The next time you get rear ended because you stopped short to avoid some idiot walking out in the street, remember that he couldn't possibly cause any harm.
The very act of asking you to sign a non-compete is an abomination of corporate bullying. There is no honor to be gained or lost in the situation at all. As I work IT for a non-tech manufacturer, I don't foresee any issue with finding another job should the need arise, but I worry about some of my co-workers. What gives any company the right to tell a person that if the relationship between employer and employee terminates, the employer is no longer allowed to eat, have shelter, etc.? where the fuck is your honor that you are not outraged at that very thought? A non compete, when it is worth enforcing, takes a persons marketable skills and experiences and nullifies them. Fuck your honor if it is that one sided.
No company should have the right to ask that contract to be signed in the first place. When EVERY company you apply to is asking you to sign this piece of paper, your right to walk away becomes your right to starve. My last non compete agreement is slightly modified, I don't think anyone has noticed yet. Where they wrote that I will not work elsewhere within this industry, I added a line that say they will not use technology. (I am the IT guy)
Most of the ACTUAL problems come from people installing random software which breaks the device or changing permissions on some key component.
Which Apple does not allow on the iPhone. Also, aren't these numbers a little skewed? I am pretty sure you can buy Apple Care for the iPhone, so I wouldn't think the insurance company would have all that much data.
This is not like the MS antitrust suit, where there really was no choice involved, as at the time nobody had a product that could compete, market wise, with Windows. The iphone may be wonderful, but if you are looking for choice there are many other phones to choose from that will give you everything you are looking for. Let those that don't mind vendor lockin buy the iphone, and get something else.
Due process can only work if it protects EVERYONE! It must be applied before guilt or innocence is established, and must therefore be universal, or it falls flat and useless.
Agreed, but the point is that there is a legal, and an illegal way of ascertaining that he did, in fact, have those pictures. Our legal system has always ignored evidence that was not legally obtained. The second crime here is by the police that allowed that evidence to be wasted by not following proper channels, thus damaging their ability to bring a child pornographer to justice. Think of the precedent set had this been allowed, and tell me, when your computer is being searched with no warrant, along with your car/ home / self, that you have no problem with the illegal search, because sometimes they catch a criminal that way.
The problem there being handwriting recognition. I tried Ubuntu on a Fujitsu C-500 Tablet, and I could not find any decent handwriting software. Everything was still in the "graffiti" stage. Now I have Win 2K on the tablet, which is slightly less resource heavy than XP.
Flaimbait has a negative connotation, whereas the parents post was a valid opinion, inviting a conversation (I am learning things I didn't know about firewire.)
To say that any topic where different people have different opinions is flamebait is to eliminate discussion on the internet. This has, until now, been a rational and friendly discussion. Thanks for turning it into a flame.
You are correct, I meant MBP. I thought home DV cams could use USB, and that firewire had been relegated to upper range in DV cameras. Am I wrong in this?
I have never used target disk mode. What does it do that can't be achieved with network migration? Honestly curious. The software that you are referring to is free, so if target disk mode doesn't offer more, than no functionality is lost. Again, I don't know this to be the case, as the last upgrade I performed was from OS 9 and I only transferred files, which needs only a network connection.
I do agree that firewire is a great technology, but USB has been pushing it more and more into the high end of the market.
When Apple added firewire to its lineup in 99, they abandoned SCSI, and the floppy drive, leaving out thousands of peripherals and causing me to stay with my old G3 (on the mac side, I still used newer PCs) until the last of my SCSI peripherals was no longer viable, when I bought my intel based Mac Mini. At the time, I felt that they should have done what they did this time, i.e. leave the upper level products (MBP, Mac Pro Tower) alone, so that exisiting mac users upgrading to higher boxes could continue to use their existing peripherals, and remove it first from the entry level computers (I suspect the imac and mini will lose firewire next.)
For some people the loss of firewire will be a deal breaker, but I don't think it will be anywhere near as much as when they abandoned scsi.
Why is this flamebait? There are very few devices that actually use firewire, due to the massive success of USB. Macs can also be hooked to eachother (as can PCs and Linux boxes) via crossover ethernet, so the loss of firewire should really only translate, except in rare circumstances that ought to belong to the MNP market anyway, into lower production costs (lower sale cost would be nice, too, but lets not get too hopeful)
So I'm in the unique position of having argued to management that we shouldn't risk anything on Gmail, and us doing it anyway because management wanted it.
As for the crapware, you are correct. What that does to performance is across the board bad. But I disagree on the drivers. Microsoft certified many pieces of hardware Vista Ready. If the hardware does not have a usable driver, than Microsoft needs to take some of the blame for certifying said Hardware. If the Hardware was not certified, than yay, OEM fault for using it, but much of the drivers that caused problems were bundled with hardware that Microsoft said would work.
I use a USB stick with a physical write protect switch. If I plug it into anything other than my computer, it is locked. I only write from my own computer(s) that I know are secure.
But, If your slick, you can add a line in the non compete, ie, as an IT worker, you change "the employee will not work in xxx industry for x years" to "the employee will not work in xxx industry for x years and the employer will not use technology for x years"
That's not really the point. Making a switch over to Linux can be done gradually if your Linux computers can play in AD. And it is not worthless, when 90% of your systems are MS, why have a second authentication server for the other 10%? Why not use what you can with Linux? It doesn't mean that those Windows computers can't take advantage of Active directory.
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The next time you get rear ended because you stopped short to avoid some idiot walking out in the street, remember that he couldn't possibly cause any harm.
I was wondering about this. Does Apple directly compete with IBM anymore?
