Of course I'd accept. A counteroffer is just the regular way of dealing with a situation. If it ends in situations like described in some of the replys, then your companys management is already breathing shit.
Some of the against comments are plain dump. just switching the job, because you alrteady have an offer is the most illogical way. It's an offer, not an oath.
And for the link: always look who is posting. An agency whose purpose is to find empolyees for their customers will of course tell you that you have to switch. There interest is not in getting you the best possible job with decent payment but rather get recruitment deals. That's where there money and loyality is.
Well, I turned to use only USPS when shiping Around the US - they are as slow as the rest (unless you pay more for shiping than for the goods), but I never had to complain about the handling. The same international. They maybe not act like world class, but they are very competive.
Well, 12 Minutes would already need a TGV or ICE alike train (or a very special design), and consume way more energy than a Transrapid stlye maglev - remember, regular trains, even modern 'light' designs, are still huge masses of iron to be accelerated.
Haven't the English men sold their superior steam engines (and first train designs) to Germany, almost 200 years ago, just to buy nowadays German cars ?:))
No, I'm not telling that this is the way it will be, but buying substancial high tech investments may lead to independant development
You're shure that there are jobs outside (Western)Europe, for enough money to pay your ticket ? All the eastern geeks are pushing into Europe to earn at least some bucks, and belive me, they are good.
There have been several (at least two I know of) comercial atempt before - one stoped after some time, the other, AFAIR in France (and I'm not talkig about the tide driven ones) is still in operation - and also no finacial profit:)
It's Hindenburg - the real reason was more that Germany was focusing on a soon to begin war - and airships don't make good warplanes anymore (BTW, Germany started already prior to the war scheduled Lufthansa flights Berlin NYC with Ju90 airplanes)
I assume you're talking about the Akron class airships, a cloned German design using even Maybach engines (well in fact even the first rigid US airship, the Shenandoah was already a clone - they took all measurements from the crashed German WW1 airship L49). Althou US engeneers tried not only to add new features (The Akron class ships where in fact flying aircraft carriers), but also to improve the 'heavy and unnecessarily reinforced' German design.
The two desasters, that took place in 1933 (Akron - in a realy severe stormfront) and 1935 (Macon) are eventualy a result thereof. So the USS Los Angeles (build in Germany as LZ 127) was the only non-crashing US rigid airship.
The Navy proved ? Well, 3 doomed US ships vs. hundreds of working German units is like the infamous 'the world needs only a total of five computers ever' quote:)
Zeppelins are coming back - well, not exactly, but there are two new design which are neither Blimps but also not complete frame Zeppelins.
First there is the Zeppelin NT (Yes, buils by air ship nerds from the very same company Graf Zeppelin founded) a small size airship (75m, 230ft, like a 747:) with interior frame and doubble hull and swivelling propellers to allow start and landing in an independant way (read: no large ground crew needed anymore). The prototype unit LZ N07 (first flight 18.Sep.1997) can carry 14 Persons, making it one of the largest ships in existance - future Versions may have up to 40 passengers. The test programm is in the final steps for a general flight certificate of the German federal aviation agency (Bundesluftfahrtamt), to be issued during the next few month - serial production has already started.
Second there's the Cargolifter a huge (260m, 790ft) semi-rigid keel airship, ment as a flying special load truck, to propell things like power station equipent around the world. Able to lift 160 metric tons (size up to 50x8x8 m^3 / 150x25x25 ft^3). At the moment they have finished the 'workbench', a hall of 360x210x107m 120,000,000 ft^3, big enough for two ships (or 14 Boing 747 planes:). The first ship is to be finished in 2003, then 4 ships a year. Chargolifter is a FSE noted $250m company.
you see, there's news to big airships - and big companies wouldn't invest their money if ist that useless.
