I just finished a business law class where I had a mute court presentation on Ellerth vs Burlington industries. The case involves alleged sexual harrasement with no proof or complaints when Ellerth quit work. She won on the lawsuit?? Why? It was a hostile work environment and the fact that she did not need proof to sue and win is scary.
THe point is the lawyers know this and yes browsing on myspace with sexual preferences listed is creating a hostile work environment. Its the new thing lawyers love because they hardly need any proof to win. My example was just one but its good to have lawyers on your side as you grow big so does your pockets that people want to pick via litigation. Banning third party software to be in compliance with Oxley if your dont have a license and p2p mixed with non business websites can save millions in lost court costs.
I hate lawyers too by the way but we can't fight the system and we need to follow it.
From a geek turned into a suit I have to agree with clamping down as well.
Time is money in economic and accounting terms. I would reward good employees by sending them home early if they did a ton of work and the companies objectives for the day have been met. Good job enjoy some time to relax at home.
If you can save an employee 15 minutes of productivity a day times a whole month you get almost a whole day of lost productivity! Infact some companies like UPS even ban coffee makers and water coolers outside the cafeteria because they can cost hundreds of thousands a dollars in lost work a year.
Its a business and you are there to make the CEO or shareholders more money. Thats it and fooling around at myspace is better at home anyway on your own time.
Not to mention someone with a myspace with sexual or inappropriate things could open your employer for liability by creating a hostile work environment. Lawyers love that term.
Where my brother works they all use static IP addresses and not DHCP.
Reason being is to track down such users who open your business to liability and screw things up. It can sound complicated but its really quite simple and takes only a few mouse clicks and someone entering the machines mac with a new IP in excel.
No p2p traffic needs to be on any network and static IP makes finding things alot easier without expensive equipment.
It has been years since I administered Windows but isn't there a power users group that can have debugging privileges? You can put a custom policy not to install software with poledit or whatever the hell its called now in the mmc.
That way developers wont screw things up but they could at least add them as a seperate group with different privileges. Infact one of the strenths of NT/VMS over unix was ACL to allow such things.
I think they use their U3 technology that Sans disk promises will cure cancer and eliminate poverty. They want more flash apps so they can sell more drives.
Personally I dislike U3 almost as much as real player and yahoo messenger 8.
Directions are listed above and I can't stand U3. I agree with Sans disk that is retarded to have programs on Windows dependent on the registry which means you can't run the same apps anywhere but U3 is a bad way to fix this.
Infact U3 is a security bug as you can't just delete it and it installs itself automatically as a driver. U3 installs itself with autoplay automatically and even after delete the program off the drive. Its like the movie click where Adam Sandler throws out the remote yet it keeps reappearing on his body.
Pick Kdesktop and customize it if you do not think gnome is customizable enough. To me I like the gnome ubuntu tools as they are integrated and fit well together. Go install window maker or XFCE as well?
Very different from Vista.
But I do expect things to work out of the box and I do not understand why thats a bad thing.
Real player is not the pos it once was and the spyware is all gone and it is ok today. TO me the included Norton virus scan causes much more issues with speed than the real player.
When I first started using Linux back in 1999 the linux zealots loved to boast how much battery life they could save with linux.
In Linux power saving features were done in software rather than hardware with kernel 2.0. Also windows loves to use the cpu cycle even for empty wait cycles. That was a waste but it was easier to monitor what was going on.
Whats changed?
I wonder if linux does more things in hardware now and uses empty or wait cpu cycles rather than not use them at all?
Linux and BSD were lightning faster and supperior yet much harder to use in the old days. I miss them a little bit for these reasons. I was going to say truly miss them but I had a horrible flashback of trying to X to work and messing around with X86Config with vertical and horrizontal rates to get rid of strange artificats on my screen, no sound, netscape 4, and lots of other horrible things that Ubuntu users dont have to worry about. Fonts too kept me rebooting windows when doing any real work. At least they are now true type.
I always wondered why macosx on similar hardware always had almost 4 hours of battery life while its not even 3 hours with linux. I think you explained why.
