Comment Re:Get serious (Score 1) 182
Alright, enough bickering. All I really want to know is, does it pack some serious power into a tiny case?
Yes. And yes, Also to be sure to be sure, yes.
Alright, enough bickering. All I really want to know is, does it pack some serious power into a tiny case?
Yes. And yes, Also to be sure to be sure, yes.
I agree entirely. Let's not forget that sales is a phenomenally difficult profession to work in. I work as an SE, so I sit in between technology and sales by handling the technical parts of a sale for an enterprise software vendor (yes, I said enterprisy, yes I spend my days pulling my hair out). I am in awe of what these sales guys can do to navigate around a potential customer, figuring out who has budget, can make decisions, convincing them that we can add value and letting us get in to do a POC.
Also, it's a very feast or famine type of a job, exceed your quota and your laughing all the way to the bank, miss 2 quarters in a row and your out. I know people talk about lack of job security in any profession but I for these guys the cost of failure, your fault or not, is pretty high.
and a plan C, D, E, F..... Z. One can not have enough backup plans.
In my experience preparations A thru G are a total failure, so I tend to go straight for preparation H these days, and haven't needed one beyond that.
The plural of "touch" is "touches" you fucking dumbass'. People who put an apostrophe on every fucking word that end's with an 'S are starting to really piss' me off.
...this technological miracle that was recently invented (years ago) called Outlook.
You had me up until that bit.
In fairness, it's really not a bad tool. I use Outlook task list all the time to remind me to do stuff. Calendar, email, task and simple notes in one place makes sense to me. I think this is one of the products Microsoft really has got right, it works for 99% of people, picks its way though whatever proxy or auth I am sat behinf in the client office or hotel and is for me the best place for short term off site backup.
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You might enjoy driving or getting better performance or whatever. Lots of other people prefer not to have to push the clutch in and out constantly for the hour of stop-and-go bumper to bumper commuting that do each day (and don't try telling them to just stay in second, that's just more details they don't care about...)
Agreed, my last car had a manual transmission, and was fantastic taking for a nice Sunday drive round some of the country road where I live (making sure I can stop in the distance I an see, etc. etc. etc.) But I got an auto next, I just thought its a bit dumb to choose a transmission, suspension and the rest based on 5% of my driving. Sure I have lost the fun when I want it, some handling compared to picking up an equivalent sport model and the performance/mpg loss of an auto, but it works for the 95% of the time I just need to get from A to B.
This might disqualify my from being a petrol head, but I do plan to buy an Alfa at some point, also once I have a house with a garage I will be getting a kit car to build and have fun in. Yes, there is a long list of motoring ambitions waiting on having bought/paid for the actual important things in life
-passport stamps from Arab countries -
What's wrong with visiting an arab country? or do you believe in enclosing a race to their own land and prevent them from outside contact? Similar logic to that of a certain country, I must say.
Erm, have you ever tried to enter certain Arab coutries with an Israeli stamp in your passport? I don't think so. Israel will still let you in the country, just they make ask more questions and check you and your belongings out a little more. Some countries just wont let you in if you have an Israeli stamp, this is why some people have 2 passports, both from the same country.
Yes, because a first past the post system for electing a national president is a brilliant little bit of political legislation.
While PR may, possibly, at some point in the future for some mythical nation work when electing a legislative house of some kind, I find it very hard to work out how you can use anything other than FPTP when allowing the electorate to directly decide on a single person to lead a nation. Do you really want to see Obamas bottom half and McCains top half running the USA. (It would be that way around, that way the knees work properly)
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_