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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Re:Email: Even though it's admissible in court. (Score:5, Insightful)
FTFY
Only one option works for global operations (Score:5, Insightful)
Japan is +14 hours to us, Europe +5 to +8. That whole instantaneous communication thing is hard to do with someone who is sleeping and they are not in the next cube. If they are asleep in the next cube, then its fun.
Email (Score:5, Insightful)
And I like it that way. Email can involve other people. Its offline communication and works in multiple timezones and odd hours. It can be referenced later. It is clear because it is written. I think email is the best thing ever invented. I've never worked without it, and I could not imagine work without it. You could throw away my phone, and I would hardly notice. Take email away, and I honestly could not function. I don't know how work worked before email. Could not imagine. The only thing negative about email is when you need constant back and forth, and then I switch to IM or phone, but email is and will always be #1 in my book.
Re:Video Chat (Score:5, Insightful)
How can e-mail be slower than transmitting hundreds of times the data to get moving pictures? If anything, e-mail is slowed because of video conferencing eating all the bandwidth. Stop using centralized e-mail services, and send mail directly, and it's quick and reliable. Seeing a blurry picture of a drawing, on the other hand, is imprecise and eats up bandwidth.
And this is why IT people get a reputation for not understanding the business. Email is slower at communicating what needs to be communicated, we're talking people time not bandwidth. Yes, you can send a drawing via email but you can't easily coordinate what you're explaining with the drawing. It's a lot easier to say "if you look at this joint *here* and follow the flow down to *here*" and point on a live broadcast than to either explain it orally or circle it in Photoshop and send the drawing over and over again. The bandwidth you could save isn't worth wasting a person on minimum wage's time on, far less professional engineers.
Re:Video Chat (Score:2, Insightful)
And this is why IT people get a reputation for not understanding the business. Email is slower at communicating what needs to be communicated, we're talking people time not bandwidth. Yes, you can send a drawing via email but you can't easily coordinate what you're explaining with the drawing.
If what you send needs explaining, then something is wrong with the communication, not the communication form.
It's a lot easier to say "if you look at this joint *here* and follow the flow down to *here*" and point on a live broadcast than to either explain it orally or circle it in Photoshop and send the drawing over and over again.
As oppose to spending two minutes writing down what you mean in a way that can be understood, and isn't ambiguous?
If you absolutely have to send an image, only send what's relevant.
Again, if you get e-mails back asking for clarification, your e-mail wasn't clear. That's not a fault of the medium, but how you (ab)used it.