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How to Stay Awake in Boring Meetings

Posted on by wooway
Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What about those long and boring conference calls? Here’s a way to change all of that.
1. Before (or during) the next meeting, seminar, or conference call, prepare yourself by drawing a square. I find that 5" x 5" is a good size. Divide the card into columns-five across and five down. That will give you 25 one-inch blocks.
2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block:
Synergy, strategic fit, core competencies, best practice, bottom line, revisit, expeditious, to tell you the truth (or "the truth is"), 24/7, out of the loop, benchmark, value-added, proactive, win-win, think outside the box, fast track, result-driven, knowledge base, at the end of the day, touch base, mindset, client focus(ed), paradigm, game plan, leverage.
3. Now check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those words/phrases.
4. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally stand up and shout "BULLSHIT!"

Just a Joke

Posted on by wooway
Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side Of a deserted road. Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt. The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes,Ray-Ban sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie, gets out and asks the shepherd: "If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?"
The shepherd looks at the young man, and then looks at the large flock of grazing sheep and replies: "Okay."
The young man parks the car, connects his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a NASA Webster,scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with logarithms and pivot tables, then prints out a 150 page report on his high-tech mini-printer. He turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1,586 sheep here."
The shepherd cheers, "That’s correct, you can have your sheep."
The young man makes his pick and puts it in the back of his Porsche.
The shepherd looks at him and asks: "If I guess your profession, will you return my animal to me?"
The young man answers, "Yes, why not?" The shepherd says,"You are an IT consultant."
"How did you know?" asks the young man.
"Very simple," answers the shepherd. "First, you came here without being called. Second, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew, and third, you don’t understand anything about my business… Now can I have my DOG back?"

A lesson to be learned from one typing the wrong email address!

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A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a

particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where

they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of hectic

schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. So,

the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his

wife flying down the following day. The husband checked into the hotel.

There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an email to his

wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address,

and without realizing his error, sent the email. Meanwhile, somewhere in

Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husband’s funeral. He

was a minister who was called home to glory following a heart attack.

The widow decided to check her email expecting messages from relatives

and friends. After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted.

The widow’s son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and

saw the computer screen which read:

 

To: My Loving Wife

Subject: I’ve Arrived

Date: October 16, 2004

 

I know you’re surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now

and you are allowed to send emails to your loved ones. I’ve just arrived

and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for

your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your

journey is as uneventful as mine was.

PC WORLD 英文版 十月刊

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以下是作者的一些经验:
• 当你想去Dell买电脑时, 一定要同时查看Home & Home Office 和 Small Business 两部分. 同一货品的价格可能会不同, 因为它们属于不同的BU管辖. 没有哪个部分的价格一定会是比较低的, 所以在要寻找特定货品时, 一定要比较两部分的价格.
• 如果你要找的货品还没有打折, 等一等. Dell的货品打折促销是没有规律的. Dell的货品与其它品牌相比打折更加频繁, 作者曾经跟踪过它的一些货品, 没有一个的价格会在不打折的价格上停留超过三星期.
• 作者曾经看到过Dell的最大折扣是35% off, 也就是它自己的货品打了六五折, 这种情况不多见. 但是Dell自己品牌的货品打20% off, 第三方货品打10% off还是经常能够看到的.
• 台式机和笔记本电脑的折扣很难比较, 因为它通常会提供一些配件的特价或免费的升级(譬如内存, 硬盘, 和光驱), 这样你就很难比较一台电脑上究竟打了多少折扣. 但是有时你还可以发现货品会同时给予折扣和免费升级: 譬如七月下旬, Dell提供34% off在它的XPS Gen 5式机上, 同时还有512MB 到 1GB 内存的免费升级.
• 经常去看看一些网站如 StealDeals.net 和 Techbargains.com (内部消息: Techbargains 提供了 PCWorld.com的 Bargain Finder) [wooway: 加拿大的顾客可以经常去看看redflagdeals.ca], 这些网站每天都提供许多打折的消息和商家的折价券.

 

没用的特性 – 数字变焦
NOT ALL ZOOM is created equal. While optical zoom uses the camera’s lens to increase magnification, digital zoom uses software built into a camera to magnify a subset of an image captured by a lens. The software does this by upsampling (or interpolating) pixels—generating new image data based on samples from the original pixels. That process can degrade the quality of the photo, making it blurry and pixelated. Optical zoom is the important number to look for. —Grace Aquino
一些DC厂商的广告里 (图示为日本品牌:奥林巴斯) 会给出光学和数字变焦的综合值来蒙骗顾客.

 
小技巧: 如果忘了Windows XP的密码, 或者密码过期了, 怎样才能登陆到系统.

How to log on to Windows XP if you forget your password or your password expires

 
[上文摘译自PC WORLD 英文版 十月刊, wooway尊重原有的版权, 如有异议, 请联络wooway.]