Say Hi to your mother for me, okay?

By hand

What if they took your stapler and moved your desk in to the basement?

It's only a matter of time until they start using swarm techniques to overwhelm our star cruisers.

Surprise, asshole! I bet you never saw this coming, did ya?

I guess I just do not see the cost, you can give your vendor an image so it arrives at your door with the custom OS and configuration on it, GPO's aren't a maintenance issue, setup properly as a thick client the configurations are static and you can launch a published desktop exactly like a thin client, there is no functional difference. They can't install anything locally, they can't change settings, they just launch a desktop off the thick client and go. What thin clients do for you that isn't in black and white is turn your help desk in to a cd reading factory for users because they can't anymore, also lose the ability to attach devices like scanners easily so you end up buying some desktops anyway. It's a measurable loss in versatility and productivity and forward movement because anything that does not fly with your proprietary hardware sinks the ship.

Citrix creates an environment that is incredibly hard to screw up for users, and by users the growing portion of the people who walk in the door that do not have a firm grasp of how to use the start button. The kind of people who take their laptops home and the second they are out from behind your security device they mysteriously get viruses. If you know what you are doing it's a hassle, but from a help desk/administrator perspective it is a God of uniformity and user mucking resilience. As far as "Thin Client" hardware, why spend $400 for something with 1/10th of the capability for $50 less than a bare bones desktop? What if you change your mind or infrastructure? Try to catch that screwball. You can GPO and do some very simple configurations to make a regular desktop the rough equivalent of a thin client.

If you touch the side of the data center in just the wrong place it will shut down

Construction has not yet begun making it an atheist theme park for now

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I think Linux and FreeBSD are godsends on the server side but I have to agree with OP on the Desktop side. There is one very harsh reality that will never go away, the general consumer does not want to have to learn anything to use a computer. User facing technical folks will tell you that most users do not even have a firm grasp of how to use the start button after using MS products for 10 years in a business environment.

A great day for a HEIST, just be out of there within 2 minutes of them twittering the call.

With of course many overlapping positions being consolidated too. Aren't they trying to create jobs? Just saying....

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Make sure they ban those computers in cop cars that they put plate numbers in to while driving as well.