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#110,163
RedVee said:
Thank you. Although that is sometimes rendered as “a gentleman and a scallop”...:eek:

Just to touch on the NT again for a minute. Excuse us Aussies (and I assume Canadians are the same) when we look confused with all the “Big as Texas” talk we get on tv and film. The NT rates 3rd in size behind WA & Qld, but is just shy of twice the size of Texas. Texas is closer to the same size as NSW (which ranks 5th).

Of course the reason our States are larger is just because there is a hell of a lot fewer of them. 7 in a bit less space than you guys shoved 48 in.
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yeah, kinda like Canada which is huge but only 13 provinces and territories.....to put things in perspective though, Texas is about the size of France..... what are the Australian states divided in? we have counties over here..
 
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Gaolee said:
Those preamps have next to nothing in them. They are reliable as an anvil. I don't believe anybody would need a spare unless it was a place to store contraband.
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I agree, anything that would croak would most likely be in the power amp....was thinking maybe they used different effects (fuzz) levels and wanted to go back and forth? not familiar with 360s so don't know much about the effects functionality in them..
 
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We have a 2 hour jazz gig Sunday:cool:. It's a tight space; can't use either 'Bird, hafta use a short scale, prolly the VM Jag and the Rumble 40.
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Chucky Stiletti said:
yeah, kinda like Canada which is huge but only 13 provinces and territories.....to put things in perspective though, Texas is about the size of France..... what are the Australian states divided in? we have counties over here..
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They are called local government areas. Some people call theirs 'shire' (prolly have hairy feet), or a 'city'.

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Chucky Stiletti said:
yeah, kinda like Canada which is huge but only 13 provinces and territories.....to put things in perspective though, Texas is about the size of France..... what are the Australian states divided in? we have counties over here..
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Councils. Councils are our third line of Government (at least one too many IMO).

1. Federal Govt (House of Reps plus the Senate - [the Senate is ‘the States House’]). The head of the majority party is the Prime Minister.
2. State Governments (NSW is also a bi-cameral Govt). The head of the majority party is the Premier.
3. Local Govt - local councils. The head is the Lord Mayor (pron. Mare).

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PillO said:
I am impressed at how flexible and extensible QuickBooks is.

Conversely, I have experience with both Oracle and SAP. Oracle is flexible and incredibly complicated but if you are an SQL programmer, you can get it to do what you want. SAP on the other hand is a good German piece of software - you organize your enterprise around it and it runs everything and locks all your data up tight. Little problematic if you had any intention to do something with your data, like produce financial reports, tax reporting, etc. In the SAP system I worked with, data was so difficult to retrieve that a data warehouse was built on top of it. And the data warehouse was so unwieldy that another data warehouse was built on top of the first data warehouse. I highly recommend installing SAP at your competitors; they will grind to a halt while adding people to try to run the system.
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LOL - as you noted, SAP runs everything and you build your work and data processes around it. They have a module for every facet of your business. The major global corporation I worked for had incorporated it in nearly everything they did with data on the computer. When it worked, it worked. And when there was a problem, it would bring the entire corporation to a screeching halt. When the corporation got around to migrating our purchasing functions to SAP the standing joke was that SAP stood for "Stop All Purchasing". It was touted as a "paperless purchase system", but it was more accurately a "purchaseless paper system". As noted, when it worked, it worked. But when it didn't, you were screwed.

During the first couple of years after migrating to SAP for purchasing, those of us with exceptionally tight deadlines and numerous high dollar critical path purchases ended up partnering with outside companies who would do all our purchasing for us. I'd write them a check for millions of dollars and let them know what needed to be purchased. Of course this created a nightmare for the fixed asset and tax divisions but at least they weren't on a stupid crazy project timeline that would effect the company bottom line if not completed on time and under budget.

Advice - unless you're a multi billion dollar enterprise with a hefty IT department you might want to steer clear of SAP.
 
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