"Instead of focusing on being an auction business, we are looking at what it takes to create the best marketplace out there."
This is what happens when a company gets too big. ebay can't see that it won such wide adoring attention though being an open auction house. Adding buy it now was cool, as sometimes I didn't want to wait 5 days just to get outbid.
Now they are trying to create a marketplace inside a marketplace. They want everyone to be part of *THEIR* marketplace, that they control, they assess the taxes and fees and keep the peace.
Great point...but... How does this not apply to Mac or Linux? Why was the OP directing towards Windows? You didn't answer that and his point is still irrelevant.
Why don't we see SpyBot S&D installed by default? Why not Firefox (or any other browser other than IE for that matter)? Why don't we get Avast Home or AVG
Meh, becuase then we would be bitching about how all the computers come with a bunch of crap loaded on them.
The whole point of socialized medicine and group health care is so that the healthy can help support the unhealthy and bring the cost to a reasonable level for everyone. You can't have the socialized medical plan and charge the fat kid who eats cake too!
Mentally, I think business IT - point and click Windows administration, network maintenance, exchange account setup, etc, as tasks that someone can be trained to do. You see adverts for IT training, and that's the type of stuff they're talking about. You must not administer a Windows network, or Exchange. If you did, you wouldn't be so quick to claim it is boring. Last week I setup our exchange server to output some data to a database, making it usable for other stuff. You probably don't understand what that means, but it's pretty cool stuff.
Also your muted claim that Windows administration is not easy is way off base. This may be true for a company with 1 or 2 servers, but get to about 20-30 and you actually have to know something about system administration. You can't just point and click anywhere, you have to know what those actions accomplish. You do realize that the basic foundations of a network (DNS, DHCP, email, and so on) are the same no matter what the OS running the show?
And have you heard of vbscript? Powershell? In the past two years I have probably written 10,000 lines of vbscript stuff to manage the network.
I don't mind the MS bashing around here, but must you try to claim that I am not a geek/nerd if I work on Windows? Get over yourself.
You damn AC people have to stop!!!
mac fanboiz this and that
pc lovers all over
Linux zealots!
BLAH!
So tired of this crap
it has to end FLAMERS TROLLS!!
go back home and quit this crap
To all the others saying this deal is underhanded or whatever... consider this. A moron like me, with a pretty bad credit history, got a loan in 2004 for 5.25 and it wasn't adjustable!!! Plus I am not in the public eye!
I would suggest just a minor tweak. Some (not sure on who and what models) modern laptops have an emergency battery inside, for when you lose power. It acts as a battery backup and gives the laptop enough time to complete a hibernate. I would highly recommend a battery like this in ALL laptops. The weight is minimal for a battery that will last 15-20 minutes and provide protection from spikes, dips, and short outages.
No, it really isn't that bad. But we do have sensitive IP (sort-of) and if that got into our competitor's hands, we would eventually see losses (as they developed the product). I realize they are probably smart enough to use yahoo or gmail, but the top guns wanted to make sure we protect ourselves as much as possible. IMHO, it is a resonable precaution.
Yeah, I don't think I was clear on my OP. We use an automated email filter, the same for spam, but it also flags "offensive" material, which you can set to be just about anything you want. I don't just go browsing through the user's inbox.
it's very hard to find suitable components as well as good case. That is the great thing about ITX, all you need for a case is an old VCR, old Hummer RC car, or I even made a computer out of an old CRT monitor shell, and put an LCD in the front.... sort of an iPC.
If you ever wanted proof that my "echo chamber" comment was on the money, a flamebait mod for legitimately discussing the subject will do it. The first sentence in your OP stated that everyone here is biased and that the/. crowd doesn't participate in a contructive discussion. What you don't realize is that you are the one that is not being constructive.
First, if you want an unruly crowd to listen, start with a meaningful point that is on-topic. Don't just start telling everyone they are stupid and ignorant. Read up on Socrates, read something about how to form an argument, how to pursuade people; becuase you obviously have no clue of how to do that.
I was under the impression that it isn't the employee's email and files, but the company's. There is no right to privacy on a work computer; your files are the company's files. That is what I tell all of our users.
How is this any different than installing an email filter that reports anytime the word "job opportunity" "sex" or whatever???
I have actually been given access to review email and such for employees communicating with our competitors, looking for jobs, etc. This is normal practice as far as I am concerned.
Unless you live in south texas... It will be hot, high around 98, low around 76, cloudy and humid in the morning, burning off in the afternoon... for the next 3 months. Holy crap, I'm a god to the meterologist.
Advertising. You go to youtube, and you see their ads. Plus the get the hits to show off to everyone and jack up advertising prices. If they allow downloads, you don't hit the site, you don't see the ads, and youtube loses money. They might be able to tack on ads to the downloaded movies (ie, bottom bar, like the score in sporting stuff), but I would guess there are legal and techinical hurdles.
But you are right, just download TFV and be done with it. Youtube and on demand video (over the internet) were a great idea 10 years ago... but now that most users have at least a 250GB hdd, you should just be downloading and saving.
The private group won't estimate when the network might be completed (it's at 80%), saying it will take months to assess where the project is and what it need Half of that sentence isn't true. Either you need months to asses, or you know it's at 80%. Not both.
We just thought about doing this for a slightly different reason. Trailers are a funny loophole in US regulations. If you pull a trailer inside a building, the building inspectors come (enviro, electric, whatever) and you just tell them it is a trailer that is currently stored inside. They assume it is regulated by the DMV or some other travel saftey org. But if you never actually drive the trailer on the roads, you never incur that regulation/inspections. Seriously, trailers are a sneaky way to avoid some regulations - legally.
