Posts by myhandler 370 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2014
I'm a one man company and before that was freelance.
There are massive benefits to the firm structure - "firm memory" is important.. not just "where did you put that" but "how did we handle this three years ago". Sure people leave and things are forgotten - but some long term memory is beneficial.
(Ironically as a long term freelancer I did hold that role on some projects in a large company I was at for too long.. )
Pure outsourcing? Anyone tried it ? It can take as long to manage as to get the job done locally - the load on the manager is doubled, so it only becomes practical on larger projects - and you have to ensure the contractor is then re-contactable in the future - otherwise new person has to learn it all from scratch.
Only problem with firms is the required bureaucracy and nuber of people you may dislike
Eh, this is weird - my luxury office is in the featured Siddeley House - if I'd known El Reg were taking pics you could have had a guided tour - fyi, it's not owned by Serviced Offices but by a private landlord who cares for the building, no expense spared.
(trivia point: my parents knew Tommy Sopwith)
When I moved in I researched the aviation history thoroughly - yes, there should be more than the odd plaque, but what?
Yes, but think how useful they will be for people to make comparative tests on their old (evil) high power vacuum cleaner against a new low power one.
We can then go round the house, using the finger wipe test, to see how much dust is left behind versus power consumed and time taken and then moan at the EU for banning the sale of high power machines.
Have they calculated how many nuclear power stations of energy (nuckergs) it will take to manufacture these things?
Re Arnold L's comment > For some time I've thought it strange that we are forced to take the mix that a sound engineer deems appropriate.
You really think anyone apart from a music nerd is going to bother?
I spend a lot of time messing around in audio mixing DAWs, as an amateur - to do it just for the hell of it will not catch on.
re: " At a previous company we got a consultant in to produce a web application for us, and we stipulated it be written in Java and use our existing data access layer."
I'm afraid its 100% down to bad management on you or your bosses part, and a fail from the guy employed to do the job - but it's no fault of PHP whatsoever.
Anyway apart from the launch , the landing and the few first steps, it's not going get a mass tv audience for months and months is it? Look how interest waned on the Apollo missions and the Moon is big in the sky.
(Unless they maybe do it all in the studio and add some bug eyed monsters .. oh what ? really..? )
The cleric is just another ego fattened twat getting himself publicity.
In 1987 the Mac changed my life - quite literally. Working in design, one arrived at the place I worked , with a freelance operator.
Previously I'd [luckily] turned down the offer of buying for the company a closed system DTP typesetter - made by god knows who...
So I saw the Mac and thought 'yeah glorified typesetter big deal..'
Next week I wanted something graphic done, thinking it might take till the next day to fit it in.
The operator said 'oh, ok hold on' switched to a draw package (this was pre Illustrator 88, so must have been Aldus Freehand).. and went biff baff boff and the thing I wanted came out of the printer.
It really was a revelation.
I became a Mac wiz, then a multimedia wiz and now a web nerd.
Thank you Apple - I may not touch your Macs with a bargepole now, but without that moment I'd have missed the future.
Optical Express spam me with numerous texts.. never been near them.
@MJI: wait till you get a bit older and your close vison will deteriorate to a 1 inch depth of field starting 2 inches from your nose.. mine has.
I've worn glasses (and spells of contacts) for short sight for years (-7) , but now I'd rather get the long sight fixed - makes any close up work a nightmare of glasses on / glasses off, then nose flat against the thing I'm peering at.
I really need an expanded set with different strenghts, two isn't enough..
Pity the watch makers of 200 years ago as they got old..
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