Simple: They roam (when roaming user profiles are enabled). When you log off your main machine, and log on to another machine on a corporate network, all your per-user documents and settings should still be available to you. As opposed to your per-machine things, like installed applications.
Notice also that your ntuser.dat (which contains the HKCU portion of the registry) lives under here.
Exactly. The point is that, as a nerd, you have the power to tell your manager/designer/whatever things like that, and they (often) don't know enough to disagree with you. This is quite different from how other industries work.
I once read an article which brought up a similar point. Excuse the stereotyping, we'll talk about the prototypical nerd/jock for the sake of argument.
At some point in our lives (middle-high school) jocks ruled the social structure. Being able to physically beat people up put them at the top of the food chain.
Then they graduated, got jobs, and were forced to deal with the fact that they couldn't just put their bosses head down the toilet when he told them to do something they didn't like. This forces jocks to grow up.
However, with nerds the situation is different. In high-school we were generally powerless. However, now that we have spiffy tech jobs, we've got all the power. Your boss tells you to code a feature you don't like? "Sorry, but that would require rewriting all our architecture. can't do that at this stage".
We've got the power now, and its never been taken away from us, so nerds haven't been forced to learn the social maturity that the jocks have.
This is offtopic, but we've been fruitlessly brainstorming here all morning. Is there any valid business use for having an email execute itself?
Since when does email execute itself? This latest one requires the uese to click on (i.e. execute) IM_A_DUMBASS.VBS Or are you asking is there any reason for attatching an executable to email? I think that answer would be yes.
Unix was designed on the basis of not printing spurious chatty messages, so it's easy to tell when something really does require your attention. Let's keep it that way.
People say stuff like this all the time, and I always wonder what they are talking about. Do you really think any OS was "designed on the basis of printing spurious messages"? Of course not.
Given your example of MS-DOS, as more 3rd party companies wrote drivers for the OS, they all wanted a little credit.
Now the same thing is happening with linux, and of course the slashdot crowd is going to get all religious about it. Advertising in the holy temple of Linux is sacriledge! Burn them at the stake!
Whatever.
Like it or not, this is a capitalist society. As more companies become involved with a project (be it Linux, DOS, whatever), they will each want to promote their name.
Luckily, the same capilist forces will result in a backlash against any company who goes too far on the obnoxious scale. And, as others have pointed out, someone will distribute a patch to remove any truly excessive splash screens.
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someone moderate this post up, or moderate down the blatantly false post above!
Notice also that your ntuser.dat (which contains the HKCU portion of the registry) lives under here.
(why do I bother replying to stupid flamer kids?)
Exactly. The point is that, as a nerd, you have the power to tell your manager/designer/whatever things like that, and they (often) don't know enough to disagree with you. This is quite different from how other industries work.
Excellent point.
I once read an article which brought up a similar point. Excuse the stereotyping, we'll talk about the prototypical nerd/jock for the sake of argument.
At some point in our lives (middle-high school) jocks ruled the social structure. Being able to physically beat people up put them at the top of the food chain.
Then they graduated, got jobs, and were forced to deal with the fact that they couldn't just put their bosses head down the toilet when he told them to do something they didn't like. This forces jocks to grow up.
However, with nerds the situation is different. In high-school we were generally powerless. However, now that we have spiffy tech jobs, we've got all the power. Your boss tells you to code a feature you don't like? "Sorry, but that would require rewriting all our architecture. can't do that at this stage".
We've got the power now, and its never been taken away from us, so nerds haven't been forced to learn the social maturity that the jocks have.
Or are you asking is there any reason for attatching an executable to email? I think that answer would be yes.
Given your example of MS-DOS, as more 3rd party companies wrote drivers for the OS, they all wanted a little credit.
Now the same thing is happening with linux, and of course the slashdot crowd is going to get all religious about it. Advertising in the holy temple of Linux is sacriledge! Burn them at the stake!
Whatever.
Like it or not, this is a capitalist society. As more companies become involved with a project (be it Linux, DOS, whatever), they will each want to promote their name.
Luckily, the same capilist forces will result in a backlash against any company who goes too far on the obnoxious scale. And, as others have pointed out, someone will distribute a patch to remove any truly excessive splash screens.