Let me reply thusly. Why am I sending word docs? If they need to edit it, then get them to edit the wiki. If not, send them a pdf. They can't screw with the contents of one of those.
I can use margins in Word... but prefer to use indents and bullets in html.
Until the file format in office is not locked into the MS ecosystem corporations and myself will continue to use Windows/Office
You are therefore using Office for traditional reasons and not for any other. Thank you for confirming my last paragraph.
I don't know who modded me up either. I am however a cubicle dweller of 15 years, so have some experience in office environments. I do not gloat the lack of fax machine or email address. I do however have no requirement for an "Office Suite" (free or otherwise)
Windows will be around for a while... Just as Solaris is still kicking around. Just as there are breakouts of OS\2, just as there are still Novell networks. If Metro is just as classy as Vista, then there may well be ire from even those on the corporate treadmill.
Who needs office anymore? I need to create the odd document which I can do on the wiki we have at work. I need to create the odd database report which I do with various database tools and then export them to html. I need to send and receive email, again, a web interface seems to do the trick. Sometimes I need to present something to a group of people. I use a whiteboard. (I tend to prefer the smart boards)
The reason people use Office suites these days is more from tradition than need. Microsoft will not die, but they will recede. Metro will probably speed up the process.
I Program in vb because the code base I use is in vb. When I am the only monkey that has to read it, I tend to opt for C#. I may well be worthless, but the org I work for keeps paying me.
Advantages of the Apple iPhone. A very well tied together interface that allows you to do most things you would expect easily. Also a large number of available apps and media.
Advantages of Android. Choice. Pick your phone manufacturer. Pick your phone. Customise your interface to suit you. Then pick your apps. (Also a large library.) Media purchase is a little flaky. (I can't buy music from Google Play in Australia for instance. But can easily download from my computer.)
Advantages of base model phone. It Just Makes Calls. This means for a certain subset of the market, it does it's job well.
The Windows/Nokia alliance picks up on the well tied together interface. Few apps (whilst you have all the apps you need, you don't get all the apps you want.) Media is still problematic. Little choice in available phones. Too complex for base model phone people. The thing the WinFone lacks is a compelling reason.
If I recall from science (especially biology) a good portion of the high school curriculum was rote learning of cool stuff other people had done. Because of the timescales involved in evolutionary biology, it is a little impractical to do too much of the way of experiments in the term you are given to work in.
This means that kids are learning this stuff from other peoples results and are unable to test it themselves. Which is more "Scientific" theory, experiment, thesis OR reading some book that basically says "It happened like this!". Because now we have set up two books opposed to each other and no convenient way of proving or disproving one or the other. Therefore your science is taken on faith (because you can't prove it in the 9 week term) or you keep believing the faith of your forebears.
Move closer to work. If they are paying you an hourly rate for the first 8 hours, work 8 hours. If they want more, inform them that an overtime payment is traditional. Social lives are overrated, but handy for making connections to get a leg up. Your address book is more vauable than your CV.
I too work for the military industrial complex and have all those alpha types in my address books. If I see them doing dumb, they get an email pointing it out politely. (It's just possible they might not have thought of all the consequences.)
Guess what. I am in exactly the same boat, and choose to control my life. The workplace actually prefer me to only work 8 hours as I work all 8 of them and come back ready to do it again instead of thinking how tired I am. They don't mind me goofing off occasionally because the last time I did, I saved the section $3M per annum.
As for tuna and ramen? Take time out and have a real lunch. The time away from your desk is refreshing. The vitamins and minerals will do your body good.
CS6 is not available in some markets. And this is going to be a real killer for chunks of the corporate world. My pet artists are going to be on a sneakernet if they want to keep CS5 and are going to have to learn a new toolset in the meantime if they want to come back onto my network. (The one hooked up to the internet with support contracts and enterprise agreements and production web servers)
There is a reasonable technical way to police bit torrent. (watch torrent, determine torrents contents is your intellectual property, get list of IP addresses from the swarm, match those to users via ISP) But now the studios have to subpoena the ISPs with enough details to satisfy the ISPs legal departments then sue or prosecute the end users. The studio wanted the system where they got to shortcut the legal system at the expense of the ISP to punish the end user.
Basically the court said "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly. If it ain't worth doing, stop doing it."
I can't stand the idea of government taking someones money under threat of force
Pay tax much? Governments get to charge taxes because they have standing armies. This has been the way since the dawn of city states and will not change because you don't like it.
