You are entitled to your own opinion, and I am entitled to mine. I supported MacOS over Windows 95 percisely for these reasons even though it only had cooperative multitasking. I did not like running things that are bandaids on ancient 8 bit operating systems with lots of workarounds. I did upgrade to Windows 95 day three after it was out because Windows 3.1 sucked so bad.
Windows 95 was the windows version of Copland because it offered features of NT 4.0 and a few api's so programs could be ported to it on top of DOS with no memory protection from many layers of the OS. Win32 apps only had protection from each other. I was glad the Windows 9.x died and finally and we could use a real OS designed rather than applied with many layers of updates.
MacOS had supperior multimedia support and stability as mac programs were not like DOS apps that used assembly, peaks and pokes in ram addresses, and implemented their own drivers, etc. MacOS also had true color calibration and postscript support so what you saw on the screen looked exactly like how it was printed. It was different and yes Steve Jobs realized it was time to move on to compete with WindowsNT with MacOSX.
KDE sucks too. Kde 3.6 was better but I remember it feeling cluttered back in the day before KDE 4.x so it was not perfect either but at least on par to Windows XP.
If KDE wants to do well they need to take their time for a nice desktop and not rush it like Gnome 3 without extensive R&D from people who have zero experience working with UIs.
I want features that are not hidden, but rather simple to use and Windows 7 fits this fine. Autoscroll and aero preview are perfect. I feel Windows 8 has it well done with tablets and a traditional UI together and you can switch to one or the other. I pray KDE 4 puts power and functionality back in but keeps its UI simply to use in a perfect balance. I think a tile startup screen like Windows 8 is perfect.
Apple was dying on its last legs and was drowning in debt when Steve Jobs came by. No sane investor or bank would invest in that dying company.
If Jobs came back in 1993 or 1994 it would have been a different story and wouldn't need Bill's money. Of course Windows 95 did much harm to Apple and could have killed with or without him, but things would ahve been different if the iMac came out in 1993 or 1994.
My guess is Steve Jobs wouldn't have use the powerpc chips either (even though they were twice as fast as x86) and would have used a pentium so the iMacs could have run Windows 95. But who knows...
Actually yes. It still ran on top of DOS and no different than Win 3.11 in that regard. MS marketing liked to say otherwise and how they are all so 32-bit, but it still ran on DOS and the 32-bit subsystem ran on a semi Vm like state that still took down the whole OS when a win32 app crashed.
The differemce was marketing because Windows 3.11 sucked so bad.
I was so happy to run Windows NT 4.0 a year later when I got a fast Pentium 166. I could tell it was a real OS and was surprised to see things like a win32 percentage dialog box instead of a DOS dialog percentage box for supposedly win32 apps. I could only run Quake 1 for video games but it was so clean.
He is also still chairman of the board of directors. Steve Jobs has the power to fire the CEO if he pleases as well as other board members too. That is what is different. It is more akin to someone managing the company for him while still being the owner.
Do you even remember how Apple was viewed before 1997?
I brought a Mac magazine to school and was teased and laughed at. I was excited about the PowerPC processor and mentioned it was twice as fast. Basically the view was Apple sucked PCS RULE Apple was DYING bla bla. Only losers used macs. Cool kids used Windows and Compaqs etc. Here on slashdot I clearly remember Apple being made fun of as a DYING company using a DYing FreeBSD OS with the BSD is dying trolls reposted being modded up.
Steve Jobs created the iMac and changed that. He was very ballsy in creating MacOSX when it was so hurt on cash. He created the IPOD and almost created an mp3 player and music store monopoly overnight!
Today cool kids in highschool and college use Macs and the poor ones use wintels. Seriously Apple was a bad name for all but art majors in the 1990s. It was so opposite of today and no one could fix this.
Sure most CEO's are useless and stroke their egos and play golf and read email all day for waaaayyyy too much money. Steve Jobs is the only one I can think of who is well worth his salary. Apple went through 5 CEO's as it died slowly to all unstoppable Microsoft. Steve Jobs is a great CEO and is one of a kind.
