It was the whole "come in to the right, constantly drifting ever so slightly to the left, but never go too far left, don't want to hit the tower" thing that convinced me that carrier fly boys are just crazy, the lot of 'em.:)
It's considered normal for an employee to demand one-to-two years of severance for every year of non-compete. I'd say counter offer, and if there are any questions, remind them of the realities. Asking you to not have income after your employment ends is, of course, intrinsically unreasonable. A family's gotta eat. These things started off in executive space, where the extra severance for the non-compete is just par for the course. You should, as part of your counter offer, request the severance should your employment end for any reason, including if you quit. They can then counter offer themselves. Just see how much they value your non-competition.
This is exactly what I would do when faced with a post-termination non-compete. If you're a software person, you could take the year off to write some kind of big open source project or some such, to keep yourself current....
The device that allows me to read your body language and facial expressions over the internet, to properly understand your dry humor, was malfunctioning.
Disregarding whatever the wiggle waggle is about the legality of the affair, arguing that presenting information about a facebook user is a privacy violation is beyond idiotic. The information is already oh-so-not private.
Here's what I find compelling about your idea: it ties the granting of the monopoly to a provable adding of value: the expensive due diligence of proving the drug both safe and effective. To bad that standard couldn't be broadly used, actually.
Personally, I'm not inclined to believe either of them all that much... I was just pointing out that NetApp possibly could be responding to Sun's threats with a lawsuit and thus be suing first.
And while I, like you, have no real idea what the truth is, the above concept is perfectly reasonable. If one is approached repeatedly by someone slandering your title, even if the approach is not public, there is an appoint at which enough is enough.
Redhat doesn't really sell their operating system. They sell an "entitlement," for support of their operating system. As long as you dance carefully around whatever few proprietary elements they intermingle, one doesn't even have to get packages from CentOS. Free support for your redhat is had as close as a Yum rebroadcaster away. I.e., get your patches once, with one entitlement, and rebroadcast all the updates for free.
Redhat makes money basically because organizations are lazy.
No big surprise, really. That's the Fedex's entire business plan. No one would believe the founder when he said people would pay more than triple for the rights to procrastinate until the last possible minute. Boy were they wrong.:)
The band absolutely deserves every cent that EMI made selling their music.
Ah, they deserve a bit more than that, as the law provides for certain punishments for this sort of thing, including substantial fines. An "accident" is simply no good excuse for a company of this sort, where due dilligence in their actions is especially important.
WAN accelerators have been around for a while. These can be problematic if they are not completely transparent. Juniper is now selling one that is. They unfortunately require two end points to work. One at the ISP, and one where you are. And they are expensive. But I'm betting devices like this will drop in cost enormously over the next several years. This is like having an auto-mirror of sorts, for the most frequently demanded blocks of data in your organization. You can almost imagine being able to selectively turn on certain internet radio channels with one.
On the inappropriate downloads subject: we had this guy at my last company who downloaded so much porn, it got noticed by storage volume. Yeah, he put it onto *shared* storage. Thing is, that volume just so happened to be the same one that we spooled our mail onto, so the mail server croaked and we had to go looking.
He quit before we could terminate him. But. I, you know, transferred all his good labors to a CD and took it home. I did not, however, leave it on the mail spooler drive...
The CPI and RPI figures are designed to make the proles feel good...
This just isn't so. It's designed by economists who expend a great deal of energy trying to assess the real impact of the cost of buying those things that people buy. The "proles" have no hand in it at all, thank goodness.
But never mind all that. I *know* that you don't feel that your buying power has been dropping catastrophically year in and year out. I.e., this is an elaborate way of saying that you are lying.
Let's discontinue this conversation. When dishonesty slips in, nothing further of value can occur.
I guess I'd have to be careful not to download those operating system.iso files with you around. *kidding*
My company currently implemented one of those "you can't go here" web thingies. I'm glad they did. Practical bandwidth for downloading things like.iso images went up literally a factor of 10X when they put the filter on. Hurrah.
Well. I mod you +1 intelligent. That might actually work. I can still send hidden data through your https proxy to a website I control. But never mind that. That actually takes work.:)
As a Vista user who has turned off security, as well as Aero, it's an okay OS. It works just fine, and I'm generally happy with it, except for one bit that I'm terribly unhappy with: the incompatibilities with older software. That's really irritating, and they fucked that up big time.
