The reason I went to see spiderman was for fun. And recalling my childhood days vegetating in front of the tube watching spiderman & speed racer after school, nothing more. I didn't look for anything deep in it then, why should I start now? Jon, tying in 911 is really far fetched, you neeed to get out more.
Your absolutely correct about their interface. It plays dvds great but to play a file, you have to open the playlist dialog thingy and put in a command line path & filename, enter, then select it from the playlist press play & then dismiss the dialog box. That is really stupid! But it's play capabilities are great and you don't have to jump through hoops to compile and install it like mplayer.
If the pay cut is not for cause and you were hired at one amount and they pay another yes you can. You just have to show that there reasons are arbitrary, we spent too much on the CEO's bonus and aquiring other companies to pay our current employees is arbitrary. It's simple breach off contract , they provide a written statement of what the agreed upon amount of compensation is every month along with your paycheck. The letter from the company stated if you continue to work for them you have agreed to the terms. But if you walk out, and sue for required pay and severance benefits the ball is now your court. It's the severance that they don't want to pay, especially unemployement. So demand that they pay the severance, by taking them to court. If all or most of the effected employees do this they will spend more money in the long run fighting the suit especially if you can get the ACLU on your side. If the company folds then you are one then of it's debts (via the lawsuit). The company assets are sold off to the pay debtors. At least you get some of your money due. If this is how they manage their company then it is only a matter of time until they fold anyway. It's better to have the one of the first claims against the carcass. The company is expecting some people to quit, not everyone to sue. Part of any proposed settlement can be the CEO returning his big fat bonus paid for at the employees expense or else the company falls. Since their is no IT union, you can't effectively strike, so they can just hire new people. But with a lawsuit pending, and media exposure, that becomes your picket line that won't be getting crossed. A large peaceful protest around the home of the CEO wouldn't hurt either.
The affected workers should get together and file a lawsuit for loss of wages. And threaten a walkout if they don't settle. They won't be able to hire new employees if they have the press hounding them. Especially since it sounds like another Enron. So their jobs are relatively safe, though the CEO's won't be if it makes national news and their stock dives. If they are allowed to do it once, it will happen at managements whim afterwards. Unfortunately, most IT employees will cry real loud but lay down and take it. This couldn't happen in a manufacturing company, the unions would nail them to a cross.
No it is NOT!!!! I retired from the Air Force and the DOD has strict regulations about software licenses. I have worked for NASA as a systems admin and they buy software liscenses for everything, except GPL'd software. The problem is not that they didn't originally buy the software it's that after a couple of years the box with the license gets trashed. And Microsoft is taking advantage of bad book keeping. Notice that this article was on a local paper's website and not on the national news outlets. I would personally like to see a million hackers march on washington to force the issue. Then maybe we'll stop hearing that it's just installing IE over netscape and focus on the real heart of the matter (ULTIMATE GREED).
Why stop at being the richest SOB when you can own it all!
"Microsoft's development of reliable and scalable server operating systems has enabled AMD to enter and compete more effectively in the server businesses...because most non-Microsoft server operating systems only run on specialized microprocessors," he testified.
So linux doesn't run on AMD? Right! Does he even have a clue as to how many small businesses are using AMD processors with linux? I suppose server operating systems require Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer and taking them out would make it less effective as an email, print, or webserver! Sanders is talking out his ass!
It is using less than ten per cent of the mainframe's capacity, they do plan to migrate other server jobs currently on discrete machines to the mainframe
Yes they are already a mainframe shop. One mainframe is far more capable than a desktop server.
It sounds like that covers your last sentence.
At nasa we tried purchasing a NT cluster system. It absolutely sucked from the start. It is now a Scyld Beowulf cluster running PBS and it is doing data mining on atmospheric data in multi petabyte databases. Interchangeable? in your dreams.
I'm glad your happy with Opera, for me it absolutely sucks. I hate the user interface, I'd rather see more html page, less opera the GUI. Banner ads only enhance my disdain. Speed wise, Mozilla is faster in windows since there is a little lizard in the tray that keeps it in memory.
In linux, it's only slower on opening. Since I keep it minimized when not in use still not much of a problem. The page rendering, especially in the presence of javascript in opera is horrible. Mozilla does a much better job. I also use the mail client in mozilla. It beats kmail & evolution needs to speed up considerably, especially when rendering images! Mozilla is also absolutley free , as in beer & freedom. I've learned a great deal taking a peak at the source code.
Then he should demand they not use any of his code.
That would be preying on the talents of an adolescent and probably falls under some contract or child labor law. (IANAL)
They should remove his code immediately.
