"Voluntary". Let's not bullshit, in almost every job offer situation the employer making the offer has significantly more leverage than the person accepting the job and will press for concessions like a non-compete. A lot of people sign on to the non-compete because they need the job today, and can't worry about the nebulous effects of the non-compete as it may apply in the abstract future. Employers know this and take full advantage of it because once the employee is in the door, that's one more thing keeping them there even if the work environment starts to suck.
Those reasons alone are why it's not a bad idea for CA to void these "agreements".
That is one of the stupidest ideas I've heard all year. Your advice is to represent yourself in a contract dispute - which is something 99.999% of the planet is NOT equipped to do. Might as well not waste everyone's time including your own and just get to the penalties phase. That way you can avoid paying court costs.
> If the NDA is really that strict then it likely won't be enforceable if they took him to court
And therein lies the problem. Sure it's not enforceable but how many developers - especially ones looking for a job like in OPs example - have a bunch of cash they want to burn through to defend themselves in court over it?
Even an unenforceable NDA has a chilling effect if you can't pay to negate it in court.
Sure they fixed things and added new things, but if things worked for you, you could stay where you were OS-level wise. Hell, I know someone who still has XP machines on an airgapped network that do what they need and it works fine - and they paid their one-time ticket to ride per machine, no additional costs ongoing to MS.
This new model? Why buy an OS license one time for $129 (OEM) when you can pay us every month and give us more money after month 14 than if you bought it outright!
Only in an abstract sense for end users who use it as a heat source. They don't have to tightly compete as the cost for someone to switch their heating from one source to the other is a large barrier to change and ensures a very large percentage of lock in for both customer groups. It's not like deciding to buy Pepsi instead of Coke because one's half off this week.
Denial and bad data presented as true maintains the status quo. A lot of the agencies that place ads on behalf of their clients would suddenly have some tough questions to answer from those clients if the bad data was exposed so like in many industries perception is king and makes reality - and it's in everyone's best interests to present a shiny 'reality' instead of drilling down and telling the true story.
And having dealt with other industries where everyone thinks the tech is cutting edge but behind the curtain it's all 80286s powered by hamster wheels it wouldn't surprise me at all if Neilsen's tech was considerably less state of the art than everyone is presuming.
> Toronto is tech central for Canada BUT...housing prices have been so crazy it's reflecting San Francisco.
Vancouver laughs and pats your cute little head over the housing prices...
Just did a search on realtor.ca for detached homes in Toronto within a 7 km radius of downtown and there are 171 detached properties under $750,000. A similar search in Vancouver shows 3... one of which is a houseboat in Coal Harbour with no land, and the other two are on infamous Musqueam land that you lease from the band for "only" $35,000 per year. Upping the cost to $1M adds another 3 listings. Even upping the threshold to 1.5M only shows 142 listings. All in all if I was looking to buy, Toronto looks way better from a price perspective. And your tech jobs pay about 20% better too.
That said, neither Toronto nor Vancouver are anywhere near the crazy of San Fran yet. Yet. Give it time.
It's easy to blame Photobucket here because they jumped in with a pants-on-head retarded $399 price tag for this. They don't *really* want people paying that price, they want an excuse to cut Ebay and Amazon traffic off completely so they slapped a way too high price tag on it in anticipation that everyone would throw their hands up and accept the coming cutoff without a fight, and instead they have a brewing shit show on their hands.
What they should have done was realize that yes indeed the battle was lost for that traffic and to come up with a reasonable price tag. Image hosting and bandwidth can't be that expensive if I get 30GB of SSD disk and a terabyte of traffic ON TOP of a VM that's hosted for $15 a month. Call it $10 a month for just that much disk and traffic. Then offer it that way to the PB users - $10 a month to host your pictures on Ebay and Amazon or $100/year up front. Way easier to swallow than $399/year.
Because back in the day Ebay at least didn't offer photo hosting. My sister has been selling things on Ebay since the 90s and she hosts her images on my server for the simple reason that it's the way she's always done it and it works well. Now on top of that she has an independent site hosted on my server that also sells the same items and reuses the same image links.
I imagine a lot of Photobucket users started off doing it a few images at a time when they first started and now it's a matter of process inertia and a large number of images that would have to be moved. People aren't necessarily idiots for doing it, they do what works simply for them with their limited experience.
Because politics is why Huntsville even has a rocket industry to begin with, and why ULA is very interested in these engines. Can't be buying Russian engines to launch American spy sats, now can they?