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And I have heard this reason for everything from cheese to jobs. I wonder how true it really is?
"Instead of focusing on being an auction business, we are looking at what it takes to create the best marketplace out there."
This is what happens when a company gets too big. ebay can't see that it won such wide adoring attention though being an open auction house. Adding buy it now was cool, as sometimes I didn't want to wait 5 days just to get outbid.
Now they are trying to create a marketplace inside a marketplace. They want everyone to be part of *THEIR* marketplace, that they control, they assess the taxes and fees and keep the peace.
Great point...but... How does this not apply to Mac or Linux? Why was the OP directing towards Windows? You didn't answer that and his point is still irrelevant.
"I will Vote Third Party for President If Telecom Immunity Passes Into Law NO MATTER WHAT THE FUCK YOU DO."
Why don't we see SpyBot S&D installed by default? Why not Firefox (or any other browser other than IE for that matter)? Why don't we get Avast Home or AVG
Meh, becuase then we would be bitching about how all the computers come with a bunch of crap loaded on them.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ssl+protocol+analyzer
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=ssl+protocol&type_of_search=soft&pmode=0&words=ssl+protocol+analyzer
http://www.wireshark.org/
Must have been hard to copy/paste, huh?
The whole point of socialized medicine and group health care is so that the healthy can help support the unhealthy and bring the cost to a reasonable level for everyone. You can't have the socialized medical plan and charge the fat kid who eats cake too!
Also your muted claim that Windows administration is not easy is way off base. This may be true for a company with 1 or 2 servers, but get to about 20-30 and you actually have to know something about system administration. You can't just point and click anywhere, you have to know what those actions accomplish. You do realize that the basic foundations of a network (DNS, DHCP, email, and so on) are the same no matter what the OS running the show?
And have you heard of vbscript? Powershell? In the past two years I have probably written 10,000 lines of vbscript stuff to manage the network.
I don't mind the MS bashing around here, but must you try to claim that I am not a geek/nerd if I work on Windows? Get over yourself.
Something wants your attention, allow or deny?
You damn AC people have to stop!!!
mac fanboiz this and that
pc lovers all over
Linux zealots! BLAH!
So tired of this crap it has to end
FLAMERS
TROLLS!!
go back home and quit this crap
But that was funny as shit!
To all the others saying this deal is underhanded or whatever... consider this. A moron like me, with a pretty bad credit history, got a loan in 2004 for 5.25 and it wasn't adjustable!!! Plus I am not in the public eye!
I would suggest just a minor tweak. Some (not sure on who and what models) modern laptops have an emergency battery inside, for when you lose power. It acts as a battery backup and gives the laptop enough time to complete a hibernate. I would highly recommend a battery like this in ALL laptops. The weight is minimal for a battery that will last 15-20 minutes and provide protection from spikes, dips, and short outages.
No, it really isn't that bad. But we do have sensitive IP (sort-of) and if that got into our competitor's hands, we would eventually see losses (as they developed the product). I realize they are probably smart enough to use yahoo or gmail, but the top guns wanted to make sure we protect ourselves as much as possible. IMHO, it is a resonable precaution.
Yeah, I don't think I was clear on my OP. We use an automated email filter, the same for spam, but it also flags "offensive" material, which you can set to be just about anything you want. I don't just go browsing through the user's inbox.
ITX is designed to think outside the box (case).
First, if you want an unruly crowd to listen, start with a meaningful point that is on-topic. Don't just start telling everyone they are stupid and ignorant. Read up on Socrates, read something about how to form an argument, how to pursuade people; becuase you obviously have no clue of how to do that.
I was under the impression that it isn't the employee's email and files, but the company's. There is no right to privacy on a work computer; your files are the company's files. That is what I tell all of our users.
How is this any different than installing an email filter that reports anytime the word "job opportunity" "sex" or whatever???
I have actually been given access to review email and such for employees communicating with our competitors, looking for jobs, etc. This is normal practice as far as I am concerned.
I think you are way off there... there is a big drop from curiously snooping and blackmail. All slopes are slippery, but that is a jump and a slide.
It doesn't apply to private companies.
Unless you live in south texas... It will be hot, high around 98, low around 76, cloudy and humid in the morning, burning off in the afternoon... for the next 3 months. Holy crap, I'm a god to the meterologist.
Advertising. You go to youtube, and you see their ads. Plus the get the hits to show off to everyone and jack up advertising prices. If they allow downloads, you don't hit the site, you don't see the ads, and youtube loses money. They might be able to tack on ads to the downloaded movies (ie, bottom bar, like the score in sporting stuff), but I would guess there are legal and techinical hurdles.
But you are right, just download TFV and be done with it. Youtube and on demand video (over the internet) were a great idea 10 years ago... but now that most users have at least a 250GB hdd, you should just be downloading and saving.
We just thought about doing this for a slightly different reason. Trailers are a funny loophole in US regulations. If you pull a trailer inside a building, the building inspectors come (enviro, electric, whatever) and you just tell them it is a trailer that is currently stored inside. They assume it is regulated by the DMV or some other travel saftey org. But if you never actually drive the trailer on the roads, you never incur that regulation/inspections. Seriously, trailers are a sneaky way to avoid some regulations - legally.
And I got modded troll, he got insightful... I don't get the mods sometimes. Can't wait till I get to really troll (with mod points!).