Actually, the survey asked whether employees preferred working 80+ hours a week or being fed poison, impaled, and then immolated. See, it's all in how you ask the question.
Easy, I just drop a hint that I might be purchasing something, and the vendor's account rep buys me lunch and tells me how good his product is, and all the competitor's faults. After a week of free lunches, I announce the project has been put on hold. Then repeat the process next month, using what you learned the previous month. I've gained 10 pounds this year! Of course, it helps to work for a Fortune 5 company. Not only do you have a sales team, and sales engineering team, there's usually a vendor VP assigned to manage the relationship between your company and theirs. And those guys have really big expense accounts.
I don't have to use the
And your tariff on "imported" labor would just cause companies to move jobs overseas... It's a double-edged sword. When I worked for a productivity software company, we loved it when the government made it more expensive to hire people - then companies were willing to spend more to make existing employees more productive. On the other hand, it also makes foriegn labor look better.
No, you were exagerating in calling this guy a "reporter". Advocate is the proper word. THe whole article was a series of attacks interspersed with the occaisonal bone tossed to Sun. This would get a C- from a sophmore journalism student, so it's frontpage news...
Sun paid $9 Mil, and guaranteed that their execs could concentrate on SUNW, not SCO's lawywers. Even if they didn't get generous redistribution terms, they came out ahead. After all, they paid $100M to Kodak for the same reason.
In addition, SUNW doesn't have a monopoly. In US law, there are lots of things that are legal for a competitor to do, but illegal if that competitor has a monopoly (or even a majority share of the market, in some cases).
Spurl is a "social" bookmark site in the same vein as del.icio.us. In fact, the spurl "submit" form will also add the url to your del.icio.us account if you'd like.
I don't begrudge my CEO his salary. Even without the insane hours he works, he is the single point of blame if anyone doesn't like any aspect of a $132 Billion corporation.
Guess again. Paid overtime is somewhat rare, but comp time (real comp time) is not. As a system admin, every job I had offered comp time to make up for working a Sunday night maintenance window, or for coming in at midnight to kick a server. And as an engineer on government contracts, paid overtime (at a phony 1.5x normal rate) was pretty much the norm - after a 45 hour week.
They have all sorts of plans for weird things like that. That's what armies (and other bureacracies) do when they're not busy: plan and train. Some Major asks himself, "What if we had a sudden demand for morticians?", then creates an "Emergency Mortician Accession Plan", then tries to get promoted for averting a mortician shortage.
Damn right. The feds and most large universities do the same thing. You have to be there regularly, because it's become more competitive. Dealers have figured out you can buy pallets of this stuff (and practically pay by the pound) and piece it out on eBay at a modest profit. Through in a shipping and handling fee, and it's even more profitable.
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It's not clear how you use a software license to lock up a PROTOCOL. If you've described it adequately, what's to stop someone else from reverse engineering it? Patents, of course.
But the point of the article is that he didn't need access to source to create the tests. He just threw random junk and the browsers and noted which input made them barf. Clever idea, but some of us remember when you did this with a command line tool (crashme) back in the days of 68020s.
Possible, but unlikely to have impacted this test. The XPSP2 update is supposed to cause malformed code to crash an app, rather than subvert it. The point of the article is that IE didn't crash. Sure, it's because MS already does this sort of testing - but the point is that others ought to as well.
Use Raima - Redundant Array (of) Independent Mail Accounts. Forward the important stuff to 4 free 1 GB accounts. Just don't forget to send a checksum to the 5th account!
Game center opened 6 months ago here. It's in a strip mall in a reasonably affluent suburb. The owner jokes he runs a babysitting service for Jr High school boys (80% of clients). They get access to 6-7 new games on better hardware then they have at home, their parents get to drop them off and know that they're safe, and he gets $5/hour x 60 machines. He covers his costs on a few busy weekend nights - the rest is profit.
With AIX and HP-UX, there's still 28 steps. It's just that the manuals say:
1) Run smit (IBM version)
or
1) Run SAM (HP-UX version).
and you're supposed to read the menus to figure out the other 27 steps.
As many have suggested, talk to an lawyer who understands employment law. In my state, docking a salaried employee based on hours missed has been construed by the courts as making them hourly, and therefore non-exempt for overtime purposes.
At one place I worked, the policy was that if you were going to work for a competitor (defined pretty broadly), you were escorted out the door immediately and given a check for your notice.
Of course, once layoffs started, word got around. People who found better jobs would give four weeks notice. Then refuse to say who their new employer was. Usually the people they lost this way were the ones they didn't want to lose - the screwups held on for dear life until RIF'd.
Not a very "informative" answer, given that this tool is for database adminstrators, and doesn't seem to do either of the specific tasks the poster requested. Not a knock against cocoamysql, it looks pretty cool.