The PC was probably returned and BestBuy restocked it. When I worked at Staples we even repacked boxes of pens with a shrink wrapper in the bank. Some money is better than no money and everyone does this. When you return it you say whether it is broken or not and if it is not broken they simply restock it. No biggie. FYI all the computers from bestbuy have crapware installed including the horrible BestBuy software installer.
My Asus is one of them and I know because when I do a full system restore from DVD backup it reinstalls it. It is a contract requirement from the company and not the Geek Squad kid opening every laptop and installing god knows what.
Just install PC-Decrapifier and get rid of it. Thats what I did with mine.
It was annoying but lving in Alaska, I had no other outlet to buy electronics and BestBuy does buy them in bulk for a discounted price.
If that still bothers you ask to exchange for another one and have Geek Squad open the box to make sure it was not opened before you buy it.
How compatible is Java 7 with Java 6? Can I run the Andriod emulators? Is it more secure than java 6? I would like to use Chrome but it always runs Java by default and I got owned a month ago from this exploit. I hate using IE as it is the only browser I can disable Java from
HP does not care about it and are just dumping inventories and letting their shareholders take the losses, so the CEO can turn HP into his former company SAP. It doesn't make sense to lose money as that goes agaisnt the basic principle of business. Most consumers who think this is the right price for the tablet miss the point. Would you buy it since no apps will exist for it? The internet browser will start to become out of date fast and that is the only thing going for it.
Maybe HP can hire the CEO of Bryers while we are at it and start making Ice Cream? It makes as much sense and just as retarded. You can't walk in and change the company into something they are not. HP tabelts were kind of in the market of consumer electronics. But where they are going now is not HP's speciality as they expect to buy these service companies up and make them HP services and be like IBM lol
It is a shame and I hope Google buys it so we can have some of the technology in Andriod.
Does EFI firmware offer that? Intel has been trying to get us to switch since the dawn of this century. Only the mac has truly adopted it and I wonder why? It is not like we need DOS compatibility anymore
The laptop I am typing this on has such a rootkit installed. It was the only way to defeat the crazy DRM and WGA. It is called hacktook.killwpa.2 or something of that nature.
It does nothing bad, but using an alternative bootloader is the only way to get around the piracy prevention mechanisms as Windows 7 is pretty locked down. Of course the Windows 7 kernel will not work with a regular bootloader that is unsigned. Grub gets around this by providing a pointer to the MS bootloader, but that wont defeat the anti piracy controls. I bet you places like China or angry Vista users like myself skew the results.
Windows is too expensive for 30% of all pcs from that part of the world.... however as a precautionary tale I never do any banking or financial transactions on this laptop just to be rather safe than sorry.
I switched to Fedora because it was more stable than Ubuntu.
I know I will probably be modded down as a troll here but my wifi chipset will not work well with any verison of Ubuntu after 7.10. Java apps are buggy and ugly with a 2 year old bug that make them look like Java 1.0/Motif apps. I emailed connical twice and they said... well its a bug in java not our problem etc. Many java haters I see here who say it is ugly run Ubuntu.
With Fedora my wifi chipset works, java apps look native, and I never have a problem with dependencies like I did with Ubuntu. Yes apt-get can get dependency hell too if you download software off the repositary with conflicts and scattered.conf files. I was trying to fix font rendering issues with Java and gnome with unoffical patches. I find yum mixed with the later rpm versions better with dependencies. Its not the.rpm hell of 2000 anymore and if an installation fails it will delete the files rather than keeping them all over.
Fedora just seems stable for my computers and less flakey. I have never had an issue with Fedora being alpha quality since Fedora core 2 many years ago.
Well Fedora is for desktops and workstations so yes it is a Fedora problem.
I just wiped it off my laptop and put Windows 7 on it. It is a shame because I love Fedora and it is my favorite Linux distro. However, I want a basic desktop.
I did and came running to Windows 7. Let me tell you it was like a breath of fresh air and even that is better than Gnome 3 on a linux kernel. I can't get it to provide basic functionality. Can't even resize a Windows.... ok later I found out a week later but even grandma knows what a minimize button is come on.
