Because it wouldn't help them in the slightest. All it might do is discourage other companies from doing the same thing. But once a company has decided to fire you, the clock is ticking. They're not going to do more than give you a temporary delay if you make it harder for them, and they're going to resent every second they employ you, which means your days are numbered, come what may.
If you cooperate, they'll at least pay severance and give you a reasonable reference. If you don't, you'll go to work every day wondering if this is the day you're going to get fired, and be unemployable hereon.
Usually they make your severance dependent upon it.
Haven't been in exactly the same situation, but was given three months notice when the US branch of a UK company decided it was time to shut down the US branch and have the development be centralized at the UK offices. I had to train my UK counterparts during that three months, or else not get severance.
In my case the situation was understandable (which is not to say I agreed with it), and we went our separate ways on good terms. I can't imagine how horrible the workers described above felt, and Diane Feinstein is up there with DWS as one of the worst Democrats ever.
Note to self: User Mi apparently thinks celebrities should be able to sexually assault women because their victims technically will not get killed if they complain about it.
Did you ever hear the story of the boy who cried wolf?
Because there's a similar story about the right wing partisan that cried "Clintons committed another crime".
If Bill Clinton admits to sexually assaulting women, as Trump did, or else he's prosecuted and found guilty, we'll believe that he did and treat him as dirt. But until then, the number of proven false accusations of everything from real estate fraud to murder makes it impossible to take any allegations against him seriously.
Right now the only allegation of sexual impropriety made against Bill Clinton that's been shown to be true is an affair with a consenting woman. That makes him a dick in terms of his treatment of his wife. It does not make him a rapist. And it certainly doesn't make his wife a criminal.
Hey, if you're going to do giant floating cities in a hostile environment, why not go for the gold and populate Saturn? Earth-like gravity, but oodles of real estate...
I hate having to defend Trump, but yes, at this point it was just "joshing around guy talk" as we don't have any other evidence of a crime.
As a man, I can tell you that this is not "joshing around guy talk". I've never met anyone who talks like this, ever.
And he was, actually, stating that he routinely sexually assaults women, using his celebrity status to get away with it. The fact he didn't name names is immaterial.
I have no idea what gender you are. If you're female, no, Trump is not an example of how men act behind closed doors. If you're a man, you need to do some deep introspection and ask yourself what kind of person you are. Because if you seriously think it's normal for men to boast about sexual assault, then there's something wrong with your moral compass. It's not normal. Normal men are disgusted by sexual assault, and we'd never tolerate anyone boasting about it.
You forgot to quote (or read, judging from your conclusion) this part:
Some people might be tempted to write off Trump's comments to Bush as empty boasts. They would be utter fools to do so. The New York Times, in fact, has just run an interview with a woman who says she was given the Trump treatment by the reality TV star. This is not an isolated incident: there is ample evidence that Trump has physically harmed women. And he has now admitted on tape that he feels license to mistreat them.
This hasn't been necessary in almost a decade. It's been a very long time since I bought an unlocked phone and had to enter any additional information to get the data to work.
I mean, that's the real crime--not what Hillary did.
Uh, you're writing sarcastically, but you do understand that this is correct, right?
Trump did encourage others to engage in unlawful activity, eg hacking. While this is the leaking of a donor list of a charity that the Clintons run that does things like fight AIDS in Africa. It is not illegal to fight AIDS in Africa. It's not illegal to run charities that do so. It's not illegal to donate to charities that do so.
That is a request that is so obviously unconstitutional.
No. It might be unconstitutional if it were a demand or order, but a request, with no pressure on Yahoo to submit to it? Entirely up to Yahoo.
And that's important to understand, because it also means there's no court in the country that would stop it from happening. A business has every right to voluntarily give up information to the state. Any business. Including those that handle your private data.
If the device is going to have a USB port anyway, then adding an additional USB port (by the side, obviously, not on top) will affect neither space nor water resistance.
Assange made it clear he'll carry on with the leaks over the next month, so I'm not sure it really means much he didn't today.
Whether any (a) will actually be of substance, and (b) will affect someone who, frankly, has had so many BS allegations made against her that if she was found with a dead hooker in her closet tomorrow we'd be wondering who planted it there, remains to be seen. Her opponents have apparently never read the story of the boy who cried wolf.
Not going to comment on the wisdom of removing the headphone jack, but it'd be trivially easy to add multiple USB ports, solving that problem and a few others too. It wouldn't even affect the thinness of the device.
Can't see Samsung doing that though, at least, not unless Apple also does it.
