Actually, I've been through similar things with losing people in the past, and the contents of their mail folder was invaluable.
When you're dealing with overworked groups with lots of project and day-to-day work in a large organisation, there is often a need to at the very least find out everything that a person was working on and who they were talking to. Just the sent items can be a boon to this!
It's part of being a professional I guess. My company trust me with a certain amount of work and I believe that should get that work, even if I'm not in a position to give it to them at the time.
A less extreme example - I always try and do very solid handovers before I take a vacation. But what if something comes up that they need to get more detail on? If they know where and how I file stuff, they don't end up disappointing themselves by trying to call me.
I don't just file for myself, I file in case I get hit by a bus.
To expect my work colleagues to work out what search terms to use is unreasonable. But if everything is filed by topic and by date, they'll be easily able to jump in and find relevant info and come up to speed quickly.
They're hardly 'following in the footsteps of Apple and Microsoft' - Apple spent a fortune on the design of their stores to maximise the amount of time punters spend and maximise the opportunity to convert browsers to sales. I'm pretty sure MS did the same.
Google have setup a stall in the back of someone else's shop (and a chain that is very poorly regarded to boot!). That's not _quite_ the same thing.
That's my real problem with it. People bought it and had it on their hardware. It was then remotely deleted.
How is deleting something that I've bought from hardware that I own different than coming into my home and reclaiming a physical object that I bought ?
The IP industries can't have it both ways. If they want to treat bytes as property when it comes to infringement, they have to accept their own world view when it comes to trying to take products back.
In many cases, no, it isn't. If you're working on 80k now and you take a job at 42k, when the economy recovers you're going to face a fight to get back to what you were on.
The headhunters are calling you to pad out their CV collection rate. This is part of their job. That doesn't mean that there is a single job actually there for any of these calls.
Given that CCTV is more likely to help catch the gray blob that attacked you than it is to stop the gray blob from attacking you, why does it reassure you ?
Also, how reassured are you by the number of times crucial CCTV footage has not been available due to camera faults, retention issues or pure lack of maintenance? Next, how do you feel about the quality of the average CCTV image issued? Finally, how reassuring do you find that fact that the police often refuse to review CCTV footage as part of a case due to costs involved?
I have this rock that keeps away tigers. I could let you have it for a good price!
Regular people there are arguing that it is the right thing to do to keep DNA of innocent people on file forever if they are arrested (not charged).
They're arguing that you should always arrest someone who acts in self defence just to be sure that they really were defending themselves and not a murder.
They're arguing that being arrested has no consequences on a person and that governments would never use information beyond the scope it was originally collected under.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that there are very few convictions ? If that is the case, then the scheme is worthless.
Or are you saying that after being convicted, people are fined instead of given a custodial sentence? Because in that case, the camera system is working but the judiciary are letting the people down.
I see lots of people calling netflix stupid and laughing about the fact that they're dying. And maybe they have made some bad decisions, but last time I visited the USA, most of my friends there were very happy with them, so they clearly know how to please people.
But here's the question - if your raw materials costs rose by 5x from one financial year to the next, how would you handle it?
To compound the problem that you'd have, you've been running for quite a few years, and you've captured as much of the market as you're likely to in the short to medium term.
How would you go about keeping your company alive under these circumstances ?
Before the iPhone, you were not the customer - the carrier was. Phones were designed to satisfy the carriers. The iPhone changed that in that the manufacturer retained rights over what they (and by extension their users) could do with the phone instead of all of those rights residing with the carrier.
Before the first iPhone left the first shelf, the iPhone had already changed the mobile phone market forever.
When you are king, will you learn the difference between capitol and capital? Or is that lack of understanding just one of the causes behind you not already reigning ?
A significant percentage of all UK citizens already are law breakers. It's against the law to format shift here (rip a CD to mp3 for example) yet millions of people here own mp3 players.
I remember when I was about 6 episodes behind in the TV show lost and while browsing Digg, I saw an article titled 'Why Charlie had to die at the end of the series'
I'd been avoiding reading all articles about it, but a headline can spoil something just as effectively as a story.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, I've been through similar things with losing people in the past, and the contents of their mail folder was invaluable.
When you're dealing with overworked groups with lots of project and day-to-day work in a large organisation, there is often a need to at the very least find out everything that a person was working on and who they were talking to. Just the sent items can be a boon to this!
It's part of being a professional I guess. My company trust me with a certain amount of work and I believe that should get that work, even if I'm not in a position to give it to them at the time.
A less extreme example - I always try and do very solid handovers before I take a vacation. But what if something comes up that they need to get more detail on? If they know where and how I file stuff, they don't end up disappointing themselves by trying to call me.
