Has the evolution of technology in the workplace (computer, internet, email, etc...), which is suppose to make your job easier, made it any less stressful? If so, how? If not, why?
My work is to fix the problems that arose due to the evolution of technology in workplace. So, my stress is directly a result of it. You probably would have to refocus the question. Say, something like, How do people respond to technological changes at workplace? and then take specific examples and go all the way...
Assuming you have refocussed, here's my story:
technological changes themselves aren't the stressful part. Dealing with people around you who are trying to agjust to the technological changes is the stressful part. Ask any call center guy. You may also recall this discussion on/. recently about Tech Support.
as mentioned many times in the interviews, most of the people (including those in IT) in India (and other developing countries) work to earn a living. OpenSource projects will flourish when the developers would not have to worry about their next meal. I am exaggerating, but you get the point.
As for Japan, the answer is LANGUAGE.
The 'they' in your question like free knowledge exchange, by the way. So would a sensible person of any culture. It all boils down to affordability. There is surely no lack of willingness.
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Yes. The Sun is going around the Earth in your Universe. If you are uncomfortable understanding, you are more harmful to your world than you think.
And, understanding may increase the love you feel for your fiancee. Knowledge never goes too far. Fools without it do.
The loss of beauty due to science is the theme you are harping to (and, apparently many others are feeling the same way since you have been modded up). I recommend "Unweaving the Rainbow" by Dawkins. And, some of Feynman's quotes about beauty in science.
* Any individual or company can download the hardware specification, PCB layout details, the bill of materials, etc., henceforth called "Specifications" free of charge. The act of doing so binds the individual or company to the SGPL.
* Any derivative work has to come back to the Trust to allow for further dissemination. To allow the commercial exploitation of the derived work, a one year delay in putting back the derived work is permitted. This does not however preclude others from independently engineering a similar derivative work during this period.
* Any derivative work is subsumed as Specifications and hence, they are also governed by this same license.
* The word "Simputer(TM)" is trademarked and cannot be used without the permission of the Trust. If an individual or company is interested in using the word "Simputer(TM)" in conjunction with their products, they can do so only if their product conforms to certain rules that will be put up on the trust website (and which may undergo periodic revision). The product has to provide a visual clue to attest it being a Simputer by way of displaying a logo issued by the Trust.
* While recognizing the possibility of using the Specifications in application other than as a Simputer, the License deems that such derived work be called "Simputerized" products. The product description should state that the product is "Simputerized" and provide a visual clue on the product by way of displaying a logo issued by the Trust.
* Any commercial exploitation of the Specifications (whether Simputer or Simputerized) involves a nominal one time payment to the Trust. The payment will be $25,000 for developing countries and $250,000 for developed countries.
had feature called "The Race Is On" by Jonathan Seef. The comparison was between G5 and PC's with opteron. The PCs seemed to fare better in most of the tests (photoshop, word, quake, premiere, mp3-encoding, mpeg-2 encoding). Mac seemed to be better only with the DVD creation. By the way, I use Powerbook G4.
Anyone's got a link for the article ?
You wonder correctly. I worked with a few bollywood folks while at college(television and scripting) so I know what I am saying below.
At the level of national and international distributors kazaa and internet is another avenue to tap the NRI(non resident Indian) market. This is substancial since the exchange rate of rupee always ensures a higher ROI on Indian films made in India and distributed elsewhere.
As for the people in India, with the increasing prices of movie tickets most of the folks can only afford one movie a month (say, a family of 4 with an annual income of $500, it's probably about 20% of the population). They are not even in the scene as props. Amen.
Please reflect upon your statement. If you aren't older than him, perhaps you can change your path and others and we all could wave past senile old men to a better future.
By now much would have been said about your brilliant logic and conclusions. So am not gonna pick you on that.
am gonna pick you on your sig. I am very pissed-off with your sig because you are questioning my basic slashdot virtue.
I've harped this dossinant chord elsewhere. I will do so here too. Within company should be company's work. Outside company should be no company work then. If I learn a mind-blowing algorithm outside the company that may save millions if used within the company, should I use it? Or because I learnt it outside on my own time that the company is not paying for, should I desist from using it?
I dunno about other industries, but for software, company time, personal time are all just plain dumb way of looking at things. I am not defining anything here so don't look for one. I am just pointing out the way our workplace and work ethos are structured seems out of place and irrelevant.
You are misleading. Gelernter's research thesis is Organization of data based on timeline and he calls them LifeStreams. It is a fascinating concept. It is very unlike RDBMS (conceptually, it may need a RDBMS implementation underneath but that's not the point) as a poster has mentioned above.
Have used it for a while. My blog on that reads
1. hmm... needs a beginners tutorial.. I have read about Gelernter's research earlier.Even then I found the first steps a bit hard.. a helping hand is much appreciated.
2. Tried Recent docs stream ordered by time and Scopeware Vision showed me a stream of thumbnails it created a few minutes ago for other docs! Well, you shouldn't swallow your own tail! Any thumbnails Scopeware creates should not get dumped into the stream. A reasonable request. Isn't it?
