GUI's have increased productivity. How simply because instead of paying one UNIX guru to do it in 20 years, you can have 20 people do it in one.
The GUI interface and touchscreen interface is quick and easy. Mcdonalds, Dunkin Donuts, fast food, Heck that chain restaurant down the street are all having massive increases in possibly productivity because Touchscreens and GUI's make the employees have to push less buttons to get more consistent orders.
I would love to see you take my order at a restaurant with a command-line interface.
while touch screen every where like windows 8 is a bit much. touch is here to stay. you can clean up your desk quite nicely by having one or two touch screen tablets, working with your desktops. you can have multiple windows and screens open.
At home I have my laptop, my iphone, my nexus 7, and an iPad. each has their own use, each has their own purpose. and all get used mostly equally. I can sit and read books on the nexus, check emails quickly on my phone but if i really have to respond, I can wake the laptop up from sleep and work on that.
Computers are no longer an accurate term. They are more like informational machines.
well lets start with the 16 bit color color palette, hard to read, fonts massive over sized non scaling buttons.
Pretty much the only good things are focus follows mouse, and it is low bandwidth enough to use with x windows straight across the internet.
Actually the only thing I really miss is focus follows mouse. that is handy when working with lots and lots of windows open on multi monitor desktop setups.
The trick is wall street MBA and EMBA's are basically stripping companies bare destroying assets for short term goals, and personal profits.
Take Circuit city. The MBA's backed by wall street stripped the company to the bones, stole all the cash and pushed it into bankruptcy.
After a bad year(2008) and falling stock prices circuit city management came up with a plan to cut expenses by $10,000,000 over the next 3 years. They fired the top 3,000 salesmen and hired 2,500 fresh salesmen in the summer of 2009. Wall street bounced the stock back up, and management paid themselves $5,000,000 in bonuses for that year.
2009 ended with predicitably even lower sales.(firing your best salesmen does things like that).
6 months later it was completely gone.
Wall street supports and and encourages self destructive behavior. Wall street isn't about long term investing any more. It is about millisecond long trades taking up 75% of all trading volume.
Seriously if wall street cut HFT for one day the volume would collapse.
Why kill your self or debase your self on technology and procedures that are so randomly enforced, that it doesn't do any good anyways.
They could replace the scanners with a motion detector and a timer, you walk in 5 seconds later it lights up green and you walk through. Every 40 people have it light up red for "enhanced pat downs"
You could build install it for $5,000 and provide just as much security.
The only thing holding value in the US dollar is ignorance. One of these days people will slowly realize that the USA has no money and can't pay it's debts as the USA like most of the western world don't know anything about virtual money.
You can't spend more than you take in, but we let governments guess at how much they are taking in and spend 10-20% more than that because they like thinking the GDP has some relevance to the government income of tax revenue.
One simple law could solve the long term finical issues. The base amount the government can spend is equal to the previous years tax revenue. Anything beyond that must be in the form of a loan, war bond etc, that needs to be paid back.
While my prime responsibility can be done from any computer, levels 2-3 of my responsibilities require I am in the office.
We have the mostly open/partial cube walls layout.
However I recently changed jobs. while I was looking at new jobs and interviewing I came across one company that would probably end up paying me more than I am now, but I could tell that the general office environment would make dilbert look good. It didn't matter the boss didn't like the tie I wore to the interview. It had too many colors (4) in it for him.
actually at work we are dealing with that exact issue.customer returned an item that "stopped" working. After painfully trying to figure it out, we traced it to the power secondary power supply that converts 120 to 24v for the control systems. We replaced the PS tested the unit.
The customer had it for less than 20 minutes when they called up and said it wasn't working again. A quick check and the new power supply was toast.
They have a short in the box that supplies power to the unit in their shop dropping 240v into the machine at random.
no no no you got it all wrong. this is the lead fragments of a super massive sized meteor heading our way. You see when it passed through the asteroid belt it pushed a few rocks out in front of it. those are the rocks that are near missing us right now. And since we can't actually see that far into space we can't get together a group of drilling roughnecks and wannabe actors to save us all.
So congress critters defunded social security for decades on the wall street business mentality of unlimited exponential growth and we should put more business people in charge of it.
Social security is a mandated retirement account. The people in charge stole all the extra money by taking the surplus as long term loans and now those loans are due they can't pay them back.
This is called default. Banks would foreclose on the property. Until the USA government acknowledges and does some major long term restructuring this the overall economy can't get better.
Then again all I am generally doing in excel is comparing one cell contents to another, and adding new data based on that information (vlookup), or simple calculations
As once I am done processing the spreadsheet I then import it it into the ERP database.
That because the cost of retraining people in new workflows is generally higher than the software package to begin with.
