You say that you want to keep this job, so I'm going to assume that you are truly interested in this job, having fun, and think this company is going somewhere. Here are a couple of options to think about:
1. If you really think that this company is going somewhere and that these layoffs are a temporary measurement, you could negotiate for some stock in the company. Pros: If the company really does get through this and becomes wildly successful, you've just taken care of everything. Also, it gives the managers a warm fuzzy to know that you really do think the company will be successful. If the company is large enough, then giving up a little bit of stock (like 1% or something low) is no skin off of their nose and, more importantly, its no cash out of their pocket. Finally, if the company really does tank, its not like you actually "bought" the stock and had it die. Cons: Some companies will not even "go there."
2. Negotiate "minor" perks. You probably know what I mean, longer lunch, telecommute one day a week, faster computer (before you refute me on this one, remember, they can spend up to $500, tax-deductible, on equipment), etc.
Yes I know. But our main file server is very OLD. No TCP/IP there.:) Plus about half of my co-workers have OS less than 9 and thus can't share via TCP/IP (people like to dump all sorts of things on their own shared folders). Oh well.
There is also talk of it finally fixing legacy appletalk support (not TCP/IP based). Yeah I know, move to NFS, be a real man, etc... But a lot of my co-workers are stuck in a MacOS less than 10. Makes it difficult. Not to mention that you can't communicate properly with a Linux server running netatalk. I can't wait!
I have to agree with this. Especially for small projects that don't have the fame that other projects have. I'd say, if the project is small, (*blatant plug to my project below*) then they would just like to know if people actually *using* their program. Spreading the word helps these projects. But if a project is already well-established, like Cygwin, money will probably ensure that the project continues. I say this because if a project is as big as cygwin, the developer has probably heard all the praise in the world, might be forced to support the project full-time thus cutting into their "regular" job, and isn't normally paid for the project.
Money would mean a lot to both kinds of projects, but would probably be more appropriate for a larger project. Praise and telling-your-friends-about-project-x is good for smaller projects. However, if you can code (which I know the author of the article can't), that is the biggest contribution to any project.
Ok, assume you are the in charge of your company's webboard. Maybe this web board is for people to post questions, get answers, provide feedback on products, etc. What if someone annonymously starts posting rumors and lies about the company on the web board? What do you do?
Duh! You give the truth and clear up the rumors yourself. Unless, of course, what is said is the truth. *tongue in cheek* Then you should obviously prosecute those anonymous posters *tongue out of cheek*
But first, I do know that Linux history is preserved at least for the kernel. Linus has every single kernel every made on the kernel.org site. Not that having these kernels solves your original problem, but at least you have the kernels.
Before anyone else makes this mistake, I'd like to say, don't go by a directory listing of ftp.redhat.com. I went to it and looked and sure enough, there were directories for RH 1.0-RH 4.1 and I thought, "Boy this guy is dumb." There are right there on redhat's site. But then I went all the way down to the iso directory for RH 4.1 and sure enough, there was nothing there. Ack! So this guy does have a beef. You might try checking one of the ftp.redhat.com mirrors that has been around for awhile (I don't have examples) but maybe they didn't rsync --delete!
Even more important in that quote is the fact that they FINALLY support their own protocol, Appletalk. I'm in a Mac shop and you can't believe the confusion that arises when you can no longer connect to any file shares via Appletalk. Over TCP/IP is okay, but I don't expect everyone in the office to remember the IP addresses of our File servers.
Traditionally, the responsibility for performing the central coordinating functions of the global Internet for the public good, including management of the unique public DNS root, has been carried out by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (the IANA). ICANN's core mission is to continue the work of the IANA in a more formalized and globally representative framework, to ensure the views of all the Internet's stakeholders are taken into account in carrying out this public trust.
And by "stakeholders" we mean those who have the biggest pieces and the most cash.
And opt-out is a joke. I've opted out of countless things, but I still get a hundred+ spams a day.
Actually, opting-out usually doesn't prevent SPAM. For the simple reason that if you send back an opt-out email, you are now a "verified email address" and I'm sure you will show up in the next edition of their "3 billion Verified Email Addresses!!!!" CD-ROM. Which you can buy for the low, low price of....
What saddens me is that although advances like this are made and some markets get a really fast connection to the Internet, there will always be more apps that come along and suck that bandwidth down. For instance, what would happen if everyone got the 1000Mbit connection to their doorstep? After downloading all the porn ever created,what will people use the bandwidth for? Yeah it would kick ass to play Q3A or Tribes 2 on the network with very low ping times, but what's to prevent another game or application (like Video over IP or something) to come along that stresses even this network?
I suppose we will all eventually have these kind of connections, but by the time it reaches my little community, it will be slow relative to the applications out at the time.
Should a game buyer be patient and wait for the system to be repaired, or is the buyer justified in demanding results for hard-earned money?"
The question is, why did the company release such a crappy system. I would be patient if you really thought the game was going to be cool. Look at Blizzard, they delayed D2 so long, a year and half. And even then, the game still had bugs. But people still bought and played it.
