1. BP does not stand for British Petroleum and hasn't since the late 90s when American Oil Company and British Petroleum merged to format BP AMOCO. The merged company later changed the name to BP, not short for anything.
2. More BP stock is owned by US companies and individuals than British.
BP is multinational, the HQ of the parent company might be in London but it's owned by Americans.
Every one I've got on here I had to sideload, sadly. I'm hoping for more native apps next year as the Playbook is getting a BB10 makeover and hardware-wise it's a good bit of kit.
Getting Android apps onto a Playbook is a pain in the arse, so much so that if BB10 uses the same method they may as well leave it out as a feature.
To me, that sounds like the same thing, euphemised.
Not really, in one IT sounds like a necessary evil barely tolerated by the noble salespeople and in the other they've part of the business working to the same goal as everyone else.
Treat IT as just a cost centre and you might as well just outsource to the cheapest provider because you're not getting full value from an internal team. The unique selling point of an internal team is quite simply 'we're on your side', and having worked both sides of that line anyone claiming an outsourced provider can say the same is naive at best.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them.
What a very 1980s view of IT. We work in partnership with the business to both deliver the expected value from existing services and to identify where additional business value can be gained from process changes. We're service driven rather than sales though, sales is something of a dirty word in my industry at the moment.
If IT believes that a business process is suboptimal and should be addressed, there is a chain of command for that; you prepare a nice spreadsheet with itemized expenses and you run that up the chain. If the person in charge determines that the waste is in fact unacceptable, he/she will initiate a change.
John Kotter would disagree with you, spreadsheets are a poor way to build a sense of urgency.
Panasonic = plasma
You say that like it's a bad thing, you can have my Panasonic G20 when you prise it from my cold dead fingers.
> Simply use the net and get all the shows you want WHEN you want and with less commercials to boot.
Oh, really? And where, pray tell, is this magic IP-based virtual cable network that offers realtime IP feeds of the show that's literally running for the first time *right this second* -- as opposed to stuff that's either old (or at least non-realtime), low video quality, openly pirated, or some combination of the three?
BBC iPlayer. Ok, so it's only BBC channels but it's a start.
Indeed, my favourite incentive has always been those rectangular vouchers the government prints that people let you swap for stuff.
Times change. The Bard used to be Shakespeare for his humor and insightful lines about human nature - now Adams is the Bard for the same reason.
"The Bard" in that context is short for "The Bard of Avon" so no, it can't really be applied to someone else. I did a quick check just in case there was some social movement of which I was unaware and can find no reference to Douglas Adams as "The Bard" outside this thread.
Whereas said web crap that has to support IE6, also has to work with IE7, and IE8, and IE9, and Firefox, and Chrome, and Safari. And it has to "look good" in the recent browsers without looking like crap in IE6.
A lot of the web crap that needs to work on IE6 doesn't need to work on anything else, it's antique ActiveX that doesn't and never will work on something other than IE6.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
