Comment 404 in Canada (Score 1) 286
I have tried several ways but the download link to the android market is a 404 here in Canada. Is this a shared result or should I report it to Skype?
I have tried several ways but the download link to the android market is a 404 here in Canada. Is this a shared result or should I report it to Skype?
There is much missing from the above, the current ISO9001 certification ISO9001:2000 has other requirements for a 'Quality Management System' above what was stated already. Much of it boils down to something similar to above:-
'Say what you do', 'Do what you say', 'Measure them both', and 'Offer proof of ongoing improvement in the customers perception of quality'.
Anyway, so the question as asked. There are many products out there that state ISO9000 document control conformity, my company used several including Sharepoint and a very restrictive system called Quality Workbench.
My opinion is that if you want an easy life, go for something very restrictive and conforming. Your Quality Assessor will love you (I was one) and its an easy tick in the box. BUT, your colleagues will soon hate you and loath the very ground on which you walk for making their life harder. That will in the end result in them bypassing the standards to get the job done. So make their life easier and yours a little harder and use something more human, my current favourite is a good Wiki, and before you go moaning that a wiki cannot for the core of an assessable document control system just think. Its all in the definition!
If you define the document control system as a fluid, managed system where each interest party is kept informed of managed changes then that can be a wiki. Every change is tracked, notified and can be discussed, inline at any time then it seems to me that it is the system of choice. You will though spend much time with the assessor explaining al your control methods.
None of this makes any sense in this 24h, online world. Why not just abandon the whole timezone illusion altogether.
For the purpose of timekeeping and keeping everyone in sync, have everyone use Universal Time (UT) or GMT which is more or less the same thing. The military have done this for years calling it Zulu time.
For working days, everyone adopt flexy-time dependant on who and where you have to report with is. Go in at a time that suites you and work your agreed hours.
For media, release programming, world wide at a specific time (we are going to timeshift anyway) so why not take advantage and shortcut the cross border pirates grabbing media early.
Advantages:-
No rush hours = fuel savings + less accidents + lower stress levels.
International Trade improved by knowing when a meeting starts and being there.
Education, once taught in schools that the position of the sun related to the clock depends on where you are then every child will now have an accurate mental image of our rotating world. Thus being able to see us a one world, one people, clinging to a thin veneer of habitability on a fragile world.
That way at least if they survive our mistake, the next generation will not repeat them.
HOLY MACRO!