If you already tried to resign, accepting counter offers is a pretty bad idea.
This entirely depends on why you're leaving. I've attempted to leave jobs simply for more pay. I tell them I've interviewed and they ask what the offer is. I tell them, the offer more, I stay. As long as you like your job, you may as well go with there's more money as long as there's good will (which there was in my case). If there's no good will, a decent manager won't counter even if they could.
I can't find parallels of any of those myself, but I'm guessing if you talk to someone considerably older than myself, he's probably read a book that is very similar to one of those.
Music has some originality. Classical, Big Band, Rock and Roll, Rap...you could call each of those "original" genres, but I'm not sure they're anything but "original for their time", which is kind of my point. Not saying there was a 15th century version of Elvis, but tribal drums to a rhythm are nothing new. Old Gaelic music was akin to what you hear in many classical pieces. Rap is poetry to music -- extempo has been around a long time.
Windows: Plug the PC in (You did them buy with Windows preloaded, didn't you)
Yes, and quickly reformatted and reinstalled. Sure we push out images, use group policies, etc etc. Doesn't help much when the hard drive fails, or the CD ROM drive breaks, or the fan dies...too much tech time "fixing".
Think cost. That's what drives most things these days. I can drop thin clients on everyone's desktop -- no moving parts, no security updates to be rolled out for monthly reboots, no viruses to be spread, no FTP servers with French film uploads to clean out. These thin clients don't even need internet access, just access to the terminal server.
I don't need to call Dell tech support, or install a new hard disk. I just have 10 more of these thin clients in stock, slam one on the desk, and I'm off to do waaaay more important things.
All software and hardware updates are done at the server level, once. If someone wants to listen to iTunes, I tell them bring a portable iPod stereo and plug it into the power outlet. There are ways around streaming video and terminal services too.
Fact of the matter is, web development isn't just less expensive and more versatile -- it's incredibly less expensive and incredibly more versatile. My clients don't need full minitowers to do their work -- they need access to a few applications on a secure network.
"Once bugzilla implements the features in the next version and/or fixes bug #233412 and #455354, and Trac patches the rss feed problem, and...well, I just don't know how I'm going to keep track of all these bugfixes so I can get my bugfix tracking program working properly!"
As noted, this is only a vote to suspend the rules which failed. Now the bill must go to a rules committee, then up for vote again (a majority vote will pass it).
But really, if people wake up February 17th and realize they don't have a TV to watch, three things could happen:
1) They'll do something else 2) They'll go pay $40 for their own converters (and brick and mortar stores should prep for this) 3) And because this is the United States of America, a person may do neither 1 or 2, but instead spend hundred of dollars to file a law suit.
As you get older, less and less is original. "Original" work is generally (as the initial poster and then the child posts pointed out) something you haven't heard of yet. Stick around for a few decades and you'll realize just about every song you hear, every movie you see, every book you read, you have heard, seen, and read before in some fashion.
But don't give up hope: there may be no original plots, but a story is all in the telling, and THAT can be original.
To invoke the inevitable car analogy, that's like saying two cars driving in the same lane on the highway can pass each other. I think, more likely, the would collide.
Space is a big place. Think of it more as if I-80, that great American cross-country interstate, wrapped around the world instead of just our little country. Even with one lane, you might never see another car. To add to that, think of I-80 as being a mile wide. The chances of hitting another car go down by a bit then, even if you happen to overtake the other car.
Clearly you never had to wait for your dad to shell out $400 for a 5.25" floppy drive upgrade on your Commodore 64 because your cassette drive would just take FOREVER to load Temple of Apshai (which, until this very post some 25 years later -- Christ... -- I thought was spelled Aphsai).
The RIAA isn't wholly in the wrong with their copyright claims and demands for money for their product (they do seem to be wrong in attempting to sanction Dr. Nesson). Without signing with the RIAA, many (not all) artists are consigned to smaller venues and smaller paychecks. Very few earn enough to live on without the vast marketing resources of the RIAA.
Those that have signed do so willingly in the hope it pays off. I do not have any numbers, but even if an artist makes very little from CD sales, having a CD in Borders, Walmart, etc is huge advertising -- signed musicians do continue to tour and play in venues of appropriate sizes and they draw larger crowds (generally) and more venues are open to them because of that advertising and make more money (though the RIAA gets a cut of concert sales as well).
