I think the subject speaks for itself. Yes, debian does have a pretty steep learning curve. That was the first thing he commented on about debian back in 1997 when he was running the IPv6 network on campus at Virginia Tech. (go hokies).
However, when you get to the bottom of it all, debian has a very clean and modular type install. The base install is truly a BASE install. Unlike RedHat's base install of roughly 800 megs. And like many of the individuals who have posted, not everyone uses x86. If you can install debian on x86, you can basically install it anywhere on any platform (with also learning some new stuff about OpenFirmware if you are going to install it on PPC and or Sparc since those machines I have running debian as well).
But the fact that the baseline install of Debian is truly small and compact, you can really tweak the install of NECESSARY packages/applications/libraries that you need.
I for one do not know much about the hype behind UnitedLinux and don't really care for much of it. But the bottom line is that learning Debian isn't just learning about Linux, but you really get to learn about several other things during the process of learning it.
As Bruce Lee once said: "Be Formless, shapeless like water. Now if you put water into a cup it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle, you put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash, be water my friend."
(Off-topic) I used to work at 24/7 Media, also now known as 24/7 Real Media when Real Media and 24/7 Media merged at the beginning for 2002. I worked in the Broadband and Professional Services. Never really knew what the parent company did up in New York except that they paid my paychecks. Pretty crazy ship they ran up there though from what I can tell. I was laid off from BPS on December 14th, 20001 along with 25 other individuals out of a group of 93 that worked out of the Bethesda area. Over all though TFSM (24/7 Media) was a pretty crazy company...:-)
It was kind of strange to first hear of this on the news, and not to much surprise this topic has generated much traffic and many, many posts from the fellow slashdot readers.
For someone who was not born in the U.S., and was not raised of a 'religious' background, it is almost kind of sad to see that the courts would find that the pledge unconstitutional.
I was not aware of the original intent by which 'under god' was inserted. However, from reading the posts that other individuals have written about it, it certainly does seem on face contradictory with the idea of separating church and state. And it may be correct to say that forcing someone to say those words with that intent is by all means unconstitutional.
However, like all laws, I believe this should be left up for newer interpretations.
The statement 'under god' though meant differently in those times, it certainly was meant to prescribe a different idea. However, I believe that perhaps the words 'under god' should not be interpreted so strictly. For a society that is becoming more and more demoralized where sex and violence is glorified, even our own U.S. presidents cannot seem to be decent role models when we learn on the six'o clock news about who is sleeping with who in the white house.
It is not right to force someone to believe in God, Allah, Vishnu, or any other form of Diety, but in any religion, any 'morally' sounding belief, all religions teach that the basic fundamentals of being a decent individuals. Being 'under god' and not 'under God' perhaps is a better interpretation to remind everyone that life is short and though we are all mortals. Being under god certainly is an understatement considering that when we die, who knows what will really happen to us. But perhaps reciting the words 'under god' should remind us that regardless of what our relgious beliefs or backgrounds may be, we are one nation with liberty and justice for all that live in this land called the 'united' states of america.
I say leave the words in the pledge and allow individuals to chose THEIR individual way to interpret just what 'under god' really means. By involving the courts to interpret what 'under god' means is by no means a separation of church and state. By involving the courts to make a ruling is in affect saying there is a god. Allowing individuals to interpret those words is a better decision.
Visual Studio.net Architecture edition comes with a tool that is able to perform load test which can see how fast a website can respond. If misused, this utility can be used as an DoS tool... would this fall under this law?
Um... is it just me or do MSNBC reporters not keep up with regular news of major film studios converting and have converted many of their graphic workstations and rendering farms to Linux. Just to name a few, Final Fantasy was rendered in a Linux farm, Spirit was rendered in Linux, and Google still uses a Linux Beowulf cluster from what I last heard. And don't let us froget the numerous porn sites that have probablly the best uptimes running Linux and FreeBSD of the sorts. I'm sure I'm not the only one that will say this either. Prety crazy MSNBC....
That is kind of interesting. Sounds almost just like the movie Short Circuit. Ahh... brings back childhood memories. I wish I could have a robot like that.
