very simple: charge whatever the company used to pay you, on average, per day, plus about 15% extra for being "on-call" or whatever.
And the rest. Take a look at the difference between freelance consultancy day rates, and the day rate of a normal salary. The former is at least 200-300 times the latter, and this is the basis on which he's working for his ex-boss.
You'll probably have to chalk this one down to experience, but in future, tell her what your rates are, and then ask her to ring around for some other estimates.
Richer and more successful, perhaps, but hipper? Not by any definition of the term that I've ever heard in common use.
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You don't actually have to sign up for the.mac scam to get a copy. It's a free download from Apple's website. There aren't any restrictions on the download that I can see, but it has had it's functionality restricted to interoperate solely with.mac.
This is just a nice little hack to provide additional functionality without taking anything away from either Apple or the.mac service -- and anyone who says otherwise is a wanker!
Pot, kettle, black. Which parts of these paragraphs did you not understand?
The settlement of a lawsuit over an MIT-Dolby royalty sharing agreement under which Dolby was slated to pay MIT if either's audio system proposal were accepted -- that is, if Philips Electronics' competing "Musicam" system were rejected -- placed Lim in the unusual position of receiving millions of dollars from Dolby partly as the result of having voted in favor of Dolby's system, over Musicam and MIT's own system, on a technical advisory committee to draft the industry's unified recommendation as part of a government-run national standardization process.
"Any implication that Jae's decisions [were] biased by potential future royalties is totally wrong," he said. "We never cast a vote for a system that did not show itself to be superior based on third party test results," Preston wrote in an e-mail statement. However, Preston continued, "the MIT audio system performed best in the tests, and the Dolby [system] was nearly the same."
The article clearly makes the point that the MIT system (the one that Jin invented, I assume) was technically superior, but Jin and Dolby carved out a deal between themselves that gave both Jin, Dolby and MIT a cut of the winnings, regardless of who won.
Once the financial issues were stitched up, Jin was free to cast his vote with Dolby, despite independent tests showing that the MIT system was superior -- and his allies appear to be arguing that his motivation was patriotic rather than financial.
Now in future, would you please not lecture other people unless you've read and understood the article yourself?
I love me saw so much that I had my wife get a tattoo in a private place that I won't mention.
Hmm. Was that the 75th Anniversary Special Edition then? Is it as cool as the 15th Anniversary Special Edition Mac was?
Can't you tell how much a part of the intellectual elite I am?
Damn, that's a terrible inferiority complex you have there. I know Mac users must seem like an intellectual elite to those of you who feel you can't afford one, but we're really just people who prefer to pay a little more for functional, well-designed products.
Of course, we do get more pussy than non-Mac users. That isn't a myth at all.
I was in Government Office in Bristol a couple of weeks ago, and happened to notice that the receptionists were sitting on a couple of Herman Miller Aeron office chairs, nice things that cost around 700 UKP a pop.
When I went upstairs though, I noticed that all of the big knob senior civil servants were sitting on fifty pound clunkers from Staples or some such.
I thought the whole deal was quite heartening and very democratic, myself.
What Reuters did exposed the company to a situation before they were ready.
Which is precisely what you'd expect them to do, Reuters being a press agency and all.
I court I hope Reuters don't get busted for accessing the information, but for publishing details about it.
Damn straight. If it weren't for those goddamned financial journalists, I bet Enron would still be trading today. The freedom of the press has got no business interfering with our right to earn a dishonest dollar.
After all I'm sure that the company in question had a copyright notice on all their pages, right?
So what? Do you really believe Reuters breached their copyright in the report?
Yeah, Vint thought that he could have signed the nondisclosure agreement.
Vint's being a disingenuous wanker. If he wanted to explore a cheaper alternative to litigation, he could have just given Auerback access without asking him to sign the non-disclosure agreement.
There has to be two parties to make a lawsuit happen. The plaintiff and the defendant. Either one can make it go away by conceding to the other's terms. Vint obviously feels that he's got bigger balls and so he doesn't have to do the right thing.
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Yes, they do make suits out of other materials...
But I can't think of any that are cooler than a fine wool suit. Clue: wool != thick/heavy.
Too bad many people can't afford a suit for every season...
What, programmers who can't afford two suits? And do they actually have two seasons in Texas anyway?
