The Force potential of an individual was measured in sentient creatures by a midi-chlorian count.
While both the Jedi and the Sith used the Force to gain their power, there were as many different groups of users and views of the Force as uses of the Force itself.
There are some diffrerces between people. Those with feeling and those with less feelings The people you talk about have most of their feeling inside sharestocks, bonus systems, and bailouts. Like you they want to be rich quick. And like you they realy dont like all the dirty work. But instead of you they like the dirty way of getting those bucks. Its no problem for them to fire you, if that will bring them more money by saving some costs. Its no problem either to sell the company, if it returns a quick win on their balance.
The problem is that current company models even promoto such behaviours, and as a result managed get dirty quick, and terrible. They get short sighted visions of how to manage a company. And mark my works the big companies heve the most trouble with this.
Cause if you layer a company with multiple management layers. all those small managers want to be on top, get a bigger sallary. In the end there is not much listening on what realy happens on the workfloor. People are reduced to numbers, and so bussines plans. The people who should make decisions are surounded by lower management who always agrees on whatever they say. Making such companies verry weak.
If the top people from microsoft or aple, like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs leave their companie. And from a family companie it becomes a pure shareholder company (in about two generations) then all those tiny managers start to fight their way up, with little control on them. Their divisions are so often reorganised, that they only see solutions in going up, to earn more, and to get away from the workfloor. While the workfloor get so many new management styles / reorganisations the people loose their connection with their work too. In the end people dont love the company and often leave as a result. The older technical people take a lot of knowledge with them out of the company, while the company with less technical knowledge strugles to survive with the people that stay...
The problem what causes is the way people get payed a bonus, those systems are for too short time ranges. For example if you sell a part of the company for a shortrun moneymaker. Then you shouldnt earn a bonus for it.. when you remove people you remove knowledge of a company. Even if they where on diffrent tracks then the main focus. Real good management would intergrate their focus to the main track. and so be more diverse. That will cost you more management time, but will return in more profit in the long run. However.. by use of "fantastic" tools like SAP and others... people loose the picture on whats realy going on inside companies. REason people can make good disicions on large numbers (thats been proven), our imagination cannt just handle it good, so money gets like invisible inside a company. It comes in but how and why exactly, and on what does it realy depend ?? on who ??.. smoke i tell you..
Its better to rethink bonus systems if you want a company thats stable, in the end you know even a company is a social thing, people forget. People joined it because they wanted to be part of it, to work together. If a bonus system results in anti social behaviour then there is something wrong, its not the goal of the social structure to fall appart, then it becomes less productive, till it even falls down like the banks did.
well when i saw all the different formats i decided that every device i would buy should be using the same type.
So PDA Canon camera audio-tower computer all can use CF disk, that's limiting the chaos of many cards. Usualy they also just stay in their device, only the camera has extra CF's in its bag So when i go on vacaction i've got some reserve backup cards.
This policy worked well for quite a while. Until i bought a Mp3 player, which used SD.. the audio tower could allready handle CF and SD but since the player is the only one using mainly that, there is till not much chaos there either. Basicly the scenario i use is every device one, and the remaining ones endup near my camera.
Distracting isnt any good What's not good over a long time will hurt you. You dont believe it i'm sure just count headaches, count fitnesh, how often is a person sick in a year etc.. Or check how good do teenager learn at schools compared to villages.
And you'l find out you'll get stressed there, which has long line of effects on your health. But because people tend to ignore stress, (some even think they like it) they get ill in the end. And when at the end of it then they finaly understand stress, and risks of distrations.
So not bad for you, well your not at the end there yet. Just give it a couple of years and you'll be there. People who live in a rush usualy do get there. Altough i hope you wont.
So because the days are cold you like to be able create power for a fridge.. Ehm well depending on where you live, you might be able to actualy use that outside cold, and dont use a fridge. Simply store it inside a covered deep hole or something like that. Thats how it was done in the past, then perhaps the remaining energy demand of low power devices You could maybe solve with solar power, or a dual windpower solution.. since labtops have a batery, they dont require continous power (only your router does.), low power (9V) could also be used for Leds if you get the voltage down a bit more.... there are also other fridge solution runing on 12V or so, like in camping fridges, that could lower the wattage you need.
