It sounds superficially appealing, letting people choose what interests them or what they think they need to learn. But there's a couple of problems.
Firstly, if we stick with the music analogy, how many artists or tracks have you discovered by random, and in doing so expanded your listening choices?
Also, if you follow a well-structured course, you're getting what a subject-matter expert knows from experience you need to learn. Case in point, I would not have studied stats by choice, but now I'm damn glad it was hammered into me.
The poor courses I've seen were not so much hampered by the format, more either by sub-par lecturers and/or poor, outdated materials.
"I can take my Office Lens App, use the camera on the phone, take a picture of anything, and have it automatically OCR recognized and into OneNote in searchable fashion"
OneNote is/was actually a reasonable product - but does anybody use it? I think that Microsoft's problem is that it has always been a (fragmented) product company, not able to look at things from a user point of view.
What I would like (and pay for) would be seamless integration of all my information, securely, between my devices and optionally backed up to "the cloud" (ugh). So far, (from personal experience), Apple have nice hardware with reasonable integration, Android is catching up (if you give Google access to all your data) and Microsoft is behind.
For the future, I would not give a damn if the 'phone was an Apple, a Nokia or a generic, and same for the OS on the phone and the PC. Here's a scenario; in one hit let me take a picture of someone, somewhere, add it to contacts, and the next time I want navigate to their house/office it one click. Show me all the mails and docs for the person, one click please.
And are not yet very good at building aircraft carriers and everything that goes with them (suitable aircraft and command and control).
It's not the "next best thing" or even close - there is a good reason why large 'planes such as this were rapidly abandoned (except by the Soviet Union) after WW2. They take up much more of their usable capacity with fuel and equipment , and are extremely vulnerable on both land and sea, (one submerged log or - more likely these days - a lost shipping container) and your transport and its cargo is scrap.
It's not so much the features in Visio, (although it is one of the more mature and sophisticated tools of its type), but:
1. Everyone you need to work with probably already knows it/has it installed. 2. There's a huge ecosystem around it, (not just m$), with a bunch of fine stuff such as Mindjet Mindmanager that plug right in.
Shame - I've been using Visio for years and it should be so much better...
It is, for most salaried employees, i.e. you get a set amount of paid vacation days as part of your salary. Or put another way, the boss pays you less, but you get your time off "for free". Since you pay tax and social charges on your salary, (and these are typically indexed to the amount you earn) it's actually a good deal, but most people don't think about it that way.
Sadly, the long lunch, with good cheap food (and wine) has long disappeared from the French business culture. Sandwiches at the desk are more the norm.
Luckily, the women are still (mostly) slim and elegant:)
Plenty of other organisations, (IBM, Xerox...) have equally-sad stories. Genuine transformational innovation ignored by the senior management...who in the case of IBM, then Microsoft, were focused exclusively on two things:
1. Screwing their customers 2. Screwing their competition
IBM got their comeuppance, and had to reinvent themselves as the "services" company we know and love (ahem) today. A far cry from the company that had Nobel prize-winning people on their R&D teams.
OK France is much smaller than the USA, but it's still pretty big, and the TGV trains have been a huge success, attracting travellers away from air and road. With zero fatalities since its inception. And of course, runs on cheap, low-carbon electricty generated by France's nuclear power stations... So fast, safe and green. What more do you want?
Would be great if they could knock all the Palestinian missiles out of the air instead of bombing the sh*t out of the lauch sites (which the launchers tend to put in urban areas).
Indeed - and having stayed there, I can confirm the weather around Kinloss is usually awful.
Sounds like a "make work" effort at this very remote location. At least if something blows up on the pad or shortly after launch there's not much around to damage.
Nice sock puppet. Wonder who modded this up? Sure as shit not a real user.
The people who made this site - the real grown ups who don't post AC - object not just to the technically poor execution of the latest sites; (both the mobile and the beta desktop sites suck). No, what they loath is that they took time to give feedback, as I did - in detail - which was ignored...and then the beta was just rolled out.
Hence the rather "childish" fuck beta campaign. Treat people like kids, don't be surprised at what you get back.
Well, I'm normally against childish flaming, but this beta thing has me upset. Especially since I have been giving regular feedback ever since they started rolling out this crap.
This may look a little contrived, but the new management team at Bletchley Park also seem to wish to "improve" things by making them worse. For example, they recently sacked a long-time volunteer guide because he insisted on showing guests the nearby National Museum of Computing, (which is where the Colossus is replica is actually housed).
Oh, and double fuck beta....been here for decades, and whilst I'm all for progress the classic site never struck me as broken, (apart from special character support - is that fixed in "beta"? ) The last I heard progress meant IMPROVEMENT. Listening DICE?
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It sounds superficially appealing, letting people choose what interests them or what they think they need to learn. But there's a couple of problems.
Firstly, if we stick with the music analogy, how many artists or tracks have you discovered by random, and in doing so expanded your listening choices?
Also, if you follow a well-structured course, you're getting what a subject-matter expert knows from experience you need to learn. Case in point, I would not have studied stats by choice, but now I'm damn glad it was hammered into me.
The poor courses I've seen were not so much hampered by the format, more either by sub-par lecturers and/or poor, outdated materials.
"I can take my Office Lens App, use the camera on the phone, take a picture of anything, and have it automatically OCR recognized and into OneNote in searchable fashion"
OneNote is/was actually a reasonable product - but does anybody use it?
