I don't know about other companies, but where I work (major financial services firm) "advancement" only means increased workload and responsibility -- it is not reflected in your paycheck. If you change employers you can expect a pay raise anyway (~15%), and you can argue for a bigger bump still to match your new responsibilities.
Leave on good terms, and you can always hop back to your previous employer in a few years to advance (in responsibility *and* in pay) again.
The court never definitively ruled that corporations deserve equal protection under the law as people, but this decision is used whenever a corporation wants the privileges of personhood. The grey area around the decision is subsequently conjured up when a corporation denies it owes society the duties of personhood.
Verizon's assertion that it has the full rights of a person should compel a final ruling.
See... the problem is that whenever someone wants government to take control of something for them (another country, a business, an entire business model, etc.), they usually wave the "free" flag.
Just look at what politicians say vs. what they do in the "free trade" debate...
The Austrian School talks about "free" in the ideal sense... government doesn't take the "good" side; it doesn't take a side at all.
This could be interesting... which Intel chip does Steve-bo plan to make the near-future home of the MacOS? The current ia32 (doubtful)? EM64T (ia32 with AMD's x86_64 64-bit extensions)? ia64 (Itanium/Itanium2)?
From what I understand of the landscape, Intel only released EM64T as a bridge to 64-bit computing on the x86 platform. Their stated future is ia64, which is binary-incompatible to ia32/AMD x86_64. I don't think it can even run 32-bit code, except in some sort of software emulation.
So is Steve-bo going to expect the Mac community to throw out the G5 boxen in favor of an EM64T box, only to expect them to throw those out in a couple years when Intel decides that any further 64-bit progress will be on ia64?
I am in no way defending the crap that wehave in City government in NYC (West Side Stadium??)...
I just firmly believe that having the decisions for a major-metro public-transportation system decided by people in, effectively, another world (upstate) is not a good path to long-term success.
And yeah... I do have a grudge... but it is the grudge of a Lexington Ave.-line rider who gets all sorts of shaft from the MTA!
The MTA have utterly failed in every aspect of their civic duty in The City.
The tripe about, "we err on the side of allowing invalid cards through, rather than disallowing a valid card" is ridiculous to anyone who actually uses the system.
Why is it, when their glorious MetroCard system goes down, that I see people stacked up in my subway station swiping their cards again, and again, and again...
Why, as a result disgruntled customers getting valid fares rejected, has the MTA purchased a new law from the for-hire state legislature that says that jumping a turnstile, whether you have paid a fare or not, is itself a "crime?"
It is so that they can profit from you twice, of course! They leech you once when you pay your over-priced fare, then their turnstile rejects it, and they leech you again when that undercover police officer is conveniently hidden behind that turnstile and gives you a $75 summons.
It's good to be the king! (or at least good to be able to buy whatever you want from a state pseudo-governmental body)
Nothing fancy... just a RAID-1 set, using Linux md.
Since a desktop/workstation machine does mostly reads anyway, I am getting the benefit of striped reads. I don't really care that my writes incur a slight penalty.
Granted, hardware RAID would use less CPU time... but hardware RAID is tied to a particular card. What happens if you move your disks to a new machine? You have to move the RAID card. If you go with an integrated RAID solution on your motherboard, that's tough.
With Linux md RAID, that is not a problem. Just plug the drives into your new machine and go.
Knowing the MTA (the New York State agency that runs New York City's public transportation), this has just been an expensive boondogle to transfer money from working New York City residents (the CR's, or conductors) to the executives of the companies who "bought" this system with kickbacks.
Look at the last "triumph" of the MTA... the MetroCard. How much does the MTA pay to the failed defense contractor who provided the somewhat-reliable MetroCard infrastructure? How much does the MTA pay each year for MetroCard media (of course, only said former defense contractor can provide these magstripe-laden pieces of plastic)? And based on these "savings," how many token booths have been closed? (Extend this to the extended number of muggings in the now-unsupervised subway stations...)
If I weren't such a dedicated capitalist, I'd swear that the money was being shop-vac'ed from labor, straight into the capital coffers.
In short... we just spent a lot of money to take jobs way from our fellow working-men and women, and sent our latest fare increase to the fat cats in Albany and their pimps.
Appearantly, this is part of some new strategy for the Democrat Party.
The New York Press (distributed-for-free tabloid here in The City) has an article about how the Democrat politicians (including Senator Clinton) are trying to "rebrand" themselves.
http://www.nypress.com/18/12/news&columns/taibbi .c fm
Hopefully this will just be another step toward the Republicans and the Democrats returning to their roots and fusing to become the Democratic-Republican Party (or, possibly, Voltron).
Then a truly alternative party might be able to get some votes in our "it has to be one or the other" political landscape.
It says that depending on who you ask, between 16 and 46 million (read the article for an explanation of the variation) out of a population of 171 million go hungry.
