Beta refers to the VCR, not the "testing". Plus MS, Symantec, and others have been caught violating copyrights, and nothing was done. Why? Consumers still support them massively.
Actually it is the consumer's fault. If Mac lovers had pushed for clones, and not let them get pulverised in court, then there would be a suitible market. Unfortunately, Macs are the Beta of the computer world. Good at what they do, but mainstream shumcks don't demand them.
Actually, I'm in favour of IMs for coders. My report was written for a different line of work. IMs are one of several tools that can work for teams. CVS is likely a much better cooridination and code sharing plan for coding teams though.
Better to use a well understood language by the teachers, than introduce new students to a language the TAs haven't used before. Teach the concepts, not the language.
Well since you were at least polite while being condescending, I'll guess you won't be modded down. However to answer your questions in no particular order: The conclusion I posted here, was a SUMMARY. Read, then think before you write. If you want all the "buts" ask for them like I said. I'm not going to post a 20 page report on the Internet, unless I want it plagarized. You are welcome to ask to see it though. All of your examples here talk of strictly one kind of work. My report was written for another. Naturally that effects the outcome of the report. As for my real world experience, what makes you think a college student [as it clearly mentioned on my webpage; which you did not even research] can't have real world experience? I have worked with two federal agencies, in 3 cities.
I tried downloading SuSE and installing it to test it out, but this newbie just didn't have the brain power make the "CD 1" it demanded I provide. The instructions were pretty clear: "Buy it to try it".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2241855.stm Che ck out this news that took place in northern Europe, where people are so smart, they are forgetting to have kids.
You can trust your employees, but if you give them a tool with no guidelines on how to use it without abuse, they might not know how to use it productively. At the very least if they are allowed IM, they should be asked to create an account specifically for contacting fellow employees, or strictly business contacts. If they want to add their wife[husband], then I don't see a problem. Like you said, you can spot underachievers.
Aren't you more concerned about AOL or MS reading your secret projects? Lots of people are crucifying my report, without even reading why I came to the conclusion I did. I thought setting up a local IM server or IRC server makes sense for some businesses, and I've seen IRC used effectively, but for the most part, people don't handle frequent IM interuptions well. If you are a programmer who doesn't need to concentrate [ or you are good at blocking out messages for later response], or you share a lot of code [get a CVS], or you have a boss that needs to know if you are sitting at your desk so he feels you are doing something[PHB], then by all means get IM.
I think that brings up the crux of the issue. It is just too easy to slip into bad habits using the computer. We have a bazillion email a day to manage, a billion work requests, and to top it all off, the girlfriend sends an IM. Add on the security risk of running IM [without firewalling file transfers], and you have too many things wrong. Sure IM can be great for people who use it right, but you don't know who those people are until you let the user try it. When you do that, it may be hard to take it away, even if things aren't working out well. Feelings, if not more will be hurt.
Thank you for your confidence. It will be filed by my secretary under "I", for "I don't give a damn". She'll do this right after she gets off the Yahoo! to her teenage son.
the paper isn't up on the website, but I will post email it to you if you like. Write me, at my email on my web site, and I'll send it to you. Do you have Word 95?
People who use IMs can abuse them too easily. They can be great, but they are high risk.
Run a little sample survey, and see how many users have communicated with people outside of work, at least once using the IM. Chances are you will find all but one or two have. They are also another vector for virus infection, unless you configure your firewall properly.
I agree, the security issues of wireless, means we should never do more than read email jokes over the wireless web. People who do banking on wireless networks are fools. You know what they say about fools and their money...
My campus is going wireless. The UofR has several areas available right now. If your NIC's MAC address is in the DHCP server, you get an IP, and away you go. Ready to access lab notes, or have your hacker friends screw with your life...
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The first time I encountered a winking emoticon, I was learning about;-)iChat I couldn't figure out what the heck ; - and ) were doing with the name. I finally figured out to turn my head to the left.
Now I use it all the time. It only bugs me when I see someone putting 5 dozen into a conversation. It bothers me too if they make a left handed emoticon like (-: because that poor emoticon is standing on its head.
So cheer up people. Emoticons aren't ruining punctuation, they are just adding to it. English goes through changes, and this is just one of them. I can think of worse things that could happen to become mainstream in conversations like... "did ya see tat f#$#ing bi*#h tday. man i wanna smak that ho" Just think how much easier it is to interpret that writer's mood if they put >:-( after their little rant?;-)
Why would the power need to be turned up? Signals are signals right? We don't turn the power up on our Cat 5 because we're talk to Slashdot and eBay at the same time...
I was thinking the same thing. I have a 256 meg CF card for my 3MP camera, and I almost never use the highest resolution. The cost would be enormous if I took as many pictures as I do at 11MP, and my CDs would disapear too, when I need to archive them.
Quite true. The same problem arrises from PayPal users, and anything else out on the Internet that requires some caution, and learning, in order to avoid screwing yourself.
Your sarcasm is not needed. I have been using a computer for many years, and would not make the mistakes I mentioned, but my point is that in the real world, people are mistake makers. PayPal doesn't allow for mistakes, and so is not a people friendly service. They advertise themselves as easy to use, but they really offer nothing that is easy or helpful to anyone that is not already an expert at online transactions, and hevean help you if anything should go wrong. Mistakes don't always happen because of the consumer too, sometimes businesses make them, and wouldn't you want to work with a business that is willing to help you when you or they make an error?
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Beta refers to the VCR, not the "testing".
Plus MS, Symantec, and others have been caught violating copyrights, and nothing was done. Why? Consumers still support them massively.
Actually it is the consumer's fault. If Mac lovers had pushed for clones, and not let them get pulverised in court, then there would be a suitible market.
