Is this fairly common? How many companies do this? I'm going to note this down on something to look at when looking for a new job but I'm wondering how many blank stares I'm going to get.
Unfortunatly, it's uncommon. Most Coop's formed in the early 1900's have this feature - but it's rather uncommon due to the fact that it get in the way of monetary greed. Your best bet is to find an ethical business owner, or to start your own business.
Open books are a tradeoff, and unfortunatly, there are few who will trade money for trust.
By being nothing but open and honest about why employees are paid the amount they are paid.
Yep! Coulden't have said it better myself.
Anytime a company needs to keep salery levels hidden, it's beacuse someone in the company is getting screwed. The levels of pay tend to be flattened - I (the owner) don't make much more than average. But it's worth it.
I have a theory, that after a certain level of pay (say around $50K a year) - you happiness in life is determined not by money anymore, but by the choices you make. I make more that $50K - so I'm happy, and by me not cheating others, more people around my are happy.
So in short, open salery keeps jelousy down and trust up. And it has the added benifit of me (the owner) not screwing my friends.
The key to not having your suppliers/employees leave at the first sign of trouble is having open accounting in your company. I'm run a small consulting firm - and had a cash crunch a few years ago, and *nobody* cared because all my books were open. Everything. Salary, expenses, capital items, AP, AR. Even contracts for all/upcoming jobs. Everything. If you looked at the books you could see that I just planned improperly - I ran out and got a personal loan, and all was well a month later.
The gratest thing about open books, is that you don't have to lie. And you can't fool yourself into thinking things are better than they are.
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Why doesn't someone like Dell or Compaq, with their billions of dollars, hire some designers to come in and create some nice looking systems?
Dell tried this when the first Imac came out and lost a bunch of money - Dell's core competency is selling cheap boxes made with easily sourced parts. They are the Walmart/Microsoft of computers - high volume,disposible, and cheap, and anything that gets in the way of their message is a waste of time.
Of course we all know that crappy hardwzare/software has a horrible return on investment - but your average consumer doesen't.
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and I'll have to fork out $400 +S&H to get a battery for each.
Pry open the battery packs, and I'll bet you find a munch of C size rechargable cells. Replace and glue the battery pack shut.
Well, now that you've offended everybody but the GNU zealots, what will be your next move?
Five years ago, I would have cared. Not now. There is enogugh Free Software available, and enough people using developing it, that Free Software has reached critical mass; there is almost nothing that Free Software doesen't provide *. There is a lifetime's worth of Free Software available.
*(Except for video-games, but thats what a PS2 is for)
CLI == Command Line Interface | Command Line Interpreter wtf is wrong with these people, reusing existing acronyms?
They did it before - remember Microsoft's 'Digital DNS' advertising, where DNS was Digital Nervous System. We all know how well Microsoft can handle *real* DNS - good chunks of their windowsupdate domain went dark for almost a week, a few months back.
Microsoft is engaging in a tactic called "Muddying the Waters" - when your adversary has crystal clear goals and objectives, you can divert him by giving him extra goals and more interesting things to ponder. Any time spent away form the goals of Free Software is a win for Microsoft.
Remember that the sucuess of Linux is due to the GPL and not due to it's technical merrits. If technical merrit were all that mattated - we all would be running Be right now.
Linux and Free Software are winning becuase we are not playing Microoft's game of Shiny-Box-On-Retail-Shelf software. We are using the desruptive technology of the GPL. and Microsoft is now getting wise and is trying to play our game.
Xbox, with built-in broadband, hard drive, and superior graphics, and so ideally suited for FF series, gets no announcement.
The Xbox lauch in Japan taked severly. The Xbox in Japan is a dead platform from the start, and Square isen't about to release somthing thay won't see the light of day in it's home market.
It's just another silly case of "we must make this digital so that it's 'cool'"
My competition suffers from this:
During the competitive bid process that I must endure to get new clients - I do much better that the powerpoint-idiot-competition by speaking clearly, answering questions intelignently and handing out written documentation *after* my presentation. It's important to hand documentation out after, as it keeps poepels atention focued on you and your message.