The same is true for German - Ö is a sound like the Danish Ø, not an accented character - this (accentuation) isn't used in german at all. Accents are thing of French and Italian. The problem is eventualy the sort order - while most Germanic spellings added their additional characters just after the Z and then in order of the 'basic picture', in German they have been inserted, right after the 'basic picture' character. And for the Typo: either the Flight Guy is right (maybe in coincidence with an typo - read hitting prior to A), or some kind of conversion error between charsets - the symbol in question is embeded in the HTML source, coded as X'C5', whats a Å when decoding as 8859-1. It would be a bit unusual to enter an Å completely by accident for a Britisch (or US) author. Just, for a conversion problem, X'C5' isn't something that turns out to be something usefull (for this case) in any charset I know (I checked about 400 different in my charset database). h.
A seperate (sub)directory for every language and a selection script at root for the desired language according to the HTTP request. If the User comes in via the default URL, he will be switched to his language - if he enters thru one of the (sub)dirs, he may switch tehm at will. And if you can't install the switcher script, a small perl util will move the aprobiate index.html to the site root.
All pages are static at the server, so access time is fast - well unless your information is dynamic - and you may install your site within any existing server - remember, your best design may be void if your provider changes the server soft.
For dseign the pages are seperated into a common framework for all pages (once per language) and seperate content files for each page - a set pf perl scripts will concat them into the effective pages when the site is generated.
I did use the basic utils on several sites without change - ov course, as more complex the framework gets, as more specific the scripts have to be to incooperate features - But as we all know, only a simple design ma reach maximum audience. If you want to increase your audience by offering alternative languages, you shouldn't repell your visitors by using to 'modern' designs.
One of the main benefits is that the content files bear only a minimum (HTML) overhead, and even unexperienced people may translate them without geting confused by and interfering with the frame design. This saves a lot of debug time.
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But the ETs will - huh ?
Of course I'd accept. A counteroffer is just the regular way of dealing with a situation. If it ends in situations like described in some of the replys, then your companys management is already breathing shit.
Some of the against comments are plain dump. just switching the job, because you alrteady have an offer is the most illogical way. It's an offer, not an oath.
And for the link: always look who is posting. An agency whose purpose is to find empolyees for their customers will of course tell you that you have to switch. There interest is not in getting you the best possible job with decent payment but rather get recruitment deals. That's where there money and loyality is.
Gruss
H.
I realy don't care if a CPU is supposed to be used in a Server or a Wrist Watch. If it gives me the power I want, I buy it.
:)
Gruss
H.
(And after all, there are wrist watches around with a higher price tag than servers
Well, I turned to use only USPS when shiping Around the US - they are as slow as the rest (unless you pay more for shiping than for the goods), but I never had to complain about the handling. The same international. They maybe not act like world class, but they are very competive.
To me this looks quite like the usual Metric/Imperial conversation problem - For rough calcualtions one often equals 1 Mach ~= 1000 km/h ...
Gruss
H.
Well, 12 Minutes would already need a TGV or ICE alike train (or a very special design), and consume way more energy than a Transrapid stlye maglev - remember, regular trains, even modern 'light' designs, are still huge masses of iron to be accelerated.
Aren't the Dutch bushing onto Germany to build the Bremen-Hamburg lik, so this can be extended until Amsterdam ?
Gruss
H.
Haven't the English men sold their superior steam engines (and first train designs) to Germany, almost 200 years ago, just to buy nowadays German cars ? :))
No, I'm not telling that this is the way it will be, but buying substancial high tech investments may lead to independant development
gruss
H.
Power consumption per passenger is in about the same range than for the usual Diesel powered CalTrain Unit.
Gruss H.
Well, they did already a long time ago (or at least have been forced by international treaties) when they agreed to the world wide 15 digit scheme.
gruss
H.
Well, the most interesting part is still that this Monster isn't realy faster than a Geforce 2 Ultra. Gruss H.
Gruss H.
There have been several (at least two I know of) comercial atempt before - one stoped after some time, the other, AFAIR in France (and I'm not talkig about the tide driven ones) is still in operation - and also no finacial profit :)
Gruss H.
- It's Hindenburg - the real reason was more that Germany was focusing on a soon to begin war - and airships don't make good warplanes anymore (BTW, Germany started already prior to the war scheduled Lufthansa flights Berlin NYC with Ju90 airplanes)
- I assume you're talking about the Akron class airships, a cloned German design using even Maybach engines (well in fact even the first rigid US airship, the Shenandoah was already a clone - they took all measurements from the crashed German WW1 airship L49). Althou US engeneers tried not only to add new features (The Akron class ships where in fact flying aircraft carriers), but also to improve the 'heavy and unnecessarily reinforced' German design.
