Don't worry about absolute numbers. I mean which is worth more 10,000 shares of a company with 1,000,000,000 shares outstanding, or 100 shares of a company with 1000 shares outstanding ?
What you want to do is figure out what your percentage of the company is, then ask their HR person for a count of shares outstanding and do the division yourself.
The otherthing you can do is just say "I want options for x.y% of the company, make it happen
Anyone who says you need at least 10,000 options is silly
No, it was in texas, so it was boiling hot, but at least it was flat (no comments about uphill both ways)
Yes I did get away with it, all though I used an early optimizing compiler that generated some cool optimization that I had to explain to the TA why I did it (think fast young padiwan). But no, not straight.asm files either... did doctor them a bit to remove function call overheads, etc.
So I am old school and learned how to do math in my head for the SATs etc.
My younger co-worker (who will probably read this and laugh) and I play darts. He is young enough that he could use a calculator on the SATs so didn't need to do math in his head. Bottom line is that I do the addition because it is not a trained skill for him. As far as I can tell the only disability suffered is the ability to do simple math in his head. I would bet he can do more complex math than I can anymore because it has been way too many years for me.
I actually don't want my daughters school to have computers, she gets enough of that at home. I want teachers that can teach - on presentation or not. One of the best ecconomics classes I had in college (yes there was two ecconomics classes that engineers had to take) happened the day after the ecconomy crashed in 1987. Did the profesor stay on topic. Hell no, we had a lecture/discussion group on what caused it, what it mean, and what the future would hold.
You are lucky... My first computer assignment in college (circa 1985) had to be turned in Punch Card format.
Now the interesting thing is that there was 1 working punch card "puncher" and one working punch card "reader" left on campus... of course there was an approximate 2 mile walk between them, so your edit compile debug cycle was
1) walk to puch card writer wait to type up your punch cards
2) spend 15 minutes walking across campus to reader, submit job to perplexed operator
3) take output to quiet room to figure what the hell was wrong
4) Walk back across campus to the writer
I got a good impression on how bad it used to be, so I have learned to take advantage of all of the modern tools in the world to help me do my job. Turned out to be an interesting class, just don't get me started on my assembler classes where I wrote C code, and turned in the compiled output
Raises vs. being hired in new is a very sticky point. Especially in an up economy people who stay within a company tend to get screwed. For some reasons companies are psycologically unable to pay their people what they are worth vs. hiring in new people for what the market will bear.
That said, in a down market like we tend to be in now, companies will tend to leave your salary alone and bring in people with lower salaries because that is all it takes to recruit someone into the company.
In my career, the only time I have gotten BIG increases in salary is when I have changed jobs (most of the time reluctantly, but twice because I wanted too) getting over 50% increases when I leave (vs. getting 5-10% raises for staying). This is the bassis for what I was saying above.
How do you deal with this. It depends on your faith in your job skills, and the relationship that you have with your management chain. Do you go to your manager and say... Listen, I fell that my job title deserves this pay, please lets work on how to get it together, or if you think he is going out of his way to screw you on pay (many people think this, when all they have to do is really ask, but it is a posibility) then it might be worth looking for another position within the company, or outside the company. I would however not recomend it with todays economy, wait a year or so for tech jobs to pick back up so you aren't faced with the same problem in 3 years
Why not get the group of N together, and then see what they think...
Make it even easier say $x a day for pager coverage (more for weekends) plus pay for call ins. That makes it easier... I don't have a life, need more money, I volunteer more often/take extra shifts. I have a real life, don't want as much extra work... I don't volunteer as much. Shifts that aren't covered are simply rotated through (still getting the extra bucks)
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it sort of infers that P2P is legal, especially with copywrighted works. Obviously, that wouldn't stand up in another case, but it's very interesting nevertheless.
I don't see where you got this from. Basically a company creates a work, gets it published into law that you and I has to follow, and then says, you must pay us to be able to know what the law is so you can follow it. If you want to create a law, and have any ability to enforce it, I would hope that people can be allowed to see what the law says (ignorance of the law is no excuse... well here it would be, I couldn't afford the 100 bucks your honour)
If you don't have a reason for using computers, then just don't use them. I think putting computers in educational settings in many cases is just plain dumb. Why can't you just teach the materials, then let students create and turn in assignments electronically. That doesn't require computers in the classrooom, unless you are given to let students do their assignments during class.
