...switch the lights off just as you start the zero g, turn on the infra red on the video camera. Submit to funniest home videos. Win the home entertainment theatre prize. Think how much closer you'll be to funding your next orbital vehicle when you sell the prize!
...then they'll matter. That and I'll stop playing video games. I mean can you imagine a video game based on the US election? You can play Palin with her bimbo stupidity blast....or Macaine who's old age ray bores the enemy to death....or you can play token black man Obama who confuses his enemy by sounding like Osama. Yeah that's a game I'd play...after a lobotomy.
Zombies aren't a good reason for shutting down the servers, that's why our IT guy keeps a shotgun leaned up against the server....at least he says it's for zombies.
I have never encountered any restrictions on what I can and can't do, but just because the opportunity to mess around is there it doesn't mean you should take it.
What exactly is it that you're implying that I'm messing around and doing? We were talking about restrictions on email, youtube, playing a game on a laptop at lunch time, not screwing your employer out of millions.
You really have nothing better to do than this????
Old plan: Compete and make a better game. Get people to part with their money on the basis that your content is best. Convince them your game will improve their life.
New plan: Produce garbage no one wants. Restrict it so much it's unusuable. Treat your customers like criminals when they don't buy. Sue people almost indiscriminately (on the flimsiest evidence) to make up for short fall.
What the fuck happened? It feels like I'm in the twilight zone!
My point is that if I choose to occassionally engage in personal activity on a work computer, it is not a bad thing
You see to have issues with doing the job your paid for!
No I have issues with trolls that don't know me telling me what the conditions of my employment contract are, telling me what I should and shouldn't do at work despite that contract, and throwing straw men like "You see to have issues with doing the job your paid for!" in my face. You couldn't have provided a nicer example of trolling if you tried.
It is not unreasonable for your employer to expect you to do some work when they are paying your wages/salary!
You're right that isn't unreasonable at all. Please point me to the point in the conversation where I stated otherwise. That's right, I didn't and that was a classic straw man on your part. What I said was that if I'm going to be doing unpaid overtime, I'd at least like to be trusted to do my work despite having access to the web in all it's glory. YOU have gone out of your way to twist that, tell me what I should and shouldn't do, imply that I'm a slacker that doesn't work etc. You really REALLY need to get a life buddy. If this is an example of the sort of attitude you demonstrate at work, no wonder you require childish restrictions to get you to do your job.
So you've effectively banned yourself. That's excellent work. You're helping EA achieve it's goal of ultimately banning everyone from their servers, while still taking in revenue. That appears to be their game plan (bad pun intended).
Your overtime IS paid for in your normal wages, the extra hours are a part of the job.
Perhaps yours are. Mine are not. I do get overtime. It's just rare that it's formally recognised, and so I'm rarely paid for it. Believe it or not, some people are paid by the hour.
Maybe before you start being so arrogant as to tell someone (probably from another part of the world) how their employment contract works, you might want to try getting a few facts first.
Pity the article makes it sound like the only way you can make a buck with free software is to enter an obscure competition to design a commemorative coin and then win. Then again that might not be too far off;-)
Well, now the possibilities for adultfriendfinder dot com have just been expanded... Just post a picture of your key and wait for your new friends to show up!
Hello, is anyone there??? It's Richard. But please call me RMS. Hello???
The 12 words you can't say on TV: Shit, piss, tits, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker, cunt, Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa, Limewire and (*inhale*) bittorrent.
Damn! Samuel L. Jackson's going to be hitting that unemployment queue! The censored version of Pulp Fiction must be a silent movie!
Why not just force employees to watch Tiger vs Man on Elephant on their own time?
It is called work after all, not play or slashdot.
Perhaps because we work in an industry where unpaid overtime is expected?? Perhaps because if an employee can do things from their desk it'll encourage them to spend more time at work? Perhaps because when you're paying someone over $50/hr and trusting them with valuable data in critical situations you're silly to then refuse to trust them with a video connection? Oh and perhaps since it's just as easy to slack off without the net if an employee is so inclined.