It hurts the ransomware creators by cutting off their ability to receive those payments. Makes it less profitable to do ransomware, and more risky for the money you did get. Look at it this way: If you set a forest on fire and burned a million acres, but got $250,000 to do it, the risk/reward/effort equations work out in your favor. But if the next time you burned another million acres you only got $6000 for it, you would probably decide that in light of the effort involved and the amount of heat from law enforcement coming down that further attempts are too risky for too little reward.
> You really think malware creators won't be able to find any email providers that are friendly to their cause?
Other agencies could make that a dangerous game for the email provider. Revoking their domain or just shitcanning routes to their IP ranges if they're "involved" in malware commerce would make others extremely reluctant to play along.
$15 for a DECENT power supply that supplies 2A or more. Lower power supplies you have a chance of filesystem corruption which is what I ran into until I stopped cheaping out on the power supply.
$20 - $800 for a MicroSD of varying size. I use a 64GB one personally, and for that size you need to spend at least $30 on a decent card or you run the same risks as a crappy power supply.
So add all that up and you're into the Pi for $135 and you still have hours of work ahead of you to put it all together, flash the drive, find and assemble the ROMS onto the card via SFTP and configure your controllers, update themes etc.
I also have a Retropie, but I'd have to disagree with you on it's a superior product from some perspectives. Yes you can throw thousands of ROMS on it and emulate a dozen or more consoles very well, but the downside is that you have a lot of work to do yourself to get it to work. And even then sometimes things don't line up perfectly. Every time you switch controller types you have to manually re-map things in MAME for example - and the Retropie mapping in the UI doesn't go through to MAME at all so you have to plug in a keyboard to hit tab and start mapping once you launch a game! Needless to say that makes me reluctant to break out the X-Arcade stick and remap things just to play a few fighting titles when I normally have a couple of SNES USB controllers set up on it.
When someone buys a packaged item like this SNES Classic, all they need to do is open the box, plug in the HDMI connector and the power cord and hit the on switch. No mapping, no config files, no updates, no "10 or more themes make this unstable with a white screen" crap.
Yes yes, of course. And building your own gaming rig is more cost effective and a better experience, especially with the Steam sales than any console could ever be, which is why both Sony and Microsoft's console divisions are having their staff fling themselves off balconies before they get pinkslipped.
Or maybe it's that doing the RetroPie thing is outside of the technical capabilities of 99.5% of the population which is why things like this sell like hotcakes?
I dunno, I've seen a ton of satellite launches (on TV and online) since the 80s and they're mostly pretty run of the mill. What SpaceX is doing with the landings is still a new frontier and it seems they keep pushing for more complex landings - on Friday they had the rocket come back "hotter" than any other they've tried because of the altitude they needed the first stage to reach and had to do a 3 engine landing - and they nailed it. Today it was sketchy weather, you could see the booster hitting heavy turbulence about 10 seconds before landing, and again they nailed it. At this rate someday we'll just yawn when they stick 3 Falcon heavys landing in the middle of a hurricane, but for now each is exciting and new.
We have a similar method in Canada sans the traffic cameras. Here if you have no insurance (which shows by your license tags being out of date) your car is ticketed if it's left on the street. If it is still uninsured when noticed a second time it's impounded. If you're driving it and get pulled over, it's impounded on the spot.
We have VERY few problems with "uninsured motorist" collisions as a result.
However I screwed my back up something awful by pulling a sledge load across a floor - exactly what you NEVER should do - and a chiropractor had me walking and feeling not nearly as painful after one visit. After 3 visits I was "cured". That was 12 years ago, been fine ever since.
So it worked for me. However, as you point out nobody should be expecting them to cure cancer or diabetes or acne or any bullshit like that.
Because it hasn't always been 1.5x3.5. A 2x4 used to actually be 2 x 4. Mills get more boards out of a tree with the smaller size so of course they're going to do it. Ranting Anon Coward parent to your post is wrong, and honestly it's time someone actually brought the industry to heel with their bullshit.
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"Voluntary". Let's not bullshit, in almost every job offer situation the employer making the offer has significantly more leverage than the person accepting the job and will press for concessions like a non-compete. A lot of people sign on to the non-compete because they need the job today, and can't worry about the nebulous effects of the non-compete as it may apply in the abstract future. Employers know this and take full advantage of it because once the employee is in the door, that's one more thing keeping them there even if the work environment starts to suck.
Those reasons alone are why it's not a bad idea for CA to void these "agreements".
