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[quote name="Zsenitan"](3:03:04 PM) <font color="pink">Zsenitan:</font> Anyway the New Magic Business Machine is a problem. (3:05:10 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> yeah it is (3:05:27 PM) <font color="pink">Zsenitan:</font> What's the sentiment about it in Dev right now? (3:06:19 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> it's very irritating when the fate of your department is tied to something that works so poorly, isn't really your fault, and was advised against to begin with (3:07:05 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> I imagine there's bits of that going around (3:12:56 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> I'll have to think about the problem when it's better defined (3:13:19 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> Well, I guess before that I have to handle envelope OCR (3:15:26 PM) <font color="pink">Zsenitan:</font> oh ho that's still coming up is it? (3:15:38 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> that's my mission starting monday (3:17:33 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> i don't expect they will have selected an OCR vendor by then (3:17:46 PM) <font color="pink">Zsenitan:</font> I hope they think about it a little longer (3:17:52 PM) <font color="pink">Zsenitan:</font> than they thought about the Business Machine vendor (3:18:51 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> the important thing is to get the system ready to have any vendor's software incorporated without too much stress (3:21:14 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> although really, with the luck we've had with vendors so far, i might as well write my own (3:21:37 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> fucking every vendor has given us something ridiculously shitty (3:21:57 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> the only people who know their business are fucking office depot (3:22:19 PM) <font color="pink">Zsenitan:</font> Yeah (3:22:25 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> it says something when the rest of your supply chain compares unfavorably to microsoft (3:22:27 PM) <font color="pink">Zsenitan:</font> except office depot is two weeks late with a quote for custom printing that they pimped and shoved down my throat (3:23:31 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> it's not just the New Magic Business Machines. it's the rate shopping software, the smtp client, the load balancers (3:24:14 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> burn the heretic, kill the mutant, purge the unclean (3:25:25 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> i go to the store and buy a video game for $50 from a store and it pretty much works (3:25:49 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> you spend $5000 on some business software and it's complete fucking shit (3:28:20 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> see, the theory is by banding together in corporations you get something more than the sum of its parts -- people to account for other people's weaknesses and to handle various details they're good at (3:29:13 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> instead, we appear to have a system in which the dynamic of corporations correspond roughly to junior high schoolers completing their class project the night before its due (3:29:39 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> only instead of getting a B because there wasn't enough pictures on the poster board, you lose all your money (3:29:54 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> i gotta go to a meeting (3:34:30 PM) <font color="green">Guy At Work</font> i guess it was cancelled[/quote]