators, consultants, etc. that were essential in getting it going.
ERP is dead because word is on the street: Too many failed or seriously delayed implementations. I have seen (first hand) too many institutions decide to implement ERP, pay a tremendous amount of cash, and watch it fail. If it ever does get fully implemented (in a way that was originally envisioned) the institutions have spent so much time and effort to get it running that the institutions have lost their focus because senior management was distracted or the cost of full implementation has affected the bottom line. In some cases, the institution was irreparably damaged or failed.(often surpassed by their competition).
In theory, ERP is a wonderful thing. In actuality, it can kill.
I wouldn't be surprised that the DoD is encouraging this. In this way, each branch picks their own solution because they need to satisfy so many domestic "interests". (Yes, SAP America contributes to political campaigns and PACs, just like every other large ERP company in the US). Besides, the only reason that anyone has been successful is probably because they are sipping more Kool-Aid and sitting in a circle "reassuring" one another.
ERP is dead--especially for very large, agile institutions. The only people that don't think so are companies, like Oracle, that are pretending that it can scale to large institutions with some sort of economy of scale, let alone ones that probably make many changes. The fact that it took the Air Force an extra $900+ million to realize this is shameful. Especially since institutions like the Air Force are probably better off looking at agile and adaptive front-end software (it's not just the Marines that are supposed to "improvise, overcome, and adapt") like their equivalent to CRM, project planning, mobile maintenance, and whatever else they do.
What a waste of time, money, and resources. Truly shameful!!!
Every few years some idiot journalist sees an ad for a flight school that touts there is a severe shortage. They imply that getting your pilot's license and degree (for a mere $50k to $80k) will be your ticket to riches.
I know many pilots with over 1500 hours and a commercial flight certificate that cannot get into the big airlines due to too many pilots.
So many industries use networked computer systems that are vulnerable. The fact that the article mentions the "oil supply" is irrelevant. Everything is at risk.
I wonder how much of this has to do with American labor and how much it has to do with not having thier product stopped at the border due to patent battles.
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Important documents should be on paper---for archiving---not faxing.
Too bad nobody wants to get rid of the most worthless use of paper: junkmail and phonebooks.
Of course, the US Government will fight tooth and nail to keep junkmail as a revenue stream for the US Post Office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/business/seeking-revenue-postal-service-plans-to-deliver-more-junk-mail.html?_r=0
It's too bad that the information in your old office will long outlive the other information lost in the Digital Dark Age.
Would it be a bit more appropriate to get rid of junkmail and phonebooks first?
Some offices REQUIRE hard copies of things. Junkmail and phonebooks have short-lived usefulness (if at all) and waste tremendous amounts of other resources (like the postman driving around to very postbox and delivering it.)
That's why it has always been so popular---even on the Mac platform.
Give MS some credit for doing something better.
Macs can run Trisequel as well. Apple bundles iOS with the Mac and you cannot buy a Mac without paying for iOS.
I am so sick of everyone making this an MS-only problem. Does everyone forget that Apple's computer price includes the price of the OS? Just because Apple sells the software and hardware in one go doesn't mean that the same thing is happening here---i.e. you are paying for the OS if you want it or not.
Can you imagine if a similar system was in place on desktops?
the iOS platform is a MONOPOLY.
It's a move to help keep their products from being restricted from import if/when they ever lose an IP lawsuit.
Ah! Failed companies and penny stocks. People gleaning the refuse of the stock market like vagrants to discarded cigarette buts.
Is this the supplier of the batteries in the Fisker Karma cars that burned in the Sandy flood?
And the worst art critic of our generation award goes to...Camille Paglia. Honorable mention goes to Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for hiring this tool. Even Jar Jar Binks was quoted as saying, "Meesa thinks she's a nutcase."
This is the same idiot that describes herself as a "dissident feminist" (whatever that is). Perhaps she is also a dissident art critic. Let's call a duck a duck. She's a heretic.
The ERP field is filled with so much hype, it's very hard to discern the winners from the losers.
Sure, consulting firms have "portfolios". Do YOU believe everything in sales literature?
I am sure that there are some successes. When there are, the institution tries to keep it a secret so their competition cannot find out what system they use. They also often keep mum about the additional facilitators, consultants, etc. that were essential in getting it going.
ERP is dead because word is on the street: Too many failed or seriously delayed implementations.
I have seen (first hand) too many institutions decide to implement ERP, pay a tremendous amount of cash, and watch it fail. If it ever does get fully implemented (in a way that was originally envisioned) the institutions have spent so much time and effort to get it running that the institutions have lost their focus because senior management was distracted or the cost of full implementation has affected the bottom line. In some cases, the institution was irreparably damaged or failed.(often surpassed by their competition).
In theory, ERP is a wonderful thing. In actuality, it can kill.
I wouldn't be surprised that the DoD is encouraging this. In this way, each branch picks their own solution because they need to satisfy so many domestic "interests". (Yes, SAP America contributes to political campaigns and PACs, just like every other large ERP company in the US). Besides, the only reason that anyone has been successful is probably because they are sipping more Kool-Aid and sitting in a circle "reassuring" one another.
ERP is dead--especially for very large, agile institutions. The only people that don't think so are companies, like Oracle, that are pretending that it can scale to large institutions with some sort of economy of scale, let alone ones that probably make many changes. The fact that it took the Air Force an extra $900+ million to realize this is shameful. Especially since institutions like the Air Force are probably better off looking at agile and adaptive front-end software (it's not just the Marines that are supposed to "improvise, overcome, and adapt") like their equivalent to CRM, project planning, mobile maintenance, and whatever else they do.
What a waste of time, money, and resources. Truly shameful!!!
What kind of QA system do they have in place at Skype---or maybe they should start one?
Every few years some idiot journalist sees an ad for a flight school that touts there is a severe shortage. They imply that getting your pilot's license and degree (for a mere $50k to $80k) will be your ticket to riches.
I know many pilots with over 1500 hours and a commercial flight certificate that cannot get into the big airlines due to too many pilots.
So many industries use networked computer systems that are vulnerable. The fact that the article mentions the "oil supply" is irrelevant. Everything is at risk.
His severance package only amounts to 450,000 GBP. In the US, I am sure it would have been much more.
I wonder how much of this has to do with American labor and how much it has to do with not having thier product stopped at the border due to patent battles.
I wish TiVo had this again...even if you have to press a button.
I guess it takes longer for some obvious things to sink in down under. SMS insecure? Never heard that before. (ROFL)
Both are appropriate.
He would be very busy with his hobby.
but I am sure they have a "work-around" in place, now that they have added this feature.