I suggest you beta test it with the end user and see what they have to say. Remember that THEY will be the ones that will have to use it on a day-to-day basis.
It seems to be a fait accompli that most businesses will accept IT bullshit, but the engineering companies (umm, people that build bridges and refineries, not engineering wannabees) are a lot less malleable when some computer specialist comes calling.
Every time I read the buggy whip analogy from someone that has a good-paying job I am reminded of Boston and tea for some reason. I'm one of those guys that realizes that a large part of the "white collar" workforce is pretty much daycare for adults.
Face it, high-paying jobs that are not manual labour-related are being eliminated by software (if not yours yet, just wait a bit) because 11 or 13 of the best thinkers sat down and figured out everything about your job and the best way to do it. Then they put all that stuff into software. Push buttons much?
Replacing manual labour is one thing; replacing your thought processes is another (after all, software designed by geniuses in your field can do a better job than you could ever do).
The sooner we come to terms with this the better. It's easier to ostritch though and assume that the displaced will all become rock stars or move onto the mythical future world where people can devote their energies towards inventing stuff and getting creative and get everyone else to make the stuff they imagineer.
I still don't know where I fit in in this new economy. Am I replaceable by a simple shell script as the T-shirt says, and if so, why am I working? To fulfill some antiquated. puritan-inspired notion of work ethic and keep my nose to the grindstone so that I please my masters?
Someone please enlighten me without referencing "want fries with that?" or saying that I (and millions of others) will just "move on to the idea economy". Everyone knows that there can only be so many idea people.
Bah, maybe I'm just being too pessimistic and should lighten-up.
I guess I'm from the cruder side of engineering where a carefully calibrated whack with a hammer to fix things is often good enough in the field (although if you wander around my website you'll see some interesting, complicated stuff).
I've always wondered if "piping design" is similar to motherboard circuit design. With the former there are multiple fluids/pressures/temperatures to contend with. PCB design would seem to be relatively simple, but what do I know?
After all, how hard can it actually be to fuss around with electri ==BBZORT!!==
Wow, it's cool to have a cell phone so that everyone around me knows that I'm important enough to have one.
I like to turn up the volume and use special ring tones. This further reinforces my already shaky self image which causes me to think about what other people might be thinking about me on the bus and especially that goddam driver that always leers at me like he knows something I don't and that other goddam bitch who...
So that is why I laugh so hard when some idiot says an advantage of commercial software is some type of corporate security blanket. Trust me, your vendor doesn't care and won't do anything to help you out of a jam when it is clearly the fault of their lousy software package.
I agree. The point I was trying to make was that management can always use the "but everyone else uses X software", sort of the "nobody-ever-got-fired-for-choosing-IBM" rationale.
The comporate policy seems to be that anything that costs lots of money must be fine while something which you can download from the internet cannot be anything but bad, inferior and buggy software.
No, it's all about having someone outside the company to blame when things go wrong.
Actually the ads aren't louder but they do have more impact. This is mostly due to sound compression, where the softer parts of the ads are raised a few decibels in order to reduce the dynamic range of the sound.
This is true; the commercials effectively turn the volume of your television up to 11.
Isn't it time we started using Apollo spacecraft computers as a reference baseline (eg. "Libraries of Congresses", "Volkswagon Beetles", "Metric Buttloads") for computing power or has this already been done?
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Jim McCoy's evaluation of the situation is undoubtedly correct.
Sorry, this comes viewpoint from a Canadian.
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I suggest you beta test it with the end user and see what they have to say. Remember that THEY will be the ones that will have to use it on a day-to-day basis.
It seems to be a fait accompli that most businesses will accept IT bullshit, but the engineering companies (umm, people that build bridges and refineries, not engineering wannabees) are a lot less malleable when some computer specialist comes calling.
Can't Irfanview do this?
Where's the MPEG version? I refuse to use Apple's nagware.
Neat! Maybe that means my askslashdot submission will be accepted!
"...We are seeing a race to the bottom..."
Sounds familiar...
Every time I read the buggy whip analogy from someone that has a good-paying job I am reminded of Boston and tea for some reason. I'm one of those guys that realizes that a large part of the "white collar" workforce is pretty much daycare for adults.
