They're also banned in CA. Under the California Business and Professions Code Section 16600 “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.”
Regardless of the reason, California is an "At Will" employment state. This means anyone can be fired, for any reason, at any time. When someone is dumb enough to violate the corporate code of conduct, the firing is insanely easy, and entirely justified. He can sue all he wants. I expect Google will not roll over on this, and make him the poster child for why you should pay attention to the employee handbook.
For anyone unclear on why what he wrote wasn't the best idea, substitute the word "black", for the word "woman".
You must mean that notoriously goddamn liberal hotbed of politics called Texas. They really don't like that whole goddamn liberal free market direct sale model. If only they could learn from that famous bastion of conservative thought that started the whole mess: California. Let's not cloud the issue with facts. They're terribly inconvenient.
Really? Your reponse is "everyone does it so we shouldn't even try to change it"? An extension of the "everyone else does it" defense that every kindergarden child can tell you won't get them off.
It's not the community of gamers that's objecting. It's the small, virulent subset that sees it as an attack on themselves. The ones who can't conceive their attacks are exactly the problem and prove her right by doing what they do. People who say "what should you expect" are the enablers.
Absolutely. A company or university can then discard all of the applicants that attended through high school in those states that do this crap. Makes it so much easier on the rest of us who have an education and might possibly have learned something that requires use of our brains.
There's no absolute in this. Some companies will pay for your training/certification and have you do it on company time. Others not. It really depends on the company.
I'm fortunate enough that the first option is pretty much always what happens for me. But it's entirely because of the type of company I work for. I'm a storage engineer for a big data center VAR, so I need to be up to speed on a huge number of different storage systems. The company gets financial incentives from the vendors to have employees get and maintain those certifications. The more of us with certifications from a particular vendor, the bigger the financial gain for the company. I take as much advantage of this perk as possible, and I'd suggest that anyone who can get their employer to pay for training jump on it. It makes you more valuable to the company, and in the job market in general.
Whether any of those certification is worth the paper they're printed on is a completely different discussion.:)
Interesting tidbit: The only record of Socrates is in the writings of Plato, and is very possibly just a screen for Plato's own ideas. It's easier to avoid execution when saying the things you're writing about are someone else's opinions rather than claiming them for your own. It's highly likely that Socrates never actually existed.
See? I did actually get something out of my degree in Philosophy.:)
We oldies remember playing this on VAX in the early 80's. Fortunately, I can still play it 'cause Don Woods is a great friend and ported it to IRIX for me about 10 years ago. It's STILL fun.
Though, the very thought of FORTRAN does make me cringe. Too many bad memories of my very first CS class in college. *shudder*
Whether the thing you've described will meet your needs really depends on what you're looking for. Unfortunately, you've described the gizmo, but not what you need it to do.
That being said, here are a few things you need to be aware of:
1st problem: From the Lime Technology web site, their MD-12000 "Unlike other RAID systems, however, user data is not striped across the data disk drives. Instead, each data disk is formatted normally with it's own file system." What this means is that it's going to be slow. SATA/IDE drives are slow to begin with, but without the striping it's going to be individual drive with an external connection slow. This also raises the question of how they're doing RAID5, since that requires multiple drives in order to hold the parity so that if one fails the data can be recreated when it is replaced.
2nd problem: There is no mention of data cache anywhere in the technical information about the MD-12000. Without that, the seek/write times are going to be awful.
3rd problem: The Lime Technology web site says that both the IDE and SATA verions are "temporarily out of stock". You can't even get one.
4th problem: No spare drives. If you lose a drive, you need to get a replacement before you have protection again. RAID5 doesn't give you any protection at all from multiple drive failures, and yes it does happen. More frequently than you know. Especially with IDE/SATA drives. They don't have a particularly long lifespan, and years of experience with big storage has also shown me that you lose drives at spinup/spin down. Which means the age of your drives will be essentially the same and the chance to lose more than one is pretty good.
That all being said, if what you want is something inexpensive to attach to your desktop that will hold lots of data that isn't really important, needed by lots of people, and you don't need really fast access to, it sounds like a good deal. But once you start having to share that data with others from the same storage box, and need to get faster access, this thing isn't going to give you performance. It's never going to give you a really high amount of reliability. Not high enough to be putting critical data on it.
I just went through this decision process...
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And bought a big Panasonic plasma screen.