If you gut and replace software you have to modify every employee's workflow to compensate. EVERY person has to do their job slightly differently, and no one has the answers as to how it all has to be worked out from the beginning for each part.
That takes months in a small 20 person organization that is flexible and adaptable. It can take years of lost productivity for larger ones.
I am doing it right now. We are gutting our old ERP system to use a much simplier but ultimately more useful ERP system. Everything from sales, accounting, purchasing, warehousing, inventory, delivery drivers, all have to change how they process their paperwork. We basically had the office staff doing 2 days of nothing as we sorted out bugs with the initial data transfer. Now that is done we begin the task of sorting out workflows, new SOPs, etc.
funny since 1990 I have owned 4 watches each one costing $20.
So i spent $80 on watches you spent $1500 at current rate of use in 20 years I will have spent less than 10% of what you did for the same functionality(probably more since I buy a watch that can do more than just tell time)
Which one of us is an idiot again? which one of us wasted money on a watch?
Do you know the difference between assault rifles and assault weapons?
Assault rifles area used by the military and police have reliability and tested designs.
Assault weapons can be anything including a squirt gun or paint ball marker that looks like a military issue. Assault weapons don't have and can't have the fire rate or reliability of their military counterparts. Comparing assault weapons to assault rifles is like comparing windows 3.1 to windows 7. Just he cease you can make windows 3.1 look like windows 7 doesn't mean it actually is.
yea but that's for the nexus. now how about the other 200 models of android phones that were built with in a year of the original nexus that haven't had a single update?
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GUI's have increased productivity. How simply because instead of paying one UNIX guru to do it in 20 years, you can have 20 people do it in one.
The GUI interface and touchscreen interface is quick and easy. Mcdonalds, Dunkin Donuts, fast food, Heck that chain restaurant down the street are all having massive increases in possibly productivity because Touchscreens and GUI's make the employees have to push less buttons to get more consistent orders.
I would love to see you take my order at a restaurant with a command-line interface.
while touch screen every where like windows 8 is a bit much. touch is here to stay. you can clean up your desk quite nicely by having one or two touch screen tablets, working with your desktops. you can have multiple windows and screens open.
At home I have my laptop, my iphone, my nexus 7, and an iPad. each has their own use, each has their own purpose. and all get used mostly equally. I can sit and read books on the nexus, check emails quickly on my phone but if i really have to respond, I can wake the laptop up from sleep and work on that.
Computers are no longer an accurate term. They are more like informational machines.
well lets start with the 16 bit color color palette, hard to read, fonts massive over sized non scaling buttons.
Pretty much the only good things are focus follows mouse, and it is low bandwidth enough to use with x windows straight across the internet.
Actually the only thing I really miss is focus follows mouse. that is handy when working with lots and lots of windows open on multi monitor desktop setups.
The trick is wall street MBA and EMBA's are basically stripping companies bare destroying assets for short term goals, and personal profits.
Take Circuit city. The MBA's backed by wall street stripped the company to the bones, stole all the cash and pushed it into bankruptcy.
After a bad year(2008) and falling stock prices circuit city management came up with a plan to cut expenses by $10,000,000 over the next 3 years. They fired the top 3,000 salesmen and hired 2,500 fresh salesmen in the summer of 2009. Wall street bounced the stock back up, and management paid themselves $5,000,000 in bonuses for that year.
2009 ended with predicitably even lower sales.(firing your best salesmen does things like that).
6 months later it was completely gone.
Wall street supports and and encourages self destructive behavior. Wall street isn't about long term investing any more. It is about millisecond long trades taking up 75% of all trading volume.
Seriously if wall street cut HFT for one day the volume would collapse.
I just stopped flying.
Why kill your self or debase your self on technology and procedures that are so randomly enforced, that it doesn't do any good anyways.
They could replace the scanners with a motion detector and a timer, you walk in 5 seconds later it lights up green and you walk through. Every 40 people have it light up red for "enhanced pat downs"
You could build install it for $5,000 and provide just as much security.
hey be fair it is only one version of android behind current.
At least it isn't shipping with 2.3
that's my thought.
The only thing holding value in the US dollar is ignorance. One of these days people will slowly realize that the USA has no money and can't pay it's debts as the USA like most of the western world don't know anything about virtual money.
You can't spend more than you take in, but we let governments guess at how much they are taking in and spend 10-20% more than that because they like thinking the GDP has some relevance to the government income of tax revenue.
One simple law could solve the long term finical issues. The base amount the government can spend is equal to the previous years tax revenue. Anything beyond that must be in the form of a loan, war bond etc, that needs to be paid back.
While my prime responsibility can be done from any computer, levels 2-3 of my responsibilities require I am in the office.
We have the mostly open/partial cube walls layout.
