Careful what you call this. It isn't backstabbing if you get X shares for your time with the company. You simply need to understand the amount of shares approved, issued and what happens to your shares if additional shares are issued.
Equity in a small private Corporation is basically the sames as in a large public Corp. Either one can issue, or approve additional shares. If you have common equity, your claim will be diluted.
The magnitude of your dilution will likely be higher with a small, growing firm. There are ways around it, just get a lawyer. You can bind in what you're really looking for, you just need to use the law to help you. IANAL
10% of shares outstanding doesn't mean much... A perpetual (or multi-year guarantee) 10% ownership claim, irregardless of shares outstanding would be much more powerful.
Example:
Year 1 - Shares outstanding 10,000 10% = 1,000 issued to you.
Year 2-5, additional 990,000 shares issued (corporations can do this whenever they want, it is called raising capital and typically results in dilution of common equity holders).
Year 6 - Shares outstanding 1,000,000, you have 1,000 or less than 1% now.
That is why you may not like the lawyers, but you might as well get one involved quickly.
From the article: Symantec is known as the maker of the Norton anti-virus software that runs... snip...Mid-size companies typically pay Symantec $1,000 to $2,000 a month to monitor their networks. The firm has big clients, too -- including 55 of the Fortune 500 companies -- and does work for several federal agencies.
If the government comes up with a monitoring solution that is anything like what Symantec is already doing, and if serval federal agencies are already using Symantec, it wouldn't be too suprising to see security monitoring and what not farmed out to these corporations.
It would be interesting to see what comes from something like this. Who gets the contracts, and what "privs" do they get. What data are the corps allowed to get to, what are the restirictions on that data, and even worse, what they really do with it...
My father had LASIK done a few years back, he is a coder (so am I) and has not had any issues with it.
From what I know he has not had any issues with the surgery and his eye sight.
I would say go for it. For the most part its a safe and harmless procudure. I personnaly dont need it, but know many people who have done it, are a VERY happy they did.
C# is a language..Net is the platform. The standards bodies have approved the languge but not the PLATFORM. It is the platform that ms is pushing, the language just happens to be new and fancy, but the real push is for.Net the platform. They own the platform, control the platform, license out the platform and ultimatly have the final say on anything about the platform. That is why there may be issues. That is why people should not just jump in head first without having a good plan.
Well you have raised a couple of good points here. I will try to help you and address a few of them, but you may find the answers more confusing than helpful.:)
First, Ill start off and let you know what I did for reference, I'm sure it colors my opinions a bit. After graduating from high school I did go off to college. My major, computer science (I'm a "programmer"). I spent about a year and a half at college and finished a little over two years worth of credits. I didn't attend many of my classes and was generally bored. I was also holding down a steady and lucrative contract job in the area.
So, during winter break I decided to see if I could find a "real job". I posted my resume and had a tons of bites, went of a few interviews and had my choice of 5 different spots. I took one of them, and never looked back...
So... this is what I learned. Experience is very important, but so is a degree. They are both integral parts of your value as an employee. Granted, on the job experience is "worth" more, but for a lot of the old school hiring managers, the degree says volumes. Getting your degree is not really about "learning" a trade per say, it really says that you are able, and willing to complete a difficult and time consuming project. It says that you have the ability to stick to it, and the mental capacity the stress of life and work (college).
I am in my second job since "dropping out" (first was a.bomb, I left b4 the bomb part) and I am working my butt off to get my degree finished up using distance education. Has the lack of a degree hurt me, a little bit, but the experience that I have in the field has off set that.
To get to the point... If you can manage to do it, go to school, get a degree... Get a psychology degree or something, expand your horizons, but get your certs and your experience also. Try to hold down a contract gig during the summers, or nights. See about running the night shift for one of the local data centers... But get the degree. You will need it in the future. If you must go to work, then get your degree after hours or through distance education.
When its all said and done you have to do what works for you. If college is something that doesn't work for you, then go get a job, but get the degree. If you love college and its what you want to do, then great! But still try to get some experience and/or certs while your doing it.
Being a well-rounded person will serve you well in the future. Knowing about business and computers is very, very important. I had to learn that the hard way:)
Heheheh I didn't even notice that:) Just a cut and paste from there website. I think they re-load after a system comprimise, but after you pointed that out.... I think ill have to ignore it too, good catch.
