As long there's no term of service clause. Meaning, unless you work for the company for X amount of years or months, you have to pay back the moving expense or a pro-rated amount.
If you ask me, the company lost any expectation of enforcing the term-of-service clause when they reneged on providing the relocation assistance package as originally promised.
(You should not ask me, though. You should ask a qualified attorney, if your plan is to accept the job and then leave soon after.)
If there were nine Dynasty Warriors or whatever, that makes it a franchise. It might never have gained the popularity of a Castlevania or a Mortal Kombat, but it was a franchise nonetheless.
Ask me, and I'll tell you that what hurt the Megaman franchise was Capcom's habit of tacking the name onto games completely unrelated to the canon in order to make a buck. Megaman Legends was actually a pretty decent 3D action/adventure game (with a dreadful control scheme); it just didn't have anything to do with Dr. Wily and his Robot Monsters. Ditto for the Pokemon knockoff "Megaman.EXE Battle Network".
In theory, HDMA makes this even easier than your three little RCA jacks. One plug does everything.
I wouldn't want it do everything, though. The speakers built into my TV set are pretty lousy; I'd rather put the audio through my 5.1 surround receiver. With discrete audio and video connections, it's easy to set this up: the component video cables go from my DVD player to the TV, and the TOSlink optical audio cable goes from my DVD player to the receiver.
I don't know how I'd even do that with HDMI connections. Would I need a surround receiver that is also a configurable HDMI router?
Until there is a digital connection standard which does not require that end-users be treated like criminals for having expensive displays, I will not be buying an HDTV
DVI + S/PDIF FTW!
I believe Sony does get some royalties for the the digital audio standard, but they don't mandate any form of copy prevention on it though.
People do not understand microwaves. Berating them for not using their understanding of microwaves is like watching a Spiderman movie and saying "Why doesn't he just fly out of there?"
Difference is, I don't expect Spiderman to be taught in high school science classrooms.
Of course, I also expect high school science classes to know that "prolonged exposure to heat can kill many pathogens", so I guess I don't understand why this was newsworthy to begin with.
Why don't people take the time to FIND an employer and focus efforts instead of just trying to find a spot that has the right features (pay, title, responsibilities, etc)?
Because most people, when considering the factors that lead to job satisfaction, would rank pay, title, responsibilities, etc. as more important than which company they work for?
I don't care if my employer is Spacely Sprockets or Cogswell Cogs, as long as I get paid well to apply and develop my skills. And even if I really DID want to work for Spacely, pursuing a job there wouldn't do me much good if they don't have any open positions in my area of expertise. I might just have to suck it up and go work at Cogswell until a position opens up.
Back in '97, and keep in mind, this was only 6 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia was kicking our butts in cell phone technology.
They had a damn good motivator, though: their wired telephone infrastructure was a horrible Soviet-mismanaged mess. It actually made more sense for everyone to adopt cellular technology than to try and fix up the POTS system.
What is wrong with the U.S. that this little former Soviet republic in such a short time just started beating our pants off technologically.
They may adopt and consume new technology more readily, but are they really beating anyone's pants off? How many companies are offshoring IT jobs to Estonia? How many crucial technological innovations have come from the research labs at the University of Estonia?
Too bad people in the U.S. aren't very concerned about improving their own lot in life. If they were, maybe they'd elect a president who was concerned with their lot in life as well.
Another disadvantage of the M3 simply, and many (all?) slot one cards is that download play (when you play locally against someone who doesn't have the game) does not work for many Nintendo games, including Mario Kart.
So you have three friends and yourself, and you want to play some multiplayer Mario Kart via ad-hoc wireless.
If all four of you possess the game cart, you can play it. If only some of you possess the game cart, you can play it. If only one of you possesses the game cart, you can play it.
You are complaining that you aren't able to play it when ZERO of you possesses the game cart?
It's still more honest than the Famiclone makers who advertise their 8-bit knockoff as a "9,999,999-IN-1" system because it has a version of Super Mario Bros. where you start on Level 1-2, a version where you start with a Fire Flower, a version where you start with 10 fewer seconds on the clock, etc.
Unless you have energy storage (maybe you can fill the roof with lead acid batteries...), on every bad day you'll be draining juice back from the electricty company
Yeah, that's the point. You hook up to the electrical grid so you can use THEIR storage plants for those rainy days, instead of having to build your own.
