Typically youy can assume that an employee costs about twice his salary, with taxes, overhead, benefits, etc. Now we're down to 17,500 roughly. That's $8.75/hr.
Had they just dropped each employee cold turkey, those numbers would work. But you also must factor in pensions, severance pay, etc. Laying off an employee does not necessarily save you 100% of what you'd been paying him in cash and benefits. It saves you (employee's total compensation - severance - pension ( - employee's sales power if he's a salesman))
This is real bad news. Any company that lays off workers gets severely crippled for years; often never returning to its original capability. Who do you think will step up to compete with MS Office now?
Overall, you're looking at $15-20K minimum to scan this stuff
Yeah, but that's assuming that one commercial organization is going to do it. What if 900 slashdotters each took one box and shared the scanning effort with some of their friends, then uploaded it to a central database/web server? I know I'd donate my own time to setting up the database and some web pages to help display the documents. And I'm sure Sun or some other company would gladly provide the server space to hang out some potentially dirty MS laundry.
Sure, you might get some lousy scans, or a few lost papers/boxes, but it's better than just shredding all the information.
Ok, so the RIAA/MPAA doesn't like when new technology takes away from their business, but over the decades most recording technologies actually turn out to be profitable for the music/movie industry.
What kind of business models might be derived from DVD+LargeHardDisk players? And not just for the geeks --- this has to be useful to your average joe-can't-set-his-vcr-clock. How can we utilize this technology, so customers get cooler services, the industry still makes money, and we all get a better movie experience?
Found a very visible superscript note on Dell's 250N Tech Specs page. It is attached to the line "Intel® Pentium® 4 processor at 2.4 GHz" and reads "Power management features limit processor speed when running on battery."
So if he bought it from the website, Dell did make a fair effort to let him know about the speed drop.
If you bought an old Mustang and found out it was a four cylinder POS and not an eight cylinder monster would you feel cheated?
I would feel cheated if the dealer told me it was an eight cylinder mark2, and expected me to do extra research to find out that the mark2 eight cylinder engine would disable half the cylinders whenever I took it out of the driveway.
The problem has two possible solutions (and I'd recommend a combination of both): 1. Consumers should better educate themselves before buying, or 2. Companies should avoid using misleading advertisements.
Most folks see a laptop ad that says "2.0 Ghz processor featuring SpeedStep technology," but only come away believing that "this new 2.0 Ghz computer is.8 Ghz faster than my current 1.2 Ghz computer."
We've seen similar naming problems with 3d graphics cards. Geforce4 MX (slower than Geforce 3ti) vs. Geforce 4 4600 (faster than 3ti), or Radeon 9700 vs. Radeon 9700 Pro. Sometimes "Pro" or "Deluxe" means better. Other times "Pro" or "Deluxe" means crappier. (Ok so deluxe usually means crappier, but you get my point)
I think the main problem stems from the fact that computer performance cannot be fairly conveyed in a few convenient, marketable numbers. AMD has been combating that status quo with their XP naming scheme; Athlon Tbird 1.4 Ghz vs. new Athlon XP 1600 (runs at 1.4 Ghz) vs. Pentium 1.6 Ghz.
So, who is responsible for getting the information to the customer that speedstep technology would significantly slow down their portable computer whenever they go on battteries?
(from speech bubble in linked image) "you can take my mac when you pry my cold dead fingers off the mouse"
It's just like a Mac user to need multiple fingers for a single mouse button:-)
Does the apple switch software also help you get used to all the inconveniences of apples, or does it just hope they'll go away?
If apple wants to convert the users who are too dumb to save their important papers (i still think you're cute ellen) to network drives or other secure devices; well they can have them. This whole switch campaign reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book where all the useless people (hairdressers, politicians, etc) were sent to a new planet in the first of three spaceships, to go and wait (snicker) for the rest of the world to come by later (wink-wink).
A. Microsoft shall not retaliate against or threaten retaliation against an OEM by altering Microsoft's commercial relations with that OEM, or by withholding newly introduced forms of non-monetary Consideration (including but not limited to new versions of existing forms of non-monetary Consideration) from that OEM, because it is known to Microsoft that the OEM is or is contemplating...exercising any of the options or alternatives provided for under this Final Judgment.
Wow, how many times have we heard of companies complaining about just this thing happening to them? I hope this legislation does improve the computer market...