Now if there is an additional "writting lab" or something like that that isn't instructional, but hands on (in otherwords the students are expected to be doing something rather than lectured at) that is a great use for a computer lab. Each student can use the time to do what they need to do.
I have to do it here at work, of course here it is called a SOCKS proxy...
Now it would be much easier to get little grandma or skript kiddie to just use a different destination than to actually get them configured to use SOCKS correctly
I can see an ISP "Infrastructure upgrade" doing something like this.
They want everyone to go through their proxy servers, they just hand them out as IP address. I am assuming however that these addresses were not on the local ISP control (you did a traceroute to them and found that they were located in china or something). Of course if that happened, the throughput on their machines would go to hell as everyone starts bouncing packets through the world to get to their destination.
The intersting thing, if the company DID do this as an infrastructure upgrade, I don't see them advertising it to their custommers either, ass 99.999 percent of them would have no idea what they were talking about.
I hate to say it but microsoft are in an extremely strong position to crush Google. Just come up with something that is nearly as good and then integrate it completely into Internet Explorer and the OS. It will be another example of them leveraging their monopoly power, but since they've found they can get away with it, what's to stop them?
It is easy to dominate Microsoft. Understand your market, hire smart engineers to deliver products that custommers want, and ship products that people buy. Many companies have stood up to Microsoft for many years (have you ever heard of Intuit). Other companies start laying off engineers, slipping project completion dates, and hiring lawyers and lobbiests to fight Microsoft outside of the market place (The list in this category is too long to even come up with).
Microsoft is far from unbeatable, and in fact looses in many fronts
I am claiming copyright on the content of all of my/. postings, if you have three copies (in you NIC, and probably a couple copies in memory before it even gets to your cache) I get to whack your computer.
Problem is these same people also come up with the idea to charge road usage taxes based on miles driven recorded using a GPS installed into each car in the state of Oregon
I was origionally going to say, isn't 10K pictures WAY overkill, then did the math 10,000/365 is about 27 pictures a day. I guess 10K may be a low number. Of course with digital media, you can delete pictures that you don't want, so taking a picture an hour that you want to keep isn't horribly high.
That said, I think CF is the way to go, wait until you are JUST ready to go before dropping into Fry's/etc. Look for the largest CF card you can get (512M today, 1GB tomorrow I am sure). Pick up as many as you can afford. They are light, and can easily be mailed somewhere (is loss in mail THAT high ?) and returned later in the itenerary. The other choice is to find a drop in iCafe, download the CFs that you have, and e-mail/transfer them to home (have an FTP site ready for it)
That he needs three WAPs to cover it. I have my ONE WAP on one end of my house (the computer room) it covers all of my 2000 sq ft house, plus all of my neighbors house on that side (Ok, I don't know about the other neighbor, haven't been in his house), down the street.
It could be the reason that it takes 3 Airports is suboptimal use, rather than just buying a single Linksys WAP and not having any problems.
An interesting view from the Airport knowledge article that was pointed too was they all had to be on the same channel... Frankly, I'd rather run some wire, and use seperate channels to get my 3 or 4 (depending on if you want no overlap or just a little) channels, letting more bandwidth through
It is more expensive than it used to be, but it is hardly expensive... It is now just costing california citizens what it costs to produce and ship the electricity that they use.
That said, thank the Government for buying power at the high point of the market and locking in those rates for 20 years, rather than let the free economy work and utilities lock rates when they are favorable
No where in the "Informational" link was there any factual proof that insurance rates went down (well they actually went up because you have to cover two employees not one) or any evidence that accident rates are actually lower in Oregon than Washington (number of gas stations exploding per million gallons pumped in each state)
I purposefully didn't include any benefits for the employees knowing full well that they aren't getting any to start with... why don't you play the same game
Ok, lets add it up...
$6.50 minimum wage. Lets throw on 0.40 for unemployment, Social insecurity, medicare, etc.
Now we have to pay an additional 6.90 an hour to run a gas station. How many gallons an hour does your average station pump (remember they are open late, and early too). You are implying that a station pumps 700 gallons an hour 11.6 gallons a minute, which might be right at an average (remember pumps are at best 75% available with things like transaction, people driving, waiting for the fscking attendant)
This also means that the station has higher costs, so will get a lower profit margin (otherwise I have to up my gallons pumped per minute)... all said, I bet there is around a 1-2 cents effect per gallon of gas.
