Why are we keeping documents in printed form at all?
Legal reasons. At least that is the case in Belgium. What we do is scan in contracts that must be signed by the person. If there is a dispute, we will first give the scanned version as proof. If the case would go to court, we must provide the original paper version. Otherwise we will loose the dispute almost by default.
I am fully aware that there are technical solution. Yet the law is slow to catch up and that is not always a bad thing. Look at the advantages of a paper trail voting system compared to electronic voting. Technology is not always the answer, although here many people will see it as the hammer to any nail problem
Typing has changed. It used to be a secretaries job to type what her boss has written and later what he had dictated. If you do that, the most important thing will be speed. Next will be accuracy. The solution is touch-type.
The creative part of making the letter and the mechanical part were strictly separated. First you created a letter and then you typed it. This separation has gone.
People now type, copy and past in with their mouse, look up and verify other things. Scroll back and forward. Click a bit with their mouse on icons. So the time spend with the mechanical part of writing the letter is less important. I am guessing here, but with me the actual typing is about 25% of the time of writing this whole reply. The rest is rereading and thinking how to write it. So even if I could double my speed, my gain would be only be 12.5%.
This sounds like a lot. In reality in what I do, the typing part is even less. Perhaps around 5%. So typing twice as fast would gain me only 2.5%. When I look at what I do all day, the gain in doubling speed becomes meaningless.
I had it as well and I think it was the most useless calls. Yes, I use a keyboard everyday. However it is extremely seldom that I type a whole letter in one go.
Even typing this, the most time I use with re-reading and thinking what I must type and not so much with typing itself.
So if I can type with 300 character per minute or 30 does not make very much difference in the end. Here I even type a 'longer' text without using my mouse. Something that happens more often then not.
Type a bit, mouse, type a bit. So my peck and hunt I have learned myself (and looking at the keyboard and re-reading what I typed) is more functional for me. I can imagine that a secretary typing away some dictations will be better of using some other form.
And even with the peck and hunt I can 'feel' when I mistype something. So my point is that typing has changed a lot over time. I very seldom see people typing for more then 2 minutes without stopping or re-reading or using a mouse. The time gain is not in the actual usage of the keyboard. (Not even talking about the fact that I use QWERTY, while everybody else uses AZERTY (fr and be))
I never learned how to fold a letter at school. When I started working, they showed me once and I was able to do it. Took about 27 seconds to figure that one out. It could have been the most usefull class, but that says more about the rest then about that one. e.g. English (or any other language) is probably also something you use on a daily basis.
Then write a different article. I also re-use hard drives, power, case and some other things. Basically the only things that are really replaced are CPU, motherboard and memory.
Looking at that I could have a 'new PC' for 80EUR. That is including 21%TVA. Or 94USD without taxes.
(As comparison: On the top end I would pay 770EUR for a CPU, mother board and memory at the same store. Here I also would need to buy a video card. That could bring it up to 1250EUR.)
Never seen that happening in Europe. To me you are responsible for what you do. It is not as if people are forced to drink. Blaming the company and/or the alcohol is like blaming the girl for wearing a short dress.
Sorry for the rape, but it was because...
No! It was because the rapist is a complete idiot who should be put away for a long time and then some.
That is your problem right there. When I go and eat a pizza, I go to a pizzeria and I select the place. That will most likely be owned by real Italians (With Italian passports) and will make a real pizza, not some factory fabricated one where all the food needs to taste identical all over the world.
I will pick a small local place over some factory each and every time. Quality over quantity, just how I choose my OS as well.
Mediocre? The cardboard box it comes in tastes better.
I never gotten why people go there. In any pizza place here in Belgium I can get better pizza for a lower price, better service and a nicer place to sit.
I have been to company parties where there was almost unlimited amounts of alcohol available. Paid by the company and.or by partners.
I am talking renting a disco and asking all to come (about 500 people). 3 day holiday for all with partner. Yes, this included all the peons.
Many 'short term relations' were happening during those times.
At all companies I have been there were always smaller or larger events where there was almost unlimited amounts of alcohol available for free. The managers almost always went home early, specifically so they would NOT see what was going on and nobody was to be held accountable, because the boss saw stuff.
Several companies have monthly drinks for all. One company even told that if you came, you could leave half an hour earlier to encourage ALL to come. All company paid for several hours.
Nothing more fun as a peon to have too much to drink with a CEO.
No more business with China until they have a freely elected government. No more oil from Saudi Arabia until the kingdom is overthrown.
No more McDonalds till all people from Gitmo had either a fair trial or are released. No more Microsoft till the war on drugs is stopped. No more respect for US trademarks and copyrights till American people get a civil, human and affordable healthcare.
