Same in California, and for the rest of the country, I believe. I own a small business and I pay a percentage of each employee's gross up to a set amount, over which I don't pay anything. This comes out of my pocket, not the employee's. When someone files for unemployment, they draw against these contributions. If too many people draw unemployment, my percentages go up -- an incentive to keep people working, I guess.
So, to make a long story short. Employers DO pay unemployment. It's just filetered through the govt.
To keep this on topic - we don't do noncompetes for our employees, but I can see how the govt would get upset. They're paying unemployment for someone who has specifically agreed NOT to look for work in their field. Certainly not in the spirit of the law. Perhaps the unemployment should kick in when the non-compete expires.
Feh... screw backward compatibility. That's why Windows is Windows. 802.11b is, what, 11Mb/sec? So 10-20 MB/sec is hardly worth it. I say pedal to the metal.
So, you can let the kid watch cop-killer movies and read cop-killer books, but he can't play cop-killer video games. Not fair to the cop-killer videogame makers is it?
So, what about playing 'cops and robbers' is that restricted too? Can the kid playing the robber shoot at the cop, or does he just have to lay down and get frisked and cuffed?/sarcasm.
I love this sort of stuff. Unlike drag racing, which is expensive and takes up lots of space, these gizmos are things that just about anyone can do... Add to that the 'art' aspect and it makes it truly fun. I wish there was an outlet for this in Southern California.
I've been in my house over 5 years, and I still get several pieces of unsolicited mail a week for the previous owner.
Same with my business - after two years, I still get catalogs and stuff for the previous tenant of the building.
Sadly, you're punishing the building, not the spammer.
Be nice to buildings.
I have a problem with this...
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Seems like every time an article about spam/popups/whatever comes around, someone tries to find and post the address.
While it's a clever sort of revenge, it's not very practical. You don't send mail to a person, you send it to a building. If the person gets 'snail mail spammed,' all they have to do is move. The building remains 'spammed' for the next tenant, and the next...
...and the Stanford plane in the article has a 12 foot wingspan - certainly big enough to carry something dangerous.
To make an effective 'cruise missile' (i.e. effective weapon) you don't need jet engines or thousand mile ranges, all you need is enough distance from the target to launch covertly and enough aircraft to carry the weapon to the target. You can do that with an off the shelf prop plane that can fly more than a few miles. Use GPS for guidance, or heck, put a video camera on the thing and fly it via remote control.
Video always lags behind audio by several years because it has a much higher bandwidth requirements.
You could edit digital audio on a home computer years before the computers were powerful enough to let you edit video. You can stream quality audio to your home over the internet today, but the pipes are still a bit too small for quality video. That will change eventually.
My suggestion is to look at all the cool things you can do with audio today and extrapolate to video. That should give you a good idea as to where things are going.
We create tons of video and always are hungry for backup. What we've done is to simply save our old hard drives as we upgrade and put the old ones to use in those $6.00 IDE removable cartridges as backup media. We mostly have 2-3 year old 20-40GB drives. We also have bought 5400rpm 120GB drives for incredibly cheap on Pricewatch as well...
We figure, as a backup, HDDs last just as long as any other magnetic medium. Because they mostly sit unused on a shelf, we're not that concerned about MTBF of the drive mechanisms. When we do use a backup, we still copy to our RAID/Server before using the files. The backup drives rarely see much use.
We have CD/DVD writers, but really only use them when sending stuff to clients. With the price of hard drives, it's hard to justify anything else as a backup medium.
It's Colonel Tom Parker. He would do everything and anything for a buck. I'm sure he'd be breaking laws all over the place (or getting new laws made) in order to collect every last penny of royalties he could.
As someone who does this sort of stuff for a living, I doubt that the animation will toe the mark. The more realistic the characters, the more realistic they'll have to move. Mocap can only go so far, and it won't nail down the facial animation.
Final Fantasy blew through a couple of hundred million and the characters still looked stiff. A budget for a series is a small fraction of that. These ultra-real feature quality characters animated on a TV budget and deadlines simply will not work.
I would LOVE to see TV animation of characters that are actually designed for the limited budgets of television.
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severence pay != unemployment
While severence pay is common, nobody is legally entitled to it.
Same in California, and for the rest of the country, I believe. I own a small business and I pay a percentage of each employee's gross up to a set amount, over which I don't pay anything. This comes out of my pocket, not the employee's. When someone files for unemployment, they draw against these contributions. If too many people draw unemployment, my percentages go up -- an incentive to keep people working, I guess.
So, to make a long story short. Employers DO pay unemployment. It's just filetered through the govt.
To keep this on topic - we don't do noncompetes for our employees, but I can see how the govt would get upset. They're paying unemployment for someone who has specifically agreed NOT to look for work in their field. Certainly not in the spirit of the law. Perhaps the unemployment should kick in when the non-compete expires.
Feh... screw backward compatibility. That's why Windows is Windows. 802.11b is, what, 11Mb/sec? So 10-20 MB/sec is hardly worth it. I say pedal to the metal.
Does that mean my G3 isn't a supercomputer anymore?
So, you can let the kid watch cop-killer movies and read cop-killer books, but he can't play cop-killer video games. Not fair to the cop-killer videogame makers is it?
