Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Gerrey . Mary-Catherine
Oh it's Friday[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -To: discussion@acfug.orgFrom: Teddy Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: 01/12/2007 02:13PMSubject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.*chuckle* Thanks Robert.  If there is a need

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Teddy Payne
ent:* Friday, January 12, 2007 2:00 PM *To:* Carbs Sales&Service *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money. Flattery gets you everywhere. Brownie points to the red head ;) Teddy On 1/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Robert Reil
com/> _ From: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:00 PM To: Carbs Sales&Service Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money. Flattery gets you everywhere. Brownie points to the red head ;) Teddy On 1/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Teddy Payne
don't think applies to you. :) mcg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - To: discussion@acfug.org From: Teddy Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01/12/2007 11:38AM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money. Caveat: If I refer t

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Gerrey . Mary-Catherine
I think by now, most of us gals have figured that one out.  Unless you are some traditional guy that expects dinner on the table when he gets home; which I don't think applies to you.  :) mcg[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -To: discussion@acfug.orgFrom: Teddy Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent by: [EMAIL P

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Robert Reil
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:34 AM To: Carbs Sales&Service Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money. In my book, it's a tradeoff between knowing exactly what you told the tool to do on a command-line versus assuming what a GUI tool is

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Robert Reil
com/> _ From: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:28 AM To: Carbs Sales&Service Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money. Robert, If your goal is to be purely a business man, you will eventually seperat

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Teddy Payne
Caveat: If I refer to anything as "he" or "him" without having the analagous "she" or "her," most of generalities are meant to be unisex and gender aganostic. Apologies in advance, Teddy On 1/12/07, Howard Fore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my book, it's a tradeoff between knowing exactly wh

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Howard Fore
In my book, it's a tradeoff between knowing exactly what you told the tool to do on a command-line versus assuming what a GUI tool is doing. For instance MYSQL has the ability to set a collation (what I would have called a character set) on each table. You can do that explicitly in the command-lin

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Teddy Payne
Robert, If your goal is to be purely a business man, you will eventually seperate yourself from the technology and have a person or team handle this for you. As you are in the initial phases of this endeavor, you need to evaluate the time it takes to grow the business with technology versus the

[ACFUG Discuss] Learning curve vs best allocation of time vs money.

2007-01-12 Thread Robert Reil
Granted... But what about the fact that it takes lots of time to learn another way to do the same thing versus the time it takes to just navigate to the click. I am a business man working IN a business trying to find what precious little time I can to work ON the business, so that one day the BUS