I'd be surprised, especially given the historically abysmal adoption rates of new IE versions. If you're serious, you still have to support IE 7 - no other browser has any market share worth mentioning going back even nearly as far.

However the last two corporations I worked for had this asinine attempt to force coworkers into social contact with each other.

That's funny in a sad way, considering how badly corporations have broken THE social contract.

I would agree with this, except I would put classical music [classicalforums.com] and/or binaural music [blogspot.com] above silence, as both have been shown to improve concentration and reduce learning and recall times.

I'm not sure the binaural thing has been conclusively shown to have a benefit, but I have found that listening to music with binaural beats does make me feel like my mind is clearer and more capable of extended periods of concentration.

Silence would be best, I think, but the problem with the average office is that it is anything but silent, even when it's quiet. There are keyboards clacking, machines humming, cpu fans whirring and air conditioners blowing.

The main thing I'd like to say about this article is that I'm more concerned about what is making workers happy than what makes them a few percentage points more productive.

Everybody is already plenty productive. Too productive, maybe. Our lives are out of balance when it comes to productivity/happiness. Almost everyone I know could stand to be a little less productive and a little more content.

I'm not too bothered by it all. As a wise man once said, I don't mind if I have to pay, so long as the people who've been pocketing my premiums also have to pay. Of course that was about insurance, but the same principle applies.

I don't care if I get anything out of it, just as long as the cocksuckers have to pay.

It's just unit conversion, something everyone learns in the first year of (for example) chemistry class anyway.

That was so long ago...

The only thing I remember from my first year of chemistry was that my lab partner wore very short skirts.

I was talking about the macro-economy. Your billing argument is a micro-economy view and totally besides the point. It's not wrong, it's worse than wrong.

Agreed. I maintain my point: Fuck them, let them feel the full impact of their stupid decision, it'll cause them to make better decisions next time.

It goes to their mail, but with tons of G+ crap wrapped around it.

Has anyone created a gateway for FB, G+, etc.? I can tell FB to send me an e-mail whenever I get a FB message, I can probably write some curl script to fetch the actual message and post an answer - but maybe someone has already done it? Integrate FB messaging into your e-mail program?

Mostly because people are printing out e-mails to take them to meetings.

The iPad does more for the paperless office vision than all other inventions of the past 10 years combined. The one thing it doesn't allow for is spreading out all your stuff in front of you to look important (managers) or get an overview (non-managers).

But in these cases, they don't really use the messaging functionality of e-mail addresses. They use the unique identifier functionality.

A "degree" is a unit of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle; an arc one degree long is about 1/57.3 of the distance from the eye. If a display is held 12 inches from the eyes, one degree is about 0.21 inch. This means the angular density of a 326 dpi display is 68 pixels per degree.

Dammit, I didn't know there was gonna be math on this discussion.

Is this going to be graded on a curve?