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Sun Discovers Dumb Terminals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the o-in-old-economy dept.

Yahoo has a story about how Sun is practicing a sort of floating workforce - many employees have no permanent desks, they just come in and log on to a dumb terminal, err, thin client. Besides being a sneaky way to encourage employees to arrive ever earlier at work, it probably is cheaper to run the business off a few large Sun servers - at least for Sun.

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  1. Go ask Chiat/Day about the reality of this... by jpellino · · Score: 3, Funny

    They tried this a while back - get to work, go to a window, get your laptop and cell phone, head off to work in your 'office', the caf, outside, etc. They ditched it after finding it was hell to find anyone to have a meeting, which is still necessary no matter how much cyber you want to throw at a situation. One manager had a two-around rule - if he had to walk around the campus twice to find someone he needed, screw them - go on to something workable.

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    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
    1. Re:Go ask Chiat/Day about the reality of this... by Jonny+290 · · Score: 3, Funny
      Oh, yeah, RIGHT. Like IM is going to get anything done.
      Chat log for room InterfaceProgramming4053

      GeorgeCEO: don't fuck with me man
      GeorgeCEO: i'll kill you fucker
      LunixGuru: I WILL HACK YUOR AIM!
      SusieSecretary: a/s/l?
      LunixGuru: FUCK YUO BIATCH
      JimJanitor: HOT GIRLS PRESS 123 NOW
      SusieSecretary: 123123123123
      GeorgeCEO: slut
      LunixGuru: I need a faster computar
      LunixGuru: My Windows XP 2000 NT machine is slow
      GeorgeCEO: work harder you dumb shit
      GeorgeCEO: i'll kill yuo and your mothar
      SusieSecretary: Anybody want hot chat?
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      Hey Taco! Looks like you're using the "infinite monkeys and typewriters" scheme to generate Ask Slashdots again...
  2. We had this when I was a kid... by bubblegoose · · Score: 5, Funny

    they called it musical chairs

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    I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handey
  3. LOL!!! Dilbert !!! by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dilbert comic from 1995 January 09.

    Scene: A staff meeting is in progress...

    PHB With Diagram: We're taking away your cubicles. In the new system you'll sign up for whatever cube is open that day.

    PHB: It's based on the model of public restrooms. But I call it "hotelling" because it increases my chances of getting tips.

    PHB: Each cubicle will have a computer, a chair, and a roll of note paper ... take on and pass it around. [Hands out notepaper roll which looks like toilet paper roll.]

  4. We already do this at my job... by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but it pisses everyone off because I'm the only one doing it so I leave my crap everywhere.

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    Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.

  5. Show up early, get McNealy's office! by GGardner · · Score: 5, Funny

    "'You come in early, you get a good a parking space, you get a good office.' Chief Executive Scott McNealy has summed up the iWork program. "

    How early do I have to come in to get Scott's office?

  6. Re:Real brilliant. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So let me get this straight...

    • You weren't clever enough to defend your continued need of an Ultra, so they took it from you.
    • You then left in a huff and wound up working for IBM, a company well *known* to be a faceless, colorless, soul-sucking pit.
    • IBM canned you 2 days ago.

    I don't know whether to laugh or cry.