Tom's answer was witty, but it ignores some concerns. Sure, passing a piece
of paper around is easy/simple, but consider why you need to do this. If
there is a formal requirement to maintain attendance records, then the piece
of paper will have to be put somewhere that it can be found if the
Everyone's had their say about the missing laptop study. And 94-98% of
the world still buys Windows computers and probably will for the rest
of our lifetimes. Give it a rest already.
We are not off course. You just want to censor the message.
If more people valued their expensive laptops fewer
A polygraph for who? I like the way you cut and pasted that quote from
cnet...at first glance it looks like 20,000 google employees have macs.
Sorry, corrected it reads...
Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of
its... 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac
Nothing stopping you from scanning the paper sheets.
I too would vote for a pad and pencil LONG before I would pass around
an electronic device. Heck, under your scenario, an unscrupulous or
ham-fisted person could delete previous entries!
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:41 AM, John Emmerling [EMAIL
Tom's answer was witty, but it ignores some concerns.
That was a very serious answer (though I never object to being called
witty).
If the organization holds a lot of meetings, then this means shoving said
sheet of paper into an ever-expanding folder in a drawer somewhere.
Paper is cheap.
Your question could be more easily answered had it not contained
the phrase productivity and happiness, as if they are somehow
connected to one another in a way that suggests that if you have one,
you'll automatically have the other.
See, there is the IT manager as slave master mentality
What I'm envisioning is one of our recruiting presenters gathering the
information on a wireless PC, and then uploading it through a wireless
connection onto a server that stores it.
If you must, I would go with an under $100 Palm device. You could get
software to create a custom form or just
HAHAHAHA! You are too funny Tom! But you didn't use one of them cute
smileys, so it's hard to tell if you're being serious - as most of your
posts seem ...
Most of the time, Tom is not all that serious. He is having fun asking
questions from the left field. He enjoys making edgy remarks.
On Jul 12, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Staff is much more productive and much more happy. Yes
those two words are connected.
Fine in that particular situation. However, the phrase more
productive can mean that folks are being overworked, often because
fewer employees (a cost
I too would vote for a pad and pencil LONG before I would pass around
an electronic device. Heck, under your scenario, an unscrupulous or
ham-fisted person could delete previous entries!
... Or walking away with the device. Or a person with 10 thumbs dropping it
and losing all the records.
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I would expect Jeff to not get it. Many people have emotional
attachments
to things like pets or cars or tools. When a tool is empowering its
user,
its user gets a rush and some of that good feeling transfers to the
tool.
This is all freshman Psych 101 stuff.
One of my clients just pink slipped their IT team and brought in a new
team. I must say that this new team reinforces my long-held beliefs
about IT management.
Don't you mean *doesn't* reinforce my long-held beliefs about IT
management?
Otherwise, you've been lying to us all along, you sly
I agree about the hand-held electronic device.
Here's an alternate solution (if it's any good, it's probably already been
implemented. If not, then it's probably a lousy idea):
Where I work, most important meetings include some attending remotely (by
phone in our case, but other voice channels
Here's an alternate solution (if it's any good, it's probably already been
implemented. If not, then it's probably a lousy idea):
Or you could become one of those progressive companies that requires all
employees to have an RFID tag surgically implanted.
This would have the added benefit of
Don't you mean *doesn't* reinforce my long-held beliefs about IT
management?
No. It reinforced my long-held beliefs by demonstrating that good IT
management is possible and can quickly turn around a bad situation to
everyone's benefit. It was a good controlled experiment because nothing
The IT departments I've worked with who have had bad attitudes have
usually gained those attitudes as a larger part of the structure of the
company/CEO they work for.
As they say: QFT.
Mismanagement starts at the top. One way or another.
With thanks to everyone for previous recommendations (i love my
Garvin 360. It really works great!), I'm asking for another
recommendation.
I primarily need to take pictures of things (mainly antiques which
I occasionally offer for sale at local shows). Many close-ups. I need
crisp
What is your price range
That has a lot to do with it.
Again I can't help but point you to Consumer Reports Web site they
just recently reviewed cameras and I can't remember what they recommended.
Stewart
At 06:20 PM 7/12/2008, you wrote:
With thanks to everyone for previous
I have an older Dell XPS Gen 2 computer with Windows XP Home --3 GHz
Pentium 4, 1 Meg DDRAM, about 1.5 terabytes disk drives, about 250 GB
internal: the rest external. Very, very many applications, most used
frequently. These include graphics, video processing, mathematical
processing (e.g.,
I think Digital Photography Review is still the the best place I have
ever seen for seriously comprehensive reviews of still cameras.
http://www.dpreview.com/
Get advice and ideas of what models to look at and then go there and
compare.
Jordan
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With thanks to everyone
1gig of RAM isn't likely enough and is the primary cause of your
delays. Double it or remove some of your startup stuff.
You can probably speed things up tremendously by reinstalling the OS;
certainly as much as a new computer, anyway. There have been no big
improvements in SATA lately, so that's
This camera will replace a Nikon Coolpix 4500 which has been great,
but which is getting a bit dated. The Nikon was originally purchased
to take close-ups of small items, for which it is great, but I'm
interested to know what's out now.
Since you are taking pictures for posting online you
Arnold -
Is the data you're collecting something that accumulates during the
meeting, or something that can wait until the end of the meeting? Can it
be done on several [secured] touch-screen devices as people are leaving?
Assuming that everyone has a PDA of their own or a mobile phone
The price range is flexible, but I'm willing to spend up to $500 -
$600 if necessary. This is a business expense, so I do get a tax credit.
Tom P asked what I don't like about the Coolpix 4500. The major
problem is that it focuses, and then refocuses inappropriately,
sometimes when I'm
You are right in the price range for the newer DSLR's which might be
what you need to look at. They give you much more control over what
you are doing than many point and shoot digitals.
Stewart
At 09:37 PM 7/12/2008, you wrote:
The price range is flexible, but I'm willing to spend up to
Jkdefrag is a free defragger that is much better (and faster) than the
native defrag utility. I use it on my XP machines.
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
Also, XP SP3 is said to have a 5%-10% performance improvement over SP2.
Defrag before applying the service pack.
-Original
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