However, I worry on one point. The judgement states "...known to Microsoft that the OEM..." What if it isn't known to Microsoft, but it is merely suspected by Microsoft? That technicality would give Microsoft pre-emptive monopolistic powers which wouldn't be restricted by this settlement.
This is, just as the article said, a misuse of power, rather than a skillful hack. If I remember, isn't hacking usually prosecuted over the fact that the person obtained illegal access by knowingly circumventing security measures? He was given clearance as part of his job; he misused his security clearance, he didn't gain unauthorized access.
In any case, I'm surprised that ANYONE has the access to modify bets. Shouldn't that info be encrypted or protected or something, kind of like how your Bank's customer service rep can't look up your pin, but can only reset it to a new pin?
The real potential comes when they can isolate sections of the screen to update.
This is the same concept that allows animated GIF's to have such small file size. Animated GIF's only redraw the portions of the frame which have changed since the last frame. While this doesn't work for hi-res color video, where just about every pixel changes every frame, it will be great for typical office applications, where all that is changing on your screen 90% of the time is the cursor, mouse, and whatever characters you are typing.
According to the suits, the laws that prevent the telemarketers are violating their 1st amendment right to free speech as well as unfairly restricting business.
That's garbage. Their first amendment rights allow them to speak freely about whatever topic they choose, but it doesn't mean I have to listen. If someone stood on the public sidewalk by my lawn and started yelling out business offers to me at the top of his lungs, I have every right to ask him to stop. If he refuses to stop, and if I manage to resist the urge to go kick his ass, I can have the police arrest him for harassment. Why shouldn't we have the same protection when the cowards are yelling at us through the telephone?
And as for "unfairly restricting business", these people who take the effort to sign up on the no-call list don't want to be customers. If I don't want a pizza, then I don't visit the Pizza Parlor. That's not unfairly restricting business, that's consumer choice. The telemarketers are lucky that it's not the other way around, where only consumers who sign up on the "please call me" list can get called.
Reading the comment as if Rumsfeld would be some wannabee massmurderer just for kicks and grins is a disgrace to one of the few people in the US cabinet that actually has a brain and uses it.
I really hope that article was hyperbolizing or sensationalizing Rummy's sentiment on laser-weapons, because anyone who gets "hot" or happy over killing someone does not belong in a position to do so. And yet we're sitting here, on the brink of war, with a bunch of war hawkin republicans whose only concern is that they beat the jones' in the weapons race.
The DC sniper guy had a brain, a pretty clever (and evil) one too. But unfortunately it's what you DO with your brain, not just having it, that matters.
There's one strange phenomenon I experience after a lot of coding: it feels like my hands are connected directly to my shoulders, and my eyes seem to zoom in so the screen fills my vision. I code faster and better, but it's really weird. Does anyone else get this?
This is called "Tunnel vision" when you only can focus straight ahead. SEE A DOCTOR!!!!!!!
actually that's probably not at all what tunnel vision is, but it really doesn't sound healthy:-)
Or what if I went and made a webpage that contains the hyperlink I had guessed (but not yet visited) and only then clicked it? Is that any different than typing it into the address field?
you had to know, or guess, what address to type in order to retrieve it.
Does not listing a library book in the card catalog mean the book is classified, private information? What if someone released movie to the theaters, but didn't advertise or put the show times in the newspaper?
This is just a silly company wanting laws to cover their idiotic mistakes. It's easy enough to store your unreleased earnings report somewhere besides your live webserver.
I just tried hacking into their email server, but ran in to some new protection program...they now have a large, twisted, knotty creature, who appears on your screen and forwards your intrusion attempts away while shouting...
"We are the fighting Uruklink-Hai! We bombed the great satan. We took the hostages. We are the servants of Saddam the Wise, The Gassy Ass: The Ass that gives us American-flesh to eat. We operate out of Baghdad, and forwarded you here, and we shall lead you back by the protocol we choose./whois me = Ugluk. I have spoken."
With Verizon DSL, i can either connect with my gateway/router with PPPoE, or through a standard WinXP network connection. They sent a CD to use for setup, but I uninstalled their software and it works great otherwise.
