Some people don't work in a world where companies beat down their down to try to hire them. Some people can't take the chance of not signing a peice of paper and not having a job.
Until the job market picks up, I have to choose my battles. Putting food on my children's plate is more important than the ideals of the open source foundation.
Besides, you can't sign away what doesn't belong to you.
Actually, most of the porn stars look like used rugs. Or Tammy Fae Baker. 'Course I'm going by interviews, since you can't actually see their faces in their 'art'.
In retrospect, I guess I agree with you, they can even make steel flacid.
Jenna is cute, though.
I have an S-corp set up. Not to plug my own business model, but I actually handle payroll, withholding, 401-k, contracts and whatnot for several people who just did not want the hassle of setting up a business, maintaining insurance, doing all the paperwork, payroll and whatnot.
I really set up the business for me to do consulting, which I did for about 4 years, but now I have another full time job, and so all I do now is handle all the paperwork for independents who don't want to incorporate.
That's true. I was in the same situation. I am in a work-at-will state as well. Our company got bought out by another company. We were told we had to fill out an application for the new company, sign a bunch of agreements, and provide all kinds of documentation. We were told that if we did not, we would not have a job.
It's a shame that companies have so much power. But I'll save my rebeliousness until I have more money in the bank.
>Your HR people may be a little more amenable to rewriting that clause to clarify that it doesn't include work that's not related to the company's core business, and that you do in your own time.
While the (U.S.) law states otherwise, I strongly believe that your company should not be allowed to restrict you to even directly compete with them. If you buy the compiler, you bought your computer, you wrote the software on your time at your home, they should have no right to it. The only argument they should have is if you used their Intelectual Property in the form of some algorithms or methodologies that they used and you decided to take home with you.
Many IT positions require some travel. My position requires up to 60%. Luckily it hasn't been that high this year. I don't believe I could even hold down a part time position at McDonald's with the schedule required by my position.
I'm surprised blue collar workers are able to do this sort of thing. I know in the IT industry, or at least where I work, they would call you to task on the non-compete clause even if it wasn't directly related. Some people have managed to get night jobs teaching some Cisco classes and such, but if I tried to use company resources to do my own thing, they'd hand me my walking papers. And that despite the fact that I never actually signed a non-compete clause.
>You should be looking for things that can specialize you as an IT person somehow. The more unique a skill set, the higher the pay will be, it's simply supply and demand.
Specialization within IT can be dangerous. IT changes so rapidly that your field of specialization can fall out from under you. Keeping educated in new areas of specialty is the answer, but then it becomes an issue of cost. When the technology changes so rapidly, you can't afford to keep paying for courses in the flavor of the week.
In IT, it almost pays to be a generalist. I know a little bit about quite a lot, and can pick up enough information in a short time period to be better than average at any given skill.
True, the employers want someone RIGHT NOW who knows the flavor of the week, but one hopes they will eventually come to their senses and hire someone that they can keep around long term and who can learn new flavors as they become necessary.
>Waged employment usually has a very fixed set of hours you are expected to work, and any work outside of that is overtime and more expensive for the employer, so it's discouraged.
>On the other hand salaried work is essentially paying you to "get the job done" regardless of hours.
Not only that, but often your employer (as in my case) is charging someone else per hour for your service. Therefore every hour you work over 40, is a license for your employer to print money.
Last year, we got a talking to from our boss about people not showing up to work until (horrors!) 8:30 or 9:00. He said he understood that quite often we need to work until 8:00 or 9:00 PM to solve our customers problems, but regardless of how late we normally work, we still need to be in before 8:30.
That sounds like the figure for available cargo capacity in a 747 used for passenger service. The 747-400 F (cargo only) has a 124 ton cargo capacity. The proposed A380-900F cargo plane is expected to have a 148 ton cargo capacity.
Smaller things are almost ALWAYS more maneuverable. In fact, it would probably make some sick or even black out if they were to attempt to pull the stunts that birds do with no ill effects. Even in the animal kingdom, the larger the bird, the less maneueverable they become.
