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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas L Nielsen who wrote (434276)	7/27/2003 2:34:16 PM
From: Red Heeler	Respond to of 769667

We're all to blame to some extent. Bush in charge? I'm not sure he could pass a Folstein Mini Mental Exam: endeavor.med.nyu.edu CC

To: Thomas L Nielsen who wrote (434276)	7/27/2003 2:54:51 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

Wake up and smell the coffee. The economy is getting better, due to Bush's reversal of the Clinton/Rubin disaster....

To: Thomas L Nielsen who wrote (434276)	7/27/2003 4:05:15 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Computers are getting faster and cheaper and that drives the development cost of all product faster and makes them better and cheaper. The current blip in the realignment of required job skills is a normal artefact of the speed of change the nature of the required skills. It the normal lag of needed skills vs workforce skills. For example the development of middleware for IT management tasks eliminated the need for many IT professionals. The analysis of many common user problems and the fixes, plug and play etc eliminated the need to have that guy who could get your pc to work. Today it does not take much skill or knowledge at all to get a linux running. In fact in many many cases it will be plug and play little different than installing a msft virus. That's productivity. You have to read. kurzweilai.net It explains it all so well. Well it's obvious to me but I lived the tech revolution and saw how having the right tools made one 5 times as productive as others who did not. I authored a process design change that reduced the workers required from 16.3 to 2.01. That was not the intent of the change. I focused on simplicity, accuracy and reliability. I had not considered that fallout of my design. I just saw or listened to all the problems and frustrations in the curent process and then designed to minimize the problems. It was so accurate and reliable that the manufacturing resources required to produce the same "good" product was reduced.