Don't give these techs a hard time, they have to assume that you're a beginner and they probably need to install certain software by contract with some other software company (as a previous post supposed). We've all been support techs at some time in our lives. Just tell him you'd be happy to sign the agreement without him installing the software, and that way you both win as he can lower his average time-spent-per-incident rating.
is the one where he's prying a liteon chip of of a circuitboard with a pari of scissors, and says, "begone, noisy electronics!" Sounds like something many users I've supported would do:-)
Is why these butterfly outfits are so "frumpy". If they really want to sell they need something that competes with the iMac girl. I want my (female) human butterfly wearing nothing but wings and a smile.
I know a lot of guys (myself included) who'd pay 20 bucks a month to get to watch sexy naked butterfly girls skate around the streets of NYC during their morning commute.:-) The money saved by walking instead of taking the subway would more than pay for the monthly fee...
Ok, Bill Gates sent his beautiful minions to deface NYC, so to all you NY slashdotters, let's gather together and raid Bill's mansion, and paste up Apple and Tux stickers all over his walls! We'll also run through his house screaming at 4am about the greatness of open source development.
Visually, it doesn't bother me that they put the butterflys around, they're pretty. But morally, this is a blatant slap in the face at NYC's regulations, and it's a company saying "we're above the law, we're more powerful than you." If a hacker deface the NYC website and got caught, how many years would he get in jail?
I played tetris lightly, but never owned it or played too much. Although, it (and some other games) a few times had me dreaming about playing (like, literally had me arranging blocks in a dream).
However, when I was about 14, I played a match of Kirby's avalanche against my friend's au pair (mom was divorced and he had a little bro). We had been lpaying all summer, so we were pretty good, but this match lasted well over an hour. The game speed got ridiculous, where the pieces seemed to fall as fast as the graphics processor could display them:-) We even had to take bathroom breaks. We were just so into the game that we were TOTALLY in the kirby zone. Kind of like when you're typing and you just hit exactly the right keys more quickly than usual, we were just placing the globs so perfectly and makin so many pumpkin combos:-)
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Typically youy can assume that an employee costs about twice his salary, with taxes, overhead, benefits, etc. Now we're down to 17,500 roughly. That's $8.75/hr.
Had they just dropped each employee cold turkey, those numbers would work. But you also must factor in pensions, severance pay, etc. Laying off an employee does not necessarily save you 100% of what you'd been paying him in cash and benefits. It saves you (employee's total compensation - severance - pension ( - employee's sales power if he's a salesman))
This is real bad news. Any company that lays off workers gets severely crippled for years; often never returning to its original capability. Who do you think will step up to compete with MS Office now?
Overall, you're looking at $15-20K minimum to scan this stuff
Yeah, but that's assuming that one commercial organization is going to do it. What if 900 slashdotters each took one box and shared the scanning effort with some of their friends, then uploaded it to a central database/web server? I know I'd donate my own time to setting up the database and some web pages to help display the documents. And I'm sure Sun or some other company would gladly provide the server space to hang out some potentially dirty MS laundry.
Sure, you might get some lousy scans, or a few lost papers/boxes, but it's better than just shredding all the information.
Ok, so the RIAA/MPAA doesn't like when new technology takes away from their business, but over the decades most recording technologies actually turn out to be profitable for the music/movie industry.
What kind of business models might be derived from DVD+LargeHardDisk players? And not just for the geeks --- this has to be useful to your average joe-can't-set-his-vcr-clock. How can we utilize this technology, so customers get cooler services, the industry still makes money, and we all get a better movie experience?
Update:
Found a very visible superscript note on Dell's 250N Tech Specs page. It is attached to the line "Intel® Pentium® 4 processor at 2.4 GHz" and reads "Power management features limit processor speed when running on battery."
So if he bought it from the website, Dell did make a fair effort to let him know about the speed drop.
If you bought an old Mustang and found out it was a four cylinder POS and not an eight cylinder monster would you feel cheated?
.8 Ghz faster than my current 1.2 Ghz computer."
I would feel cheated if the dealer told me it was an eight cylinder mark2, and expected me to do extra research to find out that the mark2 eight cylinder engine would disable half the cylinders whenever I took it out of the driveway.