Their is one HUGE difference. MLK tried to copyright his OWN words. The family are not.
The copyright is intended to protect the original maker of whatever is copyrighted. So MLK does comply with the intend of the law. The family is not as they are not the originators.
It is not free. It is costing you your privacy. Apparently that is not worth anything to many people. Privacy is the last freedom we have and we are handing it over as if it was never ours to have.
Why all this OR/OR thinking. You are for us OR against us. You are for a flat earth OR a round one. Here in Babel you speak one language OR another. This is such a negative attitude. Why not start having an AND/AND mentality?
You can agree with some things AND dislike other. You can speak one language AND others. You can believe the earth is flat AND round. Just like a pizza.
That's your problem right there. And with Governments and companies wanting to trace everybody for their own gain, the only way this will change is for the worse. It will go from tracking people online to tracking everybody all the time in real life. Someday people will start to realize that the privacy we give up is the freedom others in the past were really talking about and then it will be too late.
Good riddance. If they aren't doing anything for us, why would we want them around? Away with them, so new companies can rise in their stead to actually benefit us.
But they DO something. They provide things people want at a low price. Be it oil or computers.
The reason is simple, they want to know who you are so that you will behave. That is all google wants I think.
What they want is to have as much data linked to as many people as possible. If it is verifiable to a person then that data is easier to use and make money from. If doing this (for now) for well known people then this will most likely increase the number of followers. This then creates more usable data that can be cross referenced. and soled again.
IT's function is to provide and maintain the computing infrastructure.
People from IT, please re-read this. At some companies it was as if the company is there to give IT something to do. At least that was the attitude of the IT department. Luckily not all are like that.
Each department think that without them they company would not exist. In reality each and every department has its function. If they don't, then they will be cut off.
Each department will go trough the same cycle. There is no reason why IT should be an exception.
Hers was the first to have no signs of Alzheimers at that age. From time to time we still have contact with the doctor doing the investigation, so we know already that it isn't just getting old.
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Legal reasons. At least that is the case in Belgium. What we do is scan in contracts that must be signed by the person. If there is a dispute, we will first give the scanned version as proof. If the case would go to court, we must provide the original paper version. Otherwise we will loose the dispute almost by default.
I am fully aware that there are technical solution. Yet the law is slow to catch up and that is not always a bad thing. Look at the advantages of a paper trail voting system compared to electronic voting. Technology is not always the answer, although here many people will see it as the hammer to any nail problem
Yeah, because the only goal of education is to reduce cost.
Mmm. Bacon.
Typing has changed. It used to be a secretaries job to type what her boss has written and later what he had dictated. If you do that, the most important thing will be speed. Next will be accuracy. The solution is touch-type.
The creative part of making the letter and the mechanical part were strictly separated. First you created a letter and then you typed it. This separation has gone.
People now type, copy and past in with their mouse, look up and verify other things. Scroll back and forward. Click a bit with their mouse on icons. So the time spend with the mechanical part of writing the letter is less important. I am guessing here, but with me the actual typing is about 25% of the time of writing this whole reply. The rest is rereading and thinking how to write it. So even if I could double my speed, my gain would be only be 12.5%.
This sounds like a lot. In reality in what I do, the typing part is even less. Perhaps around 5%. So typing twice as fast would gain me only 2.5%. When I look at what I do all day, the gain in doubling speed becomes meaningless.
I had it as well and I think it was the most useless calls. Yes, I use a keyboard everyday. However it is extremely seldom that I type a whole letter in one go.
Even typing this, the most time I use with re-reading and thinking what I must type and not so much with typing itself.
So if I can type with 300 character per minute or 30 does not make very much difference in the end. Here I even type a 'longer' text without using my mouse. Something that happens more often then not.
Type a bit, mouse, type a bit. So my peck and hunt I have learned myself (and looking at the keyboard and re-reading what I typed) is more functional for me. I can imagine that a secretary typing away some dictations will be better of using some other form.
And even with the peck and hunt I can 'feel' when I mistype something. So my point is that typing has changed a lot over time. I very seldom see people typing for more then 2 minutes without stopping or re-reading or using a mouse. The time gain is not in the actual usage of the keyboard. (Not even talking about the fact that I use QWERTY, while everybody else uses AZERTY (fr and be))
I never learned how to fold a letter at school. When I started working, they showed me once and I was able to do it. Took about 27 seconds to figure that one out. It could have been the most usefull class, but that says more about the rest then about that one. e.g. English (or any other language) is probably also something you use on a daily basis.
