Getting $50 for a half hour's screw driver work seems like a good deal to me, better than they pay me at work.
Yes, if it was only that. But as the article indicates, getting the parts is not easy, and there is a significant risk that they won't work. Not to mention that the new drive is covered by a 5 year waranty, while the Frankendrive is not.
You can get a new 160 GB Seagate drive for $50 on a rebate special most weeks. Messing around with trying to replace electronics seems to be a waste of time.
A 40" NED panel manufacturing cost at $400 is nothing special. Add in the electronics, packaging, G&A, margins, distribution costs and so on and I bet you are looking at $2000 or more. That is in the same ballpark as what a 40" microdisplay HDTV costs today. It's more than what a 50" CRT RPTV costs.
Maybe the picture quality will be good, but so are current CRT RPTV's.
You can take it all then, and it doesn't carry over to the next year. As a result, they're not obligated to pay you anything for vacation when you leave.
I would say that it depends on the particular laws for your state. Since there is no national requirement for payment for accrued vacation time, what you are owed is going to depend on the state where you work. If you work in a state that doesn't require that it paid you are governed by company policies.
It's about 50-50 - about 1/2 the states require it, 1/2 do not.
Seriously - don't sink to his level, make threats or do anything unethical - he will just use it against you.
Keep records of anything they accuse you of and what you are doing your last few weeks.
If, after you leave they try to withhold your last paycheck just file a complaint with your state deptartment of employment. Every state I am familiar with has strict laws about requiring that you get paid for time worked. The state I work in has a law stating that the only reason an employer can withhold wages is if there is a court order in place.
Later, if you feel that your former employer is trying to do something to damage your reputation, talk to a lawyer. This sort of slander is viewed very dimly in the courts.
How about a bare bones board that cost around $100 - 200, but comes with TOP QUALITY components?
The problem that you are facing for desktops is that there only a few types of chipset out there for each generation of CPU. These chipsets are where the features are being added. And you can't get a motherboard without a chipset.
For servers its still possible to get less heavily configured machines because the volume is much lower and the addons are separate components on the board so vendors have a lot more to play with. But the serverboards have other things you probably don't want, including E-ATX form factor, 2 cpu sockets, cost up aroun $300-$400 etc.
Microsoft, not satisfied with dragging Ford into bankrupty is now making sure that no small startup company will arise to challenge its dominance of the computer software industry b y seeding small compainies with leftover innovations that it could not sell i.e. Clippy and Bob.
Google. I did a Google search on CAD and SuSE and came up with a bunch of hits. Since SuSE seems to be supported by Oracle, Eclipse, etc. too I figured it would be a choice for you.
One of the things I've noticed on these software patents is that they often list the CEO of the company as one of the inventors. While that may be true some of the time, I wonder if Bezos is *really* one of the inventors of this technology under the definitons of US patent law.
It is an important point, becuase NOT having the correct inventors is one of the ways a patent can be ruled invalid or fraudulent (which I forget) in court.
Ford and Microsoft - a marriage made in hell.
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CentOS, WBEL, and Fermi LTS Linux. All of them worked well enough for me - the differences were that it seemed Fermi LTS was fairly heavily customized for the lab's needs, so it wasn't that great for new package installation. WBEL was very vanilla, but sometimes support was slow. CentOS seemed to have the best support behind it, so I use it now - recently I upgraded to CentOS 4.
Another option to look at for low cost is SuSE. SuSE Pro is inexpensive, and the odds are that your CAD vendor supports it. Plus you can actually get support from SuSE.
most of our clients are now asking questions that require approximate or probabilistic answers
What are my chances of getting laid tonight... What are the odds of my winning the lottery... What are the chances that my boss will find out about that phoney dinner reciept...
Seriously, SAS stat analysis software does exactly what this numbskull is talking about. You don't need a new kind of database, merely somebody with training in stats.
Besides, what does urban sprawl have to do with anything. Right now everyone drives to the airport, now they will drive to the train station. What is the difference?
The difference is the alternative of the use of the car instead of plane OR train. This is what you missed in my description of Boston - NY etc.
Of the three choices, car, plane, train it is car that the most attractive option if you are not travelling solely to/from urban centers.
From my home in NJ it is 3.5 hours to my parent's home in eastern Mass by car. If I were to take a plane it is 2 hours to just get onto a runway in the plane. It is about 1.5 hrs to get onto an Acela train.
If the Acela travelled at the speed of light it would still take me an hour longer than doing the same trip by car, and I would be constrained by the train schedule, have the expense and hassle of renting a car on arrival, etc. It is no contest.
In places like France the situation is vastly different. The urban centers are fed by their own well developed local rail systems and urban sprawl is far less extensive because of the much higher population density.
Ah, your traps will mysteriously shut as the number of Firefox-only worms/bugs/virus/security holes increase in proportion to FF popularity! It will be DELICIOUS!
Since Firefox now has about 10% of the browser market, shouldn't we have seen about 10% of the virial infestation (if it is proportional like you say) by now??
Shocking that it hasn't turned out that way, wouldn't you say?
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Getting $50 for a half hour's screw driver work seems like a good deal to me, better than they pay me at work.
Yes, if it was only that. But as the article indicates, getting the parts is not easy, and there is a significant risk that they won't work. Not to mention that the new drive is covered by a 5 year waranty, while the Frankendrive is not.
Switching power supplies can become more efficient when they supply more current.
Maybe so, but what you pay for is wall socket power.
Or am I missing something???
Yes, they are available today, and are bigger and cheaper than what this is going to cost.
You can get a new 160 GB Seagate drive for $50 on a rebate special most weeks. Messing around with trying to replace electronics seems to be a waste of time.