BUT, my circumstances were probably different. I was trying to avoid an addition to the house that my husband really wanted to get. Would have cost us a ridiculous amount of money. My solution was to free up the bedroom we were using as a family room by putting a big flat panel TV of some sort in our living room, over the fireplace. Which then made us examine plasma vs. LCD.
First we figured out what size we'd need. Since the room is long & narrow, and the screen would be on a narrow end, we needed something that could be watched from 16-17 feet away. This meant as big as we could actually fit on the wall. Somewhere in the 55-60 inch widescreen size.
We discovered that LCDs cost more than double plasma of similar sizes. Ouch.
Next we actually went and looked at them. The LCDs are gorgeous. But the depth of the black & dark colors just isn't as good. LCD is still relatively new, and the prices have yet to make the big drop that comes with wide acceptance.
We decided that plasma was the way to go and then did our research on which one. The winner was the Panasonic 58 inch. It also won when we made a trip to our local high end video store and looked at several of the top rated sets.
Essentially, we figure that by the time we wear out the plasma, LCD will be mature enough that the depth of color on the dark/black will be fixed, and the prices will be where plasma is now. But we don't expect anything like this for at least 5 years. Dunno if that's what will happen or not, but there's my 2 cents.
The friend at MS has changed groups within the company twice in the last several years to attempt finding something to do with his considerable talent that doesn't make him cringe. He's there because the company he previously worked for was bought by Microsoft and he wanted to continue working on the product. That didn't last long.
The friend at Google has been doing the same thing for the past couple of years and has definitely drank the cool-aid. He loves it. I can also tell you that he doesn't work crazy hours, or he wouldn't be playing D&D with me on weekends, or going to Europe on vacation (where he is right this moment).
That being said, where do you want to live? Microsoft - Redmond, Google - Mountain View Do you like cold, wet and snow? Then Redmond sounds like you're kind of place. Do you like 9 months of sunshine and almost never temperatures below freezing (even at night)? Then Mountain View is probably the better choice.
Housing is more expensive in the Mountain View (and most of the Bay Area) than Seattle. Everything else is about the same.
Personally, I've chosen the Bay Area. I come from the frozen north and will never live where it snows again. I'm also not from a small town, so I really like the diversity and variation of this area.
My question to you is: What are you looking for in a job, and in a place to live? Your answer will tell you where to go and what to do.
Jason, I'm going to have to get the book. Thanks for your article, as well.
I can say, with some first hand knowledge, that you (Jason) are actually evil.:) Fortunately, I like that in a person. It's a bit disturbing to think about how long I've actually known you, both online and in person. While I'm also a product of the BBS culture, and I occasionally get nostalgic about it, I will NEVER miss modems of any sort. Ugh. It's much more likely that I'll sometimes miss my Apple IIe and revile the printer and modem horrors that were attached to it.
For the rest of you, go visit a MUSH. It'll give you a hint of what went on yesteryear, and they're still damn fun.
I've been doing alot of interviewing over the past several years and there's one thing that far too many people just don't get:
KNOW WHAT YOU PUT ON YOUR RESUME!
Seems like a pretty obvious thing, eh? No that I can prove. Not telling blatant lies on your resume is also important, but regardless of the truthfulness of what you've written, you need to remember it's on there.
Me: (seeing AIX experience on resume) What kind of experience have you had with AIX?
Applicant: Um, AIX?
Me: What platform does AIX run on?
Applicant: What's AIX?
If you put it on your resume at least know what the hell it is and remember it's on there. Even if that means you bring a copy of the resume with you and you look at it. I'm not even going to touch how I feel about the recruiter who brought this person in to waste the time of 4 different people who can't afford it because we're understaffed and trying to find someone to pick up the load. You know, the reason we're hiring in the first place? ARGH!
"Ironically, Microsoft's efforts to deny interoperability of Windows with legitimate non-Microsoft applications have created an environment in which Microsoft's program interoperate efficiently only with Internet viruses," said Geer.
Gotta love it.
Absolutely. I stopped buying CDs several years ago because the price was just outrageous. Since then I've watched the RIAA blame others for their own failure and litigate to make up for their own shortage of imagination. $13 for a CD will not get me to buy one. They have lost me as a customer permanantly. But then I carry a grudge a LONG time. And while I'm at it I'll try to convince everyone I know to never buy another CD from a company that is a member of the RIAA. There are plenty of other independent labels that put out good music, and used CDs will get you almost anything else. The RIAA can kiss my ass.
