notices supersede an implicit non-compete clause? Basically they might argue that the company had put them on notice that they all should look for other opportunities, so maybe an implied non-compete gets thrown out the window? I have no idea what the legal precedents are.
Of course, the 2 managers who had the "no recruit" clauses could simply say that they weren't involved in planning the move - that they were actually recruited by the other 16 HP employees who plotted the whole move on their own. And HP's lawyers would then look for evidence in the form of emails and testimony to suggest otherwise.
Recruitment seems to be the issue here. FTFA: "In the case of the two IT managers, HP alleges that their hiring agreements included a clause that prevents them from soliciting HP employees."
Another reason for the IRS losing its effectiveness was the passage of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in July, 1998 (during the Gingrich/Clinton years of control of Washington). The IRS was accused of conducting abusive investigations, and as a result of the Act, the burden of proof for some IRS enforcement actions shifted from the taxpayer to the IRS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irs#Criticism. However, historically the enforcement of taxes, especially personal income taxes, is a tremendously expensive and energy-draining burden on any government. Modern governments would be wise to look at some of the ideas for alternative tax measures, such as flat or national sales taxes. Digital alternatives to large and expensive bureaucracies, such as the "government as a service" model of governing, have tremendous potential to make future forms of government far more efficient and make tax burdens less burdensome for individual citizens.
I did not say "run any Android app you want" - so you don't need to put quote marks around it, unless you are quoting yourself. I'm simply remarking that there are thousands of apps for Android that also appear to be showing up as apps on the Chrome web store. If you spent a bit of time browsing through the Chrome web store, I think you would be impressed at how quickly it's maturing, as I was.
I think there are around 400 to 500 offline apps in the Web store's "offline collection" now - so there's quite a bit of useful stuff. All the core google apps are now available offline - Reader, Calendar, Docs, Books, Google Drive, Gmail, Calculator, Tasks, etc, etc... All kinds of games are, of course, available offline. It's enough software that I'm not stuck with nothing to do on a long plane ride.
and they'll come up with the "iPalm iPilot". It will be all the rage. Every corporate slave will want one. Until Apple invents something even cooler - the "iBlackberry". Your iFuture will make the past look like the dark, dark ages, my friends.
On Linux, you've got to send an invitation from the Linux machine, whereas the Windows machines allow a "connect anytime" interface. I don't try to access Chrome Remote Desktop while I'm traveling on a train or bus or airplane - I would just be using the offline apps at that point. It's fast when you are on a fast wifi network, but I think that over a tethered, long distance cell network you would have a lot of latency and disconnection problems. Probably better just to SSH into your Linux box at that point.
It depends. If you use a cross platform development kit like appMobi or Corona or Icenium you can supposedly build HTML5 apps for a wide variety of mobile environments. I'm assuming that some software shops are simply re-writing their java Android apps as web apps for Chrome. However they are doing it, there's a tremendous amount of very familiar looking products being added to the Chrome web store.
No - your example is incorrect - any Wall Street fraud would be a multi-million dollar case. But religion cases have normally resulted in far less money in fines, and ultimately consist of late tax penalties or immigration fines in most cases. Since there are already government structures in place in nearly all developed countries to deal with tax and immigration issues, it would be an unecessary (and large) expense to go through with fraud litigation. Keep in mind my original point - when you litigate fraud, you are almost always held to the highest evidence pleading requirement - much higher than even for a typical violent crime, such as murder. Fraud must be pled with "particularity", which is a huge and expensive hurdle to overcome. You basically have to know and state the "particulars" of the fraud before you get a chance at discovery or deposing witnesses or proving anything in trial. If you can't do that, your case gets thrown out, regardless of how much money has been spent building the case. Preparing a fraud case can be many times more expensive than bringing a typical medical malpractice case to court.
chrome remote desktop is not compatible with the new Acer. Found that out the hard way. To compensate for this I did the share screen option in hangouts which allowed me to help someone get a new chromebook setup. It's weird but the video in hangouts works much better than skype for my area.
I absolutely love the chromebooks for consumers who don't need to do anything specialized on them.
I'll bet Google will work out the bugs and get it working for the Acer soon. They seem to be trying to catch up the services on these things pretty quickly.
Yes, it's hard to get political support for government fraud investigations that don't pay for themselves in America. Over here, budgeting is an open political process, so every dollar spent is argued over at great length.
Yeah, it's been downloaded over 100 million times and has a 4 star rating on the Play store, so clearly not everyone is running into all 6 of the OP's problems. Maybe he was using an older version - I heard it had some bugs on certain devices earlier.
Yeah, it's shocking how fast this Exynos processor is, and the Chromebook handles graphics processes with ease. I can run more videos concurrently on it than on my desktop. My daughter hooks up the HDMI port to run her big flat screen TV with it and watch Hulu. I guess Netflix isn't working yet on the $250 model, but they are supposed to fix that soon. Also nice that you get a full-sized USB 3.0 port, a full-sized USB 2.0 port, and a full-sized HDMI port. Nicer than the MacBook Air in that regard - no need to run out and buy the MacBook-to-HDMI conversion adaptor for $30.
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And how many drone strikes have been carried out over the past 10 years?
that no one has used a car as a murder weapon in the past few years?
notices supersede an implicit non-compete clause? Basically they might argue that the company had put them on notice that they all should look for other opportunities, so maybe an implied non-compete gets thrown out the window? I have no idea what the legal precedents are.
Of course, the 2 managers who had the "no recruit" clauses could simply say that they weren't involved in planning the move - that they were actually recruited by the other 16 HP employees who plotted the whole move on their own. And HP's lawyers would then look for evidence in the form of emails and testimony to suggest otherwise.
