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  • RE: The Energizer Bunny

    cy (12/3/2008)


    you lose that sense of someone constantly asking "are we doing this the best way possible?". The result may be that things become stagnant and even inflexible.

    I don't agree....

  • RE: The Energizer Bunny

    In the article, the Energizer CIO mentions that outsourcing this stuff usually costs the amount that you save in salaries/overhead. He is imagining that Microsoft will be able to make...

  • RE: The Fear of Change

    It is like the historical food production and distribution. As food production and distribution techniques improved, less farmers were needed.

    That is kind of what I meant. The DBA...

  • RE: The Fear of Change

    I am not by any stretch of the imagination a DBA - I am a database developer. However, I can see where jobs may be cut. Yeah, sure you will...

  • RE: Trust But Verify

    Yeah - Canada is a bit less of a democracy than the US. We vote for less things. But we have more vote times. The latest vote was for the...

  • RE: Trust But Verify

    Michael Earl (11/19/2008)


    I keep my money buried behind my house.

    Gee then, where exactly do you live? :hehe:

    I know that the ATM system isn't perfect, but I still trust it -...

  • RE: Trust But Verify

    In Canada, we put an X in the box beside the name of our candidate still. But I don't really understand why the voting system in the US is such...

  • RE: The Financial Crisis

    The view from Canada:

    The economy is still relatively stable compared to the US. The housing market has stagnated a little bit, but there are still new housing starts. The uneployment...

  • RE: Un-retiring

    Someguy (8/5/2008)


    I think I'd be happy to look at dropping down to part time, but I don't see a lot of those kinds of positions available. It seems like...

  • RE: Soft Skills

    Grant Fritchey (7/18/2008)


    mhaskins (7/18/2008)


    Joshua Jones (7/18/2008)


    For me the soft skills came from being a customer service professional ...

    Mine too - I don't know if my minimum wage customer service jobs...

  • RE: Soft Skills

    Joshua Jones (7/18/2008)


    For me the soft skills came from being a customer service professional ...

    Mine too - I don't know if my minimum wage customer service jobs were really that...

  • RE: Who is "the IT guy?"

    When people ask me what I am, I say "computer programmer". It is a very broad generalization of what I do, but even older people kind-of understand it. They think...

  • RE: The Back Door DBA

    I always take the back door in because it is the closer entrance 😛

    I also have most of the problems that I encounter logged to my email. I do a...

  • RE: The Bulldogs

    GSquared (6/10/2008)


    Mia: Yep. Calculated risk (actually, I first learned that concept in game theory and military studies, but it most certainly applies to businesses as well). The trick...

  • RE: The Bulldogs

    GSquared (6/10/2008)


    On the other hand, it's also easy to throw your hands in the air, say, "there's no way this is worth it" and kill a project that really should...

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