Well i work nearby an ISP and they have a few of them. The problem is their expensive, while their energy storage is quickly drained or lets say limited. In case of the ISP, they use them just to prevent a powerdip if the grid goes down, so they have time to start diesel engines for power generation. Anyway take a look at this plant below it is a flywheel plant. http://www.beaconpower.com/products/EnergyStorageSystems/SmartEnergyMatrix.htm
Altough that plant can hanlde peak power fluctuations, it can not handle long perios delivery of energy. The earlier peak powerplant can handle 20 ~40 megawatt.. while a tipical big windmill allready delivers about 2 to 10 megawatt.
.. maybe dough its possible to store the energy inside compressed air..
So its confirmed now the marketing guys from vista has lost their minds.
No customer will accept this, luckely by the time it will be ready linux will be grown up.
I think later or soon, the monopoly breaks downs the tree is starting to fall.
Any empire ends, and i think this could be just the reason fir it.
Your lack of knowledge about windows doesnt make windows bad For example he could use restore points. He could set folder permission, to protect against destruction. Or just some simple backup program like Paragon, and a boot CD. He might also lock down XP, there are excellent reads about how to do that. YOu might get a start here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457006.aspx So you could write your own policies, and only allow for certain programs to execute. Windows is a verry open aplication environment, so how about helping your parents remotely I help my parents sometimes using http://www.logmein.com/ when i cannot be there.
Oh and yes my parents use vista, so there is verry little change they will get mallware installed.
Altough i believe microsoft could still improve their OS. It is still a best choice for older people, due too its interface standards.
Well solar power in space is usauly for small spaceships. One of the biggest spaceships now is the ISS (and its allready trouble to keep it up running) It prodcuces electric energy using its many solar arrys It can produce about 32.8 kW of DC power (see wikipedia) Altough thats a lot for solarenergy, its next to nothing Compared to the energy required to get it up there.
What if you would use all that energy and craftmanship to build windmills.. Todays big windmills (huge ones) can generate up to 6MW of power. (= 6000 kW)
Mow we're talking watts.. but still a normal powerplant generates about 500 to 1.300MW So you could remove a small one with about 100 windmills, that sounds perhaps as to much, but actualy there are more airplaines and cars builded each year. So perhaps create windmills for a while instead of cars.. (hmm not such a bad idea)
But with some clever engineering you could produce somehthing that doesnt use wind but seacurrent flow. since water is heavier, it is much more powerfull for propelling a generator.
I bought a REAL PSU, one with no fan at all inside. It has cooling ribons and doesnt make any sound. okay it had cost me some bucks.. but in return i got a lot more silent PC
Its from silverstone, it even has logic inside to protect angainst short circuits. And that actualy helped a few times.
ESpecialy random writes should be faster, since there are no mechanical parts that has to be moved to a random disc location. For the overal speed it depends lots of what kind of memory is used. I was about buying one for my system disk, but it's price turned me to sata again, i guees we have to wait a year before it will drop in price.
price drop will come, since chip making industry is going ahaed dark economics, and this is about the only new tech they came up with which has a large market segment.. so maybe next year i buy one.
Oh and they are shock proof and can better deal with heat, and absorb less elecetric energy..
I realy dont understand the buzz about linux on a ARM as if it is something new only linux could do. If you want to close your eyes okay, ok slashdot is i gues funded by SUN, it would explain a lot about the topics here. But in a real world without marketing of symbian.. that world is filled with PocketPC devices. While they dont sell as much as mobiles... the reason their just good, people dont change them each year. And thats perhaps the negative point of windows pocketpc, it just works too well to be a succes for selling new devices. I'm sure you dont believe me, but wait till you see integration with outlook / excel/word etc etc. Actual a friend of me is running his whole planning for his company on a small pocketPC...
I'm neither a programmer or manager. But you know, most people forget that they work with highly educated people. And well to be true, they are made lazy by poor management in most companies. Simply ASK THEM how they would improve their job, their taks group etc. What would contribute to it?, then make it goals for the whole team. But dont be to strict in it, let them addapt, let them give control, or at least that feeling. Be clear about costs whats goes in, and what goes out, of the balance, and their group impact on it. Ask them for ideas to improve it, make them part of your decisions. It is not all blablabla management show that decissions are for the group, to make your group better.
So lesson one would be to listen to them, but dont become their psychiater, you're there for the group But if they keep complaining about things tell them to stop and work it out, as they're old enough to do that. Your 30 and even you can do that.
