Around here overtime is one thing. That is when you are told specificly to stay longer to work on a specific project. Needs authorization from a manager / project manager in each occasion. That will cause extra money.
But if you are just a little short of time, have been surfing too much etc, then it is not overtime, but extra hours you are expected to give by your own free will. Depending on your salary, you might give 5 minutes, 15 minutes or even 30 minutes per day for free. Above that, and you usually get overtime, or have a job where the contract does not list any weekly number of hours.
Let them do it. I work for a large retailer, and they check criminal records and background credit information on ALL emplyoees. That includes the cleaning lady etc.
That way, there is less likelyhood that people will commit fraud etc. And we have seen enough of that lately, especially in the USA.
Links to dynamicly changing pages. So it existed before the web.
I am also pretty sure that I made an assignment with hyperlinks around 1988 at university. Think it was a help system.
manx / xman is actually prior work. Represents a list of links in one windows, and when you press it, it will compile the corresponding man page and display it in the same or another frame.
There is no doubt Jules Verne is one of the best science fiction writers there ever was. It is all about the futore, but yet most is here in own present.
In Denmark (Neighbor country and owner of Norway until 18xx) the legal system is quite likely more or less the same.
Here we have city courts, 2 country courts (east + west) and the high court. Any pary can appeal. But it usually requires something special about the case before it can be appealed to the high court. And of course you can always take it to the European Union human rights court (Not in Norway since they are not a member).
Just today in Denmark, the prosecutor appealed a case where 5 workers who supposedly raped a girl at a party was found not guilty in rape.
ANother major difference between Europe and the USA is that in the USA the facts are second to the persons rights. In Europe the truth comes before the individual. So if the police gets some evidence in ways not legal, it is still evidence - But the police will be prosecuted for breaking the law in an independent case. I think this is way better than the US way of releasing guilty people because the evidence was discovered based on something not legal.
Microsoft.NET has the same sort of thingie in their license as far as I remember, and that is one reason the mono project can't make speed comparisons.
I think we need MS to pay $0.50 for every.NET virtual machine downloaded or shipped, or otherwise in use.
We do not want to crack it to make pirate copies. And the asians can probably make them already if they want.
We want it cracked so that the people who bought the hardware can run 3rd party hardware of their own choice on their own hardware.
Would you be happy if MS said that you are not allowed to use any non-MS software on your Windows PC ? And started shipping only Windows to run on hardware protected PCs ?
If it is impossible to live in the US for $2000/year, no indian in the US will work for this salary.
Having imported workforce that will work cheaper than US workforce helps to keep the US more competitive (assuming there is no monopoly:), and a high percentage of the salary is spent in the US, which again helps US economy. Having the job done in India is way worse.
Here in Denmark, the unions have set a $10/hour or so minimum wage. And there are enough unemployed that will blocade companies that does not behave. Otherwise the companies will get so much bad PR that nobody buys their goods.
And it is only in agriculture we have those that are willing to work for no money.
BTW: How many of the americans who has a hispanic maid etc are in favor of a minimum wage of say $10/hour ?
They could produce 6 million discs/year. This will cost the industry $90 million/year.
Now, simple calculations tells you, that the industry is making a profit of $15 of every CD/DVD sold. And since a DVD burner is 2 speed, and a CD burner 40 speed, there are sold 20 times more CDs than DVDs.
Well, Amazon.com is selling new CDs for $13 a piece. Assuming 100% of this is profit, there is $2 left over on each CD towards the profit on the DVD. So the profit on a DVD must be $40. How can they then sell it for $20 ?
Sorry, but I would seriously question any damages the RIAA would want covered. Including proof that the teenagers buying their crap have enough money to buy these CDs at full price in the stores.
When Gilette pushed hard for Mach 3 in advertising, many supermarket chains actually made a loss on selling Gilette due to large amount of theft. So on top af having Gilette re-imbursing them, Gilette also started putting RFID tags on most of their products priced at at $3-$4 and up.
SO now that they have experience, they are pushing it towards the US as well.
Their OS requires drivers for the new hardware, and they don't like to offer people the driver chaos/hell that they have in Windows.
Unoike MS, I am pretty sure Apple has the guts to go out and tell people not to buy specific hardware if it gives trouble.
And, supporting the wide variety of Intel hardware will cost a shitload of money for Apple. If you want MacOS X, why not just buy the hardware it runs on ? People buys the better hardware when they want a decent MP3 player.
Right now they are seeing diminishing sales, possible shrinking market share. Most of the danish public sector is looking to save money using OpenOffice/StarOffice.
MS needs to increase their compatibility with other options, as they would otherwise force customers to convert every single user away from MS at once, instead of OpenOffice coming in slowly.
They can also hope, that their format is setting the standard, and the other companies will have to play catch-up rather than the other way around.
There has been lots of on and off writing in the media about the increase in autism being a direct result of highly intelligent people mating.
People with normal intelligence has a normal risk of getting a child with autism. A couple where both are nerds have a significantly increased risk of giving birth to a child with autism.