This line of thought has a flaw. Suppose, I have found an incredible algorithm "on my own time" that would save my company a few millions. Should I use it in the company. If the company says, on "company time" no other thing to be done, then I would refrain from using what I found on "my own time" within the company.
Knowledge worker should not be bound by "his time" and "company time". He should be bound by "Deliverables". Current Employee-Employer contracts are anachronisms in the new reality.
Here's the list again
On The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
Climbing mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the rainbow, Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
Billions & Billions, Carl Sagan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
http://www.wikipedia.org
Six Easy Pieces, Feynman
Figments of Reality
On The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
Climbing mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the rainbow, Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
Billions & Billions, Carl Sagan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
http://www.wikipedia.org
Six Easy Pieces, Feynman
Figments of Reality
Your definition of religion is debatable. Happiness is a state of the mind and anyone whos smart enough to put himself/herself into that state and maintain it would be happy. But, then is that what everyone is craving for? I dunno. I wish for a better living condition for millions of poor people although that makes me unhappy.
Happiness is not an end in itself. Buddhist or no buddhist.
Alright. One question. How did you get interested in Science and started understanding it? (not sure if you did, still, hypothetically speaking...)
Don't be a jerk. And thank you for reminding everyone how not to be.
The society is coming to eat it's own shit. Society created these 'media' and 'pop culture'. Oh, by the way, I am not talking just about the American Pop Culture. It's a phenomenon happening world over with US leading the pack.
I think this is an issue that was waiting to break free. We have attained a critical number in the number of software and IT projects that the management side of the business is caught with it's pants down. There is very little innovation or excellence in technical management staff. They are ill-prepared for their new roles. Big problems ahead. Everybody blow the whistle loud.
alright. am convinced of your argument. have you patented your idea yet ? (am on my way to the patents office, by the way )
i fancy that we'd see a real big smile on Stallman's face if he reads this/. discussion.
i found the Knowledge Navigator interface in Encyclopedia Brittanica more intuitive and useful than Kartoo... if we can compare the internet to an encyclopedia in some way, then perhaps, Kartoo and TouchGraph have something to learn from the Enc. Brit. UI
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Has the evolution of technology in the workplace (computer, internet, email, etc...), which is suppose to make your job easier, made it any less stressful? If so, how? If not, why?
/. recently about Tech Support.
My work is to fix the problems that arose due to the evolution of technology in workplace. So, my stress is directly a result of it. You probably would have to refocus the question. Say, something like, How do people respond to technological changes at workplace? and then take specific examples and go all the way...
Assuming you have refocussed, here's my story: technological changes themselves aren't the stressful part. Dealing with people around you who are trying to agjust to the technological changes is the stressful part. Ask any call center guy. You may also recall this discussion on
Unfortunate that this post is going way down. anyway, here's what I have to say.
is here.
as mentioned many times in the interviews, most of the people (including those in IT) in India (and other developing countries) work to earn a living. OpenSource projects will flourish when the developers would not have to worry about their next meal. I am exaggerating, but you get the point.
As for Japan, the answer is LANGUAGE.
The 'they' in your question like free knowledge exchange, by the way. So would a sensible person of any culture. It all boils down to affordability. There is surely no lack of willingness.
Yes. The Sun is going around the Earth in your Universe. If you are uncomfortable understanding, you are more harmful to your world than you think.
And, understanding may increase the love you feel for your fiancee. Knowledge never goes too far. Fools without it do.
The loss of beauty due to science is the theme you are harping to (and, apparently many others are feeling the same way since you have been modded up). I recommend "Unweaving the Rainbow" by Dawkins. And, some of Feynman's quotes about beauty in science.
Another instance of opensource-like license . The Simputer General Public License
Highlights of SGPL
* Any individual or company can download the hardware specification, PCB layout details, the bill of materials, etc., henceforth called "Specifications" free of charge. The act of doing so binds the individual or company to the SGPL.
* Any derivative work has to come back to the Trust to allow for further dissemination. To allow the commercial exploitation of the derived work, a one year delay in putting back the derived work is permitted. This does not however preclude others from independently engineering a similar derivative work during this period.
* Any derivative work is subsumed as Specifications and hence, they are also governed by this same license.
* The word "Simputer(TM)" is trademarked and cannot be used without the permission of the Trust. If an individual or company is interested in using the word "Simputer(TM)" in conjunction with their products, they can do so only if their product conforms to certain rules that will be put up on the trust website (and which may undergo periodic revision). The product has to provide a visual clue to attest it being a Simputer by way of displaying a logo issued by the Trust.
* While recognizing the possibility of using the Specifications in application other than as a Simputer, the License deems that such derived work be called "Simputerized" products. The product description should state that the product is "Simputerized" and provide a visual clue on the product by way of displaying a logo issued by the Trust.