Unfortunately I can. And already do. It's bad enough that way too many of us who are "computer professionals" have the fun of carpal tunnel and/or tendonitis from using all of our fingers for typing. I can only imagine what the concentrated repetitive motion injury will be for thumb-only typing. Ugh. It already hurts like hell to type on my Blackberry.
Am I the only one who remembers the "Look and Feel" lawsuit Apple lost after MS first released Windows? MS already knows they can steal anything they like without any significant retribution from either the government or other corporations, which is exactly what they do. The only real innovation coming from Redmond is new and better ways to take other people's technology, add it to their own, then put the original creators out of business.
It makes much more sense to put older works out there for everyone at no charge in order to generate interest in newer works. And it's been working just like that for Baen. I know that I've bought quite a few books from various Baen authors after reading some of their work through the Free Library.
At this point in time neither would I. But when I was 19, made something like $5000 a year and had to live on that as well as pay for school, there would be no question of what I would have to do.
Both the students and the RIAA, actually. The RIAA is going to have to make some drastic changes if they want the music business to remain viable. The students, on the other hand, can wait for the paperwork to be finalized and immediately file for bankruptcy. It's very doubtful they have anything at all of value for the bankruptcy court to make them sell in order to pay off creditors, and it's even more doubtful that the RIAA will pay their lawyers to show up at the bankruptcy hearing for that small an amount. The students won't have to pay them a cent.
Am I the only one who looks for online sites that will not charge tax to buy from? Somehow that seems doubtful. The reasons for buying online were (1) Not having to set foot in a store or shopping mall and (2) No tax offset the cost of shipping. Much as I hate malls I'm not at all sure it's worth ordering online when I have to pay the 8%+ (welcome to California) additional to the state. Dammit.
This is the same guy who became CEO of SGI and was in negotiations with MS almost the entire time he was there, then gave no notice to SGI when he quit.
This is the same guy who supposedly told the SGI board of directors that "It's too hard to be CEO of SGI" after running the company into the ground in an amazingly short period of time.
This is the same guy who "helped" SGI lose a significant part of their already niche market by forcing the company to switch platforms away from what they did best.
I wonder how much MS is paying him for what he's doing now? But I'm not bitter.
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They're also banned in CA.
Under the California Business and Professions Code Section 16600 “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.”
Regardless of the reason, California is an "At Will" employment state. This means anyone can be fired, for any reason, at any time. When someone is dumb enough to violate the corporate code of conduct, the firing is insanely easy, and entirely justified. He can sue all he wants. I expect Google will not roll over on this, and make him the poster child for why you should pay attention to the employee handbook.
For anyone unclear on why what he wrote wasn't the best idea, substitute the word "black", for the word "woman".
...I have a very nice bridge for sale in NY that you'd be interested in. Only a bit over 100 years old, and it great shape!
You must mean that notoriously goddamn liberal hotbed of politics called Texas. They really don't like that whole goddamn liberal free market direct sale model. If only they could learn from that famous bastion of conservative thought that started the whole mess: California. Let's not cloud the issue with facts. They're terribly inconvenient.
Really? Your reponse is "everyone does it so we shouldn't even try to change it"? An extension of the "everyone else does it" defense that every kindergarden child can tell you won't get them off.
It's not the community of gamers that's objecting. It's the small, virulent subset that sees it as an attack on themselves. The ones who can't conceive their attacks are exactly the problem and prove her right by doing what they do. People who say "what should you expect" are the enablers.
Absolutely. A company or university can then discard all of the applicants that attended through high school in those states that do this crap. Makes it so much easier on the rest of us who have an education and might possibly have learned something that requires use of our brains.
There's no absolute in this. Some companies will pay for your training/certification and have you do it on company time. Others not. It really depends on the company.
I'm fortunate enough that the first option is pretty much always what happens for me. But it's entirely because of the type of company I work for. I'm a storage engineer for a big data center VAR, so I need to be up to speed on a huge number of different storage systems. The company gets financial incentives from the vendors to have employees get and maintain those certifications. The more of us with certifications from a particular vendor, the bigger the financial gain for the company. I take as much advantage of this perk as possible, and I'd suggest that anyone who can get their employer to pay for training jump on it. It makes you more valuable to the company, and in the job market in general.
Whether any of those certification is worth the paper they're printed on is a completely different discussion. :)
I just change the permissions on my cookies file to read only.
Accept all cookies and change the permissions for your cookies file to read only. Done.
Interesting tidbit: The only record of Socrates is in the writings of Plato, and is very possibly just a screen for Plato's own ideas. It's easier to avoid execution when saying the things you're writing about are someone else's opinions rather than claiming them for your own. It's highly likely that Socrates never actually existed.