I don't think there's a single European country that has a law that outlaws the expression of a particular point of view based upon how unpopular it is.
I can also say that whenever someone claims that European governments regularly outlaw the expression of points of view purely because they're unpopular, the laws they point to (1) are based on something other than popularity, and (2) usually outlaw the expression of points of view that are alarmingly popular.
- The "email issue" continues to be a nothing to see. At worst they show a slight lack of misjudgements over technical issues.
- The Clinton Foundation is a highly respected charity, and while some journalists have attempted to find conflicts of interest or misuses of power, thus far every time someone has made what seems to be a serious allegation it's been found to be baseless or just plain silly. It's ironic, the more people talk about it, the better it makes her look.
- The DNC's behavior in the primaries was seriously bad, and I'm disgusted Clinton rewarded DWS with a job in her campaign, but frankly it's the DNC, not Clinton or her campaign.
Assange might have something actually damaging, who knows? But thus far, what's been thrown at Clinton has been stupid, seen only as "damaging" if you hate Clinton so much you'd latch onto a spelling mistake as evidence she's unfit for government.
I dunno, the conversation might have gone like this:
"Oh yes, one other thing. You know those voice assistants? Siri? Alexa? Cortana?"
'Yes, we were planning to integrate them into our systems, we've looked at the market research, and there's a 10% probability that our customers might actually want that in the next ten ye..."
"Don't. I mean, don't tell anyone, but even our "OK Google" voice thing is going to be phased out in favor of just a simple voice dialing thing. And you definitely should knock it off with Siri/Alexa/Cortana/etc. The fact is they're all evil."
"Evil Mr Brin? What do you mean?"
"We found the NSA tapping into OK Google a few hours after launch. Right now, if you use Siri, we've found no less than 27 intelligence agencies, plus the Mafia, the Trump campaign, the RIAA, and the Milk Marketing Board of North America will add your search terms to their databases. And you don't want to know about Alexa, I mean, *whispers* we discovered Oracle has found a way to tap into that."
Kenwood's head of Product Development gasped. "Oracle? You mean... Larry Ellison can hear me say goodnight to my kids every night?"
Sergey nodded. "There's a mountain Island just off the west coast of Hawaii that contains a secret underground base where Ellison collects reports from Alexa, and uses them to determine the right time to strike. We found he'd hacked Google at one point, and were able to feed him false data to throw him off, but it's just a matter of time. The only reason OK Google is still running is because we want him to think it's still valid data."
In practice, even if you are a white male, the collapse of the economy and the country being engulfed in pointless, possibly Nuclear, wars are going to seriously damage your quality of life. And the argument "Clinton is corrupt, therefore let's vote for Trump!" is so utterly bizarre: Clinton has had baseless claims of corruption against her, therefore her opponents are going to vote for someone who openly admits to using bribes?
Defer upgrades doesn't defer updates. The only way to defer updates is to stop and disable the Windows Update service. I'm not going to advocate one way or another for whether you should do that, I do it for my machine at home, but I'm well aware of the risks.
The Amiga's design? One of the most beautiful, non-kludges, ever designed. Frankly, the only thing C= could have done that would have kludged it (a little) would have been to add a chunky pixel mode - which I believe is what they were trying to do with the 32 bit chipset they started working on before moving over to AGA.
AGA was exactly what you'd expect a 32 bit, faster, version of OCS/ECS to look like, and the best part was that it delivered an amazing advance over ECS without either being a kludge or sacrificing reverse compatibility. In part that was because the Amiga chipset's design was, from the start, inherently scalable.
I'm not saying they could have continued indefinitely - while it scaled up well, it was never going to be as efficient at processing 32 bit pixels as an architecture designed with 32 bit pixels from day one. That meant as memory costs reduced and bus speeds soared eventually the Amiga design became obsolete. But that wasn't the case in 1990-1993.
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Because it wouldn't help them in the slightest. All it might do is discourage other companies from doing the same thing. But once a company has decided to fire you, the clock is ticking. They're not going to do more than give you a temporary delay if you make it harder for them, and they're going to resent every second they employ you, which means your days are numbered, come what may.
If you cooperate, they'll at least pay severance and give you a reasonable reference. If you don't, you'll go to work every day wondering if this is the day you're going to get fired, and be unemployable hereon.
Usually they make your severance dependent upon it.
Haven't been in exactly the same situation, but was given three months notice when the US branch of a UK company decided it was time to shut down the US branch and have the development be centralized at the UK offices. I had to train my UK counterparts during that three months, or else not get severance.
