My general coping methodology is to identify my concerns (expressed in terms of business consequences) but ultimately, I will defer to the legitimate authority of the client who is retaining us and cope as well as I can.
There is always the possibility that:
(a) You could be wrong (b) Your client's position is formed on the basis of additional information you don't have to hand.
On the other hand, that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep some sort of mutually visible (and emotively neutral!) audit trail of your concerns as a CYA mechanism:-)
It's most likely componentry casing vibrating in response to the ebb and flow of electricity within it. This energy dissipates as heat causing minute expansions and contractions on the device casing in accordance with this ebb and flow. This can in turn, vibrate the air around it. On digital processing devices, the aggregate amount of energy inside the device is often a coefficient of what that device is doing. Some CPU intensive activities will result in energy waveforms that fall within the audible spectrum.
I used to work in a hardware lab designing laserprinter controllers when I was younger and had spookily good hearing (wrecked it using Pink Floyd). As a consequence, I could freak out the older engineers by "hearing" when a controller card was busy.
Dear World,
Don't underestimate the power of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. This was the ONE organisation on the planet that stared down Epson Inc. on their global (mis)claims on their inkjet performance. For those who don't know or remember, Epson blinked.
Their statutory abilities include fining corporations amounts that REALLY hurt and targeting directors of offending companies to the tune of A$50,000 (US$25,000) per day, per offence.
Yes folks, dry-cleaners to the corporates know when the ACCC calls but like any public institution, PR matters....
ceo@accc.gov.au
Vote soon, vote often... If you happen to be American, vote anyway. We're a very multicultural bunch down here:-)
We might be a mouse be we can still roar and I think one good roar may be all region coding needs to come tumbling down...
This isn't new. I was working in London just as the yuppy thing was teetering into recession at the very end of the 1980s. Lay-offs were starting. Highest marks for creativity went to the Financial trading house that wanted/needed to unload a bunch of employees and were worried that their feelings for their soon-to-be-ex staff might be reciprocated. Answer? They called a fire drill. When everybody was out of the building, security guards passed the personal effects of the chosen few out through some windows.. Gotta love Thatcher's Britain...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is a vigorous body that backed by powerful Australian trade practices law (the infamous Trade Practices Act), has proven itself on previous occasions to be unafraid of tackling multinational organisations in the name of consumer rights.
It was the ACCC that stared down Epson forcing them to revise globally campaigned performance claims for inkjet printers.
A disturbing ambivalence in the ACCC press release pertaining to DVD regional encoding related to their concern with consumer awareness as opposed to the obvious inequities in the encoding philosophy itself.
My faith remains however in the ACCC's proven ability to influence global trade practices out of all proportion to the size of the Australian population and its willingness to respond to consumer pressure.
www.accc.gov.au
Email your support soon and often...
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This happens regularly to me.
:-)
My general coping methodology is to identify my concerns (expressed in terms of business consequences) but ultimately, I will defer to the legitimate authority of the client who is retaining us and cope as well as I can.
There is always the possibility that:
(a) You could be wrong
(b) Your client's position is formed on the basis of additional information you don't have to hand.
On the other hand, that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep some sort of mutually visible (and emotively neutral!) audit trail of your concerns as a CYA mechanism
It's most likely componentry casing vibrating in response to the ebb and flow of electricity within it. This energy dissipates as heat causing minute expansions and contractions on the device casing in accordance with this ebb and flow. This can in turn, vibrate the air around it. On digital processing devices, the aggregate amount of energy inside the device is often a coefficient of what that device is doing. Some CPU intensive activities will result in energy waveforms that fall within the audible spectrum.
I used to work in a hardware lab designing laserprinter controllers when I was younger and had spookily good hearing (wrecked it using Pink Floyd). As a consequence, I could freak out the older engineers by "hearing" when a controller card was busy.
YMMV...
Dear World, Don't underestimate the power of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. This was the ONE organisation on the planet that stared down Epson Inc. on their global (mis)claims on their inkjet performance. For those who don't know or remember, Epson blinked. Their statutory abilities include fining corporations amounts that REALLY hurt and targeting directors of offending companies to the tune of A$50,000 (US$25,000) per day, per offence. Yes folks, dry-cleaners to the corporates know when the ACCC calls but like any public institution, PR matters.... ceo@accc.gov.au Vote soon, vote often... If you happen to be American, vote anyway. We're a very multicultural bunch down here :-)
We might be a mouse be we can still roar and I think one good roar may be all region coding needs to come tumbling down...
This isn't new. I was working in London just as the yuppy thing was teetering into recession at the very end of the 1980s. Lay-offs were starting. Highest marks for creativity went to the Financial trading house that wanted/needed to unload a bunch of employees and were worried that their feelings for their soon-to-be-ex staff might be reciprocated. Answer? They called a fire drill. When everybody was out of the building, security guards passed the personal effects of the chosen few out through some windows.. Gotta love Thatcher's Britain...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is a vigorous body that backed by powerful Australian trade practices law (the infamous Trade Practices Act), has proven itself on previous occasions to be unafraid of tackling multinational organisations in the name of consumer rights. It was the ACCC that stared down Epson forcing them to revise globally campaigned performance claims for inkjet printers. A disturbing ambivalence in the ACCC press release pertaining to DVD regional encoding related to their concern with consumer awareness as opposed to the obvious inequities in the encoding philosophy itself. My faith remains however in the ACCC's proven ability to influence global trade practices out of all proportion to the size of the Australian population and its willingness to respond to consumer pressure. www.accc.gov.au Email your support soon and often...
A product that has no consumer benefit must fail. I apologise for using "wisdom" and "Movie company" in the same sentence.