For bunnies sakes, such policy is actually protecting you.
If you have no access to any accounts anymore you are not liable for any problems.
In any case the machines are not yours, if your employer thinks that is an appropriate measure to take (which I think it is) what exactly is problem with that?
When is people in/. start to grow up? It
Thinks like this are not personal, bussiness are not social clubs where you go to make friends and have a good time. The poster is acting like if his girlfriend dumped him, trying to find an explanation for such "meaness" as to deprive him of access to machines that are not his.
I am trying to find the point of the article and I am failing miserably.
In synthesis: They are not your machines, you resigned, grow up.
The UK is safer because they don't have the idiotic religious zealots that burden the US (the UK is one of the most secular societies in the world, only behind, guess who?, South Korea, read below for why this is interesting).
This is important because knowledge this century will be more profitable in the biological sciences. We are just starting to explore many of the fields in biology. The countries that ride that wave will become the pace setters in pretty much a similar way as the US did with the IT revolution.
At this very moment the UK and South Korea are at the forefront of this new technological wave. may they become the tren setters this century? Time will tell.
The spirit of the season is hitting hard, isn't it Mr Scrooge?
There comes a guy, replies politely, offers his personal attention and what do you do? You rubish is/. writing style.
Only in/. , honest.
Look Dostoievsky, you don't write a quick note the same way you write the great USian novel, to use his style in a quick note to rubish him as editor is completely ludicrous.
There is always the malicious or stupid person in your network.
That and also not every machine in a big coroporate network needs to have access to the device, firewall filtering ads an additional lelvel of internal security.
I don't consider terrorists on the other hand to even be human.
So then you can flight them to clandestine prisions to torture them, or put them in nobody's land where they can be abused.
In other words, you can deny them all their human rights.
Your problem buddy is that they are humans. They love people and have loved ones, they laugh, cry, get angry and tell jokes.
And more worringly, you and your government are not judging them, in order to actually decide in a civilized way if they are what people claim they are or not.
To deny them their humanity makes it easier to kill them for sure, the problem is that once you are down that path you begin to find excuses do dehumainze other people (or do you think "collaterall damage" reflects any humanity?).
Or to call terrorists people that do not fit the term.
Install one of their supported distros (I am using Fedora, it is unsupported but it works fine).
Install vmware on top of that and then create a vrtual machine with Windows wathever on it, Look at this as an application trash can.
Do you work in Linux, and for those embarrasing moments that are bound to happen every month, launch your virtual machine with the software of the Beast, print your magna pr0n, and carry on as usual in Linux.
The first 3 I know are for real. I don't know much about Dell, but much more prominenet like that you can't have it.
And altough other manufacturers (shame on them) are less helpful (Toshiba...) they may be weaking up to the reality of the marketplace that Linux is becoming. You would need to hack far less since many hardware manufacturers are realising Linux is here to stay. You did not have a resource like Toshiba's a few years ago.
The old pitiful excuse not to use Linux argueing there is no hardware officially certified to run it, should be soundly ignored.
-Linux is not a novelty. It is a OS with a long history and distinguished family.
-The architecturl model of Linux lends itself much better to escalate properly when put under stress. One application may slow the system but very rarely will completely crash it.
-Linux desktop solutions did no appear yesterday. Gnome, KDE and others are mature and usable and throw les an d less surprises to the unsuspecting user.
-You have far much more people ready to help with Linux problems. I have found very few issues that get not solved with a bit of googling.
There is a point where you set the rules that you want to guide your life and you pretty much make those non negotiable.
Many questions involving morality can't be objectivized.
Nobody is objective nowadays, everybody has agendas based on their own personaly found rules of engagement with society. Not to recommend something useful because is biased (like if spotlighting a convicted monopoly abuser was such a thing) is frankly ill informed.
Say you don't agree and that it did not meet your opinions (i.e. was not biased in a direction you would have liked), but to claim something is not useful because it is not objective is not, er, objective....
User friendliness is a completely abstract, non objective concept.
If you are used to a given user interface, by definition it is more user friendly for you.
What you are saying behind the lines is that as long as other applications are not more like MS's then they will not be good enough.
OK, we know your biases now, but those are not absolutes, so your first paragraph is close to worthless. If I was flipping burgers at $4/hour then the couple of minutes it takes me to configure my printer (or was 3 minutes?, I don't know, last time I needed to do it was 3 or 4 months ago, it is one of those do once forget about it jobs) then the time invested would be of some consideration, but alas, most likely I would have no money for a computer anyway.
Do you know that many devices that showed up previous to Windows 2000 are not supported anymore in later OS versions? Perfectly capable working hardware does not work in MS world.
Nowadays the only thing you are guaranteed is that your hardware will work with WinXP and in most cases W2K. Wait for Vista and lots of hardware going unsupported.
In the meantime in Linux world once a device works it does forever. No company droping support, no shenaningans claiming your hardware is too old or unsupported.
I have been using Linux as my main desktop system for years now, this last year has seen my first full one using Linux (wireless support included) as my laptop OS, and frankly the only reason I see for not switching to Linux is laziness. It would be intellectually more consistent to say so than to keep harping at things that were true 5 or 10 years ago but that now just sound hollow.
