Several people around my company have an email sig similar to this regarding proprietary info, but this practice have been highly discouraged. The problem with doing this is that people become lazy and just think that this is all you need to do to protect a document. To me "may be privileged" makes me think the sender did not take the time or care to find out if it really IS privileged. I would be pretty upset if someone publically released the wrong copy of a document that contained redacted information.
It's for this reason that I don't think these disclaimers hold any weight. If I am sending information via email, then the onus is on me to make sure it is properly marked, secured and addressed. Too bad for me if it mistakenly goes to the Washington Post and is published for all to see.
While Europe takes a few months a year off Americans are lucky to get sick days without worrying about being fired.
You have a good point, but have you looked at the health of some of the European economies lately. Some are far worse than us. The unemployment rates for France and Germany have been hovering around 10% for the last year, and haven't gone below 8% in a long while. The national debt of some EU countries compared to their GDP is far worse that the US.
During bad economic times employers always gain an advantage. Just a few years ago employers were paying huge salaries and giving out great benefits to keep anyone who could say they were a programmer. But I believe the tech community set their expectations too high and the bubble burst, that and some of the businesses we just poorly run. Good times will come again, but like the article was saying, it's time for Americans to get back to what we do best, innovation.
My "small" 40GB Tivo can record about 35hrs of programming. Thats about 1.15GB/hr. Base on that figure a 1TB (1024GB) DVR would be able to record for about 890hrs. That's a shade more than 37 days of continuous programming. That's what I call a couch potato.
Now that may sound like a lot, but what if in addition to the 7 input tuners, it had multiple outputs. If you could tie it into some kind of distribution system for your house, throw in Tivo's ability to predict what your family likes, you have a very cool system. Every member of your family could be watching a different program at one time. $9k is a bit pricey, but the price is bound to come down.
The article stated "The tags will be disposed of when the packaging is thrown away, and customers will not be tracked after they leave the store." Not to say that they will not put the tags on the products in the future, but is it really that big of a deal for WalMart to track what kind of clothes I am wearing? Unless you pay cash for all of your purchases they already know. For a long time stores have pulled your name and card number as a means to track your spending habits. Use a grocery store "bonus" card? Just a more specific way of doing the same thing. Lets not even talk about your credit report.
I have seen generally good things come from all of this. Shortly after my daughter was born we began buying baby food and diapers. Store computer picked this up quick. We soon started to get LOTS of coupons for other baby stuff.
There is always a potential for misuse, but I don't see this as a reversable trend. We all want our cheap consumer goods. This is a way for stores to keep costs down.
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"We're designing the system in such a way that the barrels are very stupid - so that they are very reliable and inexpensive."
Stupid may not be the way to go. Do we really need another 4-wheeled vehicle on the road with a "stupid" driver? Maybe we should install a Shepard into all automobiles.
I believe you are correct to a large extent. Historically, in all lines of work, when times get tough, employers look for the degree rather than the certification.
It is a good tatic to use. Odds are if they had forced companies to pay for the JPEG standard, they would have found or developed an alternative. Problem is that by not defending it for so long, they may loose their rights altogether. I know in trademark law, a TM holder is required to defend their TM, if not they can loose it. I would imagine that a similar standard applies to patents. The JPEG folks MAY have gotten a little too greedy and watied too long.
I am sure all sides have very good lawyers. It will be interesting to see what happens.
There are a lot of factors to determine a salary. Your skill set, location of the job, strength of other candidates are some of what contribute to a salary offer. If you have two offers, and they are offering about the same, then you are probably close to your actual value in the job market. You can try to negoiate for more, but unless you have a very special skill, you probably will not get far. I am sure you have learned a lot in school, but applying it takes a lot of experience.
Here is my advice. Make decision between the offers you have now. Unless you sign a contract you can always continue to look for another job while you finish out the semester. If a higher offer is made, you can recind your acceptance to the first company or use that as leverage to renegoiate. Don't reject offers because you think a better one is around the corner. The whole job market is tight right now and you could burn yourself if you are not realistic about your place in it.
If you have to "settle" now, then take every oportunity to expand your skills, to fill in areas where you may be deficient. Your business contacts in and out of your company are also important. You will need your contacts to find future work.
I for one don't mind (too much) paying extra for some added safety features. The kid who fliped his parents BMW should be thankful he walked away. 10-15 years ago, that probably would not have been the case. I am sure that some of the reduction in traffic fatalities can be attributed to simple things such as wearing seatbelts and child safety seats. But most of the reduction is due to the fact that cars are better designed to protect the occupant. Safety cages, crumple zones and air bags are expensive to repair/replace but if the worst part is an increase in my insurance rates then I consider it a fair exchange.
