Ok, at some point in the near future, you're going to decide whether or not to take the offer they switched to. If you tell them to take a hike, I hope you will post a follow-up and let us know the name of the company that pulled this stunt. And on that note...
Several years ago, I was contacted by a company that wanted to interview me in the Washington DC area, and I was assured by the HR drone that they'd pay my travel expenses to come out and talk to them. So, I go to the interview (which was pointless; the hiring manager I was supposed to meet with was off on a trip somewhere, so I spoke with two other people who had no interest at all in whether I joined this other guy's team or not).
After the interview, I sent the company an invoice for my travel expenses. I heard nada from them for about three weeks. I then called up the HR drone to ask about my reimbursement, and got her voice mail. I called again the next week, and then recieved a check in the mail for exactly half of the amount they owed me. (I later learned from friends who had worked there that they had a deliberate policy of never paying any bill until they were threatened, and then sending half to see if the creditor would just go away.)
Upon recieving the check for half of my expenses, I called the HR drone again, and left a message stating that unless I was paid in full, immediately, they would find it exceedingly difficult to get any NeXTSTEP developer to come to any interview with them, as the community was quite small and we pretty much all knew each other. One post to comp.sys.next.developer would have done it.
I recieved a check for the remainder of my expenses the following day by federal express.
That company was SHL Systemhouse, which I believe was acquired/merged into MCI a few years later.
Why can't people stop responding to spam in the first place?
Get back to us when you convince enough newbs to do that. The reason spam persists is because there are enough idiots to make spamming pay off, even if nearly everyone ignores it.
The music business works that way, but the Internet doesn't.
What's your next guess?
Online music stores have to abide by the same laws that any other business does. It's not Apple's choice to have a bunch of separate iTMS stores for each country.
Day trading is gambling; therefore it should be illegal everywhere gambling is illegal.
Well, thank goodness you're not in charge!
When I go to sell shares that I've held for a period that people like you think is long enough to be morally acceptable, who do you think will buy them? Eliminate the day traders, and there's a lot less people to offer to buy or sell the shares I want to move. The more potential counterparties to every proposed transaction, the more liquidity is available in the market.
Oh, and FYI: trading can be a gamble or it can be a wise investment over ANY time period. What makes the difference is whether you know anything about the company you're buying or selling shares in, or are just listening to the pundits in the echo chamber.
So, I haven't studied this matter at all, but it seems to me that if you use more than one has algorithm on the same message, the chances of a different message generating the same has from both algorithms should be vanishingly small. Any cryptographers here care to fill me in?
This wouldn't undermine Apple at all. If it were up to Apple (like any other hardware manufacturer) there wouldn't be any DRM in the first place. The iPod was already a runaway hit product before the iTMS opened for business, and it's a mjor hit in countries where the iTMS still isn't available.
Obviously Apple's legal department disagrees, otherwise they wouldn't have been working with Cisco to come to an agreement.
Nope. Apple's legal department would be the people who told SJ that he could go right ahead and use the name, because Cisco hadn't taken the necessary steps to retain it.
This is true, but I doubt that you know what marketing really is. Marketing is finding out what customers want, and making sure that your company's doing it. Moreso than that, it's figuring out what the customers will want, and staying in the lead. Apple's work on the iPod, especially its development over the years since the first 5 GB model shipped, is a textbook example of top-flight marketing.
Oddly enough, the fact that iPods were flashy was enough for consumers to go out and buy them, regardless of the technical reviews.
Actually, one thing that the iPod isn't is "flashy". They're rather minimalist, actually.
They scrapped the "pig" and then made a clone of Mac OS X...
I wish it was a clone of Mac OS X! If that were the case, it might be securable, and my cable modem bandwidth wouldn't be getting crowded by all of my neighbor's zombies trading copies of their malware with each other.
This would make a marvelous material for suspension bridges. It could drastically reduce the weight, which means that the foundations don't need to be as massive (read: expensive).
Not if you give them a DC power supply from a full-wave rectifier and an appropriately-sized capacitor. Some of the LED "lightbulb replacement" products are pretty half-assed, driving the LEDs for only half of the 60Hz duty cycle.
You seem to have left out any mention of the provocations that led to those actions. Of course, that's par for the course in the moral-eqivalence game, isn't it?
Strangely, "axis of evil" member Iran never attacked anyone..