Hardware support is not ideal, but frankly it is a minor issue for anybody trying to get serious work done. Just get hardware one or 2 years old if you must (for printers this is immensely easier, since most of them use languages long time ago implemented in Linux and many can be networked, so a "physical" driver becomes a non issue when the printing language is a recognized standar) and most likely you will be ok.
Not that you must be guessing, commercial distributions will happily provide hardware compatibility lists for you.
As for being prosperous, you are, even if you think a McDonalds salary is nothing, you could be earning the equivalent of one month's salary in many other parts of the world with a few hours of flipping burgers.
If you need to study the quality of the jobs then refer to some other statistics, but don't try to shoehorn your conception of the world in a number that is pretty straight forward to calculate.
People being overqualified for a job or needing a better paid one (who doesn't?) does not vanish the job magically.
The rosyfied situation you are envisioning is completely unrealistic.
If we don't do something now we may not have the time to populate all those wonderful planets of yours (which please? as things currently stand only Mars has a remote possibility of being terraformed in any meaningful time scale).
Even if we would let things run their current course and managed to start populating other planets, still global warming has the potential to cause enormous suffering on real people.
To ignore, yet again, the tragedy of the poor (because be in no doubt, the poor people are the ones that will take the worst of global warming) would be a derelction of duty.
Disent is not allowed and prosecuted legally by dishonest means.
Is the place with the highest level of per capita executions in the world. May they be rushing some of them? Who cares, when you claim your judicial system is pretty much without failure you can justify anything.
Like executing drug "mules" for carrying a few grams of drugs.
Or maids figthing back against abusive employers.
Read about Singapore in Amnesty International and prepared to be entertained (if you like grim narratives, that is).
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For bunnies sakes, such policy is actually protecting you.
/. start to grow up? It
If you have no access to any accounts anymore you are not liable for any problems.
In any case the machines are not yours, if your employer thinks that is an appropriate measure to take (which I think it is) what exactly is problem with that?
When is people in
Thinks like this are not personal, bussiness are not social clubs where you go to make friends and have a good time. The poster is acting like if his girlfriend dumped him, trying to find an explanation for such "meaness" as to deprive him of access to machines that are not his.
I am trying to find the point of the article and I am failing miserably.
In synthesis: They are not your machines, you resigned, grow up.
And live there for a couple of years.
One has to question the value of a drug that can be copied in one day.
What companies would do is to join al together and share the costs an reap the rewards jointly, since otherwise there would be no economic incentive.
If they would not join forces, the would dissapear, leaving the ground free for companies willing to do so.
And is not like they do all the research, very often a lot of their research is done with public money.
China and India produce cheap manufactured goods.
The UK is safer because they don't have the idiotic religious zealots that burden the US (the UK is one of the most secular societies in the world, only behind, guess who?, South Korea, read below for why this is interesting).
This is important because knowledge this century will be more profitable in the biological sciences. We are just starting to explore many of the fields in biology. The countries that ride that wave will become the pace setters in pretty much a similar way as the US did with the IT revolution.
At this very moment the UK and South Korea are at the forefront of this new technological wave. may they become the tren setters this century? Time will tell.
The spirit of the season is hitting hard, isn't it Mr Scrooge?
/. writing style.
/. , honest.
There comes a guy, replies politely, offers his personal attention and what do you do? You rubish is
Only in
Look Dostoievsky, you don't write a quick note the same way you write the great USian novel, to use his style in a quick note to rubish him as editor is completely ludicrous.
There is always the malicious or stupid person in your network.
That and also not every machine in a big coroporate network needs to have access to the device, firewall filtering ads an additional lelvel of internal security.
I don't consider terrorists on the other hand to even be human.
So then you can flight them to clandestine prisions to torture them, or put them in nobody's land where they can be abused.
In other words, you can deny them all their human rights.
Your problem buddy is that they are humans. They love people and have loved ones, they laugh, cry, get angry and tell jokes.
And more worringly, you and your government are not judging them, in order to actually decide in a civilized way if they are what people claim they are or not.
To deny them their humanity makes it easier to kill them for sure, the problem is that once you are down that path you begin to find excuses do dehumainze other people (or do you think "collaterall damage" reflects any humanity?).
Or to call terrorists people that do not fit the term.
Europeans, have always the humane solution for your degustation.
Jokes aside, I am entrely serious.
Install one of their supported distros (I am using Fedora, it is unsupported but it works fine).
Install vmware on top of that and then create a vrtual machine with Windows wathever on it, Look at this as an application trash can.
Do you work in Linux, and for those embarrasing moments that are bound to happen every month, launch your virtual machine with the software of the Beast, print your magna pr0n, and carry on as usual in Linux.
Sun
HP
IBM
Dell
The first 3 I know are for real. I don't know much about Dell, but much more prominenet like that you can't have it.
And altough other manufacturers (shame on them) are less helpful (Toshiba...) they may be weaking up to the reality of the marketplace that Linux is becoming. You would need to hack far less since many hardware manufacturers are realising Linux is here to stay. You did not have a resource like Toshiba's a few years ago.
