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I will never touch Windows 8 if I can help it. I don't like a lot of things about Win7, either. I hate that they hide things multiple layers deep in order to change settings that used to be obvious in WinXP.
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My vote goes to SAP.
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Snark and Soda
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Sure. For the taste buds in your ass...
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Porsche 944
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Every American car made between 1974 and 1984.
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Porsche 911 AC/Heat/Defrost controls.
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-jeff back in the saddle: '95 993 - just another black C2 *SOLD*: '87 930 GP White - heroin would have been a cheaper addiction... "Ladies and Gentlemen, from Boston Massachusetts, we are Morphine, at your service..." - Mark Sandman (RIP  )
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Cable TV
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-jeff back in the saddle: '95 993 - just another black C2 *SOLD*: '87 930 GP White - heroin would have been a cheaper addiction... "Ladies and Gentlemen, from Boston Massachusetts, we are Morphine, at your service..." - Mark Sandman (RIP )
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Computers. The retail, non-business market didn't enter the equation in the development stage. The first computer I tried to use was an impossible mish-mash..
Internet. The retail.... Aircraft. Flight was mystery, no customer in mind. GPS. Who knew? The retail...
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Would you accept things discovered through error, like the glue on postit notes and Lexan?
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Mike,
Twenty years ago, the dairy I worked for decided to branch out and try to make milk a demand product rather than a commodity. We had already tried flavored milk (with Warner Bros characters on the packaging, no less) but the marketing guys figured the market was ready for fortified milk, with added calcium and lower fat levels. (This in a market of <1 million people). To differentiate the new product on the shelves, the packaging had to stand out (they felt) so a different color pallet was explored. Thus, at the sales managers/Depot Managers' meeting, they rolled out the Green cartons and the purple cartons. Green? Purple? My comment, I'm afraid, was not constructive. The words that came out of my mouth were, "What were we thinking?" I was later taken aside by my boss who said (in his Jimmy Stewart drawl), "Les, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." I knew my days with the dairy were on the downhill. The products bombed because a/ they had no shelf appeal and b/ not enough people in a small population were interested. I was 'downsized' ten years later The company was swallowed up last year. You ignore what the customer wants at your peril. Les
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Re: modern Mini Cooper - I've had two of them and like them a lot. Obviously.
Re: BMW's iDrive: Works fine for us, though I will admit the learning curve is a bit steep. But once you figure it out, it makes a lot of sense. Re: Mercedes "making the car they wanted to make." They made the car Germans wanted to buy, though for sure the US was a primary market. The lack of cupholders derived directly from their belief that when in a car, one drives. One does not eat and drink. That said, I kind of like cupholders.
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ORACLE is the same way
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A friend of mine just bout a $42,000 lexus. Lovely car but...
The owners manual is almost 1,000 pages long. At some point, why not give up and put it in an electronic and searchable format... The cruise control will not work going down hill. It will not reduce speed at all, no engine or transmission braking, etc. Set your cruise and you're fine on flat ground and uphill, but downhill you will be applying your brakes. Her old Lexus had typical cruise, the new very expensive car does not. Most consumer products - the wretched hard clear plastic packaging that you need a sawzall to cut through and chain mail gloves to tear about after the initial cut is made lest you slice yourself open on the sharp edges and bleed to death on your new purchase. angela
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Hello http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1102514-we-lost-amazing-woman-yesterday.html Last edited by Laneco; 06-02-2014 at 11:46 AM.. |
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Larry David made a whole Curb Your Enthusiasm episode about that blister packaging. I think it should be called Laceration rather than Blister packaging
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1986 924S bought new. Now used for AutoX and street. Chipped, throttle cam, highflow filter in original airbox/snorkel, 14mm rear sway Hyundai Ioniq hybrid daily driver Vindicator Vulcan V8 spyder, street legal sports racing car (300hp,1400 lbs kerb weight) used for sprints on circuits, and hillclimbs |
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Outsourced contact centres in India
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Amazon has deliberately gotten rid of all blister packs because they were determined (correctly) to be completely "no value add" to the customers. Kudos to them. I hate those things.
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 We got it to the office, followed the directions and hooked up everything and fired it up. We got to the A: prompt. There was no other software AT ALL. With DOS 1.1 there are no sub directories. and the floppies were 360K. The boss boxed it all up and took it back to the IBM salesman. In the end the IBM guys swapped it for a System 36 with a printer and an accounting software package. It had 8 inch floppies that were 1 meg each. We had to hire a programmer to tweak the software to fit our needs. It was not until Lotus 123 came out in 1983 that we got another PC. It was a real powerhouse. A 6MHz PC-AT with 2 megs of RAM, DOS 3 and a 32 Meg hard drive. I think of that hard drive when I downloaded a recent update to my video card that was 268 MB. Just the video driver!
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