* Any commercial exploitation of the Specifications (whether Simputer or Simputerized) involves a nominal one time payment to the Trust. The payment will be $25,000 for developing countries and $250,000 for developed countries.
had feature called "The Race Is On" by Jonathan Seef. The comparison was between G5 and PC's with opteron. The PCs seemed to fare better in most of the tests (photoshop, word, quake, premiere, mp3-encoding, mpeg-2 encoding). Mac seemed to be better only with the DVD creation. By the way, I use Powerbook G4. Anyone's got a link for the article ?
You wonder correctly. I worked with a few bollywood folks while at college(television and scripting) so I know what I am saying below.
At the level of national and international distributors kazaa and internet is another avenue to tap the NRI(non resident Indian) market. This is substancial since the exchange rate of rupee always ensures a higher ROI on Indian films made in India and distributed elsewhere.
As for the people in India, with the increasing prices of movie tickets most of the folks can only afford one movie a month (say, a family of 4 with an annual income of $500, it's probably about 20% of the population). They are not even in the scene as props. Amen.
Please reflect upon your statement. If you aren't older than him, perhaps you can change your path and others and we all could wave past senile old men to a better future.
By now much would have been said about your brilliant logic and conclusions. So am not gonna pick you on that.
am gonna pick you on your sig. I am very pissed-off with your sig because you are questioning my basic slashdot virtue.
Yes. And his Indian replcament has asked for a better compensation and a Linux box. They've agreed in principle.
I've harped this dossinant chord elsewhere. I will do so here too. Within company should be company's work. Outside company should be no company work then. If I learn a mind-blowing algorithm outside the company that may save millions if used within the company, should I use it? Or because I learnt it outside on my own time that the company is not paying for, should I desist from using it?
I dunno about other industries, but for software, company time, personal time are all just plain dumb way of looking at things. I am not defining anything here so don't look for one. I am just pointing out the way our workplace and work ethos are structured seems out of place and irrelevant.
You are misleading. Gelernter's research thesis is Organization of data based on timeline and he calls them LifeStreams. It is a fascinating concept. It is very unlike RDBMS (conceptually, it may need a RDBMS implementation underneath but that's not the point) as a poster has mentioned above.
Have used it for a while. My blog on that reads
1. hmm... needs a beginners tutorial.. I have read about Gelernter's research earlier.Even then I found the first steps a bit hard.. a helping hand is much appreciated.
2. Tried Recent docs stream ordered by time and Scopeware Vision showed me a stream of thumbnails it created a few minutes ago for other docs! Well, you shouldn't swallow your own tail! Any thumbnails Scopeware creates should not get dumped into the stream. A reasonable request. Isn't it?
I agree. And, sometimes the middle class also has a sizeable
"Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means."
An interesting paper on Quantumlike Chaos in the Frequency Distributions of the Bases A, C, G, T in human chromosome.
This line of thought has a flaw. Suppose, I have found an incredible algorithm "on my own time" that would save my company a few millions. Should I use it in the company. If the company says, on "company time" no other thing to be done, then I would refrain from using what I found on "my own time" within the company.
Knowledge worker should not be bound by "his time" and "company time". He should be bound by "Deliverables". Current Employee-Employer contracts are anachronisms in the new reality.
Grrh... damn my flaky keyboard..
Here's the list again
On The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
Climbing mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the rainbow, Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
Billions & Billions, Carl Sagan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
http://www.wikipedia.org
Six Easy Pieces, Feynman
Figments of Reality
On The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin Climbing mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins Unweaving the rainbow, Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins Billions & Billions, Carl Sagan The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams http://www.wikipedia.org Six Easy Pieces, Feynman Figments of Reality
Your definition of religion is debatable. Happiness is a state of the mind and anyone whos smart enough to put himself/herself into that state and maintain it would be happy. But, then is that what everyone is craving for? I dunno. I wish for a better living condition for millions of poor people although that makes me unhappy.
Happiness is not an end in itself. Buddhist or no buddhist.
Alright. One question. How did you get interested in Science and started understanding it? (not sure if you did, still, hypothetically speaking...)
Don't be a jerk. And thank you for reminding everyone how not to be.
The society is coming to eat it's own shit. Society created these 'media' and 'pop culture'. Oh, by the way, I am not talking just about the American Pop Culture. It's a phenomenon happening world over with US leading the pack.
I think this is an issue that was waiting to break free. We have attained a critical number in the number of software and IT projects that the management side of the business is caught with it's pants down. There is very little innovation or excellence in technical management staff. They are ill-prepared for their new roles. Big problems ahead. Everybody blow the whistle loud.
alright. am convinced of your argument. have you patented your idea yet ? (am on my way to the patents office, by the way ) /. discussion.
i fancy that we'd see a real big smile on Stallman's face if he reads this
i found the Knowledge Navigator interface in Encyclopedia Brittanica more intuitive and useful than Kartoo... if we can compare the internet to an encyclopedia in some way, then perhaps, Kartoo and TouchGraph have something to learn from the Enc. Brit. UI