Let's see... - Mouse powers a whole laptop - Sunsite going down, replaced by download.com - Linux Advocates RIOT on MS doorstep - Cold fusion working with no fanfare
AND, most telling - No links to actual stories in the articles.
How about this story:
"IMAFAKE wrote in with this tidbit about Microsoft announcing that it has dumped it's entire line of Windows products and will immediately begin freely distributing Linux on it's Microsoft.com web site. All Microsoft technical support staff will be retrained to offer free technical support for all distro's of Linux downloaded at the site, and Bill Gates is selling off his holdings in the empire so that he can spend more time on his true passion, Buddhism."
What if you already have a full-featured PC, modular and all, and you're just looking for a sub-$500 to, say, run a Samba Server or do some C programming?
Sometimes there are other reasons for buying "cheap" besides saving money on your *only* computer. Sometimes buying a second computer dedicated to a task (PPP/Firewall, for instance -- or maybe Samba server, or even load Solaris for Intel on it and use it as an NIS Server) that doesn't need to be full-featured or even expandable.
Besides, I thought the question was "will this work," not "Is it a good idea?"
The legal department at yahoo.com wishes to notify you that your use of the exlamation "yahoo!" when you are joyous or excited appears to be a dilution of our trademark, and we hereby demand that you cease and desist...
Oh, forget it. Thought it was funny.:-)
My one experience with salary history question...
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Once, about a year and a half ago, I talked to a company via a headhunter on a phone interview. I was, at that time, way under the market in my salary -- the reason being that I was in a company that had promised a great ownership opportunity if I worked under market for a while. They eventually started to go belly-up, and I started looking.
Most of the companies I interviewed with didn't even ask salary history. I think that most of them "get it" -- it's an open market out there, and if you select candidates based on salary history, you're only hurting yourself.
But this one company was insistent, so I broke down (I was desperate -- the company I was at just started announcing layoffs) and gave them my current salary. They then asked me what my asking salary was, and made the first (obvious) observation: I was asking for approx. 25% more than I was making at the time.
This company ACTUALLY asked ME to justify why I was worth a 25% increase in salary to THEM!!! (As if they were paying my current salary...!!!)
I politely told the nice lady that apparently the headhunter had made a mistake, and that if that was all they were concerned with we were not a good fit.
POSTSCRIPT: I later went on to get an offer from a company who gave me a 70% increase... they recognized my skills, decided they wanted and could afford them, and didn't bat an eye at paying me what I am worth. And, no -- the question of salary history never even came up with this company.
One positive I see coming out of this upcoming market blitz is totally unrelated to the actual clock or benchmark speeds of the Pentium 3 whatsoever...
The price of top end Pentium II's will plummet, giving me a buying opportunity for "almost as much power as a P///"...
I think this case also brings up an interesting question about the roots of the Internet (being in the U.S.) and our values vs. those of our overseas neighbors.
Clearly, the Internet was designed on the U.S. premise of free speech; this design may not fit well with other countries' laws and norms regarding free speech.
Is it reasonable to expect Demon to weed through gigs of postings on their servers to delete one message, just because one person complains? In the U.S. it's not. But, in the U.K. -- Maybe. That's one example where the Internet structure and design is clearly U.S. centric. And this problem seems to be a thorn that all foreign ISPs will have to deal with, eventually.
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Okay, now I get it.
Let's see...
- Mouse powers a whole laptop
- Sunsite going down, replaced by download.com
- Linux Advocates RIOT on MS doorstep
- Cold fusion working with no fanfare
AND, most telling - No links to actual stories in the articles.
How about this story:
"IMAFAKE wrote in with this tidbit about Microsoft announcing that it has dumped it's entire line of Windows products and will immediately begin freely distributing Linux on it's Microsoft.com web site. All Microsoft technical support staff will be retrained to offer free technical support for all distro's of Linux downloaded at the site, and Bill Gates is selling off his holdings in the empire so that he can spend more time on his true passion, Buddhism."
What if you already have a full-featured PC, modular and all, and you're just looking for a sub-$500 to, say, run a Samba Server or do some C programming?
Sometimes there are other reasons for buying "cheap" besides saving money on your *only* computer. Sometimes buying a second computer dedicated to a task (PPP/Firewall, for instance -- or maybe Samba server, or even load Solaris for Intel on it and use it as an NIS Server) that doesn't need to be full-featured or even expandable.
Besides, I thought the question was "will this work," not "Is it a good idea?"
Haven't we heard enough sour grapes from the Gartner Group? Can someone please just go smack them?
The legal department at yahoo.com wishes to notify you that your use of the exlamation "yahoo!" when you are joyous or excited appears to be a dilution of our trademark, and we hereby demand that you cease and desist...
:-)
Oh, forget it. Thought it was funny.
Once, about a year and a half ago, I talked to a company via a headhunter on a phone interview. I was, at that time, way under the market in my salary -- the reason being that I was in a company that had promised a great ownership opportunity if I worked under market for a while. They eventually started to go belly-up, and I started looking.
Most of the companies I interviewed with didn't even ask salary history. I think that most of them "get it" -- it's an open market out there, and if you select candidates based on salary history, you're only hurting yourself.
But this one company was insistent, so I broke down (I was desperate -- the company I was at just started announcing layoffs) and gave them my current salary. They then asked me what my asking salary was, and made the first (obvious) observation: I was asking for approx. 25% more than I was making at the time.
This company ACTUALLY asked ME to justify why I was worth a 25% increase in salary to THEM!!! (As if they were paying my current salary...!!!)
I politely told the nice lady that apparently the headhunter had made a mistake, and that if that was all they were concerned with we were not a good fit.
POSTSCRIPT: I later went on to get an offer from a company who gave me a 70% increase... they recognized my skills, decided they wanted and could afford them, and didn't bat an eye at paying me what I am worth. And, no -- the question of salary history never even came up with this company.
One positive I see coming out of this upcoming market blitz is totally unrelated to the actual clock or benchmark speeds of the Pentium 3 whatsoever...
The price of top end Pentium II's will plummet, giving me a buying opportunity for "almost as much power as a P///"...
Then I can wait it out for Merced.
I think this case also brings up an interesting question about the roots of the Internet (being in the U.S.) and our values vs. those of our overseas neighbors.
Clearly, the Internet was designed on the U.S. premise of free speech; this design may not fit well with other countries' laws and norms regarding free speech.
Is it reasonable to expect Demon to weed through gigs of postings on their servers to delete one message, just because one person complains? In the U.S. it's not. But, in the U.K. -- Maybe. That's one example where the Internet structure and design is clearly U.S. centric. And this problem seems to be a thorn that all foreign ISPs will have to deal with, eventually.