RE: About a word - how busy are you?

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

How busy is this sucker?

:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com] 
Sent: May-31-13 12:11 PM
To: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: About a word - how busy are you?

McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: 
 
> A developer has called a customer-requested feature a "busyness" counter.
> 
> It's reminiscent of the CPU Usage and Memory Usage that you see at the 
> left- hand side of the "Performance" tab window in Windows Task 
> Manager... the instantaneous  indications, not the history graphs.  
> Also, this is command- line-only. Numbers are spit out every few 
> seconds. No graphs, unless customer makes their own by importing the counter output file into (say) Excel.
> 
> Both the developer and PLM dislike "Usage counter" (or just Usage), 
> because of the need to distance the measured entity from "performance" 
> - given that Microsoft has already embedded the association in so many 
> (Windows users) minds.
> 
> Performance, in our industry has a real, empirical meaning, and is 
> expressed in standardized RESULT terms.  That is, the trailing indicator "performance"
> is only vaguely and partially related to leading indicator "busyness" 
> or "usage" (or whatever else I could call it).

Kevin, you haven't told us what this "busyness" counter is actually counting. :-)

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
------
rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-903-6372
------






The information contained in this electronic mail transmission 
may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected 
from disclosure. If you have received this communication in 
error, please notify us immediately by replying to this 
message and deleting it from your computer without copying 
or disclosing it.


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
New! Doc-to-Help 2013 features the industry's first HTML5 editor for authoring.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/ZeOZeQ

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to
techwr-l-leave -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com


Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwhirl.com/email-discussion-groups/ for more resources and info.

Looking for articles on Technical Communications?  Head over to our online magazine at http://techwhirl.com

Looking for the archived Techwr-l email discussions?  Search our public email archives @ http://techwr-l.com/archives