None of that stuff would pique the SEC's interest, as it is all public knowledge, google's expenses are all reported to the SEC so the average salary is known. The option strike price is determined by the stock price on the day of the options grant, 188 was the price of GOOG when Jens was hired. Not only that there are those who are given offers and turn them down, I never have received an NDA about any salary offer. However Jens did talk about corporate direction from an all hands like meeting, which when he published sent the stock up several points. While that info would have gotten out (there were a lot of ears at that meeting, and not every one would have stayed quiet, hell I have heard insider info from google employees), I did expect him to get the can over it.
He only talked in general terms about compensation. He thought that there was no such thing as a "free lunch", that the medical plan was lame compared to Microsoft, and that they should pay more. Didn't we all bitch when the details of EA's indentured servitude came to light? Sounds like google is doing the same thing.
In the 80s the DOE proposed building a high level waste dump right where my house, as well as the water supply for half the population of maine was locatated. If you want to store the waste in your own backyard and that of your neighbors, family and friends, then wax philosophically about how we need to build more nuclear reactors. However I can't do that and stress that instead of looking for new energy, we should be looking to use LESS. That also solves another type of global warming that is on the horizon, one that everyone who has been involved with large data centers know about, which is when the rest of the world uses the same energy per capita that we in the first world currently do, then we will need to find some way to radiate off this heat.
Probably because a coffee shop does not usually have a single persistant server of music, and anyone that they did have is firewalled. In other words, while some people at times do run torrents from a coffee shop, they do not often leave them on for long enough for the record companies to notice. However if the upstairs neighbor had one running for weeks on an open AP the cafe, and the idiots who leave their connections open, would be identified and in a decent amount of hurt of legal fees in the very least. Anyone with a brain can figure out that this is a non story, most likely one of her grandchildren is running a p2p app on an ADSL line. The RIAA just gets the name/address of the billed party from the phone company, normally it would be sorted out later.
I read it somewhere, I guess I should have said "allegedly" un-googleable. And it very well may have been that way yesterday when I read it (where I picked that up, I don't exactly know, so I am on pretty thin ice). HOWEVER the basis of my post had nothing to do with the un-googleness of ninetyninezeros, and more to do with the content of the blog, which is that google's compensation package isn't all that great. Getting a detail wrong doesn't make one a troll.
The law defines this as "Theft of Services". The economic value is the same if take a car or if you take someone right to distribute their own creative work. They have less assets to do things like put shoes on their feet or food on their table. Yet you have what you want. Define it as whatever you want, but the law looks at it all the same.
I would think that if you worked for a company for two weeks and then they chose not to pay you, most people on this forum would consider that a type of theft.
Seriously, if manufactures let people hack/rewrite their firmware, how much does that increase their support overhead? (don't give me "users are on their own, it still costs $$)
Exactly how is he successful? It seems to me all he has done is gotten people to pay him for a b-rate acting job. There are a lot more child actors who do live a good life after they are no longer acting than those who do not, it's just they don't make it in the papers, because there isn't any reason to put them there. The fact that Weaton lets the slashdot geeks fawn all over him for doing nothing is pretty sad.
First of all why is this flamebait? This is a valid question, google gets off with shit no one else would, other than say Transmeta. They have a spyware toolbar, track your usage forever (talk about privacy concerns, these guys know exactly who you are and what your fetishes are). Plus it seems they have no problem suing themselves, but it will never be posted on slashdot.
Google hasn't innovated shit beyond page rank and throwing a lot of machines at a problem
What do they have?
Froogle, copy of JungleE
news, standard search on a subset of sites
groups, dejanews, bought in a firesale
toolbar, just another spyware toolbar
cache, less useful Internet Archive
gmail, it is just e-mail, that goes down at least as much for me as hotmail ever did.
The truth is, for all their thousands of millionaire PhD's they haven't done very much truely innovative. The other thing that is scary for google stockholders is that Microsoft only spent $100 million, to be almost google, what do you think they could do for a $billion?
