Processors looking for a good home (OT)y

[Kareem Shehata]

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> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Lennart
> Sorensen
> Sent: Monday 17 September 2007 16:21
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Processors looking for a good home (OT)y
> 
> Strange given how many emails many people get, I would think it could be
> hard to remember what every thread has as a context.  Of course it
> doesn't help with the kind of crap some people put as the subject
> (assuming they even put anything).  Also for any kind of technical
> discussion you often have multiple points to discuss and trying to
> figure out the references is extremely hard when using top posting.  I
> find much of the emails sent within companies is very poor in terms of
> being communications.  Top posting is probably a large part of that, as
> is the general inability to have good written communications for a few
> people. :)

Yea, we could argue for a long time about top-posting and other details, but
that's one thing we can agree on: "business communication" is mostly
terrible.  One of the most frustrating times of my career was trying to
co-ordinate the software end (pardon me, the "Control System") of a project
spread across the continent and into Asia, with a Project Manager who typed
with two fingers and could barely spell.  It wouldn't have bothered me so
much if his essential job function wasn't pure communication.

> I guess it has gotten worse in the years since I last used it.

Yea, if it wasn't for everything else that integrates with it, not to
mention that one of the few things MS has done decently is the Tablet PC
integration, I'd drop it like a hot potato.  As it is, Outlook syncs
conveniently with my Nokia phone and if I decide to re-install iTunes then
it'll also throw my calendar on my iPod.

Much as I like my Ubuntu desktop and I'm not likely to ever run an MS
server, the pragmatist in me still looks for the best solution to each
problem, and still sees the value in this one Windows PC.  At least until
Vista becomes inevitable, which would essentially be "push comes to shove".

-kms


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