Now that is a big shame since Linux is a technologically supperior OS. But my desktop is not a server.
I have a 23 inch screen and not a phone to run Gnome 3.
Also, Microsoft already has a tile UI in Windows 8 that is loads better and more stable than Gnome. Why isn't it out? Because it is not ready nor customizable as much as the team feels it needs to be. Also Windows 8 still has the Windows 7 desktop too. Gnome 3 went from alpha to stable FAST. No testing. No R&D. No usability testing. Not even configuration! Good GOD
Sun donated 1 billion in usability for gnome 2 and it showed. They threw it away for a bunch of college kids with no expeirence with UI design and usability can do what looked cool on a phone. It is dead and no way in hell will I touch it.
I wish enough geeks would get together and rename gnome 2 into something else and fork it. Maybe do what happened with Samba when it forked and became back together in 2 different modes.
Gnome-shell and gnome 3 needed at least a year of development with UI changes before it would have been close. Instead the focus was on code and a 2 month rush to throw something for a gui on top of it.
The arragant attidue is needed indeed. I really can not use it all. I find it 25 years behind any gui including Windows 1.0. It is a pretty ovlm.
Google used a free VM and an api from Apache. They were all freely available. Now Oracle is suing them for using a product that they do not even own?? Of course they are going to create their own API to access parts of the phone. Every programmer writes one to do things in their program and I do not see how what Google did was different.
Now if they made a Java like langauge and called it Java but was purposedly incompatible to force users to use Google's java that would be different. That is not the case
Not trying to be funny, but unfortunately the only way to install it now is to use the crappy download.com app as they are an affliate. Just run it and then uninstall the program.
I always use PC decrapifier as my PC comes with very outdated security ridden versions of flash and the nasty BestBuy installer.
Well your services wont be valuable to me if you check your facebook. How does that give me money?
I am not opposed to someone taking a 30 minute break every now or then once a day. That is understandable. But I do see people who work 2/3 of the day and are being paid money. Meanwhile many are out of work who would love to take these jobs and never goof off because they are thrilled just to have a job.
Buti f you paid someone to mow your lawn and they goofed for an hour wouldn't you be upset?
I just think if someone is making good money it is then wrong for him not to be productive on duty when poor Joe Schmoe at McDonalds gets written up for checking txts on his phone for $16,000 a year. Yes his services are not as valuable which explains his payscale but still for many times more money the manager should expect more. That is common sense too.
Not everyone goofs but a good half do not pull their own weight. If you are good at what you do then you can accomplish even more by working harder. We show up for a certain number of hours because people rely on us so this is when we need to show off. But, not everyone can be a consultant. I just think if people had a hard life finding work they would respect responsibility more and do what is required. Life sucks and life = work. Try to have one without a job?
This comes to the debate of tangible (real) vs intangible assets (virtual or on paper). Accounting states that only tangible assets and expenses are counted. Therefore the cost advantages on paper are not real and therefore = costs.
Example is R&D and I.T. They can bring something but since it can't be justifiied in a $$ amount it is a cost center and done as cheap as possible. Same is true with the advantages of making it here. Sure you can put down fuel costs on paper. What about inventory hell? Reaction and replenishment time from 10,000 miles away? Stuff that sits in the warehouse due to the inefficiences? etc
You see it only after it happens.
Some manufactoring is starting to come back in places like Indiana and Texas. Just in time invetory is messed up as it works great in Asia now, but not in the US as things that are made need to be right next to where they are assembled, which should be right next to where they are stored at the warehouse. Doing it like this saves $$$ and this is gone with outsourcing. So hold your breathe it may change soon
If employees keep it down to like maybe 30 minutes a day and no more and are self disciplined than I do not have a problem.
However, I am a big of the book Its called Work For A Reason by Larry Winget. Basically, he mentioned studies showed that people only work 40% of the time in the office. The rest is chatting, reading email, stretching, and browsing the web.