Well, for those of us who are still on narrowband of 56k or less, and only have one phone, have no friendss that call you, and always squatting on-line talking on voice chat via Yahoo! or AIM, I don't know how easy it would be for the feds to phone tap a bunch modem sounds...:-)
I hear ya. I am old school and will always be old school. The hay days of P2P networks was 'mainstreamed' by napster. Gnutella was cool but with ease of use and mainstream word of mouth, the quality of users has exponentially decreased within the last 12 months. More and more are we seeing individuals using P2P networks as a means to spread spam/p0rn and by having to resort to counter measures to simply retrieve a piece of media, it almost makes you wonder if your time is worth price that you pay wasting away sitting in front of a computer. Rather, it would almost seem cheaper to just buy it yourself.
Granted, elementary, middle, and high schoolers have an infinite amount of time these days to spend sitting in front of the computer IMing their childhood away and leech like there is no tomorrow, perhaps it is another reason why as the online community grow, the communities that was once brick and mortar will continue to dwindle by the way side.
I wouldn't be surprised if eventually, the collapse of P2P networks will come from the annoying p0rn adverts flooding the networks.
In the end, we will all go back to IRC: the original P2P network. Reason being? Quality is constantly maintained and p0rn adverts are blocked by users and individuals that run the IRC networks and/or channels.
I for one do not use 'p2p' software mainly because there is just too much garbage to sift through. Besides, why would anyone want anything other than 0-hour anyways?:-) LOL.
I wonder what the starbucks at Seattle will be like on the day this happens? A group of slashdotters equipped with their wifi enabled devices hitting a wifi enabled starbucks? I sure hope there is enough unix chicks around because I can't imagine a bunch of slashdotter banging their heads against a network that is only 11mbps and it's shared!
oh? that is quite interesting. it is been a while since i rummaged through the various computer requirements for the different majors. i used to work at the pamplin computer lab (what a sweeet job that was...nothing but hot chicks not knowing jack about computers... lol) but i know the requirements for a business major was so overblown that if u had a decent video card, it would be a gaming boxen. slackers...:-)
I just tried to search for "simplicity twinkle twinkle" and alltheweb didn't even return anything useful. Google in fact returned LOTS of useful links, including a link to an old friend of mine who went to VT and then later on dropped out due to too much partying and girls:-)
Nah, they stopped doing the FreeBSD around 1996 and 1997. For a while, from 1993 to 1994, they required the CS students to buy DEC Alphas at an outrageously low price. Considering at the time, you got a super nice 17 inch monitor which was unheard of at the time. The CS dept is moving toward cross compatibility with the installs of the NT workstations and requiring that students that do projects, the ability to do cross platform installs or write decent Makefiles so they will compile on any *nix boxes in the lab.
The last time I took a CS class, back in the fall of 1999 which was an operating systems class, we were given the option to write in any language we want provided that we document the compile and install procedures to the T which isn't horrible.
The engineering dept at one point required the install of FreeBSD or Linux for a class, but they too have gone away from that and now just do the pgoramming classes in Visual Studio. I do believe students have the option to write and code in *nix environment, but it more so of a 'don't tell and don't teach' policy. I remember one semester where we had to install Linux, and they recommend slackware. As long as we installed some sort of *nix environment on our pc, it was cool. But now, I don't think any classes even talk about installation or sys admin, or anything like that of the sort. It is really gone on the wayside at least from what I have heard. Though, I am still sure there are lots of people on campus that are in engineering, cs, or also the other majors that use linux since there is a large Linux User group on campus that still do install fest during the fall and spring semesters....
ahh the good old days... anyone going back to tech anytime soon? i'll be making a trip back myself to visit the campus after being away for 2 years and sure would be cool to be at sharkeys again:-)
I am not really sure what the spec is on the cray, but just trying to imagine a cluster of atholons trying to access 64GB of non-uniform memory, across network latency, bus, and then through the memory sub-system, and finally to the main cpu that is trying to read and write to the same memory location as that of the other god knows how many other cpus (assuming a cluster of 240 nodes), and the software complexity to manage all that memory, not to mention to manage the cache coherency, making it like a CC-NUMA system, which using standard pc components rely on very complex software to provide an interface just to provide memory management, it is already quite complex.
