Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) July 17, 2007
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Appointment of Executive Officer
The material terms of the Offer Letter are as follows:
- Mr. Moore's annual base salary will be $550,000 and his discretionary
target bonus percentage will be 75% of his annual base salary.
- EA has agreed to pay Mr. Moore a one-time bonus of $1,500,000 (minus applicable taxes)
in recognition of the future compensation value he would be foregoing by leaving his
position at Microsoft. Although Mr. Moore will earn this one-time bonus at the completion
of his second year of employment with EA, he will receive it within 30 days of
starting employment. If Mr. Moore voluntarily leaves his employment with EA before
the completion of two years, he has agreed to repay to EA the full net amount of the bonus.
- EA has agreed to grant Mr. Moore a stock option to purchase 350,000 shares of the
company's common stock pursuant to EA's 2000 Equity Incentive Plan. The stock option will
vest as to 24% of the shares twelve months from the first day of the month in which the
grant is made, and will then vest in additional 2% increments each month thereafter
for the following 38 months.
- EA has agreed to grant Mr. Moore 50,000 restricted stock units, which vest as to 50%
of the shares on the second anniversary of the grant date, and as to the remaining shares
on the fourth anniversary of the grant date.
- EA will assist Mr. Moore with relocation-related expenses, which are currently estimated
to be approximately $330,000.
re: (excerpt):
We are a looking to hire a dedicated PHP automation developer.
Location is Montreal, Quebec, Canada;
This is ideal for young, striving individuals that want to work............
I can't cite the specific section of Canadian law that makes this illegal (and rightly so), but it is the SAME section that would also disallow this:
"This is ideal for WHITE, striving individuals that want to work......."
[Marxist Hacker 42], to the question "Qualifications for Summer Internships?", wrote, "If interns I've recently worked with are any indicator -
a birth certificate and passport from India seem to be prerequisites." and it was modded to: (Score:0, Flamebait)
THIS is one moment that I wish one could BUY mod points, because I'd do so in an instant! And I'd change that from Flamebait to Insightful
re: Mainframe programmers (and admins) easily make six digit salaries working at major banks or insurance companies.
Really?
News to me!
Most of the mainframe guys I know have
1) given it up
2) or are way underemployed
3) or are on their way out of the computer industry, WITH pleasure!!!
Of the over 40 guys I knew in the mainframe field when I started around 1972 only *one* is still working in that area. Several have died (strokes, heart attacks, etc.) Most have simply said, "NUTS to this crap!" and left the computer field completely.
re: Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, 2005 @09:07AM (#14192962) said:
I failed to convince them that this (blocking outbound port 25 from everything) should be done.
Good try, though. Good job, Good job! You are a credit to your company!
Er, ah, (scuffles foot, shrugs disparagingly), just what company did you say you were at? (...stares off into space, appearing completely uninterested in the answer...)
Fast Inverse Square Root Feb 2003 Here a fast algorithm is explained for doing inverse square roots on IEEE floating point formats, which is slightly more accurate than the code found on the web. In particular, the techniques explaining the magic constant 0x5f3759df (search for this constant on Google) used by John Carmack in the Quake 3 code are explained and improved.
re: "The well known spammer Scott ("Snotty Scotty") Richter has filed for bankruptcy protection....... Microsoft is not the only lawsuit that Richter is defending..."
re:
"One of the major problems with Slashdot articles is that they provide absolutely NO background
information to what the hell they're referencing."
So apt! And so stupid that this TRUE comment is shown as Flamebait.
I read Slashdot daily, and find that in almost every main article some stupid goof with the mental maturity of a turnip posts stuff assuming that the rest of us are somehow able to telepathically divine what he is talking about.
I'm amused when discussing computer stability with people who have had experience only on PCs. I tell them that if the last mainframe I installed had crashed only ONCE *IN A YEAR* I would have been aghast at its unreliability.
(These are the same people who gasp when I mention that I consider systems to be "small" if they have only 100,000 lines of code. And that's typed in lines, which DO NOT include in the count such things like INCLUDED "canned" code and/or headers!)
The data contained in Go Daddy Software, Inc.'s WHOIS database.
Registrant:
mark felstein
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: EMARKETERSAMERICA.ORG
Created on: 16-Jan-03
Expires on: 16-Jan-05
Last Updated on: 16-Jan-03
Administrative Contact:
felstein, mark mefels@aol.com
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
9542887575
Technical Contact:
felstein, mark mefels@aol.com
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
9542887575
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PARK4.SECURESERVER.NET
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and (related to them)
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Paper of Record is an historical archive of full-page newspaper images dating from the 1700's-a collection that increases the value of individual or institutional offerings. This digital archive gives "old news" new life by facilitating access to the wealth of fact and opinion captured by historical newspapers. With Paper of Record, the major, minor, national, global, and local events of the last several centuries are available to explore.