In the past, I worked at crappy jobs where you could not goof off at all. My first job was fastfood in highschool. I did retail work after that too where you constantly had to load shelves, talk to customers, and run cash registers and so on. You think I had the luxury of browsing the web? Or even txting on the phone? In these jobs I made $15,000 a year. Shouldn't I work even harder if I make $40,000 a year? If I browse the web for 3 hours with 4 other co-workers then I waste a whole workers pay/productivity. Over a year that costs $40,000 in lost productivity. How is that different from me taking money from the cash register at my previous jobs?
I am out of work at the moment and it drives me crazy to see people with lower work ethics keeping their jobs. I always try to look at it from the view of the owner and customer. If I am wating for a Latte at Starbucks I do not want to see employees browsing the web on their IPAD while I wait or browsing the web in the managers office. I want their butt making my coffee. I would then be a hypocrit to sit on my butt at work.
People can easily work twice as hard and this recession is finally forcing employees to do just that... well some
Sounds like you need to be fired. With 8 million out of work it seems only fair who should get paid. Or since the business still has its head over the water then maybe it should lay you off to cut costs and bring more value back to the shareholders.
Either way if you owned a company and put your life savings to someone who browses the internet how would you feel? That is how you should look at it. You do not put up with someone texting on their phones at McDonalds while you wait, then why do so in the office where you work?
It is a pet peeve of mine as I was never allowed such luxury expect at 1 job and I am out of work currently who would be more than happy to never browse the web except at lunch if I could have a job. I would feel guilty receiving a paycheck if I were not working my ass off and earning it
The bean counters will say no and not care about security. Sorry but the CEO is getting rewarded by using clouds and has little incentive to manage I.T.
I was taught no in school. Sure a brand name can bring something in marketing, but IT is always an expense. If it can't be proved the SEC can go up your ass as it sounds like a great way to hide profits. If you can't prove it do not ledger it.
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No need for insults and calling people morons.
You are entitled to your own opinion, and I am entitled to mine. I supported MacOS over Windows 95 percisely for these reasons even though it only had cooperative multitasking. I did not like running things that are bandaids on ancient 8 bit operating systems with lots of workarounds. I did upgrade to Windows 95 day three after it was out because Windows 3.1 sucked so bad.
Windows 95 was the windows version of Copland because it offered features of NT 4.0 and a few api's so programs could be ported to it on top of DOS with no memory protection from many layers of the OS. Win32 apps only had protection from each other. I was glad the Windows 9.x died and finally and we could use a real OS designed rather than applied with many layers of updates.
MacOS had supperior multimedia support and stability as mac programs were not like DOS apps that used assembly, peaks and pokes in ram addresses, and implemented their own drivers, etc. MacOS also had true color calibration and postscript support so what you saw on the screen looked exactly like how it was printed. It was different and yes Steve Jobs realized it was time to move on to compete with WindowsNT with MacOSX.
Agreed. Windows 7 is nice.
KDE sucks too. Kde 3.6 was better but I remember it feeling cluttered back in the day before KDE 4.x so it was not perfect either but at least on par to Windows XP.
If KDE wants to do well they need to take their time for a nice desktop and not rush it like Gnome 3 without extensive R&D from people who have zero experience working with UIs.
I want features that are not hidden, but rather simple to use and Windows 7 fits this fine. Autoscroll and aero preview are perfect. I feel Windows 8 has it well done with tablets and a traditional UI together and you can switch to one or the other. I pray KDE 4 puts power and functionality back in but keeps its UI simply to use in a perfect balance. I think a tile startup screen like Windows 8 is perfect.
Apple was dying on its last legs and was drowning in debt when Steve Jobs came by. No sane investor or bank would invest in that dying company.
If Jobs came back in 1993 or 1994 it would have been a different story and wouldn't need Bill's money. Of course Windows 95 did much harm to Apple and could have killed with or without him, but things would ahve been different if the iMac came out in 1993 or 1994.
My guess is Steve Jobs wouldn't have use the powerpc chips either (even though they were twice as fast as x86) and would have used a pentium so the iMacs could have run Windows 95. But who knows ...