See? I did actually get something out of my degree in Philosophy. :)
We oldies remember playing this on VAX in the early 80's. Fortunately, I can still play it 'cause Don Woods is a great friend and ported it to IRIX for me about 10 years ago. It's STILL fun.
Though, the very thought of FORTRAN does make me cringe. Too many bad memories of my very first CS class in college. *shudder*
Whether the thing you've described will meet your needs really depends on what you're looking for. Unfortunately, you've described the gizmo, but not what you need it to do.
That being said, here are a few things you need to be aware of:
1st problem:
From the Lime Technology web site, their MD-12000 "Unlike other RAID systems, however, user data is not striped across the data disk drives. Instead, each data disk is formatted normally with it's own file system." What this means is that it's going to be slow. SATA/IDE drives are slow to begin with, but without the striping it's going to be individual drive with an external connection slow. This also raises the question of how they're doing RAID5, since that requires multiple drives in order to hold the parity so that if one fails the data can be recreated when it is replaced.
2nd problem:
There is no mention of data cache anywhere in the technical information about the MD-12000. Without that, the seek/write times are going to be awful.
3rd problem:
The Lime Technology web site says that both the IDE and SATA verions are "temporarily out of stock". You can't even get one.
4th problem:
No spare drives. If you lose a drive, you need to get a replacement before you have protection again. RAID5 doesn't give you any protection at all from multiple drive failures, and yes it does happen. More frequently than you know. Especially with IDE/SATA drives. They don't have a particularly long lifespan, and years of experience with big storage has also shown me that you lose drives at spinup/spin down. Which means the age of your drives will be essentially the same and the chance to lose more than one is pretty good.
That all being said, if what you want is something inexpensive to attach to your desktop that will hold lots of data that isn't really important, needed by lots of people, and you don't need really fast access to, it sounds like a good deal. But once you start having to share that data with others from the same storage box, and need to get faster access, this thing isn't going to give you performance. It's never going to give you a really high amount of reliability. Not high enough to be putting critical data on it.
And bought a big Panasonic plasma screen.
BUT, my circumstances were probably different. I was trying to avoid an addition to the house that my husband really wanted to get. Would have cost us a ridiculous amount of money. My solution was to free up the bedroom we were using as a family room by putting a big flat panel TV of some sort in our living room, over the fireplace. Which then made us examine plasma vs. LCD.
First we figured out what size we'd need. Since the room is long & narrow, and the screen would be on a narrow end, we needed something that could be watched from 16-17 feet away. This meant as big as we could actually fit on the wall. Somewhere in the 55-60 inch widescreen size.
We discovered that LCDs cost more than double plasma of similar sizes. Ouch.
Next we actually went and looked at them. The LCDs are gorgeous. But the depth of the black & dark colors just isn't as good. LCD is still relatively new, and the prices have yet to make the big drop that comes with wide acceptance.
We decided that plasma was the way to go and then did our research on which one. The winner was the Panasonic 58 inch. It also won when we made a trip to our local high end video store and looked at several of the top rated sets.
Essentially, we figure that by the time we wear out the plasma, LCD will be mature enough that the depth of color on the dark/black will be fixed, and the prices will be where plasma is now. But we don't expect anything like this for at least 5 years. Dunno if that's what will happen or not, but there's my 2 cents.
The friend at MS has changed groups within the company twice in the last several years to attempt finding something to do with his considerable talent that doesn't make him cringe. He's there because the company he previously worked for was bought by Microsoft and he wanted to continue working on the product. That didn't last long.
The friend at Google has been doing the same thing for the past couple of years and has definitely drank the cool-aid. He loves it. I can also tell you that he doesn't work crazy hours, or he wouldn't be playing D&D with me on weekends, or going to Europe on vacation (where he is right this moment).
That being said, where do you want to live? Microsoft - Redmond, Google - Mountain View
Do you like cold, wet and snow? Then Redmond sounds like you're kind of place.
Do you like 9 months of sunshine and almost never temperatures below freezing (even at night)? Then Mountain View is probably the better choice.
Housing is more expensive in the Mountain View (and most of the Bay Area) than Seattle. Everything else is about the same.
Personally, I've chosen the Bay Area. I come from the frozen north and will never live where it snows again. I'm also not from a small town, so I really like the diversity and variation of this area.