Postgresql has pgaccess. I do all my administration from that. It can design tables, create databases,create simple forms and execute queries. It coupled with webadmin allow me to do just about anything. But that is not the same as drawing Visual Basic forms and creating whole applications with out any programming. Access is nice for creating simple databases that aren't big or shared with hundreds of users. If we could have a package that has the administration features of pgaccess coupled with QT designer from kdevelop (with little or no coding), that would be one hell of a product. I like coding but I have a CS degree, the average office user does not. Yet many companies have alot of small databases created in access.
While I think that writing a game in sed is neat. I can't imagine putting that much effort into it. I guess I'm a slacker, I like to see the sun and interact with others.
Actually quite a bit. I have a friend who said that the vibrations in his sons car caused parts of the dash to come loose. All the screws holding the front of the dash together came out and got lost 1 at a time until the thing just fell apart.
There's the rub, I don't want their damn service. I want a product. With a service you pay & pay forever. I'm not willing to pay that long. I'll buy a product that I can do with what I want. I pay for my RedHat box set and they don't bother me. Our company recieved a letter from MS threatening audit etc. Good Luck! not a windows box in the place!
I tried it, there's no support for a DMZ. So you can't use it to filter packets to your public servers and create a private LAN. I ended up using shorewall a set of scripts that are pretty easy to configure. I liked the Mandrake SNF web interface, but it wasn't flexible enough to suite our needs.
When that interface is inconsistent, however, your conscious mind must work harder to accomplish the same task that a consistent UI would have allowed you to complete far more efficiently.
No the user soon gets bored, and then productivity dramatically decreases. If you give the user of the machine the ability to easily change the interface to suite their particuler needs the interface submits to the user instead of vice versa.
What makes you think the developer knows what I need? This article takes the approach that everyone that uses a computer is stupid and needs to have things presented to them in the simplest fashion. If I change my desktop, I won't be able to adapt to a new computer? That is absolute crap!
That is pure crap! Negative cash flow on IRS forms maybe but not reality. The record companies are doing better than they have in twenty years. At $18 per CD, they have been raking in the dough, it's the artists who get a lesser percentage of total sales year after year.
So what do you think he should do? Buy a gun? The courts aren't working so what recourse does a person have? The only real way to change it is to bribe a sufficient number of congressmen to repeal it. Or bitch about it so loud and long that it starts to become a campaign issue. All our lawmakers really care about are votes & money. How much money do you think it took to put this law on the books? It will take alot of angry voters in many states to counteract that.
What you know, no anti Microsoft rhetoric.........
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The reason I went to see spiderman was for fun. And recalling my childhood days vegetating in front of the tube watching spiderman & speed racer after school, nothing more. I didn't look for anything deep in it then, why should I start now? Jon, tying in 911 is really far fetched, you neeed to get out more.
Your absolutely correct about their interface. It plays dvds great but to play a file, you have to open the playlist dialog thingy and put in a command line path & filename, enter, then select it from the playlist press play & then dismiss the dialog box. That is really stupid! But it's play capabilities are great and you don't have to jump through hoops to compile and install it like mplayer.
How many exobiologists & extraterrestrial infectious disease specialists read slashdot?
If the pay cut is not for cause and you were hired at one amount and they pay another yes you can. You just have to show that there reasons are arbitrary, we spent too much on the CEO's bonus and aquiring other companies to pay our current employees is arbitrary. It's simple breach off contract , they provide a written statement of what the agreed upon amount of compensation is every month along with your paycheck. The letter from the company stated if you continue to work for them you have agreed to the terms. But if you walk out, and sue for required pay and severance benefits the ball is now your court. It's the severance that they don't want to pay, especially unemployement. So demand that they pay the severance, by taking them to court. If all or most of the effected employees do this they will spend more money in the long run fighting the suit especially if you can get the ACLU on your side. If the company folds then you are one then of it's debts (via the lawsuit). The company assets are sold off to the pay debtors. At least you get some of your money due. If this is how they manage their company then it is only a matter of time until they fold anyway. It's better to have the one of the first claims against the carcass. The company is expecting some people to quit, not everyone to sue. Part of any proposed settlement can be the CEO returning his big fat bonus paid for at the employees expense or else the company falls. Since their is no IT union, you can't effectively strike, so they can just hire new people. But with a lawsuit pending, and media exposure, that becomes your picket line that won't be getting crossed. A large peaceful protest around the home of the CEO wouldn't hurt either.
The affected workers should get together and file a lawsuit for loss of wages. And threaten a walkout if they don't settle. They won't be able to hire new employees if they have the press hounding them. Especially since it sounds like another Enron. So their jobs are relatively safe, though the CEO's won't be if it makes national news and their stock dives. If they are allowed to do it once, it will happen at managements whim afterwards. Unfortunately, most IT employees will cry real loud but lay down and take it. This couldn't happen in a manufacturing company, the unions would nail them to a cross.