- The two desasters, that took place in 1933 (Akron - in a realy severe stormfront) and 1935 (Macon) are eventualy a result thereof. So the USS Los Angeles (build in Germany as LZ 127) was the only non-crashing US rigid airship.
- The Navy proved ? Well, 3 doomed US ships vs. hundreds of working German units is like the infamous 'the world needs only a total of five computers ever' quote
:)
- Zeppelins are coming back - well, not exactly, but there are two new design which are neither Blimps but also not complete frame Zeppelins.
Gruss H.- First there is the Zeppelin NT (Yes, buils by air ship nerds from the very same company Graf Zeppelin founded) a small size airship (75m, 230ft, like a 747
:) with interior frame and doubble hull and swivelling propellers to allow start and landing in an independant way (read: no large ground crew needed anymore). The prototype unit LZ N07 (first flight 18.Sep.1997) can carry 14 Persons, making it one of the largest ships in existance - future Versions may have up to 40 passengers. The test programm is in the final steps for a general flight certificate of the German federal aviation agency (Bundesluftfahrtamt), to be issued during the next few month - serial production has already started.
- Second there's the Cargolifter a huge (260m, 790ft) semi-rigid keel airship, ment as a flying special load truck, to propell things like power station equipent around the world. Able to lift 160 metric tons (size up to 50x8x8 m^3 / 150x25x25 ft^3). At the moment they have finished the 'workbench', a hall of 360x210x107m 120,000,000 ft^3, big enough for two ships (or 14 Boing 747 planes
:). The first ship is to be finished in 2003, then 4 ships a year. Chargolifter is a FSE noted $250m company.
you see, there's news to big airships - and big companies wouldn't invest their money if ist that useless.The same is true for German - Ö is a sound like the Danish Ø, not an accented character - this (accentuation) isn't used in german at all. Accents are thing of French and Italian. The problem is eventualy the sort order - while most Germanic spellings added their additional characters just after the Z and then in order of the 'basic picture', in German they have been inserted, right after the 'basic picture' character.
And for the Typo: either the Flight Guy is right (maybe in coincidence with an typo - read hitting prior to A), or some kind of conversion error between charsets - the symbol in question is embeded in the HTML source, coded as X'C5', whats a Å when decoding as 8859-1. It would be a bit unusual to enter an Å completely by accident for a Britisch (or US) author. Just, for a conversion problem, X'C5' isn't something that turns out to be something usefull (for this case) in any charset I know (I checked about 400 different in my charset database).
h.
I still prefer the old style: no fancy markings and XML - all you get is bloaded source - and stuff hard to maintain. Take a look at my VCFe site at http://www.homecomputer.de/VCFe/ or http://www.vintage.org/VCFe/.
A seperate (sub)directory for every language and a selection script at root for the desired language according to the HTTP request. If the User comes in via the default URL, he will be switched to his language - if he enters thru one of the (sub)dirs, he may switch tehm at will. And if you can't install the switcher script, a small perl util will move the aprobiate index.html to the site root.
All pages are static at the server, so access time is fast - well unless your information is dynamic - and you may install your site within any existing server - remember, your best design may be void if your provider changes the server soft.
For dseign the pages are seperated into a common framework for all pages (once per language) and seperate content files for each page - a set pf perl scripts will concat them into the effective pages when the site is generated.
I did use the basic utils on several sites without change - ov course, as more complex the framework gets, as more specific the scripts have to be to incooperate features - But as we all know, only a simple design ma reach maximum audience. If you want to increase your audience by offering alternative languages, you shouldn't repell your visitors by using to 'modern' designs.
One of the main benefits is that the content files bear only a minimum (HTML) overhead, and even unexperienced people may translate them without geting confused by and interfering with the frame design. This saves a lot of debug time.
Well, it's my way - YMMV
Well, if they chatch the chance, the iOpener may realy be the C64 of the 00s. They may sell Billions of simple minimal PCthingys.