The very act of asking you to sign a non-compete is an abomination of corporate bullying. There is no honor to be gained or lost in the situation at all. As I work IT for a non-tech manufacturer, I don't foresee any issue with finding another job should the need arise, but I worry about some of my co-workers. What gives any company the right to tell a person that if the relationship between employer and employee terminates, the employer is no longer allowed to eat, have shelter, etc.? where the fuck is your honor that you are not outraged at that very thought? A non compete, when it is worth enforcing, takes a persons marketable skills and experiences and nullifies them. Fuck your honor if it is that one sided.
No company should have the right to ask that contract to be signed in the first place. When EVERY company you apply to is asking you to sign this piece of paper, your right to walk away becomes your right to starve. My last non compete agreement is slightly modified, I don't think anyone has noticed yet. Where they wrote that I will not work elsewhere within this industry, I added a line that say they will not use technology. (I am the IT guy)
I am not sure, but I think if you stop showing up it counts as quitting, not dismissal.
Most of the ACTUAL problems come from people installing random software which breaks the device or changing permissions on some key component.
Which Apple does not allow on the iPhone. Also, aren't these numbers a little skewed? I am pretty sure you can buy Apple Care for the iPhone, so I wouldn't think the insurance company would have all that much data.
This is not like the MS antitrust suit, where there really was no choice involved, as at the time nobody had a product that could compete, market wise, with Windows. The iphone may be wonderful, but if you are looking for choice there are many other phones to choose from that will give you everything you are looking for. Let those that don't mind vendor lockin buy the iphone, and get something else.
Only on Slashdot could you be modded "troll" for calling that a conspiracy theory
Due process can only work if it protects EVERYONE! It must be applied before guilt or innocence is established, and must therefore be universal, or it falls flat and useless.
Agreed, but the point is that there is a legal, and an illegal way of ascertaining that he did, in fact, have those pictures. Our legal system has always ignored evidence that was not legally obtained. The second crime here is by the police that allowed that evidence to be wasted by not following proper channels, thus damaging their ability to bring a child pornographer to justice. Think of the precedent set had this been allowed, and tell me, when your computer is being searched with no warrant, along with your car/ home / self, that you have no problem with the illegal search, because sometimes they catch a criminal that way.
The problem there being handwriting recognition. I tried Ubuntu on a Fujitsu C-500 Tablet, and I could not find any decent handwriting software. Everything was still in the "graffiti" stage. Now I have Win 2K on the tablet, which is slightly less resource heavy than XP.
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I have never used target disk mode. What does it do that can't be achieved with network migration? Honestly curious. The software that you are referring to is free, so if target disk mode doesn't offer more, than no functionality is lost. Again, I don't know this to be the case, as the last upgrade I performed was from OS 9 and I only transferred files, which needs only a network connection.
I do agree that firewire is a great technology, but USB has been pushing it more and more into the high end of the market. When Apple added firewire to its lineup in 99, they abandoned SCSI, and the floppy drive, leaving out thousands of peripherals and causing me to stay with my old G3 (on the mac side, I still used newer PCs) until the last of my SCSI peripherals was no longer viable, when I bought my intel based Mac Mini. At the time, I felt that they should have done what they did this time, i.e. leave the upper level products (MBP, Mac Pro Tower) alone, so that exisiting mac users upgrading to higher boxes could continue to use their existing peripherals, and remove it first from the entry level computers (I suspect the imac and mini will lose firewire next.)
For some people the loss of firewire will be a deal breaker, but I don't think it will be anywhere near as much as when they abandoned scsi.
Why is this flamebait? There are very few devices that actually use firewire, due to the massive success of USB. Macs can also be hooked to eachother (as can PCs and Linux boxes) via crossover ethernet, so the loss of firewire should really only translate, except in rare circumstances that ought to belong to the MNP market anyway, into lower production costs (lower sale cost would be nice, too, but lets not get too hopeful)
So I'm in the unique position of having argued to management that we shouldn't risk anything on Gmail, and us doing it anyway because management wanted it.
What's unique here again?
And you know what? I was wrong.
Oh, I see, management was right!
and the technicians (and probably their immediate supervisor) are reprimanded for not alerting someone of this issue sooner
This is why all my correspondence is in writing, with multiple backups
As for the crapware, you are correct. What that does to performance is across the board bad. But I disagree on the drivers. Microsoft certified many pieces of hardware Vista Ready. If the hardware does not have a usable driver, than Microsoft needs to take some of the blame for certifying said Hardware. If the Hardware was not certified, than yay, OEM fault for using it, but much of the drivers that caused problems were bundled with hardware that Microsoft said would work.
I use a USB stick with a physical write protect switch. If I plug it into anything other than my computer, it is locked. I only write from my own computer(s) that I know are secure.
Its not just about the flash. There is also the fact that they want to sell you pictures of that item you're photographing in the gift shop.
A manager needs to have people who report to him/her.
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/the-greatest-cio-threat-of-all-time-women-and-chocolate/ actually, most users are.
twitter is his own sockpuppet?
But, If your slick, you can add a line in the non compete, ie, as an IT worker, you change "the employee will not work in xxx industry for x years" to "the employee will not work in xxx industry for x years and the employer will not use technology for x years"
That's not really the point. Making a switch over to Linux can be done gradually if your Linux computers can play in AD. And it is not worthless, when 90% of your systems are MS, why have a second authentication server for the other 10%? Why not use what you can with Linux? It doesn't mean that those Windows computers can't take advantage of Active directory.
Doesn't have everything, but osalt.com is a great starting place.