Actually yes. It still ran on top of DOS and no different than Win 3.11 in that regard. MS marketing liked to say otherwise and how they are all so 32-bit, but it still ran on DOS and the 32-bit subsystem ran on a semi Vm like state that still took down the whole OS when a win32 app crashed.
The differemce was marketing because Windows 3.11 sucked so bad.
I was so happy to run Windows NT 4.0 a year later when I got a fast Pentium 166. I could tell it was a real OS and was surprised to see things like a win32 percentage dialog box instead of a DOS dialog percentage box for supposedly win32 apps. I could only run Quake 1 for video games but it was so clean.
He is also still chairman of the board of directors. Steve Jobs has the power to fire the CEO if he pleases as well as other board members too. That is what is different. It is more akin to someone managing the company for him while still being the owner.
Do you even remember how Apple was viewed before 1997?
I brought a Mac magazine to school and was teased and laughed at. I was excited about the PowerPC processor and mentioned it was twice as fast. Basically the view was Apple sucked PCS RULE Apple was DYING bla bla. Only losers used macs. Cool kids used Windows and Compaqs etc. Here on slashdot I clearly remember Apple being made fun of as a DYING company using a DYing FreeBSD OS with the BSD is dying trolls reposted being modded up.
Steve Jobs created the iMac and changed that. He was very ballsy in creating MacOSX when it was so hurt on cash. He created the IPOD and almost created an mp3 player and music store monopoly overnight!
Today cool kids in highschool and college use Macs and the poor ones use wintels. Seriously Apple was a bad name for all but art majors in the 1990s. It was so opposite of today and no one could fix this.
Sure most CEO's are useless and stroke their egos and play golf and read email all day for waaaayyyy too much money. Steve Jobs is the only one I can think of who is well worth his salary. Apple went through 5 CEO's as it died slowly to all unstoppable Microsoft. Steve Jobs is a great CEO and is one of a kind.
The PC was probably returned and BestBuy restocked it. When I worked at Staples we even repacked boxes of pens with a shrink wrapper in the bank. Some money is better than no money and everyone does this. When you return it you say whether it is broken or not and if it is not broken they simply restock it. No biggie. FYI all the computers from bestbuy have crapware installed including the horrible BestBuy software installer.
My Asus is one of them and I know because when I do a full system restore from DVD backup it reinstalls it. It is a contract requirement from the company and not the Geek Squad kid opening every laptop and installing god knows what.
Just install PC-Decrapifier and get rid of it. Thats what I did with mine.
It was annoying but lving in Alaska, I had no other outlet to buy electronics and BestBuy does buy them in bulk for a discounted price.
If that still bothers you ask to exchange for another one and have Geek Squad open the box to make sure it was not opened before you buy it.
How compatible is Java 7 with Java 6? Can I run the Andriod emulators? Is it more secure than java 6? I would like to use Chrome but it always runs Java by default and I got owned a month ago from this exploit. I hate using IE as it is the only browser I can disable Java from
Thats what it means
HP does not care about it and are just dumping inventories and letting their shareholders take the losses, so the CEO can turn HP into his former company SAP. It doesn't make sense to lose money as that goes agaisnt the basic principle of business. Most consumers who think this is the right price for the tablet miss the point. Would you buy it since no apps will exist for it? The internet browser will start to become out of date fast and that is the only thing going for it.
Maybe HP can hire the CEO of Bryers while we are at it and start making Ice Cream? It makes as much sense and just as retarded. You can't walk in and change the company into something they are not. HP tabelts were kind of in the market of consumer electronics. But where they are going now is not HP's speciality as they expect to buy these service companies up and make them HP services and be like IBM lol
It is a shame and I hope Google buys it so we can have some of the technology in Andriod.
Does EFI firmware offer that? Intel has been trying to get us to switch since the dawn of this century. Only the mac has truly adopted it and I wonder why? It is not like we need DOS compatibility anymore
An OS upgrade or menu options at boot time. Also how do you get into safe mode?