I'm sorry, no. It doesn't matter if you have more of your currency if the relative moreness of your currency buys an amount of goods less, but not significantly less than it did before. This is what the CPI measures. Many economists argue that the CPI *understates* inflation, and I happen to agree with them. At a guess, I think you do, too, but don't even know it. I.e., you can buy lots of shit... you could buy lots of shit last year, and can buy even more lots of shit this year. Year in and year out, the amount of lots of shit we can buy for the money we make just gets lots and lotser. Your hand-wringing notwithstanding.
Now if you want to argue that the imbalance between the CPI and the M* measurements is a leading indicator of something... that's a different story. Could be that you are right.
Ahem. That dictionary entry does not support the claims made. In all cases it refers to a rise in prices. If prices do not rise, there is no inflation, even if the money supply is expanded.
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There's a nuance? He was a US citizen, wasn't he? Traitor.
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It was the whole "come in to the right, constantly drifting ever so slightly to the left, but never go too far left, don't want to hit the tower" thing that convinced me that carrier fly boys are just crazy, the lot of 'em. :)
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A navy pilot once described to me the kinetics of landing on an aircraft carrier. I still shiver.
It takes testicles in addition to skill to be a carrier pilot.
Wind. Check. Carrier moving. Check. Unforgiving short runway. Check.
Stuff nightmares are made of.
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It's considered normal for an employee to demand one-to-two years of severance for every year of non-compete. I'd say counter offer, and if there are any questions, remind them of the realities. Asking you to not have income after your employment ends is, of course, intrinsically unreasonable. A family's gotta eat. These things started off in executive space, where the extra severance for the non-compete is just par for the course. You should, as part of your counter offer, request the severance should your employment end for any reason, including if you quit. They can then counter offer themselves. Just see how much they value your non-competition.
This is exactly what I would do when faced with a post-termination non-compete. If you're a software person, you could take the year off to write some kind of big open source project or some such, to keep yourself current....
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The device that allows me to read your body language and facial expressions over the internet, to properly understand your dry humor, was malfunctioning.
*blink*
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Disregarding whatever the wiggle waggle is about the legality of the affair, arguing that presenting information about a facebook user is a privacy violation is beyond idiotic. The information is already oh-so-not private.
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Of course, yes. I believe that.
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Who do you think primary (sic) developed Xen?
The people at Xen Source primarily developed Xen.
FusionIO is not DRAM. It's Flash.
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Here's what I find compelling about your idea: it ties the granting of the monopoly to a provable adding of value: the expensive due diligence of proving the drug both safe and effective. To bad that standard couldn't be broadly used, actually.
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Cynic, n. Someone who sees the world as it really is, as opposed to how it ought to be. :)
Personally, I'm not inclined to believe either of them all that much... I was just pointing out that NetApp possibly could be responding to Sun's threats with a lawsuit and thus be suing first.
And while I, like you, have no real idea what the truth is, the above concept is perfectly reasonable. If one is approached repeatedly by someone slandering your title, even if the approach is not public, there is an appoint at which enough is enough.
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This is actually one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time.
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Redhat doesn't really sell their operating system. They sell an "entitlement," for support of their operating system. As long as you dance carefully around whatever few proprietary elements they intermingle, one doesn't even have to get packages from CentOS. Free support for your redhat is had as close as a Yum rebroadcaster away. I.e., get your patches once, with one entitlement, and rebroadcast all the updates for free.
:)
Redhat makes money basically because organizations are lazy.
No big surprise, really. That's the Fedex's entire business plan. No one would believe the founder when he said people would pay more than triple for the rights to procrastinate until the last possible minute. Boy were they wrong.
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The band absolutely deserves every cent that EMI made selling their music.
Ah, they deserve a bit more than that, as the law provides for certain punishments for this sort
of thing, including substantial fines. An "accident" is simply no good excuse for a company
of this sort, where due dilligence in their actions is especially important.
C//
WAN accelerators have been around for a while. These can be problematic if they are not completely transparent. Juniper is now selling one that is. They unfortunately require two end points to work. One at the ISP, and one where you are. And they are expensive. But I'm betting devices like this will drop in cost enormously over the next several years. This is like having an auto-mirror of sorts, for the most frequently demanded blocks of data in your organization. You can almost imagine being able to selectively turn on certain internet radio channels with one.
