This is not a correct number. He said: My split personality found my/. l/p! Eeek! {{{ZZZZZZT]]] Er... I found my split personality's/. l/p! Yippie! Time to troll....
Based on your estimates that would leave a company of 12 people. This is not a correct number. He said: First round (9) (total remain: 48) Second = 60% * 9 = 5.4 = 5 (43) Third = 40% * 5 = 2 = 41 remaining after potential three round cuts
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Let's hope this isn't a three-round layoff. Generally speaking, whenever a company plays the layoff card, they do it three times:
No brainers: the people who most deserve to go, and who everyone agrees
The group of tough choice cuts, generally 60% of the first round, and not often based on performance but more so on overshadowing
The painful cuts who don't deserve to go but they have to cut 40% of the last round numbers, so these will have to do
But of course since this is to enable the company to move into Europe, and not due to financial problems -- then perhaps this will be the only round as they will be rehiring these positions in a new office. I like the idea that they will be hiring new locals.
I am so tired of all these Microsoft excuses with their fake updates and now their in-house virus writing staff ramping up to start promoting their virus PROTECTION. It's like the carpet salesman who won't leave!
My Question Why don't you open up your source? I have an analogy to Open and Closed source:
With closed source, you are in a room full of razor blades everywhere and you are blindfolded. With Open Source, you are in a room full of razor blades everywhere and you are NOT blindfolded, so you can see where the exit is and perhaps avoid getting too cut up.
Which is really safer, closed or open source? Would you rather be blindfolded?
This is not about terrorism, this export tax. It's about people going to the US to study and work in America, who are from India, and then taking the knowledge back to India, along with all the business.
My opinion is that it's a free country, but does that make it a free world? Should people be able to move all the business out of one country to simply make a buck? Maybe that's not ethical if you're gaining the knowledge from the country in question. But maybe there is a better twist to it...
I'm Canadian and I have tried outsourcing to the US before with my LAMP knowledge (PHP). The pay simply sucks. I can get more money doing local work for charities than working for someone abroad. The pay is that bad. So if Joe American wants to pay that to India to get better positioning for their company's budget -- I'm all for it. Why? Because now I can compete directly against the Indian firm on QUALITY -- something they can't compete on because they just don't have the time with all this new business coming in, IMHO.
I take more time to be sure the job is well done, and that reinforces the expression that you get what you pay for.
I like the phrase: "I feel your research into the subject may be incomplete".
I'm willing to agree with that statement.
I get miffed when people cry "Buzzwords!" when there *is* meaning in a statement.
Buzzwords are peppered to marketing sheets when there is really no meaning or when there is no ability to substantiate a positive spin to an arguement. Like Dilbert type stuff.
But then there are statements which actually have substance... and sometimes a cigar is really a cigar.
I was getting a buzz from all those buzz words....
I'd like to address this directly because I find it funny that AC would suggest open source was anything but a multidimensional methodology. Clearly you have no understanding of the subject matter, buzz words or not.
Linux really suffers from having a single dictator in charge
Critical to the Open Source model is agility, and it's why Windows is at a strong disadvantage to Linux -- they can't have the same agility as we do.
There isn't a single dictator in charge of Linux, only a media figurehead. Try telling that to the media, who can't yet comprehend our multidimensional, fractal, Open, Source, methodology.
(I actually like your site design, and I think it is great you are releasing your work under the GPL and your content under a CC license)
Thank you!:-)
I am getting killed by my comment about Greasemonkey, but I have to put it plainly to everyone:
I provide my content with a Creative Commons license. Everyone is free to modify it. Everyone is free to use the code that generated the website (well soon enough, it's just about ready to be released) and everyone can use my RSS to reformat my site and syndicate it. Things like Google's toolbar that actually rewrites text to give their partners and advantage over my own affiliates, really bothers me. Things like this toolbar that lets you perform website automation (that could result in XSS/client-side script attacks) also has the potential for danger, IMHO.