I don't just file for myself, I file in case I get hit by a bus.
To expect my work colleagues to work out what search terms to use is unreasonable. But if everything is filed by topic and by date, they'll be easily able to jump in and find relevant info and come up to speed quickly.
Didn't Sony make one that started without MP3 and only added that later ?
The UK isn't like that. They can't just decide to get rid of you. We actually have laws to protect humans here.
Whooosh !
When last was the doctrine of laches used to successfully defend against a patent case? And how often has it been successful?
I thought so...
Now, when was the last time that the doctrine of laches was successfully used to stop a patent attack ?
They're hardly 'following in the footsteps of Apple and Microsoft' - Apple spent a fortune on the design of their stores to maximise the amount of time punters spend and maximise the opportunity to convert browsers to sales. I'm pretty sure MS did the same.
Google have setup a stall in the back of someone else's shop (and a chain that is very poorly regarded to boot!). That's not _quite_ the same thing.
This ^
That's my real problem with it. People bought it and had it on their hardware. It was then remotely deleted.
How is deleting something that I've bought from hardware that I own different than coming into my home and reclaiming a physical object that I bought ?
The IP industries can't have it both ways. If they want to treat bytes as property when it comes to infringement, they have to accept their own world view when it comes to trying to take products back.
In many cases, no, it isn't. If you're working on 80k now and you take a job at 42k, when the economy recovers you're going to face a fight to get back to what you were on.
The headhunters are calling you to pad out their CV collection rate. This is part of their job. That doesn't mean that there is a single job actually there for any of these calls.
And that makes it OK ?
B&N can't break into my house and take a book back because they didn't have the rights to distribute it. Neither should Amazon be able to.
where I find the presence of CCTV reassuring.
Why?
Given that CCTV is more likely to help catch the gray blob that attacked you than it is to stop the gray blob from attacking you, why does it reassure you ?
Also, how reassured are you by the number of times crucial CCTV footage has not been available due to camera faults, retention issues or pure lack of maintenance? Next, how do you feel about the quality of the average CCTV image issued? Finally, how reassuring do you find that fact that the police often refuse to review CCTV footage as part of a case due to costs involved?
I have this rock that keeps away tigers. I could let you have it for a good price!
If you really want to see how eager people are to give up their freedoms, have a look at this link on a bike forum:
http://londonbikers.com/forums/871716/the-intruder-killed-in-manchester
Regular people there are arguing that it is the right thing to do to keep DNA of innocent people on file forever if they are arrested (not charged).
They're arguing that you should always arrest someone who acts in self defence just to be sure that they really were defending themselves and not a murder.
They're arguing that being arrested has no consequences on a person and that governments would never use information beyond the scope it was originally collected under.
It boggles my mind!
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that there are very few convictions ? If that is the case, then the scheme is worthless.
Or are you saying that after being convicted, people are fined instead of given a custodial sentence? Because in that case, the camera system is working but the judiciary are letting the people down.
I see lots of people calling netflix stupid and laughing about the fact that they're dying. And maybe they have made some bad decisions, but last time I visited the USA, most of my friends there were very happy with them, so they clearly know how to please people.
But here's the question - if your raw materials costs rose by 5x from one financial year to the next, how would you handle it?
To compound the problem that you'd have, you've been running for quite a few years, and you've captured as much of the market as you're likely to in the short to medium term.
How would you go about keeping your company alive under these circumstances ?
Before the iPhone, you were not the customer - the carrier was. Phones were designed to satisfy the carriers. The iPhone changed that in that the manufacturer retained rights over what they (and by extension their users) could do with the phone instead of all of those rights residing with the carrier.
Before the first iPhone left the first shelf, the iPhone had already changed the mobile phone market forever.
When you are king, will you learn the difference between capitol and capital? Or is that lack of understanding just one of the causes behind you not already reigning ?
You've clearly not been in a London cab in a while - there are no bounds on rudeness.
All of them ? I've got a Brother all-in-one device that includes a sheet-feeder on the top.
Completely irrelevant. I mean, they're just the most popular image sharing and image related social provider on the web today (flickr).
A significant percentage of all UK citizens already are law breakers. It's against the law to format shift here (rip a CD to mp3 for example) yet millions of people here own mp3 players.
That's not true. Firefox 5 to Firefox 6 still breaks the 1Password plugin and you have to reinstall.
I remember when I was about 6 episodes behind in the TV show lost and while browsing Digg, I saw an article titled 'Why Charlie had to die at the end of the series'
I'd been avoiding reading all articles about it, but a headline can spoil something just as effectively as a story.