IBM is still the same old corporate curmudgeon they've always been. IBM specializes in the stealth layoff. These are terminations that occur pretty much under the radar because they are all over the continent in small groups of people in various departments.
IBM is a corporate entity which by its very nature can never truly abandon its evil ways. Lets see how sugar coated my layoff with them sounds shall we?
We found out IBM lost the contract for the company I was working for 90 days before the outsourcing contract renewal date. Within two weeks we are told that we are responsible for finding another job within the company. To help us we were directed to an internal website called "opportunitymarketplace" where we could search for a position within the company. A typical search for all positions available across all 50 states from band levels 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) revealed nothing. 30 days left on the contract we are informed we are part of a resource action. Now because we are part of a resource action even if we found another job within IBM we were still treated as outsiders which meant even if we did get accepted for the position we would still have to wait 30 days before being able to get hired and of course by then the position would of gone to someone else.
For the ultimate cosmic hug and I say this with bleeding sarcasm is their separation package which I've heard on good word that it was written by satan himself! In it you agree that if you want to collect your severance pay you agree to not sue them. You agree to not take a job like say your old position with their competitor for the next 30 days and if you do you forfeit your severance. The severance is 2 weeks of pay for each year you have worked.
My father was axed 2 weeks before his 25 year. In the old IBM 25 years meant receiving a plaque and rolex watch as an anniversary gift. For him it was to arrive at a Best Western Hotel at 5am one morning to be informed that his position had been surplused and his service van, laptop and equipment was taken on the spot. Things sure have changed. Its no wonder why there is a shortage of technical workers and students aren't enrolling in computer science.
I worked for IBM for about 8 years 2 years were spent working for a subsidiary of theirs called TSS aka Tough Shit Sucker on account of the 10% pay cut all IBM employees took when the service division was forced over into TSS. And of course my time with TSS never counted towards my tenure with IBM. So to answer your question. No, IBM does not deserve much love at all for what they've done and are doing to their employees.
Just bought a CD after hearing some mp3's from the very same soundtrack. Breaking compatiblity with the devices I use to play my music will have a negative impact on my music purchasing. Folks, its always best to vote with your dollars. When their draconian practices finally force them to confront their negative impact on music sales maybe someone will get a clue.
Agreed, I'm using the, "Linux Desktop" for all my current work. Thanks in part to Mozilla and Java's jre1.3.1. And a very big thanks to Ximian Evolution I need not worry about Outlook or the many vrii that acompany it!;-)
Don't worry the neo in 'The Matrix' was actually spelt NEO in all caps.;-)
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>Unfortunately, only registered XBox developers can >legitimately obtain this software (okay, apart from >the fact that only registered XBox developers >actually have an XBox that can run the software).
And I'm pretty sure you've got a legal copy of every rom you're running on there to right?
Thats unpossible!
There are a thousand paths that have never yet been trodden--a thousand healths and hidden isles of life. Even now, man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. -- Nietzsche
This little article has some good comparisons:
Relax, we're still paying our taxes and obeying traffic regulations.
But IBM continues to defy various "laws" that limit the power and capacity of information technology -- now we've eluded physical limits that seemed to put a cap on disk storage.
Using a three- atom thick layer of the element ruthenium to discipline otherwise unruly microscopic magnetic domains, we've made a breakthrough that will permit disks to hold 100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch by 2003. That's four times denser than anyone had previously thought possible.
Researchers whimsically call the new technique "pixie dust" (actual name: antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media) for its magic-like ability to stabilize thin magnetic layers.
And we've already started shipping AFC drives: the recently announced Travelstar 48GH, 30GN and 15GN reach their 48, 30 and 15 gigabyte (billion byte) capacities thanks to the breakthrough technology.
Travelstar 48GH, just for
starters, 48 billion bytes
But this is only a start: here's how some other IBM products will look after we repopulate our entire disk storage line:
Desktop drive -- 400 gigabytes -- the information in 400,000 books;
Notebook drives -- 200 GB, equivalent to 42 DVDs or more than 300 CDs;
IBM's one-inch Microdrive -- 6 GB or 13 hours of MPEG-4 compressed digital video (about eight complete movies) for handheld devices.
This development gives us an added boost in the OEM HDD (hard disk drive) industry where we play against fierce and technically formidable competitors such as Seagate and Maxtor, and another technical edge in the storage marketplace, where we're battling industry leader EMC.
But it's hard to overestimate the impact on pervasive and wireless devices (see related story, top left), which will be propelled into regimes of storage heretofore only possible with desktop and "big box" technology.
At six gigabytes, for example, IBM's Microdrive will be able to function as part of a device -- digital camera, portable data network management terminal, movie player -- that can provide industrial-strength function, yet be easily carried or even worn.
IBM's disk technology has previously distinguished itself in other acts of "lawlessness" -- notably for evading Moore's Law. We've also managed to radically undermine the rules of random access memory, with a new technology called Memory eXpansion (MXT) that doubles system memory with a clever chip algorithm.
Perhaps our habitual disregard of limits can be explained by the fact that we developed the first commercial hard-disk drive in 1956 -- and never looked back. Creativity does have its privileges.
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IBM is still the same old corporate curmudgeon they've always been. IBM specializes in the stealth layoff. These are terminations that occur pretty much under the radar because they are all over the continent in small groups of people in various departments.
