I'd offer exactly the opposite advice if he was being too inconsiderate to other people.
You are quite right. We should help each other out, and work together. There are times when you have to look out for yourself though. When these people are looking for jobs, they are going to be looking at a job for themselves. Close loyalty to colleagues will typically stop when you're no longer colleagues.
At my last company, I admit it wasn't until upper management said, "Well, how would you guys feel about working for stock."
Same thing happened to me. So I said "Screw you, Mr. Gates. This company is never going to be succesful. Microsoft will be a forgotten name with worthless stock in a year."
It's a small world. Many of the managers have friends, and will be able to find work fairly quickly.
You may find yourself applying to the companies that those managers have moved to, and you don't want to be considered one of the people that was responsible for their last company going under.
A "work to rule" might work. Just don't do 50-60 hour weeks. Perhaps put in a half hour extra per day, with occasional extra whole hours, to make it quite clear that they're being unreasonable if they fire you.
Not quite sure what the rules are about employment benefit and unfair dismissal in the US, but I'd have thought that being fired even though working too hard allows you to claim.
Find another job. Then leave. Convince your colleagues to do the same.
Solidarity is all well and good, but at the end of the day, the only reason any of you are working for this company is to get a paycheck at the end of the day. You don't actually owe each other anything.
If the company suffers (as it will after a mass wlakout) it doesn't help you. It harms them, with ne benefit to you at all, and the loss of your financial stability. It doesn't matter if they learn their lesson. If they improve, you don;t work there any more.
Admittedly, the other people will suffer even more through having to do your job if you walk out, but that will be short term. They can also find a new job. You can help each other out if you want. They can stiull choose to leave.
Most of these companies already have a euroean presence. I think they realise they can't get away with it, and that it isn't really going to affect their bottom line too much since most of their european sales sare from their European sites, which already add VAT.
In the case of AOL, they have been expecteing the rules to change like this for the past few years, and just decided to enjoy it while it lasted. There isn't a lot they can do to prevent it from happening.
Well, in reality it makes no difference. It's a way to spread the cost of health care across the population. Insurance by private companies is probably not a great was to do this, because the nature of the industry means they are don't provide insurance to those who most need it - Those with inherited conditions, and the long term sick.
I guess, in principle, Customs and excise might be able to charge you 17.5%, but in practice they're not going to. Too much administrative hassle.
The main reason for the change in rules is pressure from European online retailers. It's hard to compete with overseas companies when they can undercut you by 17.5%. Even with the extra cost of postage, their initial price is cheaper.
I think you're obliged to pay import duty and VAT on orders from Play. Customs ignore anything worth less than £18 though, and often don't bother with items worth more than that. I've never been charged VAT, but I think the possibility is there.
Oh, sure. It's fairly dishonest of the card manufacturers to optimise for a specific benchmark in a way that only comes into play for that benchmark. I just don't think anyone should be surprised that they do this. Especially with the amount of faith vested in the benchmarks be reviewers.
The only solution is to stop having so much faith in the benchmarks. Manufacturers have always optimised for them.
Boy are you ignorant, you think you can test a programmable shaders performance using DX7 style shader calls
Of course you can! How do you think the cards run legacy apps? Do you think they have a completely separate pipeline to handle the fixed function? Of course they don't. That would be an insane waste of silicon.
All the first shaders gave us was a couple of different ways of addressing texture coordinates. Later version added dependent texture reads. I'll grant that dependent texture reads may affect performance, but generally the bottleneck is going to be the time it takes to read the data, instruction throughput and instruction latency. We get exactly the same bottlenecks when using the fixed function pipeline.
What Nvidia did was not simply reordering instructions, they took a shader that was meant to run at a minimum of FP24 and replaced it with one running at INT12, a huge decrease in quality and a huge illicit gain in performance from a benchmarking perspective.
If it was such a huge loss in quality then why didn't the software detect this? If the benchmark only tests for speed and completely ignores image quality then it's a crap benchmark, and anyone who uses it has no justification to complain.
I didn't say NVidia were reordering instructions. My point was that if the instructions were ordered differently in the benchmark, then we could see some dramatically different results depending on the card. The benchmarks simply do not adequately test the performance of a card. Real world applications don't either, but at least they test the performance on real world applications.
Dell use 3DMark when the determine what 3D-acceletators
Yes, Dell shouldn't rely on these benchmarks either. Anyone who makes buying decisions based solely on generic benchmarks is a fool.
As to the "Just use games to benchmark!". It's not that easy. 3DMark is meant to test vid-cards on demos that use future technologies
Like what? The graphics card industry is a mature market now. Features aren't changing. We're just seeing more speed. About the only new feature recently has been programmable shaders, and even those can be tested adequately using DX7 style texture stages.
Actual applications will be written to work around potential inefficiencies anyway. If a game performs badly in a 3DMark test because of latency issues, it's quite possible that the actual games will simply use a slightly modified version of the same shader with different instruction order.
And I do think it's disreputable that NV cheat. However, I don't start by assuming they're a reputable company. This is the behavious I expect from them.
