[AccessD] Whilst on Windows 8

"keeping up with people and their pictures and their thoughts, and
communicating with them in short, frequent bursts. Life online is moving
faster and faster, and people are progressively using their PCs to keep
up with and participate in that."

a good reason too get offline and start talking to real people.  Don't
you see where this is leading?  Isolation with the illusion of human
interaction.

isn't anyone else getting fed up with how much time one feels COMPELLED
to be on line just to be part of this modern culture?

Best geek t-shirt: "I went outside once but the graphics were terrible."

Shoot you cell phone.  Unplug your Cat-5.  Feel the sun on your face.
Actually have coffee with someone instead of both drinking it while on
line.

Or is it because I'm old?

Rocky


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [AccessD] Whilst on Windows 8
From: Darryl Collins <darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au>
Date: Mon, June 11, 2012 5:19 pm
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving
(accessd at databaseadvisors.com)" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>

Hi folks,

I found these on the weekend and had a read. It is rather long, but I
found it was well worth a read - however you will need more than a spare
5 minutes though.

<http://www.mobileopportunity.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/fear-and-loathing-and-windows-8.html>

The following quote (taken from the link above) really raises my
concerns and fears about this whole iPad tablet craze..

"People, not files, are the center of activity. There has been a marked
change in the kinds of activities people spend time doing on the PC. In
balance to "traditional" PC activities such as writing and creating,
people are increasingly reading and socializing, keeping up with people
and their pictures and their thoughts, and communicating with them in
short, frequent bursts. Life online is moving faster and faster, and
people are progressively using their PCs to keep up with and participate
in that. And much of this activity and excitement is happening inside
the web browser, in experiences built using HTML and other web
technologies."

Let me <<the author, not Darryl>> translate that for you: "We're
optimizing Windows for using Facebook and YouTube at the expense of
performing productivity tasks."

Yeah, that maybe great for web surfing and Joe and Joette Bogan on the
daily train commute, but if you actually want to do the sort of
productive work that we (and most of the corporate world does) then I
think MS are out of their heads. They seem to be so desperate and
focussed on getting a foothold in Mobile (and tablet) that they are
risking killing the golden goose (namely the whole corporate
productivity 'Office' market).

File management, or the lack of it, also freaks me out. Actually after
reading the way the iPad handles file management (which to me seems
highly inefficient) it has really put me off the idea of one for
anything but media consumption. W8 doesn't seem to be much better, but I
guess it is early days still.

<http://windowssecrets.com/newsletter/how-to-transfer-files-from-windows-to-the-ipad/?u=darklydrawl@yahoo.com.au&r=16913-15810>

Anyway... I found both of these interesting.

You may find some value too.

Cheers
Darryl

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