Also all IE browsers from 1999 to XP sp2 had a "show related links" menu item which gave alexa data for a complete URL. This request was proxied through microsoft's servers. Don't you think they logged the requests?
Except the rebuttal that the article gives is not particularly useful. Apple's customer is joe normal user who could care less about copying files off their iPod, because they already have them on their computer. And this joe customer really wants to be able to easily buy a copy of Eminem's Mosh single and load it onto their iPod. Guess what to be able to do the second they may have to prevent the first. Which is more important to Apple and Apple's primary customers?
60% (60 tons at $10 Million/Ton) of the weight of the shuttle is in the wings, total shielding, and landing gear. All of that can be dumped (the shielding for a small crew re-entry vehicle has very little weight)
Both sides are illegal, haven't you ever read the FBI warning at the begining of a DVD. The reason they haven't yet gone after those whose are leaches is that it would be next to impossible to catch them. As if they set out honeypots, it would likely be considered entrapment.
That is the problem, emergency rooms can not turn anyone away. However by the time someone needs to go to the ER whatever condition they were in has most likely become much more expensive to treat. Thus it costs us MORE to not have a true single payer health system.
I assume this is a typo Since no mass copy technologies weren't available
and you meant that there were no mass coping technology available at the time. However that is simply NOT true. Copyright was started because devices such as the printing press drove the cost of copying written text to nearly nothing. (yes the press was "expensive", but it cost a whole lot less per copy than having to run a monestary, which is where most "texts" were printed.) see the history of copyright
Amazon has a lot of safeguards for the publishers that I do not see google putting in place. A) You actually have to log in with a valid account (I believe that means a valid Credit Card on file too) so see search inside the book pages. B) there is a fairly small maximum number of pages that can be looked at per day something like 20 pages TOTAL C) the books are displayed as images, not as text.
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None of that stuff would pique the SEC's interest, as it is all public knowledge, google's expenses are all reported to the SEC so the average salary is known. The option strike price is determined by the stock price on the day of the options grant, 188 was the price of GOOG when Jens was hired. Not only that there are those who are given offers and turn them down, I never have received an NDA about any salary offer. However Jens did talk about corporate direction from an all hands like meeting, which when he published sent the stock up several points. While that info would have gotten out (there were a lot of ears at that meeting, and not every one would have stayed quiet, hell I have heard insider info from google employees), I did expect him to get the can over it.
He only talked in general terms about compensation. He thought that there was no such thing as a "free lunch", that the medical plan was lame compared to Microsoft, and that they should pay more. Didn't we all bitch when the details of EA's indentured servitude came to light? Sounds like google is doing the same thing.
In the 80s the DOE proposed building a high level waste dump right where my house, as well as the water supply for half the population of maine was locatated. If you want to store the waste in your own backyard and that of your neighbors, family and friends, then wax philosophically about how we need to build more nuclear reactors. However I can't do that and stress that instead of looking for new energy, we should be looking to use LESS. That also solves another type of global warming that is on the horizon, one that everyone who has been involved with large data centers know about, which is when the rest of the world uses the same energy per capita that we in the first world currently do, then we will need to find some way to radiate off this heat.
You should offer it free to all for the love of computers.
Probably because a coffee shop does not usually have a single persistant server of music, and anyone that they did have is firewalled. In other words, while some people at times do run torrents from a coffee shop, they do not often leave them on for long enough for the record companies to notice. However if the upstairs neighbor had one running for weeks on an open AP the cafe, and the idiots who leave their connections open, would be identified and in a decent amount of hurt of legal fees in the very least. Anyone with a brain can figure out that this is a non story, most likely one of her grandchildren is running a p2p app on an ADSL line. The RIAA just gets the name/address of the billed party from the phone company, normally it would be sorted out later.
I read it somewhere, I guess I should have said "allegedly" un-googleable. And it very well may have been that way yesterday when I read it (where I picked that up, I don't exactly know, so I am on pretty thin ice).