Competition is fierce and clients want more for less. Props for trying to do it with Linux
Consulting is easier when you have Linux and Free Software in the mix: my clinnts don't balk at my bills when I don't have to include CAL fees for NT Server, Terminal Server, NT, MS-SQL, etc..
After I made the switch to include Free Software - my consulting business has drastically increased in profitibility - my clients have smaller invoices and yet by billable rate has almost doubeled.
They should have clustered themselves - that way if one of their business nodes went bankrupt or was sued, then the other business nodes could take up the slack.
Torment day in and day out, an authoritarian school administration that merely re-enforces the social pecking order at the school, and the inability for a teen-ager to realize that there is a better life after those four years of Hell called "high school"
If you're in high-school right now, take it from me, life gets a whole lot better later on. In high-school, doing rote tasks are rewarded. In life efficency is rewarded. In high-school, a bully gets to torment you for four years. In life, you fire the bully.
I hate to be a prat, but what's the point on adding a web-based interface to OpenBSD. The whole OS is damn easy to setup - the man pages are idiot proof and the documentation on installation are wonderfull. There are some rough spots that look a bit difficult if you don't have OpenBSD's documentation on hand - so keep another computer nearby to browse the web and man pages.
Hints:
Buy the OpenBSD CD - they are bootable and support the project.
Learn a bit of VI beforehand for editing those text files - of course other editors are available but VI comes built in.
Other hints:
Trust Theo and his friends to get the operating system secure - not a has-been cracker cashing in on name recognition.
Amen. I wouldn't be taking unemployment now, but hell, I figure that I might as well while I'm looking.
Don't feel bad about taking unemployemnt - you paid for it. It's the welfare queens with the seven bastard crack babies that are draining the system, and making life dificult for the working class.
I do consulting programming - one of my clients was tired of all the feel-good aditudes in the office and had me make the payroll system show on the pay-stub how much more money everbody would be making if it wasen't for all the taxes he had to pay. The reaction was rather interesting - most people don't even know that they pay more in taxes than the get in take-home pay.
The worst of is - Section 8 housing drives up the cost of housing for normal folk. Beacuse of more demand, housing prices are driven higer.
I'm comming to the conclusion, that any idiot can't make it in America deserves to starve. This is the easiest country in the world to make a buck, and it would be even easier for normal folk if there wern't so many leaches.
OpenBSD can do everything that FreeBSD can so I dont see any point with using FreeBSD for your network servers.
Haveing an OpenBSD box do everything is perfectly reasonable! I respect that arrangement.
However, FreeBSD has more of a 'performance' slant than OpenBSD does - just as I trust OpenBSD for security, I trust FreeBSD and it's mature softupdates for file serving performance. I love them both - and the diferances between them in user-land are minor, so keeping my skillset current in both is no big deal.
I understand the apeal of a unified operating system environment, but I found that variety works well for me. I'm considering adding Apple OS X workstations as well - so you can see I'm a bit odd.
And I'm sure that Europeans love your naive attitude in which you express an amazing ignorance about recent history.
I'm starting to realise why my ancesters left Europe - to get away from mindless European wars of conquest, to get away from contrived class warefare, and to get away from ungratefull idiots like you.
What's the point of a rock-solid operating system if very few are actually using it
OpenBSD will never show up on my networks - but every packet that gets to my FreeBSD webserves goes through an OpenBSD firewall. I imagine that a lot of packet are touched by OpenBSD - an we'll never know it.
Windows:
Open explorer
Goto google.com
Search for "software".
Fill out registration form to get to download page.
Click, save, then save it to your desktop.
Double click.
Read EULA - and submit.
Next - Next - Next - Finish.
BSD:
type in "whereis software"
type in response:"cd/usr/ports/games/software"
type in "make install"
drink cup of cofee.
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Is this fairly common? How many companies do this? I'm going to note this down on something to look at when looking for a new job but I'm wondering how many blank stares I'm going to get.
Unfortunatly, it's uncommon. Most Coop's formed in the early 1900's have this feature - but it's rather uncommon due to the fact that it get in the way of monetary greed. Your best bet is to find an ethical business owner, or to start your own business.
Open books are a tradeoff, and unfortunatly, there are few who will trade money for trust.