...and get it exempt by demonstrating degraded performance if you use whole disk encryption. If the IT guys complain or tell you you're doing it wrong ask for their help to do it right. Then go ahead and encrypt a few of your documents to keep the IT staff happy. All your "temp data" are belong to YOU. IT guys get to implement their new policy with you as an exception. Then go work on your resume. Everyone's happy!
...I'm sure they'll reverse all their decisions immediately.
At work email sites, social networking and YouTube are blocked. It smacks of not trusting your employee to do work but there are PR implications if it gets out that employees are slacking.
We also have a download proxy that filters everything for virii (and often stuffs up large downloads since it returns its own download progress page). I can't blame my employer for protecting their assets, especially since a virus outbreak where I work has even worse PR implications, but at the same time I wish there were a better way than this.
The way it is at the moment, some days I don't get time to download anything and don't even think about whether I'm blocked or not, other days it just gets in the way of getting work related content, and on a few rare days where there's little to do it would be nice to have access to these things. This has all been implemented since I joined s few yers ago, and it's certainly not enough to change jobs over on it's own, but it's another thing that has made looking elsewhere in the future a little more palatable. I'm also no longer permitted to play chess on my personal laptop at my desk at lunch time or after work any longer as "it gives the wrong impression", and that really stinks. Telling your employee you don't trust them, and eroding the employee's non-monetary benefits doesn't exactly do wonders for morale...
I'm getting a bit tired of people just throwing a buzzword of last week to try to explain the buzzword of this week...
You're misusing terminology and confusing it with buzzwords.
To me clustering specifically means using multiple machines together to achieve something that each machine would be slower, less efficient or less fault tolerant to achieve. That can be used to supplement the thin client model, but it is not in itself thin client. You can cluster with a 'thick' client too.
Timesharing is about using more cycles of a processor by providing them to different users who each get a slice of time.
Cloud computing has no requirement for being browser based (though that's the model being offered) and has more to do with pulling resources out of some big common shared network based resource while the client does very little at all. That sounds an awful lot like thin client to me. Same advantages - simpler less powerful client (You call it limited but what do you think thin meant?) Same disadvantages. Someone else controls your data, your machine is underpowered and can't do anything processing intensive, while you rely on external entities for the power you want/need.
Really, so YouTube wouldn't have been sued into oblivion without the DMCA safe harbor?
Probably not. There were fair use provisions to fall back on before the DMCA. There was common carrier status before DMCA....and there was no way to immediately censor someone and force them to provide their identity and a statement that the item isn't infringing before the DMCA.
I use Vista on my main machine(s). Updates don't take longer than XP, IE never locked up on me, and my programs are just as reliable as they were when I was using XP.
Lets assume we believe you for a moment. How does that negate the lousy user experience and the many crashes other users experience?
Seriously how the FUCK does this get modded up? Where I work if a developer dismissively says "it works on my machine" I write that developer off as an unprofessional troll!
Remember the joys of setting up your hardware in every single game? Running GAMECONFIG.EXE to say yes, my SoundBlaster is on IRQ 7, my display can handle 1024x769 in 256 colours, and no, I don't have an AdLib card.
I don't know what games you play, but just about every game I have still has a gameconfig of some description that requires adjusting video resolution, sound settings and sometimes difficulty settings or other misc settings in the game. True they're GUI based, but many still need to be launched before the game for settings to apply.
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Thank you. At least 3 people didn't decide my little joke was a troll. It's not like I picked on just one political party. I'm not even American.
Troll? Fucking hell man. Slashdot's sense of humour has gone flakey.
...switch the lights off just as you start the zero g, turn on the infra red on the video camera. Submit to funniest home videos. Win the home entertainment theatre prize. Think how much closer you'll be to funding your next orbital vehicle when you sell the prize!