They always use the 3DMark results as though it's some sort of holy scripture, and as though a benchmark can indicate how well it will work in a real everyday situation. Every industry optimises for benchmarks. From a marketing point of view, it's insane not to.
The only reliable way to test is by testing it withthe applications it's used for. Get some actual games, and see what the frame rate is. If they optimise for those tests then it doesn't matter! It means they're oiptmised for real world situations.
We do have virtually no members of that conservative government in the current conservative government. A better reason for not voting for them is that they're week and ineffectual.
Personally, I think that if any party chose a pro-consumer stance, they would make some serious gains in the polls. The conservatives aren't likely to do this though. Most of their members have links to multinationals. I'd say a promise to cut VAT would be a vote winner across the board. Almost all of the population of the country buys things after all. That's a good target.
"The program DeCSS is a burglary tool," Lockyer told the judges, adding that the movie studios lose millions of dollars because of piracy over the Internet.
Do those statements have anythiong to do with each other? how about this one - "Cheese is smelly and horrible", says Bob Blob, adding that millions of people worldwide are starving.
8. Cars: Most American cars probably wouldn't fit on the roads. It would be a bit of a squeeze getting them into the country
9. Language: Let's put it this way - You do not want to venture out wearing pants a vest and suspenders in the UK.
10. Transport: Public transport (with the exception of night bus services) tends not to work. Don't attempt to take a trainunless you take at least 3 day's worth of rations.
India is really making gains in the IT world. They are also a rapidly expanding and potentially quite vast market. If a company can get enough of a foothold in India, we may see someone other than MS dominate there.
1 000 000 000 million people worldwide using an Os that isn't Windows..... Now, that would clobber Microsoft's world domination plans.
On a side note, anyone know how I can invest in India's IT stocks?
It's probably not beyond them to throw out the hard drive and motherboard, and sell the rest of the components of course. CPU, RAM, and monitor will probably make the theft worthwhile. The theft prevention probably isn't really designed to deal with this though. It's more for protecting trade secrets.
Professionals who are after the trade secrets will be more savvy, and will decide not to connect to the internet (although they'll probably have just taken the hard drive).
It will prevent accidental leaking of information from stolen machines, and frustrate some small time criminals, but isn't really going to eliminatre computer theft.
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I'd offer exactly the opposite advice if he was being too inconsiderate to other people.
You are quite right. We should help each other out, and work together. There are times when you have to look out for yourself though. When these people are looking for jobs, they are going to be looking at a job for themselves. Close loyalty to colleagues will typically stop when you're no longer colleagues.
At my last company, I admit it wasn't until upper management said, "Well, how would you guys feel about working for stock."
Same thing happened to me. So I said "Screw you, Mr. Gates. This company is never going to be succesful. Microsoft will be a forgotten name with worthless stock in a year."
It's a small world. Many of the managers have friends, and will be able to find work fairly quickly.
You may find yourself applying to the companies that those managers have moved to, and you don't want to be considered one of the people that was responsible for their last company going under.
A "work to rule" might work. Just don't do 50-60 hour weeks. Perhaps put in a half hour extra per day, with occasional extra whole hours, to make it quite clear that they're being unreasonable if they fire you.
Not quite sure what the rules are about employment benefit and unfair dismissal in the US, but I'd have thought that being fired even though working too hard allows you to claim.
Find another job. Then leave. Convince your colleagues to do the same.
Solidarity is all well and good, but at the end of the day, the only reason any of you are working for this company is to get a paycheck at the end of the day. You don't actually owe each other anything.
If the company suffers (as it will after a mass wlakout) it doesn't help you. It harms them, with ne benefit to you at all, and the loss of your financial stability. It doesn't matter if they learn their lesson. If they improve, you don;t work there any more.
Admittedly, the other people will suffer even more through having to do your job if you walk out, but that will be short term. They can also find a new job. You can help each other out if you want. They can stiull choose to leave.
It was a VAT thing. I guess this is the levelling of the playing field that freeserve wanted.
Most of these companies already have a euroean presence. I think they realise they can't get away with it, and that it isn't really going to affect their bottom line too much since most of their european sales sare from their European sites, which already add VAT.
In the case of AOL, they have been expecteing the rules to change like this for the past few years, and just decided to enjoy it while it lasted. There isn't a lot they can do to prevent it from happening.
Well, in reality it makes no difference. It's a way to spread the cost of health care across the population. Insurance by private companies is probably not a great was to do this, because the nature of the industry means they are don't provide insurance to those who most need it - Those with inherited conditions, and the long term sick.
They're not. Simple as that.
I guess, in principle, Customs and excise might be able to charge you 17.5%, but in practice they're not going to. Too much administrative hassle.
The main reason for the change in rules is pressure from European online retailers. It's hard to compete with overseas companies when they can undercut you by 17.5%. Even with the extra cost of postage, their initial price is cheaper.
I think you're obliged to pay import duty and VAT on orders from Play. Customs ignore anything worth less than £18 though, and often don't bother with items worth more than that. I've never been charged VAT, but I think the possibility is there.
