Always [that's ALWAYS] get your COMPLETE offer in writing first.
Here's what would have happened if he got it in writing:
Employee: wait! the hiring manager said the relocation benefit would be $X! This says it's only $Y.
HR: It's company policy.
Employee: but I have it in writing. In Writing!!
HR: But there's nothing to say we still have to give you the job. If you want to be pedantic we'll hire you for 5 minutes and then fire you. Now do you want the new deal or not?
Employee: but I already quit my job and sold my house!
HR: just sign on the dotted line.
It is much easier, more effective and cheaper to kill humans than to render them unable to continue combat but still alive.
That's debateable. A wounded soldier is actually a liability to his surviving buddies during the battle.
Besides, indiscriminate killing isn't very useful unless you're willing to commit genocide. Most conflicts are not total war in the style of WWII where carpet-bombing, nuking, and firebombing entire cities was accepted.
Look at it this way, if you're going to send an indiscriminate kill-bot into a home to slaughter everything, why not just drop a 5000 lb bomb on the place and be done with it?
In fact it's something they're already doing every day. Doing it "better" is certainly in the realm of possibility, especially with the full cooperation of the likes of google, yahoo, and cisco.
They've been 100% wrong so far. How many people do you think are going to hold off on buying something for $250 -- the 30 GB iPod -- so they can pick up something for $500-600?
A more realistic choice would be between the $550 iPhone, or a $250 iPod and a Treo 650 (or whatever) for $300.
The C++ version doesn't even use OOP or implement a single class! It uses recursive templates and thus doesn't contain a single piece of runtime logic.
Yes it was oil. Saddam's story was that Kuwait was drilling across the border to steal Iraqi oil and selling it cheap to drive down prices, crippling Iraq's reconstruction plans after the Iran/Iraq war. My point is not whether that was true, because I don't know, just that Saddam did have a reason/pretense for what he did.
Invading a country because two soldiers were captured does count as "starting" a war.
If you're looking for an example of when a country invaded a country for no reason whatsoever, you'll never find it. There's always some reason to blame the other guy for "making you" do it. Always. The only question is whether it's a good enough reason. Israel's latest action against Lebanon fails that test.
I thought the whole point of being a shareholder was that you couldn't be charged for the wrong doing of the corporation?
I'm curious to see if anybody will provide a straight answer to this, rather than just grumbling.
I don't know the answer, but there must be a lot of caveats for shareholder immunity. Otherwise, instead of hiring a hitman, you'd just buy shares in Hitman, Inc. Anything from funding al-quada to replenishing your online poker account could be handled by "buying shares."
go into capturing this extra information which is then simply discarded.
The information is not simply discarded, even when using lossy compression. Rather, it is selectively discarded. If you can closely approximate a whole series of data with a more compact formula, you do it. But to know whether that's the case, you first have to gather and examine the information! Otherwise you cannot know what you might be missing.
There's truth to what you say, but the growth in bandwidth does seem to help. Recently a guy was helping me with a design and got snowed in. I set it up so we could share a desktop (VNC), and that plus speakerphone kept us pretty productive. In fact working in small (2-3 person) groups has really grown on me, and my favorite way to do that is for everybody to be in the same (physical) room, each with a laptop, sharing a workspace. Nobody "owns" the workspace, it is shared and editable by all, in fact I make sure everybody finds a chance to "drive." This extends reasonably well to telecommuting, if there is enough bandwidth.
A lot of the issues you raise are with responsiveness, which I think is key. If you are telecommuting but usually answer emails within 10 minutes and are available for phone calls at the drop of a hat, I would prefer that to somebody with an office who only answers emails once per day if at all, and who always seems to be unavailable, stuck in meetings of dubious value.
Not really. CPU's outpace storage more and more every year. Reducing seek time from 3.4 to 2.9 ms is only a 15% reduction, and the improvement in sustained transfer is less than that. In the CPU world 15% is nothing, it happens all the time. Even if they somehow repeat this speedup twice per year indefinitely (which they won't), they'd still be falling further and further behind CPUs. Not saying it's a bad product, it's probably the best out there, it just doesn't reverse the trend of storage speed falling further and further behind.
Also, the storage capacity of these drives is small (36 or 73 GB). If they don't hurry up they could be overtaken by flash memory within the next few years.
Is there really that much risk from any battery? How many fatalities have there been from the notorious laptop batteries? How many injuries? Maybe we should turn our attention to more menacing and sinister threats, like piping hot coffee at McDonalds.
the HD signal is a definate improvement over SD, but in terms of compressed video there just isn't a point.
No movie has ever been distributed in a lossless HD format. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD certainly aren't, nor is satellite or cable TV. I doubt there's even a movie camera made to capture lossless HD.
Dongles aren't needed since piracy isn't much of an issue with an online game, and any other game they release is unlikely to be equally or more successful than WoW.
It seems to me that Blizzard's life couldn't possibly get any better than it already is, why mess with it? Sit back, release an expansion once per year, and enjoy the torrent of cash.
That is an interesting question... is it true that Europe lags the US in science and if so, why?