I sent the following reply to a friend today (Nov 21, 2002) after her email to press@lifeboat.com bounced.
===== This does not show well for an organization dedicated to saving Humanity. If you can't get your email straight, won't saving Humanity, an um, er, tougher job, be harder?!
I went to http://www.lifeboat.com and had a look. This site is amazing, even bringing in (in the fine print) Dyson Spheres gray goo, man made black holes (inside the Solar System), nanotechnology, and antimatter weapons!!!
You really have to hand it to Eric Klien - when this guy wakes up in the morning and has AN IDEA, he really doesn't piss about! (Even his name is different from the usual "Klein".)
I can see the news networks really eating this stuff up! Hell, they must get 100 scruffy crazies A DAY claiming to hear voices, see aliens, have the personal attention of God, etc.
Suddenly, in comes one guy IN A GOOD SUIT, and with a Vision that encompasses not only the near term saving of Humanity, but with AN INFRASTRUCTURE that includes a schedule, timeline, cool web site, and A PLAN!. Nuts, when the first guy who wanted to save Humanity, what was his name - um, oh yeah, Jesus - arrived, did He have any of that? Hell no, and He didn't even speak English! (Aramaic, or something like that.)
I always do a WHOIS on the domain record when this happens. Below is the WHOIS for lifeboat.com: *OFTEN* you start getting email problems because the registration expired/whatever. email problems = the canary in the coalmine!
===== Registrant: Lifeboat Foundation (WWXVQAOVAD).....
Record expires on 30-May-2003.
Record created on 06-Jun-2002...... =====
But this registration record is OK, so THAT wasn't the reason
for the bounced email. Note: If I was going to put up a web site dedicated to
saving Humanity, I would not be cheap enough to
just register it for one year!
I really DO love the site, however. They've done a good job on it.
I'm impressed enough to want to join. I.E. The way that I joined and worked hard for the Flat Earth Society.
(BEFORE you speak to the press about it, you practice, practice
in front of a mirror saying "The Earth is completely Flat!"
in the same tone and with the SAME demeanor with which you'd say
"There are fish in the sea." You MUST give a completely natural
interview. This is a damn bit harder than to go up there and
just gibber on about how you visit and speak with Jesus when he
beams you up to his spaceship. )
And now for our educational component:
ARAMAIC: Semitic language closely related to Hebrew. Originally the language of the Aramaeans, it was used, in many dialectical forms, in Mesopotamia and Syria before 1000 BC and later became the lingua franca of the Middle East.
- Historical Documents of the Vatican Secret Archives [Italian] - Seals reproduction of the Vatican secret Archives [Italian] - CD ROMs of the Vatican Secret Archives [Italian] - Publications of the Vatican Secret Archives [Italian]
Just about everything is in Italian, except for the bits in Latin.
This link: http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_ secret_ archives/docs/documents/vsa_doc_10121999_regeng_en.html takes you to a page showing:
THE VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES (opened to the public by Pope Leo XIII)............... RULES FOR SCHOLARS [... There follow 21 rules, the most interesting to me was:
#19
Admission to the Archives carries with it the obligation
to send the Prefecture one copy of any publication
(articles in journals, exhibition catalogues, books etc.)
in which documents from the Archives are used or cited. ]
Note: This page: http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_ secret_ archives/docs/documents/vsa_doc_06082002_intro_en. html has some useful information,in English, about the Documents of the Vatican Secret Archives.
Scroll down to the very end to find a link to the Collections Index in PDF form. The PDF file "indexEN.PDF" is only 486 KB.
Even though it SAYS that it is an English index, it actually is still mostly Italian and Latin.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm, I should be such a victim.
See: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/0001193
Excerpt:
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
FORM 8-K
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) July 17, 2007
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Appointment of Executive Officer
The material terms of the Offer Letter are as follows:
- Mr. Moore's annual base salary will be $550,000 and his discretionary
target bonus percentage will be 75% of his annual base salary.
- EA has agreed to pay Mr. Moore a one-time bonus of $1,500,000 (minus applicable taxes)
in recognition of the future compensation value he would be foregoing by leaving his
position at Microsoft. Although Mr. Moore will earn this one-time bonus at the completion
of his second year of employment with EA, he will receive it within 30 days of
starting employment. If Mr. Moore voluntarily leaves his employment with EA before
the completion of two years, he has agreed to repay to EA the full net amount of the bonus.
- EA has agreed to grant Mr. Moore a stock option to purchase 350,000 shares of the
company's common stock pursuant to EA's 2000 Equity Incentive Plan. The stock option will
vest as to 24% of the shares twelve months from the first day of the month in which the
grant is made, and will then vest in additional 2% increments each month thereafter
for the following 38 months.