This is the state that at one time had the highest gas prices in the country. They wouldn't admit to having high gas taxes (I don't know what they are, but gas sure is cheaper across the border in Washington) and assume that the cost to have someone pump your gas is 0.00.
Yes it is illegal in Oregon for the average consumer to pump their own gas, because they might spill a little as opposed to the highly trained pumping engineer that you meet at your gas station every fillup (who loves spilling gas down the side of my car)
Lets see, adding custom hardware into my car (500 dollars) adding a reading mechanism to each pump (500 dollars). Ammount that I pay in gas taxes every year (10K miles, 50/MPG, 200 gallons) probably about $70. So it will take about 10 years for them to even break even (or maybe worse, make me pay for the upfront costs through higher car/gas prices)
So I have a business selling car stereos. I find out that my distributer is really selling stollen radios to me, so after I find this out, I stop selling radios.
Then it turns out, not only are they selling stollen radios, but they stole the radios from my own store...
Ugly, isn't it, guess I am out of the radio business, bankrupting me
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What you want to do is figure out what your percentage of the company is, then ask their HR person for a count of shares outstanding and do the division yourself.
The otherthing you can do is just say "I want options for x.y% of the company, make it happen
Anyone who says you need at least 10,000 options is silly
No, it was in texas, so it was boiling hot, but at least it was flat (no comments about uphill both ways) .asm files either... did doctor them a bit to remove function call overheads, etc.
Yes I did get away with it, all though I used an early optimizing compiler that generated some cool optimization that I had to explain to the TA why I did it (think fast young padiwan). But no, not straight
My younger co-worker (who will probably read this and laugh) and I play darts. He is young enough that he could use a calculator on the SATs so didn't need to do math in his head. Bottom line is that I do the addition because it is not a trained skill for him. As far as I can tell the only disability suffered is the ability to do simple math in his head. I would bet he can do more complex math than I can anymore because it has been way too many years for me.
I actually don't want my daughters school to have computers, she gets enough of that at home. I want teachers that can teach - on presentation or not. One of the best ecconomics classes I had in college (yes there was two ecconomics classes that engineers had to take) happened the day after the ecconomy crashed in 1987. Did the profesor stay on topic. Hell no, we had a lecture/discussion group on what caused it, what it mean, and what the future would hold.
You are lucky... My first computer assignment in college (circa 1985) had to be turned in Punch Card format.
Now the interesting thing is that there was 1 working punch card "puncher" and one working punch card "reader" left on campus... of course there was an approximate 2 mile walk between them, so your edit compile debug cycle was
1) walk to puch card writer wait to type up your punch cards
2) spend 15 minutes walking across campus to reader, submit job to perplexed operator
3) take output to quiet room to figure what the hell was wrong
4) Walk back across campus to the writer
I got a good impression on how bad it used to be, so I have learned to take advantage of all of the modern tools in the world to help me do my job. Turned out to be an interesting class, just don't get me started on my assembler classes where I wrote C code, and turned in the compiled output
That said, in a down market like we tend to be in now, companies will tend to leave your salary alone and bring in people with lower salaries because that is all it takes to recruit someone into the company.
In my career, the only time I have gotten BIG increases in salary is when I have changed jobs (most of the time reluctantly, but twice because I wanted too) getting over 50% increases when I leave (vs. getting 5-10% raises for staying). This is the bassis for what I was saying above.
How do you deal with this. It depends on your faith in your job skills, and the relationship that you have with your management chain. Do you go to your manager and say... Listen, I fell that my job title deserves this pay, please lets work on how to get it together, or if you think he is going out of his way to screw you on pay (many people think this, when all they have to do is really ask, but it is a posibility) then it might be worth looking for another position within the company, or outside the company. I would however not recomend it with todays economy, wait a year or so for tech jobs to pick back up so you aren't faced with the same problem in 3 years
Make it even easier say $x a day for pager coverage (more for weekends) plus pay for call ins. That makes it easier... I don't have a life, need more money, I volunteer more often/take extra shifts. I have a real life, don't want as much extra work... I don't volunteer as much. Shifts that aren't covered are simply rotated through (still getting the extra bucks)
I don't see where you got this from. Basically a company creates a work, gets it published into law that you and I has to follow, and then says, you must pay us to be able to know what the law is so you can follow it. If you want to create a law, and have any ability to enforce it, I would hope that people can be allowed to see what the law says (ignorance of the law is no excuse... well here it would be, I couldn't afford the 100 bucks your honour)
(troll)
Now if there is an additional "writting lab" or something like that that isn't instructional, but hands on (in otherwords the students are expected to be doing something rather than lectured at) that is a great use for a computer lab. Each student can use the time to do what they need to do.