The flying dinosaur/birds were not all that large. The Archaeopteryx was about the size of a pigeon. The large flying reptiles (pterosaurs) ranged in size from that of a sparrow to more a wingspan of more than 40 feet. The largest of these is thought to have weighed in at only about 110 pounds.
Which is not to say that human powered flight is impossible. A man flew a bicyclish fixed wing craft across the English Channel. It will be interesting to see if we can emulate the complex musculature control of a flapping wing in a lightweight apparatus.
Medicine can not be an evolutionary trait. Dependency upon medicine, can however. The question is, do we really want to encourage that as an evolutionary trait.
Along the same vein, I wonder if our climate controlled living arrangement is having an adverse affect on our long term viability as a species.
Yes, but both sides of the abortion debate have crazy marginalized views. It just so happens that Slashdot moderators like one of the crazy marginalized views more than the other.
>What constitutes human then? The sensible answer is my view (and others) is that it depends upon the thing's ability to be part of a society with other 'humans', and to have qualities such as empathy, self-consciousness and the like which are regarded as human qualities. Without those, a thing is no more human than its DNA might be.
Okay. So abortion should be legal until at least 3 years old. And then as soon as someone shows themselves as incapable of being part of society (for example, by stealing something), then they are once more eligible for abortion.
No, the same people who claim Darwin was right and that there is no God, also feel some compelling need to try to prove Darwin wrong by protecting those who are not able to survive by natural means.
Isn't that amazing? Two anti-abortion posts both modded as -1, while the opposite side is not modded down, despite using the same crude language.
Thanks slashdot moderators, for always maintaining a level playing ground.
Of course the Filipinos don't suffer. They get a well paying job relative to other available work in the Phillipines. The one who suffers is you, as the people you put out of work will no longer be able to buy your product and you will go out of business.
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Some people don't work in a world where companies beat down their down to try to hire them. Some people can't take the chance of not signing a peice of paper and not having a job.
Until the job market picks up, I have to choose my battles. Putting food on my children's plate is more important than the ideals of the open source foundation.
Besides, you can't sign away what doesn't belong to you.
Actually, most of the porn stars look like used rugs. Or Tammy Fae Baker. 'Course I'm going by interviews, since you can't actually see their faces in their 'art'.
In retrospect, I guess I agree with you, they can even make steel flacid.
Jenna is cute, though.
I have an S-corp set up. Not to plug my own business model, but I actually handle payroll, withholding, 401-k, contracts and whatnot for several people who just did not want the hassle of setting up a business, maintaining insurance, doing all the paperwork, payroll and whatnot.
I really set up the business for me to do consulting, which I did for about 4 years, but now I have another full time job, and so all I do now is handle all the paperwork for independents who don't want to incorporate.
That's true. I was in the same situation. I am in a work-at-will state as well. Our company got bought out by another company. We were told we had to fill out an application for the new company, sign a bunch of agreements, and provide all kinds of documentation. We were told that if we did not, we would not have a job.
It's a shame that companies have so much power. But I'll save my rebeliousness until I have more money in the bank.
>Your HR people may be a little more amenable to rewriting that clause to clarify that it doesn't include work that's not related to the company's core business, and that you do in your own time.
While the (U.S.) law states otherwise, I strongly believe that your company should not be allowed to restrict you to even directly compete with them. If you buy the compiler, you bought your computer, you wrote the software on your time at your home, they should have no right to it. The only argument they should have is if you used their Intelectual Property in the form of some algorithms or methodologies that they used and you decided to take home with you.
Many IT positions require some travel. My position requires up to 60%. Luckily it hasn't been that high this year. I don't believe I could even hold down a part time position at McDonald's with the schedule required by my position.
I'm surprised blue collar workers are able to do this sort of thing. I know in the IT industry, or at least where I work, they would call you to task on the non-compete clause even if it wasn't directly related. Some people have managed to get night jobs teaching some Cisco classes and such, but if I tried to use company resources to do my own thing, they'd hand me my walking papers. And that despite the fact that I never actually signed a non-compete clause.
>You should be looking for things that can specialize you as an IT person somehow. The more unique a skill set, the higher the pay will be, it's simply supply and demand.