Since the tech industry has attracted lots of intelligent people to California, the risk of two nerds mating there is higher than elsewhere in the US.
Since when is it better to have a 15" monitor in 1024x768 than a 12.1" with the same resolution if you are talking laptops ? It is wasted weight and space. I would not buy a larger monitor for 1024x768. 15" is great for 1400x1200 though
Want a Dell laptop with 12.1" ? and the cheapest you can get is $1700.
Just checked Toshiba. Protege is the cheapest you can get there w/ 12.1" in 1024x786. $2049.
Compaq starts at $1799, and I could not find any HP with a small screen.
Downgrade people's IE to something more than a month old, and use a free personal cert from thawte to sign your self issued server certs, and all is OK.
If people install patches, you must pay. Even Diners-club (Carte Blance) Denmark says their certificate is invalid with IE 6, and says to install their cert, or get an unsafe browser.
Verisign bought Thawte, it was approved by US Governement is thawte kept prices at half that of Verisifgn.
Thawte certificates in small volumes are $350 for 2 years, after Verisign also increased prices. Other will sell you cheaper certificates the browser will believe in, but they have a screening procedure that keeps cost down, and don't have anybody trust your certificate apart from browsers.
Yes, it is yet another playing catchup on Firewire. I winder what the big fuzz is all about. Old technology re-implemented, and sold as new.
Windows XP even includes TCP/IP drivers for Firewire, and will allow you to network machines using FireWire. It finds both the FW interface on my SB Audigy Soundcard as well as my stand-alone FW card.
People should skip that USB crap, and go to the source, where it is proven technology with years behind it.
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Around here overtime is one thing. That is when you are told specificly to stay longer to work on a specific project. Needs authorization from a manager / project manager in each occasion. That will cause extra money.
But if you are just a little short of time, have been surfing too much etc, then it is not overtime, but extra hours you are expected to give by your own free will. Depending on your salary, you might give 5 minutes, 15 minutes or even 30 minutes per day for free. Above that, and you usually get overtime, or have a job where the contract does not list any weekly number of hours.
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Let them do it. I work for a large retailer, and they check criminal records and background credit information on ALL emplyoees. That includes the cleaning lady etc.
That way, there is less likelyhood that people will commit fraud etc. And we have seen enough of that lately, especially in the USA.
Gopher was exactly that.
Links to dynamicly changing pages. So it existed before the web.
I am also pretty sure that I made an assignment with hyperlinks around 1988 at university. Think it was a help system.
manx / xman is actually prior work. Represents a list of links in one windows, and when you press it, it will compile the corresponding man page and display it in the same or another frame.
This is way older than 1988.
I agree here.
There is no doubt Jules Verne is one of the best science fiction writers there ever was. It is all about the futore, but yet most is here in own present.
64 Pro I2 - Why ? Itanium servers is foremost for Windows. Real operating systems supports Beowolf, so just do 8 8 cpu machines.
In Denmark (Neighbor country and owner of Norway until 18xx) the legal system is quite likely more or less the same.
Here we have city courts, 2 country courts (east + west) and the high court. Any pary can appeal. But it usually requires something special about the case before it can be appealed to the high court. And of course you can always take it to the European Union human rights court (Not in Norway since they are not a member).
Just today in Denmark, the prosecutor appealed a case where 5 workers who supposedly raped a girl at a party was found not guilty in rape.
ANother major difference between Europe and the USA is that in the USA the facts are second to the persons rights. In Europe the truth comes before the individual. So if the police gets some evidence in ways not legal, it is still evidence - But the police will be prosecuted for breaking the law in an independent case. I think this is way better than the US way of releasing guilty people because the evidence was discovered based on something not legal.
Microsoft .NET has the same sort of thingie in their license as far as I remember, and that is one reason the mono project can't make speed comparisons.
.NET virtual machine downloaded or shipped, or otherwise in use.
I think we need MS to pay $0.50 for every
You don't get it - do you ?
We do not want to crack it to make pirate copies. And the asians can probably make them already if they want.
We want it cracked so that the people who bought the hardware can run 3rd party hardware of their own choice on their own hardware.
Would you be happy if MS said that you are not allowed to use any non-MS software on your Windows PC ? And started shipping only Windows to run on hardware protected PCs ?
If it is impossible to live in the US for $2000/year, no indian in the US will work for this salary.
:), and a high percentage of the salary is spent in the US, which again helps US economy. Having the job done in India is way worse.
Having imported workforce that will work cheaper than US workforce helps to keep the US more competitive (assuming there is no monopoly
Here in Denmark, the unions have set a $10/hour or so minimum wage. And there are enough unemployed that will blocade companies that does not behave. Otherwise the companies will get so much bad PR that nobody buys their goods.
And it is only in agriculture we have those that are willing to work for no money.
BTW: How many of the americans who has a hispanic maid etc are in favor of a minimum wage of say $10/hour ?