The problem has two possible solutions (and I'd recommend a combination of both):
1. Consumers should better educate themselves before buying, or
2. Companies should avoid using misleading advertisements.
Most folks see a laptop ad that says "2.0 Ghz processor featuring SpeedStep technology," but only come away believing that "this new 2.0 Ghz computer is
We've seen similar naming problems with 3d graphics cards. Geforce4 MX (slower than Geforce 3ti) vs. Geforce 4 4600 (faster than 3ti), or Radeon 9700 vs. Radeon 9700 Pro. Sometimes "Pro" or "Deluxe" means better. Other times "Pro" or "Deluxe" means crappier. (Ok so deluxe usually means crappier, but you get my point)
I think the main problem stems from the fact that computer performance cannot be fairly conveyed in a few convenient, marketable numbers. AMD has been combating that status quo with their XP naming scheme; Athlon Tbird 1.4 Ghz vs. new Athlon XP 1600 (runs at 1.4 Ghz) vs. Pentium 1.6 Ghz.
So, who is responsible for getting the information to the customer that speedstep technology would significantly slow down their portable computer whenever they go on battteries?
The point I'm trying to get at here is while we may sniker at the people that know nothing about computers, they are the one's that keep us employed.
I gotta agree with you here... I made some good spending money during college as a helpdesk worker.
But how much more productivity would a company have if all of their workers suddenly became reasonably competant with computers?
Murderers give news agencies something to report about, and the police something to investigate; but that doesn't make murder a good thing.
This this is going to have to be hooked up to some serious hardware if it will connect 3.14159*(4miles)^2 worth of users.
This could be great for college campuses, assuming the price is right.
It's just like a Mac user to need multiple fingers for a single mouse button:-)
Does the apple switch software also help you get used to all the inconveniences of apples, or does it just hope they'll go away?
If apple wants to convert the users who are too dumb to save their important papers (i still think you're cute ellen) to network drives or other secure devices; well they can have them. This whole switch campaign reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book where all the useless people (hairdressers, politicians, etc) were sent to a new planet in the first of three spaceships, to go and wait (snicker) for the rest of the world to come by later (wink-wink).
Forget the money; why should a company have to keep Microsoft informed of their business plans at all?
A. Microsoft shall not retaliate against or threaten retaliation against an OEM by altering Microsoft's commercial relations with that OEM, or by withholding newly introduced forms of non-monetary Consideration (including but not limited to new versions of existing forms of non-monetary Consideration) from that OEM, because it is known to Microsoft that the OEM is or is contemplating...exercising any of the options or alternatives provided for under this Final Judgment.
Wow, how many times have we heard of companies complaining about just this thing happening to them? I hope this legislation does improve the computer market...
However, I worry on one point. The judgement states "...known to Microsoft that the OEM..." What if it isn't known to Microsoft, but it is merely suspected by Microsoft? That technicality would give Microsoft pre-emptive monopolistic powers which wouldn't be restricted by this settlement.
This is, just as the article said, a misuse of power, rather than a skillful hack. If I remember, isn't hacking usually prosecuted over the fact that the person obtained illegal access by knowingly circumventing security measures? He was given clearance as part of his job; he misused his security clearance, he didn't gain unauthorized access.
In any case, I'm surprised that ANYONE has the access to modify bets. Shouldn't that info be encrypted or protected or something, kind of like how your Bank's customer service rep can't look up your pin, but can only reset it to a new pin?
The real potential comes when they can isolate sections of the screen to update.
This is the same concept that allows animated GIF's to have such small file size. Animated GIF's only redraw the portions of the frame which have changed since the last frame. While this doesn't work for hi-res color video, where just about every pixel changes every frame, it will be great for typical office applications, where all that is changing on your screen 90% of the time is the cursor, mouse, and whatever characters you are typing.
According to the suits, the laws that prevent the telemarketers are violating their 1st amendment right to free speech as well as unfairly restricting business.
That's garbage. Their first amendment rights allow them to speak freely about whatever topic they choose, but it doesn't mean I have to listen. If someone stood on the public sidewalk by my lawn and started yelling out business offers to me at the top of his lungs, I have every right to ask him to stop. If he refuses to stop, and if I manage to resist the urge to go kick his ass, I can have the police arrest him for harassment. Why shouldn't we have the same protection when the cowards are yelling at us through the telephone?
And as for "unfairly restricting business", these people who take the effort to sign up on the no-call list don't want to be customers. If I don't want a pizza, then I don't visit the Pizza Parlor. That's not unfairly restricting business, that's consumer choice. The telemarketers are lucky that it's not the other way around, where only consumers who sign up on the "please call me" list can get called.
Reading the comment as if Rumsfeld would be some wannabee massmurderer just for kicks and grins is a disgrace to one of the few people in the US cabinet that actually has a brain and uses it.
