"It provides decision makers with options. You can guarantee
that the Marines were excruciatingly detailed in building in technological
limiters to keep the system from having a lethal effect,"
How many times in recent history have we seen a "limiter" been removed and yielded a more powerful/devistation device.
I'm betting that underground instructions for making your own with two savlaged microwaves and $1000 in other parts will soon swoop down on the net and we'll have some really strange reports of unruly parties with load music being broken up by neighbors driving by and kapping the pad.
Or "Mob's new torture device of choice found to be low-cost version of new military 'non-lethal technology"
It's all about negotiation. If you're not comfortable doing it, you won't get the compensation you may be entitled to.
Personally, I would push for 3 months at 150%-200% pay. The Tech industry moves along quickly and that kind of bump in the road can be harsh. It all depends on your skills and industry history, for sure - but it all comes down to knowing that everything is negotiable and you are not going to get the best deal be sitting back and hoping they are nice to you. Be direct, know your base assets (to their company) and push for what you value as a comparable compensation to their non-comp. contract.
Hmm... I can appreciate your desire to get on with life, especially if your talent runs deep and your passion for your job is there.
Still, a lot of larger companies that have well funded interesting projects you might be interested in have degree requirements. I know AT&T requires ~10 years in the field without a degree and others will be forces into restricting your pay for a period if you are hired without one.
Perhaps getting a degree via night school would be the best option for you. If your current role evaporates (can in some lines of work) then you may like having that piece of paper to fall back on. But then again some people are so well motivated and so skilled at presenting themselves professionally that it doesn't matter.
Think of agnostic as just a word. It's often misused by those who would 'label' or put you into a group. Really though, it's just a word and its definition does not assign any real relationship with others who are agnostic.
When someone say's "So you're agnostic?" they may just mean to understand your point of view, not necessarily put you into a box with other people they have met in the past.
Feeling labeled because there's a word to describe a facet of your perspective on life may be misjudging the word.
My local grocery is a co-op : great high quality selection, mostly organic, kind of expensive.
I understand that kind of co-op. I'm an owner along with about 5000 other people.
What kind of co-op is this being described? Is it basically the same and I'm just missing the connection? Or is the relationship build on a different foundation?
And when you play the un-lit sewer levels on the moon-less night setting, armed with your shades-of-darkness--death-cannon, I bet you'll get, maybe 200+ fps.
I'd show you a screen shot, but we can save bandwidth if you just look at your screen with your eyes closed for a bit.
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Price _is_ important, but I really like my ~$2000 HP Laptop for linuxing.
Isn't the average Linux user in need of a little more than basic hardware? The ability to use a ton of RAM, solid PCMCIA, decently big disk... I think you may get more at a pretty reasonable price in a real laptop and end up happier down the line with the power and flexibility.
I wonder how the mechanism works if there's a little mistake and Mir starts coming down somewhere it wasn't expected. Considering how many planes are in the air over many parts of the world at any one time, how do all of the effected flights get redirected?
That's Microsoft Certified, but I use Linux and Mac OS X throughout the day as well. Not all MCSEs are MS'centric. Some just need it (actually, the study, not the testing and certification) for the job they're doing at the time.
With the possible recession down the road and the recent slew of failing dot-coms, this topic seems to have made less news lately than it had a year ago.
I'm still wondering why the attack against Microsoft the day after they fixed their DNS routing mistake made so little news. There are still plenty of major web/e-commerce shops out there, but perhaps the spector of DDoS just can't make news and grab eyes like it did just a few months ago.
The Score:0 AC post nearby reports that Mac OS 9x supports Hebrew. So there you go. Or maybe he is already using a Mac. A new G4 with a LinuxPPC partition and a Mac OS X partition should be good to go for a while.
Then when Linux has superb Hebrew support and Star Office works flawlessly with it, you just have more options.
The Apple Macintosh has had decent language support in the past, but I'm not sure regarding Hebrew. Does anyone know? Their eastern language packages seem to be where they put their effort, which could bode will for a non-left-to-right character set.
Just getting the score '0' post above into better view (I think it's worth it, even if I can't say I aggree with it or not). An AC wrote:
>>Saying the BSD licence is more free than the GPL is like saying that a state without laws against kidnapping is more free than a state that does have them.
>That doesn't even make sense. It would be better put to say that the BSD is more free than the GPL the same way a state without taxes is more free than a state with taxes.
The two analogies are not mutually exclusive. The BSDL is like a state with no laws, taxes, or social safety net. I think certain third world countries would qualify for the description, but I wouldn't want to live there.
>With BSD you don't have to pay the 'state' anything. But with the GPL you are forced to pay the 'state' with whatever additions you add to its code.
With taxes you are forced to return part of your earnings to compensate for services that make it possible to earn money in the first place. Witht the BSDL you just take the fruits of others and run. The analogy holds.
"Why do NASA try and make all their astronauts tall..."
Actually, NASA has very specific height restrictions that mean anyone 6' tall or more had better not waste their time applying. It may be even lower. Check.
Does that make sense? Sure the GUI matters, but that much? And if you have a Platinum PB, that's quite a doorstop if you're turning to Windows forever.
And when they've gotten the code and stamility down, then they can work on the GUI to make it more "transparent" like the Palm OS or whatever. Still, general purpose PCs are not just PIMs like the Palm example. Managing lots of data (files) in different formats and then handleing transforming that data (ex: unzipping, archiving, GIF->PNG) is what a good GUI helps you do, and it can't be transparent and do that.