With the cray, with less cpus to deal with and bigger foot print of main memory, each cpu would have more to work with where as the cluster would have less to work with per node.
Another thing to consider is that these are vector processors which already have a solid base of development for weather simulations, nuclear bomb testings, and such ungodly application usage. (Which is why the PS2 is treated as a munitons because it too is also a vector processor.)
I am not writing this to put down the work done for in the area of beowolf clusters and the like. But you have to look at the application that is being used for and what they intend to do with it.
Another thing to consider is why should you try to get a x86 processor to do vector processing? It is like when cyrix tried to do floating point instructions a few years ago in software because it didn't want to put one in. It could never outperform a FPU that could do floating point calculations on hardware. In order for you to do vector processing, you would need to do what the cray does on hardware emulated in software. Just might not work... maybe in transmeta though.:-)
One VR helmet: $5000 One VR mouse: $1000 Integration cost of the VR equipment to the CRAY: $25,000 (roughly)
Spending the rest the next 12 months with your VR girlfriend in true cyberspace: Priceless.
There are things you can buy, and there are things you can build, and then there are things you can get buy building and buying and having a perverted imagination.
I can't say that I would know how to deal with this situation because I recently (2 months ago) started a new job and before that was unfortunately laid off with very little.
Though, to me it would seem that a counter offer would be like a surprise pay raise. All the talk of loyalty is really a double edged sword and a double standard, if anything at least a double perhaps a triple standard. Employees are working for money because the monetary returns they gain from working helps to provide for themselves as well as their family (should they have one). Companies are constantly figuring out ways to boost profits so that investors and upper management can get richer. At the same time, companies are constantly trying to find more efficent means to produce goods and services so that profit margins could be expanded.
The bottom line is that loyalty is something that is earned and the fact that you were made an offer from another company could be just as bad as the current company not paying you what you deserve. It really is all in the perspective of the ones who views the situation. Perhaps the fact that you made them aware of your offer was a gut-check to the management that 'hey, we need to do something to keep good help around.'
At the last place where I worked, I was fairly happy with what I did and how much I received in compensation. If I had any gripes, I wouldn't waste a minute to not let my manager know. Unfortunately, it was not my manager's idea to let me go and I know that it was something that he didn't want to do because our group was very close knit. Just like a family.
Unfortunately, the economics of sustainable living from having money comes into play and this principal also applies to companies that want to stay afloat. So it all just comes down to how you play the game (as my debate partner once said). Like some of the posters mentioned, you should make the other company aware of your counter-offer and maybe they will offer you a counter-counter-offer.
Ironic, if people are just now making their Calculators more PDA like, then everyone should take a look at the HP line of Scientific Calculator. I will use my 48SX as an example. I don't know what all the cool functionalites a Palm or Jornada or Clie or Handspring has because I have never used one. But I will try to draw some of the similiarites.
Someone on the list had mentioned about a decent calendars. HPSX has a built-in calendar. You can even have it use 12 or 24 hour notation. You can program in multiple alarms. (It comes with a standad 32KB) Though programming alarms never seemed to take off that much memory anyways.
The ability to sync with your PC. The HPSX does have optional serial cable that you can connect to the PC so you can download programs, text, equations, etc into memory. Several of my friends used this feature to download games, class notes, preset functions for formulaes like quadratic equations, trig identities, voltage and current solvers, etc where preset variables could be plugged in and answers could be derived. And of course you could also carry a semester worth of notes in your Calculator.
Schedule events. I think this could be said for the calendar events since it has a fully fuctional clock.
Write personal notes to remind you of things. With the HP you could write as many things as you want.
Find the derivative or integrate calculus equations. You can even find the results as you integrate between a range.
A keyboard. Though this keyboard was a bit hard to use since it was not qwerty or dvorak. But at least it was there and you could type fairly fast with it soon as you get used to the keys.