I don't know who wishes the CEO so much bad, but with so many Voodoo dolls out there, he will probably have to resign before the end of the year.
They could produce 6 million discs/year. This will cost the industry $90 million/year.
Now, simple calculations tells you, that the industry is making a profit of $15 of every CD/DVD sold. And since a DVD burner is 2 speed, and a CD burner 40 speed, there are sold 20 times more CDs than DVDs.
Well, Amazon.com is selling new CDs for $13 a piece. Assuming 100% of this is profit, there is $2 left over on each CD towards the profit on the DVD. So the profit on a DVD must be $40. How can they then sell it for $20 ?
Sorry, but I would seriously question any damages the RIAA would want covered. Including proof that the teenagers buying their crap have enough money to buy these CDs at full price in the stores.
If you have featuritis, and want all the features, you will also replace the product in 2-3 years. So they can use substandard quality to lower price.
If you pay twice the price (= price as it was 3-5 years ago) for less features, you get higher quality.
I have yet to find anything I bought as quality fail much faster. It gets outdated faster though.
Why would you want the directors cut ? Directors cut is what runs in the theater.
The real version is the the one that has not been cut that much, it is the extended edition. I have it on DVD.
When Gilette pushed hard for Mach 3 in advertising, many supermarket chains actually made a loss on selling Gilette due to large amount of theft. So on top af having Gilette re-imbursing them, Gilette also started putting RFID tags on most of their products priced at at $3-$4 and up.
SO now that they have experience, they are pushing it towards the US as well.
The lawyers have an e-mail address:
firm@pryorcashman.com and a website at http://www.pryorcashman.com
Do like I did. Send them a nice letter, tell them you disagree, and try to make them acknowledge that you have the right for your name.
Just seal it with some translucent airtight coating, and you can use it forevert.
Low tech solution to a high tech problem.
Their OS requires drivers for the new hardware, and they don't like to offer people the driver chaos/hell that they have in Windows.
Unoike MS, I am pretty sure Apple has the guts to go out and tell people not to buy specific hardware if it gives trouble.
And, supporting the wide variety of Intel hardware will cost a shitload of money for Apple. If you want MacOS X, why not just buy the hardware it runs on ? People buys the better hardware when they want a decent MP3 player.
MS is trying to time this right.
Right now they are seeing diminishing sales, possible shrinking market share. Most of the danish public sector is looking to save money using OpenOffice/StarOffice.
MS needs to increase their compatibility with other options, as they would otherwise force customers to convert every single user away from MS at once, instead of OpenOffice coming in slowly.
They can also hope, that their format is setting the standard, and the other companies will have to play catch-up rather than the other way around.
The first PCs did not have harddrives.
Then there wer esome with Winchester drives.
The first PC I put together for my father had a smallish like 20MB SCSI drive.
My cheap friends where using MFM or RLL drive. IDE drives were not yet invented. And the Macintosh was SCSI only for a long time.
IDE is just another passing tech in the low-end desktop PC market.
This is pretty old news.
There has been lots of on and off writing in the media about the increase in autism being a direct result of highly intelligent people mating.
People with normal intelligence has a normal risk of getting a child with autism. A couple where both are nerds have a significantly increased risk of giving birth to a child with autism.
Since the tech industry has attracted lots of intelligent people to California, the risk of two nerds mating there is higher than elsewhere in the US.
Multiply the figures, and you will see that the iPod is only 63% the size of the Zen.
Again, just like with laptops, size matters and weight matters, or else we would all be dragging around an Osborne-1.
Since when is it better to have a 15" monitor in 1024x768 than a 12.1" with the same resolution if you are talking laptops ? It is wasted weight and space.
I would not buy a larger monitor for 1024x768. 15" is great for 1400x1200 though
Want a Dell laptop with 12.1" ? and the cheapest you can get is $1700.
Just checked Toshiba. Protege is the cheapest you can get there w/ 12.1" in 1024x786. $2049.
Compaq starts at $1799, and I could not find any HP with a small screen.
Downgrade people's IE to something more than a month old, and use a free personal cert from thawte to sign your self issued server certs, and all is OK.
If people install patches, you must pay. Even Diners-club (Carte Blance) Denmark says their certificate is invalid with IE 6, and says to install their cert, or get an unsafe browser.
Verisign bought Thawte, it was approved by US Governement is thawte kept prices at half that of Verisifgn.
Thawte certificates in small volumes are $350 for 2 years, after Verisign also increased prices. Other will sell you cheaper certificates the browser will believe in, but they have a screening procedure that keeps cost down, and don't have anybody trust your certificate apart from browsers.
Yes, it is yet another playing catchup on Firewire. I winder what the big fuzz is all about. Old technology re-implemented, and sold as new.
Windows XP even includes TCP/IP drivers for Firewire, and will allow you to network machines using FireWire. It finds both the FW interface on my SB Audigy Soundcard as well as my stand-alone FW card.
People should skip that USB crap, and go to the source, where it is proven technology with years behind it.