I don't have any actual figures, but the combined total bonus of CEO, CFO, CTO, and the rest of the exec team times 3 years must add up to a decent sum.
Let's put it another way - a company puts aside a certain amount of annual profit (equivalent to exec team bonuses) as a "future fund" or reserve fund for future downturns. Any money that's been in the fund longer than three years is eligible to be paid to the exec team as a bonus, subject to ongoing overall profitability. If you voluntarily leave the company before you become eligible for your bonus, you can still receive up to one-third of the money.
I don't have a problem with bonuses as such, just as long as they are tied to realistic performance criteria, such as my suggestion above. You've got to have payment systems to attract the best & brightest, unfortunately shareholders and boards of directors too frequently equate "best & brightest" with quarterly profit and market-speak, rather than fine judgement and actual ability. The old-boy network is also alive & well.
I wonder if it's an option to pay performance-related bonuses 2 or 3 years down the track. IOW, delay paying this year's bonus (i.e. the reward for big profits this year), for a few years. That way, if the company continues to be profitable, the CEO/exec team has earned their bonus, and good on them. If the company is not profitable at that later stage, the company keeps the bonus and uses it in whatever way it needs, to become profitable again, e.g. research, infrastructure, investment, whatever. Or maybe to pay redundancies to some workers
Sorry about the wait Mr CEO, but we (shareholders) want proof that you're here for the long-term betterment of the company, not the short-term betterment of your bank account. This would force CEOs to stop focussing on short-term profits. Here's the pie-in-the-sky part: if all the public companies in a particular field, e.g. mining, stopped putting out quarterly profit/earnings statements, the speculators won't have the information they need to buy or sell shares for short-term profits, and maybe they'll start to make decisions based on medium or long-term performance.
Hell, yes. I actively discourage people from buying hardware from me - I can't justify enough of a markup to make it worth my while. So if customers insist, I quote them a realistic (for me) price. Typically, a populated mini-tower for the same price as {major retailer} gives you that, plus keyboard, mouse and monitor.
Heh - I live on the Sunshine Coast - it was partially cloudy but clear around the sun for long enough to project the partial eclipse through binoculars onto a sheet of paper. My kids were impressed with that, and with the strange light - kind of like early evening, but without the long shadows.
So, you didn't take the option to create your own recovery media?
Have to say, my experiences with Toshiba hardware are at the other end of the spectrum.
Their website, on the other hand....... Why can't I just type in the serial number, and see a page with EVERYTHING I need - tech bulletins, software updates, manuals (yes, even the service manuals)?
Heh - I find it.......useful........because it's easy to resize a given document fairly quickly. Got a poster in A3 size? Pull it down to A5 flyer size with minimal adjustments, or print out the A3 version on A4 paper at A5 size two-to-a-page. I think it's handy.
Jackass? Really? It's nice that you can work on two sheets at a time, but I don't - I work on one sheet at a time. Hence, a 4:3 portrait-mode monitor is useful to me. Get it? It's called utility. I also have a 16:9 monitor for when I'm editing video - controls on the 4:3, and actual footage on the 16:9. I have a layout of hardware and software that suits my purposes, I present some detail to support my position, and you call me jackass. 4:3 is aesthetically pleasing in many cases - so much depends on the content you're presenting.
Now go have a cup of tea and a nice lie down before you discredit your position even further.
Do you do anything other than watch movies or play games? A 4:3 monitor gives a height/width ratio of ~1.3:1 A 16:9 ratio is ~1.7:1 A sheet of A4 paper has a ratio of ~1.4:1. The 4:3 monitor - used in portrait mode - shows a clean, full-sized sheet of A4 - just nice for DTP, layout, etc. Some of us still do work that results in A4-sized hard copy. Works for A3, A5, and A6, too.
I like your sig. When, oh when is someone with brains, insight and money going to option, fund, script and produce the Amber series? Jeez, it can't be that difficult in this day and age.
Well, I managed to fit a lot into that 5 minutes "- which computer?", "OK, will this one do?", "yes, sir, is it booting up yet?", "yes, it's already running", "please click the start button", "what start button, this is linux", and so on until he started to get upset - actually called me a liar. Had to stifle a laugh at that one.
Ditto - I had an indian-sounding fellow that I took for a ride. I asked him which computer, as I have many, and he said all of them...., then I asked which which IP address, 'cos he sure didn't have the internal network address, again he said any of them...