...then they'll matter. That and I'll stop playing video games. I mean can you imagine a video game based on the US election? You can play Palin with her bimbo stupidity blast....or Macaine who's old age ray bores the enemy to death....or you can play token black man Obama who confuses his enemy by sounding like Osama. Yeah that's a game I'd play...after a lobotomy.
Zombies aren't a good reason for shutting down the servers, that's why our IT guy keeps a shotgun leaned up against the server....at least he says it's for zombies.
What's wrong with kill -9???
I have never encountered any restrictions on what I can and can't do, but just because the opportunity to mess around is there it doesn't mean you should take it.
What exactly is it that you're implying that I'm messing around and doing? We were talking about restrictions on email, youtube, playing a game on a laptop at lunch time, not screwing your employer out of millions.
You really have nothing better to do than this????
Shared methodology of most content makers lately:
Old plan: Compete and make a better game. Get people to part with their money on the basis that your content is best. Convince them your game will improve their life.
New plan: Produce garbage no one wants. Restrict it so much it's unusuable. Treat your customers like criminals when they don't buy. Sue people almost indiscriminately (on the flimsiest evidence) to make up for short fall.
What the fuck happened? It feels like I'm in the twilight zone!
I get paid by the hour, what's your point?
My point is that if I choose to occassionally engage in personal activity on a work computer, it is not a bad thing
You see to have issues with doing the job your paid for!
No I have issues with trolls that don't know me telling me what the conditions of my employment contract are, telling me what I should and shouldn't do at work despite that contract, and throwing straw men like "You see to have issues with doing the job your paid for!" in my face. You couldn't have provided a nicer example of trolling if you tried.
It is not unreasonable for your employer to expect you to do some work when they are paying your wages/salary!
You're right that isn't unreasonable at all. Please point me to the point in the conversation where I stated otherwise. That's right, I didn't and that was a classic straw man on your part. What I said was that if I'm going to be doing unpaid overtime, I'd at least like to be trusted to do my work despite having access to the web in all it's glory. YOU have gone out of your way to twist that, tell me what I should and shouldn't do, imply that I'm a slacker that doesn't work etc. You really REALLY need to get a life buddy. If this is an example of the sort of attitude you demonstrate at work, no wonder you require childish restrictions to get you to do your job.
Fuck that. No more EA games for me.
So you've effectively banned yourself. That's excellent work. You're helping EA achieve it's goal of ultimately banning everyone from their servers, while still taking in revenue. That appears to be their game plan (bad pun intended).
Your overtime IS paid for in your normal wages, the extra hours are a part of the job.
Perhaps yours are. Mine are not. I do get overtime. It's just rare that it's formally recognised, and so I'm rarely paid for it. Believe it or not, some people are paid by the hour.
Maybe before you start being so arrogant as to tell someone (probably from another part of the world) how their employment contract works, you might want to try getting a few facts first.
Pity the article makes it sound like the only way you can make a buck with free software is to enter an obscure competition to design a commemorative coin and then win. Then again that might not be too far off ;-)
Well, now the possibilities for adultfriendfinder dot com have just been expanded... Just post a picture of your key and wait for your new friends to show up!
Hello, is anyone there??? It's Richard. But please call me RMS. Hello???
The 12 words you can't say on TV:
Shit, piss, tits, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker, cunt, Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa, Limewire and (*inhale*) bittorrent.
Damn! Samuel L. Jackson's going to be hitting that unemployment queue! The censored version of Pulp Fiction must be a silent movie!
oh man, I'm in China and can't even see the page !!!
You think you have it bad? I live in Australia. Every page redirects to www.australia.gov.au/propaganda
Why not just force employees to watch Tiger vs Man on Elephant on their own time?
It is called work after all, not play or slashdot.
Perhaps because we work in an industry where unpaid overtime is expected?? Perhaps because if an employee can do things from their desk it'll encourage them to spend more time at work? Perhaps because when you're paying someone over $50/hr and trusting them with valuable data in critical situations you're silly to then refuse to trust them with a video connection? Oh and perhaps since it's just as easy to slack off without the net if an employee is so inclined.