- Simon 1: - - OS: Mandrake 8.2 (linux) - www.mandrake.com - - IP: 12.100.246.219 - - DNS: simon.sec33.com & simon1.sec33.com - - Date system was loaded: Monday, March 25, 2002 - - Date system was last compromised: Sunday, April 14, 2002 - - Last compromised by: Owen
Held up for about 3 weeks... not bad
Looks like it did a bit better than the SuSE 7.2 box...
- Simon 2: - - OS: S.U.S.E 7.3 (linux) - www.suse.com - - IP: 12.100.246.218 - - DNS: simon2.sec33.com - - Date system was loaded: Sunday, April 14, 2002 - - Date system was last compromised: Friday, April 12, 2002 - - Last compromised by: Ingus
If you give the DMCA any place to work, even with something like this, you are validating it as a law. The DMCA is not the solution here. It is simply copyright infringment. Plain, old fashioned copyright infringment. Its illegal, period. We don't need some stupid new law to tell us that. But my personal take on it is simply this. If you want to dl it.... go ahead. I won't, I'm watching it the day it comes out. Then I'll buy the dvd when it comes out, after lucas releases all of the dvd's Ill have a big star wars party and we will watch them in high quality, legally.
Those with the low-qual divx may see it frist, but nothing beats the "big screen":)
The best thing about this is that the general public may begin to become informed about the DMCA and all of the stupid things that can come of it. Hopefully google will make a point to tell people that the DMCA was the reason the links are gone (read: put it at the top of the page). Possibly if enough people get pissed about the abuse of the law, and the abusivness of the law, it can either be over turned or new legislation can be passed to modify it. Or at the very least, become publicly debated and hated. That might lead to something...
[snip]"One of the main problems is quality assurance," says Ramesh Krishnamurthy, a linguistics expert at the University of Wolverhampton, in the UK. "Translation is a highly developed skill."
[snip] But Paul Rayson, a research fellow at Lancaster University, adds that unskilled translators may confuse the meaning of individual words. "The problem is you generally need the context to get a good translation," he says.[snip]
This looks like it will be a very cool project, but for corporate/buisiness use I don't think it would ever fly.
If you have ever played in the area of i18n then you will quickly understand why this pbly won't work perfectly. There are so many caveats to each language, tone, context etc... This might be a useful starting point for transaltion services, but for the final cut, it would still need to be checked and double checked by a translation service.
Mental midget? I'm sorry, but I was looking for a quick solution for a bunch of computers. I didn't want to spend a lot of time searching around on the net for source that I will have to compile everytime I upgrade and/or change os's and I know that nVidia and ATI cards are both very good.
A very quick look at the websites was all I needed to make that choice. I had no desire to go digging everytime I wanted an upgrade/change...
However after posting the original comment here on/. I became aware that I was actually looking at the wrong part of the ATI website. (Thats what I get for not spending enough time to do my research) I am currently in the process of building a new system, and I am going to try out one of the new ATI cards.
I have been going to the wrong part of their website for quite some time. If you go to the OEM portion of the site you will see that the options listed are the same as the ones I listed in my previous post. Another poster pointed this out. It was my mistake. I stand corrected.
Ouch, I stand heavily correct;) Thanks for pointing that one out. I have done that multiple times. Until you pointed that out I have not even noticed the "Built my ATI" part of the website. Must be the way that my eyes move along the home page or something. Once again thanks for pointing that out. I will have to investigate an ATI card for the new box I am putting together;)
Good point. I would say that from an end user standpoint and somebody that doesn't always want to spend hours tinkering with my boxen, having that link readily available from the drivers area would be very helpful.
Granted if I was really interested in finding out more about the ATI cards and if they have linux support, I would have spent much more time during my decision process. However I wanted a quick and simple solution for multiple machines without a hassle. nVidia made it clear to me as an "end-user" that they supported all of my OS's from the download page. ATI didn't. This is pretty much just a "bad marketing" or "bad website" issue, but none the less, it was enough for me to buy 7 nVidia cards;)
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Careful what you call this. It isn't backstabbing if you get X shares for your time with the company. You simply need to understand the amount of shares approved, issued and what happens to your shares if additional shares are issued.
Equity in a small private Corporation is basically the sames as in a large public Corp. Either one can issue, or approve additional shares. If you have common equity, your claim will be diluted.
