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Comment: You've got issues (Score 1) 284

by obarthelemy (#43945113) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Best To Disconnect Remote Network Access?

1- you're incompetent.... what you want to do is networking 101
2- you're an idiot. your job is to help your users, not to piss them off
3- you fail to realize you're having a political/organizational problem, not a technical one
4- the solution you're contemplating is medieval

Honestly, you sound like a gleeful entitled bitch thay just stumbled.on some blackmail material.

Comment: Same way you teach Accounting, Sales, HR,... to IT (Score 4, Insightful) 159

by obarthelemy (#43634807) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Teach IT To Senior Management?

you don't.

Fair warning: these people don't want to be taught about IT. They want a powerpoint presentation about why the choices they have made (ie, you have made for them) are the right ones (other hint: "our competition is doing that" is the best argument, by a mile). That's a good place to sneak in a few limitations you anticipate to cause issues too, so you have an "I told you so" fallback.

Comment: Re:Good, very good (Score 2) 196

by obarthelemy (#43594959) Attached to: Windows Store In-App Ad Revenue Plummets

I think adware does make sense for trialware. About half the apps on my phone are free ones, because I barely use them, or because I'm testing them out. For test purposes, I'd rather have a full app with ads, than a neutered app that won't let me test the advanced features I'm probably most interested in. For apps I barely use... I understand the dev's need to make some money.

What I can't stand is pure adware apps, that don't let me pay up to get rid of the ads.

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