What the RIAA needs to do is what iTunes and Amazon are doing: giving people what they want. I want to get my music easily and once purchased I want to PLAY it ANYWHERE and on ANY DEVICE I so choose. That can mean my iPod or that can mean I gave it to the DJ at my friend's wedding.
Does it mean I can throw it on a P2P network and GIVE it away to thousands of people? It doesn't seem right, given that the above situation is true.
I don't want the RIAA to go away, because without their organizational skills we probably wouldn't have mega-concerts. We also wouldn't have them billing bars for playing the NFL theme song over their TVs when the game starts (that's got to be an urban myth...). So if they provided affordable, easily acquired, play anywhere music, they wouldn't need shady tactics and we wouldn't need to trade songs freely.
I know people running it because it came on their new computer, because they wanted to try it out (like me), or because it was better than XP at some of the functions they wanted (encryption & overcoming user stupidity ie administrator access).
No one I know that uses Vista actually complains that much because, in the end, it's just an operating system. Far more user-friendly than anything but maybe MacOS, more versatile in terms of driver support and applications, and as stable these days as anything out there. If I were forcing LaTex on my staff, then I'd hear complaints. The biggest complaint I get from Vista users: "Is that button supposed to be the Start menu?"
There are real issues with Vista, but with SP1, most show-stoppers were removed. It's a perfectly fine if slightly slow OS. If you include user performance with OS performance, it's still faster than anything out there.
Sounds rather like "You're either with us or against us... "
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
No. What it sounds like is the glass is half full for the GP and half empty for you. We're not sure what will happen, if anything, during Obama's presidency, but just what he says is heartening -- as if he actually understands the pain the last 8 years have wrought on America and the rest of the world. We might be shaking our heads in four years, but damn straight we're nodding them right now.
there won't be mass suicides, but someone already suicidal really sitting on the fence just might.
Suicide? Ahhh, I see your theory. It was the parents who wanted to play Halo 3 but their son was hogging the TV watching Dukes of Hazzard reruns. They couldn't take it anymore, hence the reason they were found with the Halo 3 disc clutched in their double-suicide red hands.
We had a $400 electric bill once in our 1725 sq foot home. It was in the Central Valley of California where temperatures can breach 100 degrees regularly in the summer. We had two teenage boys who took long showers (electric water heating) and left a lot of laundry. On top of that, our doors weren't great and for part of that time the AC unit in the garage closet was bleeding cold air.
So...after the boys left, and the AC unit was wrapped up with ducting tape, and the doors were replaced...we haven't cracked $200.
I'll agree here. While the iPhone interface is better than anything out there by a million miles, I can see that if it has incomplete Exchange integration it would be a problem for "business users". I'm an IT guy at a university -- the iPhone is just about my perfect sidekick:
- IMAP Email (I don't use Exchange) - Wifi for web access (look up stuff from the server room) - SSH client (I paid $5 for it) - Phone in place of a pager
I honestly didn't care what it looked like, but the large screen sort of limits it to big and flat. What sold me in the end was its usability -- the interface is clean, user-friendly, communicative. Way better than the RAZR I was using, even though the features overlap (except for wireless).
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If you already tried to resign, accepting counter offers is a pretty bad idea.
This entirely depends on why you're leaving. I've attempted to leave jobs simply for more pay. I tell them I've interviewed and they ask what the offer is. I tell them, the offer more, I stay. As long as you like your job, you may as well go with there's more money as long as there's good will (which there was in my case). If there's no good will, a decent manager won't counter even if they could.
I can't find parallels of any of those myself, but I'm guessing if you talk to someone considerably older than myself, he's probably read a book that is very similar to one of those.
Music has some originality. Classical, Big Band, Rock and Roll, Rap...you could call each of those "original" genres, but I'm not sure they're anything but "original for their time", which is kind of my point. Not saying there was a 15th century version of Elvis, but tribal drums to a rhythm are nothing new. Old Gaelic music was akin to what you hear in many classical pieces. Rap is poetry to music -- extempo has been around a long time.