/sarcasm.
So, what about playing 'cops and robbers' is that restricted too? Can the kid playing the robber shoot at the cop, or does he just have to lay down and get frisked and cuffed?
Yeah, and with 3cm legs, it would travel REALLY slow. Plus, any wedge worth it's salt would be under that 3cm gap in a Battlebot second.
Next!
I love this sort of stuff. Unlike drag racing, which is expensive and takes up lots of space, these gizmos are things that just about anyone can do... Add to that the 'art' aspect and it makes it truly fun. I wish there was an outlet for this in Southern California.
So, does this mean they have to pay royalties to the chimp who played Lancelot Link?
Well, if they really get their act together, there would be more than one route from A to B... that might open up a little more bandwidth.
But, aren't there standards in the 802.11 family that are faster than 11MB/sec? By 2006, those should be cheap and available.
Overall, the idea sounds terrific, though implementation might be a bit dodgy. I like the idea of a truly public network.
They still get to saw cars in half...
Now THAT'S entertainment!
I've been in my house over 5 years, and I still get several pieces of unsolicited mail a week for the previous owner.
Same with my business - after two years, I still get catalogs and stuff for the previous tenant of the building.
Sadly, you're punishing the building, not the spammer.
Be nice to buildings.
Seems like every time an article about spam/popups/whatever comes around, someone tries to find and post the address.
While it's a clever sort of revenge, it's not very practical. You don't send mail to a person, you send it to a building. If the person gets 'snail mail spammed,' all they have to do is move. The building remains 'spammed' for the next tenant, and the next...
Nope, don't like it, don't like it one bit...
...and the Stanford plane in the article has a 12 foot wingspan - certainly big enough to carry something dangerous.
To make an effective 'cruise missile' (i.e. effective weapon) you don't need jet engines or thousand mile ranges, all you need is enough distance from the target to launch covertly and enough aircraft to carry the weapon to the target. You can do that with an off the shelf prop plane that can fly more than a few miles. Use GPS for guidance, or heck, put a video camera on the thing and fly it via remote control.
This stuff really isn't rocket science, you know.
"It thus became the first purpose-designed business computer, years ahead of the first US business system (GE's 1954 UNIVAC)."
General Electric did not create the Univac, it was Mauchley and Eckert for Remington Rand.
BTW - My dad used to work for GE computers. I had a Multics terminal in my house as a kid. Learned how program that way.
Dang, I'm old...
Video always lags behind audio by several years because it has a much higher bandwidth requirements.
You could edit digital audio on a home computer years before the computers were powerful enough to let you edit video. You can stream quality audio to your home over the internet today, but the pipes are still a bit too small for quality video. That will change eventually.
My suggestion is to look at all the cool things you can do with audio today and extrapolate to video. That should give you a good idea as to where things are going.
We create tons of video and always are hungry for backup. What we've done is to simply save our old hard drives as we upgrade and put the old ones to use in those $6.00 IDE removable cartridges as backup media. We mostly have 2-3 year old 20-40GB drives. We also have bought 5400rpm 120GB drives for incredibly cheap on Pricewatch as well...
We figure, as a backup, HDDs last just as long as any other magnetic medium. Because they mostly sit unused on a shelf, we're not that concerned about MTBF of the drive mechanisms. When we do use a backup, we still copy to our RAID/Server before using the files. The backup drives rarely see much use.
We have CD/DVD writers, but really only use them when sending stuff to clients. With the price of hard drives, it's hard to justify anything else as a backup medium.
It's Colonel Tom Parker. He would do everything and anything for a buck. I'm sure he'd be breaking laws all over the place (or getting new laws made) in order to collect every last penny of royalties he could.
The RIAA ain't Elvis...
Riding a boat - Navy One
Riding a Plane - Air Force One
Hmmmm... I guess by this logic, it would be "Laura Bush One" when he's riding... ummm... well... nevermind.
MSCE?? Does that mean...
Minesweeper Support Calculator Engineer?
Why spend all that money hopping up a cheap little econocar?
Kind of like buying a $200 aluminum case for a 486.
Someone who's actually done research on housefly powered airplanes... Welcome to Slashdot.
I agree. The spam filtering is a little too aggressive. Seems to mark everybody that isn't in my address book as junk.
Is there a way to re-train the filters? I'm getting ready to go back to my labrynthine array of spam filters so I don't miss something important.
Why do these people need cell phones? So they can order pizza?
These beaurocrats are jumping the gun... There are a lot of starving people in that country, and the war is only going to make it worse.
The Iraqis people need food, shelter, clothing, and above all... peace. Not cell phones.
As someone who does this sort of stuff for a living, I doubt that the animation will toe the mark. The more realistic the characters, the more realistic they'll have to move. Mocap can only go so far, and it won't nail down the facial animation.
Final Fantasy blew through a couple of hundred million and the characters still looked stiff. A budget for a series is a small fraction of that. These ultra-real feature quality characters animated on a TV budget and deadlines simply will not work.
I would LOVE to see TV animation of characters that are actually designed for the limited budgets of television.
I don't know about the rest of you, but everytime I open my case, it's full of dust. I'm really not into vacumming my case just to be hip.