The list could go on and on, but the bottom line is that if only now people are making these 'scientific' calculators more like PDAs, HP had already done this before and it's just more or less refining it with some 'extra' features. I'm still using my HP as a PDA.:-)
Anyone else have any thoughts or care to share their experience with their HP.
By the way, reverse polish notation rocks:-) I love stacks! It makes you think and it's soooooo much easier:-)
Does anyone know the details of that AT&T $19.99 flat rate plan? I know they say that it cost $19.99 per month when you call long distance if it is to another AT&T customer but it is unlimited.... so like what if you called like everday and never was off the hook (maybe private modem calls?) Or is there a limit on the amount u can use and simply say 'unlimited' because they don't think anyone would actually call that much... ?
Perhaps Cable/Broadband providers should go with the same route. Unlimited transfers of data within the network but put a cap on traffic is go out of the network? (Would this be possible?)
Yep same reason why I got an XBox. Sure I have a PC. I have in fact several PCs. Too many PCs. But I don't want to move all that stuff into the living room and hook it up to the TV (not to mention buying tv-out cards).
With the XBox hacked to play alternative media formats, such as DivX, VCD, DVD, mp3, WMA, it makes it more useful, and all nicely integrated in the same box.
If MS was smart, instead of letting possible revenue slip away from them, they should just release some form of XBox Media Player that will allow more for more functionality on the XBox. If I could pay $30 bucks to get my XBox to play DivX 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, standard mpeg, standard mpeg2, mp3s, wma, without opening up my XBox, I would pay for it. And since I bought an XBox, and if there are some decent games out there, I just might consider buying a game. (Of course, going back to the issue of quality games because honestly, there just hasn't been that many great ones, except for DOA3 or Halo).
Unless MS want to see potential $$$ slip away, they would jump on the bandwagon. Hey, if you can't release decent games, at least make the box better and get people to buy the console. Heck, it's the same price as the PS2, and I don't see anyone trying to hack that. Though, it is conceivable to get DivX to run on PS2 if you had the Linux Dev kit and compile the code yourself on there... but that's 150 bucks you gota shell out. Do the math.
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Better to encrypting your harddrives and put some PGP on it so if you get busted they can't ask you for the keys to self incriminate :-)
I think the subject speaks for itself. Yes, debian does have a pretty steep learning curve. That was the first thing he commented on about debian back in 1997 when he was running the IPv6 network on campus at Virginia Tech. (go hokies).
:-)
However, when you get to the bottom of it all, debian has a very clean and modular type install. The base install is truly a BASE install. Unlike RedHat's base install of roughly 800 megs. And like many of the individuals who have posted, not everyone uses x86. If you can install debian on x86, you can basically install it anywhere on any platform (with also learning some new stuff about OpenFirmware if you are going to install it on PPC and or Sparc since those machines I have running debian as well).
But the fact that the baseline install of Debian is truly small and compact, you can really tweak the install of NECESSARY packages/applications/libraries that you need.
I for one do not know much about the hype behind UnitedLinux and don't really care for much of it. But the bottom line is that learning Debian isn't just learning about Linux, but you really get to learn about several other things during the process of learning it.
As Bruce Lee once said: "Be Formless, shapeless like water. Now if you put water into a cup it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle, you put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash, be water my friend."
And that is what Debian is: water.
(Off-topic) I used to work at 24/7 Media, also now known as 24/7 Real Media when Real Media and 24/7 Media merged at the beginning for 2002. I worked in the Broadband and Professional Services. Never really knew what the parent company did up in New York except that they paid my paychecks. Pretty crazy ship they ran up there though from what I can tell. I was laid off from BPS on December 14th, 20001 along with 25 other individuals out of a group of 93 that worked out of the Bethesda area. Over all though TFSM (24/7 Media) was a pretty crazy company... :-)
Can I copyright the sine wav of silence?
It was kind of strange to first hear of this on the news, and not to much surprise this topic has generated much traffic and many, many posts from the fellow slashdot readers.
For someone who was not born in the U.S., and was not raised of a 'religious' background, it is almost kind of sad to see that the courts would find that the pledge unconstitutional.