No it is NOT!!!! I retired from the Air Force and the DOD has strict regulations about software licenses. I have worked for NASA as a systems admin and they buy software liscenses for everything, except GPL'd software. The problem is not that they didn't originally buy the software it's that after a couple of years the box with the license gets trashed. And Microsoft is taking advantage of bad book keeping. Notice that this article was on a local paper's website and not on the national news outlets. I would personally like to see a million hackers march on washington to force the issue. Then maybe we'll stop hearing that it's just installing IE over netscape and focus on the real heart of the matter (ULTIMATE GREED). Why stop at being the richest SOB when you can own it all!
So linux doesn't run on AMD? Right! Does he even have a clue as to how many small businesses are using AMD processors with linux? I suppose server operating systems require Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer and taking them out would make it less effective as an email, print, or webserver! Sanders is talking out his ass!
Just don't buy the CD or Sony Computers. I personally like to listen to music while I work. But they just assume all PC users are thieves.
It is using less than ten per cent of the mainframe's capacity, they do plan to migrate other server jobs currently on discrete machines to the mainframe Yes they are already a mainframe shop. One mainframe is far more capable than a desktop server. It sounds like that covers your last sentence.
Thank you! You have expressed my thoughts quite eloquently.
At nasa we tried purchasing a NT cluster system. It absolutely sucked from the start. It is now a Scyld Beowulf cluster running PBS and it is doing data mining on atmospheric data in multi petabyte databases. Interchangeable? in your dreams.
I'm glad your happy with Opera, for me it absolutely sucks. I hate the user interface, I'd rather see more html page, less opera the GUI. Banner ads only enhance my disdain. Speed wise, Mozilla is faster in windows since there is a little lizard in the tray that keeps it in memory. In linux, it's only slower on opening. Since I keep it minimized when not in use still not much of a problem. The page rendering, especially in the presence of javascript in opera is horrible. Mozilla does a much better job. I also use the mail client in mozilla. It beats kmail & evolution needs to speed up considerably, especially when rendering images! Mozilla is also absolutley free , as in beer & freedom. I've learned a great deal taking a peak at the source code.
Then he should demand they not use any of his code. That would be preying on the talents of an adolescent and probably falls under some contract or child labor law. (IANAL) They should remove his code immediately.
Postgresql has pgaccess. I do all my administration from that. It can design tables, create databases,create simple forms and execute queries. It coupled with webadmin allow me to do just about anything. But that is not the same as drawing Visual Basic forms and creating whole applications with out any programming. Access is nice for creating simple databases that aren't big or shared with hundreds of users. If we could have a package that has the administration features of pgaccess coupled with QT designer from kdevelop (with little or no coding), that would be one hell of a product. I like coding but I have a CS degree, the average office user does not. Yet many companies have alot of small databases created in access.
While I think that writing a game in sed is neat. I can't imagine putting that much effort into it. I guess I'm a slacker, I like to see the sun and interact with others.
And John Katz posts a short article about the need to conform. Then promptly joins the Marine Corps.
Actually quite a bit. I have a friend who said that the vibrations in his sons car caused parts of the dash to come loose. All the screws holding the front of the dash together came out and got lost 1 at a time until the thing just fell apart.
It wasn't an open source app.
The surfaces of my windows do the same thing when certain idiots drive by.
There's the rub, I don't want their damn service. I want a product. With a service you pay & pay forever. I'm not willing to pay that long. I'll buy a product that I can do with what I want. I pay for my RedHat box set and they don't bother me. Our company recieved a letter from MS threatening audit etc. Good Luck! not a windows box in the place!
I tried it, there's no support for a DMZ. So you can't use it to filter packets to your public servers and create a private LAN. I ended up using shorewall a set of scripts that are pretty easy to configure. I liked the Mandrake SNF web interface, but it wasn't flexible enough to suite our needs.
No the user soon gets bored, and then productivity dramatically decreases. If you give the user of the machine the ability to easily change the interface to suite their particuler needs the interface submits to the user instead of vice versa.
What makes you think the developer knows what I need? This article takes the approach that everyone that uses a computer is stupid and needs to have things presented to them in the simplest fashion. If I change my desktop, I won't be able to adapt to a new computer? That is absolute crap!
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That is pure crap! Negative cash flow on IRS forms maybe but not reality. The record companies are doing better than they have in twenty years. At $18 per CD, they have been raking in the dough, it's the artists who get a lesser percentage of total sales year after year.
So what do you think he should do? Buy a gun? The courts aren't working so what recourse does a person have? The only real way to change it is to bribe a sufficient number of congressmen to repeal it. Or bitch about it so loud and long that it starts to become a campaign issue. All our lawmakers really care about are votes & money. How much money do you think it took to put this law on the books? It will take alot of angry voters in many states to counteract that.
What you know, no anti Microsoft rhetoric.........