Keep always in intresting ear to them, to their work, and then next to their personal live. (work 1st) Try to find group activities, just fun activities outdoors, go to a movie or so with them once in a while. This will connect the group, maybe if your good you might be able to inspire them.
Also if some person X is making trouble for the rest, let him now that, tell him about his lack of responsibility and how it negativly impacts proction, that the other people have to work harder because of it. Also dont push people to much, or they backfire at you; and the end result is negative, threat them as if they where your friends, and maybe they even might become that.
This is not for eart, we have wind huricanes, lightning, even airplanes, biological degradation, and also UV radiation and the van allen band Also the seize required of this lift makes it a bit unrealistic to create on earth.
However just as a reminder the gravity on the moon is about 16.3% of earth's gravity. There is no wind there, no lightning, no biological degradation,so it might work there. Still you have to deel the hard radiation (which tends to break down complex molecules...)
So it might be better to have on on the moon, for a first practice The problem only is then it'll cost lots of energy to get something like it there.
A better aprouch there would be an elctromagnetic railgun, and those might be used on earth too.
Perhaps dough a good jump would there would also be enough
Well... if you want to program in the future, create scaleable software and like functional programming. But still want a rich and proven environment.
Then maybe you should learn about F#.net It's a multicore language, and i know plain basic is a lot easier, but to sharpen (#) your mind about programming then a functional language would make you a better programmer. I dont say it will be easier, it will be different, if you want simple code simple programs its more easy to start with basic. afterall its called basic
Well let me gues was it windows mobile 2003 or was it windows CE 2.0 It was all several years ago, i liked those operating systems. And now ubuntu also has joined the ARM processor, well beter late then never;)
No seriously i realy doubt the x86 design is that good if you've seen what ARM can do. Also we can go to Quad or even OCTA processors at terra hertz.. but its just a deadend road. New designs are required more effecient designs, more greener designs.
it might be intresting to know that also visualstudio offers several chipsets as used in PDA not only arm and x86, and hack there has even been risc support in NT4.0... (it was verry lately abandoned in 2000 it was till some BEta version suported)
Ok i have seen those on japanese markets, and it might be something for you to.
It isnt speach ercognition, but what you might be able to work cleanroom clean with it :
http://www.celluon.com/products/laserkey.htm?sm=2_1
How:
Those are keyboards without mechanical key without even a board.
They project a beam of light which displays keys on a table on which you can type.
So in essence you can easily clean a table, it doesnt interfere its only light
i gues you might even project from outside into your cleanroom
The article is verry misleading, its only about an new discovered (quantum) stateof matter. Altough that in itself is big news for those who study the matter the world is made of. It doesnt mean that every discovery in this field lead to better chips. It's actualy quite unlikely that we would get such chips under search weird environment conditions running. So it might be usefull for our understanding of matter, and that might be of some help.
Otherwise we could also say it possibly cures cancer and Hiv, and maybe our next energy source. What i'm saying is the news is scientific but the reporting was verry un-scientific. For those reporters better just stay with the fact, your not a fund raiser !!
What management told you was verry short sighted.
Not realy unusual for those who want fast money and then jump out of the company.
You should have asked them if the organisation rather leans on the technoloogy achievments of indivuduals.
Or if they would rather see that the communication would be improved and so the combined know how.
By something as a simple lowcost communication method.
Well maybe you go all to second life, learn a bit about eachother, and get to know each better.
Especialy higher management has some (strange) urge to arange meetings with people face to face.
Technicaly my own desicions ar far more important to keep bussines working then such talks.
However i can talk with many people on chat or on phone, i have no need for face to face contact, just to solve, and to make profit out if it.
In fact i noted that talking in chat, or in a vitual world also does work more efficient, since the lange is shorter, you dont have to ask "take a seat", "how was the traffic ride", "did you stay long in the traffic jam", "maybe you like som cofee first then we can talk", "do you feel allright?", etc etc etc.
Chat is just like "DNS error 0xx55BH any ideas?" no introduction, no traffic jam, just a thanks afterwards.
Slashdot Mirror
well as soon as we can escape from this tractor beam i'l explain ya.
The ultimate device to detect life on mars:
The Uri geller device.
Its better then the Urey device and comes with a free spoon!
So you can digg into the soil there.
The Force potential of an individual was measured in sentient creatures by a midi-chlorian count. While both the Jedi and the Sith used the Force to gain their power, there were as many different groups of users and views of the Force as uses of the Force itself.
