| ??? 09/09/09 15:49 Modified: 09/09/09 15:51 Read: times |
#168825 - My situation is not like yours, Per Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Per Westermark said:
Richard Erlacher said:
We don't use FAX, as it's too slow and inefficient. The same document can be sent via email 100x as fast with fewer errors, and totally readable, unlike FAX.
I can have an acknowledgment from Rawalpindi or Frankfurt long before my FAX can establish a link. Email doesn't wrinkle the original document, nor does it mess up the image. We quit using FAX 15 years ago. And you don't care about customers who wants to use fax? Wait - dont' answer that. It's not that I don't care ... I just don't have any. By the way - today's fax machines can receive a fax and mail the received fax - different email receivers depending on who sent the fax. And today's faxes are integrated with printers, so any printable document can be faxed without any scanning involved. And if you do happen to have a written papper from somewhere (that just can't be mailed without first being digitized) you can scan it to a pdf or a fax. It was probably 15 years since fax machines could be completely paperless. Yes, and we all have the paperless fax capability, but nobody, aside from a couple of banks and insurance companies with whom I sometimes deal has ever wanted me to use FAX. It turns a 2kB text file into a 1.2 MB image and sends that at audio rates over the POTS line. PDF pumps 'em up quite a bit, too. I can read an email and reply in the time it takes the FAX to establish a connection. Richard said:
So ... it doesn't matter that it bothers others? I tolerate ambient-120db ... sometimes as loud as ambient-80db. If it can be measured, it's too loud! If you need to listen to something, then do it elsewhere. The only time you're expected to be in the office is when your work is behind schedule. If you take off leaving work behind schedule, you may find your final check when you return. You accept noise as long as it is 120dB below ambient? Now please give us your full contact information. I think I can send a lot of work in your direction. It is normally quite hard to measure sounds below the ambient, which is the reason why audio laboratories invests so much money in sound-proofed rooms. Signal analysis can process repetitive signals and extract data even if the signal is quite a number of dB below the noise level. But 80 or 120 dB below is most definitely a world record. Most audio equipment can't even manage 120dB full dynamic range. You are outstanding. If you on the other hand switches direction and talk about sound relative 20 μPa, then 0dB is the limit a normal human being can hear at 1kHz. +120 dB would then be the level where you start to risk hearing damages after short-term exposure, while +80dB could lead to hearing damages after long-time exposure. ambient + 40dB would represent someone who talks quite loudly in a room, and quite a lot of developers would like to use a headset with music just to not have to hear that blabbermouth - the distraction from that talk would affect the productivity of quite a lot of people... You really show that you know what you are talking about. Do you use similar randomly-invented pseudo-facts when communicating with your customers? What's wanted is for people to be able to work in relative isolation, undisturbed by the quirks and foibles of others. Isolation spec's is where I got those numbers, which are between modules in one or another cryptography implement. I probably don't even want to know that the stuff that someone else enjoys hearing every day exists, and he may feel likewise about what I like to hear. In the lab and office, there's usually soft baroque or classical music in the background. I can meet with clients here, but seldom do, and I rarely have more than one guy working here, since the only reason for them to be here is to use equipment they don't have. They prefer their own environs, and I prefer it that way, too. I partition the work so that I know each fellow can do it within the required time, and I discourage interaction between them, as there's no need. If questions arise, I handle 'em. It's worked fine since 1980. Before that, I worked for an old friend in his company. My long-term guys are gradually dying off, and I haven't looked for anyone new for my org. There's only one of them left now, and he'd be the one to ask about those sound levels, as he's worked with that sort of thing for about 50 years, has PhD in EE and physics, and taught at the University for some time. I imagine we'd retire if people would just stop calling. RE |
