The Biggest Roadblocks To Information Technology Development

ZDOne writes "ZDNet UK has put together a list of some of the biggest obstacles preventing information technology from achieving its true potential, in terms of development and progress. Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop makes the list, as does the chip-makers' obsession with speed. 'There is more to computing than processor speed -- a point which can be easily proven by comparing a two-year-old PC running Linux with a new PC buckling under the weight of Vista. Shrinking the manufacturing process to enable greater speed has proven essential, but it's running out of magic ... What about smarter ways of tagging data? The semantic web initiative runs along these sorts of lines, so where is the hardware-based equivalent?'"

Re:Biggest roadblock?

[cayenne8]

"IT workers and their know-it-all attitudes."

Nah....#1 Answer: PHB's [wikipedia.org] !!

We're out of solutions

[Gizzmonic]

All technological breakthroughs have happened already. The fax machine was the pinnacle of human achievement. Just give up.

Re:Paraphrase?

[truthsearch]

You don't come back to your keyboard to find the letters rearranged (or even missing) each day

Depends on if your office is next to mine. :)

But I agree with you. I find it ridiculously annoying. Anything the vast majority of users wouldn't use should be moved to a more obscure location. Anything I never use should just sit there. I can handle not clicking it all by myself.

Re:The number one problem

[Bob-taro]

I think we need to change error messages to things that are technically accurate, with hyperlinks to wikipedia.

Instead of Windows saying "This network has limited or no connectivity" and leaving the user to puzzle out exactly what the hell that means, it should just say "Unable to obtain an [[IP address]] from the [[DHCP]] server: operation timed out."

(user clicks link)

"The page cannot be displayed."

... this is like the old joke about the network admin only reachable by email.

More Women?

[stewbacca]

Even the best technical process could benefit from a little humanity.

I translate this, not as needing more women, rather as needing LESS nerds.

Re:Agreed

[JohnBailey]

"It says click OK to continue... what should I do?" This is the kind of question I get to deal with at work.

Hit the Any key obviously...