I was just recently moved from a contractor to a full time employee. Not that they wanted to, or I wanted to, but because it was required by law.
Since I was taking day-to-day direction by my 'employer', I was deemed an employee and was required to be hired full time or the company would face government fines.
Anyone recall the big Microsoft scandal regarind this a while back?
Also there was the mention of taxes. This is relative to your country/province. Here in Ontario you cannot claim Employment Insurance if you were self-employed, either as a sole-proprietor or a major shareholder in your own corporation.
Ask them to write the time-frame into the contract as to when you will be eligable for full-time employment. Then you get all the health benefits (big if you are in the US), retirement contributions, stock discounts, etc..
This sounds somewhat like Transactor Magazine from the early 80s for C= based computers.
All kinds of programming and hardware hacks to help you get the most out of technology.
I miss that style of hacking, and hope this will provide something along those lines.
I still keep my copy of the Innerspace Anthology around, just for the translations, formulas and equasions in the back.
CDs at the music store in a mall. It's becoming less of a viable option now that there are several places to purchase (or steal) digital copies of music online and several places that you can play it back.
MP3 players are showing up everywhere, including new cars (many of Fords new car stereos have options for MP3 playback), all current DVD players offer MP3 playback, computers are becoming more of a livingroom/family room appliance, portable MP3 players, MP3 players built into cell phones, etc..
What's the point of buying stamped music CDs when you can just download the music files, put them on the digital media of your choice and go?
You'd almost argue that it is more environmentally friendly.
Does anyone even go to music stores anymore and buy CDs? There just seems to be so many online alternatives (legal and otherwise) to buying plastic that the business model of a CD shop in the local mall is going buh-bye.
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I was just recently moved from a contractor to a full time employee. Not that they wanted to, or I wanted to, but because it was required by law. Since I was taking day-to-day direction by my 'employer', I was deemed an employee and was required to be hired full time or the company would face government fines. Anyone recall the big Microsoft scandal regarind this a while back? Also there was the mention of taxes. This is relative to your country/province. Here in Ontario you cannot claim Employment Insurance if you were self-employed, either as a sole-proprietor or a major shareholder in your own corporation. Ask them to write the time-frame into the contract as to when you will be eligable for full-time employment. Then you get all the health benefits (big if you are in the US), retirement contributions, stock discounts, etc..
This sounds somewhat like Transactor Magazine from the early 80s for C= based computers. All kinds of programming and hardware hacks to help you get the most out of technology. I miss that style of hacking, and hope this will provide something along those lines. I still keep my copy of the Innerspace Anthology around, just for the translations, formulas and equasions in the back.
CDs at the music store in a mall. It's becoming less of a viable option now that there are several places to purchase (or steal) digital copies of music online and several places that you can play it back. MP3 players are showing up everywhere, including new cars (many of Fords new car stereos have options for MP3 playback), all current DVD players offer MP3 playback, computers are becoming more of a livingroom/family room appliance, portable MP3 players, MP3 players built into cell phones, etc.. What's the point of buying stamped music CDs when you can just download the music files, put them on the digital media of your choice and go? You'd almost argue that it is more environmentally friendly.
Does anyone even go to music stores anymore and buy CDs? There just seems to be so many online alternatives (legal and otherwise) to buying plastic that the business model of a CD shop in the local mall is going buh-bye.