In my case the situation was understandable (which is not to say I agreed with it), and we went our separate ways on good terms. I can't imagine how horrible the workers described above felt, and Diane Feinstein is up there with DWS as one of the worst Democrats ever.
Note to self: User Mi apparently thinks celebrities should be able to sexually assault women because their victims technically will not get killed if they complain about it.
Did you ever hear the story of the boy who cried wolf?
Because there's a similar story about the right wing partisan that cried "Clintons committed another crime".
If Bill Clinton admits to sexually assaulting women, as Trump did, or else he's prosecuted and found guilty, we'll believe that he did and treat him as dirt. But until then, the number of proven false accusations of everything from real estate fraud to murder makes it impossible to take any allegations against him seriously.
Right now the only allegation of sexual impropriety made against Bill Clinton that's been shown to be true is an affair with a consenting woman. That makes him a dick in terms of his treatment of his wife. It does not make him a rapist. And it certainly doesn't make his wife a criminal.
Hey, if you're going to do giant floating cities in a hostile environment, why not go for the gold and populate Saturn? Earth-like gravity, but oodles of real estate...
As a man, I can tell you that this is not "joshing around guy talk". I've never met anyone who talks like this, ever.
And he was, actually, stating that he routinely sexually assaults women, using his celebrity status to get away with it. The fact he didn't name names is immaterial.
I have no idea what gender you are. If you're female, no, Trump is not an example of how men act behind closed doors. If you're a man, you need to do some deep introspection and ask yourself what kind of person you are. Because if you seriously think it's normal for men to boast about sexual assault, then there's something wrong with your moral compass. It's not normal. Normal men are disgusted by sexual assault, and we'd never tolerate anyone boasting about it.
You forgot to quote (or read, judging from your conclusion) this part:
You idiot! He's not saying Tuesday's a country, he's saying that they're sending people to Mars on Tuesday!
Pretty ambitious if you ask me, that's just a week away!
This hasn't been necessary in almost a decade. It's been a very long time since I bought an unlocked phone and had to enter any additional information to get the data to work.
When I first heard Buzzfeed had been hacked, I was all:
[Gif showing someone turning around and their mouth hanging open]
I mean, first of all, how would someone hack such a major website?
[Gif showing clip of Trinity hacking into the power plant using that OpenSSH bug]
And why? I had all kinds of theories!
[Gif of Scrooge McDuck bathing in gold coins, throwing them up in the air]
But then I heard the full story, apparently the hackers thought Buzzfeed was a serious news site!
[Gif showing someone's mouth open while they shake their heads]
I mean, like a newspaper!
[Gif showing newspapers rolling off a press]
with real news!
[Gif of man with Trilby and a notepad, standing next to another one with a giant camera, who then takes a picture causing the screen to turn white]
Only online!
[Gif of someone's finger browsing through the Uber app]
With pictures!
[Picture of an art gallery]
And I was like: "What a bunch of idiots!"
[Gif of someone flipping through tabs on their web browser, showing Twitter, Buzzfeed, and Slashdot]
Uh, you're writing sarcastically, but you do understand that this is correct, right?
Trump did encourage others to engage in unlawful activity, eg hacking. While this is the leaking of a donor list of a charity that the Clintons run that does things like fight AIDS in Africa. It is not illegal to fight AIDS in Africa. It's not illegal to run charities that do so. It's not illegal to donate to charities that do so.
This isn't a fake charity like the Trump Foundation, it's a real honest-to-god A-rated group that does good things. Every mention of it should increase Ms Clinton's position in the polls.
No. It might be unconstitutional if it were a demand or order, but a request, with no pressure on Yahoo to submit to it? Entirely up to Yahoo.
And that's important to understand, because it also means there's no court in the country that would stop it from happening. A business has every right to voluntarily give up information to the state. Any business. Including those that handle your private data.
89 Kelvin, it's out of 273. 89/273.
If the device is going to have a USB port anyway, then adding an additional USB port (by the side, obviously, not on top) will affect neither space nor water resistance.
I thought it was something that involved Bill Gates on the drums, Nadella playing guitar, Ballmer singing (and dancing, naturally...)
Assange made it clear he'll carry on with the leaks over the next month, so I'm not sure it really means much he didn't today.
Whether any (a) will actually be of substance, and (b) will affect someone who, frankly, has had so many BS allegations made against her that if she was found with a dead hooker in her closet tomorrow we'd be wondering who planted it there, remains to be seen. Her opponents have apparently never read the story of the boy who cried wolf.
