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Does it help with making a decision?  Then technically it's a decision support system.  They don't all have to be huge modeling programs.  There are subsets.

A more recent term is Business Intelligence.  It's replacing DSS, but could still technically be classed as a DSS.

Rachel Ray misuses terms. 

I do not have that problem, luckily.  My wife's wedding ring is a One-of-a-kind, especially made ring.  Her daughters and her had always talked about what kind of ring she wanted if she got married again.  Her first ring is very small and not well made, because she was married very young and they had absolutely no money.  So, when it started to becaome clear to the girls that it might happen, they took me to this website where you could design your own ring and they did it the way she wanted it.  Then they had a local jeweler make it and there ya be.  It was a good surprise.  The oldest told me it was the best way to get her to say yes, just in case she was thinking about saying no. 

True.  But people try to make it seem like it is a huge modelling program, I guess that's what I have the problem with, really.  Business Intelligence - one would hope that your business isn't stupid. 

My mom loves Rachel Ray.  I will say that it has got her cooking more (at least in terms of variety). 

heading into work......been gone since Thursday morning hope I dont have a ton of stuff waiting for me!

Race Report is up

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More often than not, they are large scale modeling programs.  Really there is no standardized definition of DSS.  Looking at the general term, it could be anything.  But most people do look at them as large system used for "wargaming" options.

Most businesses are stupid.  They seldom know what they're doing, and they have all kinds of data but no idea what it means, or even how to use it.  BI is an attempt to rectify that situation, and to give timely, accurate information to the people that need it.  So a CEO has a different perspective than a sales guy (tactical vs. strategic), and will therefore need different information and a different perspective of things.

Ray irritates me to no end.  While the food is generally good, and fairly interesting without going over the top, her mannerisms are so annoying as to make her unwatchable.  Plus, you don't saute with olive oil, I don't care how many times she says she is. 

Give me Giada DeLaurentis any day.

I don't watch TV, so I have only seen about one partial episode of her show when home with my mother. I hear that she does annoy many people to no end.  What gets me is all of the random product placement she does.  I've seen her face popping out at me from unlikely places like the cracker aisle.  Seriously?? 

Paula Dean is a hottie now that she has gone all hollywood.  Fake tan, face lift....

Her husband also looks like he has spent too much of her money on the beaches of Boca Raton.

They had one a couple of years ago - I can't remember what it was called.  lasted about 3 to 6 months.  Didn;t take with the food network crowd.  It came out at the same time as that guy with the "regular food with diet calories" show that failed miserably.

I watched her show once.  Or rather tried to watch it.  Then turned it off.

I think she has interesting recipes, sure.  I don't really watch most of those cooking shows, anyway.  Bobby Flay also irritates me, but for different reasons.  I don't watch Food Network very often, the occasional episode of Iron Chef is about it.

I need to design a fix for a sanitary sewer today....

That is one task that I'm glad I'm not a contractor.  Trying to bypass an active sanitary sewer?  Ick...