I strung him along for about 5 minutes, and he got more and more upset, finally calling me a f#cking arsehole then hanging up.
Something curious - I searched this thread for "live365" before I decided to comment - nothing. Curious indeed - I pay ~USD$75/year to listen to ad-free streams. You don't have to pay, but then you'll get the ads.
Dozens if not hundreds of genres, thousands of stations ranging from awesome to pathetic. The least attractive thing seems to be a limited playlist, that repeats too soon - so I switch to a different station, and life goes on. No requirement to link to facebook or other accounts, just an email address when you sign up. You can listen direct from the website, or use the standalone player (doesn't work for linux, so playing on my ubuntu laptop needs to stay at the website). I wonder why live365 hasn't come up yet, or am I missing something?
Okey doke. You gave a "by your logic" example of amputating earlobes. I can't imagine too many people would be OK with a non-medical amputation of an earlobe (i.e. removal of a skin cancer would be OK). Fair enough. But it's just as "medically unnecessary" to punch holes in those earlobes for the placement of pretty jewels - stretching the logic in that direction would also mean that ear piercings are mutilation. Your example is one extreme (very few would approve of amputation), and my example is the other extreme (very few would disapprove of piercing that same earlobe). I say that there are a range of personal and cultural opinions regarding infant male circumcision, and a range of medical opinions. It's not universally approved or disapproved. Trying to stretch the logic of the argument to extremes (either your example or mine) doesn't make one's position more credible - rather the opposite.
THAT'S why it's fallacious. BTW, as you feel so passionate about it, please tell us what concrete efforts you've made to have the procedure declared illegal. That would strengthen your argument.
You have the right and responsibility to make those sorts of decisions on behalf of your children, but not on behalf of anyone else's children. It's medically unnecessary for a 10-year-old to have her ears pierced, yet it's a common practice. There's a sliding scale here (i.e. some doctors say yes, and some say no to male circumcision), and healthy debate about it will help parents make those decisions. There's lots of procedures that are medically unnecessary, even potentially unhealthy, yet they're common. You don't like infant male circumcision, we get it - so make your choice, and leave others to do the same.
BTW, your example about amputating earlobes is fallacious, and only weakens your argument.
Jeez - how many infants agreed to be born? I would think being pushed down a 10cm diameter birth canal, having your skull squashed into a conehead, or cut out of mummy's uterus and plunged into bright lights, cold air and loud noises is just as traumatic and no infant ever gave consent for that./sarcasm
Parents have the right and responsibility to make decisions on behalf of their children. Lighten up, Francis.
Under no circumstances would I let anyone unqualified AND unrecommended touch my car or motorbike, except maybe in a breakdown or emergency. The Subaru needs someone with specialist training, and the bike is a 1976 Moto Guzzi - 98% of bike mechanics stare at it in slack-jawed ignorance, so there's no way I'm going to let them within spanner-wielding distance.
I'm saying that the legal requirement to have a qualified electrician do your wiring is a good thing - my own street had a house fire from - can you guess? - dodgy wiring installed by a builder who was too cheap to hire a contractor. Yes, domestic household wiring isn't really that complex - mostly single-phase power and lighting circuits, with plug-in circuit breakers, ECD devices, etc, etc. But even that seems to defeat most people. Perhaps if our education standards were to improve, I could change my opinion, but I don't see that happening soon.
Ditto plumbers - gas work definately, maybe there's some wiggle room for water/sewerage work.
I accept that you draw the line at that point and dislike our system - what you call "closed shop", but we have more important things to worry about at the moment - my own state has run up a debt of AUD$65 Billion over the last 20 years of labor government, and now everyone's complaining about the cost-cutting that's necessary to pay that debt.
I visit lots of people in their own homes, to fix their computers - that's what I do for a living - house calls to fix your fake antivirus/faulty broadband/BSOD/whatever - so I accept that my sample might be skewed.
I have yet to meet someone (other than a qualified sparky, and even some of those need the cluebat) who I would trust to wire anything on a 240 volt circuit - even a table lamp. I have no problem with regulation of electrical work. Ditto plumbing - some of my customers can't cope with the fact that water flows downhill.
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I don't have any actual figures, but the combined total bonus of CEO, CFO, CTO, and the rest of the exec team times 3 years must add up to a decent sum.