There are some diffrerces between people. Those with feeling and those with less feelings
The people you talk about have most of their feeling inside sharestocks, bonus systems, and bailouts. Like you they want to be rich quick. And like you they realy dont like all the dirty work. But instead of you they like the dirty way of getting those bucks.
Its no problem for them to fire you, if that will bring them more money by saving some costs. Its no problem either to sell the company, if it returns a quick win on their balance.
The problem is that current company models even promoto such behaviours, and as a result managed get dirty quick, and terrible. They get short sighted visions of how to manage a company. And mark my works the big companies heve the most trouble with this.
Cause if you layer a company with multiple management layers. all those small managers want to be on top, get a bigger sallary. In the end there is not much listening on what realy happens on the workfloor. People are reduced to numbers, and so bussines plans. The people who should make decisions are surounded by lower management who always agrees on whatever they say. Making such companies verry weak.
If the top people from microsoft or aple, like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs leave their companie. And from a family companie it becomes a pure shareholder company (in about two generations) then all those tiny managers start to fight their way up, with little control on them. Their divisions are so often reorganised, that they only see solutions in going up, to earn more, and to get away from the workfloor. While the workfloor get so many new management styles / reorganisations the people loose their connection with their work too. In the end people dont love the company and often leave as a result. The older technical people take a lot of knowledge with them out of the company, while the company with less technical knowledge strugles to survive with the people that stay...
The problem what causes is the way people get payed a bonus, those systems are for too short time ranges. For example if you sell a part of the company for a shortrun moneymaker. Then you shouldnt earn a bonus for it.. when you remove people you remove knowledge of a company. Even if they where on diffrent tracks then the main focus. Real good management would intergrate their focus to the main track. and so be more diverse.
That will cost you more management time, but will return in more profit in the long run.
However.. by use of "fantastic" tools like SAP and others... people loose the picture on whats realy going on inside companies. REason people can make good disicions on large numbers (thats been proven), our imagination cannt just handle it good, so money gets like invisible inside a company. It comes in but how and why exactly, and on what does it realy depend ?? on who ??.. smoke i tell you..
Its better to rethink bonus systems if you want a company thats stable, in the end you know even a company is a social thing, people forget. People joined it because they wanted to be part of it, to work together. If a bonus system results in anti social behaviour then there is something wrong, its not the goal of the social structure to fall appart, then it becomes less productive, till it even falls down like the banks did.
well when i saw all the different formats i decided that every device i would buy should be using the same type.
So PDA Canon camera audio-tower computer all can use CF disk, that's limiting the chaos of many cards.
Usualy they also just stay in their device, only the camera has extra CF's in its bag
So when i go on vacaction i've got some reserve backup cards.
This policy worked well for quite a while.
Until i bought a Mp3 player, which used SD.. the audio tower could allready handle CF and SD but since the player is the only one using mainly that, there is till not much chaos there either.
Basicly the scenario i use is every device one, and the remaining ones endup near my camera.
Distracting isnt any good
What's not good over a long time will hurt you.
You dont believe it i'm sure just count headaches, count fitnesh, how often is a person sick in a year etc..
Or check how good do teenager learn at schools compared to villages.
And you'l find out you'll get stressed there, which has long line of effects on your health.
But because people tend to ignore stress, (some even think they like it) they get ill in the end.
And when at the end of it then they finaly understand stress, and risks of distrations.
So not bad for you, well your not at the end there yet.
Just give it a couple of years and you'll be there.
People who live in a rush usualy do get there.
Altough i hope you wont.
So because the days are cold you like to be able create power for a fridge.. ... there are also other fridge solution runing on 12V or so, like in camping fridges, that could lower the wattage you need.
Ehm well depending on where you live, you might be able to actualy use that outside cold, and dont use a fridge.
Simply store it inside a covered deep hole or something like that.
Thats how it was done in the past, then perhaps the remaining energy demand of low power devices
You could maybe solve with solar power, or a dual windpower solution.. since labtops have a batery, they dont require continous power (only your router does.), low power (9V) could also be used for Leds if you get the voltage down a bit more.
Well i work nearby an ISP and they have a few of them. The problem is their expensive, while their energy storage is quickly drained or lets say limited. In case of the ISP, they use them just to prevent a powerdip if the grid goes down, so they have time to start diesel engines for power generation. Anyway take a look at this plant below it is a flywheel plant. http://www.beaconpower.com/products/EnergyStorageSystems/SmartEnergyMatrix.htm
.. maybe dough its possible to store the energy inside compressed air ..