The magnitude of your dilution will likely be higher with a small, growing firm. There are ways around it, just get a lawyer. You can bind in what you're really looking for, you just need to use the law to help you. IANAL
10% of shares outstanding doesn't mean much... A perpetual (or multi-year guarantee) 10% ownership claim, irregardless of shares outstanding would be much more powerful.
Example: Year 1 - Shares outstanding 10,000 10% = 1,000 issued to you.
Year 2-5, additional 990,000 shares issued (corporations can do this whenever they want, it is called raising capital and typically results in dilution of common equity holders).
Year 6 - Shares outstanding 1,000,000, you have 1,000 or less than 1% now.
That is why you may not like the lawyers, but you might as well get one involved quickly.
From the article: Symantec is known as the maker of the Norton anti-virus software that runs... snip ...Mid-size companies typically pay Symantec $1,000 to $2,000 a month to monitor their networks. The firm has big clients, too -- including 55 of the Fortune 500 companies -- and does work for several federal agencies.
If the government comes up with a monitoring solution that is anything like what Symantec is already doing, and if serval federal agencies are already using Symantec, it wouldn't be too suprising to see security monitoring and what not farmed out to these corporations.
It would be interesting to see what comes from something like this. Who gets the contracts, and what "privs" do they get. What data are the corps allowed to get to, what are the restirictions on that data, and even worse, what they really do with it...
My father had LASIK done a few years back, he is a coder (so am I) and has not had any issues with it.
From what I know he has not had any issues with the surgery and his eye sight.
I would say go for it. For the most part its a safe and harmless procudure. I personnaly dont need it, but know many people who have done it, are a VERY happy they did.
Ryan
Sorry guys, but this server is way to small to survive "THE SLASHDOT EFFECT". This page will be back online later...
C# is a language. .Net is the platform. The standards bodies have approved the languge but not the PLATFORM. It is the platform that ms is pushing, the language just happens to be new and fancy, but the real push is for .Net the platform. They own the platform, control the platform, license out the platform and ultimatly have the final say on anything about the platform. That is why there may be issues. That is why people should not just jump in head first without having a good plan.
Well you have raised a couple of good points here. I will try to help you and address a few of them, but you may find the answers more confusing than helpful. :)
First, Ill start off and let you know what I did for reference, I'm sure it colors my opinions a bit. After graduating from high school I did go off to college. My major, computer science (I'm a "programmer"). I spent about a year and a half at college and finished a little over two years worth of credits. I didn't attend many of my classes and was generally bored. I was also holding down a steady and lucrative contract job in the area.
So, during winter break I decided to see if I could find a "real job". I posted my resume and had a tons of bites, went of a few interviews and had my choice of 5 different spots. I took one of them, and never looked back...
So... this is what I learned. Experience is very important, but so is a degree. They are both integral parts of your value as an employee. Granted, on the job experience is "worth" more, but for a lot of the old school hiring managers, the degree says volumes. Getting your degree is not really about "learning" a trade per say, it really says that you are able, and willing to complete a difficult and time consuming project. It says that you have the ability to stick to it, and the mental capacity the stress of life and work (college).
I am in my second job since "dropping out" (first was a .bomb, I left b4 the bomb part) and I am working my butt off to get my degree finished up using distance education. Has the lack of a degree hurt me, a little bit, but the experience that I have in the field has off set that.
To get to the point... If you can manage to do it, go to school, get a degree... Get a psychology degree or something, expand your horizons, but get your certs and your experience also. Try to hold down a contract gig during the summers, or nights. See about running the night shift for one of the local data centers... But get the degree. You will need it in the future. If you must go to work, then get your degree after hours or through distance education.
When its all said and done you have to do what works for you. If college is something that doesn't work for you, then go get a job, but get the degree. If you love college and its what you want to do, then great! But still try to get some experience and/or certs while your doing it.
Being a well-rounded person will serve you well in the future. Knowing about business and computers is very, very important. I had to learn that the hard way :)
Hope it helps :)
RyanYup. I read that. Its pretty impressive really. I am thinking of putting up a mandrake box in my server farm at home.. Right now they are all rh...
-Ryan
Heheheh I didn't even notice that :) Just a cut and paste from there website. I think they re-load after a system comprimise, but after you pointed that out.... I think ill have to ignore it too, good catch.