- EA has agreed to grant Mr. Moore 50,000 restricted stock units, which vest as to 50%
of the shares on the second anniversary of the grant date, and as to the remaining shares
on the fourth anniversary of the grant date.
- EA will assist Mr. Moore with relocation-related expenses, which are currently estimated
to be approximately $330,000.
See the URL for the full details.
SWIT
re: (excerpt):
We are a looking to hire a dedicated PHP automation developer.
Location is Montreal, Quebec, Canada;
This is ideal for young, striving individuals that want to work............
I can't cite the specific section of Canadian law that makes this illegal
(and rightly so), but it is the SAME section that would also disallow this:
"This is ideal for WHITE, striving individuals that want to work......."
buddyglass (925859) said:
Is it just me...
He's not - it *IS* just you!
SWIT
[Marxist Hacker 42], to the question "Qualifications for Summer Internships?",
wrote, "If interns I've recently worked with are any indicator -
a birth certificate and passport from India seem to be prerequisites."
and it was modded to: (Score:0, Flamebait)
THIS is one moment that I wish one could BUY mod points, because I'd
do so in an instant! And I'd change that
from Flamebait
to Insightful
SWIT
re:
Mainframe programmers (and admins) easily make six digit
salaries working at major banks or insurance companies.
Really?
News to me!
Most of the mainframe guys I know have
1) given it up
2) or are way underemployed
3) or are on their way out of the computer industry, WITH pleasure!!!
Of the over 40 guys I knew in the mainframe field when I started
around 1972 only *one* is still working in that area.
Several have died (strokes, heart attacks, etc.)
Most have simply said, "NUTS to this crap!"
and left the computer field completely.
SWIT
re: Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, 2005 @09:07AM (#14192962) said:
I failed to convince them that this (blocking outbound port 25 from everything) should be done.
Good try, though. Good job, Good job! You are a credit to your company!
Er, ah, (scuffles foot, shrugs disparagingly), just what company
did you say you were at? (...stares off into space,
appearing completely uninterested in the answer...)
SWIT
re:
p
jericho4.0 (565125) message (#13362103)
provides a link to a ".ps" file about "float InvSqrt (float x)"
The link points to
http://lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.ps
Here's a better link ---
1. Go to:
http://lomont.org/Math/Papers/Papers.php
2. Scroll down to the box ---
Fast Inverse Square Root
Feb 2003
Here a fast algorithm is explained for doing
inverse square roots on IEEE floating point formats,
which is slightly more accurate than the code found
on the web. In particular, the techniques explaining
the magic constant 0x5f3759df (search for this constant
on Google) used by John Carmack in the Quake 3 code
are explained and improved.
The box contains links to:
http://lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf
http://lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.ps
http://lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrtCode.zi
Actually, all of lomont.org (by a Chris Lomont) is pretty interesting!
SWIT
Extracted quote: .....Still, I did a decent job - it took me too long, and I had a memory leak.....
God - I'm stunned that he did NOT get the job at Microsoft (!!!),
since that is *SO* perfectly the Microsoft Way!!!
re:
"The well known spammer Scott ("Snotty Scotty") Richter has
filed for bankruptcy protection.......
Microsoft is not the only lawsuit that Richter is defending..."
The enemy of my enemy is my friend!
SWIT
re:
"One of the major problems with Slashdot articles is that they provide absolutely NO background
information to what the hell they're referencing."
So apt! And so stupid that this TRUE comment is shown as Flamebait.
I read Slashdot daily, and find that in almost every main article some stupid goof
with the mental maturity of a turnip posts stuff assuming that the rest of us are somehow
able to telepathically divine what he is talking about.
I'm amused when discussing computer stability with people who have had experience only on PCs.
I tell them that if the last mainframe I installed had crashed only ONCE *IN A YEAR* I would have been aghast at its unreliability.
(These are the same people who gasp when I mention that I consider systems to be "small" if they have
only 100,000 lines of code. And that's typed in lines, which DO NOT include in the count such
things like INCLUDED "canned" code and/or headers!)
SWIT
Here is the WHOIS info:
EMARKETERSAMERICA.ORG WHOIS Results
The data contained in Go Daddy Software, Inc.'s WHOIS database.
Registrant:
mark felstein
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: EMARKETERSAMERICA.ORG
Created on: 16-Jan-03
Expires on: 16-Jan-05
Last Updated on: 16-Jan-03
Administrative Contact:
felstein, mark mefels@aol.com
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
9542887575
Technical Contact:
felstein, mark mefels@aol.com
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
9542887575
Domain servers in listed order:
PARK3.SECURESERVER.NET
PARK4.SECURESERVER.NET
People interested in companies that use technology to scan in old
newspaper archives from around the world should have a look at these:
http://www.coldnorthwind.com
Welcome to Cold North Wind, the source for turnkey archiving and current content e-publishing solutions that create searchable, full-page images of newspapers.
and (related to them)
http://www.paperofrecord.com
Paper of Record is an historical archive of full-page newspaper images dating from the 1700's-a collection that increases the value of individual or institutional offerings. This digital archive gives "old news" new life by facilitating access to the wealth of fact and opinion captured by historical newspapers. With Paper of Record, the major, minor, national, global, and local events of the last several centuries are available to explore.
