By staying private they lose the ability to keep the talent on board by issuing those high-valued employees stock in the company.
The valued employees already very likely own stock and/or stock options in the privately held Company. When private Company goes public (IPO), the private stock simply gets converted to public stock.
Many employees now busting their humps 12+hours a day will dump their stock ASAP, call in rich, and lose quite a bit of incentive to put in more than 8 hours. I've personally seen this happen in several start-ups during the good-ole days of the bubble.
Conversely, staying private means that the company needs to string the private-stock-option-holding employees along with the hope of eventually going public. Eventually, employees get tired of waiting and bail (if they can find a job somewhere else).
The moral: cash is the incentive program preferred by 99% of employees.
If you CC'd me on an email containing your resume that you also sent to 99 other companies, I'd make sure that you never worked for my company you lazy git.
Let's say you are a diabetic (or some other condition which requires ongoing treatment and makes you more likely to have other medical complications). You are currently employed with insurance and want to change jobs.
An future employer that discovers your medical condition may refuse to employ you for fear that their insurance premiums will go up.
almost all browsers offer pop-up blocking (IE being the sole exception that I can think of).
I use IE and haven't seen a pop-up ad in over 2 years (nor have I seen flash, or animated gifs). A quick google search will reveal dozens of pop-up blocking plug-ins for IE.
Yes, not built into IE, but available non-the-less.
How is the mileage affected when your stuck in traffic in 95 degree F weather and you want to run the AC? Or stuch in 10 degree F weather and want to run the heater?
Draining precious battery power to keep our fat American arses from melting to the seats is a major reason why Electric cars are but a fantasy in the US.
If you really believe analog broadcasts will stop in 2006, I have a bridge in NYC I'd like to sell you.
Such a mandate will be the subject of much demagogery(sp?) by our illustrious elected officials. They will be lining up to denounce what an undue burden this places on the poor who would have to buy a new TV. Or worse yet, they will use your hard-earned tax dollars to give every poor constituent a new TV.
Typical 18-24 males don't change viewing or buying habits to make policital/social statements. They base their habits on whether or not the products suck.
Hell would freeze over before the ACLU defended someone in a 2nd Amendment case. The stated position of the ACLU is that there is no individual right to own a gun only a collective right.
Is print screen disabled if office is not the active/top window? If not, open a small window, leave it on top (out of the way), cap the entire screen and clip what you want.
If print screen is disabled whenever any office product is running (aka all the time since most users leave outlook running all day), this presents a serious usability issue for the desktop and would make it time to install a 3rd party screen capture app.
Gravity is not a practical solution for handheld devices. Or would you have to stand out in the rain in order to use a mobile phone?
Shaking the device, manually pressurizing (sp?) a reservoir, etc. will be not likely be accepted by the unwashed masses of consumers. Every try to buy a watch that you have to wind lately?
Of course simply taking the power required to run the pump and using that in the device would be too easy (and not waste energy in the transfer processes).
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The valued employees already very likely own stock and/or stock options in the privately held Company. When private Company goes public (IPO), the private stock simply gets converted to public stock.
Many employees now busting their humps 12+hours a day will dump their stock ASAP, call in rich, and lose quite a bit of incentive to put in more than 8 hours. I've personally seen this happen in several start-ups during the good-ole days of the bubble.
Conversely, staying private means that the company needs to string the private-stock-option-holding employees along with the hope of eventually going public. Eventually, employees get tired of waiting and bail (if they can find a job somewhere else).
The moral: cash is the incentive program preferred by 99% of employees.
If you CC'd me on an email containing your resume that you also sent to 99 other companies, I'd make sure that you never worked for my company you lazy git.
An future employer that discovers your medical condition may refuse to employ you for fear that their insurance premiums will go up.
I use IE and haven't seen a pop-up ad in over 2 years (nor have I seen flash, or animated gifs). A quick google search will reveal dozens of pop-up blocking plug-ins for IE.
Yes, not built into IE, but available non-the-less.
Now you know why the Campain Finance Reform bill was nicknamed the "Incumbant Protection Act"
Draining precious battery power to keep our fat American arses from melting to the seats is a major reason why Electric cars are but a fantasy in the US.
Such a mandate will be the subject of much demagogery(sp?) by our illustrious elected officials. They will be lining up to denounce what an undue burden this places on the poor who would have to buy a new TV. Or worse yet, they will use your hard-earned tax dollars to give every poor constituent a new TV.
Hell would freeze over before the ACLU defended someone in a 2nd Amendment case. The stated position of the ACLU is that there is no individual right to own a gun only a collective right.
Are the people of Iraq better off now than they were with Saddam still in power?
If you answer yes, then France was wrong. Period.
If you answer no, please explain how the Iraqi people are worse off now.
Is print screen disabled if office is not the active/top window? If not, open a small window, leave it on top (out of the way), cap the entire screen and clip what you want.
If print screen is disabled whenever any office product is running (aka all the time since most users leave outlook running all day), this presents a serious usability issue for the desktop and would make it time to install a 3rd party screen capture app.
"First you get the sugar... Then you get the power... Then you get the women." - Homer S.
Gravity is not a practical solution for handheld devices. Or would you have to stand out in the rain in order to use a mobile phone?
Shaking the device, manually pressurizing (sp?) a reservoir, etc. will be not likely be accepted by the unwashed masses of consumers. Every try to buy a watch that you have to wind lately?
Of course simply taking the power required to run the pump and using that in the device would be too easy (and not waste energy in the transfer processes).