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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: Company newsletters
Date: 4 Jan 2008 13:27:45
Message: <477e7aa1$1@news.povray.org>
Ross wrote:
> I forget if it was in this group or elsewhere that someone said if it 
> doesn't have a quantifiable measurement, it's marketing gibberish. I'm apt 
> to extend that to if you can't express it in SI units it is marketting 
> gibberish.

I see. So "C++ is better than C" is marketing gibberish then?

[Or better yet, "POV-Ray is better than 3D Studio Max".]

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Company newsletters
Date: 4 Jan 2008 14:59:47
Message: <477e9033$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> environment for the Company's most valued asset, our people."

One of my favorite Dilbert comics:

"We used to think Employees Are Our Most Valuable Asset. After study, we 
found out Money is our most valuable asset. Employees are number nine."

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.


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From: Sherry Shaw
Subject: Re: Company newsletters
Date: 8 Jan 2008 17:43:47
Message: <4783fca3@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> "Six-point tactical initiative
> 
> [...]
> 
> #6 Continue to enhance shareholder's wealth, creating a secure 
> environment for the Company's most valued asset, our people."
> 

That's BizSpeak for "The first five items had damn well better show a 
profit PDQ, or else heads will roll."

--Sherry Shaw


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