More than likely people who install sims2 do not get the connection with a malfunctioning pc and their game. Instead they might call AOL or Dell and yell at them for a hardware issue.
Meanwhile EA says only 12 callers were affected?? Great it works then! Lets put it on all games!.. meanwhile Mike from India who works for HP/DELL gets yelled at by the angry consumers.
I am probably going to lose some karma here but anyway...
I have a laptop that runs both Ubuntu and Windows and until recently it was a %100 linux system when I majored in management information systems. I changed my major to Business administration due to risk of being outsourced or not finding a job after I graduate.
Anyway all my assignments are ms office based so I decided to use it since 2 of my instructions are picky with proper formating and fonts with their templates. I must say I hate Windows and I am not a big fan of MS Word but it loads in 1 second on my el cheapo laptop with an outdated pentium M. The fonts look beatufil and Excel is excellent.
I installed the latest Ubuntu beta for 7.10 and openoffice took 40 seconds to load and the fonts were just terrible. I am partially colorblind and the excel graphs I imported had the same symbols and I could not make out what each line was like I could in MS Office.
I read one post here in which he used some free utilities from sysinternals (makers of NT magazine) to profile it and found the performance can be improved 20x with proper threading.
Even if the fonts were great it would be nice if it used Gnomes fonts. It can not integrate with either gnome or kde or windows for that matter. Its terrible and at least tollerable if you own an old CRT monitor where the font issue is not as noticible.
If Linux wants to reach out to desktop users OpenOffice has to fork with real improvements or maybe KOffice might be the answer? For now I will stick with Windows as much as I despise it because for accounting and word processing its the only os with a decent office suite besides macosx. Sigh
However Linus has stated publicaly and in emails to developers that they should not seek out patent filings due to tripple damages of willful infringement. THis can be used to show Linus had willful intent to steal the ideas of Microsoft and of course their lawyers will say the fact that he said this after SCO sued for patent infringement showed foreseeable harm since they were all aware they could be sued again. sigh
It will not be good for Linus in court.
Also free developers can not afford attorneys and an injuction to halt linux development could also be a real possibility. THe good news is IBM and Redhat could file a friend of the court and let linus continue on the kernel tree on of their serves since they have the resources to fight MS.
However many corporations have anti gnu and linux policies in their IT deparments. Several banks already ban it thanks to SCO and something like this from MS will scare many CIO's to steer clear of it to avoid getting fired in case they open their employers to liability. "Just pick windows, its the safe bet!"
Don't forget mono either and of course patents for true type fonts. If gnome becomes a liability because Miguel thought.NET was so cool I will be quite pissed and switch to KDE. I have had a feeling mono and the upcoming silvermoon is just a way to trojan horse all the linux distros with ms IP and Miguel might be in on it.
Because they are a monopoly. Monopolies hate the free market and its their way or hte highway if you ever want to own a computer. They own it in essence due to their monopoly status.
Yes I am aware they do not own the title to your computer but if you add drm, trusted computing hardware which is needed for Vista's logo on your pc, and a few other things with licensing restrictions and in essence they own your system.
So they want to earn money from you whether you like it or not just like Kings owned monopolies on land in various countries. Where is this free market of innovation MS was talking during the DOJ trial? From what I see is they are using their big pockets to block competition to force you to pay them or not own a computer.
THe company does not have to repay legal costs if their in the USA. Only monetary damages and punitive damages are covered and punitive damages do not cover legal costs. Either way the burden is shifted on the defendant.
In other countries like England you can sue to recomp legal costs as well as monetary damages. Punitive damage suites are very well and only if a company is a direct harm to the publics well being.
PS I am not a laywer but just taking a business law class at school this semester.
Apparently in corporate america they are valued more and are likely never to be outsourced. People do not mind outsourcing their IT operations and even design to foreign firms. But if you are watching someones money they want to know who you are so they are willing to pay more money for someone here. After all returns returns returns are important and the CFO and CEO doesn't want to talk to some guy named Shamil in banglore to do it.