Usually you can only buy n tickets against a single name. So Scalper plus 3 "friends" are now in attendance. Now scalper needs to make 33% profit on each ticket to break even (assuming scalper sees no value in being at the show). If it is Plus 1... then Scalper needs to sell second ticket for 200% sales price. Much harder to do.
If the phone is reported stolen, make the carriers responsible for any calls made by the handset. The victim has done the right thing by reporting the theft.
Make it an economic penalty if the company refuses to take action. It's the language they understand. Get the courts to back up the victim and the problem will go away in weeks if not days.
And the 5 percent that do care care because they have just dropped and broken their shiny. Now they have to deal with the "It's warranty has been voided" spiel before they get the thing repaired. Of course this is done to encourage the consumer to buy shiny 2.0 (or 1.0s or whatever)
Given that accidents do happen there are going to be a lot of infuriated people without options if their friendly geek can't fix their shiny on the cheap and Apple won't. Each dropped Shiny will equal a lack of sales to that individual + bad word of mouth for 5 years.
It is a given that 95% don't care now. When 50% don't care Apple will have a problem.
especially today, when IP represents more of the US economy's value than it ever has previously.
So you have a bubble economy built on false value. You have two choices.
First of all, you defend that bubble with all your might, jumping on the fingers of anybody who dares touch your IP. This is what the current and future policy seems to be. It will cost you in contracts. It will cost more to enforce.
Or you lance that boil before someone else does and take the short term economic hit whilst developing new markets for products.
And this is what makes the best of the best. The ability to extract from the customer what they need and then be able to offer the best solution in the framework provided. The tech skills are only handy in the second part. The first requires great communication skills. Something that can be lacking in some IT workers.
The lunch contained (what passes for ) two fruit portions. (A banana and an apple juice) A grain portion (The bread) A vegetable portion (OK potato crisps are possibly pushing the envelope, but are vegetables all the same ) and a protein portion. (Turkey)
This lunch met the criteria of a "Healthy lunch" Chicken nuggets (on their own) only tick 2 boxes. (grain and protein)
Fail by some bureaucrat. Not fail by parent who seemed to provide a fairly sane lunch.
Considering the % of their revenue coming from non-personal computers, I'm surprised they haven't abandoned them.
The reason they have not abandoned them is because it allows people to buy their flashy new iDevice and pretend that it is good for business and therefore a business expense. If they entered the personal computer market as you say, then they become little more than games consoles with the patronage to match.
I'd monitor the other way. If a work is turning a profit, then let it remain in copyright. Hell. Make it an exponential fee. Register a work for $1 the first year, $2 the second. $4 the third. This means everything is cheap to protect it's initial release. It also means that come year 20 you better be making $2,000,000 to be breaking even. More works will slide out of copyright protection as soon as protecting it is going to cost you that much.
Performance? That would allow artists who have works that can be performed to be paid. Patronage? That would allow artists who have works that can be displayed to be paid. Sales of accompanying merchandise? "Like the painting? Buy the Coffee Cup" There is one for the print people.
I think a lot of the issues that "Artists" have is that all of the above means being beholden to something other than your muse. My art is my code. I sell it to an organization that supplies patronage to me. They get to tell me what the functionality is. I go away and create a beautiful thing that fulfills that functionality. Replace the word code with canvas and oils and the same applies.
Copyright as it stands today is about protecting multimedia empires, not protecting any of the artists.
There is much truth in this. My current unit (10 people) has had the same name for 15 years. Meanwhile the pyramid above has been through every permutation possible. People are still able to contact us because we did not let go of our name or branding.
Managers rarely have to produce a cost benefit analysis for name changes or Organisation chart changes. But they should. If you prove a profit in 12 months (the seeming time between reorganisations) then you can go ahead. Otherwise, No can do. Unfortunately managers don't bother with this step or do it in such a shoddy way as to ignore all the work required in a move.
This is the source of most Corporate ignorance that I can see.
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Let me reply thusly.
Why am I sending word docs? If they need to edit it, then get them to edit the wiki. If not, send them a pdf. They can't screw with the contents of one of those.
I can use margins in Word... but prefer to use indents and bullets in html.
Until the file format in office is not locked into the MS ecosystem corporations and myself will continue to use Windows/Office
You are therefore using Office for traditional reasons and not for any other. Thank you for confirming my last paragraph.