I think the problem with socialism is not that scientists are unmotivated - I think they're motivated more by curiousity. But socialsim (or communism) may slow down the greedy types - the businessmen - who create the capital that scientists need to work. Look at all the brilliant scientists in the Soviet Union grossly underemployed because the money to support them is not there.
A little more broadly, I do think politics is the driving factor, and specifically WWII. Why was Einstein "American" in the first place? Who founded the rocketry research leading to the US landing on the moon? Germany really screwed itself over with war. I guess you need ambition to get ahead, but they took it too far and they're still paying the price. We Americans had an easier time getting our "lebensraum," the folks we took it from didn't even have the wheel.
So very true. The mere fact that he was using state resources probably is enough to do him in.
I by "resources" you mean "state computers," I suppose you may be right, but I don't like it. I wonder where and when that precedent was established? There was a time when computers were so esoteric, access to the hardware was a big factor in developing something. But now they're commodities, so why would they be significant in determining ownership? It's like if I jotted down my new business plan on the back of a napkin, and the restaurant came back years later and claimed ownership over the company because I used their napkin. Or if plugging my laptop in at the airport gave the transit authority ownership over whatever I produced because I was using their electricity - which, granted, I never paid for.
Yes, I am baffled by this. It makes BSD sound like the GPL. I've always thought BSD was pretty much the wild west except you have to pass along their copyright statement with your software.
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Employee: wait! the hiring manager said the relocation benefit would be $X! This says it's only $Y.
HR: It's company policy.
Employee: but I have it in writing. In Writing!!
HR: But there's nothing to say we still have to give you the job. If you want to be pedantic we'll hire you for 5 minutes and then fire you. Now do you want the new deal or not?
Employee: but I already quit my job and sold my house!
HR: just sign on the dotted line.
Besides, indiscriminate killing isn't very useful unless you're willing to commit genocide. Most conflicts are not total war in the style of WWII where carpet-bombing, nuking, and firebombing entire cities was accepted.
Look at it this way, if you're going to send an indiscriminate kill-bot into a home to slaughter everything, why not just drop a 5000 lb bomb on the place and be done with it?
Give the summary credit for stating the following: "100 gigabits per square centimeter." That is a fine way to measure storage density.
How much the FCC documents have revealed? Apple putting its name on a phone, in itself, isn't a big deal. They already did that a couple years ago.
Yes it was oil. Saddam's story was that Kuwait was drilling across the border to steal Iraqi oil and selling it cheap to drive down prices, crippling Iraq's reconstruction plans after the Iran/Iraq war. My point is not whether that was true, because I don't know, just that Saddam did have a reason/pretense for what he did.
If you're looking for an example of when a country invaded a country for no reason whatsoever, you'll never find it. There's always some reason to blame the other guy for "making you" do it. Always. The only question is whether it's a good enough reason. Israel's latest action against Lebanon fails that test.
I don't know the answer, but there must be a lot of caveats for shareholder immunity. Otherwise, instead of hiring a hitman, you'd just buy shares in Hitman, Inc. Anything from funding al-quada to replenishing your online poker account could be handled by "buying shares."
A lot of the issues you raise are with responsiveness, which I think is key. If you are telecommuting but usually answer emails within 10 minutes and are available for phone calls at the drop of a hat, I would prefer that to somebody with an office who only answers emails once per day if at all, and who always seems to be unavailable, stuck in meetings of dubious value.
Also, the storage capacity of these drives is small (36 or 73 GB). If they don't hurry up they could be overtaken by flash memory within the next few years.
Is there really that much risk from any battery? How many fatalities have there been from the notorious laptop batteries? How many injuries? Maybe we should turn our attention to more menacing and sinister threats, like piping hot coffee at McDonalds.
The 20 GB file size is somewhat arbitrary though. I'll bet an HD-movie compressed to 5 GB using Xvid would still look better than a store-bought DVD.
It's irrelevant. Clinton's wrongs do not absolve Bush's wrongs.
I think it's a good idea for banks and brokerages. Video games I'm not so sure.
Blizzard's authentication problems are no different from any other service on the web, from online banking to myspace.
It seems to me that Blizzard's life couldn't possibly get any better than it already is, why mess with it? Sit back, release an expansion once per year, and enjoy the torrent of cash.
I think the problem with socialism is not that scientists are unmotivated - I think they're motivated more by curiousity. But socialsim (or communism) may slow down the greedy types - the businessmen - who create the capital that scientists need to work. Look at all the brilliant scientists in the Soviet Union grossly underemployed because the money to support them is not there.
A little more broadly, I do think politics is the driving factor, and specifically WWII. Why was Einstein "American" in the first place? Who founded the rocketry research leading to the US landing on the moon? Germany really screwed itself over with war. I guess you need ambition to get ahead, but they took it too far and they're still paying the price. We Americans had an easier time getting our "lebensraum," the folks we took it from didn't even have the wheel.
Yes, I am baffled by this. It makes BSD sound like the GPL. I've always thought BSD was pretty much the wild west except you have to pass along their copyright statement with your software.
I thought Harvard was more of a law / business oriented place anyways?