Accounting jobs are barely going offshore for this reason. Also like the article said foreign students are more interested in engineering since demand for foreign MBA's is there but lower.
In the.com era the producers meaning the developers called the shots and changed business. Now the pendulum has swung back and its all about the suites running the business and your a peon if your not a suit. Maybe it maybe it may swing back in the future.
.. only to get outsourced by cheaper foreign labor and be unemployed? MBA's are teh big thing to get and law degrees. These jobs are staying in the us because they are valued more.
WindowsXP was an improvement over w2k pro. Its cached better and its snappier on older hardware fdue to fine tuning. I remember the argument was if you had win2k then why switch? Anything is better than 98/ME and it was very unstable. Oh and yes I hated and still hate Luna. I have the classic ms theme on now as I type this.
Vista is just bad period and very slow with i/o. XP never had this problem other than the default install was alot slower than past ms prdoucts.
After the 2004 election and even the year 2000 election you can see where changing an oppinion is polticial suicide as it appears your indecisive and have no principles. Flip flop Kerry killed his image.
Mitt Rodney was ahead in alot of polls for hte republican nomination and now that has changed as his opponents accused him of being a flip flopper. Now he is on the bottom of the polls.
American voters are idiots and love sound bites. So yes if any democrat who wanted to oppose the patriot act while voting for it in 2003 would not have a career left after 2008.
As a conservative I tend to think the subway clerk is more important than the PHD and society is rewarding him more for providing a better service.
I know its a tough pill to swallow but unions only make things worse and cause high unemployment and distort the supply and demand curve with labor.
People need to follow the money and do what the invisible hand prefers. If one was to invest in an MBA instead of a degree in science then society would reward you more by a better job.
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I will give it a try.
I need a free virus scanner and tried AVG but it slows my laptop down like a dog
Novel Edirectory is supperior and takes far less bandwith with hardly any replication issues.
Sadly once your in AD your stuck.
Lawsuits are expensive.
I just finished a business law class where I had a mute court presentation on Ellerth vs Burlington industries. The case involves alleged sexual harrasement with no proof or complaints when Ellerth quit work. She won on the lawsuit?? Why? It was a hostile work environment and the fact that she did not need proof to sue and win is scary.
THe point is the lawyers know this and yes browsing on myspace with sexual preferences listed is creating a hostile work environment. Its the new thing lawyers love because they hardly need any proof to win. My example was just one but its good to have lawyers on your side as you grow big so does your pockets that people want to pick via litigation. Banning third party software to be in compliance with Oxley if your dont have a license and p2p mixed with non business websites can save millions in lost court costs.
I hate lawyers too by the way but we can't fight the system and we need to follow it.
From a geek turned into a suit I have to agree with clamping down as well.
Time is money in economic and accounting terms. I would reward good employees by sending them home early if they did a ton of work and the companies objectives for the day have been met. Good job enjoy some time to relax at home.
If you can save an employee 15 minutes of productivity a day times a whole month you get almost a whole day of lost productivity! Infact some companies like UPS even ban coffee makers and water coolers outside the cafeteria because they can cost hundreds of thousands a dollars in lost work a year.
Its a business and you are there to make the CEO or shareholders more money. Thats it and fooling around at myspace is better at home anyway on your own time.
Not to mention someone with a myspace with sexual or inappropriate things could open your employer for liability by creating a hostile work environment. Lawyers love that term.
Where my brother works they all use static IP addresses and not DHCP.
Reason being is to track down such users who open your business to liability and screw things up. It can sound complicated but its really quite simple and takes only a few mouse clicks and someone entering the machines mac with a new IP in excel.
No p2p traffic needs to be on any network and static IP makes finding things alot easier without expensive equipment.
It has been years since I administered Windows but isn't there a power users group that can have debugging privileges? You can put a custom policy not to install software with poledit or whatever the hell its called now in the mmc.
That way developers wont screw things up but they could at least add them as a seperate group with different privileges. Infact one of the strenths of NT/VMS over unix was ACL to allow such things.
