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At my place of employ, we track business data ...
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Free vs. free (Score:5, Insightful)
wtf (Score:5, Insightful)
first the business knock off, now a shitty poll that only vaguely about tech? Seems slashdot has turned into a research marketing tool
Sign of Corporate Stupidity (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:wtf (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Sign of Corporate Stupidity (Score:5, Insightful)
I couldn't agree more. Some idiot bean counters think that the /. community cares about crap like business intelligence. They totally don't understand their audience if they think that is going to be the first successful offshoot. I refuse to even click the link for fear of legitimizing the stupidest thing to ever come out of /.
I'm Retired (Score:5, Insightful)
I have NO place of employ, and I have NO business software. If this poll is to be used for marketing, I guess you are not interested in me.
Re:wtf (Score:5, Insightful)
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and lots and lots of other big companies make this a core part of their business and are constantly looking for new ways to out-innovate their competitors to achieve this kind of goal. This is also how one goes from being a geek playing with a couple of small servers to being a geek in business, making a lot of money and impacting a whole lot of other people with one's work and choices.
Of course it doesn't have any l33t m0dz or blinkenlichtens, so it doesn't appeal to many.
Re:Free vs. free (Score:5, Insightful)
Am I the only one who doesn't know the meaning of "business data"? Is it some sort of PHB-speak?
Re:Free vs. free (Score:5, Insightful)
No, you're not the only one.
I'm still not sure what it is even after reading the replies here so far either....
I hate that "distinction" so much... (Score:3, Insightful)
Every single time someone says "Free as in beer", I need to check wikipedia to see which meaning that was again. I have difficulties memorizing it because it doesn't make any damn sense! Most of the time, beer costs something. Most of the time, speech doesn't cost anything. Whoever decided that we should say "Free as in beer" when speaking about things that don't cost anything and "Free as in speech" for things that do/might cost something... I hate him with a passion, just for this.
It makes some sense when you say "Free as in free beer". When you say "Free beer", you know it's still probably illegal to give it to children but it doesn't cost anything. Of course, people don't usually use that long form and it still doesn't make sense to use "Free speech" as the one that might cost you something.
I'm not a jock contracts to I'm a jock (Score:1, Insightful)
It's not just a shorter version of the same thing when you reverse the meaning by taking out important words. Beer is not, by default, without a cost. Saying "Free as in beer" is like saying "Free as in something that has a cost"... which is entirely different from "Free as in free beer".
It's like people saying "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less". That's a bit annoying but I can understand how that expression has developed and I guess it's fine because by now everyone knows that half of the population uses it wrong and nobody actually means "I could care less". However, with the "Free as in free beer" distinction has been designed to clarify the meaning, so shortening it to something that would logically reverse the meaning is utterly insane. When you can no longer deduct the meaning without memorizing it/looking it up, you've completely defeated the purpose of creating such phrases in the first place.
Re:I'm not a jock contracts to I'm a jock (Score:4, Insightful)