What's more, the OS X installer automatically finds your hardware and recognizes it. No driver problems (what's a driver?), no hardware conflicts, nada. Don't be fooled by its fancy core; just as it did in previous Mac OS incarnations, Apple designed OS X for your Mac hardware. OS X is even better than OS 9 at recognizing hardware, and it even configures USB printers--no "plug and pray" here.
Well I know I've lost some hardware. I have a beige G3 and I no longer have the built-in SCSI port. My CD burner doesn't work either and it did work in 9.1. So I can't say I have had no hardware problems.
According to the "official response" the reason was:
How did this happen? Well, frankly, we don't usually really concentrate very much on the User Experience for non-subscribers. We did successfully anticipate that non-subscribers would care about manual recordings and we put a lot of effort into engineering and testing a grandfathered state - it is especially ironic that because we spent all our non-service testing effort on insuring that we preserved manual recordings that we failed to discover the other change
Which makes sense. They get money from the services, not hardware.
I do agree with your main point of the statistics being sketchy (it is incredibly simple to lie with statistics, ask any math major). However, it is interesting to note that if MS servers (preconfigured with MS stuff) are outselling UNIX servers, it means the OEMs like Compaq and Dell are still probably paying MS for the licenses on the server they just sold you (which you probably indirectly paid for by a slight price increase on the line of servers). Just more to think about...
In using OSX from the start, it has always had problems mapping characters. Even the "normal" weird ASCII characters get mapped strangely. Upside-down question mark is one. I could deal with it changing, but what frustrates me is that it doesn't change back whenever you go back to other UNIX systems. For instance, downloading a text file with weird ASCII characters with OSX's scp will make things go awry. But then transferring that file back up does not switch it back. Weird stuff!
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YES!!! Acrophobia rocks! It is no longer there. I tried searching for it recently. I know near the end they got assimilated into the iWon network.
Don't you love how those CS types like to ignore Math even though CS=Math? Here is the program:
switch n {
case 1: return 1;
case 2: return 2;
case 3: return 6;
case 4: return 4;
default: return 0;
}
But we all know that Steven Tyler of Aerosmith has the loudest pipes :)
You say that you want to keep this job, so I'm going to assume that you are truly interested in this job, having fun, and think this company is going somewhere. Here are a couple of options to think about:
1. If you really think that this company is going somewhere and that these layoffs are a temporary measurement, you could negotiate for some stock in the company. Pros: If the company really does get through this and becomes wildly successful, you've just taken care of everything. Also, it gives the managers a warm fuzzy to know that you really do think the company will be successful. If the company is large enough, then giving up a little bit of stock (like 1% or something low) is no skin off of their nose and, more importantly, its no cash out of their pocket. Finally, if the company really does tank, its not like you actually "bought" the stock and had it die. Cons: Some companies will not even "go there."
2. Negotiate "minor" perks. You probably know what I mean, longer lunch, telecommute one day a week, faster computer (before you refute me on this one, remember, they can spend up to $500, tax-deductible, on equipment), etc.
Anyways, those are my suggestions. Good luck!
Yes I know. But our main file server is very OLD. No TCP/IP there. :) Plus about half of my co-workers have OS less than 9 and thus can't share via TCP/IP (people like to dump all sorts of things on their own shared folders). Oh well.
There is also talk of it finally fixing legacy appletalk support (not TCP/IP based). Yeah I know, move to NFS, be a real man, etc... But a lot of my co-workers are stuck in a MacOS less than 10. Makes it difficult. Not to mention that you can't communicate properly with a Linux server running netatalk. I can't wait!
Milk crates are cheap storage that stacks nicely.
And for a subtle effect, get plants. Like cactus (hard to kill).
I have to agree with this. Especially for small projects that don't have the fame that other projects have. I'd say, if the project is small, (*blatant plug to my project below*) then they would just like to know if people actually *using* their program. Spreading the word helps these projects. But if a project is already well-established, like Cygwin, money will probably ensure that the project continues. I say this because if a project is as big as cygwin, the developer has probably heard all the praise in the world, might be forced to support the project full-time thus cutting into their "regular" job, and isn't normally paid for the project.
Money would mean a lot to both kinds of projects, but would probably be more appropriate for a larger project. Praise and telling-your-friends-about-project-x is good for smaller projects. However, if you can code (which I know the author of the article can't), that is the biggest contribution to any project.
Ok, assume you are the in charge of your company's webboard. Maybe this web board is for people to post questions, get answers, provide feedback on products, etc. What if someone annonymously starts posting rumors and lies about the company on the web board? What do you do?
Duh! You give the truth and clear up the rumors yourself. Unless, of course, what is said is the truth. *tongue in cheek* Then you should obviously prosecute those anonymous posters *tongue out of cheek*
But first, I do know that Linux history is preserved at least for the kernel. Linus has every single kernel every made on the kernel.org site. Not that having these kernels solves your original problem, but at least you have the kernels.
