I go to meetings with my notepad and the veeblefesters just dribble on and on with no coherence. By the time I find something worthy of noting, they keep talking on another subject and I loose my thoughts. The people with computers are just checking email or surfing...
So here's what I suggest for the Note takers Bill of Rights:
1) The speaker will speak slowly and coherently when they want their ideas/opinions/facts propagated.
2) The speaker will pause between subjects, sort of like a new chapter in a book.
3) The speaker will use transitional phrases between subjects.
4) The onus is on the speaker that the note taker got your thoughts right.
5) The notes are owed by the note taker, and not subject to evaluation.
My other suggestion is to get the meetings transcribed like with court reporters (stenograph machines?), so everyone knows what was said.
Read "Ready Player One".
Ponder the world that book portrays, and think that's the world your gaming children will live in if everybody plays games.
Then ask your question again.
I attended a talk she gave in the early 80's. She was quite an entertaining speaker. She was able to describe some concepts in an easy way to undersand way. Like how long is a millisecond or a nanosecond? She handed out nanoseconds at the end. I still have that little 11.8 inch piece of wire.
Best way to learn to speak better is Toastmasters www.toastmasters.org
Learn to give speeches and you will learn to communicate better in all aspects of your business and personal life. Earn the "Competent Communicator" award and your boss will not be able to use that line on you anymore.
My company just migrated to XP in '07, we still haven't seen XP's useful life! We should be migrating to Windows 7 about the time Win8's SP3 comes out!
The IT department claims that it costs too much to roll out a new OS and rebuild all the remote management tools, train the Neytwork staff in the new OS (but not any end users), and pay for upgrades for 2000+ PCs...
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I just got used to the "newest" interface and now I have to get used to the changes again.
So here's what I suggest for the Note takers Bill of Rights:
1) The speaker will speak slowly and coherently when they want their ideas/opinions/facts propagated.
2) The speaker will pause between subjects, sort of like a new chapter in a book.
3) The speaker will use transitional phrases between subjects.
4) The onus is on the speaker that the note taker got your thoughts right.
5) The notes are owed by the note taker, and not subject to evaluation.
My other suggestion is to get the meetings transcribed like with court reporters (stenograph machines?), so everyone knows what was said.
Why not a warp drive by accident?
I have said that for years.
Read "Ready Player One".
Ponder the world that book portrays, and think that's the world your gaming children will live in if everybody plays games.
Then ask your question again.
I attended a talk she gave in the early 80's. She was quite an entertaining speaker. She was able to describe some concepts in an easy way to undersand way. Like how long is a millisecond or a nanosecond? She handed out nanoseconds at the end. I still have that little 11.8 inch piece of wire.
Best way to learn to speak better is Toastmasters www.toastmasters.org
Learn to give speeches and you will learn to communicate better in all aspects of your business and personal life. Earn the "Competent Communicator" award and your boss will not be able to use that line on you anymore.
After all the hype we find out someone left their credit card on Mars!
When did 130 ly become nearby? Did someone invent a FTL drive while I wasn't paying attention?
The IT department claims that it costs too much to roll out a new OS and rebuild all the remote management tools, train the Neytwork staff in the new OS (but not any end users), and pay for upgrades for 2000+ PCs...
The only person to successfuly predict an economy was Hari Seldon.
Or should I say: COMPUTE Object-Oriented-COBOL = Rocks * Rocks.
P.S. The code would have been ALL CAPS, but the Slashdot filter wouldn't allow me to put in the code PROPERLY! LOL!