Never used Lotus Notes. And if takes 30 minutes or more to know if you have new emails, then either Lotus Notes is a POS or it's not configured properly.
If it's set at 30 minutes, then complain to IT and your boss that you need it set at 5 minutes. If you get in trouble for a late email reply, tell your boss why.
I don't understand the problem unless Lotus Notes is a POS, in which case you should either fix it or replace it ASAP.
And if the title of the email is precise enough, a simple alt-tab to the email client, reading the email title, deciding that it can wait and an additional alt-tab shouldn't break your train of thought that badly.
If email has become dangerous, it's become of spam. I wonder how much ressources (electrical power, cpu cycles, bandwidth) is wasted by it.
That's because there's a person waiting for a reply right now behind that flashing IM icon.
In person / phone call = requires immediate attention IM = requires a reply ASAP email = should be able to wait about 30 minutes before a reply. If it's more urgent, come see me / call me/send me an IM.
I think companies would be wise to have such policies in place (method X of communicating = xyz delay).
TFA and some comments keep mentioning "checking email every 5 minutes".
Don't you use email clients that check for new email automatically every 5 minutes and tells you if a new email has arrived? If you need to manually click a "get new emails" button every 5 minutes then I suggest you find a better program.
In fact I've never seen an email client that couldn't do this, so what gives?
It seems a lot of new small computers are coming out these days, some of them even are Atom-based.
You may need a 500W Core 2 Quad + SLI videocards for your home gaming, but I'd say 99% of corporate computer users will be fine with an Atom, 1GB RAM and integrated intel GPU.
These things have 60-80W power supplies, and that's their maximum load. I'm sure they use far less than that under normal operation.
Other than that, we can already say that the days of magnetic media are numbered. The technology is here, we now only need to wait a bit. I give it three to four years at most.
It seems you never encountered Slashdot's comment filter.
The parent was quoting the "warning message" he got ("Lameness filter encountered. Don't use acronyms. It's like yelling.") when he replied "ROM, EPROM, PROM, EAROM, EEPROM" to "I wasn't aware flash drives even existed back in 1979.".
Well, let's see: - Magnetic hard drive = solid state (ICs, buffers, etc) + magnetic platter + mechanical (rotating platter(s) + moving heads) - SSD = solid state
As soon as the price per GB of SSDs is at parity with the magnetic drives, I'm switching. It probably puts out less heat and require less power, meaning quieter drives too.
Consider that you have to go to the video rental place twice...
If the server on the other end can keep up, I can download one gigabyte in about 35 minutes.
I agree that 18 minutes may be possible in the summer, but I couldn't be bothered to go to the video store in the middle of winter. Not to mention the gas cost, etc.
Yesterday I rented "Be Cool" from the iTunes Store, for 99 cents (it's the "99 cents movie of the week").
Took about 70 minutes to download a 2 hours movie, and I could have watched it after about 15-20 minutes of download.
Seeing the previous 99 cents movies available in the USA store, I can say that it's going to cost me about 40-50$ every year, minimum, in movie rentals from now on.
If I have to drive to the local rental place, I rent maybe once every 2 or 3 months.
Why would I go to Blockbuster to rent a movie on a flash drive?
Blockbusters HQ -> internet -> local Blockbuster -> flash drive Home -> car drive -> local Blockbuster -> car drive -> Home (x2 because you have to return the damn flash drive)
Why shouldn't people do this instead: Blockbusters HQ / iTunes Store / etc -> internet -> Home
Be aware there's going to be DRM on the movie in both cases (to prevent copy/to expire the movie once the rental period is over), so there's really no point talking about it.
Slashdot Mirror
Never used Lotus Notes. And if takes 30 minutes or more to know if you have new emails, then either Lotus Notes is a POS or it's not configured properly.
If it's set at 30 minutes, then complain to IT and your boss that you need it set at 5 minutes. If you get in trouble for a late email reply, tell your boss why.
I don't understand the problem unless Lotus Notes is a POS, in which case you should either fix it or replace it ASAP.
Forget your headcrabs, I got flying sharks over here!
A better comparison would be trying to explain colors to a blind person*.
* born blind, obviously.
Ok, but run where?
Now where's my towel?