Recruitment seems to be the issue here. FTFA: "In the case of the two IT managers, HP alleges that their hiring agreements included a clause that prevents them from soliciting HP employees."
..."you can't leave unless WE fire you". Nice way to build loyalty!
Another reason for the IRS losing its effectiveness was the passage of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in July, 1998 (during the Gingrich/Clinton years of control of Washington). The IRS was accused of conducting abusive investigations, and as a result of the Act, the burden of proof for some IRS enforcement actions shifted from the taxpayer to the IRS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irs#Criticism. However, historically the enforcement of taxes, especially personal income taxes, is a tremendously expensive and energy-draining burden on any government. Modern governments would be wise to look at some of the ideas for alternative tax measures, such as flat or national sales taxes. Digital alternatives to large and expensive bureaucracies, such as the "government as a service" model of governing, have tremendous potential to make future forms of government far more efficient and make tax burdens less burdensome for individual citizens.
It does not mean that at all. Chrome's web store is much more limited than the Android app store at this point.
When people stop paying. The only reason these "businesses" can remain in "business" is because someone is paying.
I did not say "run any Android app you want" - so you don't need to put quote marks around it, unless you are quoting yourself. I'm simply remarking that there are thousands of apps for Android that also appear to be showing up as apps on the Chrome web store. If you spent a bit of time browsing through the Chrome web store, I think you would be impressed at how quickly it's maturing, as I was.
Looks like a few offline programming apps. ShiftEdit looks interesting: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shiftedit/lcgmndephhjcabhhjfcmncnhbmgbkpij?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon.
Chrome has some offline image editors. One is called "Amopic": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amopic/nmnefpehffecmjnhhncoacgdcecnckac?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon. Picasa is also apparently available offline: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/picasa/onlgmecjpnejhfeofkgbfgnmdlipdejb?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
I think there are around 400 to 500 offline apps in the Web store's "offline collection" now - so there's quite a bit of useful stuff. All the core google apps are now available offline - Reader, Calendar, Docs, Books, Google Drive, Gmail, Calculator, Tasks, etc, etc... All kinds of games are, of course, available offline. It's enough software that I'm not stuck with nothing to do on a long plane ride.
and they'll come up with the "iPalm iPilot". It will be all the rage. Every corporate slave will want one. Until Apple invents something even cooler - the "iBlackberry". Your iFuture will make the past look like the dark, dark ages, my friends.
Or, if you want to dual boot, you can boot some specially prepared Linux distros from an external USB drive.
On Linux, you've got to send an invitation from the Linux machine, whereas the Windows machines allow a "connect anytime" interface. I don't try to access Chrome Remote Desktop while I'm traveling on a train or bus or airplane - I would just be using the offline apps at that point. It's fast when you are on a fast wifi network, but I think that over a tethered, long distance cell network you would have a lot of latency and disconnection problems. Probably better just to SSH into your Linux box at that point.
It depends. If you use a cross platform development kit like appMobi or Corona or Icenium you can supposedly build HTML5 apps for a wide variety of mobile environments. I'm assuming that some software shops are simply re-writing their java Android apps as web apps for Chrome. However they are doing it, there's a tremendous amount of very familiar looking products being added to the Chrome web store.
No - your example is incorrect - any Wall Street fraud would be a multi-million dollar case. But religion cases have normally resulted in far less money in fines, and ultimately consist of late tax penalties or immigration fines in most cases. Since there are already government structures in place in nearly all developed countries to deal with tax and immigration issues, it would be an unecessary (and large) expense to go through with fraud litigation. Keep in mind my original point - when you litigate fraud, you are almost always held to the highest evidence pleading requirement - much higher than even for a typical violent crime, such as murder. Fraud must be pled with "particularity", which is a huge and expensive hurdle to overcome. You basically have to know and state the "particulars" of the fraud before you get a chance at discovery or deposing witnesses or proving anything in trial. If you can't do that, your case gets thrown out, regardless of how much money has been spent building the case. Preparing a fraud case can be many times more expensive than bringing a typical medical malpractice case to court.
chrome remote desktop is not compatible with the new Acer. Found that out the hard way. To compensate for this I did the share screen option in hangouts which allowed me to help someone get a new chromebook setup. It's weird but the video in hangouts works much better than skype for my area. I absolutely love the chromebooks for consumers who don't need to do anything specialized on them.
I'll bet Google will work out the bugs and get it working for the Acer soon. They seem to be trying to catch up the services on these things pretty quickly.
Yeah, I still love my 3-year old eeePc - can't argue your point.
Yes, it's hard to get political support for government fraud investigations that don't pay for themselves in America. Over here, budgeting is an open political process, so every dollar spent is argued over at great length.
Yeah, it's been downloaded over 100 million times and has a 4 star rating on the Play store, so clearly not everyone is running into all 6 of the OP's problems. Maybe he was using an older version - I heard it had some bugs on certain devices earlier.
I was waiting for a decent Android laptop, but with all the thousands of Android apps ported to Chrome, this Chromebook is the ticket.
Yeah, it's shocking how fast this Exynos processor is, and the Chromebook handles graphics processes with ease. I can run more videos concurrently on it than on my desktop. My daughter hooks up the HDMI port to run her big flat screen TV with it and watch Hulu. I guess Netflix isn't working yet on the $250 model, but they are supposed to fix that soon. Also nice that you get a full-sized USB 3.0 port, a full-sized USB 2.0 port, and a full-sized HDMI port. Nicer than the MacBook Air in that regard - no need to run out and buy the MacBook-to-HDMI conversion adaptor for $30.
In fact, it's already running Gentoo - you can get to it in Dev mode.
Mostly the Chromebook is just so lightweight. My daughter's 11.6 inch MacBook Air is heavy compared to this thing.