Now I have one that cleans my floor. This article applies to me. I don't want diamonds, I dont want shoes, I wana nanotech neuro-implants and holographic input devices so I can grab chunks of code and pull them into eachother. I want a smart house. I love my blackberry, but wish it had GPS. I would rather get ram than flowers. I once dated a rock star but his home-made touch screen is what really turned me on. I love my bluetooth headset, but it the rad factor would be so much highter if it was actually attached to my head and displayed information about everything around me in scrolling semi-opaque molly-esqe shades. I want an invisibility cloak. I want to clone elvis. I want to create a unified application environment so I only have to change my address once when I move. I want my own dev team that will build my whims. I want to aquire microsoft ( or at least have the ability to. ). I want to find a boyfriend who doesnt ask how much longer will you be? when Im coding and in the zone. I want to apply the brains thought and memory process to a search engine.
and THEN, I might want to go shoe shopping. on ebay.
spam, viruses, all that aside, I think email needs to be revamped. Heres why:
I write out an email to my coworkers about a certain topic, lets say a bug in my code and an escalation to get support from microsoft ( which in itself, raises issues, but thats another story. ). I send that to 5 people. 5 people recieve it. 5 people then comment on what they think is the problem and reply to all. I get 5 emails back, and 5 other people get 5 emails back. the one conversation is broken into 5 different emails now.
Take it further? I make some comments inline to one of the emails I get back, and hit replay all. 2 other people do this. 2 of us make the same comment on the same issue, and not one of us is wasting our time and not being productive because we are duplicating efforts. the 3 of us hit reply all. now 5 people have duplicate info in their emails by 2 different people and are wasting their time.
can someone do the math and figure out with these 2 replies by 5 people on one email, exactly how many threads are going on? Convoluted mess.
I can deal with spam, i can deal with viruses, I can deal with exchange server madness ( well, our exchange guy can anyway ) but this convolusion of important information is the exact reason why we've been working on a real time collaboration application to replace email for uses like this. I saw this coming, Ive been bitching about it for a while now.
Yes, email needs a serious revamp.
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Now I have one that cleans my floor. This article applies to me. I don't want diamonds, I dont want shoes, I wana nanotech neuro-implants and holographic input devices so I can grab chunks of code and pull them into eachother. I want a smart house. I love my blackberry, but wish it had GPS. I would rather get ram than flowers. I once dated a rock star but his home-made touch screen is what really turned me on. I love my bluetooth headset, but it the rad factor would be so much highter if it was actually attached to my head and displayed information about everything around me in scrolling semi-opaque molly-esqe shades. I want an invisibility cloak. I want to clone elvis. I want to create a unified application environment so I only have to change my address once when I move. I want my own dev team that will build my whims. I want to aquire microsoft ( or at least have the ability to. ). I want to find a boyfriend who doesnt ask how much longer will you be? when Im coding and in the zone. I want to apply the brains thought and memory process to a search engine. and THEN, I might want to go shoe shopping. on ebay.
spam, viruses, all that aside, I think email needs to be revamped. Heres why: I write out an email to my coworkers about a certain topic, lets say a bug in my code and an escalation to get support from microsoft ( which in itself, raises issues, but thats another story. ). I send that to 5 people. 5 people recieve it. 5 people then comment on what they think is the problem and reply to all. I get 5 emails back, and 5 other people get 5 emails back. the one conversation is broken into 5 different emails now. Take it further? I make some comments inline to one of the emails I get back, and hit replay all. 2 other people do this. 2 of us make the same comment on the same issue, and not one of us is wasting our time and not being productive because we are duplicating efforts. the 3 of us hit reply all. now 5 people have duplicate info in their emails by 2 different people and are wasting their time. can someone do the math and figure out with these 2 replies by 5 people on one email, exactly how many threads are going on? Convoluted mess. I can deal with spam, i can deal with viruses, I can deal with exchange server madness ( well, our exchange guy can anyway ) but this convolusion of important information is the exact reason why we've been working on a real time collaboration application to replace email for uses like this. I saw this coming, Ive been bitching about it for a while now. Yes, email needs a serious revamp.