Oh, sure. It's fairly dishonest of the card manufacturers to optimise for a specific benchmark in a way that only comes into play for that benchmark. I just don't think anyone should be surprised that they do this. Especially with the amount of faith vested in the benchmarks be reviewers.
The only solution is to stop having so much faith in the benchmarks. Manufacturers have always optimised for them.
Boy are you ignorant, you think you can test a programmable shaders performance using DX7 style shader calls
Of course you can! How do you think the cards run legacy apps? Do you think they have a completely separate pipeline to handle the fixed function? Of course they don't. That would be an insane waste of silicon.
All the first shaders gave us was a couple of different ways of addressing texture coordinates. Later version added dependent texture reads. I'll grant that dependent texture reads may affect performance, but generally the bottleneck is going to be the time it takes to read the data, instruction throughput and instruction latency. We get exactly the same bottlenecks when using the fixed function pipeline.
What Nvidia did was not simply reordering instructions, they took a shader that was meant to run at a minimum of FP24 and replaced it with one running at INT12, a huge decrease in quality and a huge illicit gain in performance from a benchmarking perspective.
If it was such a huge loss in quality then why didn't the software detect this? If the benchmark only tests for speed and completely ignores image quality then it's a crap benchmark, and anyone who uses it has no justification to complain.
I didn't say NVidia were reordering instructions. My point was that if the instructions were ordered differently in the benchmark, then we could see some dramatically different results depending on the card. The benchmarks simply do not adequately test the performance of a card. Real world applications don't either, but at least they test the performance on real world applications.
Dell use 3DMark when the determine what 3D-acceletators
Yes, Dell shouldn't rely on these benchmarks either. Anyone who makes buying decisions based solely on generic benchmarks is a fool.
As to the "Just use games to benchmark!". It's not that easy. 3DMark is meant to test vid-cards on demos that use future technologies
Like what? The graphics card industry is a mature market now. Features aren't changing. We're just seeing more speed. About the only new feature recently has been programmable shaders, and even those can be tested adequately using DX7 style texture stages.
Actual applications will be written to work around potential inefficiencies anyway. If a game performs badly in a 3DMark test because of latency issues, it's quite possible that the actual games will simply use a slightly modified version of the same shader with different instruction order.
And I do think it's disreputable that NV cheat. However, I don't start by assuming they're a reputable company. This is the behavious I expect from them.
They always use the 3DMark results as though it's some sort of holy scripture, and as though a benchmark can indicate how well it will work in a real everyday situation. Every industry optimises for benchmarks. From a marketing point of view, it's insane not to.
The only reliable way to test is by testing it withthe applications it's used for. Get some actual games, and see what the frame rate is. If they optimise for those tests then it doesn't matter! It means they're oiptmised for real world situations.
It's a viable business model.
1. Come up with new technology.
2. Sell to Microsoft.
3. Profit
Well, of course not. Didn't you know?
Money can't buy me gloves.
not Conservatives, please, remember the poll tax?
We do have virtually no members of that conservative government in the current conservative government. A better reason for not voting for them is that they're week and ineffectual.
Personally, I think that if any party chose a pro-consumer stance, they would make some serious gains in the polls. The conservatives aren't likely to do this though. Most of their members have links to multinationals. I'd say a promise to cut VAT would be a vote winner across the board. Almost all of the population of the country buys things after all. That's a good target.
Yes, and the problem with a democratically elected leadership has been mentioned before. You're stuck with them until the next election.
Those are also "rights", and potentially much more dangerous than DeCSS.
"The program DeCSS is a burglary tool," Lockyer told the judges, adding that the movie studios lose millions of dollars because of piracy over the Internet.
Do those statements have anythiong to do with each other? how about this one - "Cheese is smelly and horrible", says Bob Blob, adding that millions of people worldwide are starving.
No. The VCR was compared to The Boston Strangler. This is just compared to a burglary tool.
Clearly the motion picture industry's attitude is softening a little.
8. Cars: Most American cars probably wouldn't fit on the roads. It would be a bit of a squeeze getting them into the country
9. Language: Let's put it this way - You do not want to venture out wearing pants a vest and suspenders in the UK.
10. Transport: Public transport (with the exception of night bus services) tends not to work. Don't attempt to take a trainunless you take at least 3 day's worth of rations.
11. ????
12. Profit.
India is really making gains in the IT world. They are also a rapidly expanding and potentially quite vast market. If a company can get enough of a foothold in India, we may see someone other than MS dominate there.
1 000 000 000 million people worldwide using an Os that isn't Windows..... Now, that would clobber Microsoft's world domination plans.
On a side note, anyone know how I can invest in India's IT stocks?
True.
It's probably not beyond them to throw out the hard drive and motherboard, and sell the rest of the components of course. CPU, RAM, and monitor will probably make the theft worthwhile. The theft prevention probably isn't really designed to deal with this though. It's more for protecting trade secrets.
Professionals who are after the trade secrets will be more savvy, and will decide not to connect to the internet (although they'll probably have just taken the hard drive).
It will prevent accidental leaking of information from stolen machines, and frustrate some small time criminals, but isn't really going to eliminatre computer theft.
Yep. More people ought to learn that word.