Vista is so delayed, would it hurt to delay it a little more, to fix those high impact issues??
You assume that Microsoft cares about these issues and/or has the ability to fix them in a short amount of time.
Honestly, if they haven't been able to stop a GUI file transfer from killing explorer.exe for the last 12 years, they probably won't be able to solve that one in the next 12 weeks either.
(In the case of FTP servers, you almost HAVE to forget about the alternate streams (or serialize them) because most other filesystems don't support them.
If no other commonly-used filesystem supports a feature, and there's severe incompatibility issues involved with using that feature, I think that's a pretty good sign that the feature is not a very good idea.
Being linked from wikipedia is supposed to denote reliable sources or very relevant information.
In theory, yes.
In practice, all being linked to from Wikipedia means is that some unknown person clicked the "edit" button on a Wiki page and pasted in a URL for the site. No measure of reliability or relevance can be assumed.
If your network provider is giving you crappy service to the sites you care about, then find a new provider or pay for better access.
What new provider? There's only two sets of telecomms-capable wiring running to my home, and both cases the company that owns the infrastructure is also the ISP. And the government isn't about to let another company tear up the street to run more cables. If the phone company and cable TV company both get paid off to degrade my favorite sites, I'm fucked. I have no options left.
Google has to pay AT&T, the company that owns the lines in your area, a premium to get higher bandwidth. Google passes the charges onto you and charges you $0.10 a search.
Then Google finds out that people would rather use Yahoo or MSN Search for $0.00/search than Google for $0.10/search.
Google pays AT&T a large premium to block all bandwidth to Yahoo. Google passes the charges onto the consumer by charging $0.25 per search.
Then Google and AT&T discover that colluding to keep a competitor out of the market is a violation of antitrust law.
The music companies said the cost [of compact discs] would come down with acceptance of the tech but it never really did come down.
25 years ago, when the compact disc was introduced to the market, a CD typically cost between $15-20, and a single LP cost $8-10.
Today, CD's still sell for $15-20. However, $20 in 2007 dollars is about equal to $10 in 1983 dollars, so the price of CD's actually HAS fallen to the price of vinyl since.
The news would be that this particular legendary game designer hasn't spoken at this developers' conference (or any other) in eight years. Rare occurances are newsworthy.
It's not fair to say that the NES games Castlevania and Metal Gear were poorly done ports of their MSX2 counterparts, nor to say that they were "ports" at all. While some of the gameplay basics were the same, the content was different enough for the titles to count as separate games.
Nor was the NES hardware particularly weak in comparison to the MSX2's; the design of Nintendo's graphics chip meant that color palettes were more limited, but that was made up for by other features--like smooth horizontal scrolling, which is kind of important for a side-scroller like Castlevania.
the ipod does far less than pretty much every high end MP3 player you can buy.
I don't think I'd agree with that.
Sure, other brands of MP3 player have some features that the iPod line doesn't, like built-in FM radios, or TV tuners and PVR functionality, or the ability to "squirt" DRM-infected tracks to nearby friends and enemies.
But can you sync music to those devices from iTunes player? Will those devices remember music ratings you made on the device and sync them back to the computer? Can they integrate with a pedometer attached to your shoe and create a customized workout routine?
iPods don't really do LESS -- they just have a DIFFERENT set of features.
Why not just block e-mails that contain.gif attachments?
Because then the spammers would switch to embedding JPEGs, and when we block those, PNGs. And then when we block those, BMPs. And then after that, PDFs.
Allowing embedded images in email was a dumb idea in the first place, but now that the cat's out of the bag, I'm not sure we can get it back in without anybody getting scratched up.
Your computer may be your private property, but your operating system isn't. How much control over your hardware are you willing to cede to Microsoft in exchange for a software license?
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As long there's no term of service clause. Meaning, unless you work for the company for X amount of years or months, you have to pay back the moving expense or a pro-rated amount.
If you ask me, the company lost any expectation of enforcing the term-of-service clause when they reneged on providing the relocation assistance package as originally promised.
(You should not ask me, though. You should ask a qualified attorney, if your plan is to accept the job and then leave soon after.)
If there were nine Dynasty Warriors or whatever, that makes it a franchise. It might never have gained the popularity of a Castlevania or a Mortal Kombat, but it was a franchise nonetheless.
