Well, go about 40 years before that and the idea of any sort of regulated day hadn't occured most people. There was a huge expenditure of money and effort by large corporations to get people to start thinking like "employees".
The state in which almost the whole western world lived in prior to the heyday of the Industrial Revolution was one of individual property ownership and complete self-employment. Every man worked at what ever time and level of effort he found necessary to support him and his family.
Despite all the pessimism, it seems to me that workers today in the tech sector have the greatest chance of duplicating that environment. The independent contractor who telecommutes can come fairly close to the lifestyle described above.
I work as an industrial programmer and I am currently working on a centrifuge system that is powered by PC instead of a PLC.
The biggest difficulty with the project is that we are designing the machine for the oilfield and everything has to be explosion proof (gov't standard that defines safety in regard to explosed electrical systems etc). Part of that is that this whole thing has to be able to be hosed down occassionally environments.
If our computer was built with at fanless CPU that could exist in a completely sealed case, my life would be a lot easier.
I think as things like this develop, we will be able to have more and more devices controlled by computers. This gives the potential for much better control and monitoring of entire factories of computer controlled machines.
I must admit to be rather (or thoroughly) inexperienced in enterprise deployment of X Windows, but could someone discuss how well X can be locked down.
We use Citrix and NT where I work for getting high performance database software out into our manufacturing facility without deploying high-end workstations. However, one of the key concerns is the ability to lock down those remote workstations so that there is little to no administrative overhead or problems with inexperienced users messing things up.
Could we do that just as easily with X on the clients? If so, it would be a lot cheaper probably. It would be almost transparent to the user, I expect, and would save us from having to pay the obscene Citrix and NT licensing fees.
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Well, go about 40 years before that and the idea of any sort of regulated day hadn't occured most people. There was a huge expenditure of money and effort by large corporations to get people to start thinking like "employees".
The state in which almost the whole western world lived in prior to the heyday of the Industrial Revolution was one of individual property ownership and complete self-employment. Every man worked at what ever time and level of effort he found necessary to support him and his family.
Despite all the pessimism, it seems to me that workers today in the tech sector have the greatest chance of duplicating that environment. The independent contractor who telecommutes can come fairly close to the lifestyle described above.
I work as an industrial programmer and I am currently working on a centrifuge system that is powered by PC instead of a PLC.
The biggest difficulty with the project is that we are designing the machine for the oilfield and everything has to be explosion proof (gov't standard that defines safety in regard to explosed electrical systems etc). Part of that is that this whole thing has to be able to be hosed down occassionally environments.
If our computer was built with at fanless CPU that could exist in a completely sealed case, my life would be a lot easier.
I think as things like this develop, we will be able to have more and more devices controlled by computers. This gives the potential for much better control and monitoring of entire factories of computer controlled machines.
I must admit to be rather (or thoroughly) inexperienced in enterprise deployment of X Windows, but could someone discuss how well X can be locked down.
We use Citrix and NT where I work for getting high performance database software out into our manufacturing facility without deploying high-end workstations. However, one of the key concerns is the ability to lock down those remote workstations so that there is little to no administrative overhead or problems with inexperienced users messing things up.
Could we do that just as easily with X on the clients? If so, it would be a lot cheaper probably. It would be almost transparent to the user, I expect, and would save us from having to pay the obscene Citrix and NT licensing fees.
Micah the nicknameless