To spell it out...every time anything on slashdot mentions ads, the first 100 or so posts are people commenting on how they haven't seen ads in years. They make these comments like the signal to noise ratio needed to satisfy their massive intellect needs to approach 100%. Then of course they proceed to fill up all the comments with the noise of one person saying "Adblock..." and 99 saying, "me too".
- I don't care that you use AdBlock. If it's an ask slashdot about how to block ads, by all means post in response to that. - I also don't care about all of you that don't even have a tv but must comment on every tv story. - Nor do I care that Go is deeper than chess unless we're already discussing both of them (not just one).
Stolen laptops would be the chief target I'd imagine. They are easiest to get physical access to and most likely to be considered "secure" through encryption software.
There was no real quality of search results when that fight took place. It was a different era, with little more than keyword lookups.
Maybe the MS/Yahoo team could come up with some unforeseen technology that obsoletes Google but nobody knows what that would be. Unless you believe Yahoo has some unreleased, revolutionary technology, I'd have to say the bulk of the price paid for Yahoo would be for their customer base.
The preceding isn't strictly true. You'd have to value the company based on current operational profits, cash, real and other assets. The price above these that MS is willing to pay is "goodwill" which would be attributed to "synergy of shared resources" or "customer list". I'm going with customer list or eyeballs.
I offer these opinions here because nobody asks me to run their trillion dollar company.
The cool thing about buying something like Yahoo is you can finance against the assets of the acquisition. Typically you might issue stock of your own company reflecting your value of theirs, only risking dilution of your own stock (looking at you Time Warner). Or some combo of that and cash.
What he's not saying is MS wanted to buy market Yahoo has. Critical mass is the most important thing in the search space. You don't spend $46B for strategic hires.
I'd start by demonstrating the strong correlation between the pager going off and someone being in need of a doctor. Clearly if you get rid of the pager, fewer people would be in distress.
The other thing to note is that a green laser is used because it is visible. This means that it is diminishing rapidly in power as it is absorbed and reflected by water in the air.
Really, the only way they could possibly catch the people using it is if a good chunk of the laser is getting reflected and drew a line back to them.
The problem is that the typical IT group has a complete lack of solutions. There are a number of ways around the virus scanner problem. Turning it off during builds, turning off specific directories or file extensions, a second machine not connected to the network only for builds, etc...
At that particular job, I could show people at the end of an 8 hour day that McAfee's scanner process (scan32.exe?) was eating up over 5 hours of CPU time. That and the plethora of applications used by my job (Lotus Notes, IDE, browser) and I was lucky to have one user application that would accept input between all the grinding.
Even when confronted with this evidence of where my computer resources was going, *I* was still the enemy. All I wanted was a working computer, IT wouldn't give me that.
At a subsequent company, the virus scanner fought it out with some of the build tools (actually breaking them). They said, "here is the waiver process" and it was all taken care of. That was not typical of my overall experiences, however.
I know many doctors not practicing anymore. They are smart, work hard and have saved money. Most of them have turned their hobby into an actual business and are successful in that as well.
An unsuccessful doctor will just remain in practice because doctors are in demand virtually everywhere.
The initial problem is that I may copy whole directories during a build/package/deploy process. This essentially means that every file is getting scanned multiple times as itself, a copy of itself, it's byte/binary version of itself, the package it's wrapped into, etc...
The real problem is that implementing a solution for this is near impossible. I typically can't even get good traction explaining the problem as they reiterate that corporate policy states the virus scanner must be active. The real problem is that I'm seen as a "know-it-all" which implies that I don't know what I'm talking about and therefore wrong. Since I'm wrong, I'm told to restart the computer multiple times, ignored for long stretches or just told that the virus scanner needs to be there.
Let's not get into the issue of finger pointers. IT is replete with them. This article in fact is saying it's all the users fault and makes no mention of the possibility of help desk failure.
I just don't like being treated as the enemy...and a dumb enemy at that. I fully realize I don't know everything about the desktop or why windows networking can take 30+ seconds to log on (what is it doing?!). But when I drag one of them over to show them how my build which is creating 5000 files takes 100x longer when the virus scanner is operating "on access" I expect an answer better than "corporate policy".
The unix administrators I've run across certainly have their tyrants but they eventually relent in order to let me get some work done. The windows side of IT seems perfectly willing to let work stop in order to conform to policy.
I really hate these knee-jerk "go ask a lawyer" posts.
Yes, you should go ask a lawyer. Asking slashdot first might bring up some issues and past experiences that you could take to the lawyer, or help you find the right type of lawyer first. You'll get better results if you go to a lawyer prepared.
Sometimes, the answer is also "look somewhere else" which really doesn't need a lawyer's advice or expense.
In your situation the company is asking for more and offering nothing more. Make this clear to them. This is a negotiation, ask them what they offer in return.
I've always been of the opinion that anyone that will own all my works for a term after my employment will get billed 24 hours a day for that time period.
I'd be interested to know the numbers for *legal* users of photoshop vs gimp. Gimp would be a lot more popular (than it is now) if photoshop wasn't so blatantly pirated by every artist that wants the program to run at home as well.
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You could start tracking all the phones that drop off the network from 5pm-7am.
To spell it out...every time anything on slashdot mentions ads, the first 100 or so posts are people commenting on how they haven't seen ads in years. They make these comments like the signal to noise ratio needed to satisfy their massive intellect needs to approach 100%. Then of course they proceed to fill up all the comments with the noise of one person saying "Adblock..." and 99 saying, "me too".
- I don't care that you use AdBlock. If it's an ask slashdot about how to block ads, by all means post in response to that.
- I also don't care about all of you that don't even have a tv but must comment on every tv story.
