In response to your question, the boss is being completely unreasonable. You are under no obligation to give any notice whatsoever. This can affect your ability to get rehired at some companies, but otherwise, there are no penalties that can be applied. You have the option to set whatever end date you want in your resignation. If the boss doesn't like it, he can always let you go sooner, and you can proceed to the next job without guilt.
Two weeks notice is considered good manners. It's more a matter of corporate custom and good form than a true requirement. In my career, I've had one instance where I did give four weeks notice because I knew that leaving sooner would put my boss in a tight spot. In another, I gave two weeks and was released a week early by my employer. (With no penalties to rehire status.)
You'll need to look at high gain antennas and repeaters to make a system like this work. You'll probably also need some mast-work to get signals broadcast over the hills. Wi-Fi might not be what you need to get the job done, so you'll want to look at other wireless technologies.
It sounds like an interesting project. You'll probably want to post a web-site showing how you implemented it; It could prove useful to other groups trying to accomplish the same things in rural areas.
Thanks. I'll check that out next time I get some time to work with XCode. I'm just learning how to program for the Mac, so I'm happy to pick up hints wherever I can find them.
If fifty percent of the time is devoted to non-work activities, we just need to follow the logical course and lay off fifty percent of the government workforce. That way, we can normalize the workload with the number of resources. Alternatively, we can fire all of them, and hire some people with a good work ethic.
Just remove all of the publicly accessible power outlets. That'll limit them to the charge they have on their laptop batteries. Of course, it's still something only an asshole would do.
We had an intern a few years ago who wasn't nearly as useful. I figured training him to do light office work would probably take about nine or ten years.
...Mr Kasparov will be retiring to spend more time with his wife and children. They will reside at Mr. Kasparov's beautiful new dascha in Eastern Russia, near the border of Outer Mongolia. The residence has been thoughtfully provided by the Putin government...
They'll be coming out with a revision in a couple of months to simulate Star Trek physics. It will basically let you change the laws of physics at any point in a game, and will also spit out some technobabble explaining how you did it. (Reversing the flow of the barrion reverter, Captain!)
So is this the new development plan for Longhorn? Rolling it out in chunks instead of one coherent release?
It kind of makes sense to me. This way, they'll have some field testing of the key technologies and they'll be able to use the longer development cycle to work out more bugs.
Or move closer to work. A three hour commute could kill you, since it means that your effectively working 15 hours a day. Find a way to cut that down, and get plenty of exercise. Put your hardest workout on one of your days off.
This kind of reminds me of the ballistic fingerprinting systems that are being pushed for by some gun-control groups. They all rely on some way of cataloging the physical marks left on a cartridge case (and sometime a bullet) when fired by a particular firearm.
The problem is that they are first, not very effective, and second, very easy to defeat. They are unreliable because an attempt to identify an arbitrary shell casing will cause the system to spit out several hundred potential matches. With guns made to exacting quality control standars, it can produce thousands of potentials. It's easy to defeat because the markings used are all produced by parts of a gun which are very easily replaced. All one has to do change the ballistic signature is swap out the extractor, firing pin, and barrel of the weapon.
Something similar could probably be done here. One could swap out the oscillator crystals, change a few key capacitors to introduce timing variations, or even raise the temperature of a key component, and you'll have a different clock signature.
I've quit two jobs in my career. In both cases I 1) was completely discouraged about my job and finding anyway to enjoy it, and 2) I'd already lined up a new job for myself.
I've also been layed-off once, and survived financially only because I had about three months take-home in the bank.
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I don't want any data storage that lasts past the statute of limitations. Of course, at that point, it probably doesn't matter anymore.
A picture of the culprit can be found here.
In response to your question, the boss is being completely unreasonable. You are under no obligation to give any notice whatsoever. This can affect your ability to get rehired at some companies, but otherwise, there are no penalties that can be applied. You have the option to set whatever end date you want in your resignation. If the boss doesn't like it, he can always let you go sooner, and you can proceed to the next job without guilt.