Ask me, and I'll tell you that what hurt the Megaman franchise was Capcom's habit of tacking the name onto games completely unrelated to the canon in order to make a buck. Megaman Legends was actually a pretty decent 3D action/adventure game (with a dreadful control scheme); it just didn't have anything to do with Dr. Wily and his Robot Monsters. Ditto for the Pokemon knockoff "Megaman.EXE Battle Network".
In theory, HDMA makes this even easier than your three little RCA jacks. One plug does everything.
I wouldn't want it do everything, though. The speakers built into my TV set are pretty lousy; I'd rather put the audio through my 5.1 surround receiver. With discrete audio and video connections, it's easy to set this up: the component video cables go from my DVD player to the TV, and the TOSlink optical audio cable goes from my DVD player to the receiver.
I don't know how I'd even do that with HDMI connections. Would I need a surround receiver that is also a configurable HDMI router?
Until there is a digital connection standard which does not require that end-users be treated like criminals for having expensive displays, I will not be buying an HDTV
DVI + S/PDIF FTW!
I believe Sony does get some royalties for the the digital audio standard, but they don't mandate any form of copy prevention on it though.
People do not understand microwaves. Berating them for not using their understanding of microwaves is like watching a Spiderman movie and saying "Why doesn't he just fly out of there?"
Difference is, I don't expect Spiderman to be taught in high school science classrooms.
Of course, I also expect high school science classes to know that "prolonged exposure to heat can kill many pathogens", so I guess I don't understand why this was newsworthy to begin with.
Why don't people take the time to FIND an employer and focus efforts instead of just trying to find a spot that has the right features (pay, title, responsibilities, etc)?
Because most people, when considering the factors that lead to job satisfaction, would rank pay, title, responsibilities, etc. as more important than which company they work for?
I don't care if my employer is Spacely Sprockets or Cogswell Cogs, as long as I get paid well to apply and develop my skills. And even if I really DID want to work for Spacely, pursuing a job there wouldn't do me much good if they don't have any open positions in my area of expertise. I might just have to suck it up and go work at Cogswell until a position opens up.
Back in '97, and keep in mind, this was only 6 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia was kicking our butts in cell phone technology.
They had a damn good motivator, though: their wired telephone infrastructure was a horrible Soviet-mismanaged mess. It actually made more sense for everyone to adopt cellular technology than to try and fix up the POTS system.
What is wrong with the U.S. that this little former Soviet republic in such a short time just started beating our pants off technologically.
They may adopt and consume new technology more readily, but are they really beating anyone's pants off? How many companies are offshoring IT jobs to Estonia? How many crucial technological innovations have come from the research labs at the University of Estonia?
Too bad people in the U.S. aren't very concerned about improving their own lot in life. If they were, maybe they'd elect a president who was concerned with their lot in life as well.
Please, no political trolling in this thread.
Another disadvantage of the M3 simply, and many (all?) slot one cards is that download play (when you play locally against someone who doesn't have the game) does not work for many Nintendo games, including Mario Kart.
So you have three friends and yourself, and you want to play some multiplayer Mario Kart via ad-hoc wireless.
If all four of you possess the game cart, you can play it.
If only some of you possess the game cart, you can play it.
If only one of you possesses the game cart, you can play it.
You are complaining that you aren't able to play it when ZERO of you possesses the game cart?
It's still more honest than the Famiclone makers who advertise their 8-bit knockoff as a "9,999,999-IN-1" system because it has a version of Super Mario Bros. where you start on Level 1-2, a version where you start with a Fire Flower, a version where you start with 10 fewer seconds on the clock, etc.
A $320 (after potential price drop for 20Gig model) next-gen console with Blu-Ray?
The 20GB model is $499. Period. It's far too premature to predict when, or even if, that price is going to drop, nor by how much it might drop.
Government has no right to steal from me, or you, to pay for this guy's pipe dream.
"Pipe dream" usually refers to a goal so fantastic as to be unattainable. This guy has apparently realized his dream, so the term does not apply.
there is no such thing as a free lunch, and this guy will get one after only 8 years or so.
The free lunch program has an open enrollment. If you're not taking advantage of it yourself, why the resentment towards people that do?
