While it may be safer than your house, keep in mind that banks usually do not insure safety deposit boxes, and they are often not liable if the box is destroyed (e.g., at the WTC).
I agree that this is a common practice. In my experience, people who are thinking about leaving just either don't take the classes, or factor the cost of them into the decision to leave.
Besides, if the new company wants you badly enough, ask them to pay it off.
I've heard these arguments a million times. How shall we count the ways?
Private schools have students with dicipline problems? They can expel them. The state guarantees an education to all kids, so they end up in a public school.
How many private schools have you seen lately that are funding remedial reading classes? That have entire classes for learning diabled students? That have real and severly physically disabled students in their schools.
If an 8th grader who can't read wants to get into your private school, what do they do? You get the point.
Not only that, it's hardly as if private schools do a better job for less money (which I'll agree they do) with a random sampling. The sample of who can afford to go to a private school (any private school) already skews the results of the claim since the pools that they are picking from is already more capable.
In addition to the comments above - I have to add an additional one. Who's deploying many Java 2(1.2) dependent apps? The only big additions were the Collections API and Swing. Neither of those are hitting my inter/intranet development very hard. (And both of which can be bundled in with a 1.1 app). Besides, I always liked the JGL better anyway.
Every place I've been in in the past 18 mos. that's putting out server-side Java is running them on 1.1.x VMs anyway.
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While it may be safer than your house, keep in mind that banks usually do not insure safety deposit boxes, and they are often not liable if the box is destroyed (e.g., at the WTC).
I agree that this is a common practice. In my experience, people who are thinking about leaving just either don't take the classes, or factor the cost of them into the decision to leave.
Besides, if the new company wants you badly enough, ask them to pay it off.
Why is it that Catholic schools do a better job?
I've heard these arguments a million times. How shall we count the ways?
Private schools have students with dicipline problems? They can expel them. The state guarantees an education to all kids, so they end up in a public school.
How many private schools have you seen lately that are funding remedial reading classes? That have entire classes for learning diabled students? That have real and severly physically disabled students in their schools.
If an 8th grader who can't read wants to get into your private school, what do they do? You get the point.
Not only that, it's hardly as if private schools do a better job for less money (which I'll agree they do) with a random sampling. The sample of who can afford to go to a private school (any private school) already skews the results of the claim since the pools that they are picking from is already more capable.
In addition to the comments above - I have to add an additional one. Who's deploying many Java 2(1.2) dependent apps? The only big additions were the Collections API and Swing. Neither of those are hitting my inter/intranet development very hard. (And both of which can be bundled in with a 1.1 app). Besides, I always liked the JGL better anyway.
Every place I've been in in the past 18 mos. that's putting out server-side Java is running them on 1.1.x VMs anyway.