I like it that Apple "went backwards" just a bit. Think about it: For years they have had the GUI part down. It's slick, it's great. But the muck underneath has been getting worse over the years. The amount of legacy [read: crufty non-elegant stuff] code in today's OS 9x is still far too much. OS X is exactly the mix of GUI and hard-core "from a main-frame" heritage foundation we need.
I look forward to watching the arguments between folks who think OS X is better because of it's ease of use vs. those who love it because it is BSD underneath.
They are not cheep. My company (80k employees, been making technical stuff for 70 years) puts the cost at about $30k per each patent application. But we do have a good process for filtering out the patentable good ideas from the good ideas.
If the US Patent and Trademark(tm)(patent pending) is so in need of reform, why have we heard nothing about movements to do just that? I see lots of complaining for every sector, but I'm suprised that we have not heard from the XYZ Lawyers for Better Patents group.
Where is the noise that this ongoing problem should be generating? Or am I just a few months/years early on this topic. Am I missing some low-key grass-roots thing that will sprout wings in a few (units of time)?
It seems to me that the time is now, at the (argueably) beginning of the technical surge of society. If the system we use to protect the investments we make toward new ideas is flawed so badly, we could really see a hiccup or worse down the line when we hit some sort of patent litigation critical mass.
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"It provides decision makers with options. You can guarantee that the Marines were excruciatingly detailed in building in technological limiters to keep the system from having a lethal effect,"
How many times in recent history have we seen a "limiter" been removed and yielded a more powerful/devistation device.
I'm betting that underground instructions for making your own with two savlaged microwaves and $1000 in other parts will soon swoop down on the net and we'll have some really strange reports of unruly parties with load music being broken up by neighbors driving by and kapping the pad.
Or "Mob's new torture device of choice found to be low-cost version of new military 'non-lethal technology"
It's going to get icky.
Personally, I would push for 3 months at 150%-200% pay. The Tech industry moves along quickly and that kind of bump in the road can be harsh.
It all depends on your skills and industry history, for sure - but it all comes down to knowing that everything is negotiable and you are not going to get the best deal be sitting back and hoping they are nice to you. Be direct, know your base assets (to their company) and push for what you value as a comparable compensation to their non-comp. contract.
Anyway - I thank those who have added insight to my original post. I had always wanted to get more facts about the "just like normal H2O" idea.
Still, a lot of larger companies that have well funded interesting projects you might be interested in have degree requirements. I know AT&T requires ~10 years in the field without a degree and others will be forces into restricting your pay for a period if you are hired without one.
Perhaps getting a degree via night school would be the best option for you. If your current role evaporates (can in some lines of work) then you may like having that piece of paper to fall back on. But then again some people are so well motivated and so skilled at presenting themselves professionally that it doesn't matter.
When someone say's "So you're agnostic?" they may just mean to understand your point of view, not necessarily put you into a box with other people they have met in the past.
Feeling labeled because there's a word to describe a facet of your perspective on life may be misjudging the word.
I understand that kind of co-op. I'm an owner along with about 5000 other people.
What kind of co-op is this being described? Is it basically the same and I'm just missing the connection? Or is the relationship build on a different foundation?
I'd show you a screen shot, but we can save bandwidth if you just look at your screen with your eyes closed for a bit.
Isn't the average Linux user in need of a little more than basic hardware? The ability to use a ton of RAM, solid PCMCIA, decently big disk... I think you may get more at a pretty reasonable price in a real laptop and end up happier down the line with the power and flexibility.
Just my opinion though.
Only a guess.
I wonder how the mechanism works if there's a little mistake and Mir starts coming down somewhere it wasn't expected. Considering how many planes are in the air over many parts of the world at any one time, how do all of the effected flights get redirected?
I'm still wondering why the attack against Microsoft the day after they fixed their DNS routing mistake made so little news. There are still plenty of major web/e-commerce shops out there, but perhaps the spector of DDoS just can't make news and grab eyes like it did just a few months ago.
Then when Linux has superb Hebrew support and Star Office works flawlessly with it, you just have more options.
>>Saying the BSD licence is more free than the GPL is like saying that a state without laws against kidnapping is more free than a state that does have them.
>That doesn't even make sense. It would be better put to say that the BSD is more free than the GPL the same way a state without taxes is more free than a state with taxes.
The two analogies are not mutually exclusive. The BSDL is like a state with no laws, taxes, or social safety net. I think certain third world countries would qualify for the description, but I wouldn't want to live there.
>With BSD you don't have to pay the 'state' anything. But with the GPL you are forced to pay the 'state' with whatever additions you add to its code.
With taxes you are forced to return part of your earnings to compensate for services that make it possible to earn money in the first place. Witht the BSDL you just take the fruits of others and run. The analogy holds.
Actually, NASA has very specific height restrictions that mean anyone 6' tall or more had better not waste their time applying. It may be even lower. Check.
So it's only the GUI that matters to you?
"As soon as Aqua hits I'll be running Windows"
Does that make sense? Sure the GUI matters, but that much? And if you have a Platinum PB, that's quite a doorstop if you're turning to Windows forever.
I look forward to watching the arguments between folks who think OS X is better because of it's ease of use vs. those who love it because it is BSD underneath.
See the wires? See the... Uh oh, got an itch... Oops, muscle spasm...
Where is the noise that this ongoing problem should be generating? Or am I just a few months/years early on this topic. Am I missing some low-key grass-roots thing that will sprout wings in a few (units of time)?
It seems to me that the time is now, at the (argueably) beginning of the technical surge of society. If the system we use to protect the investments we make toward new ideas is flawed so badly, we could really see a hiccup or worse down the line when we hit some sort of patent litigation critical mass.
Thoughts?