Face it, high-paying jobs that are not manual labour-related are being eliminated by software (if not yours yet, just wait a bit) because 11 or 13 of the best thinkers sat down and figured out everything about your job and the best way to do it. Then they put all that stuff into software. Push buttons much?
Replacing manual labour is one thing; replacing your thought processes is another (after all, software designed by geniuses in your field can do a better job than you could ever do).
The sooner we come to terms with this the better. It's easier to ostritch though and assume that the displaced will all become rock stars or move onto the mythical future world where people can devote their energies towards inventing stuff and getting creative and get everyone else to make the stuff they imagineer.
I still don't know where I fit in in this new economy. Am I replaceable by a simple shell script as the T-shirt says, and if so, why am I working? To fulfill some antiquated. puritan-inspired notion of work ethic and keep my nose to the grindstone so that I please my masters?
Someone please enlighten me without referencing "want fries with that?" or saying that I (and millions of others) will just "move on to the idea economy". Everyone knows that there can only be so many idea people.
Bah, maybe I'm just being too pessimistic and should lighten-up.
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No sig, Pepsi.
Military troop carrier
IMO, some of the coolest vehicules were the marines' air and land transport things in Aliens. And maybe that tank-like thing from UFO.
Point taken, and it is a good one.
I guess I'm from the cruder side of engineering where a carefully calibrated whack with a hammer to fix things is often good enough in the field (although if you wander around my website you'll see some interesting, complicated stuff).
I've always wondered if "piping design" is similar to motherboard circuit design. With the former there are multiple fluids/pressures/temperatures to contend with. PCB design would seem to be relatively simple, but what do I know?
After all, how hard can it actually be to fuss around with electri ==BBZORT!!==
Wow, it's cool to have a cell phone so that everyone around me knows that I'm important enough to have one.
I like to turn up the volume and use special ring tones. This further reinforces my already shaky self image which causes me to think about what other people might be thinking about me on the bus and especially that goddam driver that always leers at me like he knows something I don't and that other goddam bitch who...
Sorry.
So that is why I laugh so hard when some idiot says an advantage of commercial software is some type of corporate security blanket. Trust me, your vendor doesn't care and won't do anything to help you out of a jam when it is clearly the fault of their lousy software package.
I agree. The point I was trying to make was that management can always use the "but everyone else uses X software", sort of the "nobody-ever-got-fired-for-choosing-IBM" rationale.
Other rodent performance evaluation.
The comporate policy seems to be that anything that costs lots of money must be fine while something which you can download from the internet cannot be anything but bad, inferior and buggy software.
No, it's all about having someone outside the company to blame when things go wrong.
Actually the ads aren't louder but they do have more impact. This is mostly due to sound compression, where the softer parts of the ads are raised a few decibels in order to reduce the dynamic range of the sound.
This is true; the commercials effectively turn the volume of your television up to 11.
Batch pigging
Isn't it time we started using Apollo spacecraft computers as a reference baseline (eg. "Libraries of Congresses", "Volkswagon Beetles", "Metric Buttloads") for computing power or has this already been done?
Water is HEAVY -- seven pounds a gallon. We blow quite a bit of it just dragging it around
I always wondered why no one ever invented dehydrated water.
Did you mean "pot shot"?
What makes you think that news organizations have their customers' best interests at heart?
The entire idea of their *being* such a thing seems a little outdated to me.
Should the above-quoted statement contain the word "their" or "there"?
The producers of Scrabble should take a hint.
The producers of Scrabble should take a hint from who, the creators of the useless, flashy software or do you not know how to use the phrase?
Must be a bitch to take that shiny new 21 inch monitor home from the store.
I'd think that if you're spending ~$500 on a monitor you'd be able to afford a $20 taxi ride to get it home.
Excess energy [...] will go toward electrolosis for hydrogen production.
That's called peak shaving. BTW, isn't the FA about tidal power? When was the last time the tides failed to come in (or go out)?
Don't you mean the Bay of Fundy?
smoothbore made from two welded 16' naval guns
I think you mean 16", as in the diameter.
Great post.
Might this affect spelling as well?