Microsoft loses money on each Xbox 360 sold. Encouraging mods encourages people to buy consoles for reasons other than playing licensed games, and licensed games are the only way for Microsoft to profit on the console. So mods are bad for business.
Verizon's FIOS is a passive optical network, which uses shared bandwidth on the downstream side (every home's equipment sees all the traffic) and time-division multiplexing on the upstream side (homes send data one at a time). That approach allows Verizon to have only passive, non-powered optical splitters in the field, sharing one fiber among as many as 32 homes. Google passive optical network if you want to know more.
NAV 2004 isn't a sea-change; it's just one more product in an ongoing technology race between legitimate advertisers (and spammers and everyone in between) and honest consumers (and parasites and everyone in between). If enough consumers read your ads despite the software, great. If not, you'll need to find a way to evade the software (i.e., require that your readers also read the ads) or find another way to make money. Another day, another challenge.
Some headhunters work on retainer -- generally filling higher-level positions. They tend to put their client's interests first, because their compensation is already earned and because they work on a long-term basis. Others work on commission, filling a position for, say, 30% of the first-year salary. Many of these are, I understand, a bit less ethical.
When you speak with a headhunter trying to fill a position, just ask, "Are you on commission for this, or is it a retainer job?" You can learn a lot from that.
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Microsoft loses money on each Xbox 360 sold. Encouraging mods encourages people to buy consoles for reasons other than playing licensed games, and licensed games are the only way for Microsoft to profit on the console. So mods are bad for business.
Verizon's FIOS is a passive optical network, which uses shared bandwidth on the downstream side (every home's equipment sees all the traffic) and time-division multiplexing on the upstream side (homes send data one at a time). That approach allows Verizon to have only passive, non-powered optical splitters in the field, sharing one fiber among as many as 32 homes.
Google passive optical network if you want to know more.
NAV 2004 isn't a sea-change; it's just one more product in an ongoing technology race between legitimate advertisers (and spammers and everyone in between) and honest consumers (and parasites and everyone in between). If enough consumers read your ads despite the software, great. If not, you'll need to find a way to evade the software (i.e., require that your readers also read the ads) or find another way to make money. Another day, another challenge.
Some headhunters work on retainer -- generally filling higher-level positions. They tend to put their client's interests first, because their compensation is already earned and because they work on a long-term basis. Others work on commission, filling a position for, say, 30% of the first-year salary. Many of these are, I understand, a bit less ethical.
When you speak with a headhunter trying to fill a position, just ask, "Are you on commission for this, or is it a retainer job?" You can learn a lot from that.