I think that Microsoft's problem is that it has always been a (fragmented) product company, not able to look at things from a user point of view.
What I would like (and pay for) would be seamless integration of all my information, securely, between my devices and optionally backed up to "the cloud" (ugh). So far, (from personal experience), Apple have nice hardware with reasonable integration, Android is catching up (if you give Google access to all your data) and Microsoft is behind.
For the future, I would not give a damn if the 'phone was an Apple, a Nokia or a generic, and same for the OS on the phone and the PC. Here's a scenario; in one hit let me take a picture of someone, somewhere, add it to contacts, and the next time I want navigate to their house/office it one click. Show me all the mails and docs for the person, one click please.
And are not yet very good at building aircraft carriers and everything that goes with them (suitable aircraft and command and control).
It's not the "next best thing" or even close - there is a good reason why large 'planes such as this were rapidly abandoned (except by the Soviet Union) after WW2. They take up much more of their usable capacity with fuel and equipment , and are extremely vulnerable on both land and sea, (one submerged log or - more likely these days - a lost shipping container) and your transport and its cargo is scrap.
Of course, I'd still want one :)
It's not so much the features in Visio, (although it is one of the more mature and sophisticated tools of its type), but:
1. Everyone you need to work with probably already knows it/has it installed.
2. There's a huge ecosystem around it, (not just m$), with a bunch of fine stuff such as Mindjet Mindmanager that plug right in.
Shame - I've been using Visio for years and it should be so much better...
It is, for most salaried employees, i.e. you get a set amount of paid vacation days as part of your salary.
Or put another way, the boss pays you less, but you get your time off "for free".
Since you pay tax and social charges on your salary, (and these are typically indexed to the amount you earn) it's actually a good deal, but most people don't think about it that way.
Sadly, the long lunch, with good cheap food (and wine) has long disappeared from the French business culture.
Sandwiches at the desk are more the norm.
Luckily, the women are still (mostly) slim and elegant :)
Plenty of other organisations, (IBM, Xerox...) have equally-sad stories.
Genuine transformational innovation ignored by the senior management...who in the case of IBM, then Microsoft, were focused exclusively on two things:
1. Screwing their customers
2. Screwing their competition
IBM got their comeuppance, and had to reinvent themselves as the "services" company we know and love (ahem) today.
A far cry from the company that had Nobel prize-winning people on their R&D teams.
Now its Microsoft's turn.
You're right.
OK France is much smaller than the USA, but it's still pretty big, and the TGV trains have been a huge success, attracting travellers away from air and road. With zero fatalities since its inception.
And of course, runs on cheap, low-carbon electricty generated by France's nuclear power stations...
So fast, safe and green. What more do you want?
http://www.thetransportpolitic...
I wonder if they could extend and improve their "iron dome" with this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Would be great if they could knock all the Palestinian missiles out of the air instead of bombing the sh*t out of the lauch sites (which the launchers tend to put in urban areas).
Fix It Again, Tony
Indeed - and having stayed there, I can confirm the weather around Kinloss is usually awful.
Sounds like a "make work" effort at this very remote location. At least if something blows up on the pad or shortly after launch there's not much around to damage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
What's that? Some kind of device to improve willpower? To help you with your last testament?
Or just lousy editing?
I'm voting for the last one...
fetta and olives
I'd mod you up, but duuuude, 'webscale' is sooo yesterday.
Leveraging your core value proposition thru social networking in the cloud is the new hotness!!!
I really dig the new beta site too - liked it on all my facebook pages and tweeted it too!
Now 'scuse me, have to update my whitelists and hosts files.
Sounds like the ideal candidate.
Nice one.
Nice sock puppet. Wonder who modded this up?
Sure as shit not a real user.
The people who made this site - the real grown ups who don't post AC - object not just to the technically poor execution of the latest sites; (both the mobile and the beta desktop sites suck). No, what they loath is that they took time to give feedback, as I did - in detail - which was ignored...and then the beta was just rolled out.
Hence the rather "childish" fuck beta campaign. Treat people like kids, don't be surprised at what you get back.
On a final note, fuck beta, and fuck you AC.
It's doublespeak bullshit.
Just take your beta and shitcan it.
Do that now.
Well said sir
Hey boys and girls, mod funny. Just burned my day's mod points modding up all the f.beta posts in Timothy's lameshit article.
Great post - and I'm sure it's not your first one, despite your claim.
So, in an eloquent way...you are saying....FUCK BETA...right?
And when they take that away, as they surely will, what will those who detest "beta" do?
Fuck beta, and fuck stupid, cowardly cunts like you.
"The British are very keen to take sole credit for cracking Enigma"
Well, we're not, actually. Any more than we're keen to take the sole credit for winning the Second World War.
It was a team effort.
Well, I'm normally against childish flaming, but this beta thing has me upset.
Especially since I have been giving regular feedback ever since they started rolling out this crap.
Why are they continuing? Death march...
This may look a little contrived, but the new management team at Bletchley Park also seem to wish to "improve" things by making them worse.
For example, they recently sacked a long-time volunteer guide because he insisted on showing guests the nearby National Museum of Computing, (which is where the Colossus is replica is actually housed).
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Oh, and double fuck beta....been here for decades, and whilst I'm all for progress the classic site never struck me as broken, (apart from special character support - is that fixed in "beta"? )
The last I heard progress meant IMPROVEMENT. Listening DICE?