Unless you have energy storage (maybe you can fill the roof with lead acid batteries...), on every bad day you'll be draining juice back from the electricty company
Yeah, that's the point. You hook up to the electrical grid so you can use THEIR storage plants for those rainy days, instead of having to build your own.
Hey, *I* was going to be the one to mention Spaceballs!
Except I was going to refer not to the movie, but to the Amiga demogroup of the late 1980s and 90s.
Does AmigaOS 4 run those old demos?
Vista is so delayed, would it hurt to delay it a little more, to fix those high impact issues??
You assume that Microsoft cares about these issues and/or has the ability to fix them in a short amount of time.
Honestly, if they haven't been able to stop a GUI file transfer from killing explorer.exe for the last 12 years, they probably won't be able to solve that one in the next 12 weeks either.
(In the case of FTP servers, you almost HAVE to forget about the alternate streams (or serialize them) because most other filesystems don't support them.
If no other commonly-used filesystem supports a feature, and there's severe incompatibility issues involved with using that feature, I think that's a pretty good sign that the feature is not a very good idea.
Microsoft is going to rush out the fastest Service Pack you're ever seen.
I'm sure that'll go over well in the realm of public opinion.
"It took them 5 years to write this OS, and it's STILL so unfinished that they had to put out a Service Pack this quickly?"
Being linked from wikipedia is supposed to denote reliable sources or very relevant information.
In theory, yes.
In practice, all being linked to from Wikipedia means is that some unknown person clicked the "edit" button on a Wiki page and pasted in a URL for the site. No measure of reliability or relevance can be assumed.
If your network provider is giving you crappy service to the sites you care about, then find a new provider or pay for better access.
What new provider? There's only two sets of telecomms-capable wiring running to my home, and both cases the company that owns the infrastructure is also the ISP. And the government isn't about to let another company tear up the street to run more cables. If the phone company and cable TV company both get paid off to degrade my favorite sites, I'm fucked. I have no options left.
Google has to pay AT&T, the company that owns the lines in your area, a premium to get higher bandwidth. Google passes the charges onto you and charges you $0.10 a search.
Then Google finds out that people would rather use Yahoo or MSN Search for $0.00/search than Google for $0.10/search.
Google pays AT&T a large premium to block all bandwidth to Yahoo. Google passes the charges onto the consumer by charging $0.25 per search.
Then Google and AT&T discover that colluding to keep a competitor out of the market is a violation of antitrust law.
The music companies said the cost [of compact discs] would come down with acceptance of the tech but it never really did come down.
25 years ago, when the compact disc was introduced to the market, a CD typically cost between $15-20, and a single LP cost $8-10.
Today, CD's still sell for $15-20. However, $20 in 2007 dollars is about equal to $10 in 1983 dollars, so the price of CD's actually HAS fallen to the price of vinyl since.
The news would be that this particular legendary game designer hasn't spoken at this developers' conference (or any other) in eight years. Rare occurances are newsworthy.
It's not fair to say that the NES games Castlevania and Metal Gear were poorly done ports of their MSX2 counterparts, nor to say that they were "ports" at all. While some of the gameplay basics were the same, the content was different enough for the titles to count as separate games.
Nor was the NES hardware particularly weak in comparison to the MSX2's; the design of Nintendo's graphics chip meant that color palettes were more limited, but that was made up for by other features--like smooth horizontal scrolling, which is kind of important for a side-scroller like Castlevania.
the ipod does far less than pretty much every high end MP3 player you can buy.
I don't think I'd agree with that.
Sure, other brands of MP3 player have some features that the iPod line doesn't, like built-in FM radios, or TV tuners and PVR functionality, or the ability to "squirt" DRM-infected tracks to nearby friends and enemies.
But can you sync music to those devices from iTunes player? Will those devices remember music ratings you made on the device and sync them back to the computer? Can they integrate with a pedometer attached to your shoe and create a customized workout routine?
iPods don't really do LESS -- they just have a DIFFERENT set of features.
Why not just block e-mails that contain .gif attachments?
Because then the spammers would switch to embedding JPEGs, and when we block those, PNGs. And then when we block those, BMPs. And then after that, PDFs.
Allowing embedded images in email was a dumb idea in the first place, but now that the cat's out of the bag, I'm not sure we can get it back in without anybody getting scratched up.
Your computer may be your private property, but your operating system isn't. How much control over your hardware are you willing to cede to Microsoft in exchange for a software license?