That is one of the stupidest ideas I've heard all year. Your advice is to represent yourself in a contract dispute - which is something 99.999% of the planet is NOT equipped to do. Might as well not waste everyone's time including your own and just get to the penalties phase. That way you can avoid paying court costs.
> If the NDA is really that strict then it likely won't be enforceable if they took him to court
And therein lies the problem. Sure it's not enforceable but how many developers - especially ones looking for a job like in OPs example - have a bunch of cash they want to burn through to defend themselves in court over it?
Even an unenforceable NDA has a chilling effect if you can't pay to negate it in court.
And the day after, 0 extensions are developed for Chrome. Or to paraphrase Sterling Archer:
"Do you want to kill Chrome extension development completely? Because this is how you kill Chrome extension development completely"
Sure they fixed things and added new things, but if things worked for you, you could stay where you were OS-level wise. Hell, I know someone who still has XP machines on an airgapped network that do what they need and it works fine - and they paid their one-time ticket to ride per machine, no additional costs ongoing to MS.
This new model? Why buy an OS license one time for $129 (OEM) when you can pay us every month and give us more money after month 14 than if you bought it outright!
Wrong decade.
Ask Carly Fiorina what happened to the company with a Q in its name. She should know. She almost destroyed HP with it.
> overshadowed by the property taxes of the increased value of the property which could be as much as $2000/year for $25k
That math seems off by a factor of 5. According to this:
https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-property-tax-calculator
the average property tax in NY state is 2.22% Even assuming it was 2.5%, a 25K jump in value would add $625/yr to the tax bill, not $2000
>Oil competes with natural gas
Only in an abstract sense for end users who use it as a heat source. They don't have to tightly compete as the cost for someone to switch their heating from one source to the other is a large barrier to change and ensures a very large percentage of lock in for both customer groups. It's not like deciding to buy Pepsi instead of Coke because one's half off this week.
Denial and bad data presented as true maintains the status quo. A lot of the agencies that place ads on behalf of their clients would suddenly have some tough questions to answer from those clients if the bad data was exposed so like in many industries perception is king and makes reality - and it's in everyone's best interests to present a shiny 'reality' instead of drilling down and telling the true story.
And having dealt with other industries where everyone thinks the tech is cutting edge but behind the curtain it's all 80286s powered by hamster wheels it wouldn't surprise me at all if Neilsen's tech was considerably less state of the art than everyone is presuming.
> Toronto is tech central for Canada BUT...housing prices have been so crazy it's reflecting San Francisco.
Vancouver laughs and pats your cute little head over the housing prices...
Just did a search on realtor.ca for detached homes in Toronto within a 7 km radius of downtown and there are 171 detached properties under $750,000. A similar search in Vancouver shows 3... one of which is a houseboat in Coal Harbour with no land, and the other two are on infamous Musqueam land that you lease from the band for "only" $35,000 per year. Upping the cost to $1M adds another 3 listings. Even upping the threshold to 1.5M only shows 142 listings. All in all if I was looking to buy, Toronto looks way better from a price perspective. And your tech jobs pay about 20% better too.
That said, neither Toronto nor Vancouver are anywhere near the crazy of San Fran yet. Yet. Give it time.
> How to make more burger flippers.
Robots are getting passed over for diplomas now? Seriously, there aren't gonna *be* burger flipping jobs in the near future...
I stand corrected. I just recall she had a valid reason for hosting the images on my server, which Ebay charging to do it would be.
It's easy to blame Photobucket here because they jumped in with a pants-on-head retarded $399 price tag for this. They don't *really* want people paying that price, they want an excuse to cut Ebay and Amazon traffic off completely so they slapped a way too high price tag on it in anticipation that everyone would throw their hands up and accept the coming cutoff without a fight, and instead they have a brewing shit show on their hands.
What they should have done was realize that yes indeed the battle was lost for that traffic and to come up with a reasonable price tag. Image hosting and bandwidth can't be that expensive if I get 30GB of SSD disk and a terabyte of traffic ON TOP of a VM that's hosted for $15 a month. Call it $10 a month for just that much disk and traffic. Then offer it that way to the PB users - $10 a month to host your pictures on Ebay and Amazon or $100/year up front. Way easier to swallow than $399/year.
Because back in the day Ebay at least didn't offer photo hosting. My sister has been selling things on Ebay since the 90s and she hosts her images on my server for the simple reason that it's the way she's always done it and it works well. Now on top of that she has an independent site hosted on my server that also sells the same items and reuses the same image links.