The laptop I am typing this on has such a rootkit installed. It was the only way to defeat the crazy DRM and WGA. It is called hacktook.killwpa.2 or something of that nature.
It does nothing bad, but using an alternative bootloader is the only way to get around the piracy prevention mechanisms as Windows 7 is pretty locked down. Of course the Windows 7 kernel will not work with a regular bootloader that is unsigned. Grub gets around this by providing a pointer to the MS bootloader, but that wont defeat the anti piracy controls. I bet you places like China or angry Vista users like myself skew the results.
Windows is too expensive for 30% of all pcs from that part of the world. ... however as a precautionary tale I never do any banking or financial transactions on this laptop just to be rather safe than sorry.
I switched to Fedora because it was more stable than Ubuntu.
I know I will probably be modded down as a troll here but my wifi chipset will not work well with any verison of Ubuntu after 7.10. Java apps are buggy and ugly with a 2 year old bug that make them look like Java 1.0/Motif apps. I emailed connical twice and they said ... well its a bug in java not our problem etc. Many java haters I see here who say it is ugly run Ubuntu.
With Fedora my wifi chipset works, java apps look native, and I never have a problem with dependencies like I did with Ubuntu. Yes apt-get can get dependency hell too if you download software off the repositary with conflicts and scattered .conf files. I was trying to fix font rendering issues with Java and gnome with unoffical patches. I find yum mixed with the later rpm versions better with dependencies. Its not the .rpm hell of 2000 anymore and if an installation fails it will delete the files rather than keeping them all over.
Fedora just seems stable for my computers and less flakey. I have never had an issue with Fedora being alpha quality since Fedora core 2 many years ago.
Well Fedora is for desktops and workstations so yes it is a Fedora problem.
I just wiped it off my laptop and put Windows 7 on it. It is a shame because I love Fedora and it is my favorite Linux distro. However, I want a basic desktop.
I did and came running to Windows 7. Let me tell you it was like a breath of fresh air and even that is better than Gnome 3 on a linux kernel. I can't get it to provide basic functionality. Can't even resize a Windows. ... ok later I found out a week later but even grandma knows what a minimize button is come on.
Now that is a big shame since Linux is a technologically supperior OS. But my desktop is not a server.
I have a 23 inch screen and not a phone to run Gnome 3.
Also, Microsoft already has a tile UI in Windows 8 that is loads better and more stable than Gnome. Why isn't it out? Because it is not ready nor customizable as much as the team feels it needs to be. Also Windows 8 still has the Windows 7 desktop too. Gnome 3 went from alpha to stable FAST. No testing. No R&D. No usability testing. Not even configuration! Good GOD
Sun donated 1 billion in usability for gnome 2 and it showed. They threw it away for a bunch of college kids with no expeirence with UI design and usability can do what looked cool on a phone. It is dead and no way in hell will I touch it.
I wish enough geeks would get together and rename gnome 2 into something else and fork it. Maybe do what happened with Samba when it forked and became back together in 2 different modes.
Gnome-shell and gnome 3 needed at least a year of development with UI changes before it would have been close. Instead the focus was on code and a 2 month rush to throw something for a gui on top of it.
The arragant attidue is needed indeed. I really can not use it all. I find it 25 years behind any gui including Windows 1.0. It is a pretty ovlm.
How?
Google used a free VM and an api from Apache. They were all freely available. Now Oracle is suing them for using a product that they do not even own?? Of course they are going to create their own API to access parts of the phone. Every programmer writes one to do things in their program and I do not see how what Google did was different.
Now if they made a Java like langauge and called it Java but was purposedly incompatible to force users to use Google's java that would be different. That is not the case
And of course incompatible with the previous version
PC decrapifier is your friend.
Not trying to be funny, but unfortunately the only way to install it now is to use the crappy download.com app as they are an affliate. Just run it and then uninstall the program.
I always use PC decrapifier as my PC comes with very outdated security ridden versions of flash and the nasty BestBuy installer.
Well your services wont be valuable to me if you check your facebook. How does that give me money?
