On the one hand every company has those silly rules, that almost all of us are violating right now, to not use company assets for private use while at work or at any other time. Clear enough.
Now companies, and Delta and Northwest are famous for this, are telling their employees that using their own machines in their own homes to discuss, even in passing anything having to do with said company, even to other employees of the same company is not only a fire-able offense but is criminal.
It seems though that companies at most need to apply legal standards of libel and slander in whatever country they are operating. If it doesn't break those laws then it shouldn't be actionable. Of course many of us live in a RIGHT TO WORK state which says a person can be fired for any reason at any time so maybe the whole point is moot.
In either case I recommend that all employees refuse the company softball game, comunity service gathering, Christmas party, blood drive or solicitation from the United Way. You can never be to sure that through some accident not even of your own doing the sacred holy company's image won't be tarnished in some way. Better to leave all that stuff to someone else.
And if someone asks you for a job or personal reference refuse that too. In fact, run all those queries through your corporate HR and/or legal department just to be sure.
It was a big jet. A really pretty jet. There were lots of complaints when she bought it, but she stuck to her guns and bought the most adorable jet you've ever seen.
Who will they tap next to run the company? Jessica Simpson?
I've never actually killed a PC. Replaced fans and powersupplies, a CDRW here and there, keyboards and mice that went airborne. But kill? Never. But check one of my other posts from today. According to Powerleap, elevated tempurature will dramatically shorten the life of the capacitors on your motherboard. As much as 50%. So we can expect PCs to last on average about 3 years before the MoBo conks out.
Lets face facts. Anything that MS does not absolutely dominate and crush all comers they only manage to squeeze out a middling so-so product. Clearly their intent is to bundle bundle bundle and make it harder to install or use anyone else's products. That is, it's meant to bind you to their brand harder whether it works well or not.
Barring that it's probably another link in the chain of DRM dominance. Just how I haven't figured out yet but I'm pretty sure it's there.
The dudes and Overleap are more concerned with the effects of sustained heat on the motherboard, particularly the capacitors which reduces significantly the functional life of the circuitry. They figures they use estimate that today's current crop of CPUs generate enough heat to reduce the life of the motherboard by half or to about 3 years on average. So regardless of what is happening to the operational performance of the unit from too much heat, what's true is that come hell or high water your machine will die in about 3 years.
Considering a I just took a 11 year old PC out of service on my home network I consider this a very big downer.
In fact with the way that companies like Dell do their financing you will probably wind up paying a lease on a machine that doesn't last as long as the term of the lease. And that is great big fat downer.
I wish I had their jobs I could say with some vague certainty that what you see in front of your own two eyes is more or less what is really there.
I remember interviewing there more than 10 years ago and they tried to impress me with their onsite valet service because their people work 1400 hrs a day and are too busy to go home.
To do what? Tell me that the #1 and #2 browsers will indeed remain the #1 and #2 browsers for the near and yet indistinct future of some given and arbitrary timeline? And that since no one, NO ONE ever wants to say MS might not in fact be Budda, God and James Dean rolled into one, we have to say that BOTH browsers will remain.
USAnotebooks.com shows an IBM TP760EL for $229. I'm pretty sure you could find a hundred of these on eBay for less than $100.
The only real problem is getting new batteries, because they eventually conk out and of course the screen which can get easily damaeged.
The real problem is software. With notebooks like that you're pretty much committed to DOS/Win3.1 or possibly Win95 if you have to go the Windows route. Maybe OS/2 version 3 or 4. Or pick whichever low end freeNIX you prefer.
Clearly the Bush empire sees only one practical use for space: weaponize it. I wonder how much of the new $450 billion +++ defense budget is earmarked for orbiting weapons systems and not some silly pussy-assed waste of engineering like science. Hell we all know there's no evolution and the sun revolves around the earth anyway. What the hell good is science anyway? Real men orbit atomic bombs, lasers and spy sats.
OS Bloat, poorly written code and enormous feature sets that are almost completely ignored by all users. That's where all your expensive cycles go.
Trust me; MS Word does not DO word processing better than OpenOffice or Lotus Wordpro. XPs widgets, while cute and soothing do not do anything to rerrange what is a profoundly broken UI.
If I recally the openSSH license had some really weird language in it that amounted to "There is a lot of code in this tool. I'm not sure of everything and there may very well be something in here that belongs to someone else. So if they come after you Mr. MegaCorp, don't ask me. It's not my problem."
And that is a bigger problem for our lawyers then the efficacy of the tool itself.