I started with Debian, because it was the only distro that worked on M86k's, and I was running an old Mac at the time.
I went from there, to MkLinux, then LinuxPPC, then I broke down and bought a P3 so I could run an up-to-date distro.
Next came the RedHats, up until 6.2, which got rooted, and so went to secure distros like Trustix and Immunix. Then I tried Mandrake, which I liked a lot because Immunix didn't seem to be developing and I liked all of the cool toys that came packaged with it.
Currently I have Redhat 8.0 on my main box as it just makes everything fairly simple.
Me too!
Just installed it this weekend, and I love the slick new version of Gnome, and the wonderful implementation of up-to-date (which has to be easier than apt-get or dselect.)
While I've always thought it was a brilliant server OS, RedHat 8 is the first distro I've ever thought was robust and full featured enough to use as a primary desktop OS. None of the earlier distros that I used ever seemed quite there, but I can do real work on RedHat in absolute comfort, without that irritation that some little bit of my hardware or software just doesn't work the way it's supposed to.
it should just be a crime to drive inattentively or to create diversions for yourself.
It is in the UK at least. The offence is called 'Driving without due care and attention'. The laws against cellphones were necessary because it had become common practice before anyone had chance to object, and so the law was necessary to send people a clear message that this wasn't on.
As for the talking to passengers/hands free headsets issue, it's quite possible to hold a conversation when conditions are quiet. Then you would be driving with due care and attention, as long as you stop doing so when driving conditions change. It's all about balance and matching your behaviour to the situation. But fiddling about with a telephone handset is always going to be too great a distraction to be safe.
Duh, I've no idea when *you* can expect to get it, but I've had my Sony Ericsson T68i phone, hands-free headset and TiBook with Bluetooth D-Link adaptor for a couple of months now.
It all works together perfectly -- until the 3G phones arrive anyway...
Nothing sucks more about a cell phone than trying to use the keypad to enter phone book items.
Yeah, this is especially annoying when you're overtaking on the inside lane, because the guy in front doesn't have his Bluetooth headset on and so is only doing 25 and is too distracted to get out of my way.
Are there any Bluetooth hacking tools? Can I packet sniff conversations from my TiBook?
When the guy who robbed him drew on him, he would have went for his nine. Ultimately then, it would have been a matter of who was quickest on the draw.
As the robber already had his gun out, he'd have had the advantage and so would almost certainly have shot someone who was reaching for his weapon.
How would have it turned out differently?
Instead of being robbed of 12 dollars, he'd almost certainly have been shot -- and quite possibly killed.
Do you want a ticket sent to you monthly cause some camera caught you doing 55 in a 50 zone without your seat belt on since they were hard pressed to reach thier violation quota for the month?
I see, so what you're saying is that you want to break the laws that you don't feel like obeying with impunity, while resevering the right to whine when the state can't enforce the ones that you think are important? I rather like that idea, and see that it's becoming increasingly popular with many US citizens.
You can keep the driving laws for yourself then, and I'll excuse myself from accounting and securities fraud, if that's OK with you? Who needs a pension anyway?
But woe betide anyone who breaches my copyright. Hanging is too good for them!
He does indeed have a gun. However, most anti-gun control people claim that they need the right to bear arms to defend themselves, but I've yet to read about anyone returning fire on him yet.
Just think, all of those firearms, and nobody can actually figure out how to make them point at the one person who is a real threat...
But I also think we should be more aware of who the Google Guys realy are: agressive advertising dealers, who may think are the only guys arround entitle to put a price to who important our sites are, with the power to ban your site.
What nonsense. They have no power at all to ban your site. You have an absolute right to put whatever you like on your website, and they have an absolute right (within the limits of the law, of course) to put whatever they want on theirs. If you don't like how Google works, use another search engine.
Why not try searchking.com, for example? Bwahahahahahah.
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I can't even wrap my brain around this..
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It shows.
staplers - $200
PC's - $200/ea
I'm not surprised you find it hard to grasp. You seem to believe that small businesses spend as much on staplers as they do on computer workstations.
Do I have a distorted view of the world?
I don't know about the rest of the world, but you certainly have a peculiar view of the costs involved in running a small business.
what are you, some kind of uber-wanker?
Don't you mean wanker-uber?
