A looked down workstation can actually be very beneficial to coding. Far too many shops spend most of their labor hours recoding because it "ran fine" on the developer's machine. One very sucessful shop in my hometown doesn't allow developers to run their own code on their own machines. They take every test run on a 486 that just got reformatted and has nothing but a clean-install os on it. Works like a charm.
I don't understand the concept of wanting a device the government could use to track where you are every second of the day. It's bad enough in these days of Echelon and Carnivore, without us making it easier. They say you have to dial 911 first, but I just don't beleive them. It's great in an emergency, but I like my privacy. A lot. Pretty soon it'll be included in all cell phones, and won't that just be conveinient. No wonder the government is pushing cell phone companies to implement it. Wait a second, is that guy in the next cube watching me??? Gotta go.
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A looked down workstation can actually be very beneficial to coding. Far too many shops spend most of their labor hours recoding because it "ran fine" on the developer's machine. One very sucessful shop in my hometown doesn't allow developers to run their own code on their own machines. They take every test run on a 486 that just got reformatted and has nothing but a clean-install os on it. Works like a charm.
I don't understand the concept of wanting a device the government could use to track where you are every second of the day. It's bad enough in these days of Echelon and Carnivore, without us making it easier. They say you have to dial 911 first, but I just don't beleive them. It's great in an emergency, but I like my privacy. A lot. Pretty soon it'll be included in all cell phones, and won't that just be conveinient. No wonder the government is pushing cell phone companies to implement it. Wait a second, is that guy in the next cube watching me??? Gotta go.