Then write a different article. I also re-use hard drives, power, case and some other things. Basically the only things that are really replaced are CPU, motherboard and memory.
Looking at that I could have a 'new PC' for 80EUR. That is including 21%TVA. Or 94USD without taxes.
(As comparison: On the top end I would pay 770EUR for a CPU, mother board and memory at the same store. Here I also would need to buy a video card. That could bring it up to 1250EUR.)
Sorry to burst your bubble. They have not changed, so they were crap before. You have changed.
Never seen that happening in Europe. To me you are responsible for what you do. It is not as if people are forced to drink. Blaming the company and/or the alcohol is like blaming the girl for wearing a short dress.
Sorry for the rape, but it was because ...
No! It was because the rapist is a complete idiot who should be put away for a long time and then some.
That is your problem right there. When I go and eat a pizza, I go to a pizzeria and I select the place. That will most likely be owned by real Italians (With Italian passports) and will make a real pizza, not some factory fabricated one where all the food needs to taste identical all over the world.
I will pick a small local place over some factory each and every time. Quality over quantity, just how I choose my OS as well.
Mediocre? The cardboard box it comes in tastes better.
I never gotten why people go there. In any pizza place here in Belgium I can get better pizza for a lower price, better service and a nicer place to sit.
I have been to company parties where there was almost unlimited amounts of alcohol available. Paid by the company and.or by partners.
I am talking renting a disco and asking all to come (about 500 people). 3 day holiday for all with partner. Yes, this included all the peons.
Many 'short term relations' were happening during those times.
At all companies I have been there were always smaller or larger events where there was almost unlimited amounts of alcohol available for free. The managers almost always went home early, specifically so they would NOT see what was going on and nobody was to be held accountable, because the boss saw stuff.
Several companies have monthly drinks for all. One company even told that if you came, you could leave half an hour earlier to encourage ALL to come. All company paid for several hours.
Nothing more fun as a peon to have too much to drink with a CEO.
But then I live in Belgium.
No more McDonalds till all people from Gitmo had either a fair trial or are released. No more Microsoft till the war on drugs is stopped. No more respect for US trademarks and copyrights till American people get a civil, human and affordable healthcare.
Mmm. I think we are on to something.
Their is one HUGE difference. MLK tried to copyright his OWN words. The family are not.
The copyright is intended to protect the original maker of whatever is copyrighted. So MLK does comply with the intend of the law. The family is not as they are not the originators.
It is not free. It is costing you your privacy. Apparently that is not worth anything to many people.
Privacy is the last freedom we have and we are handing it over as if it was never ours to have.
My Thesis is about censorship in the media and I would like to talk about the 7 words you can't say on television.
http://www.erenkrantz.com/Humor/SevenDirtyWords.shtml
Why all this OR/OR thinking. You are for us OR against us. You are for a flat earth OR a round one. Here in Babel you speak one language OR another. This is such a negative attitude. Why not start having an AND/AND mentality?
You can agree with some things AND dislike other.
You can speak one language AND others.
You can believe the earth is flat AND round. Just like a pizza.
Enough with the anti-french postings already.
That's your problem right there. And with Governments and companies wanting to trace everybody for their own gain, the only way this will change is for the worse.
It will go from tracking people online to tracking everybody all the time in real life. Someday people will start to realize that the privacy we give up is the freedom others in the past were really talking about and then it will be too late.
But they DO something. They provide things people want at a low price. Be it oil or computers.
Would it have been better if that slavery would not have been exported?
What they want is to have as much data linked to as many people as possible. If it is verifiable to a person then that data is easier to use and make money from.
If doing this (for now) for well known people then this will most likely increase the number of followers. This then creates more usable data that can be cross referenced. and soled again.
In Europe you can also choose which union you want to go to. Even if you are not joining a union, you still have the same rights,
People from IT, please re-read this. At some companies it was as if the company is there to give IT something to do. At least that was the attitude of the IT department. Luckily not all are like that.
Each department think that without them they company would not exist. In reality each and every department has its function. If they don't, then they will be cut off.
Each department will go trough the same cycle. There is no reason why IT should be an exception.
Getting old because she didn't die is true. The question is WHY she didn't die where others do. Why did she not develop malfunctions that others do>
It might be luck, but there are many indications that that is not the case. About her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrikje_van_Andel-Schipper.
Hers was the first to have no signs of Alzheimers at that age. From time to time we still have contact with the doctor doing the investigation, so we know already that it isn't just getting old.
I have not idea why the two sites where asked to be shut down. For all I know because they hosted malware directed at specific Argentinian banks.
So in this case IPv6 would have been better as there is no proof of censorship.