I would hire devs to interface with the ERP. Because when you go to upgrade to the next version [of the ERP], you have a modular thing that you can change pieces of rather than having to pay someone to rewrite the entire thing. If you continue to customize the ERP you're using, you'll be locked in to that specific version and all of its security/stability/functionality problems.

+1 I lol'ed.

Except that then they'd get you for Insurance Fraud or whatever.

Oh yeah, he's Canadian as fuck.

I bought one of these for my office:
http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-SE...

The pixel density is perfect for the opposite side of my desk, and since it's the office, being restricted to 30Hz doesn't hurt anything. At $400 it's a great place to get started with 4k computing. I agree that programming in 4k changes your entire way of working.

For those of us who still have the binaries around, the D2X-XL project (http://www.descent2.de/d2x.html) has ported the game engine to OpenGL and has added a number of great things to the project. It supports more players, TCP/IP, and tons of additional features. As with any community project (or commercial project recently) there are bugs, but some of the builds have been quite good. I encourage fans to check out and contribute to the project :)

I would absolutely play it more if there were a community of descent players ready to go online against (a matchmaking system, for example).

{Ep 1-3} to {Ep. 7-9} isn't going to be any different with Disney bankrolling them. They're still going from suck to blow. //sorry, I had to :P

I disagree that it's newsworthy. It has nothing to do with being a sheep -- turn your energy to the education, disease (due to anti-vaxxers) or net neutrality issues we're having domestically. We have such larger problems to fix that a missing airplane halfway across the world shouldn't even register on the scale. But it's a convenient distraction from our own problems so it's good 'infotainment'.

If you think I'm a sheep because I don't give a shit about an electrical fire in an airplane, you're amazingly misguided.

Yeah I don't really understand what the big deal is. I realize that there are a lot of families that may be suffering but because they were on an airplane it is somehow more newsworthy than a cruise ship with 10 times as many people, or genocide in Malaysia or doctors being killed giving polio vaccines in Afghanistan? Oh it's an airplane, let's tap into the 9/11 terrorist fear mongering so that we can get ratings!

*sigh*

I suggest Richard Feynman's Lectures on Computation. People in the physics world will know the name, but the topics covered are great for CS/CE topics, and probably not things that were considered and/or covered in regular classes.

http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-...

You can't point it anywhere, it's in a sphere and the lasers face inward. :P

But to your point (being some organization), if I had the world's most powerful laser, I would take the politics out of it so that the scientists could make progress. So, technically, you're not too far off.

I'm not sure whether to be happy about this or not. We need energy efficiency, but I still hate CFLs :)

I bought one too, and I love it. The trick with the ghosting is to set the sharpness to '1' instead of '0' -- there's some weird divide by zero bug that makes it MUCH smoother at 1. I highly recommend the panel. Not good for colors but great for text.

Sorry, you're wrong. I have it hooked up to my Y500 via HDMI and it works flawlessly (well, except for the 30Hz input lag)

Nah you get a tilt mount (or one of the ball mounts) and it isn't that bad.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GTT0VO/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A17W6NLJ3OBMCK

You do have to turn your head a bit to see the windows on opposing sides of the screen.