My question to you is: What are you looking for in a job, and in a place to live? Your answer will tell you where to go and what to do.
Good luck!
Jason, I'm going to have to get the book. Thanks for your article, as well.
:) Fortunately, I like that in a person.
I can say, with some first hand knowledge, that you (Jason) are actually evil.
It's a bit disturbing to think about how long I've actually known you, both online and in person. While I'm also a product of the BBS culture, and I occasionally get nostalgic about it, I will NEVER miss modems of any sort. Ugh. It's much more likely that I'll sometimes miss my Apple IIe and revile the printer and modem horrors that were attached to it.
For the rest of you, go visit a MUSH. It'll give you a hint of what went on yesteryear, and they're still damn fun.
- Marian
I've been doing alot of interviewing over the past several years and there's one thing that far too many people just don't get:
KNOW WHAT YOU PUT ON YOUR RESUME!
Seems like a pretty obvious thing, eh? No that I can prove. Not telling blatant lies on your resume is also important, but regardless of the truthfulness of what you've written, you need to remember it's on there.
Me: (seeing AIX experience on resume) What kind of experience have you had with AIX?
Applicant: Um, AIX?
Me: What platform does AIX run on?
Applicant: What's AIX?
If you put it on your resume at least know what the hell it is and remember it's on there. Even if that means you bring a copy of the resume with you and you look at it. I'm not even going to touch how I feel about the recruiter who brought this person in to waste the time of 4 different people who can't afford it because we're understaffed and trying to find someone to pick up the load. You know, the reason we're hiring in the first place? ARGH!
"Ironically, Microsoft's efforts to deny interoperability of Windows with legitimate non-Microsoft applications have created an environment in which Microsoft's program interoperate efficiently only with Internet viruses," said Geer.
Gotta love it.
Absolutely. I stopped buying CDs several years ago because the price was just outrageous. Since then I've watched the RIAA blame others for their own failure and litigate to make up for their own shortage of imagination. $13 for a CD will not get me to buy one. They have lost me as a customer permanantly. But then I carry a grudge a LONG time. And while I'm at it I'll try to convince everyone I know to never buy another CD from a company that is a member of the RIAA. There are plenty of other independent labels that put out good music, and used CDs will get you almost anything else. The RIAA can kiss my ass.
Unfortunately I can. And already do. It's bad enough that way too many of us who are "computer professionals" have the fun of carpal tunnel and/or tendonitis from using all of our fingers for typing. I can only imagine what the concentrated repetitive motion injury will be for thumb-only typing. Ugh. It already hurts like hell to type on my Blackberry.
Am I the only one who remembers the "Look and Feel" lawsuit Apple lost after MS first released Windows? MS already knows they can steal anything they like without any significant retribution from either the government or other corporations, which is exactly what they do. The only real innovation coming from Redmond is new and better ways to take other people's technology, add it to their own, then put the original creators out of business.
An even better idea is the Baen Free Library
It makes much more sense to put older works out there for everyone at no charge in order to generate interest in newer works. And it's been working just like that for Baen. I know that I've bought quite a few books from various Baen authors after reading some of their work through the Free Library.
At this point in time neither would I. But when I was 19, made something like $5000 a year and had to live on that as well as pay for school, there would be no question of what I would have to do.
Both the students and the RIAA, actually. The RIAA is going to have to make some drastic changes if they want the music business to remain viable. The students, on the other hand, can wait for the paperwork to be finalized and immediately file for bankruptcy. It's very doubtful they have anything at all of value for the bankruptcy court to make them sell in order to pay off creditors, and it's even more doubtful that the RIAA will pay their lawyers to show up at the bankruptcy hearing for that small an amount. The students won't have to pay them a cent.
Am I the only one who looks for online sites that will not charge tax to buy from? Somehow that seems doubtful. The reasons for buying online were (1) Not having to set foot in a store or shopping mall and (2) No tax offset the cost of shipping. Much as I hate malls I'm not at all sure it's worth ordering online when I have to pay the 8%+ (welcome to California) additional to the state. Dammit.
This is the same guy who became CEO of SGI and was in negotiations with MS almost the entire time he was there, then gave no notice to SGI when he quit.
This is the same guy who supposedly told the SGI board of directors that "It's too hard to be CEO of SGI" after running the company into the ground in an amazingly short period of time.
This is the same guy who "helped" SGI lose a significant part of their already niche market by forcing the company to switch platforms away from what they did best.
I wonder how much MS is paying him for what he's doing now? But I'm not bitter.