I was just about to say the same thing. It's like every year or two the MSM gets convinced that the world is going to shift to dummy terminals. They're useful for retail stores and for other limited usage, but that's about it.
My company has never used dummy terminals but we have certainly configured and installed them for clients. Let's just say they're good for government usage if you're concerned about information storage and retrieval.
Wow guys, it seems that there's a lot of hostility going on here...
I understand the frustration we all feel when we work for companies that undervalue and overwork their IT department. I, however, work at a place that underworks and overvalues us techies so I'm coming at this from a slightly different perspective. I think when these standards are developed it is imperative that management meet with the IT people to get their input as well as to open up a discussion on what is reasonable and what is not reasonable. It is management's job to tell IT what must be available all the time and it is IT's job to tell them what it's going to take for that to happen.
The bottom line is that you can't just develop an arbitrary list of what to expect from your IT department; it depends on the specific details of your network. You also can't be afraid to talk to the techs; they're usually very nice people!
Actually the price of satellite services isn't really that expensive as long as the plane is over land. They can use the array of land earth satellites already in orbit that are available for commercial usage. That's what most cruise ships use to provide high-speed access.
Now if you're out over the ocean you'd be forced to use the geosynchronous satellites which of course are much higher up in orbit, hence less actual satellites, much higher latency, and soaring costs. My bet is the airlines stay away from using them for now.
The worst thing about Drudge lately has been clicking through to a story...tonight every time I did that Firefox would resize itself really small and I'd have to make it larger manually. A couple more days of that and I'll quit visiting his site.
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I was just about to say the same thing. It's like every year or two the MSM gets convinced that the world is going to shift to dummy terminals. They're useful for retail stores and for other limited usage, but that's about it.
My company has never used dummy terminals but we have certainly configured and installed them for clients. Let's just say they're good for government usage if you're concerned about information storage and retrieval.
Wow guys, it seems that there's a lot of hostility going on here...
I understand the frustration we all feel when we work for companies that undervalue and overwork their IT department. I, however, work at a place that underworks and overvalues us techies so I'm coming at this from a slightly different perspective. I think when these standards are developed it is imperative that management meet with the IT people to get their input as well as to open up a discussion on what is reasonable and what is not reasonable. It is management's job to tell IT what must be available all the time and it is IT's job to tell them what it's going to take for that to happen.
The bottom line is that you can't just develop an arbitrary list of what to expect from your IT department; it depends on the specific details of your network. You also can't be afraid to talk to the techs; they're usually very nice people!
Actually the price of satellite services isn't really that expensive as long as the plane is over land. They can use the array of land earth satellites already in orbit that are available for commercial usage. That's what most cruise ships use to provide high-speed access. Now if you're out over the ocean you'd be forced to use the geosynchronous satellites which of course are much higher up in orbit, hence less actual satellites, much higher latency, and soaring costs. My bet is the airlines stay away from using them for now.
Good call...I'm still getting the pop-ups but they're not wreaking havoc on the browser window.
The worst thing about Drudge lately has been clicking through to a story...tonight every time I did that Firefox would resize itself really small and I'd have to make it larger manually. A couple more days of that and I'll quit visiting his site.