Posted on 06/08/2011 5:10:57 AM PDT by ShadowAce
The more centralized all of our information access is, the easier it will be for the progressives to gain control over it.
...so let's re-embrace a concept we finally managed to get rid of after the 1970s.
In all seriousness, there are times when a centralized model works, and times when a localized solution works better. The trick is: knowing when to use each, and how to mix the two.
There are certain things you have to give up control for--like the examples he mentioned (airplanes, taxis, etc). But a tool that is in my own house?
Never!
Wanting control ? Try having updates applied to your PC which render it unusable for doing your development work. Depends on how well that “centralized administration” works.
If you don’t have demanding deadlines, it’s fine, take a break, find another machine when your machine is wacked.
If you do have deadlines, you’d rather get all updates done at the point where you’ve finished important work and are “in between” major projects or tasks.
Even the centralized control of the organization you work for can be tricky. I tend to leave my work machine on overnight/weekends due to something running on it. When I come in in the morning, and find it's not running anymore because the management decided to update/reboot the machines connected, it can be frustrating.
Good points. Kinda reminds me of the light rail freaks that want it regardless of reality.
What about database and app servers. hah ! You’d have all your users with NOTHING if you let somebody hose your server with some idiotic update that you didn’t ask for.
It’s like people don’t understand that things need to be tested prior to happening in PRODUCTION.
Ah, people auto-update all over nowadays.
Whatever, right ? just be there to pick up the pieces when they fall on their face. get your backup set up right and make sure it’s ok.
As someone who works in an insanely large organization whose IT resources are at least 80 percent centrally controlled, I can say that these people are correct. Don't listen to this dingelheimer. Give up control at your own peril.
MORONS.
Some people do more than check email and cruise the web for porn.
Some of us game, or even *shock* use Visual Studio to do programming or other complex tasks.
Could these asswipes PLEASE kill themselves?
Hopefully, the author is young and can be forgiven for his callous ignorance.
The logic of OS and computer control is simple. People should have first right of ownership and control of what they produce on a computer.
His logic is akin to outlawing private holdings of cash and precious metals.
The people who write these articles give zero thought to how others may be using these very general-purpose machines.
It's like saying we don't need Corvettes, Porsches or F-150s because most people just commute to work at 55mph, and we don't need the speed or carrying capacity of those other vehicles.
Your response sounds a little flat because liberal control thieves actually do say that stuff too! You can't even use it as an absurdly extreme example.
Yeah, I know they say that stuff, too. I just gotta believe that even they know it’s a weak argument. Otherwise, they’re too stupid to maintain their own nervous system.
Ah, what a relaxing thought....piles of dead busybodies along the road because they were too stupid to remember to breathe....Ahhhhhhh. Stinky, but only till you burn the bodies.
People really are getting dumber all the time.
It's time to kiss my ass.
Very well put! LOL!
Thanks for the ping.
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