By being nothing but open and honest about why employees are paid the amount they are paid.
Yep! Coulden't have said it better myself.
Anytime a company needs to keep salery levels hidden, it's beacuse someone in the company is getting screwed. The levels of pay tend to be flattened - I (the owner) don't make much more than average. But it's worth it.
I have a theory, that after a certain level of pay (say around $50K a year) - you happiness in life is determined not by money anymore, but by the choices you make. I make more that $50K - so I'm happy, and by me not cheating others, more people around my are happy.
So in short, open salery keeps jelousy down and trust up. And it has the added benifit of me (the owner) not screwing my friends.
The key to not having your suppliers/employees leave at the first sign of trouble is having open accounting in your company. I'm run a small consulting firm - and had a cash crunch a few years ago, and *nobody* cared because all my books were open. Everything. Salary, expenses, capital items, AP, AR. Even contracts for all/upcoming jobs. Everything. If you looked at the books you could see that I just planned improperly - I ran out and got a personal loan, and all was well a month later.
The gratest thing about open books, is that you don't have to lie. And you can't fool yourself into thinking things are better than they are.
Why doesn't someone like Dell or Compaq, with their billions of dollars, hire some designers to come in and create some nice looking systems?
Dell tried this when the first Imac came out and lost a bunch of money - Dell's core competency is selling cheap boxes made with easily sourced parts. They are the Walmart/Microsoft of computers - high volume,disposible, and cheap, and anything that gets in the way of their message is a waste of time.
Of course we all know that crappy hardwzare/software has a horrible return on investment - but your average consumer doesen't.
and I'll have to fork out $400 +S&H to get a battery for each.
Pry open the battery packs, and I'll bet you find a munch of C size rechargable cells. Replace and glue the battery pack shut.
From MS:
Windows XP Embedded is the most reliable version of Windows ever.
So, tell me - where's Windows on Netcraft's uptime chart? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
Oh, that's right - WINDOWS ISEN'T EVEN ON THE LIST
Well, now that you've offended everybody but the GNU zealots, what will be your next move?
Five years ago, I would have cared.
Not now.
There is enogugh Free Software available, and enough people using developing it, that Free Software has reached critical mass; there is almost nothing that Free Software doesen't provide *. There is a lifetime's worth of Free Software available.
*(Except for video-games, but thats what a PS2 is for)
CLI == Command Line Interface | Command Line Interpreter
wtf is wrong with these people, reusing existing acronyms?
They did it before - remember Microsoft's 'Digital DNS' advertising, where DNS was Digital Nervous System. We all know how well Microsoft can handle *real* DNS - good chunks of their windowsupdate domain went dark for almost a week, a few months back.
Microsoft is engaging in a tactic called "Muddying the Waters" - when your adversary has crystal clear goals and objectives, you can divert him by giving him extra goals and more interesting things to ponder. Any time spent away form the goals of Free Software is a win for Microsoft.
Remember that the sucuess of Linux is due to the GPL and not due to it's technical merrits. If technical merrit were all that mattated - we all would be running Be right now.
Linux and Free Software are winning becuase we are not playing Microoft's game of Shiny-Box-On-Retail-Shelf software. We are using the desruptive technology of the GPL. and Microsoft is now getting wise and is trying to play our game.
Don't let Balmer make you do his monkey dance.
Xbox, with built-in broadband, hard drive, and superior graphics, and so ideally suited for FF series, gets no announcement.
The Xbox lauch in Japan taked severly. The Xbox in Japan is a dead platform from the start, and Square isen't about to release somthing thay won't see the light of day in it's home market.
It's just another silly case of "we must make this digital so that it's 'cool'"
My competition suffers from this:
During the competitive bid process that I must endure to get new clients - I do much better that the powerpoint-idiot-competition by speaking clearly, answering questions intelignently and handing out written documentation *after* my presentation. It's important to hand documentation out after, as it keeps poepels atention focued on you and your message.
If the same error existed in Commercial SSH, someone stole some code.
Not nesessarly true: OpenSSH and Commercial SSH have the same roots - http://www.openssh.com/history.html
this guy who charges us twice as much as the other guy.
