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Can we keep up?
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Posted about 1 year ago With the speed that technology is changing and the new and cool developments that are hitting the market today. Can we keep up with the technology that is coming? When I say we I mean the mom and pops of the world as well as the small business owner. With Fiber optics. Cat 6e, Smart Phones, Blue tooth, and the integrated phone systems. Will the mom and pops of the world embrase it or run for the hills? Let me know what you think. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago No problem, we are born with technology, computer programming. Keeping up should be called : Can we afford it... |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Supercreep said: I agree. Keeping up isn't that hard to do. It's paying for all this new technology that I find difficult. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I know what you mean. the price sure does not make things that easy. But for what you can get the technolgy to do. I think that the money is reasonable. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago doesn't it seem though, that after a year or two or three that the prices tend to go down? look at the microwave for instance.... i saw one at a local store for $40. i remember when my parents bought their first one. if i remember correctly, it was somewhere around $300 for about the same watts. the problem is when you don't want to wait 2 or 3 years to buy something, because the new now is old then. lol |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Hardware isn't so bad when you think about it, it's the software packages and support that kick you when your down. If you take a look at your investments for a year you will notice that maybe 20% of your investment was the actual hardware the other 80% is software support and service. say you buy a $600 (omg) iphone then have an $80/month contract thats $600 for the hardware then $960 for the service for a year, then you keep the phone for another year with the initial $600 but now you have payed $1920...and so on...now the $600 phone wasn't the big hit now was it? |
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| Posted 9 months ago I have a good friend (need to get back in touch with him), whose side business logo is (was?) "comfortable living on the trailing edge of technology." You can afford it if you go for the cheap knockoffs and wait a year as one of the replies hinted. Also, this is harder, you have to be firm with your current employer to keep them from running you to death on the "urgency treadmill." That is what I thought this topic was going to be about when I read the title... I have 24 years professional experience in this field. I would say I really entered it when I was 13 and picked up copies of Navy field manuals on radio propagation and transistor theory, and got access to my first soft programmable device, a 20 lb. desktop calculator with nixie tube display. I have tracked most of the transitions in the industry, staying about 2 years behind the trends. This has allowed filtering some of the bogus fads while missing only a few of the key bubbles. I am finally in my first layoff, and chalk it up to having let myself get on the treadmill. You have to find room to devote 30% of your energy to learning. If you cannot carve that out, you will stagnate rapidly. |
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| Posted 6 months ago I believe that mom and pop shops face the same problem as everyone else does.. They either have to learn, or get out the way. I am not a teacher but, I am very into education. If your mom and pop shop aren't tech fans.. and follow the market they are gunna get ripped off. Thats just like anyone else in the world. *if* you own your own business no matter what is is.. You have to know about the market as a whole. For example if I find out the company that ships me my supply uses trucks which use 15 miles to the gallon.. And has been charging me 400 dollars (for whatever interval is fair). for 4 years... Well.. If I find out they just upgraded the trucks to get 80 miles to the gallon and didn't pay a dime to do it.... I am gunna want a bit of a cut sooner or later becuase they are now making a lot of profit. Technology in vehicles, computers, entertainment and everywhere is constantly in flux... *if* you don't want to learn your only options are pay somoene reliable who does.. Or don't complain when things don't work out so well for you.. |
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| Posted 5 months ago Learning is an essential partt of technology. Electronics and communication technology changes generally take about 10 years to filter down to the consumer; used to be 20. I have seen things come on the market more quickly than before from prototype stages. I've been working with various forms of technology well, longer than I'd like to admit. Computers had large, very cold rooms, paper tape and card readers....I started learning electronics with HeathKits. At that time my teachers wouldn't let me take the classes I wanted because they weren't appropriate for girls. I bucked the system when I got out of school; but thankfully that attitude has changed and Its much better now, One thing has been consistent throughout my time in the field and that is the level of learning required is constant. Maintaining a handle on new technology, changes to technology. In my office, I have a library of books gauranteed to put the worst insomniac to sleep. I read them the books, keep current and I go online and research. No choice or I become a dinosaur,
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| Posted 5 months ago NMc says ... doesn't it seem though, that after a year or two or three that the prices tend to go down? look at the microwave for instance.... i saw one at a local store for $40. i remember when my parents bought their first one. if i remember correctly, it was somewhere around $300 for about the same watts. the problem is when you don't want to wait 2 or 3 years to buy something, because the new now is old then. lol Agreed, the trick is to try & weight up pick the times you buy your technology at the times the give you the right balance of being able to offord the nicest possible stuff & still save plenty of money to upgrade to the next model when the time comes or your stuff dies |