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Actually, the survey asked whether employees preferred working 80+ hours a week or being fed poison, impaled, and then immolated.
See, it's all in how you ask the question.
And your tariff on "imported" labor would just cause companies to move jobs overseas... It's a double-edged sword. When I worked for a productivity software company, we loved it when the government made it more expensive to hire people - then companies were willing to spend more to make existing employees more productive. On the other hand, it also makes foriegn labor look better.
No, you were exagerating in calling this guy a "reporter". Advocate is the proper word. THe whole article was a series of attacks interspersed with the occaisonal bone tossed to Sun. This would get a C- from a sophmore journalism student, so it's frontpage news...
Sun paid $9 Mil, and guaranteed that their execs could concentrate on SUNW, not SCO's lawywers. Even if they didn't get generous redistribution terms, they came out ahead. After all, they paid $100M to Kodak for the same reason.
In addition, SUNW doesn't have a monopoly. In US law, there are lots of things that are legal for a competitor to do, but illegal if that competitor has a monopoly (or even a majority share of the market, in some cases).
Spurl is a "social" bookmark site in the same vein as del.icio.us. In fact, the spurl "submit" form will also add the url to your del.icio.us account if you'd like.
Actually, Sun did. Who do you think pays for the bulk of the work in GNOME to make it meet various usability guidelines?
I don't begrudge my CEO his salary. Even without the insane hours he works, he is the single point of blame if anyone doesn't like any aspect of a $132 Billion corporation.
Guess again. Paid overtime is somewhat rare, but comp time (real comp time) is not. As a system admin, every job I had offered comp time to make up for working a Sunday night maintenance window, or for coming in at midnight to kick a server. And as an engineer on government contracts, paid overtime (at a phony 1.5x normal rate) was pretty much the norm - after a 45 hour week.
he did say "major hurricane". If it moved a penguin to the Carribean, it'd have to be by air.
They have all sorts of plans for weird things like that. That's what armies (and other bureacracies) do when they're not busy: plan and train. Some Major asks himself, "What if we had a sudden demand for morticians?", then creates an "Emergency Mortician Accession Plan", then tries to get promoted for averting a mortician shortage.
Just use "Nintendo Lawyers" as the text for a link to goatse, and watch what happens!
Damn right. The feds and most large universities do the same thing. You have to be there regularly, because it's become more competitive. Dealers have figured out you can buy pallets of this stuff (and practically pay by the pound) and piece it out on eBay at a modest profit. Through in a shipping and handling fee, and it's even more profitable.
It's not clear how you use a software license to lock up a PROTOCOL. If you've described it adequately, what's to stop someone else from reverse engineering it? Patents, of course.
But the point of the article is that he didn't need access to source to create the tests. He just threw random junk and the browsers and noted which input made them barf. Clever idea, but some of us remember when you did this with a command line tool (crashme) back in the days of 68020s.
Possible, but unlikely to have impacted this test. The XPSP2 update is supposed to cause malformed code to crash an app, rather than subvert it. The point of the article is that IE didn't crash. Sure, it's because MS already does this sort of testing - but the point is that others ought to as well.
Use Raima - Redundant Array (of) Independent Mail Accounts. Forward the important stuff to 4 free 1 GB accounts. Just don't forget to send a checksum to the 5th account!
Game center opened 6 months ago here. It's in a strip mall in a reasonably affluent suburb. The owner jokes he runs a babysitting service for Jr High school boys (80% of clients). They get access to 6-7 new games on better hardware then they have at home, their parents get to drop them off and know that they're safe, and he gets $5/hour x 60 machines. He covers his costs on a few busy weekend nights - the rest is profit.
Nah, you want to really mess with his mind. Buy the same version of the clock WITHOUT the camera and swap with him. What's he gonna say?
With AIX and HP-UX, there's still 28 steps. It's just that the manuals say: 1) Run smit (IBM version) or 1) Run SAM (HP-UX version). and you're supposed to read the menus to figure out the other 27 steps.
As many have suggested, talk to an lawyer who understands employment law. In my state, docking a salaried employee based on hours missed has been construed by the courts as making them hourly, and therefore non-exempt for overtime purposes.
At one place I worked, the policy was that if you were going to work for a competitor (defined pretty broadly), you were escorted out the door immediately and given a check for your notice. Of course, once layoffs started, word got around. People who found better jobs would give four weeks notice. Then refuse to say who their new employer was. Usually the people they lost this way were the ones they didn't want to lose - the screwups held on for dear life until RIF'd.
Windows users should also see www.tinyapps.org.
Not a very "informative" answer, given that this tool is for database adminstrators, and doesn't seem to do either of the specific tasks the poster requested. Not a knock against cocoamysql, it looks pretty cool.