Not going to comment on the wisdom of removing the headphone jack, but it'd be trivially easy to add multiple USB ports, solving that problem and a few others too. It wouldn't even affect the thinness of the device.
Can't see Samsung doing that though, at least, not unless Apple also does it.
That's actually a fairly common combination in the prepaid market. Example: T-Mobile has an unlimited data and texts with 100 minutes talk for $30/month plan.
I assume the thinking is that it makes people who think they rarely use the phone as a phone think they're getting a great deal.
I don't think there's a single European country that has a law that outlaws the expression of a particular point of view based upon how unpopular it is.
I can also say that whenever someone claims that European governments regularly outlaw the expression of points of view purely because they're unpopular, the laws they point to (1) are based on something other than popularity, and (2) usually outlaw the expression of points of view that are alarmingly popular.
- The "email issue" continues to be a nothing to see. At worst they show a slight lack of misjudgements over technical issues.
- The Clinton Foundation is a highly respected charity, and while some journalists have attempted to find conflicts of interest or misuses of power, thus far every time someone has made what seems to be a serious allegation it's been found to be baseless or just plain silly. It's ironic, the more people talk about it, the better it makes her look.
- The DNC's behavior in the primaries was seriously bad, and I'm disgusted Clinton rewarded DWS with a job in her campaign, but frankly it's the DNC, not Clinton or her campaign.
Assange might have something actually damaging, who knows? But thus far, what's been thrown at Clinton has been stupid, seen only as "damaging" if you hate Clinton so much you'd latch onto a spelling mistake as evidence she's unfit for government.
I dunno, the conversation might have gone like this:
"Oh yes, one other thing. You know those voice assistants? Siri? Alexa? Cortana?"
'Yes, we were planning to integrate them into our systems, we've looked at the market research, and there's a 10% probability that our customers might actually want that in the next ten ye..."
"Don't. I mean, don't tell anyone, but even our "OK Google" voice thing is going to be phased out in favor of just a simple voice dialing thing. And you definitely should knock it off with Siri/Alexa/Cortana/etc. The fact is they're all evil."
"Evil Mr Brin? What do you mean?"
"We found the NSA tapping into OK Google a few hours after launch. Right now, if you use Siri, we've found no less than 27 intelligence agencies, plus the Mafia, the Trump campaign, the RIAA, and the Milk Marketing Board of North America will add your search terms to their databases. And you don't want to know about Alexa, I mean, *whispers* we discovered Oracle has found a way to tap into that."
Kenwood's head of Product Development gasped. "Oracle? You mean... Larry Ellison can hear me say goodnight to my kids every night?"
Sergey nodded. "There's a mountain Island just off the west coast of Hawaii that contains a secret underground base where Ellison collects reports from Alexa, and uses them to determine the right time to strike. We found he'd hacked Google at one point, and were able to feed him false data to throw him off, but it's just a matter of time. The only reason OK Google is still running is because we want him to think it's still valid data."
"We'll remove the functionality."
In practice, even if you are a white male, the collapse of the economy and the country being engulfed in pointless, possibly Nuclear, wars are going to seriously damage your quality of life. And the argument "Clinton is corrupt, therefore let's vote for Trump!" is so utterly bizarre: Clinton has had baseless claims of corruption against her, therefore her opponents are going to vote for someone who openly admits to using bribes?
What?
Defer upgrades doesn't defer updates. The only way to defer updates is to stop and disable the Windows Update service. I'm not going to advocate one way or another for whether you should do that, I do it for my machine at home, but I'm well aware of the risks.
The Amiga's design? One of the most beautiful, non-kludges, ever designed. Frankly, the only thing C= could have done that would have kludged it (a little) would have been to add a chunky pixel mode - which I believe is what they were trying to do with the 32 bit chipset they started working on before moving over to AGA.
AGA was exactly what you'd expect a 32 bit, faster, version of OCS/ECS to look like, and the best part was that it delivered an amazing advance over ECS without either being a kludge or sacrificing reverse compatibility. In part that was because the Amiga chipset's design was, from the start, inherently scalable.
I'm not saying they could have continued indefinitely - while it scaled up well, it was never going to be as efficient at processing 32 bit pixels as an architecture designed with 32 bit pixels from day one. That meant as memory costs reduced and bus speeds soared eventually the Amiga design became obsolete. But that wasn't the case in 1990-1993.
This is the third revision of USB audio. USB headphones have been available for a long, long, time.