Altough that plant can hanlde peak power fluctuations, it can not handle long perios delivery of energy. The earlier peak powerplant can handle 20 ~40 megawatt.. while a tipical big windmill allready delivers about 2 to 10 megawatt.
So its confirmed now the marketing guys from vista has lost their minds. No customer will accept this, luckely by the time it will be ready linux will be grown up. I think later or soon, the monopoly breaks downs the tree is starting to fall. Any empire ends, and i think this could be just the reason fir it.
Your lack of knowledge about windows doesnt make windows bad
For example he could use restore points.
He could set folder permission, to protect against destruction.
Or just some simple backup program like Paragon, and a boot CD.
He might also lock down XP, there are excellent reads about how to do that.
YOu might get a start here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457006.aspx
So you could write your own policies, and only allow for certain programs to execute.
Windows is a verry open aplication environment, so how about helping your parents remotely
I help my parents sometimes using http://www.logmein.com/ when i cannot be there.
Oh and yes my parents use vista, so there is verry little change they will get mallware installed.
Altough i believe microsoft could still improve their OS.
It is still a best choice for older people, due too its interface standards.
Well solar power in space is usauly for small spaceships.
One of the biggest spaceships now is the ISS (and its allready trouble to keep it up running)
It prodcuces electric energy using its many solar arrys
It can produce about 32.8 kW of DC power (see wikipedia)
Altough thats a lot for solarenergy, its next to nothing
Compared to the energy required to get it up there.
What if you would use all that energy and craftmanship to build windmills..
Todays big windmills (huge ones) can generate up to 6MW of power. (= 6000 kW)
Mow we're talking watts.. but still a normal powerplant generates about 500 to 1.300MW
So you could remove a small one with about 100 windmills, that sounds perhaps as to much, but actualy there are more airplaines and cars builded each year. So perhaps create windmills for a while instead of cars.. (hmm not such a bad idea)
But with some clever engineering you could produce somehthing that doesnt use wind but seacurrent flow. since water is heavier, it is much more powerfull for propelling a generator.
I bought a REAL PSU, one with no fan at all inside.
It has cooling ribons and doesnt make any sound.
okay it had cost me some bucks.. but in return i got a lot more silent PC
Its from silverstone, it even has logic inside to protect angainst short circuits.
And that actualy helped a few times.
ESpecialy random writes should be faster, since there are no mechanical parts that has to be moved to a random disc location. For the overal speed it depends lots of what kind of memory is used. I was about buying one for my system disk, but it's price turned me to sata again, i guees we have to wait a year before it will drop in price.
price drop will come, since chip making industry is going ahaed dark economics, and this is about the only new tech they came up with which has a large market segment.. so maybe next year i buy one.
Oh and they are shock proof and can better deal with heat, and absorb less elecetric energy..
I realy dont understand the buzz about linux on a ARM as if it is something new only linux could do. /word etc etc.
If you want to close your eyes okay, ok slashdot is i gues funded by SUN, it would explain a lot about the topics here.
But in a real world without marketing of symbian.. that world is filled with PocketPC devices.
While they dont sell as much as mobiles... the reason their just good, people dont change them each year.
And thats perhaps the negative point of windows pocketpc, it just works too well to be a succes for selling new devices.
I'm sure you dont believe me, but wait till you see integration with outlook / excel
Actual a friend of me is running his whole planning for his company on a small pocketPC...
There is a moment you cant pull the power of a machine on which you depend, at that moment your enslaved by the machine.
Well the una bombers manifest explains it too.
There is a moment you cant pull the power of a machine on which you depend, at that moment your enslaved by the machine.
I'm neither a programmer or manager.
But you know, most people forget that they work with highly educated people.
And well to be true, they are made lazy by poor management in most companies.
Simply ASK THEM how they would improve their job, their taks group etc.
What would contribute to it?, then make it goals for the whole team.
But dont be to strict in it, let them addapt, let them give control, or at least that feeling.
Be clear about costs whats goes in, and what goes out, of the balance, and their group impact on it.
Ask them for ideas to improve it, make them part of your decisions.
It is not all blablabla management show that decissions are for the group, to make your group better.