I really hope that article was hyperbolizing or sensationalizing Rummy's sentiment on laser-weapons, because anyone who gets "hot" or happy over killing someone does not belong in a position to do so. And yet we're sitting here, on the brink of war, with a bunch of war hawkin republicans whose only concern is that they beat the jones' in the weapons race.
The DC sniper guy had a brain, a pretty clever (and evil) one too. But unfortunately it's what you DO with your brain, not just having it, that matters.
There's one strange phenomenon I experience after a lot of coding: it feels like my hands are connected directly to my shoulders, and my eyes seem to zoom in so the screen fills my vision. I code faster and better, but it's really weird. Does anyone else get this?
:-)
This is called "Tunnel vision" when you only can focus straight ahead. SEE A DOCTOR!!!!!!!
actually that's probably not at all what tunnel vision is, but it really doesn't sound healthy
Or what if I went and made a webpage that contains the hyperlink I had guessed (but not yet visited) and only then clicked it? Is that any different than typing it into the address field?
you had to know, or guess, what address to type in order to retrieve it.
Does not listing a library book in the card catalog mean the book is classified, private information? What if someone released movie to the theaters, but didn't advertise or put the show times in the newspaper?
This is just a silly company wanting laws to cover their idiotic mistakes. It's easy enough to store your unreleased earnings report somewhere besides your live webserver.
I just tried hacking into their email server, but ran in to some new protection program...they now have a large, twisted, knotty creature, who appears on your screen and forwards your intrusion attempts away while shouting...
/whois me = Ugluk. I have spoken."
"We are the fighting Uruklink-Hai! We bombed the great satan. We took the hostages. We are the servants of Saddam the Wise, The Gassy Ass: The Ass that gives us American-flesh to eat. We operate out of Baghdad, and forwarded you here, and we shall lead you back by the protocol we choose.
(apologies to JRR)
With Verizon DSL, i can either connect with my gateway/router with PPPoE, or through a standard WinXP network connection. They sent a CD to use for setup, but I uninstalled their software and it works great otherwise.
Don't give these techs a hard time, they have to assume that you're a beginner and they probably need to install certain software by contract with some other software company (as a previous post supposed). We've all been support techs at some time in our lives. Just tell him you'd be happy to sign the agreement without him installing the software, and that way you both win as he can lower his average time-spent-per-incident rating.
is the one where he's prying a liteon chip of of a circuitboard with a pari of scissors, and says, "begone, noisy electronics!" Sounds like something many users I've supported would do :-)
Is why these butterfly outfits are so "frumpy". If they really want to sell they need something that competes with the iMac girl. I want my (female) human butterfly wearing nothing but wings and a smile.
:-) The money saved by walking instead of taking the subway would more than pay for the monthly fee...
I know a lot of guys (myself included) who'd pay 20 bucks a month to get to watch sexy naked butterfly girls skate around the streets of NYC during their morning commute.
Ok, Bill Gates sent his beautiful minions to deface NYC, so to all you NY slashdotters, let's gather together and raid Bill's mansion, and paste up Apple and Tux stickers all over his walls! We'll also run through his house screaming at 4am about the greatness of open source development.
Visually, it doesn't bother me that they put the butterflys around, they're pretty. But morally, this is a blatant slap in the face at NYC's regulations, and it's a company saying "we're above the law, we're more powerful than you." If a hacker deface the NYC website and got caught, how many years would he get in jail?
I played tetris lightly, but never owned it or played too much. Although, it (and some other games) a few times had me dreaming about playing (like, literally had me arranging blocks in a dream).
:-) We even had to take bathroom breaks. We were just so into the game that we were TOTALLY in the kirby zone. Kind of like when you're typing and you just hit exactly the right keys more quickly than usual, we were just placing the globs so perfectly and makin so many pumpkin combos :-)
However, when I was about 14, I played a match of Kirby's avalanche against my friend's au pair (mom was divorced and he had a little bro). We had been lpaying all summer, so we were pretty good, but this match lasted well over an hour. The game speed got ridiculous, where the pieces seemed to fall as fast as the graphics processor could display them
Ahhhhh, those were the days!
"Yes I work for an insurance company."
Sure you do, Captian Cus-Tard.
Actually, I do, Mr. Coward. And I'm not the one who posted anonymously. Someone troll this guy away.