The old pitiful excuse not to use Linux argueing there is no hardware officially certified to run it, should be soundly ignored.
Amongst the many reasons for this:
-Linux is not a novelty. It is a OS with a long history and distinguished family.
-The architecturl model of Linux lends itself much better to escalate properly when put under stress. One application may slow the system but very rarely will completely crash it.
-Linux desktop solutions did no appear yesterday. Gnome, KDE and others are mature and usable and throw les an d less surprises to the unsuspecting user.
-You have far much more people ready to help with Linux problems. I have found very few issues that get not solved with a bit of googling.
etc.
Not everything has to be objective!
There is a point where you set the rules that you want to guide your life and you pretty much make those non negotiable.
Many questions involving morality can't be objectivized.
Nobody is objective nowadays, everybody has agendas based on their own personaly found rules of engagement with society. Not to recommend something useful because is biased (like if spotlighting a convicted monopoly abuser was such a thing) is frankly ill informed.
Say you don't agree and that it did not meet your opinions (i.e. was not biased in a direction you would have liked), but to claim something is not useful because it is not objective is not, er, objective....
User friendliness is a completely abstract, non objective concept.
If you are used to a given user interface, by definition it is more user friendly for you.
What you are saying behind the lines is that as long as other applications are not more like MS's then they will not be good enough.
OK, we know your biases now, but those are not absolutes, so your first paragraph is close to worthless. If I was flipping burgers at $4/hour then the couple of minutes it takes me to configure my printer (or was 3 minutes?, I don't know, last time I needed to do it was 3 or 4 months ago, it is one of those do once forget about it jobs) then the time invested would be of some consideration, but alas, most likely I would have no money for a computer anyway.
Do you know that many devices that showed up previous to Windows 2000 are not supported anymore in later OS versions? Perfectly capable working hardware does not work in MS world.
Nowadays the only thing you are guaranteed is that your hardware will work with WinXP and in most cases W2K. Wait for Vista and lots of hardware going unsupported.
In the meantime in Linux world once a device works it does forever. No company droping support, no shenaningans claiming your hardware is too old or unsupported.
I have been using Linux as my main desktop system for years now, this last year has seen my first full one using Linux (wireless support included) as my laptop OS, and frankly the only reason I see for not switching to Linux is laziness. It would be intellectually more consistent to say so than to keep harping at things that were true 5 or 10 years ago but that now just sound hollow.
Hardware support is not ideal, but frankly it is a minor issue for anybody trying to get serious work done. Just get hardware one or 2 years old if you must (for printers this is immensely easier, since most of them use languages long time ago implemented in Linux and many can be networked, so a "physical" driver becomes a non issue when the printing language is a recognized standar) and most likely you will be ok.
Not that you must be guessing, commercial distributions will happily provide hardware compatibility lists for you.
You are choosing just a small, vocal segment, that best fits you own prejudices.
Nice work, but pretty lame.
Enjoy, you can do whatever you wasnt.
:-P
You don't need oozles of power to run email, ssh and a web browser.
If I was your manager I would take the toy away from you
Use screen!
We call them scripts in UNIX/Linux worlds.
I have used putty to forward ports. Being versed in Human User Interface design my opinion is that putty is sorely wanting in user friendliness.
It is bleeding to death after the beating you gave him....
It is that simple buddy.
As for being prosperous, you are, even if you think a McDonalds salary is nothing, you could be earning the equivalent of one month's salary in many other parts of the world with a few hours of flipping burgers.
If you need to study the quality of the jobs then refer to some other statistics, but don't try to shoehorn your conception of the world in a number that is pretty straight forward to calculate.
People being overqualified for a job or needing a better paid one (who doesn't?) does not vanish the job magically.
20%.
Fucking conspiracy theorists.
The rosyfied situation you are envisioning is completely unrealistic.
If we don't do something now we may not have the time to populate all those wonderful planets of yours (which please? as things currently stand only Mars has a remote possibility of being terraformed in any meaningful time scale).
Even if we would let things run their current course and managed to start populating other planets, still global warming has the potential to cause enormous suffering on real people.
To ignore, yet again, the tragedy of the poor (because be in no doubt, the poor people are the ones that will take the worst of global warming) would be a derelction of duty.
That is precisely the problem.
Environmental damage is nowhere considered a long term cost.
Our economic models are completely oblivous to environmental damage, one way to make them less so would be to tax polution heavily.
One such a tax is in place maybe your initial analysis would be different.
I did the only rational thing and moved closer.
Now I can see my office building from my flat.
The second most rational thing would be to change job.
The least rational thing is to believe we can keep commuting that much and expect that our actions will have no consequences.
Draconian censorship.
Disent is not allowed and prosecuted legally by dishonest means.
Is the place with the highest level of per capita executions in the world. May they be rushing some of them? Who cares, when you claim your judicial system is pretty much without failure you can justify anything.
Like executing drug "mules" for carrying a few grams of drugs.
Or maids figthing back against abusive employers.
Read about Singapore in Amnesty International and prepared to be entertained (if you like grim narratives, that is).
Thus your diferentiation is unnecessary.