Cars had better get safer, because drivers sure aren't.
How do you define unsecure? Are you working a with a highly specialized, little used technology for a company/project that just started last week?
I think you have to look at the whole thing in aggregate. How good is the local job market? How much more money does it pay? How bad do you want to work one job? If you are really that unsure take a portion "extra" money you earn and put it into a rainy day fund. If you are building a good (general) skill set and building a good network of friends/business associates I don't think you can go wrong.
Sure, this could work. Add Bob Denver as the 7th crew member and just wait for the zany adventures to start. Inevitably they will get stuck on Mars and we can watch them as they attempt to use future unmanned robots to send messages back to earth.
It's a matter of semantics. The theft occurs when you take the song from your friend and not pay the author/producer/distributer of the work for their efforts. No matter how little actually makes it back to the author it's wrong. Think of it from this example. I walk into a book store with my laptop and a scanner. I proceed to copy the latest best seller. I then put the book back on the shelf and walk out. Has a theft occured, absolutly. I have taken a work created by another person and not paid for it. I may have just stolen the actual book and saved myself the time.
You are absolutly correct, and this is something a lot of people miss. The member companies of the RIAA feel that they have been wronged and are taking individuals to court. Any one of us would do this if we took the time to develop something and then had a large corporation take it away from us.
One of their reasons for apposing the Do Not Call list was their First Amendment right to free speech. I do a very similar thing, I talk about everything from the evils of capitolism to telling very dirty jokes. If they complain I remind them of MY First Amendment rights.
Now, Now... The men and women serving in our State Legislatures have a VERY hard job. Many have to work 4 hour days 6 months a year. Every few years they are forced to beg for their jobs. During those time they have to come up with creative ideas about how to tell us that no matter how bad they seem to be, the other guy is going to make things much worse.
The article isn't very clear on how FL is going to do this, which makes me believe this is a load of BS from a few politicians.
One option is to asses a personal(business) property tax like they do here in Virginia on personal and buiness cars, boats, RV's... I assume they could assign some kind of dollar value to the servers and other major LAN equipment. Companies would pay 9% of the assesed value. Problem is how do you enforce this. We have tax stickers on our cars, if you get caught without one the police write you a ticket, pretty hard to enforce this on a large company with 1000s of computers.
Don't look for this to go ANYWHERE!
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Xerox is a derivative of the word xerography which, according to Dictionary.com, means:
"A dry photographic or photocopying process in which a negative image formed by a resinous powder on an electrically charged plate is electrically transferred to and thermally fixed as positive on a paper or other copying surface."
I know they have been recently fighting hard to make sure their trademarked version remains just that. They don't want someone to be able to argue that xerox is just a common, abreviated form of the formal word. If thats the case everyone would be able to use it in some form.
This is one of those thin lines that a company has to walk. You want brand recognition but not enough that your brand name becomes a household word. I have read articles about companies, like Xerox, that have fought to build a quality brand image only to have to put the breaks on because people began to use the name interchangably with more "generic" competators.
It stinks that Google has to do this but I really don't blame them. There is a lot of room for interpretation in US trademark law and I am sure they are just trying to error on the side of caution.
I'm with you. I have not actually purchased a PVR yet, but I saw the same potential. The ability for the unit to learn my habits and contour programming to my tastes. Isn't this what marketers have been trying to do since the beginning of time. Until now they have had to use rough sterotypes, like "males, aged 18-26". Now they have the ability to say "Jim, age 24, likes historical movies and Star Trek". In theory they should be able to tailor not only the programming but the comercials to fit me. Instead the entertainment industry is crying that they can no longer control what/when I watch. Who cares what I watch as long as I like it and I react to the advertising. Granted I have the ability to skip through comercials, but why not create a system that shows fewer comercials, but forces you to watch all of them, or better yet, let me pay to watch certain shows that I want comercial free. I find it amazing that they are choosing to ignore a growing population of customers. Glad I have a dish...
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Why not combine the two? Hit the snooze bar once, it runs away. Second time it scalds you with hot coffee.
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Yea, but then I saw this guy and it ruined the whole thing for me :)
http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/
It's for this reason that I don't think these disclaimers hold any weight. If I am sending information via email, then the onus is on me to make sure it is properly marked, secured and addressed. Too bad for me if it mistakenly goes to the Washington Post and is published for all to see.
Now if catchs on and some large future corporation uses it as their name, my grandchidren will be rich.
You have a good point, but have you looked at the health of some of the European economies lately. Some are far worse than us. The unemployment rates for France and Germany have been hovering around 10% for the last year, and haven't gone below 8% in a long while. The national debt of some EU countries compared to their GDP is far worse that the US.