Before anyone else makes this mistake, I'd like to say, don't go by a directory listing of ftp.redhat.com. I went to it and looked and sure enough, there were directories for RH 1.0-RH 4.1 and I thought, "Boy this guy is dumb." There are right there on redhat's site. But then I went all the way down to the iso directory for RH 4.1 and sure enough, there was nothing there. Ack! So this guy does have a beef. You might try checking one of the ftp.redhat.com mirrors that has been around for awhile (I don't have examples) but maybe they didn't rsync --delete!
Even more important in that quote is the fact that they FINALLY support their own protocol, Appletalk. I'm in a Mac shop and you can't believe the confusion that arises when you can no longer connect to any file shares via Appletalk. Over TCP/IP is okay, but I don't expect everyone in the office to remember the IP addresses of our File servers.
Even more funny excerpts:
Traditionally, the responsibility for performing the central coordinating functions of the global Internet for the public good, including management of the unique public DNS root, has been carried out by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (the IANA). ICANN's core mission is to continue the work of the IANA in a more formalized and globally representative framework, to ensure the views of all the Internet's stakeholders are taken into account in carrying out this public trust.
And by "stakeholders" we mean those who have the biggest pieces and the most cash.
And opt-out is a joke. I've opted out of countless things, but I still get a hundred+ spams a day.
Actually, opting-out usually doesn't prevent SPAM. For the simple reason that if you send back an opt-out email, you are now a "verified email address" and I'm sure you will show up in the next edition of their "3 billion Verified Email Addresses!!!!" CD-ROM. Which you can buy for the low, low price of....
Chekc out http://anime.plan9.de here for a bunch of anime. Including parts of the the Robotech series.
You need to add Lisa in at the end of that. Since she wins in the end.
I've seen their stocks steadily decline from $6 to about $4.61 today. Congrats again to the RedHat peeps.
The device shoots a tiny laser beam that draws patterns onto the retina so that only the wearer sees the images.
No more worries about your boss looking over your shoulder at work whilst you play UT/Q3A/T2!
What saddens me is that although advances like this are made and some markets get a really fast connection to the Internet, there will always be more apps that come along and suck that bandwidth down. For instance, what would happen if everyone got the 1000Mbit connection to their doorstep? After downloading all the porn ever created,what will people use the bandwidth for? Yeah it would kick ass to play Q3A or Tribes 2 on the network with very low ping times, but what's to prevent another game or application (like Video over IP or something) to come along that stresses even this network?
I suppose we will all eventually have these kind of connections, but by the time it reaches my little community, it will be slow relative to the applications out at the time.
The Chill compiler is not included in GCC 3.0, because of the lack of a volunteer to convert it to use garbage collection.
As in, "Chill, to the next episode/version"
Should a game buyer be patient and wait for the system to be repaired, or is the buyer justified in demanding results for hard-earned money?"
The question is, why did the company release such a crappy system. I would be patient if you really thought the game was going to be cool. Look at Blizzard, they delayed D2 so long, a year and half. And even then, the game still had bugs. But people still bought and played it.
From the article:
What's more, the OS X installer automatically finds your hardware and recognizes it. No driver problems (what's a driver?), no hardware conflicts, nada. Don't be fooled by its fancy core; just as it did in previous Mac OS incarnations, Apple designed OS X for your Mac hardware. OS X is even better than OS 9 at recognizing hardware, and it even configures USB printers--no "plug and pray" here.
Well I know I've lost some hardware. I have a beige G3 and I no longer have the built-in SCSI port. My CD burner doesn't work either and it did work in 9.1. So I can't say I have had no hardware problems.
I like the "plug and pray" shot though.
According to the "official response" the reason was:
How did this happen? Well, frankly, we don't usually really concentrate very much on the User Experience for non-subscribers. We did successfully anticipate that non-subscribers would care about manual recordings and we put a lot of effort into engineering and testing a grandfathered state - it is especially ironic that because we spent all our non-service testing effort on insuring that we preserved manual recordings that we failed to discover the other change
Which makes sense. They get money from the services, not hardware.
I do agree with your main point of the statistics being sketchy (it is incredibly simple to lie with statistics, ask any math major). However, it is interesting to note that if MS servers (preconfigured with MS stuff) are outselling UNIX servers, it means the OEMs like Compaq and Dell are still probably paying MS for the licenses on the server they just sold you (which you probably indirectly paid for by a slight price increase on the line of servers). Just more to think about...
Hurricane Electric has this free tunnel brokerhere that allows you to experiment with IPv6 by tunneling it over IPv4. Interesting stuff.
In using OSX from the start, it has always had problems mapping characters. Even the "normal" weird ASCII characters get mapped strangely. Upside-down question mark is one. I could deal with it changing, but what frustrates me is that it doesn't change back whenever you go back to other UNIX systems. For instance, downloading a text file with weird ASCII characters with OSX's scp will make things go awry. But then transferring that file back up does not switch it back. Weird stuff!