If you read Brazilian Portuguese, peruse http://www.fomezero.gov.br/ for more information about what Lula's government are trying to do about it.
Yeah... I guess it is laudable if you like petty, reactionary judges dictating law.
Seriously, this is how it happened. A judge just said that due to the concept of "reciprocity" in Brazilian law, it must be done. He did not even give time for the infrastructure to be put in place. He signed his law to take effect within a week. The first groups through got inkpads and polaroids.
The Brazilians are no happier about this than we are. They don't want to tick off tourists. They didn't know where they money was coming from to pay for the cameras and fingerprint readers and computers.
The reasonable Brazilians petitioned to be removed from the list of countries who require visas and fingerprints.
I went to Brazil a couple weeks ago. Coming in through GIG (Rio de Janeiro) was a joke. All the Americans waited in line with everyone else. This was a good couple hours. Once we got our passports and visas checked and stamped the Americans were told to join another, longer line for the photograph and the fingerprints.
It was unrelated to our entry into the country. With the stamp in the passport we had already "entered." This was just another step in the spirit of "reciprocity." It took another couple hours. The camera was a Connectix web cam attached to a laptop. The Windoze "asterix" sound played when the technician took my picture.
They did something wrong there... My wife has a green card. At JFK she goes through the citizens and residents line with me. We are neither fingerprinted nor photographed.
According to the this story, "SCO [SCOX] is beginning to invoice Linux users for their use of Unix code that it says has been illegally copied into the open source operating system."
The article does not go on to say who was selected as a "user."
The thing I fear about this solution is that Bad Things (tm) tend to happen whenever we try to interfere in "natural" cycles.
There is always something that we forget...
cf. kudzu down in the south - imported from Japan to stop soil erosion. Unfortunately, we didn't realize that the milder winters in the South compared with the kudzu's natural habitat don't kill it off enough in the winter. So, the bastard vine grows like crazy and kills all the wildlife.
This was a minor detail, but we overlooked it.
If we put the particulate matter in the atmosphere and break something else, do we have a backout plan to get the stuff out?
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I don't know about other companies, but where I work (major financial services firm) "advancement" only means increased workload and responsibility -- it is not reflected in your paycheck. If you change employers you can expect a pay raise anyway (~15%), and you can argue for a bigger bump still to match your new responsibilities.
Leave on good terms, and you can always hop back to your previous employer in a few years to advance (in responsibility *and* in pay) again.
Maybe it's their public key for sending them encrypted communication.
Don't forget Christa McAuliffe and Greg Jarvis from Challenger.
The headline should read "Call Someone - Without Having To Talk To Him" (him or her, if you prefer) rather than "them".
"Someone" is a singular indefinite pronoun. Thus the object of "to talk" must also be singular.
Where do the 30-something-year-old professionals fit into this worldview?
We are too old for Facebook, since we think of that as a hangout for college students.
They'll eventually catch up.
This could actually be a great opportunity for the courts to revisit Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v. _Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Company
The court never definitively ruled that corporations deserve equal protection under the law as people, but this decision is used whenever a corporation wants the privileges of personhood. The grey area around the decision is subsequently conjured up when a corporation denies it owes society the duties of personhood.
Verizon's assertion that it has the full rights of a person should compel a final ruling.
Thanks for pointing one out, GOOG, I just emerged gaia!
PIIX... VIIV...
So maybe "II" means "Intel Inside," but what about P, X, V and, er that other V?
See... the problem is that whenever someone wants government to take control of something for them (another country, a business, an entire business model, etc.), they usually wave the "free" flag.
Just look at what politicians say vs. what they do in the "free trade" debate...
The Austrian School talks about "free" in the ideal sense... government doesn't take the "good" side; it doesn't take a side at all.
This could be interesting... which Intel chip does Steve-bo plan to make the near-future home of the MacOS? The current ia32 (doubtful)? EM64T (ia32 with AMD's x86_64 64-bit extensions)? ia64 (Itanium/Itanium2)?
From what I understand of the landscape, Intel only released EM64T as a bridge to 64-bit computing on the x86 platform. Their stated future is ia64, which is binary-incompatible to ia32/AMD x86_64. I don't think it can even run 32-bit code, except in some sort of software emulation.
So is Steve-bo going to expect the Mac community to throw out the G5 boxen in favor of an EM64T box, only to expect them to throw those out in a couple years when Intel decides that any further 64-bit progress will be on ia64?
Out of the Voice archives:
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0041,friedman,1 8850,8.html
I am in no way defending the crap that wehave in City government in NYC (West Side Stadium??)...
I just firmly believe that having the decisions for a major-metro public-transportation system decided by people in, effectively, another world (upstate) is not a good path to long-term success.
And yeah... I do have a grudge... but it is the grudge of a Lexington Ave.-line rider who gets all sorts of shaft from the MTA!
The MTA have utterly failed in every aspect of their civic duty in The City.
The tripe about, "we err on the side of allowing invalid cards through, rather than disallowing a valid card" is ridiculous to anyone who actually uses the system.