I was not aware of the original intent by which 'under god' was inserted. However, from reading the posts that other individuals have written about it, it certainly does seem on face contradictory with the idea of separating church and state. And it may be correct to say that forcing someone to say those words with that intent is by all means unconstitutional.
However, like all laws, I believe this should be left up for newer interpretations.
The statement 'under god' though meant differently in those times, it certainly was meant to prescribe a different idea. However, I believe that perhaps the words 'under god' should not be interpreted so strictly. For a society that is becoming more and more demoralized where sex and violence is glorified, even our own U.S. presidents cannot seem to be decent role models when we learn on the six'o clock news about who is sleeping with who in the white house.
It is not right to force someone to believe in God, Allah, Vishnu, or any other form of Diety, but in any religion, any 'morally' sounding belief, all religions teach that the basic fundamentals of being a decent individuals. Being 'under god' and not 'under God' perhaps is a better interpretation to remind everyone that life is short and though we are all mortals. Being under god certainly is an understatement considering that when we die, who knows what will really happen to us. But perhaps reciting the words 'under god' should remind us that regardless of what our relgious beliefs or backgrounds may be, we are one nation with liberty and justice for all that live in this land called the 'united' states of america.
I say leave the words in the pledge and allow individuals to chose THEIR individual way to interpret just what 'under god' really means. By involving the courts to interpret what 'under god' means is by no means a separation of church and state. By involving the courts to make a ruling is in affect saying there is a god. Allowing individuals to interpret those words is a better decision.
Visual Studio .net Architecture edition comes with a tool that is able to perform load test which can see how fast a website can respond. If misused, this utility can be used as an DoS tool... would this fall under this law?
Um... is it just me or do MSNBC reporters not keep up with regular news of major film studios converting and have converted many of their graphic workstations and rendering farms to Linux. Just to name a few, Final Fantasy was rendered in a Linux farm, Spirit was rendered in Linux, and Google still uses a Linux Beowulf cluster from what I last heard. And don't let us froget the numerous porn sites that have probablly the best uptimes running Linux and FreeBSD of the sorts. I'm sure I'm not the only one that will say this either. Prety crazy MSNBC....
This card has been out for a while. Nothing new... Only thing that is new is that the DivX codec keep changing every 3 months...
(offtopic)
That is kind of interesting. Sounds almost just like the movie Short Circuit. Ahh... brings back childhood memories. I wish I could have a robot like that.
Johnny Five no machine.
Johnny Five is alive.
I wonder if it's out on DVD...
I guess i will just pgp everything i do!!! :-( There goes performance out there door... lol!
Well, for those of us who are still on narrowband of 56k or less, and only have one phone, have no friendss that call you, and always squatting on-line talking on voice chat via Yahoo! or AIM, I don't know how easy it would be for the feds to phone tap a bunch modem sounds... :-)
:-)
Who said narrow band doesn't pay off
Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
I hear ya. I am old school and will always be old school. The hay days of P2P networks was 'mainstreamed' by napster. Gnutella was cool but with ease of use and mainstream word of mouth, the quality of users has exponentially decreased within the last 12 months. More and more are we seeing individuals using P2P networks as a means to spread spam/p0rn and by having to resort to counter measures to simply retrieve a piece of media, it almost makes you wonder if your time is worth price that you pay wasting away sitting in front of a computer. Rather, it would almost seem cheaper to just buy it yourself.
:-) LOL.
Granted, elementary, middle, and high schoolers have an infinite amount of time these days to spend sitting in front of the computer IMing their childhood away and leech like there is no tomorrow, perhaps it is another reason why as the online community grow, the communities that was once brick and mortar will continue to dwindle by the way side.
I wouldn't be surprised if eventually, the collapse of P2P networks will come from the annoying p0rn adverts flooding the networks.
In the end, we will all go back to IRC: the original P2P network. Reason being? Quality is constantly maintained and p0rn adverts are blocked by users and individuals that run the IRC networks and/or channels.