Unfortunately, Macs are the Beta of the computer world. Good at what they do, but mainstream shumcks don't demand them.
Actually, I'm in favour of IMs for coders.
My report was written for a different line of work. IMs are one of several tools that can work for teams. CVS is likely a much better cooridination and code sharing plan for coding teams though.
Better to use a well understood language by the teachers, than introduce new students to a language the TAs haven't used before.
Teach the concepts, not the language.
Thanks. .iso image for their CDs.
I ended up downloading Mandrake 8.2 instead which had a more obvious
Well since you were at least polite while being condescending, I'll guess you won't be modded down.
However to answer your questions in no particular order:
The conclusion I posted here, was a SUMMARY. Read, then think before you write. If you want all the "buts" ask for them like I said.
I'm not going to post a 20 page report on the Internet, unless I want it plagarized. You are welcome to ask to see it though.
All of your examples here talk of strictly one kind of work. My report was written for another. Naturally that effects the outcome of the report.
As for my real world experience, what makes you think a college student [as it clearly mentioned on my webpage; which you did not even research] can't have real world experience? I have worked with two federal agencies, in 3 cities.
I tried downloading SuSE and installing it to test it out, but this newbie just didn't have the brain power make the "CD 1" it demanded I provide. The instructions were pretty clear: "Buy it to try it".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2241855.stme ck out this news that took place in northern Europe, where people are so smart, they are forgetting to have kids.
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You can trust your employees, but if you give them a tool with no guidelines on how to use it without abuse, they might not know how to use it productively. At the very least if they are allowed IM, they should be asked to create an account specifically for contacting fellow employees, or strictly business contacts. If they want to add their wife[husband], then I don't see a problem. Like you said, you can spot underachievers.
Aren't you more concerned about AOL or MS reading your secret projects?
Lots of people are crucifying my report, without even reading why I came to the conclusion I did. I thought setting up a local IM server or IRC server makes sense for some businesses, and I've seen IRC used effectively, but for the most part, people don't handle frequent IM interuptions well. If you are a programmer who doesn't need to concentrate [ or you are good at blocking out messages for later response], or you share a lot of code [get a CVS], or you have a boss that needs to know if you are sitting at your desk so he feels you are doing something[PHB], then by all means get IM.
Or you could look at it from the perspective that getting up and taking a 2 minute break from your RSI keyboard, is a good thing.
I think that brings up the crux of the issue. It is just too easy to slip into bad habits using the computer. We have a bazillion email a day to manage, a billion work requests, and to top it all off, the girlfriend sends an IM. Add on the security risk of running IM [without firewalling file transfers], and you have too many things wrong.
Sure IM can be great for people who use it right, but you don't know who those people are until you let the user try it. When you do that, it may be hard to take it away, even if things aren't working out well. Feelings, if not more will be hurt.
Thank you for your confidence. It will be filed by my secretary under "I", for "I don't give a damn". She'll do this right after she gets off the Yahoo! to her teenage son.
the paper isn't up on the website, but I will post email it to you if you like. Write me, at my email on my web site, and I'll send it to you. Do you have Word 95?
People who use IMs can abuse them too easily. They can be great, but they are high risk.
Run a little sample survey, and see how many users have communicated with people outside of work, at least once using the IM. Chances are you will find all but one or two have.
They are also another vector for virus infection, unless you configure your firewall properly.
Exactly what my report I wrote on IM a year ago, concluded.
Anyone interested, please see my website, and email me, or reply here.
Summary:
They are not good work tools, if you want to keep productivity high.
Thank you for proving my point about wireless networks.
Sorry to be cryptic, but you can't likely know what I do about wireless networks, so I will leave it at this mysterious sentence.
Also, if I want real security, I use a real ATM or bank employee, or I simply keep my money in my matress...
I agree, the security issues of wireless, means we should never do more than read email jokes over the wireless web.
People who do banking on wireless networks are fools. You know what they say about fools and their money...
My campus is going wireless. The UofR has several areas available right now. If your NIC's MAC address is in the DHCP server, you get an IP, and away you go. Ready to access lab notes, or have your hacker friends screw with your life...
The first time I encountered a winking emoticon, I was learning about ;-)iChat I couldn't figure out what the heck ; - and ) were doing with the name. I finally figured out to turn my head to the left. ;-)
Now I use it all the time. It only bugs me when I see someone putting 5 dozen into a conversation. It bothers me too if they make a left handed emoticon like (-: because that poor emoticon is standing on its head.
So cheer up people. Emoticons aren't ruining punctuation, they are just adding to it. English goes through changes, and this is just one of them. I can think of worse things that could happen to become mainstream in conversations like... "did ya see tat f#$#ing bi*#h tday. man i wanna smak that ho"
Just think how much easier it is to interpret that writer's mood if they put >:-( after their little rant?
Why would the power need to be turned up? Signals are signals right? We don't turn the power up on our Cat 5 because we're talk to Slashdot and eBay at the same time...
I was thinking the same thing. I have a 256 meg CF card for my 3MP camera, and I almost never use the highest resolution. The cost would be enormous if I took as many pictures as I do at 11MP, and my CDs would disapear too, when I need to archive them.
Quite true. The same problem arrises from PayPal users, and anything else out on the Internet that requires some caution, and learning, in order to avoid screwing yourself.
Your sarcasm is not needed. I have been using a computer for many years, and would not make the mistakes I mentioned, but my point is that in the real world, people are mistake makers. PayPal doesn't allow for mistakes, and so is not a people friendly service. They advertise themselves as easy to use, but they really offer nothing that is easy or helpful to anyone that is not already an expert at online transactions, and hevean help you if anything should go wrong. Mistakes don't always happen because of the consumer too, sometimes businesses make them, and wouldn't you want to work with a business that is willing to help you when you or they make an error?