Posts made by Carnival Boy

@dashrender like I asked before, what are they supposed to do?

I want links in e-mails from my subscription providers. I don't want to have to navigate around the portal trying to find something just because some people don't like links.

How is it clickbait? Amazon HD music (CD quality audio) used to be about $5 extra for subscribers, they've now made it free. This is a good thing if you're an audiophile and surely Amazon customers will appreciate getting a heads-up?

It's a sign of healthy competition in the music streaming industry with Amazon, Tidal, Apple, Google and Spotify at each others throats.

What are they supposed to do?

@jaredbusch What's the issue? I don't get it.

@scottalanmiller Nice. Have fun.

@scottalanmiller where are you moving to?

I'm no expert but "Ergonomic Keyboard" has always seems a bit gimmicky to me. Is there genuine science behind the designs? There probably is.

I think the most important thing is to use a wrist rest to lift her wrists higher up. If she hasn't got one already, I'd just get one of those initially.

Again, I'm no expert, but I wonder if wrist pain can be caused by general desk posture - does having the right chair at the right height have an impact? Is she taking sufficient breaks. Or is she hunched over in a bad posture typing away for hours at a time?

I dunno, I just wonder if these ergonomic keyboard were designed by health professionals or marketing teams.

But I'm a big fan of gel wrist rests. They're also great for whacking people over the head.

@hobbit666 bit messy there? Wouldn't be allowed in our house (by my wife) or office (by my boss).

@scottalanmiller Love it. Noisy though.

Humans work better in teams and teams work better face to face rather than remote. I'm pretty sure this is a fact.

I agree with Google. Do people need to be in the office every day? Of course not. Is it better if they live within commuting distance of the office and go in regularly? I'm sure it is.

@JaredBusch said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

Ah, here we go, it made a group and that lets you delete everything.

So you started a thread titled "Azure sucks" based on the fact that you just didn't really know how to use it properly?

What do you mean they "hid" the known vulnerability?

@Dashrender said in What Are You Drinking:

But if you're willing to splurg, laphroaig 18 is fracking awesome! Got it as a gift from one of my bosses.

That's a very generous gift. They don't make it anymore, but even if they did it would be out of my budget. Ten year old is about as much as I can generally afford.

Started to take my whisky drinking a bit more serious this year. It's an expensive hobby, but I'm avoiding the good stuff and focussing on the cheaper (but hopefully still good) end of the market. We've bought about 25 bottles and are making our way through them, trying to decide what are favourites are. It's a good hobby for lockdown!

Mostly Scottish single malts, but I'm also trying to up my bourbon game, as bourbon is probably my favourite drink. I've always drank Jim Beam, mostly because it is very cheap here in the UK, but I've got some Bulleit, Wild Turkey, Woodford and Maker's Mark. Again, only the cheap stuff, but they are a bit nicer than Jim Beam. Any recommendations always appreciated.

I was also amazed to read recently that there's a US law preventing casks from being used more than once. A law brought in as a result of lobbying by the coopers' unions. And also that casks are generally made from oak that is between 150 and 200 years old. That's a very old tree to be cut down and used once! So, US bourbon casks are used once and then shipped to Britain where they used over and over again by our distillers. Something like 80% of Scotch whisky is stored in bourbon casks, the rest in sherry casks. Thanks for all the wood!

What do you mean by "one extra step". Do you mean creating an account on these systems?

Otherwise, I find sharing a folder with an external e-mail in Sharepoint Online the simplest and quickest for users (if you have a Microsoft 365 account), but I'd expect Dropbox to be just as good. Then it's just dragging and dropping files in to a browser.

It's one thing writing a completely bespoke system, but who is going to design this for you? Sitting down a Production Manager (for example) with a blank piece of paper and asking what he wants is a recipe for disaster. Even if they had any idea what they wanted. A Production Manager might roughly know what an MRP routine does, but very few could actually design one from the ground up. It's an extremely complicated algorithm.

Even with an established software house you're entering in to a very committed relationship. You're relying on one company for modifications, fixes etc for years to come at an unspecified cost.

At least with major ERP systems like Microsoft, Oracle or SAP you have a partner network to work with. So if you fall out with your partner, or they put up their fees unreasonably, or they go out of business, then you can simply move to another partner and carry on. That's much, much harder with bespoke software.

Sure, with typical ERP systems you will have customisations on top, either completely bespoke, or industry specific verticals. But that might only be 20% of the system, with 80% being standard. So moving to another ERP partner means the new partner only has to worry about the 20% of bespoke code, not a completely unknown system that is 100% bespoke.

And the reality is companies are simply not that unique. Many think they are, but the majority of unique business processes are not ones that add value but are a case of "we've always done it like this". Identifying unique processes that add genuine value, whilst standardising other processes, reduces the amount of customisation needed, reduces costs, and actually increases efficiency and business performance.

@scottalanmiller said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

That kind of budget would easily get you a full time crew of three people, if not more, that create exactly what you want and are there to develop, improve, update, tweak, etc. for forever.

It feels like you believe in outsourcing IT but insourcing ERP. But all the arguments you've made regarding outsourcing IT equally apply to ERP, if not more so. I feel you're taking a contradictory position.

@Dashrender said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

If you have all those different products, you likely have tons of work-arounds you have to do to get data to work together... plus the cost of managing them all separately...

I agree, it does seem like a lot of work. I can't see the attraction. It feels a bit too 1980s.

@JaredBusch said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

His point is that most companies don’t need all of those pieces in the ERP because some of them are handled in a different thing.

If they're handled in a different thing then we're not really talking about ERP. ERP is different things handled in one thing. It seems like we're talking about several separate systems, not ERP.

Which is fine. So you have a standalone finance system, and a standalone stock control system, and a standalone sales order processing system. But none of those are ERP on their own and you lose many of the benefits of running ERP.

So the argument isn't "build an ERP system in-house", it's "don't run ERP".