Windows: Plug the PC in (You did them buy with Windows preloaded, didn't you)
Yes, and quickly reformatted and reinstalled. Sure we push out images, use group policies, etc etc. Doesn't help much when the hard drive fails, or the CD ROM drive breaks, or the fan dies...too much tech time "fixing".
Think cost. That's what drives most things these days. I can drop thin clients on everyone's desktop -- no moving parts, no security updates to be rolled out for monthly reboots, no viruses to be spread, no FTP servers with French film uploads to clean out. These thin clients don't even need internet access, just access to the terminal server.
I don't need to call Dell tech support, or install a new hard disk. I just have 10 more of these thin clients in stock, slam one on the desk, and I'm off to do waaaay more important things.
All software and hardware updates are done at the server level, once. If someone wants to listen to iTunes, I tell them bring a portable iPod stereo and plug it into the power outlet. There are ways around streaming video and terminal services too.
Fact of the matter is, web development isn't just less expensive and more versatile -- it's incredibly less expensive and incredibly more versatile. My clients don't need full minitowers to do their work -- they need access to a few applications on a secure network.
Yah...I wrote it in Word using my Windows Mobile phone.
"Once bugzilla implements the features in the next version and/or fixes bug #233412 and #455354, and Trac patches the rss feed problem, and...well, I just don't know how I'm going to keep track of all these bugfixes so I can get my bugfix tracking program working properly!"
Within a project all related tickets should be able to update you when one of the related tickets changes (RSS feed, email, etc).
Across multiple bugtrack systems and projects...trickier.
As noted, this is only a vote to suspend the rules which failed. Now the bill must go to a rules committee, then up for vote again (a majority vote will pass it).
But really, if people wake up February 17th and realize they don't have a TV to watch, three things could happen:
1) They'll do something else
2) They'll go pay $40 for their own converters (and brick and mortar stores should prep for this)
3) And because this is the United States of America, a person may do neither 1 or 2, but instead spend hundred of dollars to file a law suit.
As you get older, less and less is original. "Original" work is generally (as the initial poster and then the child posts pointed out) something you haven't heard of yet. Stick around for a few decades and you'll realize just about every song you hear, every movie you see, every book you read, you have heard, seen, and read before in some fashion.
But don't give up hope: there may be no original plots, but a story is all in the telling, and THAT can be original.
They all know what how and hy things will break, and they do nothing to fix it. Business people.
Fixed that for you. To your credit, the two terms often overlap. Such is the power of money.
To invoke the inevitable car analogy, that's like saying two cars driving in the same lane on the highway can pass each other. I think, more likely, the would collide.
Space is a big place. Think of it more as if I-80, that great American cross-country interstate, wrapped around the world instead of just our little country. Even with one lane, you might never see another car. To add to that, think of I-80 as being a mile wide. The chances of hitting another car go down by a bit then, even if you happen to overtake the other car.
I'd say the "I'm a Mac. I'm a PC." commercials are pretty famous.
Clearly you never had to wait for your dad to shell out $400 for a 5.25" floppy drive upgrade on your Commodore 64 because your cassette drive would just take FOREVER to load Temple of Apshai (which, until this very post some 25 years later -- Christ... -- I thought was spelled Aphsai).
The RIAA isn't wholly in the wrong with their copyright claims and demands for money for their product (they do seem to be wrong in attempting to sanction Dr. Nesson). Without signing with the RIAA, many (not all) artists are consigned to smaller venues and smaller paychecks. Very few earn enough to live on without the vast marketing resources of the RIAA.
Those that have signed do so willingly in the hope it pays off. I do not have any numbers, but even if an artist makes very little from CD sales, having a CD in Borders, Walmart, etc is huge advertising -- signed musicians do continue to tour and play in venues of appropriate sizes and they draw larger crowds (generally) and more venues are open to them because of that advertising and make more money (though the RIAA gets a cut of concert sales as well).
What the RIAA needs to do is what iTunes and Amazon are doing: giving people what they want. I want to get my music easily and once purchased I want to PLAY it ANYWHERE and on ANY DEVICE I so choose. That can mean my iPod or that can mean I gave it to the DJ at my friend's wedding.