So lesson one would be to listen to them, but dont become their psychiater, you're there for the group
But if they keep complaining about things tell them to stop and work it out, as they're old enough to do that.
Your 30 and even you can do that.
Keep always in intresting ear to them, to their work, and then next to their personal live. (work 1st)
Try to find group activities, just fun activities outdoors, go to a movie or so with them once in a while.
This will connect the group, maybe if your good you might be able to inspire them.
Also if some person X is making trouble for the rest, let him now that, tell him about his lack of responsibility and how it negativly impacts proction, that the other people have to work harder because of it.
Also dont push people to much, or they backfire at you; and the end result is negative, threat them as if they where your friends, and maybe they even might become that.
This is not for eart, we have wind huricanes, lightning, even airplanes, biological degradation, and also UV radiation and the van allen band
Also the seize required of this lift makes it a bit unrealistic to create on earth.
However just as a reminder the gravity on the moon is about 16.3% of earth's gravity.
There is no wind there, no lightning, no biological degradation,so it might work there.
Still you have to deel the hard radiation (which tends to break down complex molecules...)
So it might be better to have on on the moon, for a first practice
The problem only is then it'll cost lots of energy to get something like it there.
A better aprouch there would be an elctromagnetic railgun, and those might be used on earth too.
Perhaps dough a good jump would there would also be enough
Well... if you want to program in the future, create scaleable software and like functional programming.
But still want a rich and proven environment.
Then maybe you should learn about F#.net
It's a multicore language, and i know plain basic is a lot easier, but to sharpen (#) your mind about programming then a functional language would make you a better programmer. I dont say it will be easier, it will be different, if you want simple code simple programs its more easy to start with basic. afterall its called basic
Are there any other real systems ?
nintendo perhaps ?, or what else ?
agree i think traffic jam wil go double % rates. And you'wont be able to sit in bushes anymore, as everyone gets old..
Well let me gues was it windows mobile 2003 or was it windows CE 2.0 ;)
It was all several years ago, i liked those operating systems.
And now ubuntu also has joined the ARM processor, well beter late then never
No seriously i realy doubt the x86 design is that good if you've seen what ARM can do.
Also we can go to Quad or even OCTA processors at terra hertz.. but its just a deadend road.
New designs are required more effecient designs, more greener designs.
it might be intresting to know that also visualstudio offers several chipsets as used in PDA not only arm and x86, and hack there has even been risc support in NT4.0... (it was verry lately abandoned in 2000 it was till some BEta version suported)
Ok i have seen those on japanese markets, and it might be something for you to. It isnt speach ercognition, but what you might be able to work cleanroom clean with it : http://www.celluon.com/products/laserkey.htm?sm=2_1 How: Those are keyboards without mechanical key without even a board. They project a beam of light which displays keys on a table on which you can type. So in essence you can easily clean a table, it doesnt interfere its only light i gues you might even project from outside into your cleanroom
The article is verry misleading, its only about an new discovered (quantum) stateof matter.
Altough that in itself is big news for those who study the matter the world is made of.
It doesnt mean that every discovery in this field lead to better chips.
It's actualy quite unlikely that we would get such chips under search weird environment conditions running.
So it might be usefull for our understanding of matter, and that might be of some help.
Otherwise we could also say it possibly cures cancer and Hiv, and maybe our next energy source.
What i'm saying is the news is scientific but the reporting was verry un-scientific.
For those reporters better just stay with the fact, your not a fund raiser !!
What management told you was verry short sighted. Not realy unusual for those who want fast money and then jump out of the company. You should have asked them if the organisation rather leans on the technoloogy achievments of indivuduals. Or if they would rather see that the communication would be improved and so the combined know how. By something as a simple lowcost communication method. Well maybe you go all to second life, learn a bit about eachother, and get to know each better. Especialy higher management has some (strange) urge to arange meetings with people face to face. Technicaly my own desicions ar far more important to keep bussines working then such talks. However i can talk with many people on chat or on phone, i have no need for face to face contact, just to solve, and to make profit out if it. In fact i noted that talking in chat, or in a vitual world also does work more efficient, since the lange is shorter, you dont have to ask "take a seat", "how was the traffic ride", "did you stay long in the traffic jam", "maybe you like som cofee first then we can talk", "do you feel allright?", etc etc etc. Chat is just like "DNS error 0xx55BH any ideas?" no introduction, no traffic jam, just a thanks afterwards.