...and get it exempt by demonstrating degraded performance if you use whole disk encryption. If the IT guys complain or tell you you're doing it wrong ask for their help to do it right. Then go ahead and encrypt a few of your documents to keep the IT staff happy. All your "temp data" are belong to YOU. IT guys get to implement their new policy with you as an exception. Then go work on your resume. Everyone's happy!
My company just stopped any video access recently because, especially on a Friday afternoon, it was impossible to get your email.
Sounds like time for a QoS solution, with video being given a limited amount of bandwidth.
...I'm sure they'll reverse all their decisions immediately.
At work email sites, social networking and YouTube are blocked. It smacks of not trusting your employee to do work but there are PR implications if it gets out that employees are slacking.
We also have a download proxy that filters everything for virii (and often stuffs up large downloads since it returns its own download progress page). I can't blame my employer for protecting their assets, especially since a virus outbreak where I work has even worse PR implications, but at the same time I wish there were a better way than this.
The way it is at the moment, some days I don't get time to download anything and don't even think about whether I'm blocked or not, other days it just gets in the way of getting work related content, and on a few rare days where there's little to do it would be nice to have access to these things. This has all been implemented since I joined s few yers ago, and it's certainly not enough to change jobs over on it's own, but it's another thing that has made looking elsewhere in the future a little more palatable. I'm also no longer permitted to play chess on my personal laptop at my desk at lunch time or after work any longer as "it gives the wrong impression", and that really stinks. Telling your employee you don't trust them, and eroding the employee's non-monetary benefits doesn't exactly do wonders for morale...
I'm getting a bit tired of people just throwing a buzzword of last week to try to explain the buzzword of this week...
You're misusing terminology and confusing it with buzzwords.
To me clustering specifically means using multiple machines together to achieve something that each machine would be slower, less efficient or less fault tolerant to achieve. That can be used to supplement the thin client model, but it is not in itself thin client. You can cluster with a 'thick' client too.
Timesharing is about using more cycles of a processor by providing them to different users who each get a slice of time.
Cloud computing has no requirement for being browser based (though that's the model being offered) and has more to do with pulling resources out of some big common shared network based resource while the client does very little at all. That sounds an awful lot like thin client to me. Same advantages - simpler less powerful client (You call it limited but what do you think thin meant?) Same disadvantages. Someone else controls your data, your machine is underpowered and can't do anything processing intensive, while you rely on external entities for the power you want/need.
Really, so YouTube wouldn't have been sued into oblivion without the DMCA safe harbor?
Probably not. There were fair use provisions to fall back on before the DMCA. There was common carrier status before DMCA. ...and there was no way to immediately censor someone and force them to provide their identity and a statement that the item isn't infringing before the DMCA.
XP SP3 may be the problem. Point me to a review of Vista SP1 vs XP SP2 please.
I use Vista on my main machine(s). Updates don't take longer than XP, IE never locked up on me, and my programs are just as reliable as they were when I was using XP.
Lets assume we believe you for a moment. How does that negate the lousy user experience and the many crashes other users experience?
Seriously how the FUCK does this get modded up? Where I work if a developer dismissively says "it works on my machine" I write that developer off as an unprofessional troll!
Remember the joys of setting up your hardware in every single game? Running GAMECONFIG.EXE to say yes, my SoundBlaster is on IRQ 7, my display can handle 1024x769 in 256 colours, and no, I don't have an AdLib card.
I don't know what games you play, but just about every game I have still has a gameconfig of some description that requires adjusting video resolution, sound settings and sometimes difficulty settings or other misc settings in the game. True they're GUI based, but many still need to be launched before the game for settings to apply.
All you said is true, but wouldn't it be much more concise to say that someone's got a virtual bridge to sell ya?
User-generated content would not have had a place to flourish if it were not for the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA.
Funny, I remember plenty of content before the DMCA came into force.
There, that wasn't hard to argue at all now was it?