In the '70s and '80s I worked in broadcasting and in high fidelity audio sales and service. A "broadcast quality" turntable isn't necessarily what broadcasters would have been using 50 or even 25 to 30 years ago. A lot of the machines that they did use weren't designed so much for the "golden-eared audiophile" as they were to run all day, every day, constantly being started and stopped, and to take a pounding from a very mixed bag of users.
"...when he came to work for a new company (he) figured out who was the 1 guy that people absolutly could not live without, and fired him."
So the guy/gal who is the most valuable to the company, and probably spent a lot of their own time getting that way, gets rewarded by being kicked to the curb (which ought to be a real inspiration to the remaining employees) and the overall competence level of the company drops by several percentage points?
Now there's a company *everybody* will want to do business with.
Posts warning that their parent contains a disguised disgusting link may qualify as "off-topic" (though there are better uses for your mod points), but in no way is it fair or accurate to label them as "trolls".
If they did it right the (non-geek) end user won't know that they're using Linux.
At least not until it's too late.:-)
If this thing combines the best features of VCRs and computers, doesn't require any kind of monthly subscription fee, and keeps getting better and more versatile all the time for free because of stuff Linux hackers create for it, then the only thing keeping it from being nearly perfect will be the proprietary case and form factor (can't stack anything on top of it).
How do you tell someone that they're going to be history in 2 weeks and then coerce them into signing away the right to work somewhere else? Unless of course they made them sign and only then announced the layoffs. That would be about par for the course in broadcasting.
"They are asking for a ridiculous easement granting full access not only to the affected areas but the entire property."
They may not currently be planning to screw you royally, but they're obviously reserving the right to do so in the future. Start looking for a good trained attack lawyer. One who believes that being paranoid is just the beginning of sensible self-defense. If it's a phone company, it's a public utility, and a lot more of their records than those of "regular" companies should be available for public viewing. Start digging. There's something that they aren't telling you. If you're going to exchange the use of your property for anything, get voting stock in the company. Buy the bandwidth with the dividends. Find a way to claim the bandwidth as an expense on your taxes.
Wasn't it the British monarchy that used Australia *as* a jail? Kind of like they did with Georgia. (I may have stumbled on to an explanation of something here)
Glad to hear that your 286 didn't have a problem. I've got an FIC PN-2000 Socket 5 or 7 board (apparently the *only* post 486 board they made without a flashable BIOS) with an Award BIOS chip, and it sets the year to 2094 if you set the year to anything past 1999 or let it rollover to 2000. It even "infected" a "Dallas" type Real-Time Clock chip which in turn infected a different Award BIOS chip which previously didn't have a problem.
Maybe there was more of a problem to solve than you realize.
These programs were written by smart people back when memory was ferrite cores with wires threaded through them by hand, which meant that it was at a considerable premium, with none to be wasted on those 2 extra digits which weren't expected to change. If any of them had been smart enough to realize that their code would still be in use 30 years later they still couldn't have convinced the people above them. My old XT case wasn't designed to accomodate ATX, LPX, NLX, or the next flavor of the week factor motherboards and the board itself doesn't have any DIMM sockets. This doesn't mean that the IBM engineers were idiots, but I don't think Big Blue's upper managemnet would have been very receptive to the idea of spending who knows how much to turn out a PC that wouldn't need replacing 20, 30, or 40 years later.
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If I'd expected this I would have saved one of my mod points to mark this as funny.
In the '70s and '80s I worked in broadcasting and in high fidelity audio sales and service. A "broadcast quality" turntable isn't necessarily what broadcasters would have been using 50 or even 25 to 30 years ago. A lot of the machines that they did use weren't designed so much for the "golden-eared audiophile" as they were to run all day, every day, constantly being started and stopped, and to take a pounding from a very mixed bag of users.
...and that goes double for accordion players!
Don't accordian players already enjoy far too much of an unfair advantage in the struggle for world domination as it is?
If you know anything about accounting you'll probably prefer Peachtree to Quickbooks.
No, it's a slogan.
So the guy/gal who is the most valuable to the company, and probably spent a lot of their own time getting that way, gets rewarded by being kicked to the curb (which ought to be a real inspiration to the remaining employees) and the overall competence level of the company drops by several percentage points?
Now there's a company *everybody* will want to do business with.
Or maybe it could be a loose-leaf binder type arrangement and we can keep on calling them "service packs".
Posts warning that their parent contains a disguised disgusting link may qualify as "off-topic" (though there are better uses for your mod points), but in no way is it fair or accurate to label them as "trolls".
At least not until it's too late. :-)
If this thing combines the best features of VCRs and computers, doesn't require any kind of monthly subscription fee, and keeps getting better and more versatile all the time for free because of stuff Linux hackers create for it, then the only thing keeping it from being nearly perfect will be the proprietary case and form factor (can't stack anything on top of it).
How do you tell someone that they're going to be history in 2 weeks and then coerce them into signing away the right to work somewhere else? Unless of course they made them sign and only then announced the layoffs. That would be about par for the course in broadcasting.
They may not currently be planning to screw you royally, but they're obviously reserving the right to do so in the future. Start looking for a good trained attack lawyer. One who believes that being paranoid is just the beginning of sensible self-defense. If it's a phone company, it's a public utility, and a lot more of their records than those of "regular" companies should be available for public viewing. Start digging. There's something that they aren't telling you. If you're going to exchange the use of your property for anything, get voting stock in the company. Buy the bandwidth with the dividends. Find a way to claim the bandwidth as an expense on your taxes.
Corporations don't have to make things up, they can outsource it to an advertising agency.
Don't remember his name, too lazy to hunt around for it.
In communism and fascism the government is in charge of industry. What we're heading towards is industry in charge of government.
Perhaps you could post 95 theses to the back door and get ex-communicated.
We thought about writing the history of the past but that had already been done.
Now you know where all those flying saucers came from!
Wasn't it the British monarchy that used Australia *as* a jail? Kind of like they did with Georgia. (I may have stumbled on to an explanation of something here)
I'm not sure about the exact year, but your CMOS chip will probably need it's own separate computer.
Maybe there was more of a problem to solve than you realize.
Suddenly I feel a century older.
So *that's* what keeps him looking so young for his age.
When did it become legal again to sell people?
Is a Petafile (Petaphile) someone who wants to do it with Peta Wilson? (I think it's Wilson, the one who plays Nikita)