No, there are actual managers that work that way. I am currently working on a project run by a similar type of PM.

He has said, and I quote: "4h for an ECN? Are the drawings done? That takes like 2 minutes, I'll do it right now" Generates ECN number. "There, done!" *smh*

Two years ago in Singapore, a text + address will get you a response with an accurate ETA and a cab number within a minute. I've never tried in New York, but hopefully they at least have something like this working?

Close, somewhat unwittingly. I buy fresh eggs locally. I was visiting a friend and was in charge of breakfast the Saturday. Bacon and eggs, and he said 'wow, these eggs are good. Fresh?' I laughed and said yes, told him where they are from. Two weeks later, he's at my place. I again serve bacon and eggs...he has his and said "these aren't the fresh ones, are they? He was right, my supplier was out. I always knew the difference was there, but him being able to pick it out just like that cemented the difference for me. Sure, I knew which were which, but they all got fried!

Sounds like you likely read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore's_Dilemma as well. I did, and it, as well as a little more research changed my supermarket buying habits.

Koha is something I use everyday at my small town library. It is a great resource for a library that needs to be tied to other libraries for cataloguing etc. As hazem said it would be overkill for sure. But for a one off collection I would suggest Winnebago Spectrum. I have also used that system in another library and it was the perfect thing to manage a small collection, and is used quite frequently by school libraries.

Incredible that this topic attracts a total of 51 comments a couple of hours after being posted. Has anything lost relevance as quickly as it has. Ok. Maybe Nortel.

That's what I was thinking - going after a homebrew community that uses hardware that been manufactured in 10 years? Wow...

I've already got something pretty close with the Toshiba M700. I know, price point, is out of line with the products being mentioned here, but it's a very good device. I works very well as both. Heavier than a pure tablet for sure, but still light and comfortable enough to use as one.

I am SO disappointed in the lack of Leisure Suit Larry references in this thread! "Hey everyone, this weirdo wants a libbed, colored, rough-cut, plaid, peppermint condom!"

What you maybe don't realize is that most companies don't handle their own rebates. They sell them to a rebate company, whose best interest it is to not pay them out - and they don't have to worry about the end effect near so much. It's like the 'don't pay a cent' events at furniture stores. They sell the account, and you have to deal with a nasty credit agency - and if you do default, it's not pretty.

Indeed. Back in the day [/old gravely voice] when I was with Bell Northern Research it was primarily mainframes and Sun Sparcs on the network.

PC's were just starting first being commonly connected. People were writing their own network stacks. Inevitably, someone would write a bad one, install it on a couple of machines, and a broadcast storm would result.

Which meant someone from our group would go over with a pair of sidecutters...

iTunes got turfed from my machine for this reason - my son had it installed on another account, and I kept getting requests to update Bonjour and a bunch of other stuff. And no option to say 'don't ask me again'.

Even Windows Update give you that.

Agreed, I could've fallen for this myself. I got a ticket about a year ago in a city I didn't live in, and lo and behold, it had a website on it for paying online. Ticket looked official, but on second thought, I couldn't be sure, having never seen one from that city before. I blindly typed in the URL... I'd like to believe I would have picked off a phishing scam, but still, I took the first step.

Ok, that ad is without a doubt the funniest damn thing I've seen in a while. If you like it, you have to like the ol' Mel Lastman commercials for Bad Boy furniture as well - and this guy became the mayor of Toronto! Here's an example
NOOOOBODY!

to the OP - yes, simcasting sucked this year, and last. Frito Lay seems to buy about half the airtime.

I actually followed a 'tinyurl' link from Slashdot. I had to peek between my fingers as I clicked on it. But anyways, many tx for that