Specialization within IT can be dangerous. IT changes so rapidly that your field of specialization can fall out from under you. Keeping educated in new areas of specialty is the answer, but then it becomes an issue of cost. When the technology changes so rapidly, you can't afford to keep paying for courses in the flavor of the week.
In IT, it almost pays to be a generalist. I know a little bit about quite a lot, and can pick up enough information in a short time period to be better than average at any given skill.
True, the employers want someone RIGHT NOW who knows the flavor of the week, but one hopes they will eventually come to their senses and hire someone that they can keep around long term and who can learn new flavors as they become necessary.
>Waged employment usually has a very fixed set of hours you are expected to work, and any work outside of that is overtime and more expensive for the employer, so it's discouraged.
>On the other hand salaried work is essentially paying you to "get the job done" regardless of hours.
Not only that, but often your employer (as in my case) is charging someone else per hour for your service. Therefore every hour you work over 40, is a license for your employer to print money.
Last year, we got a talking to from our boss about people not showing up to work until (horrors!) 8:30 or 9:00. He said he understood that quite often we need to work until 8:00 or 9:00 PM to solve our customers problems, but regardless of how late we normally work, we still need to be in before 8:30.
>not aimed at consumers
We'll get it anyway. Just like Internet1
We don't hear about how long it took to load up the data for the 101 Gb transfer either.
No point in buying in now. I'm going to wait for FAST-WIDE ULTRA TCP-2.
Is MP3 an example of an acrynum?
>The bandwidth is truly staggering. Yeah, but the latency's a bitch.
That sounds like the figure for available cargo capacity in a 747 used for passenger service. The 747-400 F (cargo only) has a 124 ton cargo capacity. The proposed A380-900F cargo plane is expected to have a 148 ton cargo capacity.
Maybe it will qualify for the new "sport pilot" rules which are finally beginning to unmire themselves from the catch-22 they have been in.
Smaller things are almost ALWAYS more maneuverable. In fact, it would probably make some sick or even black out if they were to attempt to pull the stunts that birds do with no ill effects. Even in the animal kingdom, the larger the bird, the less maneueverable they become.
The flying dinosaur/birds were not all that large. The Archaeopteryx was about the size of a pigeon. The large flying reptiles (pterosaurs) ranged in size from that of a sparrow to more a wingspan of more than 40 feet. The largest of these is thought to have weighed in at only about 110 pounds.
Which is not to say that human powered flight is impossible. A man flew a bicyclish fixed wing craft across the English Channel. It will be interesting to see if we can emulate the complex musculature control of a flapping wing in a lightweight apparatus.
Medicine can not be an evolutionary trait. Dependency upon medicine, can however. The question is, do we really want to encourage that as an evolutionary trait.
Along the same vein, I wonder if our climate controlled living arrangement is having an adverse affect on our long term viability as a species.
Yes, but both sides of the abortion debate have crazy marginalized views. It just so happens that Slashdot moderators like one of the crazy marginalized views more than the other.
>What constitutes human then? The sensible answer is my view (and others) is that it depends upon the thing's ability to be part of a society with other 'humans', and to have qualities such as empathy, self-consciousness and the like which are regarded as human qualities. Without those, a thing is no more human than its DNA might be.
Okay. So abortion should be legal until at least 3 years old. And then as soon as someone shows themselves as incapable of being part of society (for example, by stealing something), then they are once more eligible for abortion.
No, the same people who claim Darwin was right and that there is no God, also feel some compelling need to try to prove Darwin wrong by protecting those who are not able to survive by natural means.
Isn't that amazing? Two anti-abortion posts both modded as -1, while the opposite side is not modded down, despite using the same crude language.
Thanks slashdot moderators, for always maintaining a level playing ground.
Of course the Filipinos don't suffer. They get a well paying job relative to other available work in the Phillipines. The one who suffers is you, as the people you put out of work will no longer be able to buy your product and you will go out of business.
It won't happen as long as the bread and butter of the airline industry still chooses to communicate by cell phone. Economics prevails over safety.