That's the reason I have sided against Greasemonkey on *my sites*. But hey, if you want to use it to get your Hotmail easier -- fine. But I wouldn't use Hotmail anyway.:-)
By making it easy to write client-side scripts that modify webpages as you surf, it shifts the balance of power from content creators to content consumers.
Google has tried something similar before with their toolbar and ISBNs.
That said, I am going to use this guide to disable Greasemonkey. I write websites so I can present ideas to people. I don't want them to see my site the way they want to see it. I want them to see it the way it was meant to be seen. That way I can provide content based on expectations of standards compliance.
If you want to display my content with your own formatting, use my RSS feed.
Generally speaking, one is not Slashdotted every day. I've been Slashdotted once before (and I consider myself lucky for it). I can remember feeling a sense of relief/pride when the servers held and my Open Source PHP CMS project didn't crap out into oblivion due to the pressure. There was no outage... just a crapload of pages served.
Sensible code and good bandwidth are the only way to fly.
You can laugh, but I think this is one more reason why we should avoid using Java whenever possible. Sun has steadily been following the way of the dark side, and this reveal is no surprise whatsoever to me. I always instictively knew that Sun was evil -- I think it might have been my Java teacher in college who started me thinking this way when I caught him eating someone's entrails in the prof lounge, but I think it also has to do with all the stupid rules Java follows to try and make it harder for people to get any work done.
Now I am certain Sun doesn't care if I know they are evil. That somehow really scares me.
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This is not a correct number. He said: /. l/p! Eeek! /. l/p! Yippie! Time to troll....
My split personality found my
{{{ZZZZZZT]]]
Er... I found my split personality's
Based on your estimates that would leave a company of 12 people.
This is not a correct number. He said:
First round (9) (total remain: 48)
Second = 60% * 9 = 5.4 = 5 (43)
Third = 40% * 5 = 2 = 41 remaining after potential three round cuts
- No brainers: the people who most deserve to go, and who everyone agrees
- The group of tough choice cuts, generally 60% of the first round, and not often based on performance but more so on overshadowing
- The painful cuts who don't deserve to go but they have to cut 40% of the last round numbers, so these will have to do
But of course since this is to enable the company to move into Europe, and not due to financial problems -- then perhaps this will be the only round as they will be rehiring these positions in a new office. I like the idea that they will be hiring new locals.I am so tired of all these Microsoft excuses with their fake updates and now their in-house virus writing staff ramping up to start promoting their virus PROTECTION. It's like the carpet salesman who won't leave!
*puts on kevlar suit and runs away*
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*THAT* is not going to help you. And the self-defending Cisco system won't help you, either.
Yie-Yie-Yie-Yie-Yie-Yie-ZZZZZPPPPT-B^ING!!!!
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I think it's funny that Blogging has a market. It's free, right? So where's the market? CLICK HERE
My Question
Why don't you open up your source? I have an analogy to Open and Closed source:
With closed source, you are in a room full of razor blades everywhere and you are blindfolded. With Open Source, you are in a room full of razor blades everywhere and you are NOT blindfolded, so you can see where the exit is and perhaps avoid getting too cut up.
Which is really safer, closed or open source? Would you rather be blindfolded?
This is not about terrorism, this export tax. It's about people going to the US to study and work in America, who are from India, and then taking the knowledge back to India, along with all the business.
My opinion is that it's a free country, but does that make it a free world? Should people be able to move all the business out of one country to simply make a buck? Maybe that's not ethical if you're gaining the knowledge from the country in question. But maybe there is a better twist to it...
I'm Canadian and I have tried outsourcing to the US before with my LAMP knowledge (PHP). The pay simply sucks. I can get more money doing local work for charities than working for someone abroad. The pay is that bad. So if Joe American wants to pay that to India to get better positioning for their company's budget -- I'm all for it. Why? Because now I can compete directly against the Indian firm on QUALITY -- something they can't compete on because they just don't have the time with all this new business coming in, IMHO.
I take more time to be sure the job is well done, and that reinforces the expression that you get what you pay for.
I like the phrase: "I feel your research into the subject may be incomplete".
I'm willing to agree with that statement.