I imagine a lot of Photobucket users started off doing it a few images at a time when they first started and now it's a matter of process inertia and a large number of images that would have to be moved. People aren't necessarily idiots for doing it, they do what works simply for them with their limited experience.
Because politics is why Huntsville even has a rocket industry to begin with, and why ULA is very interested in these engines. Can't be buying Russian engines to launch American spy sats, now can they?
It hurts the ransomware creators by cutting off their ability to receive those payments. Makes it less profitable to do ransomware, and more risky for the money you did get. Look at it this way: If you set a forest on fire and burned a million acres, but got $250,000 to do it, the risk/reward/effort equations work out in your favor. But if the next time you burned another million acres you only got $6000 for it, you would probably decide that in light of the effort involved and the amount of heat from law enforcement coming down that further attempts are too risky for too little reward.
> You really think malware creators won't be able to find any email providers that are friendly to their cause?
Other agencies could make that a dangerous game for the email provider. Revoking their domain or just shitcanning routes to their IP ranges if they're "involved" in malware commerce would make others extremely reluctant to play along.
And if even half of that comes to fruition in the final "product" it's terrifying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Pi is $50 shipped, last I bought one.
$30 for a pair of acceptable controllers
$15 for a case
$15 for a DECENT power supply that supplies 2A or more. Lower power supplies you have a chance of filesystem corruption which is what I ran into until I stopped cheaping out on the power supply.
$20 - $800 for a MicroSD of varying size. I use a 64GB one personally, and for that size you need to spend at least $30 on a decent card or you run the same risks as a crappy power supply.
So add all that up and you're into the Pi for $135 and you still have hours of work ahead of you to put it all together, flash the drive, find and assemble the ROMS onto the card via SFTP and configure your controllers, update themes etc.
I also have a Retropie, but I'd have to disagree with you on it's a superior product from some perspectives. Yes you can throw thousands of ROMS on it and emulate a dozen or more consoles very well, but the downside is that you have a lot of work to do yourself to get it to work. And even then sometimes things don't line up perfectly. Every time you switch controller types you have to manually re-map things in MAME for example - and the Retropie mapping in the UI doesn't go through to MAME at all so you have to plug in a keyboard to hit tab and start mapping once you launch a game! Needless to say that makes me reluctant to break out the X-Arcade stick and remap things just to play a few fighting titles when I normally have a couple of SNES USB controllers set up on it.
When someone buys a packaged item like this SNES Classic, all they need to do is open the box, plug in the HDMI connector and the power cord and hit the on switch. No mapping, no config files, no updates, no "10 or more themes make this unstable with a white screen" crap.
Yes yes, of course. And building your own gaming rig is more cost effective and a better experience, especially with the Steam sales than any console could ever be, which is why both Sony and Microsoft's console divisions are having their staff fling themselves off balconies before they get pinkslipped.
Or maybe it's that doing the RetroPie thing is outside of the technical capabilities of 99.5% of the population which is why things like this sell like hotcakes?
I dunno, I've seen a ton of satellite launches (on TV and online) since the 80s and they're mostly pretty run of the mill. What SpaceX is doing with the landings is still a new frontier and it seems they keep pushing for more complex landings - on Friday they had the rocket come back "hotter" than any other they've tried because of the altitude they needed the first stage to reach and had to do a 3 engine landing - and they nailed it. Today it was sketchy weather, you could see the booster hitting heavy turbulence about 10 seconds before landing, and again they nailed it. At this rate someday we'll just yawn when they stick 3 Falcon heavys landing in the middle of a hurricane, but for now each is exciting and new.
We have a similar method in Canada sans the traffic cameras. Here if you have no insurance (which shows by your license tags being out of date) your car is ticketed if it's left on the street. If it is still uninsured when noticed a second time it's impounded. If you're driving it and get pulled over, it's impounded on the spot.
We have VERY few problems with "uninsured motorist" collisions as a result.
Anecdotes are not data, etc...
However I screwed my back up something awful by pulling a sledge load across a floor - exactly what you NEVER should do - and a chiropractor had me walking and feeling not nearly as painful after one visit. After 3 visits I was "cured". That was 12 years ago, been fine ever since.
So it worked for me. However, as you point out nobody should be expecting them to cure cancer or diabetes or acne or any bullshit like that.
Because it hasn't always been 1.5x3.5. A 2x4 used to actually be 2 x 4. Mills get more boards out of a tree with the smaller size so of course they're going to do it. Ranting Anon Coward parent to your post is wrong, and honestly it's time someone actually brought the industry to heel with their bullshit.