Let's put it another way - a company puts aside a certain amount of annual profit (equivalent to exec team bonuses) as a "future fund" or reserve fund for future downturns. Any money that's been in the fund longer than three years is eligible to be paid to the exec team as a bonus, subject to ongoing overall profitability. If you voluntarily leave the company before you become eligible for your bonus, you can still receive up to one-third of the money.
I don't have a problem with bonuses as such, just as long as they are tied to realistic performance criteria, such as my suggestion above. You've got to have payment systems to attract the best & brightest, unfortunately shareholders and boards of directors too frequently equate "best & brightest" with quarterly profit and market-speak, rather than fine judgement and actual ability. The old-boy network is also alive & well.
I wonder if it's an option to pay performance-related bonuses 2 or 3 years down the track. IOW, delay paying this year's bonus (i.e. the reward for big profits this year), for a few years. That way, if the company continues to be profitable, the CEO/exec team has earned their bonus, and good on them. If the company is not profitable at that later stage, the company keeps the bonus and uses it in whatever way it needs, to become profitable again, e.g. research, infrastructure, investment, whatever. Or maybe to pay redundancies to some workers
Sorry about the wait Mr CEO, but we (shareholders) want proof that you're here for the long-term betterment of the company, not the short-term betterment of your bank account. This would force CEOs to stop focussing on short-term profits. Here's the pie-in-the-sky part: if all the public companies in a particular field, e.g. mining, stopped putting out quarterly profit/earnings statements, the speculators won't have the information they need to buy or sell shares for short-term profits, and maybe they'll start to make decisions based on medium or long-term performance.
And maybe pigs will fly.
Hell, yes. I actively discourage people from buying hardware from me - I can't justify enough of a markup to make it worth my while. So if customers insist, I quote them a realistic (for me) price. Typically, a populated mini-tower for the same price as {major retailer} gives you that, plus keyboard, mouse and monitor.
Yes it bloody is! There are venues in Australia, you know. There's a lot of discs sold at them, too.
Heh - I live on the Sunshine Coast - it was partially cloudy but clear around the sun for long enough to project the partial eclipse through binoculars onto a sheet of paper. My kids were impressed with that, and with the strange light - kind of like early evening, but without the long shadows.
It can be done. Takes time, and because I was 8 when the switch started, I can still think and estimate in either frame.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Australia
So, you didn't take the option to create your own recovery media?
Have to say, my experiences with Toshiba hardware are at the other end of the spectrum.
Their website, on the other hand....... Why can't I just type in the serial number, and see a page with EVERYTHING I need - tech bulletins, software updates, manuals (yes, even the service manuals)?
That reminds me of a Christopher Priest novel. Ah yes, "The Inverted World"
Thanks - you're the first one to make that connection.
Heh - I find it .......useful........because it's easy to resize a given document fairly quickly. Got a poster in A3 size? Pull it down to A5 flyer size with minimal adjustments, or print out the A3 version on A4 paper at A5 size two-to-a-page. I think it's handy.
Jackass? Really? It's nice that you can work on two sheets at a time, but I don't - I work on one sheet at a time. Hence, a 4:3 portrait-mode monitor is useful to me. Get it? It's called utility. I also have a 16:9 monitor for when I'm editing video - controls on the 4:3, and actual footage on the 16:9. I have a layout of hardware and software that suits my purposes, I present some detail to support my position, and you call me jackass. 4:3 is aesthetically pleasing in many cases - so much depends on the content you're presenting.
Now go have a cup of tea and a nice lie down before you discredit your position even further.
Do you do anything other than watch movies or play games?
A 4:3 monitor gives a height/width ratio of ~1.3:1
A 16:9 ratio is ~1.7:1
A sheet of A4 paper has a ratio of ~1.4:1.
The 4:3 monitor - used in portrait mode - shows a clean, full-sized sheet of A4 - just nice for DTP, layout, etc. Some of us still do work that results in A4-sized hard copy. Works for A3, A5, and A6, too.
I like your sig. When, oh when is someone with brains, insight and money going to option, fund, script and produce the Amber series? Jeez, it can't be that difficult in this day and age.
Oh, I forgot, it's not a comic book.
I wish I had mod points - well done.
Well, I managed to fit a lot into that 5 minutes "- which computer?", "OK, will this one do?", "yes, sir, is it booting up yet?", "yes, it's already running", "please click the start button", "what start button, this is linux", and so on until he started to get upset - actually called me a liar. Had to stifle a laugh at that one.