And if the title of the email is precise enough, a simple alt-tab to the email client, reading the email title, deciding that it can wait and an additional alt-tab shouldn't break your train of thought that badly.
If email has become dangerous, it's become of spam. I wonder how much ressources (electrical power, cpu cycles, bandwidth) is wasted by it.
That's because there's a person waiting for a reply right now behind that flashing IM icon.
In person / phone call = requires immediate attention /send me an IM.
IM = requires a reply ASAP
email = should be able to wait about 30 minutes before a reply. If it's more urgent, come see me / call me
I think companies would be wise to have such policies in place (method X of communicating = xyz delay).
TFA and some comments keep mentioning "checking email every 5 minutes".
Don't you use email clients that check for new email automatically every 5 minutes and tells you if a new email has arrived? If you need to manually click a "get new emails" button every 5 minutes then I suggest you find a better program.
In fact I've never seen an email client that couldn't do this, so what gives?
It seems a lot of new small computers are coming out these days, some of them even are Atom-based.
You may need a 500W Core 2 Quad + SLI videocards for your home gaming, but I'd say 99% of corporate computer users will be fine with an Atom, 1GB RAM and integrated intel GPU.
These things have 60-80W power supplies, and that's their maximum load. I'm sure they use far less than that under normal operation.
Other than that, we can already say that the days of magnetic media are numbered. The technology is here, we now only need to wait a bit. I give it three to four years at most.
Didn't ADPCM exist in 1979? It's not much compared to today's standards, but a 2:1 or even 4:1 ratio is nothing to sneeze at.
It seems you never encountered Slashdot's comment filter.
The parent was quoting the "warning message" he got ("Lameness filter encountered. Don't use acronyms. It's like yelling.") when he replied "ROM, EPROM, PROM, EAROM, EEPROM" to "I wasn't aware flash drives even existed back in 1979.".
It has to be AT&T.
Can't wait to see the bills on this one.
Safari can't find the server.
Safari can't open the page "http:///" because it can't find the server "".
What is your URL supposed to do on Chrome?
I find it strange that this commercial hasn't been submitted as a story, it's not even listed in the firehose.
That's because you don't have one of those new perpendicular recording hard drive. Every time I load or save a file, I hear disco music.
Amazon sells MP3 files, Apple sells AAC files, some of them DRM-free @256kbps.
Well, let's see:
- Magnetic hard drive = solid state (ICs, buffers, etc) + magnetic platter + mechanical (rotating platter(s) + moving heads)
- SSD = solid state
As soon as the price per GB of SSDs is at parity with the magnetic drives, I'm switching. It probably puts out less heat and require less power, meaning quieter drives too.
What "couple of screenshots"? It's the same damn "almost upside down place" screenshot on all ten pages!
Vote for Bender in 3008!
Don't forget CLAMPS!
If they can trust a file locked with DRM on a Flash drive, they have to trust the same file downloaded via internet. It's the same data.
Consider that you have to go to the video rental place twice...
If the server on the other end can keep up, I can download one gigabyte in about 35 minutes.
I agree that 18 minutes may be possible in the summer, but I couldn't be bothered to go to the video store in the middle of winter. Not to mention the gas cost, etc.
Yesterday I rented "Be Cool" from the iTunes Store, for 99 cents (it's the "99 cents movie of the week").
Took about 70 minutes to download a 2 hours movie, and I could have watched it after about 15-20 minutes of download.
Seeing the previous 99 cents movies available in the USA store, I can say that it's going to cost me about 40-50$ every year, minimum, in movie rentals from now on.
If I have to drive to the local rental place, I rent maybe once every 2 or 3 months.
I pity the guy who was still playing with an Atari 2600 in 1988.
Intellivision and Colecovision were much better!
Why would I go to Blockbuster to rent a movie on a flash drive?
Blockbusters HQ -> internet -> local Blockbuster -> flash drive
Home -> car drive -> local Blockbuster -> car drive -> Home (x2 because you have to return the damn flash drive)
Why shouldn't people do this instead:
Blockbusters HQ / iTunes Store / etc -> internet -> Home
Be aware there's going to be DRM on the movie in both cases (to prevent copy/to expire the movie once the rental period is over), so there's really no point talking about it.