its a dot-bomb, they'll probably be out of business anyways, so even if you wanted to sue you'd be outta luck.
and given that they are out of business, they are not going to be able to hold you to a non-compete.
plus - its just a legality, you're probably never going to want to sue, and they are probably never going to come after you even if you do work for a competitor, unless it was for someone big like Microsoft and you were there for 20 years and new exactly why Windoze always crashes, went over to a competitor and somehow mimicked the entire OS and made it not crash (hmmm). Which ofcourse is all very unlikely, so just sign it, take the money, and go on with life. Thats what I did!!
Coming back from an extended trip of Europe and Asia, I was appalled at how far behind our cell phone technology is.
GSM seems to be the best solution. You can walk into little cell phone stalls on the side of the street in many countries, get a chip and a card with minutes - for as little as 10 dollars and viola, in a matter of minutes you know have a phone number in that respective country. Refills for minutes are from anywhere from 5 to 50 dollars. Your phone number is yours, doesn't change every time you refill your minutes. And my cell phone worked in every country I was in. I had to buy a phone for there - the GSM phone I had here runs at 1800, not 1900 as it seems to be all over the planet.
Any time I happen to go back to Turkey, Greece, or even Singapore, I have my own number. All I have to do is change out the chip, and buy minutes if needed.
Now, why can't we have that here in the States?
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and attach a gps sleeve to it? You could get more processing power and the gps, for much much more less than the 538 by garmin.
its a dot-bomb, they'll probably be out of business anyways, so even if you wanted to sue you'd be outta luck. and given that they are out of business, they are not going to be able to hold you to a non-compete. plus - its just a legality, you're probably never going to want to sue, and they are probably never going to come after you even if you do work for a competitor, unless it was for someone big like Microsoft and you were there for 20 years and new exactly why Windoze always crashes, went over to a competitor and somehow mimicked the entire OS and made it not crash (hmmm). Which ofcourse is all very unlikely, so just sign it, take the money, and go on with life. Thats what I did!!
Yes, lets sacrifice progress simply to make it more inconvenient for 'terrorists'. If that is what we are going to do, they win.
I'm sorry, I missed the point to your post. Would you like to repeat that without the veil of anonymity?
Coming back from an extended trip of Europe and Asia, I was appalled at how far behind our cell phone technology is. GSM seems to be the best solution. You can walk into little cell phone stalls on the side of the street in many countries, get a chip and a card with minutes - for as little as 10 dollars and viola, in a matter of minutes you know have a phone number in that respective country. Refills for minutes are from anywhere from 5 to 50 dollars. Your phone number is yours, doesn't change every time you refill your minutes. And my cell phone worked in every country I was in. I had to buy a phone for there - the GSM phone I had here runs at 1800, not 1900 as it seems to be all over the planet. Any time I happen to go back to Turkey, Greece, or even Singapore, I have my own number. All I have to do is change out the chip, and buy minutes if needed. Now, why can't we have that here in the States?