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‘Van Vollenhoven na druk weg als bemiddelaar’
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Pieter van Vollenhoven heeft zich onder druk van met name CDA-politici zoals premier Jan Peter Balkenende teruggetrokken als bemiddelaar in de kwestie-Spijkers.
Dat meldt de NOS op basis van ‘goedingelichte bronnen’. De CDA’ers vrezen mogelijk voor gezichtsverlies.
Wat een prachtig Christelijk standpunt: voorkomen van gezichtsverlies is belangrijker dan eerherstel.
Eerste Nederlandse iPhone verkocht
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Onder grote belangstelling is vrijdag om middernacht de eerste iPhone in Nederland verkocht. Meer dan achthonderd geïnteresseerden en een grote schare journalisten hadden zich rond die tijd verzameld voor de deuren van de winkel van T-Mobile aan de Lijnbaan in Rotterdam.
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De gelukkige eerste bezitter is de 47-jarige Edwin Driesen uit Den Haag. De man had sinds donderdagochtend 9.30 uur staan wachten op het mobiele kleinood. Op de vraag wat hij thuis als eerste met zijn iPhone ging doen, luidde het nuchtere antwoord “opladen”.
Kennelijk geen vaste Apple-klant, anders had hij wel geweten dat Apple graag ziet dat dingen direct uit de doos te gebruiken zijn, en dat z’n iPhone dus met een (bijna) volle batterij uit de doos zal komen. Maar hij verdient bonus punten met de droogheid van het antwoord…
Iranian Missile Drill
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Maybe all the worries about the new missile drill by the Islamic Republic are just overreaction. What would you think when you realize that neither Fars News, nor Mehr News or ISNA published any picture of the event. Add to that the fact that one of the pictures the state-run IRIB published actually looks too much like a picture taken at a drill which happened two years ago.
And it appears the reason for the photoshop was found by the New York Times. Iran didn’t want to show you that one of the missiles failed. Here’s the picture before it got to Photoshop:
Levi’s suffers profit meltdown in midst of SAP embrace
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Problems with a massive global enterprise resource planning (ERP) rollout have helped send Levi Strauss’ second-quarter results through the floor.
The jeans giant reported a 98 per cent drop in net income to $1m and squarely blamed “substantial costs” associated with its new ERP system among other factors for the shocker.
Levi’s is standardizing on a single global instance of SAP ERP, and told The Reg it was forced to take shipping systems at its three massive US distribution centers off line for a full week in April to fix problems receiving and fulfilling orders.
The company not only lost business during the shut down, but also saw customers who’d placed orders cancel them once the systems were back up.
A Levi’s company spokesman blamed the problem on integration of “legacy systems”. He told The Reg Levi’s is continuing the software rollout but notes it’s currently in a “stabilization phase”.
An SAP company spokeswoman said the company has a “great relationship” with Levi’s. “As part of this close partnership we work closely together to resolve any challenges that arise,” she said.
“stabilization phase” is of course marketing speak for “we are only now reviewing all the documentation, if there is any, on the requirements and the delivered solution to see who is to blame”.
I wonder which of the big consulting firms is involved in this one.
Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16
“Americans have got to understand that. Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that’s a disgrace. It’s an absolute disgrace and it’s got to be fixed.”
You read that right. He called it a disgrace that Social Security is based on that grand inter-generational bargain that has worked so wonderfully for decades. Apparently McCain thinks the idea of taking care of our elderly who can no longer take care of themselves is just disgraceful. I guess John McCain would prefer that we send our elderly out into the wilderness to die when they can no longer work. After all, the idea that we should help them to live out their lives with dignity is such a disgrace.
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How about going to the implementors and get the money from them. The IT industry needs to start to pay for the royal mess ups it can do unpunished right now. That would raise quality more than any agile, UP, RUP, pick your buzzword of the week methodology.