I get miffed when people cry "Buzzwords!" when there *is* meaning in a statement.
Buzzwords are peppered to marketing sheets when there is really no meaning or when there is no ability to substantiate a positive spin to an arguement. Like Dilbert type stuff.
But then there are statements which actually have substance... and sometimes a cigar is really a cigar.
I was getting a buzz from all those buzz words....
I'd like to address this directly because I find it funny that AC would suggest open source was anything but a multidimensional methodology. Clearly you have no understanding of the subject matter, buzz words or not.
Linux really suffers from having a single dictator in charge
Critical to the Open Source model is agility, and it's why Windows is at a strong disadvantage to Linux -- they can't have the same agility as we do.
There isn't a single dictator in charge of Linux, only a media figurehead. Try telling that to the media, who can't yet comprehend our multidimensional, fractal, Open, Source, methodology.
Average IE User:
"My God! TABS! Eeeek!"
(runs away from computer)
Absolutely! Actually I changed my tune after reading Slashdotter's opinions on the subject.
I guess I'm just an old fart who needs to revise his theories about the way the web should be.
I moved the copyright info to the js menu under the question mark. What do you think now?
I've only rarely used telnet... for Quake servers, actually.
Please post a screenshot! I haven't had time to do browser checking, but soon I will be serving custom templates for each of the strange browsers.
Yes, but you used the Printer version. :-)
FYI: poster is referring to my earlier posts against Greasemonkey. See my user page for links. :-)
Anyway, I got a giggle out of this comment...
Which site is crashing you? The site linked was not mine... and I noticed it started crashing my browser too. Strange.
For a better guide to disabling Greasemonkey, see this.
Hell, if I want to print it out and use it as toilet paper, I will.
Now that you've said this, everyone is going to use my site as TP. Thanks, buddy.
When are the 'osphere's going to die?
(I actually like your site design, and I think it is great you are releasing your work under the GPL and your content under a CC license)
:-)
:-)
Thank you!
I am getting killed by my comment about Greasemonkey, but I have to put it plainly to everyone:
I provide my content with a Creative Commons license. Everyone is free to modify it. Everyone is free to use the code that generated the website (well soon enough, it's just about ready to be released) and everyone can use my RSS to reformat my site and syndicate it. Things like Google's toolbar that actually rewrites text to give their partners and advantage over my own affiliates, really bothers me. Things like this toolbar that lets you perform website automation (that could result in XSS/client-side script attacks) also has the potential for danger, IMHO.
That's the reason I have sided against Greasemonkey on *my sites*. But hey, if you want to use it to get your Hotmail easier -- fine. But I wouldn't use Hotmail anyway.
By making it easy to write client-side scripts that modify webpages as you surf, it shifts the balance of power from content creators to content consumers.
Google has tried something similar before with their toolbar and ISBNs.
That said, I am going to use this guide to disable Greasemonkey. I write websites so I can present ideas to people. I don't want them to see my site the way they want to see it. I want them to see it the way it was meant to be seen. That way I can provide content based on expectations of standards compliance.
If you want to display my content with your own formatting, use my RSS feed.
This is not embarassing. It's news that is good enough to repeat.
I can't wait for Java to be fully open source so I can gut it and re-release it how I would like to see it written. Can't wait.
Generally speaking, one is not Slashdotted every day. I've been Slashdotted once before (and I consider myself lucky for it). I can remember feeling a sense of relief/pride when the servers held and my Open Source PHP CMS project didn't crap out into oblivion due to the pressure. There was no outage... just a crapload of pages served.
Sensible code and good bandwidth are the only way to fly.
You can laugh, but I think this is one more reason why we should avoid using Java whenever possible. Sun has steadily been following the way of the dark side, and this reveal is no surprise whatsoever to me. I always instictively knew that Sun was evil -- I think it might have been my Java teacher in college who started me thinking this way when I caught him eating someone's entrails in the prof lounge, but I think it also has to do with all the stupid rules Java follows to try and make it harder for people to get any work done.
Now I am certain Sun doesn't care if I know they are evil. That somehow really scares me.