Does it mean I can throw it on a P2P network and GIVE it away to thousands of people? It doesn't seem right, given that the above situation is true.
I don't want the RIAA to go away, because without their organizational skills we probably wouldn't have mega-concerts. We also wouldn't have them billing bars for playing the NFL theme song over their TVs when the game starts (that's got to be an urban myth...). So if they provided affordable, easily acquired, play anywhere music, they wouldn't need shady tactics and we wouldn't need to trade songs freely.
Watch more TV. I did and I found FinallyFast.com.
My computer used to be slow. But now it's finally fast! FinallyFast.com!
(Please don't.)
I don't know what nerds YOU know, but MMOs are about as main-stream as you can get.
Nerd.
(I kid!)
I could care less if China, Al-Queda, Russia, etc. get their hands on his emails from his wife.
Someone doesn't watch The West Wing enough. Here's the worst-case scenario:
BO: Hi, honey. I'm done chatting with Medvedev. How bout I have the limo swing by and pick you up. Where are you?
MO: I'm shopping at the North Mall with the girls. I've got the other limo now, I'll just head back to the White House in about half an hour.
BO: Cool. See you then.
Terrorist picking out cell signal: Target is at North Mall. Look for limo. Wear proper jacket to avoid standing out to secret service.
And it all goes down hill from there. Bad guys blow themselves up with a bomb big enough to roll the limousine as its parked waiting for her.
Encryption good. President doesn't have friends, he has contacts.
I know people running it because it came on their new computer, because they wanted to try it out (like me), or because it was better than XP at some of the functions they wanted (encryption & overcoming user stupidity ie administrator access).
No one I know that uses Vista actually complains that much because, in the end, it's just an operating system. Far more user-friendly than anything but maybe MacOS, more versatile in terms of driver support and applications, and as stable these days as anything out there. If I were forcing LaTex on my staff, then I'd hear complaints. The biggest complaint I get from Vista users: "Is that button supposed to be the Start menu?"
There are real issues with Vista, but with SP1, most show-stoppers were removed. It's a perfectly fine if slightly slow OS. If you include user performance with OS performance, it's still faster than anything out there.
Sounds rather like "You're either with us or against us... "
Meet the new boss.
Same as the old boss.
No. What it sounds like is the glass is half full for the GP and half empty for you. We're not sure what will happen, if anything, during Obama's presidency, but just what he says is heartening -- as if he actually understands the pain the last 8 years have wrought on America and the rest of the world. We might be shaking our heads in four years, but damn straight we're nodding them right now.
has gotten people happy
For the first time in about 7 years. Obama's important for what he might do, but he's more important because he's giving people a change of heart.
Silence, you PFY!
there won't be mass suicides, but someone already suicidal really sitting on the fence just might.
Suicide? Ahhh, I see your theory. It was the parents who wanted to play Halo 3 but their son was hogging the TV watching Dukes of Hazzard reruns. They couldn't take it anymore, hence the reason they were found with the Halo 3 disc clutched in their double-suicide red hands.
Over here we question the crap that media shits out on our plate. You want to eat it and say "yum" then digg.com will suit you better.
Oh, Snap!
We had a $400 electric bill once in our 1725 sq foot home. It was in the Central Valley of California where temperatures can breach 100 degrees regularly in the summer. We had two teenage boys who took long showers (electric water heating) and left a lot of laundry. On top of that, our doors weren't great and for part of that time the AC unit in the garage closet was bleeding cold air.
So...after the boys left, and the AC unit was wrapped up with ducting tape, and the doors were replaced...we haven't cracked $200.
I'll agree here. While the iPhone interface is better than anything out there by a million miles, I can see that if it has incomplete Exchange integration it would be a problem for "business users". I'm an IT guy at a university -- the iPhone is just about my perfect sidekick:
- IMAP Email (I don't use Exchange)
- Wifi for web access (look up stuff from the server room)
- SSH client (I paid $5 for it)
- Phone in place of a pager
I honestly didn't care what it looked like, but the large screen sort of limits it to big and flat. What sold me in the end was its usability -- the interface is clean, user-friendly, communicative. Way better than the RAZR I was using, even though the features overlap (except for wireless).