On the inappropriate downloads subject: we had this guy at my last company who downloaded so much porn, it got noticed by storage volume. Yeah, he put it onto *shared* storage. Thing is, that volume just so happened to be the same one that we spooled our mail onto, so the mail server croaked and we had to go looking.
He quit before we could terminate him. But. I, you know, transferred all his good labors to a CD and took it home. I did not, however, leave it on the mail spooler drive...
LOL.
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The CPI and RPI figures are designed to make the proles feel good...
This just isn't so. It's designed by economists who expend a great deal of energy trying to assess the real impact of the cost of buying those things that people buy. The "proles" have no hand in it at all, thank goodness.
But never mind all that. I *know* that you don't feel that your buying power has been dropping catastrophically year in and year out. I.e., this is an elaborate way of saying that you are lying.
Let's discontinue this conversation. When dishonesty slips in, nothing further of value can occur.
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Yup. That's the same way I manage shared storage.
I guess I'd have to be careful not to download those operating system
My company currently implemented one of those "you can't go here" web thingies. I'm glad they did. Practical bandwidth for downloading things like
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Well. I mod you +1 intelligent. That might actually work. I can still send hidden data through your https proxy to a website I control. But never mind that. That actually takes work. :)
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As a Vista user who has turned off security, as well as Aero, it's an okay OS. It works just fine, and I'm generally happy with it, except for one bit that I'm terribly unhappy with: the incompatibilities with older software. That's really irritating, and they fucked that up big time.
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You need to take economics again....
You might need to take it the first time.
If the money supply increases, it is nevertheless possible that there is no inflation.
Money supply increases are not at all inevitably associated with inflation.
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I'm sorry, no. It doesn't matter if you have more of your currency if the relative moreness of your currency buys an amount of goods less, but not significantly less than it did before. This is what the CPI measures. Many economists argue that the CPI *understates* inflation, and I happen to agree with them. At a guess, I think you do, too, but don't even know it. I.e., you can buy lots of shit... you could buy lots of shit last year, and can buy even more lots of shit this year. Year in and year out, the amount of lots of shit we can buy for the money we make just gets lots and lotser. Your hand-wringing notwithstanding.
Now if you want to argue that the imbalance between the CPI and the M* measurements is a leading indicator of something... that's a different story. Could be that you are right.
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Ahem. That dictionary entry does not support the claims made. In all cases it refers to a rise in prices. If prices do not rise, there is no inflation, even if the money supply is expanded.
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Inflation is the measure of the devaluation of the currency,...
Problem with this is that you are attempting to redefine the meaning of an otherwise well-defined and well-understood word.
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Here's CPI data, to ground you a little. I, for one, am one of those who believes that CPI overstates inflation. How do you fall?
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual HALF1 HALF2
1997 159.1 159.6 160.0 160.2 160.1 160.3 160.5 160.8 161.2 161.6 161.5 161.3 160.5 159.9 161.2
1998 161.6 161.9 162.2 162.5 162.8 163.0 163.2 163.4 163.6 164.0 164.0 163.9 163.0 162.3 163.7
1999 164.3 164.5 165.0 166.2 166.2 166.2 166.7 167.1 167.9 168.2 168.3 168.3 166.6 165.4 167.8
2000 168.8 169.8 171.2 171.3 171.5 172.4 172.8 172.8 173.7 174.0 174.1 174.0 172.2 170.8 173.6
2001 175.1 175.8 176.2 176.9 177.7 178.0 177.5 177.5 178.3 177.7 177.4 176.7 177.1 176.6 177.5
2002 177.1 177.8 178.8 179.8 179.8 179.9 180.1 180.7 181.0 181.3 181.3 180.9 179.9 178.9 180.9
2003 181.7 183.1 184.2 183.8 183.5 183.7 183.9 184.6 185.2 185.0 184.5 184.3 184.0 183.3 184.6
2004 185.2 186.2 187.4 188.0 189.1 189.7 189.4 189.5 189.9 190.9 191.0 190.3 188.9 187.6 190.2
2005 190.7 191.8 193.3 194.6 194.4 194.5 195.4 196.4 198.8 199.2 197.6 196.8 195.3 193.2 197.4
2006 198.3 198.7 199.8 201.5 202.5 202.9 203.5 203.9 202.9 201.8 201.5 201.8 201.6 200.6 202.6
2007 202.416 203.499 205.352 206.686 207.949 208.352 208.299 207.917 208.490 205.709