Yup, I meant either 2 or 3 times, or 2-300 percent more. They just ran together in my head.
very simple: charge whatever the company used to pay you, on average, per day, plus about 15% extra for being "on-call" or whatever.
And the rest. Take a look at the difference between freelance consultancy day rates, and the day rate of a normal salary. The former is at least 200-300 times the latter, and this is the basis on which he's working for his ex-boss.
You'll probably have to chalk this one down to experience, but in future, tell her what your rates are, and then ask her to ring around for some other estimates.
She'll be back, I guarantee it.
The rear pockets are sealed with velcro for "piece-of-mind"?
This is the feature that I need the most:
Ample rise in the crotch assures you of extra room where you need it most.
You can't beat that ample rise in the crotch, and to make it available to everyone without phalloplasty is most impressive.
Richer and more successful, perhaps, but hipper? Not by any definition of the term that I've ever heard in common use.
You don't actually have to sign up for the .mac scam to get a copy. It's a free download from Apple's website. There aren't any restrictions on the download that I can see, but it has had it's functionality restricted to interoperate solely with .mac.
.mac service -- and anyone who says otherwise is a wanker!
This is just a nice little hack to provide additional functionality without taking anything away from either Apple or the
Pot, kettle, black. Which parts of these paragraphs did you not understand?
The article clearly makes the point that the MIT system (the one that Jin invented, I assume) was technically superior, but Jin and Dolby carved out a deal between themselves that gave both Jin, Dolby and MIT a cut of the winnings, regardless of who won.
Once the financial issues were stitched up, Jin was free to cast his vote with Dolby, despite independent tests showing that the MIT system was superior -- and his allies appear to be arguing that his motivation was patriotic rather than financial.
Now in future, would you please not lecture other people unless you've read and understood the article yourself?
I love me saw so much that I had my wife get a tattoo in a private place that I won't mention.
Hmm. Was that the 75th Anniversary Special Edition then? Is it as cool as the 15th Anniversary Special Edition Mac was?
Can't you tell how much a part of the intellectual elite I am?
Damn, that's a terrible inferiority complex you have there. I know Mac users must seem like an intellectual elite to those of you who feel you can't afford one, but we're really just people who prefer to pay a little more for functional, well-designed products.
Of course, we do get more pussy than non-Mac users. That isn't a myth at all.
Jennifer Lopez = "JLo" (pron: "Jay-Low"). Bill Gates = "BGa" (pron: "Be-Gay")
Surely Bill will only start to be known as B-Ga when he finally admits he's dating Puff Daddy?
I was in Government Office in Bristol a couple of weeks ago, and happened to notice that the receptionists were sitting on a couple of Herman Miller Aeron office chairs, nice things that cost around 700 UKP a pop.
When I went upstairs though, I noticed that all of the big knob senior civil servants were sitting on fifty pound clunkers from Staples or some such.
I thought the whole deal was quite heartening and very democratic, myself.
Damn, that RMS really gets around a lot, doesn't he?
What Reuters did exposed the company to a situation before they were ready.
Which is precisely what you'd expect them to do, Reuters being a press agency and all.
I court I hope Reuters don't get busted for accessing the information, but for publishing details about it.
Damn straight. If it weren't for those goddamned financial journalists, I bet Enron would still be trading today. The freedom of the press has got no business interfering with our right to earn a dishonest dollar.
After all I'm sure that the company in question had a copyright notice on all their pages, right?
So what? Do you really believe Reuters breached their copyright in the report?
Get a jar of glue, man.
Yeah, Vint thought that he could have signed the nondisclosure agreement.
Vint's being a disingenuous wanker. If he wanted to explore a cheaper alternative to litigation, he could have just given Auerback access without asking him to sign the non-disclosure agreement.
There has to be two parties to make a lawsuit happen. The plaintiff and the defendant. Either one can make it go away by conceding to the other's terms. Vint obviously feels that he's got bigger balls and so he doesn't have to do the right thing.
Yes, they do make suits out of other materials...
But I can't think of any that are cooler than a fine wool suit. Clue: wool != thick/heavy.
Too bad many people can't afford a suit for every season...
What, programmers who can't afford two suits? And do they actually have two seasons in Texas anyway?
I've run Mandrake, Debian, and Redhat.
