[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 @ 12:45 -0500, Kurt Huhn said:

> On Fri, April 1, 2005 12:17, Brian Dunbar said:
> > I have just been told by a PM that he wished I used a real email
> > client.  What, I said?  Yah, when you reply to email it's all weird
> > with little '>' characters and it's hard to read.  You should use
> > Outlook he continued.
> >
> > It's official.  THEY have convinced EVERYONE that doing things the hard
> > way is the easy way.  War is peace and black is the new white.  (head
> > explodey).
> 
> For some reason, the larger portion of Corporate America seems completely
> incapable of reading email unless it's top-posted, color coded, and
> rendered in Comic Sans.  Funny little characters indeed....

It will get worse.

Where a friend of mine works they have "upgrade" all their desktops and
servers so that audio and video can be embedded in email too.

Now some of the suits actually send videos instead of typing a message.

It can be worse of course: in another shop someone told me about
last year, they have made desktop vidcams the standard for internal
communication.  Now a lot of people use it instead of the phone, and get
upset if you don't.

It shouldn't take much imagination to see where this is leading:

    - video meetings
    - elmination of telephones, and *ALL* communication made via
      video conference software
    - closed desktops configured to enforce mandatory use

Those of you who wish you didn't have to answer phone calls... be
careful what you wish for.

> Then you have things like Outlook Web Acces and Notes that make it
> *impossible* to send a plain text message.  IMPOSSIBLE!  In OWA, there is
> no setting to make a message "plain text".  It doesn't exist.

Yep.  It sucks bad too.

The other problem is what to do in the future when you lose the
software, and cannot read your own data.  This is especially stupid and
scary when you think about mandatory remote license policing and other
crap like that.



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