Oops, almost missed that mistake of yours. Remember the Tehran vaudeville show? The one that got Jimmy Carter tossed out of the white house in the Reagan landslide?
Well, occupying an embassy and taking diplomats hostage is an act of war. Iran has indeed attacked the United States.
Saddam had launched unprovoked land-grabbing attacks on their neighbors twice, and the second time a whole bunch of countries decided that letting Saddam hang onto Kuwait was a very dangerous precedent. About a decade later, when Saddam had repeatedly violated the terms of the cease fire that suspended a war that he had started, the USA and a few other countries finally toppled him, which should have been done in the first gulf war.
Now, it would have been a far better thing if he'd been killed by a single sniper, but that was pretty tough to do. He was a slippery SOB, and he moved around a lot.
Hey, great idea. Let us know how it goes when you try to convince the perps not to attack us or their neighbors. Until then, it's a lousy job, but somebody's got to do it.
It's illegal according to at least one of the universally adopted Geneva conventions to use weapons that will injure, but are not capable of killing.
Oh, fair enough. In that case, just upping the power to make it lethal would suffice.
However, violating these conventions does not seem to stop the U.S.
You do realize, I hope, that the convention only applies to armed conflict between soldiers in uniform, whose countries are both signatories to the convention?
So, an idea for an anti-sniper measure occured to me a couple of weeks ago. Once you've identified the location from which the shot was fired, you shine a laser at it at an intensity such that if you're looking at it with the naked eye, you're extremely uncomfortable, but if you're looking through a scope, you lose an eye. I wonder what would happen to casualty rates for US soldiers in Iraq if sniping was a two-shot career.
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Ok, at some point in the near future, you're going to decide whether or not to take the offer they switched to. If you tell them to take a hike, I hope you will post a follow-up and let us know the name of the company that pulled this stunt. And on that note...
Several years ago, I was contacted by a company that wanted to interview me in the Washington DC area, and I was assured by the HR drone that they'd pay my travel expenses to come out and talk to them. So, I go to the interview (which was pointless; the hiring manager I was supposed to meet with was off on a trip somewhere, so I spoke with two other people who had no interest at all in whether I joined this other guy's team or not).
After the interview, I sent the company an invoice for my travel expenses. I heard nada from them for about three weeks. I then called up the HR drone to ask about my reimbursement, and got her voice mail. I called again the next week, and then recieved a check in the mail for exactly half of the amount they owed me. (I later learned from friends who had worked there that they had a deliberate policy of never paying any bill until they were threatened, and then sending half to see if the creditor would just go away.)
Upon recieving the check for half of my expenses, I called the HR drone again, and left a message stating that unless I was paid in full, immediately, they would find it exceedingly difficult to get any NeXTSTEP developer to come to any interview with them, as the community was quite small and we pretty much all knew each other. One post to comp.sys.next.developer would have done it.
I recieved a check for the remainder of my expenses the following day by federal express.
That company was SHL Systemhouse, which I believe was acquired/merged into MCI a few years later.
-jcr
I hope that when HP craters, Agilent buys the name back from the receivers.
-jcr
Why can't people stop responding to spam in the first place?
Get back to us when you convince enough newbs to do that. The reason spam persists is because there are enough idiots to make spamming pay off, even if nearly everyone ignores it.
-jcr
The HP we all remember from the 1970's is long gone. I'd say that hiring Carly wan't the cause, it was a symptom of the company losing its way.
-jcr
The music business works that way, but the Internet doesn't.
What's your next guess?
Online music stores have to abide by the same laws that any other business does. It's not Apple's choice to have a bunch of separate iTMS stores for each country.
-jcr
Day trading is gambling; therefore it should be illegal everywhere gambling is illegal.
Well, thank goodness you're not in charge!
When I go to sell shares that I've held for a period that people like you think is long enough to be morally acceptable, who do you think will buy them? Eliminate the day traders, and there's a lot less people to offer to buy or sell the shares I want to move. The more potential counterparties to every proposed transaction, the more liquidity is available in the market.
Oh, and FYI: trading can be a gamble or it can be a wise investment over ANY time period. What makes the difference is whether you know anything about the company you're buying or selling shares in, or are just listening to the pundits in the echo chamber.
-jcr
Please s/has/hash/ in the message above. I guess my finger-memory to type "has" is pretty strong.