I for one do not use 'p2p' software mainly because there is just too much garbage to sift through. Besides, why would anyone want anything other than 0-hour anyways?
I wonder what the starbucks at Seattle will be like on the day this happens? A group of slashdotters equipped with their wifi enabled devices hitting a wifi enabled starbucks? I sure hope there is enough unix chicks around because I can't imagine a bunch of slashdotter banging their heads against a network that is only 11mbps and it's shared!
:-)
Go hokies
oh? that is quite interesting. it is been a while since i rummaged through the various computer requirements for the different majors. i used to work at the pamplin computer lab (what a sweeet job that was...nothing but hot chicks not knowing jack about computers... lol) but i know the requirements for a business major was so overblown that if u had a decent video card, it would be a gaming boxen. slackers... :-)
I just tried to search for "simplicity twinkle twinkle" and alltheweb didn't even return anything useful. Google in fact returned LOTS of useful links, including a link to an old friend of mine who went to VT and then later on dropped out due to too much partying and girls :-)
Go google!
Nah, they stopped doing the FreeBSD around 1996 and 1997. For a while, from 1993 to 1994, they required the CS students to buy DEC Alphas at an outrageously low price. Considering at the time, you got a super nice 17 inch monitor which was unheard of at the time. The CS dept is moving toward cross compatibility with the installs of the NT workstations and requiring that students that do projects, the ability to do cross platform installs or write decent Makefiles so they will compile on any *nix boxes in the lab.
:-)
:-)
The last time I took a CS class, back in the fall of 1999 which was an operating systems class, we were given the option to write in any language we want provided that we document the compile and install procedures to the T which isn't horrible.
The engineering dept at one point required the install of FreeBSD or Linux for a class, but they too have gone away from that and now just do the pgoramming classes in Visual Studio. I do believe students have the option to write and code in *nix environment, but it more so of a 'don't tell and don't teach' policy. I remember one semester where we had to install Linux, and they recommend slackware. As long as we installed some sort of *nix environment on our pc, it was cool. But now, I don't think any classes even talk about installation or sys admin, or anything like that of the sort. It is really gone on the wayside at least from what I have heard. Though, I am still sure there are lots of people on campus that are in engineering, cs, or also the other majors that use linux since there is a large Linux User group on campus that still do install fest during the fall and spring semesters....
ahh the good old days... anyone going back to tech anytime soon? i'll be making a trip back myself to visit the campus after being away for 2 years and sure would be cool to be at sharkeys again
go hokies
I am not really sure what the spec is on the cray, but just trying to imagine a cluster of atholons trying to access 64GB of non-uniform memory, across network latency, bus, and then through the memory sub-system, and finally to the main cpu that is trying to read and write to the same memory location as that of the other god knows how many other cpus (assuming a cluster of 240 nodes), and the software complexity to manage all that memory, not to mention to manage the cache coherency, making it like a CC-NUMA system, which using standard pc components rely on very complex software to provide an interface just to provide memory management, it is already quite complex.
:-)
With the cray, with less cpus to deal with and bigger foot print of main memory, each cpu would have more to work with where as the cluster would have less to work with per node.
Another thing to consider is that these are vector processors which already have a solid base of development for weather simulations, nuclear bomb testings, and such ungodly application usage. (Which is why the PS2 is treated as a munitons because it too is also a vector processor.)
I am not writing this to put down the work done for in the area of beowolf clusters and the like. But you have to look at the application that is being used for and what they intend to do with it.
Another thing to consider is why should you try to get a x86 processor to do vector processing? It is like when cyrix tried to do floating point instructions a few years ago in software because it didn't want to put one in. It could never outperform a FPU that could do floating point calculations on hardware. In order for you to do vector processing, you would need to do what the cray does on hardware emulated in software. Just might not work... maybe in transmeta though.
Anyone have thoughts on this?
One VR helmet: $5000
One VR mouse: $1000
Integration cost of the VR equipment to the CRAY: $25,000 (roughly)
Spending the rest the next 12 months with your VR girlfriend in true cyberspace: Priceless.
There are things you can buy, and there are things you can build, and then there are things you can get buy building and buying and having a perverted imagination.
