"Our world has become a perpetual learning Curve"
That's a great line. If its yours, you should write, if it's someone elses, I'm sorry I didn't use it first. I'm going to print it out and put it up on my office wall.
I do enough reading of tech manuals for learning, we need books and movies to escape the daily grind. Although new and fresh thoughts are fun, I don't need a three hundred page book to try to cram them down my throat. Put the idea out there and I'll turn it over in my mind if it strikes me.
Simply stated, tech overload. I have at least four different products that all do the same thing, Sure, I'm a gadget guy but who really needs to use thier phone to change the channels on TV. Who really needs a 7 remotes on their coffee table.
We used to escape into high tech fantasy, now we escape into no tech fantasy because we're simply overwhelmed by the stuff we already have.
Perhaps we'e seeing the beginning of a low tech renaissance.
Right now I'd take a charmed harp over the latest gee-whiz device.
SCO can't show the code in public, it would be replaced within a week and they would have no more suit. They have to try this in the media and hope for a settlement. Once it goes public every copy of LINUX will have a new kernel and SCO will be back to rock bottom stock prices and virtually no product.
In the 1960s 70 and even into the 80s every mid and high level management person in this country had a secretary. These people we're indispensable in their ability to help their boss get his job done. Today they are virtually gone. I work in a company with about 120 other people. To handle this we have two receptionists who also do some of the filing and clerical stuff. Voice mail, answering machines, personal computers, e-mail and fax machines all contributed to the traditional secretaries demise. They were replaced by technology.
Are they living on the streets? Are they all on Welfare? Of course not. Any time you look at a single cause and effect you will not grasp the entire picture.
The key point is that machines will displace workers not replace them. The job dynamics will continue to evolve at the exact pace that these devices are brought online. Our job descriptions will slowly change and there will be many unforeseen new opportunities that will open up for human workers. Right now peoples gut reaction is...who will repair the machines? This is extremely shortsighted. I would imagine that machines will be capable of self repair, those that are not could repaired by other machines. The jobs that humans will be displaced to might not even be conceived of yet.
Similarly lets go back 50 years. How many computer technicians and IT people worked in this country. A couple hundred? Technology slowly replaced tens of thousands even millions of jobs, but at the same time technology created millions of jobs that were simply unforeseen at the start of this revolution.
The sky is not falling. Sure, labor = money. But you can't look at the equation only from one side. If people have no money, there is no commerce.
I recently purchased a lexmark 1200N off Ebay. It only had about 300 prints and therefore had plenty of toner left in all four cartridges. It's fast, 11" X 17", and networked. Laser quality will never match inkjet, different type of color printing. If you need pretty perfect pictures, go inkjet.
Anyway, I'm about $600 into a fast, networked, large format color laser For the majority of the color stuff I print, it's perfect.
Watch out for the HP 4600. Toner cartridges only have so many images in them regardless of available toner. When the chip says its time to replace, its time to replace. You may be throwing away half a cartridge of toner.
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"Our world has become a perpetual learning Curve" That's a great line. If its yours, you should write, if it's someone elses, I'm sorry I didn't use it first. I'm going to print it out and put it up on my office wall. I do enough reading of tech manuals for learning, we need books and movies to escape the daily grind. Although new and fresh thoughts are fun, I don't need a three hundred page book to try to cram them down my throat. Put the idea out there and I'll turn it over in my mind if it strikes me.
Simply stated, tech overload. I have at least four different products that all do the same thing, Sure, I'm a gadget guy but who really needs to use thier phone to change the channels on TV. Who really needs a 7 remotes on their coffee table. We used to escape into high tech fantasy, now we escape into no tech fantasy because we're simply overwhelmed by the stuff we already have. Perhaps we'e seeing the beginning of a low tech renaissance. Right now I'd take a charmed harp over the latest gee-whiz device.
SCO can't show the code in public, it would be replaced within a week and they would have no more suit. They have to try this in the media and hope for a settlement. Once it goes public every copy of LINUX will have a new kernel and SCO will be back to rock bottom stock prices and virtually no product.
In the 1960s 70 and even into the 80s every mid and high level management person in this country had a secretary. These people we're indispensable in their ability to help their boss get his job done. Today they are virtually gone. I work in a company with about 120 other people. To handle this we have two receptionists who also do some of the filing and clerical stuff. Voice mail, answering machines, personal computers, e-mail and fax machines all contributed to the traditional secretaries demise. They were replaced by technology. Are they living on the streets? Are they all on Welfare? Of course not. Any time you look at a single cause and effect you will not grasp the entire picture. The key point is that machines will displace workers not replace them. The job dynamics will continue to evolve at the exact pace that these devices are brought online. Our job descriptions will slowly change and there will be many unforeseen new opportunities that will open up for human workers. Right now peoples gut reaction is...who will repair the machines? This is extremely shortsighted. I would imagine that machines will be capable of self repair, those that are not could repaired by other machines. The jobs that humans will be displaced to might not even be conceived of yet. Similarly lets go back 50 years. How many computer technicians and IT people worked in this country. A couple hundred? Technology slowly replaced tens of thousands even millions of jobs, but at the same time technology created millions of jobs that were simply unforeseen at the start of this revolution. The sky is not falling. Sure, labor = money. But you can't look at the equation only from one side. If people have no money, there is no commerce.
I recently purchased a lexmark 1200N off Ebay. It only had about 300 prints and therefore had plenty of toner left in all four cartridges. It's fast, 11" X 17", and networked. Laser quality will never match inkjet, different type of color printing. If you need pretty perfect pictures, go inkjet. Anyway, I'm about $600 into a fast, networked, large format color laser For the majority of the color stuff I print, it's perfect. Watch out for the HP 4600. Toner cartridges only have so many images in them regardless of available toner. When the chip says its time to replace, its time to replace. You may be throwing away half a cartridge of toner.