It ain't engineers or technicians that want to change things. As is common with these things, it's being driven by the people that want the money.
Us engineers and technicians understand the whole, "If it ain't broke, why fix it?" mentality.
Now, with that said; there is a problem with modern TV. It takes too damn long to change channels. Seriously, it takes a couple seconds per channel. To me, that's a critical design flaw that needs to be fixed, especially since that's a recent development with cable boxes. So there you go, the industry created a real problem. Now they need to fix it.
The most informed peeps in any office are the secretaries. Namely, the old timers who have been with the company forever. There's at least one in every group of any significant size. The underpaid underlying that no one pays attention to except when they have a clerical need. They always know EVERYTHING about an organization.
IT may be a close second, although I, myself, refuse to abuse my authority/position.
I may not have articulated my point clearly enough; It would allow me a greater flexibility of hours. I could put in 12 hours on one day, and 4 the next, without my employer having to worry about overtime.
I realize it's entirely a selfish reason, but I'm on board with this. As a single father, my schedule is always difficult to work out. On the one hand, I will be there for my daughter's school and activities. On the other, I am male and thus employers see me as someone capable of putting in whatever hours they deem necessary. This would allow me to pack in the hours when I can, and take shorter days when I have to.
I realize this is very case specific, but god damn it's about time SOME laws work in my favor.
That only addresses the infection vector. Someone infected with the 1918 flu strain has a significantly better chance of recovery under modern medical care than their 1918 counterpart.
That's assuming, as well, that travel is not restricted once an epidemic is identified ( which of course it would be ). No, there is no reason to believe that the 1918 flu strain would be anywhere near as debilitating today as it was back then.
I wonder if the same thing would have happened now a days. Between public awareness of viral attack vectors and our medical industry's ability to stabilize a person, I doubt we'd see anywhere near the same infection rate, nevermind mortality rate.
Dr Who has been around for 50 years. It has survived pretty much anything you could throw at it. It will survive hollywood.
I have to wonder, however, if the folks doing the market research realize just how adverse Dr Who fans will be to a big budget movie. One of the appeals of Dr Who is the low production value of it, and the ability to take risks that goes along with that. It's unconventional, it's interesting. These are two attributes that hollywood has demonstrated a knack for destroying. Further, one of better attributes of Dr Who has always been it's "continuity" ( which is hilarious in and of itself ), of it's long scope story arcs. Again, not a "movie" thing.
A Dr Who movie will need to somehow work in the back story, build an interesting plot and come to a conclusion. All within 2 hours. Unless they plan for a series of movies, which would make more sense. That way they can build the backstory and get the plot rolling, then continue in the second movie and finish up in a third. But that might be too much of an investment for a relatively unknown franchise ( unknown to anyone outside geekdom at any rate ).
I have looked in to those, but they are almost universally more complex than needed. My user base tends to be a bit...low on the technical knowledge. I don't want to introduce a complex system like that, only to be stuck in perpetual training hell for the duration of it's deployment.
A simple drag/drop system, where I can "tag" a file would be the simplest system I can envision that would do the job I need. It certainly wouldn't be as full featured as many of the document management systems out there, but it would be within reach of the average user. And we wouldn't have to keep training the same material, over and over again.
I'd take this one step further; There are certain classifications of files that need special behaviors ( encryption, reliability, ect.. ) as well as special permissions ( if it's an evidence file, it belongs to the investigators by default, ect... ). That's why I'd like file system tags. Where if you tag a file with "HR Policy", it will auto-assign the correct permissions AND assign special behaviors ( file is deleted 7 years after implementation, it's not allowed to be copied off the network, it's encrypted, ect... ).
One of the largest issues I've seen in corporate culture is the proliferation of data in file shares. Often, file shares are filled with cruft that no one has any idea if anyone else is using. This leads to "Don't touch it!", and file share quotas that balloon out of control. An automated system of this nature would help curb that.
You touch on some good points, but fail to address the real issue with education today; Parents. Education starts, and never ends, at home. If parents aren't valuing education at home, then kids are learning that education is a waste of time.
An overwhelming majority of parents today view education as free day care. That's it. The best teacher in the world has a 50/50 chance of any kind of impact on a child when their parents don't care. That's why poor schools tend to have poor results; it's not the money specifically, but the fact that poor folks tend to be less than college education and, generally, hold a negative view point of higher education.