- Nor do I care that Go is deeper than chess unless we're already discussing both of them (not just one).
I seem to keep getting ads for AdBlock whenever slashdot does a story involving ads.
Stolen laptops would be the chief target I'd imagine. They are easiest to get physical access to and most likely to be considered "secure" through encryption software.
There was no real quality of search results when that fight took place. It was a different era, with little more than keyword lookups.
Maybe the MS/Yahoo team could come up with some unforeseen technology that obsoletes Google but nobody knows what that would be. Unless you believe Yahoo has some unreleased, revolutionary technology, I'd have to say the bulk of the price paid for Yahoo would be for their customer base.
The preceding isn't strictly true. You'd have to value the company based on current operational profits, cash, real and other assets. The price above these that MS is willing to pay is "goodwill" which would be attributed to "synergy of shared resources" or "customer list". I'm going with customer list or eyeballs.
I offer these opinions here because nobody asks me to run their trillion dollar company.
The cool thing about buying something like Yahoo is you can finance against the assets of the acquisition. Typically you might issue stock of your own company reflecting your value of theirs, only risking dilution of your own stock (looking at you Time Warner). Or some combo of that and cash.
What he's not saying is MS wanted to buy market Yahoo has. Critical mass is the most important thing in the search space. You don't spend $46B for strategic hires.
If that's not true, we could always build an electric motor to move the weight to the top. It could draw solar power...emitted by the lamp, of course.
This field requires the type of labor that moves to the US.
This sort of labor is exactly what the H1B is meant for.
Air force air traffic controllers aren't getting laid off, they're moving to civilian jobs that paid a lot more.
And they've placed a tremendous number of high paid people there paying large property taxes, gas taxes, sales taxes, etc...
Exactly why should I as a customer pay a couple extra dollar to go to Washington just because MS has workers there.
FYI, they have workers all over the world too.
Corporate financial headquarters being located in different states is nothing at all new.
I don't think Google gives guidance. This means the analysts missed their estimates, not Google.
The major difference there is I pay the difference plus interest.
With the BSA, you owe up to $150k per violation, attorney fees and then you still have to buy your way back into compliance.
You have to be willing to sell your opinion.
I'd start by demonstrating the strong correlation between the pager going off and someone being in need of a doctor. Clearly if you get rid of the pager, fewer people would be in distress.
For every John Henry there was someone working just as hard to build a steam engine.
The other thing to note is that a green laser is used because it is visible. This means that it is diminishing rapidly in power as it is absorbed and reflected by water in the air.
Really, the only way they could possibly catch the people using it is if a good chunk of the laser is getting reflected and drew a line back to them.
The problem is that the typical IT group has a complete lack of solutions. There are a number of ways around the virus scanner problem. Turning it off during builds, turning off specific directories or file extensions, a second machine not connected to the network only for builds, etc...
At that particular job, I could show people at the end of an 8 hour day that McAfee's scanner process (scan32.exe?) was eating up over 5 hours of CPU time. That and the plethora of applications used by my job (Lotus Notes, IDE, browser) and I was lucky to have one user application that would accept input between all the grinding.
Even when confronted with this evidence of where my computer resources was going, *I* was still the enemy. All I wanted was a working computer, IT wouldn't give me that.
At a subsequent company, the virus scanner fought it out with some of the build tools (actually breaking them). They said, "here is the waiver process" and it was all taken care of. That was not typical of my overall experiences, however.
I know many doctors not practicing anymore. They are smart, work hard and have saved money. Most of them have turned their hobby into an actual business and are successful in that as well.
An unsuccessful doctor will just remain in practice because doctors are in demand virtually everywhere.
The initial problem is that I may copy whole directories during a build/package/deploy process. This essentially means that every file is getting scanned multiple times as itself, a copy of itself, it's byte/binary version of itself, the package it's wrapped into, etc...
The real problem is that implementing a solution for this is near impossible. I typically can't even get good traction explaining the problem as they reiterate that corporate policy states the virus scanner must be active. The real problem is that I'm seen as a "know-it-all" which implies that I don't know what I'm talking about and therefore wrong. Since I'm wrong, I'm told to restart the computer multiple times, ignored for long stretches or just told that the virus scanner needs to be there.
Let's not get into the issue of finger pointers. IT is replete with them. This article in fact is saying it's all the users fault and makes no mention of the possibility of help desk failure.
I just don't like being treated as the enemy...and a dumb enemy at that. I fully realize I don't know everything about the desktop or why windows networking can take 30+ seconds to log on (what is it doing?!). But when I drag one of them over to show them how my build which is creating 5000 files takes 100x longer when the virus scanner is operating "on access" I expect an answer better than "corporate policy".
The unix administrators I've run across certainly have their tyrants but they eventually relent in order to let me get some work done. The windows side of IT seems perfectly willing to let work stop in order to conform to policy.
There is strong irony in the IT worker complaining about the know-it-all.
Life is very short and there's not time for fussing and fighting my friend.
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I really hate these knee-jerk "go ask a lawyer" posts.
Yes, you should go ask a lawyer. Asking slashdot first might bring up some issues and past experiences that you could take to the lawyer, or help you find the right type of lawyer first. You'll get better results if you go to a lawyer prepared.
Sometimes, the answer is also "look somewhere else" which really doesn't need a lawyer's advice or expense.
In your situation the company is asking for more and offering nothing more. Make this clear to them. This is a negotiation, ask them what they offer in return.
I've always been of the opinion that anyone that will own all my works for a term after my employment will get billed 24 hours a day for that time period.
I'd be interested to know the numbers for *legal* users of photoshop vs gimp. Gimp would be a lot more popular (than it is now) if photoshop wasn't so blatantly pirated by every artist that wants the program to run at home as well.