No, our employers are only responding to our own request for more coffee, and seven more people is just too many for our current drip filter.
Coffee on a warm plate tends to deteriorate through the day anyway, meaning someone will brew another pot. After grinding, new filter, waiting for enough to drip through for a cup, it all takes time, and we don't want to be wasting time for a cup.:-)
As for decaf, etc... no one is interested, and they can do it all with instant anyway.
Outsourcing has 2 problems:
More expensive in the long run. We'd rather just spend the money now.
We are in Brisbane. ie. There are no such workplace coffee companies. (we miss out on a lot here. We can't even get Nerf ammo for goodness sake!)
A free vending machine has possibilities, but I'm skeptical of the quality of the brew.
I noticed a news article this morning on Australia's road toll. It refers to the period 0001 December 22 to 2359 January 7. I can only assume that those dates were computer generated.
Do not write to the lowest common denominator! Write to a higher standard and let the public rise to it! Hear, hear! There are numerous other problems with newspapers as well. The information is rarely current. News stories are generally quite old by the time a paper is published, and yet the paper does not add significantly to the information available. Where then is the value? Newspapers are notorious for getting details incorrect. Whether it be a date, a name or whatever, what is the value of this information if it isn't correct? Here is a typical example: Recently my home town was mentioned on the front page of our statewide newspaper. The establishment date of the town was given as 1912. As a child in school I participated in celebrating the town's centenary in 1977! My grandmother was born in a house in the middle of town in 1911! The newspaper had this date wrong by several decades. Why bother to publish it if they couldn't get it right? Then there are the more general stories. Details are rarely present. Whether the story is about crime, health, hard drives, or quantum physics, we are given discussions and opinions, but not detailed hard facts. Occasionally figures are quoted, but not with enough detail to make these figures meaningful. The information is often incomplete, misleading, or incorrect, and almost always out of date. One of our national papers has a weekly technology section which I used to enjoy reading. Once I spent more time getting my news from the net I discovered that none of the interesting stories were less that 2 weeks old! The stories often glossed over the facts, and were confusing through their omissions. Simply copying newstories from the net would have made this info more timely and factual! So where was the value of the newspaper? When I purchase the paper I am saying that I have the time to read a significant amount of information, and to read it carefully. Brief, uninformed, and incorrect stories are of little value to me. The information should be timely, and when it can't be then it should be very carefully researched. This means that the authors should be knowledgable in the field they are reporting, even if the field is complex. The information should also be as complete as possible, hopefully with details on where to get more data if the reader requires it. One simple way of doing this might be a complementary web site for some stories. This could allow further details to be included as they came to light. These comprise a real wishlist of what I would like to see from a newspaper. I don't expect to see them all. However I would certainly expect to see newspapers strive to achieve them.
10 years ago I used WordPerfect and Lotus to produce reports and spreadsheets on an XT. Today I need a Pentium to do the same sort of work with most office products, even though what I produce isn't a lot different.
It seems that our software is becoming far more demanding of our hardware, and yet the rise in functionality has not kept up (don't get me wrong - databases, scientific computing and games have all benefited, but most offices don't use these applications). Open Source software would appear to offer a solution, in that people could find the inefficiencies and eliminate them, however this does not often occur. Sure, the Linux kernel is fast, but have you tried to run Enlightenment or KOffice?
Do you feel this is an issue which should be addressed, or do you see the availability of ever faster hardware as the solution?
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As for decaf, etc... no one is interested, and they can do it all with instant anyway.
Outsourcing has 2 problems:
- More expensive in the long run. We'd rather just spend the money now.
- We are in Brisbane. ie. There are no such workplace coffee companies. (we miss out on a lot here. We can't even get Nerf ammo for goodness sake!)
A free vending machine has possibilities, but I'm skeptical of the quality of the brew.We are in Australia. Dew doesn't come caffeinated here. :-(
I noticed a news article this morning on Australia's road toll. It refers to the period 0001 December 22 to 2359 January 7. I can only assume that those dates were computer generated.
Do not write to the lowest common denominator! Write to a higher standard and let the public rise to it! Hear, hear! There are numerous other problems with newspapers as well. The information is rarely current. News stories are generally quite old by the time a paper is published, and yet the paper does not add significantly to the information available. Where then is the value? Newspapers are notorious for getting details incorrect. Whether it be a date, a name or whatever, what is the value of this information if it isn't correct? Here is a typical example: Recently my home town was mentioned on the front page of our statewide newspaper. The establishment date of the town was given as 1912. As a child in school I participated in celebrating the town's centenary in 1977! My grandmother was born in a house in the middle of town in 1911! The newspaper had this date wrong by several decades. Why bother to publish it if they couldn't get it right? Then there are the more general stories. Details are rarely present. Whether the story is about crime, health, hard drives, or quantum physics, we are given discussions and opinions, but not detailed hard facts. Occasionally figures are quoted, but not with enough detail to make these figures meaningful. The information is often incomplete, misleading, or incorrect, and almost always out of date. One of our national papers has a weekly technology section which I used to enjoy reading. Once I spent more time getting my news from the net I discovered that none of the interesting stories were less that 2 weeks old! The stories often glossed over the facts, and were confusing through their omissions. Simply copying newstories from the net would have made this info more timely and factual! So where was the value of the newspaper? When I purchase the paper I am saying that I have the time to read a significant amount of information, and to read it carefully. Brief, uninformed, and incorrect stories are of little value to me. The information should be timely, and when it can't be then it should be very carefully researched. This means that the authors should be knowledgable in the field they are reporting, even if the field is complex. The information should also be as complete as possible, hopefully with details on where to get more data if the reader requires it. One simple way of doing this might be a complementary web site for some stories. This could allow further details to be included as they came to light. These comprise a real wishlist of what I would like to see from a newspaper. I don't expect to see them all. However I would certainly expect to see newspapers strive to achieve them.
10 years ago I used WordPerfect and Lotus to produce reports and spreadsheets on an XT. Today I need a Pentium to do the same sort of work with most office products, even though what I produce isn't a lot different.
It seems that our software is becoming far more demanding of our hardware, and yet the rise in functionality has not kept up (don't get me wrong - databases, scientific computing and games have all benefited, but most offices don't use these applications). Open Source software would appear to offer a solution, in that people could find the inefficiencies and eliminate them, however this does not often occur. Sure, the Linux kernel is fast, but have you tried to run Enlightenment or KOffice?
Do you feel this is an issue which should be addressed, or do you see the availability of ever faster hardware as the solution?
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