IBM is a corporate entity which by its very nature can never truly abandon its evil ways. Lets see how sugar coated my layoff with them sounds shall we?
We found out IBM lost the contract for the company I was working for 90 days before the outsourcing contract renewal date. Within two weeks we are told that we are responsible for finding another job within the company. To help us we were directed to an internal website called "opportunitymarketplace" where we could search for a position within the company. A typical search for all positions available across all 50 states from band levels 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) revealed nothing. 30 days left on the contract we are informed we are part of a resource action. Now because we are part of a resource action even if we found another job within IBM we were still treated as outsiders which meant even if we did get accepted for the position we would still have to wait 30 days before being able to get hired and of course by then the position would of gone to someone else.
For the ultimate cosmic hug and I say this with bleeding sarcasm is their separation package which I've heard on good word that it was written by satan himself! In it you agree that if you want to collect your severance pay you agree to not sue them. You agree to not take a job like say your old position with their competitor for the next 30 days and if you do you forfeit your severance. The severance is 2 weeks of pay for each year you have worked.
My father was axed 2 weeks before his 25 year. In the old IBM 25 years meant receiving a plaque and rolex watch as an anniversary gift. For him it was to arrive at a Best Western Hotel at 5am one morning to be informed that his position had been surplused and his service van, laptop and equipment was taken on the spot. Things sure have changed. Its no wonder why there is a shortage of technical workers and students aren't enrolling in computer science.
I worked for IBM for about 8 years 2 years were spent working for a subsidiary of theirs called TSS aka Tough Shit Sucker on account of the 10% pay cut all IBM employees took when the service division was forced over into TSS. And of course my time with TSS never counted towards my tenure with IBM. So to answer your question. No, IBM does not deserve much love at all for what they've done and are doing to their employees.
I use solar cells.
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Did your parents name you after Moshe Cordrovero, Great Kabbalist, Talmudic scholar, and philosopher. 1570-1643?
Just bought a CD after hearing some mp3's from the very same soundtrack. Breaking compatiblity with the devices I use to play my music will have a negative impact on my music purchasing. Folks, its always best to vote with your dollars. When their draconian practices finally force them to confront their negative impact on music sales maybe someone will get a clue.
Agreed, I'm using the, "Linux Desktop" for all my current work. Thanks in part to Mozilla and Java's jre1.3.1. And a very big thanks to Ximian Evolution I need not worry about Outlook or the many vrii that acompany it! ;-)
Don't worry the neo in 'The Matrix' was actually spelt NEO in all caps. ;-)
>Unfortunately, only registered XBox developers can >legitimately obtain this software (okay, apart from >the fact that only registered XBox developers >actually have an XBox that can run the software).
And I'm pretty sure you've got a legal copy of every rom you're running on there to right?
Thats unpossible! There are a thousand paths that have never yet been trodden--a thousand healths and hidden isles of life. Even now, man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. -- Nietzsche
Probably to save a buck or two? ;-)
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This little article has some good comparisons: Relax, we're still paying our taxes and obeying traffic regulations. But IBM continues to defy various "laws" that limit the power and capacity of information technology -- now we've eluded physical limits that seemed to put a cap on disk storage. Using a three- atom thick layer of the element ruthenium to discipline otherwise unruly microscopic magnetic domains, we've made a breakthrough that will permit disks to hold 100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch by 2003. That's four times denser than anyone had previously thought possible. Researchers whimsically call the new technique "pixie dust" (actual name: antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media) for its magic-like ability to stabilize thin magnetic layers. And we've already started shipping AFC drives: the recently announced Travelstar 48GH, 30GN and 15GN reach their 48, 30 and 15 gigabyte (billion byte) capacities thanks to the breakthrough technology. Travelstar 48GH, just for starters, 48 billion bytes But this is only a start: here's how some other IBM products will look after we repopulate our entire disk storage line: Desktop drive -- 400 gigabytes -- the information in 400,000 books; Notebook drives -- 200 GB, equivalent to 42 DVDs or more than 300 CDs; IBM's one-inch Microdrive -- 6 GB or 13 hours of MPEG-4 compressed digital video (about eight complete movies) for handheld devices. This development gives us an added boost in the OEM HDD (hard disk drive) industry where we play against fierce and technically formidable competitors such as Seagate and Maxtor, and another technical edge in the storage marketplace, where we're battling industry leader EMC. But it's hard to overestimate the impact on pervasive and wireless devices (see related story, top left), which will be propelled into regimes of storage heretofore only possible with desktop and "big box" technology. At six gigabytes, for example, IBM's Microdrive will be able to function as part of a device -- digital camera, portable data network management terminal, movie player -- that can provide industrial-strength function, yet be easily carried or even worn. IBM's disk technology has previously distinguished itself in other acts of "lawlessness" -- notably for evading Moore's Law. We've also managed to radically undermine the rules of random access memory, with a new technology called Memory eXpansion (MXT) that doubles system memory with a clever chip algorithm. Perhaps our habitual disregard of limits can be explained by the fact that we developed the first commercial hard-disk drive in 1956 -- and never looked back. Creativity does have its privileges.
Actually the original protection scheme was none other than singing of Yoko Ono later dropped for reasons of stability. ;-)