I sent the following reply to a friend today (Nov 21, 2002) after
..... .....
her email to press@lifeboat.com bounced.
=====
This does not show well for an organization dedicated to
saving Humanity. If you can't get your email straight,
won't saving Humanity, an um, er, tougher job, be harder?!
I went to http://www.lifeboat.com
and had a look. This site is amazing, even
bringing in (in the fine print) Dyson Spheres
gray goo, man made black holes (inside the Solar System),
nanotechnology, and antimatter weapons!!!
You really have to hand it to Eric Klien - when this guy wakes
up in the morning and has AN IDEA, he really doesn't piss about!
(Even his name is different from the usual "Klein".)
I can see the news networks really eating this stuff up!
Hell, they must get 100 scruffy crazies A DAY
claiming to hear voices, see aliens, have the personal
attention of God, etc.
Suddenly, in comes one guy IN A GOOD SUIT, and with a Vision that
encompasses not only the near term saving of Humanity, but with
AN INFRASTRUCTURE that includes a schedule, timeline, cool web site,
and A PLAN!.
Nuts, when the first guy who wanted to save Humanity, what
was his name - um, oh yeah, Jesus - arrived, did He have any of that?
Hell no, and He didn't even speak English! (Aramaic, or something like that.)
I always do a WHOIS on the domain record when this happens.
Below is the WHOIS for lifeboat.com:
*OFTEN* you start getting email problems because the registration
expired/whatever. email problems = the canary in the coalmine!
=====
Registrant:
Lifeboat Foundation (WWXVQAOVAD)
Record expires on 30-May-2003.
Record created on 06-Jun-2002.
=====
But this registration record is OK, so THAT wasn't the reason
for the bounced email.
Note: If I was going to put up a web site dedicated to
saving Humanity, I would not be cheap enough to
just register it for one year!
I really DO love the site, however. They've done a good job on it.
I'm impressed enough to want to join.
I.E. The way that I joined and worked hard for
the Flat Earth Society.
(BEFORE you speak to the press about it, you practice, practice
in front of a mirror saying "The Earth is completely Flat!"
in the same tone and with the SAME demeanor with which you'd say
"There are fish in the sea." You MUST give a completely natural
interview. This is a damn bit harder than to go up there and
just gibber on about how you visit and speak with Jesus when he
beams you up to his spaceship.
)
And now for our educational component:
ARAMAIC:
Semitic language closely related to Hebrew.
Originally the language of the Aramaeans, it was used,
in many dialectical forms, in Mesopotamia and Syria before 1000 BC
and later became the lingua franca of the Middle East.
SWIT.
Main (English) site: http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm
v at_secret_ archives/index.htm
s /vat_secret_ archives/collections/index.htm
_ secret_ archives/docs/documents/vsa_doc_10121999_regeng_en .html
..... ..... ..... ... There follow 21 rules, the most interesting to me was:
_ secret_ archives/docs/documents/vsa_doc_06082002_intro_en. html
The link at the top left of the first page
goes to (seriously) the
Vatican Secret Archives
http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/
There are some very nice images shown,
along with a great deal of Italian text.
Example:
http://www.vatican.va/library_archive
shows the following:
- Historical Documents of the Vatican Secret Archives [Italian]
- Seals reproduction of the Vatican secret Archives [Italian]
- CD ROMs of the Vatican Secret Archives [Italian]
- Publications of the Vatican Secret Archives [Italian]
Just about everything is in Italian, except for the bits in Latin.
This link:
http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat
takes you to a page showing:
THE VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES
(opened to the public by Pope Leo XIII)
RULES FOR SCHOLARS
[
#19
Admission to the Archives carries with it the obligation
to send the Prefecture one copy of any publication
(articles in journals, exhibition catalogues, books etc.)
in which documents from the Archives are used or cited.
]
Note: This page:
http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat
has some useful information,in English, about
the Documents of the Vatican Secret Archives.
Scroll down to the very end to find a link
to the Collections Index in PDF form.
The PDF file "indexEN.PDF" is only 486 KB.
Even though it SAYS that it is an English index,
it actually is still mostly Italian and Latin.
SWIT
re: Now, why am I having trouble? Basically, the 'new' market
(at least for the duration) wants specialists.
Have a look at my Journal - I think that the hiring people are completely clueless about skill sets.
SWIT