Either we do live in a Matrix style environment or we don't.

Sounds like humans are left out in that scenario

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it. - Murphy's Law applied to Newton's.

To quote :

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.
Job security is gone.
The driving force of a career must come from the individual.
Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career !
- Earl Nightingale

The rest, loyalty to employer, family, pay, job satisfaction and so on is very individual so YMMV
So YOU need to decide how to balance things to may it work to your own satisfaction.
/Life does not come with a manual

I missed it, what happened ?
;-)

Can only talk from my own experience - and it all boils down to the bottom line, litterally. I have heard arguments ranging from 'not company policy' to 'too expensive, everyone will want one'. At my present employer the standard machines is a 32-bit Win7 with a max of 3GB of RAM. Having to develop locally means having Eclipse, a db-server and a web server running. So with all the other 'crap' and email aso. running, my machine is having a hard time and I do a lot of waiting. To solve my missing second monitor problem I have settled on installing a virtual desktop, I still have to switch around. But structuring what you have where helps.

Not that the above has much to do with monitors ;-)

To err is human - to blame it on a computer, even more so. - Robert Orben

Ah I see the makings for a religious confrontation already ;-)

April 1. would be my guess :-)

And equally important, don't do company stuff on personal time/system

I have already done this several times in order to fit two SIM cards into a dual SIM holder for my mobile. Although I have to admit that I only used a pair of scissors - the use of the meat cleaver is a nice touch. Also makes for a cleaner cut with the scissors :-)

"education was secondary to better technology solutions" - was it a hearing or a sales pitch ? I think this quote say it all "The best AV product resides in the cerebral cortex", so start teaching some common sense in school or even better at home. Like you help your kids with homework, I think it is n execellent idea to help them surf safely. I don't care how much parental control sw you install, that is not going to teach anyone common sense or safe surfing.
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Murhpys law ? What an optimist

Oh so that's what's in the EULA ;-)
Linux enthusiast, Mac@home and Windoze@work user

Some one is annoyed for not having nailed down the hardware side ;-)
Linux enthusiast, Mac@home and Windoze@work user