Stupid IT departments.
I think they use their U3 technology that Sans disk promises will cure cancer and eliminate poverty. They want more flash apps so they can sell more drives.
Personally I dislike U3 almost as much as real player and yahoo messenger 8.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/09/11/disable-remove-and-uninstall-u3-launchpad/
Directions are listed above and I can't stand U3. I agree with Sans disk that is retarded to have programs on Windows dependent on the registry which means you can't run the same apps anywhere but U3 is a bad way to fix this.
Infact U3 is a security bug as you can't just delete it and it installs itself automatically as a driver. U3 installs itself with autoplay automatically and even after delete the program off the drive. Its like the movie click where Adam Sandler throws out the remote yet it keeps reappearing on his body.
Avg slowed my laptop down by quite a margin but its a price I have to pay.
So change it?
Pick Kdesktop and customize it if you do not think gnome is customizable enough. To me I like the gnome ubuntu tools as they are integrated and fit well together. Go install window maker or XFCE as well?
Very different from Vista.
But I do expect things to work out of the box and I do not understand why thats a bad thing.
Real player is not the pos it once was and the spyware is all gone and it is ok today. TO me the included Norton virus scan causes much more issues with speed than the real player.
When I first started using Linux back in 1999 the linux zealots loved to boast how much battery life they could save with linux.
In Linux power saving features were done in software rather than hardware with kernel 2.0. Also windows loves to use the cpu cycle even for empty wait cycles. That was a waste but it was easier to monitor what was going on.
Whats changed?
I wonder if linux does more things in hardware now and uses empty or wait cpu cycles rather than not use them at all?
Linux and BSD were lightning faster and supperior yet much harder to use in the old days. I miss them a little bit for these reasons. I was going to say truly miss them but I had a horrible flashback of trying to X to work and messing around with X86Config with vertical and horrizontal rates to get rid of strange artificats on my screen, no sound, netscape 4, and lots of other horrible things that Ubuntu users dont have to worry about. Fonts too kept me rebooting windows when doing any real work. At least they are now true type.
I always wondered why macosx on similar hardware always had almost 4 hours of battery life while its not even 3 hours with linux. I think you explained why.
More than likely people who install sims2 do not get the connection with a malfunctioning pc and their game. Instead they might call AOL or Dell and yell at them for a hardware issue.
.. meanwhile Mike from India who works for HP/DELL gets yelled at by the angry consumers.
Meanwhile EA says only 12 callers were affected?? Great it works then! Lets put it on all games!
This makes me happy I dont do help desk anymore.
Right I am sure they invented teh dumb terminal recently as anew kind of technology never seen before.
I am probably going to lose some karma here but anyway ...
I have a laptop that runs both Ubuntu and Windows and until recently it was a %100 linux system when I majored in management information systems. I changed my major to Business administration due to risk of being outsourced or not finding a job after I graduate.
Anyway all my assignments are ms office based so I decided to use it since 2 of my instructions are picky with proper formating and fonts with their templates. I must say I hate Windows and I am not a big fan of MS Word but it loads in 1 second on my el cheapo laptop with an outdated pentium M. The fonts look beatufil and Excel is excellent.
I installed the latest Ubuntu beta for 7.10 and openoffice took 40 seconds to load and the fonts were just terrible. I am partially colorblind and the excel graphs I imported had the same symbols and I could not make out what each line was like I could in MS Office.
I read one post here in which he used some free utilities from sysinternals (makers of NT magazine) to profile it and found the performance can be improved 20x with proper threading.
Even if the fonts were great it would be nice if it used Gnomes fonts. It can not integrate with either gnome or kde or windows for that matter. Its terrible and at least tollerable if you own an old CRT monitor where the font issue is not as noticible.
If Linux wants to reach out to desktop users OpenOffice has to fork with real improvements or maybe KOffice might be the answer? For now I will stick with Windows as much as I despise it because for accounting and word processing its the only os with a decent office suite besides macosx. Sigh
However Linus has stated publicaly and in emails to developers that they should not seek out patent filings due to tripple damages of willful infringement. THis can be used to show Linus had willful intent to steal the ideas of Microsoft and of course their lawyers will say the fact that he said this after SCO sued for patent infringement showed foreseeable harm since they were all aware they could be sued again. sigh
It will not be good for Linus in court.