-jcr
So, I haven't studied this matter at all, but it seems to me that if you use more than one has algorithm on the same message, the chances of a different message generating the same has from both algorithms should be vanishingly small. Any cryptographers here care to fill me in?
-jcr
God, it never ceases to amaze me the extremes that people are willing to explain away to justify the companies that they like.
Or to villify the companies that they don't like, as you're doing.
-jcr
This wouldn't undermine Apple at all. If it were up to Apple (like any other hardware manufacturer) there wouldn't be any DRM in the first place. The iPod was already a runaway hit product before the iTMS opened for business, and it's a mjor hit in countries where the iTMS still isn't available.
-jcr
Cisco is up shit creek without a paddle for lying about the trademark.
Well, they'll probably lose any litigation about it, but I wouldn't say they're in any real danger.
-jcr
Obviously Apple's legal department disagrees, otherwise they wouldn't have been working with Cisco to come to an agreement.
Nope. Apple's legal department would be the people who told SJ that he could go right ahead and use the name, because Cisco hadn't taken the necessary steps to retain it.
-jcr
FBI's not doing that. That's the RIAA suing in a civil action.
-jcr
Steve Jobs can market.
This is true, but I doubt that you know what marketing really is. Marketing is finding out what customers want, and making sure that your company's doing it. Moreso than that, it's figuring out what the customers will want, and staying in the lead. Apple's work on the iPod, especially its development over the years since the first 5 GB model shipped, is a textbook example of top-flight marketing.
Oddly enough, the fact that iPods were flashy was enough for consumers to go out and buy them, regardless of the technical reviews.
Actually, one thing that the iPod isn't is "flashy". They're rather minimalist, actually.
-jcr
They scrapped the "pig" and then made a clone of Mac OS X...
I wish it was a clone of Mac OS X! If that were the case, it might be securable, and my cable modem bandwidth wouldn't be getting crowded by all of my neighbor's zombies trading copies of their malware with each other.
-jcr
This would make a marvelous material for suspension bridges. It could drastically reduce the weight, which means that the foundations don't need to be as massive (read: expensive).
-jcr
Zune is done.
-jcr
Yeah, they flicker even more
Not if you give them a DC power supply from a full-wave rectifier and an appropriately-sized capacitor. Some of the LED "lightbulb replacement" products are pretty half-assed, driving the LEDs for only half of the 60Hz duty cycle.
-jcr
You seem to have left out any mention of the provocations that led to those actions. Of course, that's par for the course in the moral-eqivalence game, isn't it?
-jcr
Strangely, "axis of evil" member Iran never attacked anyone..
Oops, almost missed that mistake of yours. Remember the Tehran vaudeville show? The one that got Jimmy Carter tossed out of the white house in the Reagan landslide?
Well, occupying an embassy and taking diplomats hostage is an act of war. Iran has indeed attacked the United States.
-jcr
When did Iraq attack the US?
They didn't. What's your point?
Saddam had launched unprovoked land-grabbing attacks on their neighbors twice, and the second time a whole bunch of countries decided that letting Saddam hang onto Kuwait was a very dangerous precedent. About a decade later, when Saddam had repeatedly violated the terms of the cease fire that suspended a war that he had started, the USA and a few other countries finally toppled him, which should have been done in the first gulf war.
Now, it would have been a far better thing if he'd been killed by a single sniper, but that was pretty tough to do. He was a slippery SOB, and he moved around a lot.
-jcr
Hey, great idea. Let us know how it goes when you try to convince the perps not to attack us or their neighbors. Until then, it's a lousy job, but somebody's got to do it.
-jcr
It's illegal according to at least one of the universally adopted Geneva conventions to use weapons that will injure, but are not capable of killing.
Oh, fair enough. In that case, just upping the power to make it lethal would suffice.
However, violating these conventions does not seem to stop the U.S.
You do realize, I hope, that the convention only applies to armed conflict between soldiers in uniform, whose countries are both signatories to the convention?
Read and learn.
-jcr
So, an idea for an anti-sniper measure occured to me a couple of weeks ago. Once you've identified the location from which the shot was fired, you shine a laser at it at an intensity such that if you're looking at it with the naked eye, you're extremely uncomfortable, but if you're looking through a scope, you lose an eye. I wonder what would happen to casualty rates for US soldiers in Iraq if sniping was a two-shot career.
-jcr
... is big. Really, really big. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to the chemists, but that's just peanuts to space.
-jcr