However I recently changed jobs. while I was looking at new jobs and interviewing I came across one company that would probably end up paying me more than I am now, but I could tell that the general office environment would make dilbert look good. It didn't matter the boss didn't like the tie I wore to the interview. It had too many colors (4) in it for him.
when the evil space aliens come we need more than just 1000 nukes to blow up their giant space ships
Seriously though Yucca mountian was a new design facility for long term storage, not the temporary storage that currently exists
Hey windows 8 could be worse. It could be MS Bob, with clippy the dog, running on Windows ME.
actually at work we are dealing with that exact issue.customer returned an item that "stopped" working. After painfully trying to figure it out, we traced it to the power secondary power supply that converts 120 to 24v for the control systems. We replaced the PS tested the unit.
The customer had it for less than 20 minutes when they called up and said it wasn't working again. A quick check and the new power supply was toast.
They have a short in the box that supplies power to the unit in their shop dropping 240v into the machine at random.
So when my sister, or brother visits I have to pull out my laptop, and a network cord, and plug it into the router, to authorize them?
Where does that make sense?
Granted it only has to be done once. but why?
well that explains FOSS'S love of EMACS.
now they have an actual text editor in emacs someone ported vi into emacs.
actually thats what i assumed they were but no one believes anything so mundane anymore.
no no no you got it all wrong. this is the lead fragments of a super massive sized meteor heading our way. You see when it passed through the asteroid belt it pushed a few rocks out in front of it. those are the rocks that are near missing us right now. And since we can't actually see that far into space we can't get together a group of drilling roughnecks and wannabe actors to save us all.
So congress critters defunded social security for decades on the wall street business mentality of unlimited exponential growth and we should put more business people in charge of it.
Social security is a mandated retirement account. The people in charge stole all the extra money by taking the surplus as long term loans and now those loans are due they can't pay them back.
This is called default. Banks would foreclose on the property. Until the USA government acknowledges and does some major long term restructuring this the overall economy can't get better.
oddly enough it is the function I use the least.
Then again all I am generally doing in excel is comparing one cell contents to another, and adding new data based on that information (vlookup), or simple calculations
As once I am done processing the spreadsheet I then import it it into the ERP database.
with modern cars if you shift into neutral at high speed the engine over rev limiter kicks in and begins slowing the engine down.
You still coast to a stop and it isn't so hot on the transmission itself but it does work.
Um that's 5.5 years ago.
Go back 3 years to the iPhone 3S and you can install iOS 5
At least apple provides updates for three years. And rips vendors generally don't support. Beyond 6 months. Maybe.
Why does this fill your heart with joy?
a new android phone running yet another OUTDATED version of Android that isn't going to receive any kinds of long term updates.
This product will be dead in a year. the iphone will keep chugging alone and apple won't have to even try to do anything about it.
It is running Gingerbread people you should be screaming at this company to get off it's ass and release it with a recent OS.
That because the cost of retraining people in new workflows is generally higher than the software package to begin with.
If you gut and replace software you have to modify every employee's workflow to compensate. EVERY person has to do their job slightly differently, and no one has the answers as to how it all has to be worked out from the beginning for each part.
That takes months in a small 20 person organization that is flexible and adaptable. It can take years of lost productivity for larger ones.
I am doing it right now. We are gutting our old ERP system to use a much simplier but ultimately more useful ERP system. Everything from sales, accounting, purchasing, warehousing, inventory, delivery drivers, all have to change how they process their paperwork. We basically had the office staff doing 2 days of nothing as we sorted out bugs with the initial data transfer. Now that is done we begin the task of sorting out workflows, new SOPs, etc.
The best part is if you a consistent alias you can search for that instead of a name.
funny since 1990 I have owned 4 watches each one costing $20.
So i spent $80 on watches you spent $1500 at current rate of use in 20 years I will have spent less than 10% of what you did for the same functionality(probably more since I buy a watch that can do more than just tell time)
Which one of us is an idiot again? which one of us wasted money on a watch?
Do you know the difference between assault rifles and assault weapons?
Assault rifles area used by the military and police have reliability and tested designs.
Assault weapons can be anything including a squirt gun or paint ball marker that looks like a military issue. Assault weapons don't have and can't have the fire rate or reliability of their military counterparts. Comparing assault weapons to assault rifles is like comparing windows 3.1 to windows 7. Just he cease you can make windows 3.1 look like windows 7 doesn't mean it actually is.
A politician caught sticking his penis in multiple women are generally kicked out of office.
Assange wants the power that they wield without repercussions.
If you are going to force transparency on others you had better be open with your own life.
And yes while I won't give details of my life I make sure other people can't find me doing stuff that bad.
yea but that's for the nexus. now how about the other 200 models of android phones that were built with in a year of the original nexus that haven't had a single update?