In some countries, such as Denmark, the law often goes something like this (will vary of course):
if you have been hired less than 2 months ago, you can quit any time but your employer has to give you 14 days notice.
If more than 2 months, but less than 6: one months warning to either party.
More than 6 months: 3 months warning if you are going to get fired, 1 months warning from you if you want to quit.
It actually works fairly well, although many companies just let people go when they fire them and give them the required 14 days-3 months of salary just to be rid of them. I think that this hurts the flexibility of the labormarket and definately is not a huge advantage to companies, but on the other hand, there are a lot of advantages both to the employer and to the employee. You'd never see anyone get fired Network Commerce-style here at any rate.
Certainly companies here are doing well regardless of certainly much more powerful employee-protection laws than the US has. I realize that a lot of people probably doesn't like laws like that:)
Well, one reason could be that I often see documentation written in PDF. Another is these company newsletters which apparantly are much easier to make look like a newspaper. HTML is often hard to get to look exactly like you want, especially if you want to display content that originated outside the web. Sometimes we can't control what worlds we have to interface to. That said, I seemed to have noticed a strong trend to ship manuals as HTML rather than PDF nowadays. I wouldn't mind....make my life easier.
Hrm, well, I suppose theres a couple of million people living in Chechnya, but of course, how stupid of me...They are all terrorists. It is so obvious, I should have thought of that immediatly;}
Why not? its a CPU. It can run Linux. There's no reason I can think of why it shouldn't be able to be the cpu in a cluster node. Only problem I see is the price (min. $65 for the cheapest and $120+ for the bigger one) which is not exactly low.
I seriously doubt you're right about that... First of, Crusoe is a CPU, WAP is a mark-up language. WAP allows micro-screen (like cellphone screens) units to access the internet. Some rather large consulting company (I forget which) has predicted that shopping via cellphone will be much larger than shopping over the Internet. While I doubt thats true, I still see a big future for WAP....
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In some countries, such as Denmark, the law often goes something like this (will vary of course): if you have been hired less than 2 months ago, you can quit any time but your employer has to give you 14 days notice.
:)
If more than 2 months, but less than 6: one months warning to either party.
More than 6 months: 3 months warning if you are going to get fired, 1 months warning from you if you want to quit.
It actually works fairly well, although many companies just let people go when they fire them and give them the required 14 days-3 months of salary just to be rid of them.
I think that this hurts the flexibility of the labormarket and definately is not a huge advantage to companies, but on the other hand, there are a lot of advantages both to the employer and to the employee. You'd never see anyone get fired Network Commerce-style here at any rate. Certainly companies here are doing well regardless of certainly much more powerful employee-protection laws than the US has.
I realize that a lot of people probably doesn't like laws like that
Well, one reason could be that I often see documentation written in PDF. Another is these company newsletters which apparantly are much easier to make look like a newspaper.
HTML is often hard to get to look exactly like you want, especially if you want to display content that originated outside the web. Sometimes we can't control what worlds we have to interface to.
That said, I seemed to have noticed a strong trend to ship manuals as HTML rather than PDF nowadays. I wouldn't mind....make my life easier.
Hrm, well, I suppose theres a couple of million people living in Chechnya, but of course, how stupid of me...They are all terrorists. It is so obvious, I should have thought of that immediatly ;}
Why not? its a CPU. It can run Linux. There's no reason I can think of why it shouldn't be able to be the cpu in a cluster node. Only problem I see is the price (min. $65 for the cheapest and $120+ for the bigger one) which is not exactly low.
I seriously doubt you're right about that... First of, Crusoe is a CPU, WAP is a mark-up language. WAP allows micro-screen (like cellphone screens) units to access the internet. Some rather large consulting company (I forget which) has predicted that shopping via cellphone will be much larger than shopping over the Internet. While I doubt thats true, I still see a big future for WAP....