I don't know who modded me up either. I am however a cubicle dweller of 15 years, so have some experience in office environments. I do not gloat the lack of fax machine or email address. I do however have no requirement for an "Office Suite" (free or otherwise)
Windows will be around for a while... Just as Solaris is still kicking around. Just as there are breakouts of OS\2, just as there are still Novell networks. If Metro is just as classy as Vista, then there may well be ire from even those on the corporate treadmill.
Who needs office anymore?
I need to create the odd document which I can do on the wiki we have at work.
I need to create the odd database report which I do with various database tools and then export them to html.
I need to send and receive email, again, a web interface seems to do the trick.
Sometimes I need to present something to a group of people. I use a whiteboard. (I tend to prefer the smart boards)
The reason people use Office suites these days is more from tradition than need. Microsoft will not die, but they will recede. Metro will probably speed up the process.
I Program in vb because the code base I use is in vb. When I am the only monkey that has to read it, I tend to opt for C#. I may well be worthless, but the org I work for keeps paying me.
Advantages of the Apple iPhone. A very well tied together interface that allows you to do most things you would expect easily. Also a large number of available apps and media.
Advantages of Android. Choice. Pick your phone manufacturer. Pick your phone. Customise your interface to suit you. Then pick your apps. (Also a large library.) Media purchase is a little flaky. (I can't buy music from Google Play in Australia for instance. But can easily download from my computer.)
Advantages of base model phone. It Just Makes Calls. This means for a certain subset of the market, it does it's job well.
The Windows/Nokia alliance picks up on the well tied together interface. Few apps (whilst you have all the apps you need, you don't get all the apps you want.) Media is still problematic. Little choice in available phones. Too complex for base model phone people. The thing the WinFone lacks is a compelling reason.
Yes. Provided they are running it on the OS and version you specify. With the supporting software versions you specify. On the chipsets you specify.
Any changes or if they fail to install appropriate security patches and all bets are off.
By the way. Only support defects and not Requests for Change. (They can want a new feature enough to pay for it.)
If I recall from science (especially biology) a good portion of the high school curriculum was rote learning of cool stuff other people had done. Because of the timescales involved in evolutionary biology, it is a little impractical to do too much of the way of experiments in the term you are given to work in.
This means that kids are learning this stuff from other peoples results and are unable to test it themselves. Which is more "Scientific" theory, experiment, thesis OR reading some book that basically says "It happened like this!". Because now we have set up two books opposed to each other and no convenient way of proving or disproving one or the other. Therefore your science is taken on faith (because you can't prove it in the 9 week term) or you keep believing the faith of your forebears.
Move closer to work. If they are paying you an hourly rate for the first 8 hours, work 8 hours. If they want more, inform them that an overtime payment is traditional. Social lives are overrated, but handy for making connections to get a leg up. Your address book is more vauable than your CV.
I too work for the military industrial complex and have all those alpha types in my address books. If I see them doing dumb, they get an email pointing it out politely. (It's just possible they might not have thought of all the consequences.)
Guess what. I am in exactly the same boat, and choose to control my life. The workplace actually prefer me to only work 8 hours as I work all 8 of them and come back ready to do it again instead of thinking how tired I am. They don't mind me goofing off occasionally because the last time I did, I saved the section $3M per annum.
As for tuna and ramen? Take time out and have a real lunch. The time away from your desk is refreshing. The vitamins and minerals will do your body good.
QUIT WHINGEING AND TAKE CONTROL
Yes, but you get to charge them for that and make them pay for their antibiotics...
CS6 is not available in some markets. And this is going to be a real killer for chunks of the corporate world. My pet artists are going to be on a sneakernet if they want to keep CS5 and are going to have to learn a new toolset in the meantime if they want to come back onto my network. (The one hooked up to the internet with support contracts and enterprise agreements and production web servers)
PAIN.
Just because it is in the charter of companies to maximise return on investments, does not necessarily make it ethical.
There is a reasonable technical way to police bit torrent. (watch torrent, determine torrents contents is your intellectual property, get list of IP addresses from the swarm, match those to users via ISP) But now the studios have to subpoena the ISPs with enough details to satisfy the ISPs legal departments then sue or prosecute the end users. The studio wanted the system where they got to shortcut the legal system at the expense of the ISP to punish the end user.
Basically the court said "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly. If it ain't worth doing, stop doing it."