Also free developers can not afford attorneys and an injuction to halt linux development could also be a real possibility. THe good news is IBM and Redhat could file a friend of the court and let linus continue on the kernel tree on of their serves since they have the resources to fight MS.
However many corporations have anti gnu and linux policies in their IT deparments. Several banks already ban it thanks to SCO and something like this from MS will scare many CIO's to steer clear of it to avoid getting fired in case they open their employers to liability. "Just pick windows, its the safe bet!"
What shocks me is that this is legal.
Don't forget mono either and of course patents for true type fonts. If gnome becomes a liability because Miguel thought .NET was so cool I will be quite pissed and switch to KDE. I have had a feeling mono and the upcoming silvermoon is just a way to trojan horse all the linux distros with ms IP and Miguel might be in on it.
Because they are a monopoly. Monopolies hate the free market and its their way or hte highway if you ever want to own a computer. They own it in essence due to their monopoly status.
Yes I am aware they do not own the title to your computer but if you add drm, trusted computing hardware which is needed for Vista's logo on your pc, and a few other things with licensing restrictions and in essence they own your system.
So they want to earn money from you whether you like it or not just like Kings owned monopolies on land in various countries. Where is this free market of innovation MS was talking during the DOJ trial? From what I see is they are using their big pockets to block competition to force you to pay them or not own a computer.
THe company does not have to repay legal costs if their in the USA. Only monetary damages and punitive damages are covered and punitive damages do not cover legal costs. Either way the burden is shifted on the defendant.
In other countries like England you can sue to recomp legal costs as well as monetary damages. Punitive damage suites are very well and only if a company is a direct harm to the publics well being.
PS I am not a laywer but just taking a business law class at school this semester.
Apparently in corporate america they are valued more and are likely never to be outsourced. People do not mind outsourcing their IT operations and even design to foreign firms. But if you are watching someones money they want to know who you are so they are willing to pay more money for someone here. After all returns returns returns are important and the CFO and CEO doesn't want to talk to some guy named Shamil in banglore to do it.
.com era the producers meaning the developers called the shots and changed business. Now the pendulum has swung back and its all about the suites running the business and your a peon if your not a suit. Maybe it maybe it may swing back in the future.
Accounting jobs are barely going offshore for this reason. Also like the article said foreign students are more interested in engineering since demand for foreign MBA's is there but lower.
In the
.. only to get outsourced by cheaper foreign labor and be unemployed? MBA's are teh big thing to get and law degrees. These jobs are staying in the us because they are valued more.
Simple economics.
WindowsXP was an improvement over w2k pro. Its cached better and its snappier on older hardware fdue to fine tuning. I remember the argument was if you had win2k then why switch? Anything is better than 98/ME and it was very unstable. Oh and yes I hated and still hate Luna. I have the classic ms theme on now as I type this.
Vista is just bad period and very slow with i/o. XP never had this problem other than the default install was alot slower than past ms prdoucts.
After the 2004 election and even the year 2000 election you can see where changing an oppinion is polticial suicide as it appears your indecisive and have no principles. Flip flop Kerry killed his image.
Mitt Rodney was ahead in alot of polls for hte republican nomination and now that has changed as his opponents accused him of being a flip flopper. Now he is on the bottom of the polls.
American voters are idiots and love sound bites. So yes if any democrat who wanted to oppose the patriot act while voting for it in 2003 would not have a career left after 2008.
As a conservative I tend to think the subway clerk is more important than the PHD and society is rewarding him more for providing a better service.
I know its a tough pill to swallow but unions only make things worse and cause high unemployment and distort the supply and demand curve with labor.
People need to follow the money and do what the invisible hand prefers. If one was to invest in an MBA instead of a degree in science then society would reward you more by a better job.