That's fine for larger organizations, but for medium/small organizations that's hardly a fair argument. I happen to live in an area where there are maybe 5 people that could competently run a mail server of any size, 2 of which I trust and one of them is me. There just isn't enough talent out here for everyone to host their own email. So either they go with out email, or they externally host.
With windows 7, memory has become less an issue to me. I just don't care that much; I have 4 gigs, and stuff starts right up when I click on it. As a user, that's all I care about. I could obsess about how much memory is being used at all times, I guess, but what does that metric even mean? I currently have fo:nv, mstsc, 10tabs in ie and ~20 in chrome, everything is still snappy. What does it matter that the system is showing high ram utilization?
What I'd like to see them focus on instead is the file system, and making searches work at least as well as they did in XP. Vista utterly broke file searching ( which is amazing in and of itself ), and while w7 brought back some of the functionality, it's still a crap shoot.
You'll note that's addressed in my post. Which I have a feeling you only read the words you wanted, and interpreted them however you wanted to arrive at the results you wanted.
If only there were a competitor to facebook that addressed these issues. I'm sure they'd be able to take a large portion of facebook's sub base about as quickly as facebook did to myspace.
And if only said competitor could somehow make such a service work with it's other internal services that paying customers are currently locked out of.
Talk about a market ripe for take over, if only someone could get their act together.
I advise people to uninstall Norton and Mcafee as a general rule. I can't tell you how often I clean systems with those two products on it, happily grinding away the CPU cycles telling you that everything is fine despite the rampant infection of whatever AntiVirus 2011 variant is going crazy on the machine.
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The Darth Maul fight was a joy to watch, but otherwise I agree with you; the rest of the fights were pretty ho-hum.
Time libraries are bad enough that my eye ticks whenever I have to do developing with them. Now we want to ADD complexity to the equation?
There ain't enough alcohol in the world.
It's possibly worth noting that that version was actually more interesting than the final cut.
Boo Hisss!
It ain't engineers or technicians that want to change things. As is common with these things, it's being driven by the people that want the money.
Us engineers and technicians understand the whole, "If it ain't broke, why fix it?" mentality.
Now, with that said; there is a problem with modern TV. It takes too damn long to change channels. Seriously, it takes a couple seconds per channel. To me, that's a critical design flaw that needs to be fixed, especially since that's a recent development with cable boxes. So there you go, the industry created a real problem. Now they need to fix it.
The most informed peeps in any office are the secretaries. Namely, the old timers who have been with the company forever. There's at least one in every group of any significant size. The underpaid underlying that no one pays attention to except when they have a clerical need. They always know EVERYTHING about an organization.
IT may be a close second, although I, myself, refuse to abuse my authority/position.
I may not have articulated my point clearly enough; It would allow me a greater flexibility of hours. I could put in 12 hours on one day, and 4 the next, without my employer having to worry about overtime.
Works for me.
I realize it's entirely a selfish reason, but I'm on board with this. As a single father, my schedule is always difficult to work out. On the one hand, I will be there for my daughter's school and activities. On the other, I am male and thus employers see me as someone capable of putting in whatever hours they deem necessary. This would allow me to pack in the hours when I can, and take shorter days when I have to.
I realize this is very case specific, but god damn it's about time SOME laws work in my favor.
How about the idea that, by and large, the shows on TV are painful to watch?
Seriously, how people can subject themselves to the crap on TV now a days boggles my mind.
That only addresses the infection vector. Someone infected with the 1918 flu strain has a significantly better chance of recovery under modern medical care than their 1918 counterpart.
That's assuming, as well, that travel is not restricted once an epidemic is identified ( which of course it would be ). No, there is no reason to believe that the 1918 flu strain would be anywhere near as debilitating today as it was back then.
I wonder if the same thing would have happened now a days. Between public awareness of viral attack vectors and our medical industry's ability to stabilize a person, I doubt we'd see anywhere near the same infection rate, nevermind mortality rate.
It's distressing how often it's `h2o`.
Yup. And hollywood is in the US, and it's arguably it's largest market, hence my US-centric response.
Dr Who has been around for 50 years. It has survived pretty much anything you could throw at it. It will survive hollywood.