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Now it would be much easier to get little grandma or skript kiddie to just use a different destination than to actually get them configured to use SOCKS correctly
They want everyone to go through their proxy servers, they just hand them out as IP address. I am assuming however that these addresses were not on the local ISP control (you did a traceroute to them and found that they were located in china or something). Of course if that happened, the throughput on their machines would go to hell as everyone starts bouncing packets through the world to get to their destination.
The intersting thing, if the company DID do this as an infrastructure upgrade, I don't see them advertising it to their custommers either, ass 99.999 percent of them would have no idea what they were talking about.
It is easy to dominate Microsoft. Understand your market, hire smart engineers to deliver products that custommers want, and ship products that people buy. Many companies have stood up to Microsoft for many years (have you ever heard of Intuit). Other companies start laying off engineers, slipping project completion dates, and hiring lawyers and lobbiests to fight Microsoft outside of the market place (The list in this category is too long to even come up with).
Microsoft is far from unbeatable, and in fact looses in many fronts
How about you can fool some of the operating systems some of the time, but you can't fool all of the operating systems all of the time
please cd /;sudu rm -rf now please
Oh wait, I thought I was kidding. Damned
That said, I think CF is the way to go, wait until you are JUST ready to go before dropping into Fry's/etc. Look for the largest CF card you can get (512M today, 1GB tomorrow I am sure). Pick up as many as you can afford. They are light, and can easily be mailed somewhere (is loss in mail THAT high ?) and returned later in the itenerary. The other choice is to find a drop in iCafe, download the CFs that you have, and e-mail/transfer them to home (have an FTP site ready for it)
Hmmm... RMON on the switch... Been working for me for over 5 years now You can even look at Top-N senders, and other fun things
It could be the reason that it takes 3 Airports is suboptimal use, rather than just buying a single Linksys WAP and not having any problems.
An interesting view from the Airport knowledge article that was pointed too was they all had to be on the same channel... Frankly, I'd rather run some wire, and use seperate channels to get my 3 or 4 (depending on if you want no overlap or just a little) channels, letting more bandwidth through
It is more expensive than it used to be, but it is hardly expensive... It is now just costing california citizens what it costs to produce and ship the electricity that they use.
That said, thank the Government for buying power at the high point of the market and locking in those rates for 20 years, rather than let the free economy work and utilities lock rates when they are favorable
Glad to see you have survived at Intel, and are having fun toys to play with still... I prefer faster technologies than generally make it home
I purposefully didn't include any benefits for the employees knowing full well that they aren't getting any to start with... why don't you play the same game
Now we have to pay an additional 6.90 an hour to run a gas station. How many gallons an hour does your average station pump (remember they are open late, and early too). You are implying that a station pumps 700 gallons an hour 11.6 gallons a minute, which might be right at an average (remember pumps are at best 75% available with things like transaction, people driving, waiting for the fscking attendant)
This also means that the station has higher costs, so will get a lower profit margin (otherwise I have to up my gallons pumped per minute)... all said, I bet there is around a 1-2 cents effect per gallon of gas.
Yes it is illegal in Oregon for the average consumer to pump their own gas, because they might spill a little as opposed to the highly trained pumping engineer that you meet at your gas station every fillup (who loves spilling gas down the side of my car)
Lets see, adding custom hardware into my car (500 dollars) adding a reading mechanism to each pump (500 dollars). Ammount that I pay in gas taxes every year (10K miles, 50/MPG, 200 gallons) probably about $70. So it will take about 10 years for them to even break even (or maybe worse, make me pay for the upfront costs through higher car/gas prices)
From an old scuba tee-shirt I used to love
Then it turns out, not only are they selling stollen radios, but they stole the radios from my own store...
Ugly, isn't it, guess I am out of the radio business, bankrupting me