Two weeks notice is considered good manners. It's more a matter of corporate custom and good form than a true requirement. In my career, I've had one instance where I did give four weeks notice because I knew that leaving sooner would put my boss in a tight spot. In another, I gave two weeks and was released a week early by my employer. (With no penalties to rehire status.)
Or better yet, watch them get arrested for "hacking" with an unauthorized client.
You'll need to look at high gain antennas and repeaters to make a system like this work. You'll probably also need some mast-work to get signals broadcast over the hills. Wi-Fi might not be what you need to get the job done, so you'll want to look at other wireless technologies.
It sounds like an interesting project. You'll probably want to post a web-site showing how you implemented it; It could prove useful to other groups trying to accomplish the same things in rural areas.
Thanks. I'll check that out next time I get some time to work with XCode. I'm just learning how to program for the Mac, so I'm happy to pick up hints wherever I can find them.
You can just use a .tif file and use interface builder to add it to your program.
Hasn't happened yet.
If fifty percent of the time is devoted to non-work activities, we just need to follow the logical course and lay off fifty percent of the government workforce. That way, we can normalize the workload with the number of resources. Alternatively, we can fire all of them, and hire some people with a good work ethic.
Buy a Mac, then you won't have to worry about what's in /etc. It'll still be there, but you won't have to look at it.
You need to try www.business2.com or www.fastcompany.com . They know all the buzzwords.
Just remove all of the publicly accessible power outlets. That'll limit them to the charge they have on their laptop batteries. Of course, it's still something only an asshole would do.
We had an intern a few years ago who wasn't nearly as useful. I figured training him to do light office work would probably take about nine or ten years.
I don't think we need to worry about unit conversions this time. Homicidal AIs on the other hand...
...Mr Kasparov will be retiring to spend more time with his wife and children. They will reside at Mr. Kasparov's beautiful new dascha in Eastern Russia, near the border of Outer Mongolia. The residence has been thoughtfully provided by the Putin government...
They'll be coming out with a revision in a couple of months to simulate Star Trek physics. It will basically let you change the laws of physics at any point in a game, and will also spit out some technobabble explaining how you did it. (Reversing the flow of the barrion reverter, Captain!)
So is this the new development plan for Longhorn? Rolling it out in chunks instead of one coherent release?
It kind of makes sense to me. This way, they'll have some field testing of the key technologies and they'll be able to use the longer development cycle to work out more bugs.
Or move closer to work. A three hour commute could kill you, since it means that your effectively working 15 hours a day. Find a way to cut that down, and get plenty of exercise. Put your hardest workout on one of your days off.
Does the name mean that I have to push an object the size of a horse around? I don't see how that's more ergonomic.
This kind of reminds me of the ballistic fingerprinting systems that are being pushed for by some gun-control groups. They all rely on some way of cataloging the physical marks left on a cartridge case (and sometime a bullet) when fired by a particular firearm.
The problem is that they are first, not very effective, and second, very easy to defeat. They are unreliable because an attempt to identify an arbitrary shell casing will cause the system to spit out several hundred potential matches. With guns made to exacting quality control standars, it can produce thousands of potentials. It's easy to defeat because the markings used are all produced by parts of a gun which are very easily replaced. All one has to do change the ballistic signature is swap out the extractor, firing pin, and barrel of the weapon.
Something similar could probably be done here. One could swap out the oscillator crystals, change a few key capacitors to introduce timing variations, or even raise the temperature of a key component, and you'll have a different clock signature.
And people like you just sit around and bitch about it.
Get off your butt and do something creative or new. Then maybe you'll be able to buy a couple.
That way, I can stack a Mini-PC on top of my Mac and use it whenever I'm feeling really mascochistic and want to flog myself.
I've quit two jobs in my career. In both cases I 1) was completely discouraged about my job and finding anyway to enjoy it, and 2) I'd already lined up a new job for myself.
I've also been layed-off once, and survived financially only because I had about three months take-home in the bank.
In a worst-case scenario, I'm going to assume that Fossett brought a parachute.
Well, at least then I won't have to worry about my 30th birthday on October 16.