A 40" NED panel manufacturing cost at $400 is nothing special. Add in the electronics, packaging, G&A, margins, distribution costs and so on and I bet you are looking at $2000 or more. That is in the same ballpark as what a 40" microdisplay HDTV costs today. It's more than what a 50" CRT RPTV costs.
Maybe the picture quality will be good, but so are current CRT RPTV's.
You can take it all then, and it doesn't carry over to the next year. As a result, they're not obligated to pay you anything for vacation when you leave.
I would say that it depends on the particular laws for your state. Since there is no national requirement for payment for accrued vacation time, what you are owed is going to depend on the state where you work. If you work in a state that doesn't require that it paid you are governed by company policies.
It's about 50-50 - about 1/2 the states require it, 1/2 do not.
Withholding payment for accrued vacation time is not illegal, and is a common tactic for ensuring "good behavior" during the last days of employment.
Many states require the company to pay for accrued vacation time. If so, it is indeed illegal.
Seriously - don't sink to his level, make threats or do anything unethical - he will just use it against you.
Keep records of anything they accuse you of and what you are doing your last few weeks.
If, after you leave they try to withhold your last paycheck just file a complaint with your state deptartment of employment. Every state I am familiar with has strict laws about requiring that you get paid for time worked. The state I work in has a law stating that the only reason an employer can withhold wages is if there is a court order in place.
Later, if you feel that your former employer is trying to do something to damage your reputation, talk to a lawyer. This sort of slander is viewed very dimly in the courts.
How about a bare bones board that cost around $100 - 200, but comes with TOP QUALITY components?
The problem that you are facing for desktops is that there only a few types of chipset out there for each generation of CPU. These chipsets are where the features are being added. And you can't get a motherboard without a chipset.
For servers its still possible to get less heavily configured machines because the volume is much lower and the addons are separate components on the board so vendors have a lot more to play with. But the serverboards have other things you probably don't want, including E-ATX form factor, 2 cpu sockets, cost up aroun $300-$400 etc.
Did you try this ?
After my Windows box recently lost its life in a puff of awful smelling smoke,
Next time be sure to clean out the registry on a regular schedule.
I can't imagine how much you think you would save with motherboards that support all this stuff going for $65.
There are only 96 people in the US that it can actually lift....
That's what overclocking is for,
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Microsoft, not satisfied with dragging Ford into bankrupty is now making sure that no small startup company will arise to challenge its dominance of the computer software industry b y seeding small compainies with leftover innovations that it could not sell i.e. Clippy and Bob.
Where do you get your odds?
Google. I did a Google search on CAD and SuSE and came up with a bunch of hits. Since SuSE seems to be supported by Oracle, Eclipse, etc. too I figured it would be a choice for you.
One of the things I've noticed on these software patents is that they often list the CEO of the company as one of the inventors. While that may be true some of the time, I wonder if Bezos is *really* one of the inventors of this technology under the definitons of US patent law.
It is an important point, becuase NOT having the correct inventors is one of the ways a patent can be ruled invalid or fraudulent (which I forget) in court.
Ford now stands for Fix Or Reboot Daily.
CentOS, WBEL, and Fermi LTS Linux. All of them worked well enough for me - the differences were that it seemed Fermi LTS was fairly heavily customized for the lab's needs, so it wasn't that great for new package installation. WBEL was very vanilla, but sometimes support was slow. CentOS seemed to have the best support behind it, so I use it now - recently I upgraded to CentOS 4.
Another option to look at for low cost is SuSE. SuSE Pro is inexpensive, and the odds are that your CAD vendor supports it. Plus you can actually get support from SuSE.
the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science (i.e., the Turing Award).
Over the course of my lifetime I have had the opportunity of working with a number of people who have won Nobel Prizes. Here are some clues:
- The Turing Prize is NOT an equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Not even close.
- Computer Science is NOT a science.
- Aliasing two disparate problem domains and then calling for a fusion to combine them results in a design that solves neither problem well.
most of our clients are now asking questions that require approximate or probabilistic answers
What are my chances of getting laid tonight...
What are the odds of my winning the lottery...
What are the chances that my boss will find out about that phoney dinner reciept...
Seriously, SAS stat analysis software does exactly what this numbskull is talking about. You don't need a new kind of database, merely somebody with training in stats.
Once they have the glowy box that thinks they will start looking for a way to outsource it.
Surely the author meant "cracked team".
Or the team is on crack.
Besides, what does urban sprawl have to do with anything. Right now everyone drives to the airport, now they will drive to the train station. What is the difference?
The difference is the alternative of the use of the car instead of plane OR train. This is what you missed in my description of Boston - NY etc.
Of the three choices, car, plane, train it is car
that the most attractive option if you are not travelling solely to/from urban centers.
From my home in NJ it is 3.5 hours to my parent's home in eastern Mass by car. If I were to take a plane it is 2 hours to just get onto a runway in the plane. It is about 1.5 hrs to get onto an Acela train.
If the Acela travelled at the speed of light it would still take me an hour longer than doing the same trip by car, and I would be constrained by the train schedule, have the expense and hassle of renting a car on arrival, etc. It is no contest.
In places like France the situation is vastly different. The urban centers are fed by their own well developed local rail systems and urban sprawl is far less extensive because of the much higher population density.
Ah, your traps will mysteriously shut as the number of Firefox-only worms/bugs/virus/security holes increase in proportion to FF popularity! It will be DELICIOUS!
Since Firefox now has about 10% of the browser market, shouldn't we have seen about 10% of the virial infestation (if it is proportional like you say) by now??
Shocking that it hasn't turned out that way, wouldn't you say?
Pshaw... everybody knows that nobody goes to these things because they are too crowded.