During bad economic times employers always gain an advantage. Just a few years ago employers were paying huge salaries and giving out great benefits to keep anyone who could say they were a programmer. But I believe the tech community set their expectations too high and the bubble burst, that and some of the businesses we just poorly run. Good times will come again, but like the article was saying, it's time for Americans to get back to what we do best, innovation.
Now that may sound like a lot, but what if in addition to the 7 input tuners, it had multiple outputs. If you could tie it into some kind of distribution system for your house, throw in Tivo's ability to predict what your family likes, you have a very cool system. Every member of your family could be watching a different program at one time. $9k is a bit pricey, but the price is bound to come down.
I have seen generally good things come from all of this. Shortly after my daughter was born we began buying baby food and diapers. Store computer picked this up quick. We soon started to get LOTS of coupons for other baby stuff.
There is always a potential for misuse, but I don't see this as a reversable trend. We all want our cheap consumer goods. This is a way for stores to keep costs down.
Stupid may not be the way to go. Do we really need another 4-wheeled vehicle on the road with a "stupid" driver? Maybe we should install a Shepard into all automobiles.
I believe you are correct to a large extent. Historically, in all lines of work, when times get tough, employers look for the degree rather than the certification.
I am sure all sides have very good lawyers. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Here is my advice. Make decision between the offers you have now. Unless you sign a contract you can always continue to look for another job while you finish out the semester. If a higher offer is made, you can recind your acceptance to the first company or use that as leverage to renegoiate. Don't reject offers because you think a better one is around the corner. The whole job market is tight right now and you could burn yourself if you are not realistic about your place in it.
If you have to "settle" now, then take every oportunity to expand your skills, to fill in areas where you may be deficient. Your business contacts in and out of your company are also important. You will need your contacts to find future work.
Funny, here 98% of spam comes FROM our CEO. :)
Cars had better get safer, because drivers sure aren't.
I think you have to look at the whole thing in aggregate. How good is the local job market? How much more money does it pay? How bad do you want to work one job? If you are really that unsure take a portion "extra" money you earn and put it into a rainy day fund. If you are building a good (general) skill set and building a good network of friends/business associates I don't think you can go wrong.
There is potential here
It's a matter of semantics. The theft occurs when you take the song from your friend and not pay the author/producer/distributer of the work for their efforts. No matter how little actually makes it back to the author it's wrong. Think of it from this example. I walk into a book store with my laptop and a scanner. I proceed to copy the latest best seller. I then put the book back on the shelf and walk out. Has a theft occured, absolutly. I have taken a work created by another person and not paid for it. I may have just stolen the actual book and saved myself the time.
You are absolutly correct, and this is something a lot of people miss. The member companies of the RIAA feel that they have been wronged and are taking individuals to court. Any one of us would do this if we took the time to develop something and then had a large corporation take it away from us.
One of their reasons for apposing the Do Not Call list was their First Amendment right to free speech. I do a very similar thing, I talk about everything from the evils of capitolism to telling very dirty jokes. If they complain I remind them of MY First Amendment rights.
Now, Now... The men and women serving in our State Legislatures have a VERY hard job. Many have to work 4 hour days 6 months a year. Every few years they are forced to beg for their jobs. During those time they have to come up with creative ideas about how to tell us that no matter how bad they seem to be, the other guy is going to make things much worse.
One option is to asses a personal(business) property tax like they do here in Virginia on personal and buiness cars, boats, RV's... I assume they could assign some kind of dollar value to the servers and other major LAN equipment. Companies would pay 9% of the assesed value. Problem is how do you enforce this. We have tax stickers on our cars, if you get caught without one the police write you a ticket, pretty hard to enforce this on a large company with 1000s of computers.
Don't look for this to go ANYWHERE!
It stinks that Google has to do this but I really don't blame them. There is a lot of room for interpretation in US trademark law and I am sure they are just trying to error on the side of caution.
Personally, I am waiting for Howard the Duck II! :)
I'm with you. I have not actually purchased a PVR yet, but I saw the same potential. The ability for the unit to learn my habits and contour programming to my tastes. Isn't this what marketers have been trying to do since the beginning of time. Until now they have had to use rough sterotypes, like "males, aged 18-26". Now they have the ability to say "Jim, age 24, likes historical movies and Star Trek". In theory they should be able to tailor not only the programming but the comercials to fit me. Instead the entertainment industry is crying that they can no longer control what/when I watch. Who cares what I watch as long as I like it and I react to the advertising. Granted I have the ability to skip through comercials, but why not create a system that shows fewer comercials, but forces you to watch all of them, or better yet, let me pay to watch certain shows that I want comercial free. I find it amazing that they are choosing to ignore a growing population of customers. Glad I have a dish...