- Simon 1:
- - OS: Mandrake 8.2 (linux) - www.mandrake.com
- - IP: 12.100.246.219
- - DNS: simon.sec33.com & simon1.sec33.com
- - Date system was loaded: Monday, March 25, 2002
- - Date system was last compromised: Sunday, April 14, 2002
- - Last compromised by: Owen
Held up for about 3 weeks... not bad
Looks like it did a bit better than the SuSE 7.2 box...
- Simon 2:
- - OS: S.U.S.E 7.3 (linux) - www.suse.com
- - IP: 12.100.246.218
- - DNS: simon2.sec33.com
- - Date system was loaded: Sunday, April 14, 2002
- - Date system was last compromised: Friday, April 12, 2002
- - Last compromised by: Ingus
Those with the low-qual divx may see it frist, but nothing beats the "big screen" :)
His uncle died????? Why did you have to go and loneguman that for me!
Spider-man was a great movie!
-RyanBut I already cleared out the EULA with the vbscript posted earlier today ;) Guess that means I'm okay :)
They are taking pro-active measures to protect themselves from being sued in the future. It quite simple really...
J# is a compiler. Java is the language. .Net is the framework. J# is not a language.
Google Query here ya go. The DMCA notice is at the bottom of the page.
-ryanThe link is at the bottom of the page. It is the same as for the American version of the site. After all of the links you will find the DMCA notice.
-ryan
The best thing about this is that the general public may begin to become informed about the DMCA and all of the stupid things that can come of it. Hopefully google will make a point to tell people that the DMCA was the reason the links are gone (read: put it at the top of the page). Possibly if enough people get pissed about the abuse of the law, and the abusivness of the law, it can either be over turned or new legislation can be passed to modify it. Or at the very least, become publicly debated and hated. That might lead to something...
The link is at the bottom of the page. It is kind of hidden... but it is there.
From google... In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.
-ryan
[snip]"One of the main problems is quality assurance," says Ramesh Krishnamurthy, a linguistics expert at the University of Wolverhampton, in the UK. "Translation is a highly developed skill." [snip] But Paul Rayson, a research fellow at Lancaster University, adds that unskilled translators may confuse the meaning of individual words. "The problem is you generally need the context to get a good translation," he says.[snip]
This looks like it will be a very cool project, but for corporate/buisiness use I don't think it would ever fly.
If you have ever played in the area of i18n then you will quickly understand why this pbly won't work perfectly. There are so many caveats to each language, tone, context etc... This might be a useful starting point for transaltion services, but for the final cut, it would still need to be checked and double checked by a translation service.
I still think its very cool though ;)
-ryanMental midget? I'm sorry, but I was looking for a quick solution for a bunch of computers. I didn't want to spend a lot of time searching around on the net for source that I will have to compile everytime I upgrade and/or change os's and I know that nVidia and ATI cards are both very good.
A very quick look at the websites was all I needed to make that choice. I had no desire to go digging everytime I wanted an upgrade/change...
However after posting the original comment here on /. I became aware that I was actually looking at the wrong part of the ATI website. (Thats what I get for not spending enough time to do my research) I am currently in the process of building a new system, and I am going to try out one of the new ATI cards.
-ryanI have been going to the wrong part of their website for quite some time. If you go to the OEM portion of the site you will see that the options listed are the same as the ones I listed in my previous post. Another poster pointed this out. It was my mistake. I stand corrected.
or foosball tables, pool tables, beer in the fridge, quake and aoe2 sessions... :)
ah.. those were the days...
Ouch, I stand heavily correct ;) Thanks for pointing that one out. I have done that multiple times. Until you pointed that out I have not even noticed the "Built my ATI" part of the website. Must be the way that my eyes move along the home page or something. Once again thanks for pointing that out. I will have to investigate an ATI card for the new box I am putting together ;)
-ryan
Good point. I would say that from an end user standpoint and somebody that doesn't always want to spend hours tinkering with my boxen, having that link readily available from the drivers area would be very helpful.
Granted if I was really interested in finding out more about the ATI cards and if they have linux support, I would have spent much more time during my decision process. However I wanted a quick and simple solution for multiple machines without a hassle. nVidia made it clear to me as an "end-user" that they supported all of my OS's from the download page. ATI didn't. This is pretty much just a "bad marketing" or "bad website" issue, but none the less, it was enough for me to buy 7 nVidia cards ;)
-ryan