I am not opposed to someone taking a 30 minute break every now or then once a day. That is understandable. But I do see people who work 2/3 of the day and are being paid money. Meanwhile many are out of work who would love to take these jobs and never goof off because they are thrilled just to have a job.
Buti f you paid someone to mow your lawn and they goofed for an hour wouldn't you be upset?
I just think if someone is making good money it is then wrong for him not to be productive on duty when poor Joe Schmoe at McDonalds gets written up for checking txts on his phone for $16,000 a year. Yes his services are not as valuable which explains his payscale but still for many times more money the manager should expect more. That is common sense too.
Not everyone goofs but a good half do not pull their own weight. If you are good at what you do then you can accomplish even more by working harder. We show up for a certain number of hours because people rely on us so this is when we need to show off. But, not everyone can be a consultant. I just think if people had a hard life finding work they would respect responsibility more and do what is required. Life sucks and life = work. Try to have one without a job?
This comes to the debate of tangible (real) vs intangible assets (virtual or on paper). Accounting states that only tangible assets and expenses are counted. Therefore the cost advantages on paper are not real and therefore = costs.
Example is R&D and I.T. They can bring something but since it can't be justifiied in a $$ amount it is a cost center and done as cheap as possible. Same is true with the advantages of making it here. Sure you can put down fuel costs on paper. What about inventory hell? Reaction and replenishment time from 10,000 miles away? Stuff that sits in the warehouse due to the inefficiences? etc
You see it only after it happens.
Some manufactoring is starting to come back in places like Indiana and Texas. Just in time invetory is messed up as it works great in Asia now, but not in the US as things that are made need to be right next to where they are assembled, which should be right next to where they are stored at the warehouse. Doing it like this saves $$$ and this is gone with outsourcing. So hold your breathe it may change soon
If employees keep it down to like maybe 30 minutes a day and no more and are self disciplined than I do not have a problem.
However, I am a big of the book Its called Work For A Reason by Larry Winget. Basically, he mentioned studies showed that people only work 40% of the time in the office. The rest is chatting, reading email, stretching, and browsing the web.
In the past, I worked at crappy jobs where you could not goof off at all. My first job was fastfood in highschool. I did retail work after that too where you constantly had to load shelves, talk to customers, and run cash registers and so on. You think I had the luxury of browsing the web? Or even txting on the phone? In these jobs I made $15,000 a year. Shouldn't I work even harder if I make $40,000 a year? If I browse the web for 3 hours with 4 other co-workers then I waste a whole workers pay/productivity. Over a year that costs $40,000 in lost productivity. How is that different from me taking money from the cash register at my previous jobs?
I am out of work at the moment and it drives me crazy to see people with lower work ethics keeping their jobs. I always try to look at it from the view of the owner and customer. If I am wating for a Latte at Starbucks I do not want to see employees browsing the web on their IPAD while I wait or browsing the web in the managers office. I want their butt making my coffee. I would then be a hypocrit to sit on my butt at work.
People can easily work twice as hard and this recession is finally forcing employees to do just that ... well some
Sounds like you need to be fired. With 8 million out of work it seems only fair who should get paid. Or since the business still has its head over the water then maybe it should lay you off to cut costs and bring more value back to the shareholders.
Either way if you owned a company and put your life savings to someone who browses the internet how would you feel? That is how you should look at it. You do not put up with someone texting on their phones at McDonalds while you wait, then why do so in the office where you work?
It is a pet peeve of mine as I was never allowed such luxury expect at 1 job and I am out of work currently who would be more than happy to never browse the web except at lunch if I could have a job. I would feel guilty receiving a paycheck if I were not working my ass off and earning it
The bean counters will say no and not care about security. Sorry but the CEO is getting rewarded by using clouds and has little incentive to manage I.T.
Agile doesn't work. Just look at Firefox?
It takes months to test each release and certify it as production ready
How?
I was taught no in school. Sure a brand name can bring something in marketing, but IT is always an expense. If it can't be proved the SEC can go up your ass as it sounds like a great way to hide profits. If you can't prove it do not ledger it.