An employee suggested to me that we buy a few SMS cell phones here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our employee's day-to-day work. I decided to let buy 5 of them to see how the users did. Besides, our main morse operator had been using cell phones at home and it seemed to work fine, why not try it at work?
Once he'd got the machines up and running we let the operators try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: SMS was a pretty good replacement for Morse and the operators could still do their work as normal.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not do things they were used to or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with Morse code. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when the SMS phone suddenly had a weird processing error and deleted his message.
Needless to say, the SMS people offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee toss the cell phones in the garbage and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
Fertility a big problem?
There are two groups of people who will have Cancer. One is the people who are genetically inclined (and will have the disease at a young age). The second is the group that is old enough that environmental radiation and carcinogens have damaged enough genes to have triggered the disease.
If you are in the first group, you are liable to get checked all the time. If you are in the second group, reproduction is not a high priority.
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If anything, won't this make us more likely to buy a Lexmark, now that this ruling is out?
Think about it, they aren't going to change business plans over night. Dirt cheap prices on printers, coupled with cheap ink that you can get legally in stores. The only advantage of buying an Epson or an HP (a company which I would never recommend since its computers and software are riddled with spyware) has evaporated.
Cost-wise, wouldn't now be the perfect time to pick up a Lexmark dirt-cheap, and couple it with cheap third party ink?
Do you think your ISP keeps the IP logs from more than an year ago?
Chill. Besides, no one wants to know about your Kazaa porn habits - they have bigger fish to fry.:)
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I don't know what kind of superpowers your grandparents have, but my grandfather (may he rest in peace) did not have the ability to use a computer without a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
I used to work at Telus - Internet tech support.
That robot was terrible, everyone hated it. Even we didn't know how to transfer calls properly. And then when it failed... watch out.
How about health issues?
We all know about how keyboards can be dangerous for all the many things, including carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, tenosynovitis, etc... (http://www.hp.com/ergo/warning.html) (Sorry I hate linking those spyware installing scum, but it is all I can find). On top of that, all sorts of diseases can be past through the keyboard itself. I remember how my old job at a telephone company's internet tech support didn't have any properly working bathrooms at the beginning, and there was a sudden spike in sick people. (Toilet + no running water = big problems)
If you can design an interface that has me work a bit more but avoid these issues, I am all for it.
As anyone who has been to Japan knows, there is ALWAYS a big line of Otaku waiting to get into Akihabara stores for one reason or another. One Sunday morning I had to rush off to Nagoya from Tokyo and wanted to pick up a gift, so I wound up in Akihabara at 8 AM. What greeted me were lines of Otaku waiting outside local Anime and Manga stores, mainly sitting around reading mangas or playing on their gameboys.
You're talking about a country where they outlawed releasing games on school days because people would skip class to buy them.:O
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1980: http://tfkenkon.com/collection/part4/act79/index.p hp (sans the nifty Energon Axe)
Today:
http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act172/
And some of you think today's kids don't have it better.
I thought the entire problem was that someone didn't get screwed...
An employee suggested to me that we buy a few SMS cell phones here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our employee's day-to-day work. I decided to let buy 5 of them to see how the users did. Besides, our main morse operator had been using cell phones at home and it seemed to work fine, why not try it at work? Once he'd got the machines up and running we let the operators try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: SMS was a pretty good replacement for Morse and the operators could still do their work as normal. Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not do things they were used to or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with Morse code. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when the SMS phone suddenly had a weird processing error and deleted his message. Needless to say, the SMS people offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee toss the cell phones in the garbage and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
More like a nebulon component that turns into a he.. Nevermind.
It says a lot about me that I spent 5 minutes wondering whether you were talking about this
Fertility a big problem? There are two groups of people who will have Cancer. One is the people who are genetically inclined (and will have the disease at a young age). The second is the group that is old enough that environmental radiation and carcinogens have damaged enough genes to have triggered the disease. If you are in the first group, you are liable to get checked all the time. If you are in the second group, reproduction is not a high priority.
Wow, Europeans were the ones who discovered science? And after "the dark ages" too eh? Wow, is there anything our white skined brethern can't do? :)
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If anything, won't this make us more likely to buy a Lexmark, now that this ruling is out? Think about it, they aren't going to change business plans over night. Dirt cheap prices on printers, coupled with cheap ink that you can get legally in stores. The only advantage of buying an Epson or an HP (a company which I would never recommend since its computers and software are riddled with spyware) has evaporated. Cost-wise, wouldn't now be the perfect time to pick up a Lexmark dirt-cheap, and couple it with cheap third party ink?
$8000 over 2 years isn't so bad. He gained 25% value over 2 years, 12.5% an year. I'd be happy if my investments yielded that much.
Insightful..? We have a lot of bitter people with mod points on Slashdot :o
Do you think your ISP keeps the IP logs from more than an year ago? Chill. Besides, no one wants to know about your Kazaa porn habits - they have bigger fish to fry. :)
No, judging from the looks of things, we are still at least 20 years away from THAT..
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If you know what school he is going to, why not forward this little page to his professor? I am sure he would be very interested to see this.
I don't know what kind of superpowers your grandparents have, but my grandfather (may he rest in peace) did not have the ability to use a computer without a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
I used to work at Telus - Internet tech support. That robot was terrible, everyone hated it. Even we didn't know how to transfer calls properly. And then when it failed... watch out.
So you can insert Playstation disks into hard drives now? Dear God, is there anything Emulators can't accomplish?
How about health issues? We all know about how keyboards can be dangerous for all the many things, including carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, tenosynovitis, etc... (http://www.hp.com/ergo/warning.html) (Sorry I hate linking those spyware installing scum, but it is all I can find). On top of that, all sorts of diseases can be past through the keyboard itself. I remember how my old job at a telephone company's internet tech support didn't have any properly working bathrooms at the beginning, and there was a sudden spike in sick people. (Toilet + no running water = big problems) If you can design an interface that has me work a bit more but avoid these issues, I am all for it.
As anyone who has been to Japan knows, there is ALWAYS a big line of Otaku waiting to get into Akihabara stores for one reason or another. One Sunday morning I had to rush off to Nagoya from Tokyo and wanted to pick up a gift, so I wound up in Akihabara at 8 AM. What greeted me were lines of Otaku waiting outside local Anime and Manga stores, mainly sitting around reading mangas or playing on their gameboys. You're talking about a country where they outlawed releasing games on school days because people would skip class to buy them. :O
I knew I should have opened the attachment on that e-mail which AOL was tracking to make sure my account was tracking :(