Ditto - I had an indian-sounding fellow that I took for a ride. I asked him which computer, as I have many, and he said all of them...., then I asked which which IP address, 'cos he sure didn't have the internal network address, again he said any of them...
I strung him along for about 5 minutes, and he got more and more upset, finally calling me a f#cking arsehole then hanging up.
RPi cluster = Beowolf 2.0
Something curious - I searched this thread for "live365" before I decided to comment - nothing. Curious indeed - I pay ~USD$75/year to listen to ad-free streams. You don't have to pay, but then you'll get the ads.
Dozens if not hundreds of genres, thousands of stations ranging from awesome to pathetic. The least attractive thing seems to be a limited playlist, that repeats too soon - so I switch to a different station, and life goes on. No requirement to link to facebook or other accounts, just an email address when you sign up. You can listen direct from the website, or use the standalone player (doesn't work for linux, so playing on my ubuntu laptop needs to stay at the website). I wonder why live365 hasn't come up yet, or am I missing something?
Okey doke. You gave a "by your logic" example of amputating earlobes. I can't imagine too many people would be OK with a non-medical amputation of an earlobe (i.e. removal of a skin cancer would be OK). Fair enough. But it's just as "medically unnecessary" to punch holes in those earlobes for the placement of pretty jewels - stretching the logic in that direction would also mean that ear piercings are mutilation. Your example is one extreme (very few would approve of amputation), and my example is the other extreme (very few would disapprove of piercing that same earlobe). I say that there are a range of personal and cultural opinions regarding infant male circumcision, and a range of medical opinions. It's not universally approved or disapproved. Trying to stretch the logic of the argument to extremes (either your example or mine) doesn't make one's position more credible - rather the opposite.
THAT'S why it's fallacious. BTW, as you feel so passionate about it, please tell us what concrete efforts you've made to have the procedure declared illegal. That would strengthen your argument.
You have the right and responsibility to make those sorts of decisions on behalf of your children, but not on behalf of anyone else's children. It's medically unnecessary for a 10-year-old to have her ears pierced, yet it's a common practice. There's a sliding scale here (i.e. some doctors say yes, and some say no to male circumcision), and healthy debate about it will help parents make those decisions. There's lots of procedures that are medically unnecessary, even potentially unhealthy, yet they're common. You don't like infant male circumcision, we get it - so make your choice, and leave others to do the same.
BTW, your example about amputating earlobes is fallacious, and only weakens your argument.
Jeez - how many infants agreed to be born? I would think being pushed down a 10cm diameter birth canal, having your skull squashed into a conehead, or cut out of mummy's uterus and plunged into bright lights, cold air and loud noises is just as traumatic and no infant ever gave consent for that. /sarcasm
Parents have the right and responsibility to make decisions on behalf of their children. Lighten up, Francis.
Under no circumstances would I let anyone unqualified AND unrecommended touch my car or motorbike, except maybe in a breakdown or emergency. The Subaru needs someone with specialist training, and the bike is a 1976 Moto Guzzi - 98% of bike mechanics stare at it in slack-jawed ignorance, so there's no way I'm going to let them within spanner-wielding distance.
I'm saying that the legal requirement to have a qualified electrician do your wiring is a good thing - my own street had a house fire from - can you guess? - dodgy wiring installed by a builder who was too cheap to hire a contractor. Yes, domestic household wiring isn't really that complex - mostly single-phase power and lighting circuits, with plug-in circuit breakers, ECD devices, etc, etc. But even that seems to defeat most people. Perhaps if our education standards were to improve, I could change my opinion, but I don't see that happening soon.
Ditto plumbers - gas work definately, maybe there's some wiggle room for water/sewerage work.
I accept that you draw the line at that point and dislike our system - what you call "closed shop", but we have more important things to worry about at the moment - my own state has run up a debt of AUD$65 Billion over the last 20 years of labor government, and now everyone's complaining about the cost-cutting that's necessary to pay that debt.
I visit lots of people in their own homes, to fix their computers - that's what I do for a living - house calls to fix your fake antivirus/faulty broadband/BSOD/whatever - so I accept that my sample might be skewed.
I have yet to meet someone (other than a qualified sparky, and even some of those need the cluebat) who I would trust to wire anything on a 240 volt circuit - even a table lamp. I have no problem with regulation of electrical work. Ditto plumbing - some of my customers can't cope with the fact that water flows downhill.