Acutally, I charge three to seven times as much as typical MCSE. I deliver robust solutions using proven UNIX technology, and my customers love it.
Competition is fierce and clients want more for less. Props for trying to do it with Linux
Consulting is easier when you have Linux and Free Software in the mix: my clinnts don't balk at my bills when I don't have to include CAL fees for NT Server, Terminal Server, NT, MS-SQL, etc..
After I made the switch to include Free Software - my consulting business has drastically increased in profitibility - my clients have smaller invoices and yet by billable rate has almost doubeled.
They should have clustered themselves - that way if one of their business nodes went bankrupt or was sued, then the other business nodes could take up the slack.
Hitler was a vegetarin. So eat lots of cow if you love the chidren.
Torment day in and day out, an authoritarian school administration that merely re-enforces the social pecking order at the school, and the inability for a teen-ager to realize that there is a better life after those four years of Hell called "high school"
If you're in high-school right now, take it from me, life gets a whole lot better later on. In high-school, doing rote tasks are rewarded. In life efficency is rewarded. In high-school, a bully gets to torment you for four years. In life, you fire the bully.
I hate to be a prat, but what's the point on adding a web-based interface to OpenBSD. The whole OS is damn easy to setup - the man pages are idiot proof and the documentation on installation are wonderfull. There are some rough spots that look a bit difficult if you don't have OpenBSD's documentation on hand - so keep another computer nearby to browse the web and man pages.
Hints:
Buy the OpenBSD CD - they are bootable and support the project.
Learn a bit of VI beforehand for editing those text files - of course other editors are available but VI comes built in.
Other hints:
Trust Theo and his friends to get the operating system secure - not a has-been cracker cashing in on name recognition.
Amen. I wouldn't be taking unemployment now, but hell, I figure that I might as well while I'm looking.
Don't feel bad about taking unemployemnt - you paid for it. It's the welfare queens with the seven bastard crack babies that are draining the system, and making life dificult for the working class.
I do consulting programming - one of my clients was tired of all the feel-good aditudes in the office and had me make the payroll system show on the pay-stub how much more money everbody would be making if it wasen't for all the taxes he had to pay. The reaction was rather interesting - most people don't even know that they pay more in taxes than the get in take-home pay.
Best web design EVER: www.tubcat.com
Great content without the fluff...or somthing.
The worst of is - Section 8 housing drives up the cost of housing for normal folk. Beacuse of more demand, housing prices are driven higer.
I'm comming to the conclusion, that any idiot can't make it in America deserves to starve. This is the easiest country in the world to make a buck, and it would be even easier for normal folk if there wern't so many leaches.
OpenBSD can do everything that FreeBSD can so I dont see any point with using FreeBSD for your network servers.
Haveing an OpenBSD box do everything is perfectly reasonable! I respect that arrangement.
However, FreeBSD has more of a 'performance' slant than OpenBSD does - just as I trust OpenBSD for security, I trust FreeBSD and it's mature softupdates for file serving performance. I love them both - and the diferances between them in user-land are minor, so keeping my skillset current in both is no big deal.
I understand the apeal of a unified operating system environment, but I found that variety works well for me. I'm considering adding Apple OS X workstations as well - so you can see I'm a bit odd.
And I'm sure that Europeans love your naive attitude in which you express an amazing ignorance about recent history.
I'm starting to realise why my ancesters left Europe - to get away from mindless European wars of conquest, to get away from contrived class warefare, and to get away from ungratefull idiots like you.
What's the point of a rock-solid operating system if very few are actually using it
OpenBSD will never show up on my networks - but every packet that gets to my FreeBSD webserves goes through an OpenBSD firewall. I imagine that a lot of packet are touched by OpenBSD - an we'll never know it.
Even the BSD ports system is easier than windows:
/usr/ports/games/software"
Windows:
Open explorer
Goto google.com
Search for "software".
Fill out registration form to get to download page.
Click, save, then save it to your desktop.
Double click.
Read EULA - and submit.
Next - Next - Next - Finish.
BSD:
type in "whereis software"
type in response:"cd
type in "make install"
drink cup of cofee.