Otherwise, why must it be an either/or decision? Why can't you have a mix of open and commercial and achieve a balance of cost and effectiveness?
Also consider the total lifecycle costs. A $30,000 appliance out of the box may be cheaper than an open source tool running on an 'extra' server you have laying around plus 250 hours/year of your time fucking with it. Sometime the best security is the security that makes the most rational sense for you to afford.
Between the process of becoming a 'vendor' on eBay and the borderline criminality of PayPal I really fail to see what is wonderful about eBay. Why even have PayPal for instance? We've been muddling along well enough with credit card purchases w/o introducing another intermediary that really does nothing except insert itself and take a fee. And if eBay's basic approach is Caveat Emptor then why bother to beef up customer support at all?
I have to say that everything I've ever sold successfully was through a local newsgroup where I could easily correspond with the person, meet them face to face and save everyone shipping costs. I really don't see why one would have to far away to sell what is, for the most part, your junk. eBay is the world's lawn sale, no more no less.
Seriously,/.'rs accuse me of being an hysterical maniac when I point out problems with MS's business and technical model. Apparently in this post modern world every idea and product is exactly interchangeable with any other so fix your problems yourselves/.'rs, fix it yourselves.
You're just sad and yet another reason why people see/. as nothing more than a huge pile of ignorant nitpicking retards who love to hear themselves prattle on about talking about talking about something.
Day one is meaningless as is this article and your defense of it. If I'm a big enough customer I can get the whole truckload of PCs fully loaded for almost zero dollars which is why companies like IBM are leaving the business.
Purchase price is 15% of the lifcycle TCO you moron. The other 85% is support costs. And that is absolutely less with Linux because of the corespondingly less break-fix, patching, security disaster recoveries.
They've been trying to divorce themselves from DPRK Taepo No Dong boosters. Maybe they can buy a few rockets from SpaceX, modify them into IRBMs, plug a sub 1500Kg on top and become the first eBay nuclear power.
Seriously, getting into near orbit is one thing. Getting where you need to be is quite another.
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thanks I will be more concientious of editing in the future.
On the one hand every company has those silly rules, that almost all of us are violating right now, to not use company assets for private use while at work or at any other time. Clear enough.
Now companies, and Delta and Northwest are famous for this, are telling their employees that using their own machines in their own homes to discuss, even in passing anything having to do with said company, even to other employees of the same company is not only a fire-able offense but is criminal.
It seems though that companies at most need to apply legal standards of libel and slander in whatever country they are operating. If it doesn't break those laws then it shouldn't be actionable. Of course many of us live in a RIGHT TO WORK state which says a person can be fired for any reason at any time so maybe the whole point is moot.
In either case I recommend that all employees refuse the company softball game, comunity service gathering, Christmas party, blood drive or solicitation from the United Way. You can never be to sure that through some accident not even of your own doing the sacred holy company's image won't be tarnished in some way. Better to leave all that stuff to someone else.
And if someone asks you for a job or personal reference refuse that too. In fact, run all those queries through your corporate HR and/or legal department just to be sure.
You company is not your friend.
It was a big jet. A really pretty jet. There were lots of complaints when she bought it, but she stuck to her guns and bought the most adorable jet you've ever seen.
Who will they tap next to run the company? Jessica Simpson?
Overleap makes a 1.3Ghz Tualatin upgrade for Slot-1 Pentium machines. It's called a SlotWonder 1300C and costs about $100.
I've never actually killed a PC. Replaced fans and powersupplies, a CDRW here and there, keyboards and mice that went airborne. But kill? Never. But check one of my other posts from today. According to Powerleap, elevated tempurature will dramatically shorten the life of the capacitors on your motherboard. As much as 50%. So we can expect PCs to last on average about 3 years before the MoBo conks out.
Lets face facts. Anything that MS does not absolutely dominate and crush all comers they only manage to squeeze out a middling so-so product. Clearly their intent is to bundle bundle bundle and make it harder to install or use anyone else's products. That is, it's meant to bind you to their brand harder whether it works well or not.
Barring that it's probably another link in the chain of DRM dominance. Just how I haven't figured out yet but I'm pretty sure it's there.
The dudes and Overleap are more concerned with the effects of sustained heat on the motherboard, particularly the capacitors which reduces significantly the functional life of the circuitry. They figures they use estimate that today's current crop of CPUs generate enough heat to reduce the life of the motherboard by half or to about 3 years on average. So regardless of what is happening to the operational performance of the unit from too much heat, what's true is that come hell or high water your machine will die in about 3 years.