I started with Debian, because it was the only distro that worked on M86k's, and I was running an old Mac at the time.
I went from there, to MkLinux, then LinuxPPC, then I broke down and bought a P3 so I could run an up-to-date distro.
Next came the RedHats, up until 6.2, which got rooted, and so went to secure distros like Trustix and Immunix. Then I tried Mandrake, which I liked a lot because Immunix didn't seem to be developing and I liked all of the cool toys that came packaged with it.
Currently I have Redhat 8.0 on my main box as it just makes everything fairly simple.
Me too!
Just installed it this weekend, and I love the slick new version of Gnome, and the wonderful implementation of up-to-date (which has to be easier than apt-get or dselect.)
While I've always thought it was a brilliant server OS, RedHat 8 is the first distro I've ever thought was robust and full featured enough to use as a primary desktop OS. None of the earlier distros that I used ever seemed quite there, but I can do real work on RedHat in absolute comfort, without that irritation that some little bit of my hardware or software just doesn't work the way it's supposed to.
it should just be a crime to drive inattentively or to create diversions for yourself.
It is in the UK at least. The offence is called 'Driving without due care and attention'. The laws against cellphones were necessary because it had become common practice before anyone had chance to object, and so the law was necessary to send people a clear message that this wasn't on.
As for the talking to passengers/hands free headsets issue, it's quite possible to hold a conversation when conditions are quiet. Then you would be driving with due care and attention, as long as you stop doing so when driving conditions change. It's all about balance and matching your behaviour to the situation. But fiddling about with a telephone handset is always going to be too great a distraction to be safe.
People tend to concentrate on the road instead, leading to conversations that consist of "Yes...ummm...that's good...yeah."
Here's a clue. This isn't because those people are on the phone. It's because they're driving around with an obliging woman in the passenger seat.
No idea when to expect bluetooth.
Duh, I've no idea when *you* can expect to get it, but I've had my Sony Ericsson T68i phone, hands-free headset and TiBook with Bluetooth D-Link adaptor for a couple of months now.
It all works together perfectly -- until the 3G phones arrive anyway...
Nothing sucks more about a cell phone than trying to use the keypad to enter phone book items.
Yeah, this is especially annoying when you're overtaking on the inside lane, because the guy in front doesn't have his Bluetooth headset on and so is only doing 25 and is too distracted to get out of my way.
Are there any Bluetooth hacking tools? Can I packet sniff conversations from my TiBook?
I, on the other hand, have a Tibook, a wife and a mistress. Coincidence?
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I think not.
Now if I had dual monitor support I wonder if she'd
I have dual monitor support, and yes, she does. In fact, they both do...
How would have it turned out differently?
When the guy who robbed him drew on him, he would have went for his nine. Ultimately then, it would have been a matter of who was quickest on the draw.
As the robber already had his gun out, he'd have had the advantage and so would almost certainly have shot someone who was reaching for his weapon.
How would have it turned out differently?
Instead of being robbed of 12 dollars, he'd almost certainly have been shot -- and quite possibly killed.
Do you want a ticket sent to you monthly cause some camera caught you doing 55 in a 50 zone without your seat belt on since they were hard pressed to reach thier violation quota for the month?
I see, so what you're saying is that you want to break the laws that you don't feel like obeying with impunity, while resevering the right to whine when the state can't enforce the ones that you think are important? I rather like that idea, and see that it's becoming increasingly popular with many US citizens.
You can keep the driving laws for yourself then, and I'll excuse myself from accounting and securities fraud, if that's OK with you? Who needs a pension anyway?
But woe betide anyone who breaches my copyright. Hanging is too good for them!
He does indeed have a gun. However, most anti-gun control people claim that they need the right to bear arms to defend themselves, but I've yet to read about anyone returning fire on him yet.
Just think, all of those firearms, and nobody can actually figure out how to make them point at the one person who is a real threat...
But I also think we should be more aware of who the Google Guys realy are: agressive advertising dealers, who may think are the only guys arround entitle to put a price to who important our sites are, with the power to ban your site.
What nonsense. They have no power at all to ban your site. You have an absolute right to put whatever you like on your website, and they have an absolute right (within the limits of the law, of course) to put whatever they want on theirs. If you don't like how Google works, use another search engine.
Why not try searchking.com, for example? Bwahahahahahah.