Why is it, when their glorious MetroCard system goes down, that I see people stacked up in my subway station swiping their cards again, and again, and again...
Why, as a result disgruntled customers getting valid fares rejected, has the MTA purchased a new law from the for-hire state legislature that says that jumping a turnstile, whether you have paid a fare or not, is itself a "crime?"
It is so that they can profit from you twice, of course! They leech you once when you pay your over-priced fare, then their turnstile rejects it, and they leech you again when that undercover police officer is conveniently hidden behind that turnstile and gives you a $75 summons.
It's good to be the king! (or at least good to be able to buy whatever you want from a state pseudo-governmental body)
Nothing fancy... just a RAID-1 set, using Linux md.
Since a desktop/workstation machine does mostly reads anyway, I am getting the benefit of striped reads. I don't really care that my writes incur a slight penalty.
Granted, hardware RAID would use less CPU time... but hardware RAID is tied to a particular card. What happens if you move your disks to a new machine? You have to move the RAID card. If you go with an integrated RAID solution on your motherboard, that's tough.
With Linux md RAID, that is not a problem. Just plug the drives into your new machine and go.
Look at the last "triumph" of the MTA... the MetroCard. How much does the MTA pay to the failed defense contractor who provided the somewhat-reliable MetroCard infrastructure? How much does the MTA pay each year for MetroCard media (of course, only said former defense contractor can provide these magstripe-laden pieces of plastic)? And based on these "savings," how many token booths have been closed? (Extend this to the extended number of muggings in the now-unsupervised subway stations...)
If I weren't such a dedicated capitalist, I'd swear that the money was being shop-vac'ed from labor, straight into the capital coffers.
In short... we just spent a lot of money to take jobs way from our fellow working-men and women, and sent our latest fare increase to the fat cats in Albany and their pimps.
Appearantly, this is part of some new strategy for the Democrat Party.
i .c fm
The New York Press (distributed-for-free tabloid here in The City) has an article about how the Democrat politicians (including Senator Clinton) are trying to "rebrand" themselves.
http://www.nypress.com/18/12/news&columns/taibb
Hopefully this will just be another step toward the Republicans and the Democrats returning to their roots and fusing to become the Democratic-Republican Party (or, possibly, Voltron).
Then a truly alternative party might be able to get some votes in our "it has to be one or the other" political landscape.
There isn't starvation in Brazil? Maybe they're not on the scale of Sudan, but there is definitely widespread hunger in the Northeast.
a 2. htm
The closest I can find to a stastic is at the bottom of this article:
http://www.globalaging.org/ruralaging/world/lul
It says that depending on who you ask, between 16 and 46 million (read the article for an explanation of the variation) out of a population of 171 million go hungry.
If you read Brazilian Portuguese, peruse http://www.fomezero.gov.br/ for more information about what Lula's government are trying to do about it.
Is that radar breaking, or radar braking?
Yeah... I guess it is laudable if you like petty, reactionary judges dictating law.
Seriously, this is how it happened. A judge just said that due to the concept of "reciprocity" in Brazilian law, it must be done. He did not even give time for the infrastructure to be put in place. He signed his law to take effect within a week. The first groups through got inkpads and polaroids.
The Brazilians are no happier about this than we are. They don't want to tick off tourists. They didn't know where they money was coming from to pay for the cameras and fingerprint readers and computers.
The reasonable Brazilians petitioned to be removed from the list of countries who require visas and fingerprints.
I went to Brazil a couple weeks ago. Coming in through GIG (Rio de Janeiro) was a joke. All the Americans waited in line with everyone else. This was a good couple hours. Once we got our passports and visas checked and stamped the Americans were told to join another, longer line for the photograph and the fingerprints.
It was unrelated to our entry into the country. With the stamp in the passport we had already "entered." This was just another step in the spirit of "reciprocity." It took another couple hours. The camera was a Connectix web cam attached to a laptop. The Windoze "asterix" sound played when the technician took my picture.
Good times, good times.
They did something wrong there... My wife has a green card. At JFK she goes through the citizens and residents line with me. We are neither fingerprinted nor photographed.
Looks like Darl was listening to you:
According to the this story, "SCO [SCOX] is beginning to invoice Linux users for their use of Unix code that it says has been illegally copied into the open source operating system."
The article does not go on to say who was selected as a "user."
The thing I fear about this solution is that Bad Things (tm) tend to happen whenever we try to interfere in "natural" cycles.
There is always something that we forget...
cf. kudzu down in the south - imported from Japan to stop soil erosion. Unfortunately, we didn't realize that the milder winters in the South compared with the kudzu's natural habitat don't kill it off enough in the winter. So, the bastard vine grows like crazy and kills all the wildlife.
This was a minor detail, but we overlooked it.
If we put the particulate matter in the atmosphere and break something else, do we have a backout plan to get the stuff out?