Considering a I just took a 11 year old PC out of service on my home network I consider this a very big downer.
In fact with the way that companies like Dell do their financing you will probably wind up paying a lease on a machine that doesn't last as long as the term of the lease. And that is great big fat downer.
I wish I had their jobs I could say with some vague certainty that what you see in front of your own two eyes is more or less what is really there.
I remember interviewing there more than 10 years ago and they tried to impress me with their onsite valet service because their people work 1400 hrs a day and are too busy to go home.
To do what? Tell me that the #1 and #2 browsers will indeed remain the #1 and #2 browsers for the near and yet indistinct future of some given and arbitrary timeline? And that since no one, NO ONE ever wants to say MS might not in fact be Budda, God and James Dean rolled into one, we have to say that BOTH browsers will remain.
USAnotebooks.com shows an IBM TP760EL for $229. I'm pretty sure you could find a hundred of these on eBay for less than $100.
The only real problem is getting new batteries, because they eventually conk out and of course the screen which can get easily damaeged.
The real problem is software. With notebooks like that you're pretty much committed to DOS/Win3.1 or possibly Win95 if you have to go the Windows route. Maybe OS/2 version 3 or 4. Or pick whichever low end freeNIX you prefer.
people on fark even make fun of you.
Hubble is going submarine soon. More militarization of space. Protect us from the Brown Dwarf aliens and their non christian lifestyle.
I know UNC Greensboro for a fact but I think the rest of the schools have similar rules, except for State.
I did your mom. She cried, a lot.
Clearly the Bush empire sees only one practical use for space: weaponize it. I wonder how much of the new $450 billion +++ defense budget is earmarked for orbiting weapons systems and not some silly pussy-assed waste of engineering like science. Hell we all know there's no evolution and the sun revolves around the earth anyway. What the hell good is science anyway? Real men orbit atomic bombs, lasers and spy sats.
OS Bloat, poorly written code and enormous feature sets that are almost completely ignored by all users. That's where all your expensive cycles go.
Trust me; MS Word does not DO word processing better than OpenOffice or Lotus Wordpro. XPs widgets, while cute and soothing do not do anything to rerrange what is a profoundly broken UI.
If I recally the openSSH license had some really weird language in it that amounted to "There is a lot of code in this tool. I'm not sure of everything and there may very well be something in here that belongs to someone else. So if they come after you Mr. MegaCorp, don't ask me. It's not my problem."
And that is a bigger problem for our lawyers then the efficacy of the tool itself.
Otherwise, why must it be an either/or decision? Why can't you have a mix of open and commercial and achieve a balance of cost and effectiveness?
Also consider the total lifecycle costs. A $30,000 appliance out of the box may be cheaper than an open source tool running on an 'extra' server you have laying around plus 250 hours/year of your time fucking with it. Sometime the best security is the security that makes the most rational sense for you to afford.
Between the process of becoming a 'vendor' on eBay and the borderline criminality of PayPal I really fail to see what is wonderful about eBay. Why even have PayPal for instance? We've been muddling along well enough with credit card purchases w/o introducing another intermediary that really does nothing except insert itself and take a fee. And if eBay's basic approach is Caveat Emptor then why bother to beef up customer support at all?
I have to say that everything I've ever sold successfully was through a local newsgroup where I could easily correspond with the person, meet them face to face and save everyone shipping costs. I really don't see why one would have to far away to sell what is, for the most part, your junk. eBay is the world's lawn sale, no more no less.
Seriously, /.'rs accuse me of being an hysterical maniac when I point out problems with MS's business and technical model. Apparently in this post modern world every idea and product is exactly interchangeable with any other so fix your problems yourselves /.'rs, fix it yourselves.
Another /. nipicking retard who can't see the forest from the trees.
You're just sad and yet another reason why people see /. as nothing more than a huge pile of ignorant nitpicking retards who love to hear themselves prattle on about talking about talking about something.
Day one is meaningless as is this article and your defense of it. If I'm a big enough customer I can get the whole truckload of PCs fully loaded for almost zero dollars which is why companies like IBM are leaving the business.
Please continue with your apologia though.
Purchase price is 15% of the lifcycle TCO you moron. The other 85% is support costs. And that is absolutely less with Linux because of the corespondingly less break-fix, patching, security disaster recoveries.
They've been trying to divorce themselves from DPRK Taepo No Dong boosters. Maybe they can buy a few rockets from SpaceX, modify them into IRBMs, plug a sub 1500Kg on top and become the first eBay nuclear power.
Seriously, getting into near orbit is one thing. Getting where you need to be is quite another.