Im kind of somewhere between being an OPTIMIST and a REALIST..guess that makes me an "Opthalmist"...but i just cant see where im going with an outlook like this...
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| Author: | JD [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | The Phone system Transcends borders. |
Halting progress and technology is a fact of life that is unattainable but in many cases it can be slowed to a level that suits those who might least benefit from change, however, eventually progress and technology overtake events and they always succeed in the end. We know that change is inevitable in the taxi trade but how much can that change be slowed? Telecommunications has developed to such an extent that even those learned scholars of years gone by would have been hard pressed to envisage the reality of the world we live in today? How many of them would have dreamed of a world of mobile telephones and the internet, to mention just two modern technologies? No doubt I will be long gone when real change falls at the door of the combined hire and reward industry but there is no doubt in my mind that inevitably it will and when it does the hire and reward industry will be turned completely on its head and those who do not have the ability to adapt will be left floundering in the wake of those that do? Perhaps I am too much of a realist but freedom of thought does give me the option of being either a realist, optimist or pessimist, the fact I choose the former negates any explanation of the latter. It won't get me anywhere because I've already been there but regardless of whether I'm an optimistic realist or a pessimistic realist it is you guys who are the future of the hire and reward industry and it is you who these changes will impact upon. I just wonder which category you fit into when it comes down to being a realist, optimist or pessimist? A few years ago I wrote a long piece in a thread on TDO about Technology and change, the reason being is that we all must be aware that change sooner or later is inevitable. How that change is managed is another issue but one which you guys will eventually have to answer. Regards JD |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Phone system Transcends borders. |
JD wrote: I just wonder which category you fit into when it comes down to being a realist, optimist or pessimist?
Put me down as an optimist, as I firmly believer the trade has a great future. Despite what the doom-mongers say, more and more people are using our services, and despite the down-turn in the economy the trade is still going strong. Yes some areas are a bit iffy at the mo, but if this trade improves the quality of vehicle and driver, improves the viability and safety of the job, then IMO it will only go from strength to strength. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:20 am ] |
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thanks sussex, i was going a bit wobbly last night, but i have renewed vigour after reading that anyway, at the worst ive ended up with a posh transit with windows in it and £1000 insurance.......sob... as for technology, well - GPS, live tracking, t'internet, GPRS phones BUT, even wayback when, radios knew of no borough border limitations, the writing was on the wall 30 years ago, its the legislation thats being left behind, ive just been asked on a form "will you fit a radio phone"...wtf is one of them?......lol |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:07 pm ] |
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Im kind of somewhere between being an OPTIMIST and a REALIST..guess that makes me an "Opthalmist"...but i just cant see where im going with an outlook like this...
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:26 pm ] |
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One day we will have free call diversion, its a bloody rip off at the moment |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:15 pm ] |
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bloodnock wrote: Im kind of somewhere between being an OPTIMIST and a REALIST..guess that makes me an "Opthalmist"...but i just cant see where im going with an outlook like this...
im bysexual if i want sex, i have to buy it and tempremental - part temper part mental |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:16 pm ] |
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skippy41 wrote: One day we will have free call diversion, its a bloody rip off at the moment
skippy, are you independent/no circuit/no radio rent? |
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:35 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: skippy41 wrote: One day we will have free call diversion, its a bloody rip off at the moment skippy, are you independent/no circuit/no radio rent? Yes why |
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| Author: | MR T [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:20 pm ] |
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Gone are the days when we had to put four pennies in the telephone to get a job or press button B if the Office was busy 
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:24 pm ] |
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MR T wrote: Gone are the days when we had to put four pennies in the telephone to get a job or press button B if the Office was busy
What you never learned the tap system, tap out the numbers by taping the bit where the receiver went 
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| Author: | MR T [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:30 pm ] |
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skippy41 wrote: MR T wrote: Gone are the days when we had to put four pennies in the telephone to get a job or press button B if the Office was busy What you never learned the tap system, tap out the numbers by taping the bit where the receiver went |
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Phone system Transcends borders. |
JD wrote: I just wonder which category you fit into when it comes down to being a realist, optimist or pessimist?
Great post Mr JD! For the record I'm a cautiously, optimistic, realist. And OFT956 already mentioned in passing that GPRS phones & GPS dispatch systems could soon be advanced to a stage where the customer phoning for a taxi would be able to be directly connected to the nearest free vehicle's driver. The mind boggles as to what will be realistically enforceable in 10 years time. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Phone system Transcends borders. |
Brummie Cabbie wrote: JD wrote: I just wonder which category you fit into when it comes down to being a realist, optimist or pessimist? Great post Mr JD! For the record I'm a cautiously, optimistic, realist. And OFT956 already mentioned in passing that GPRS phones & GPS dispatch systems could soon be advanced to a stage where the customer phoning for a taxi would be able to be directly connected to the nearest free vehicle's driver. The mind boggles as to what will be realistically enforceable in 10 years time. Thus proving the point that new legislation would be a fruitless waste of cash
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Phone system Transcends borders. |
captain cab wrote: Brummie Cabbie wrote: JD wrote: I just wonder which category you fit into when it comes down to being a realist, optimist or pessimist? Great post Mr JD! For the record I'm a cautiously, optimistic, realist. And OFT956 already mentioned in passing that GPRS phones & GPS dispatch systems could soon be advanced to a stage where the customer phoning for a taxi would be able to be directly connected to the nearest free vehicle's driver. The mind boggles as to what will be realistically enforceable in 10 years time. Thus proving the point that new legislation would be a fruitless waste of cash So we plod on in chaos & unenforceability then. I think that legislators in some fields of statute have already realised the pace of technology is outstripping legislation & have started to use wording that 'sees into the future' to use a phrase. The only problem with that is the wording is so all encompassing to reflect what might happen in the future, that the new legislation ends up more vague than what it is trying to correct or replace. It's a difficult issue. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Phone system Transcends borders. |
Brummie Cabbie wrote: captain cab wrote: Brummie Cabbie wrote: JD wrote: I just wonder which category you fit into when it comes down to being a realist, optimist or pessimist? Great post Mr JD! For the record I'm a cautiously, optimistic, realist. And OFT956 already mentioned in passing that GPRS phones & GPS dispatch systems could soon be advanced to a stage where the customer phoning for a taxi would be able to be directly connected to the nearest free vehicle's driver. The mind boggles as to what will be realistically enforceable in 10 years time. Thus proving the point that new legislation would be a fruitless waste of cash So we plod on in chaos & unenforceability then. I think that legislators in some fields of statute have already realised the pace of technology is outstripping legislation & have started to use wording that 'sees into the future' to use a phrase. The only problem with that is the wording is so all encompassing to reflect what might happen in the future, that the new legislation ends up more vague than what it is trying to correct or replace. It's a difficult issue. Your PC is out of date the moment it leaves the shop...as is your television, your cab, your phone. As I've said before...will any new legislation be so remotely removed from what we have currently? Somehow I dont think so....everytime you get a slow puncture you dont buy a new cab. CC |
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