I have to wonder, however, if the folks doing the market research realize just how adverse Dr Who fans will be to a big budget movie. One of the appeals of Dr Who is the low production value of it, and the ability to take risks that goes along with that. It's unconventional, it's interesting. These are two attributes that hollywood has demonstrated a knack for destroying. Further, one of better attributes of Dr Who has always been it's "continuity" ( which is hilarious in and of itself ), of it's long scope story arcs. Again, not a "movie" thing.
A Dr Who movie will need to somehow work in the back story, build an interesting plot and come to a conclusion. All within 2 hours. Unless they plan for a series of movies, which would make more sense. That way they can build the backstory and get the plot rolling, then continue in the second movie and finish up in a third. But that might be too much of an investment for a relatively unknown franchise ( unknown to anyone outside geekdom at any rate ).
I have looked in to those, but they are almost universally more complex than needed. My user base tends to be a bit...low on the technical knowledge. I don't want to introduce a complex system like that, only to be stuck in perpetual training hell for the duration of it's deployment.
A simple drag/drop system, where I can "tag" a file would be the simplest system I can envision that would do the job I need. It certainly wouldn't be as full featured as many of the document management systems out there, but it would be within reach of the average user. And we wouldn't have to keep training the same material, over and over again.
I'd take this one step further; There are certain classifications of files that need special behaviors ( encryption, reliability, ect.. ) as well as special permissions ( if it's an evidence file, it belongs to the investigators by default, ect... ). That's why I'd like file system tags. Where if you tag a file with "HR Policy", it will auto-assign the correct permissions AND assign special behaviors ( file is deleted 7 years after implementation, it's not allowed to be copied off the network, it's encrypted, ect... ).
One of the largest issues I've seen in corporate culture is the proliferation of data in file shares. Often, file shares are filled with cruft that no one has any idea if anyone else is using. This leads to "Don't touch it!", and file share quotas that balloon out of control. An automated system of this nature would help curb that.
You touch on some good points, but fail to address the real issue with education today; Parents. Education starts, and never ends, at home. If parents aren't valuing education at home, then kids are learning that education is a waste of time.
An overwhelming majority of parents today view education as free day care. That's it. The best teacher in the world has a 50/50 chance of any kind of impact on a child when their parents don't care. That's why poor schools tend to have poor results; it's not the money specifically, but the fact that poor folks tend to be less than college education and, generally, hold a negative view point of higher education.
Just some things to think about.
That's fine for larger organizations, but for medium/small organizations that's hardly a fair argument. I happen to live in an area where there are maybe 5 people that could competently run a mail server of any size, 2 of which I trust and one of them is me. There just isn't enough talent out here for everyone to host their own email. So either they go with out email, or they externally host.
HA! Just kidding. We all know the answer to that one.
PSA: Avoid Google Apps at all costs.
And DVDs.
With windows 7, memory has become less an issue to me. I just don't care that much; I have 4 gigs, and stuff starts right up when I click on it. As a user, that's all I care about. I could obsess about how much memory is being used at all times, I guess, but what does that metric even mean? I currently have fo:nv, mstsc, 10tabs in ie and ~20 in chrome, everything is still snappy. What does it matter that the system is showing high ram utilization?
What I'd like to see them focus on instead is the file system, and making searches work at least as well as they did in XP. Vista utterly broke file searching ( which is amazing in and of itself ), and while w7 brought back some of the functionality, it's still a crap shoot.
You'll note that's addressed in my post. Which I have a feeling you only read the words you wanted, and interpreted them however you wanted to arrive at the results you wanted.
If only there were a competitor to facebook that addressed these issues. I'm sure they'd be able to take a large portion of facebook's sub base about as quickly as facebook did to myspace.
And if only said competitor could somehow make such a service work with it's other internal services that paying customers are currently locked out of.
Talk about a market ripe for take over, if only someone could get their act together.
I advise people to uninstall Norton and Mcafee as a general rule. I can't tell you how often I clean systems with those two products on it, happily grinding away the CPU cycles telling you that everything is fine despite the rampant infection of whatever AntiVirus 2011 variant is going crazy on the machine.
Funny you should mention that, as enterprises will typically have Google Apps, and us Apps folks can't have Google+.