On the foreign front: A friend of mine was a 25+ year project/program manager for IBM managing custom programming projects. The friend and many of their associates(PMs and programmers alike) were laid off with an offer to rehire if they move to foreign Soviet Bloc countries on significantly reduced salary. I'd say it's a pretty shitty way to treat highly tenured employees, particularly ones they know that have families, community ties, etc. As far as OT, this person worked from home, so there definitely was an expectation of significant unpaid OT, and California allows for that for exempt IT employees given you meet the criteria(IIRC PMs and programmers do, help desk doesn't).
Someone did, probably IBM if you want to go oldschool or Google if you want new. That said, I'm not sure what big IT/CS centric companies are based out of NC, and her campaign contributions(per opensecrets) shows nothing obvious. Her most significant donors are lawyers, women, and retirees.
As someone who has looked into Bujold and has been daunted by the sheer size of the library, I'll have to look into the Baen deal for a large back catalog. There must be as many Vorkosigan Saga books as there are Diskworld books.
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This part is really funny, since they seem to be stating that they can usurp jurisdiction statutes. You can sue them in Delaware(where they incorporated), California(where they are headquartered), or where you use Facebook from(assuming a long arm jurisdiction statute exists in that locale).
Err, what goes around comes around would only be appropriate if it was a British commonwealth that was being affected, not another nation that rejected British rule.
Except Valve is privately owned. Sure, there are private shareholders, but at this point in the life of Valve most of the limited partner shareholders would have been bought out ages ago, meaning that the owners are also the managers.
Wait, you actually had to ask if Creative Labs got litigious? Creative Labs is the biggest offender in the goddamned industry. Augh, I'm still pissed about Aureal
Well, EVE can be f2p if you earn enough isk, but PLEX prices are very high right now, so that's not an option for some(granted it's only an hour more time spent farming incursions)
Most in terms of installed base, yes, because Android, Safari, and BB browsers are Webkit-based, but IE, Opera, and FF are not. And, of course, that doesn't mean the Webkit-based browsers all support the same functionality or meet the same standards.
Why does everyone think that HTML5 is the answer when even desktop browsers can't get it uniformly implemented? Mobile browsers are still mostly shit from a compliance and capability perspective compared to the desktop browsers that still can't get it right. Not sure where all this pie in the sky idealism comes from
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On the foreign front: A friend of mine was a 25+ year project/program manager for IBM managing custom programming projects. The friend and many of their associates(PMs and programmers alike) were laid off with an offer to rehire if they move to foreign Soviet Bloc countries on significantly reduced salary. I'd say it's a pretty shitty way to treat highly tenured employees, particularly ones they know that have families, community ties, etc. As far as OT, this person worked from home, so there definitely was an expectation of significant unpaid OT, and California allows for that for exempt IT employees given you meet the criteria(IIRC PMs and programmers do, help desk doesn't).
Someone did, probably IBM if you want to go oldschool or Google if you want new. That said, I'm not sure what big IT/CS centric companies are based out of NC, and her campaign contributions(per opensecrets) shows nothing obvious. Her most significant donors are lawyers, women, and retirees.
As someone who has looked into Bujold and has been daunted by the sheer size of the library, I'll have to look into the Baen deal for a large back catalog. There must be as many Vorkosigan Saga books as there are Diskworld books.
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This part is really funny, since they seem to be stating that they can usurp jurisdiction statutes. You can sue them in Delaware(where they incorporated), California(where they are headquartered), or where you use Facebook from(assuming a long arm jurisdiction statute exists in that locale).
Indeed not new. Been written about in Snow Crash and Altered Carbon and other modern/future novels
I dunno about no Undines, but I'd be worried about the Stormriders getting it. They already hate us on land enough
Err, what goes around comes around would only be appropriate if it was a British commonwealth that was being affected, not another nation that rejected British rule.
Except Valve is privately owned. Sure, there are private shareholders, but at this point in the life of Valve most of the limited partner shareholders would have been bought out ages ago, meaning that the owners are also the managers.
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
Some people here actually get outside and into the sun on occasion.
It's just the sandworms. I hope the rover that goes to the sand desert regions has a thumper
This isn't the case of Aureal or 3dfx, though. B&N has enough capital and assets to deal with it, as does most of the companies involved.
True, but when you win a judgment you usually get your legal fees paid by the other party
You realize that Apple doesn't just make PCs, right?
I'm going to start dickering around with OpenQM.. hopefully somewhat comparable
Pfft, multivalue(PICK) was never lost. Just requires you to be leet.
Wait, you actually had to ask if Creative Labs got litigious? Creative Labs is the biggest offender in the goddamned industry. Augh, I'm still pissed about Aureal
Yet the music player still doesn't support Ogg Vorbis.
So the NBA is racist?
Well, EVE can be f2p if you earn enough isk, but PLEX prices are very high right now, so that's not an option for some(granted it's only an hour more time spent farming incursions)
Most in terms of installed base, yes, because Android, Safari, and BB browsers are Webkit-based, but IE, Opera, and FF are not. And, of course, that doesn't mean the Webkit-based browsers all support the same functionality or meet the same standards.
So what do we use in the meantime that all browsers can implement? Java? That's already proven to be a dog, as much of a dog as Flash.
Why does everyone think that HTML5 is the answer when even desktop browsers can't get it uniformly implemented? Mobile browsers are still mostly shit from a compliance and capability perspective compared to the desktop browsers that still can't get it right. Not sure where all this pie in the sky idealism comes from
Indeed, many a Sim City 2000 disaster was caused by microwave mishaps
Sorry, nuclear is no longer "green". The public won't accept it. Instead, solar sails beaming microwaves to the ground.