3dlabs's cards of opengl 1.2 implemented on silicon in case you were wondering.
I think this is probablly off topic, but thought I would post it just for laughs. Chris Rock once mentioned this in one of his acts.
"Do you know what it means when they pay you minimum wage? It means that if I could pay you LESS I would. BUT it's against the law."
I can't say that I would know how to deal with this situation because I recently (2 months ago) started a new job and before that was unfortunately laid off with very little.
Though, to me it would seem that a counter offer would be like a surprise pay raise. All the talk of loyalty is really a double edged sword and a double standard, if anything at least a double perhaps a triple standard. Employees are working for money because the monetary returns they gain from working helps to provide for themselves as well as their family (should they have one). Companies are constantly figuring out ways to boost profits so that investors and upper management can get richer. At the same time, companies are constantly trying to find more efficent means to produce goods and services so that profit margins could be expanded.
The bottom line is that loyalty is something that is earned and the fact that you were made an offer from another company could be just as bad as the current company not paying you what you deserve. It really is all in the perspective of the ones who views the situation. Perhaps the fact that you made them aware of your offer was a gut-check to the management that 'hey, we need to do something to keep good help around.'
At the last place where I worked, I was fairly happy with what I did and how much I received in compensation. If I had any gripes, I wouldn't waste a minute to not let my manager know. Unfortunately, it was not my manager's idea to let me go and I know that it was something that he didn't want to do because our group was very close knit. Just like a family.
Unfortunately, the economics of sustainable living from having money comes into play and this principal also applies to companies that want to stay afloat. So it all just comes down to how you play the game (as my debate partner once said). Like some of the posters mentioned, you should make the other company aware of your counter-offer and maybe they will offer you a counter-counter-offer.
Good luck in your decision.
Hehe, I totally hear you. With neverwinter and wc3 coming out almost back to back, this is going to be one crazy multiplayer summer.
I don't know what all the cool functionalites a Palm or Jornada or Clie or Handspring has because I have never used one. But I will try to draw some of the similiarites.
The list could go on and on, but the bottom line is that if only now people are making these 'scientific' calculators more like PDAs, HP had already done this before and it's just more or less refining it with some 'extra' features. I'm still using my HP as a PDA.
Anyone else have any thoughts or care to share their experience with their HP.
By the way, reverse polish notation rocks
Does anyone know the details of that AT&T $19.99 flat rate plan? I know they say that it cost $19.99 per month when you call long distance if it is to another AT&T customer but it is unlimited.... so like what if you called like everday and never was off the hook (maybe private modem calls?) Or is there a limit on the amount u can use and simply say 'unlimited' because they don't think anyone would actually call that much... ?
Perhaps Cable/Broadband providers should go with the same route. Unlimited transfers of data within the network but put a cap on traffic is go out of the network? (Would this be possible?)
Yep same reason why I got an XBox. Sure I have a PC. I have in fact several PCs. Too many PCs. But I don't want to move all that stuff into the living room and hook it up to the TV (not to mention buying tv-out cards).
With the XBox hacked to play alternative media formats, such as DivX, VCD, DVD, mp3, WMA, it makes it more useful, and all nicely integrated in the same box.
If MS was smart, instead of letting possible revenue slip away from them, they should just release some form of XBox Media Player that will allow more for more functionality on the XBox. If I could pay $30 bucks to get my XBox to play DivX 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, standard mpeg, standard mpeg2, mp3s, wma, without opening up my XBox, I would pay for it. And since I bought an XBox, and if there are some decent games out there, I just might consider buying a game. (Of course, going back to the issue of quality games because honestly, there just hasn't been that many great ones, except for DOA3 or Halo).
Unless MS want to see potential $$$ slip away, they would jump on the bandwagon. Hey, if you can't release decent games, at least make the box better and get people to buy the console. Heck, it's the same price as the PS2, and I don't see anyone trying to hack that. Though, it is conceivable to get DivX to run on PS2 if you had the Linux Dev kit and compile the code yourself on there... but that's 150 bucks you gota shell out. Do the math.