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Originally Posted by Dareos
Dave is gonna stir up the beehive and I am going to lather myself with honey.
The problem we have is that technology creates the problem. And we believe that the only solution is to look at ways of fixing the technology.
If we were to remove the technology however our lives which we have had without major problems will be completely disrupted.
And the solutions which people are paid to look for are technological ones.
6014 3DMk 05
I was thinking more along the lines of a saline solution, it's good for cleaning wounds y'see.
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Oh you're good, you're damn good
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got no opinion apart from it never works when you need it to.
your computer is similar to a fridge in that if it cannot keep a beer cold then it sucks
To bring the topic back to its original... I beleive that technology is become over-complicated for the use it's intended for.
Bloatware prgrams like Word are a good example.
If I want to write a letter I could pick up a pen and be writing in seconds, but if I use Word, well I've got to boot my PC up, load up word and the hundreds of sub-routines I'll never use along with those stupidly annoying 'helpers' and then type it all put, save it, print it etc etc.
Sure, Word is fine if you spend ages on a PC all day, like I do... but technology gets in the way for some jobs and we're so used to making use of it, we've lost sight of the fact that it could be easier to just do it the old fashioned way....
It's a bit like getting on a bike to go 50 yards... by the time you've sorted yourself out and started pedalling, you could be halfway there already if you'd just walked.
Thats why we have lots of choices Nick.
If i am writing a short letter, i.e. one of, I'll use wordpad, but my handwriting is too bad for me to write it out easily.
If you use a bike to go 50 yards you must be stupid. Especially around here, you;d have to lock it up each end.
Its all down to the user and how they decide to use technology. Everyone has choices, OSS is great in this respect as you have everthing from a plain text editor to a fully featured office suite.
6014 3DMk 05
mobo = technology
sound card = technology
cpu = technology
memory= technology
Fulll functioning, ready made, installed and plug and go system = SOLUTION.
The porblem as I see it is that Hardware dudes like to make their OWN solution. However, not on all levels.
I love building my own PC, but (as I have said 4 million times elsewhere) IF Scan made a pre built shuttle/SFF, with an nForce 2, 2x512, and XP on it for a cheapo price I'd have got one by now, cos it would be easier and cheaper for me to buy and run that build.
Nforce 2 NEARLY became the ultimate solution, EXCEPT it was taken up by the tech heads, and hardware fans, not the mass builders.
IF ACER/MESH/GATEWAY/DELL (add infinitum) build SOLUTIONS that were ready to go AND upgradeable ACROSS THE BOARD...I'd stop building my on PC's.
Palm Pilots and future PDA's were Solutions.
Is that what you mean boss man?
You listened then
Even the question can be interpreted in so many ways, Solution to me means business requirement. Something to fulfil the needs of a specific requirement.
An example, Sales people work from home and have no fax machine, yet the customer wants to fax them an order... Guess they stuck, well perhaps not, i write an application that recieves a fax on a number they buy from me and i digitally encode it and send it onto them in an e-mail they register with me.
Technology enables me to do that.
BUT It doesn't need a 4Ghz processor a superb graphics card. It doesn't need any of the Hyperthreading, PCI Express, SSE3 extensions....
They aren't a solution. I think David could be getting at Technology as an enabler to do something....
So if thats the case we need instead of getting an improvement in PCI Express bandwidth, Give me a solution that NEEDS it....
Develop to the requirements, not to simply make us upgrade, GIVE us a reason to upgrade make it compulsive....
Why go 64bit?, there isn't any 64 bit software, WHY go Athlon X2 if you aren't a graphics designer.
You want technology, give me a system that can do full unscripted speech recognition without the requirement to learn someones voice. Give me the ability to speech recognise E-mail addresses on Telephone systems.
Let me have a real time map of all the locations of the phones in the UK....
Those are the solutions. Build me technology that makes that vision a reality and i'll upgrade.
TiG
-- Hexus Meets Rock! --
that's bigger than a SOlution though surely. That's a larger scale. That's many solutions working together, WITH technology, to create a large scale .....err...
solution
bum...argued myself into a corner again
Believe it or not thats probably technically easier than the other things i wanted.
Full real time speech recognition is expected by 2015 (Read in an Intel Telephone Technology journal recently - but expects the complexity will still need dedicated hardware)
Ability to do real time phone tracking on a government nature is do-able in a year or two (if the desire was there)
TiG
-- Hexus Meets Rock! --
but to me, a ROUTER with FIREWALL is a Solution.
SO is a KVM switch
to me they are solutions.
I think maybe I like packaged solutionsone box means "solution" in Zak speak I think
Well i can give you that fax2email solution in a box.
But routers, Firewalls, KVMs, you can do what with them, with technology?... Make the smaller?.... What else..., keep up with the latest connectivity standards?.
Now tell me that the public at large would accept changes in the 3 pin wall socket as frequently as the PC industry have connectivity changes (at all levels)
CPU Sockets, Card interfaces, Hard disk interfaces, Graphics interfaces, Memory interfaces, Input device interfaces....
The changes of these doesn't provide a solution it creates problems...
TiG
-- Hexus Meets Rock! --
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