So when I turned off Server RAHRAH125 and sent out the email "Just Killed 125." that would be bad? and speak of sociopathy?
I can't stand the idea of government taking someones money under threat of force
Pay tax much? Governments get to charge taxes because they have standing armies. This has been the way since the dawn of city states and will not change because you don't like it.
They're taking over!
At least on paper...
Usually you can only buy n tickets against a single name. So Scalper plus 3 "friends" are now in attendance. Now scalper needs to make 33% profit on each ticket to break even (assuming scalper sees no value in being at the show). If it is Plus 1... then Scalper needs to sell second ticket for 200% sales price. Much harder to do.
If the phone is reported stolen, make the carriers responsible for any calls made by the handset. The victim has done the right thing by reporting the theft.
Make it an economic penalty if the company refuses to take action. It's the language they understand. Get the courts to back up the victim and the problem will go away in weeks if not days.
I'm opposed to the death penalty. It would not be hard to confiscate profits for 25 years effectively making the company serve a 25 year penalty.
And the 5 percent that do care care because they have just dropped and broken their shiny. Now they have to deal with the "It's warranty has been voided" spiel before they get the thing repaired. Of course this is done to encourage the consumer to buy shiny 2.0 (or 1.0s or whatever)
Given that accidents do happen there are going to be a lot of infuriated people without options if their friendly geek can't fix their shiny on the cheap and Apple won't. Each dropped Shiny will equal a lack of sales to that individual + bad word of mouth for 5 years.
It is a given that 95% don't care now. When 50% don't care Apple will have a problem.
especially today, when IP represents more of the US economy's value than it ever has previously.
So you have a bubble economy built on false value. You have two choices.
First of all, you defend that bubble with all your might, jumping on the fingers of anybody who dares touch your IP. This is what the current and future policy seems to be. It will cost you in contracts. It will cost more to enforce.
Or you lance that boil before someone else does and take the short term economic hit whilst developing new markets for products.
And this is what makes the best of the best. The ability to extract from the customer what they need and then be able to offer the best solution in the framework provided. The tech skills are only handy in the second part. The first requires great communication skills. Something that can be lacking in some IT workers.
The lunch contained (what passes for ) two fruit portions. (A banana and an apple juice) A grain portion (The bread) A vegetable portion (OK potato crisps are possibly pushing the envelope, but are vegetables all the same ) and a protein portion. (Turkey)
This lunch met the criteria of a "Healthy lunch" Chicken nuggets (on their own) only tick 2 boxes. (grain and protein)
Fail by some bureaucrat. Not fail by parent who seemed to provide a fairly sane lunch.
Considering the % of their revenue coming from non-personal computers, I'm surprised they haven't abandoned them.
The reason they have not abandoned them is because it allows people to buy their flashy new iDevice and pretend that it is good for business and therefore a business expense. If they entered the personal computer market as you say, then they become little more than games consoles with the patronage to match.
I'd monitor the other way. If a work is turning a profit, then let it remain in copyright. Hell. Make it an exponential fee. Register a work for $1 the first year, $2 the second. $4 the third. This means everything is cheap to protect it's initial release. It also means that come year 20 you better be making $2,000,000 to be breaking even. More works will slide out of copyright protection as soon as protecting it is going to cost you that much.
Performance? That would allow artists who have works that can be performed to be paid.
Patronage? That would allow artists who have works that can be displayed to be paid.
Sales of accompanying merchandise? "Like the painting? Buy the Coffee Cup" There is one for the print people.
I think a lot of the issues that "Artists" have is that all of the above means being beholden to something other than your muse. My art is my code. I sell it to an organization that supplies patronage to me. They get to tell me what the functionality is. I go away and create a beautiful thing that fulfills that functionality. Replace the word code with canvas and oils and the same applies.
Copyright as it stands today is about protecting multimedia empires, not protecting any of the artists.
There is much truth in this. My current unit (10 people) has had the same name for 15 years. Meanwhile the pyramid above has been through every permutation possible. People are still able to contact us because we did not let go of our name or branding.
Managers rarely have to produce a cost benefit analysis for name changes or Organisation chart changes. But they should. If you prove a profit in 12 months (the seeming time between reorganisations) then you can go ahead. Otherwise, No can do. Unfortunately managers don't bother with this step or do it in such a shoddy way as to ignore all the work required in a move.
This is the source of most Corporate ignorance that I can see.