HOWEVER the basis of my post had nothing to do with the un-googleness of ninetyninezeros, and more to do with the content of the blog, which is that google's compensation package isn't all that great. Getting a detail wrong doesn't make one a troll.
according to the now unfindable by google ninetyninezeros blog, they don't pay all that well, they expect top 10% but only pay average salaries.
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/WRJ?subid=6578013
The law defines this as "Theft of Services". The economic value is the same if take a car or if you take someone right to distribute their own creative work. They have less assets to do things like put shoes on their feet or food on their table. Yet you have what you want. Define it as whatever you want, but the law looks at it all the same.
I would think that if you worked for a company for two weeks and then they chose not to pay you, most people on this forum would consider that a type of theft.
Uh, isn't that the point?
Seriously, if manufactures let people hack/rewrite their firmware, how much does that increase their support overhead? (don't give me "users are on their own, it still costs $$)
PKD lived in poverty mostly due to his severe drug habits. Read the afterward of "Through a Scanner Darkly"
Exactly how is he successful? It seems to me all he has done is gotten people to pay him for a b-rate acting job. There are a lot more child actors who do live a good life after they are no longer acting than those who do not, it's just they don't make it in the papers, because there isn't any reason to put them there. The fact that Weaton lets the slashdot geeks fawn all over him for doing nothing is pretty sad.
First of all why is this flamebait? This is a valid question, google gets off with shit no one else would, other than say Transmeta. They have a spyware toolbar, track your usage forever (talk about privacy concerns, these guys know exactly who you are and what your fetishes are). Plus it seems they have no problem suing themselves, but it will never be posted on slashdot.
Have you ever heard of outsourcing?
What do they have?
Froogle, copy of JungleE
news, standard search on a subset of sites
groups, dejanews, bought in a firesale
toolbar, just another spyware toolbar
cache, less useful Internet Archive
gmail, it is just e-mail, that goes down at least as much for me as hotmail ever did.
The truth is, for all their thousands of millionaire PhD's they haven't done very much truely innovative. The other thing that is scary for google stockholders is that Microsoft only spent $100 million, to be almost google, what do you think they could do for a $billion?
Also all IE browsers from 1999 to XP sp2 had a "show related links" menu item which gave alexa data for a complete URL. This request was proxied through microsoft's servers. Don't you think they logged the requests?
Oh my god a fucking typo?
Except the rebuttal that the article gives is not particularly useful. Apple's customer is joe normal user who could care less about copying files off their iPod, because they already have them on their computer. And this joe customer really wants to be able to easily buy a copy of Eminem's Mosh single and load it onto their iPod. Guess what to be able to do the second they may have to prevent the first. Which is more important to Apple and Apple's primary customers?
60% (60 tons at $10 Million/Ton) of the weight of the shuttle is in the wings, total shielding, and landing gear. All of that can be dumped (the shielding for a small crew re-entry vehicle has very little weight)
Both sides are illegal, haven't you ever read the FBI warning at the begining of a DVD. The reason they haven't yet gone after those whose are leaches is that it would be next to impossible to catch them. As if they set out honeypots, it would likely be considered entrapment.
That is the problem, emergency rooms can not turn anyone away. However by the time someone needs to go to the ER whatever condition they were in has most likely become much more expensive to treat. Thus it costs us MORE to not have a true single payer health system.
I assume this is a typo
Since no mass copy technologies weren't available
and you meant that there were no mass coping technology available at the time. However that is simply NOT true. Copyright was started because devices such as the printing press drove the cost of copying written text to nearly nothing. (yes the press was "expensive", but it cost a whole lot less per copy than having to run a monestary, which is where most "texts" were printed.)
see the history of copyright
While the grandfather poster or whatever did use the wrong word with "ethics". You also don't seem to know what ethics are.
Morals are of a personal nature, ethics are generally of a professional nature and quite codified.
here is a good definition
Amazon has a lot of safeguards for the publishers that I do not see google putting in place. A) You actually have to log in with a valid account (I believe that means a valid Credit Card on file too) so see search inside the book pages. B) there is a fairly small maximum number of pages that can be looked at per day something like 20 pages TOTAL C) the books are displayed as images, not as text.