And not one 'non-solicit' agreement I've ever seen uses that sort of definition and if a corporate lawyer of a company as large Motorola did, they'd deserve to join the laid off crew.
Almost every one of those type of agreements have some sort of clause in them counting people who had been employeed at all in the past X years (actively employeed or not) as employees.
As others have corrected you in the actualities of whose doing what, the one thing I would like to point out is that Motorola is already paying the unemployment for these people.
When employing someone in the US, you (the employer) are required to pay a certain amount into what is called unemployement insurance (each state runs their own, but it's almost all employer funded). When an employee leaves their job (voluntarily or involuntarily) they are able to apply for unemployment benefits off this account. The account you pull from is suppose to be the account of the company you last had 'substantial' employment from.
If the reasons for the ending of your employment warrant it, your previous company can dispute your claim. If they can prove certain things, then they 'keep' the money in their account to be used by the next person who applies.
Unfortunately being fired does not automaticly negate a signed contract. However, on the flip side, most noncompetes are so vauge, over reaching, and one sided that they are unenforceable from the get go, even assuming you don't live/work in a state such as California.
Regardless, if you lay someone off and aren't paying their wages, you shouldn't have claim to block them from picking up somewhere else. Regardless of your self serving plans to hire them back at a pay cut a couple of months later.
No one who is a paragon of "Capitalism" believes in "Free Market" regardless of the mouthings their PR tasked people make. The aim of any successful capitalist is to leverage yourself into the position of having all the capital and therefore controlling the market. The only time free market is observed as a "good thing" by true capitalists is when forcing their competitors into one gives the capitalist an advantage.
Economic theorists aside, only failed capitalists actually follow the theory of modern capitalism. In a way, it's much like Scientology in that respect. The initiates believe and the 'true believers' don't.
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I buy "chocolate candy". I buy "Chicago style", "St Louis style", "New York style", and even "California-style" pizzas, depending on my mood.
Most of the cheese I consume is actually labeled "processed cheese".
I don't see why, had Cheddar been protected, we couldn't have called the 'knock offs' something different.
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The idea there is this imaginary line which you can cross to change from being a child to being an adult is one of the most idiotic in this world. If there were one, it most certainly wouldn't be based on age as most 'adults' can quite conclusively be proven never to have crossed it.
There are teenagers out there that deserve the title "Young Adult" and just because someone pissed in your cereal this morning while you were out screaming at the locals to get off your lawn doesn't make you the arbitrator of that.
And that's calling a spade a spade.
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Don't worry, you aren't. You can't call yourself a geek and not read science fiction. It's like saying you are the one drop of water that isn't wet.:-P
More to the point, if it walks like a duck and looks like a duck, and I can use it to pick up pretty girls. Do I really care if it can quack like a duck?
This most certainly is not a conspiracy to black out portions of your pathetic planet's communication network as we initiate the final phase of "Operation Terran Freedom".
And even if it were, most certainly our advanced space fighters are falling in droves against your numerous defenses. In fact our troops are committing suicide in your streets right now.
Long live your pathetic human government! Long live your rulers!
If you are super lucky, you'll be like me and have registered for "My Nintendo" using a valid email address and be unable to convert the numerous games you've purchased to "Club Nintendo" because the only way to merge accounts is to provide the address you registered "My Nintendo" under and their new email validator is too stupid to realize it's been given a valid address.
It's not the resale market, as from what I understand the codes are unique per disk and thus one time use only. Most "points" programs have some sort of timeout on their points, I imagine it's partially to ensure they continue to get business and partially some sort of legal CYA.
As much as we'd like to believe that the lack of something existence proves it isn't needed, it's not always the case. Often it simply means that we've found measures that work in the interim that may or may not continue to serve us as the need grows.
There is a reason why they didn't have TV's in the 1800's. And it's not because people back in the 1800's wouldn't have enjoyed them.
Semantic "anything" hasn't taken off because as of yet we don't have the tools necessary to make something semantic in an easy, painless way.
Right now, I have to do it all by hand. And therefore I don't. The only people who do are a select handful of 'true believers'.
When I can take a picture and automatically have it stamped with the place name it was taken, the names of the identifiable people in it, and even the colors of the shirts and pants being worn. I guarantee you that people will use it. They might not use it to its full effect, any more than most people use Google to its full extent. But it will get traction.
Folders are only so useful at organizing things and we are rapidly approaching the point in our digital lives where we can accumulate far more than we'll ever realisticly be able to handle using the "folder" method.
The unfortunate part, as others have pointed out, is that without some sort of significant AI involvement, semantic anything is unlikely to ever reach critical mass.
If you have 25 gigs of family videos and pictures, it's highly unlikely that if you don't have the time to seperate and sort it into the individual folders most suited to each file, you definately don't have the time to intelligently analysis and tag each file with approrpiate values.
On the other hand, despite the horrible ad campaigns concerning racism and underage threesomes, or the outcry concering privacy, it sounds as if we are getting to the point where AI actually can make a useful contribution to the system.
And by the way, mods -- blanket statements like the parents' are easy to come up with, and easy to make sound intelligent, but there's no meat to them. It's kind of like the blanket statement of "The only secure computer is one that's not on the Internet." Easy to come up with, sounds reasonable, also entirely wrong.
Because we all know that in addition to being off the next, it should be encased in concrete, then placed in a faraday cage, then encased in epoxy, then buried in the mantle, and never ever turned on.
First thing you need to do is establish yourself as the alpha geek. Walk into the room and fire the first one to make eye contact. Then expound for two hours on how crappy Java is and how all you really need is a copy of Ruby on Rails and a Red Bull to be able to cover everything they do.
The next day, show up with a box of Dilbert comics and pass them out, demand each team member identify five 'wrong thoughts' express by Dilbert and his coworkers and indicate how they actually should have acted in regards to their PHB. Emphasize that the PHB a highly paid executive and deserves their attention and respect. Dilbert's job is to make his bosses' ideas successful, not to mock him.
The next day, first the second person who makes eye contact with you. Encourage your team to ridicule them as they make the walk of shame from your office to the exit.
The day after that, ask them to participate in a team building session where everyone is armed with a nerf weapon and is allowed to act out their aggression. Bring your own baseball bat.
The day after that mention that you expect the team to put in manditory overtime. You forgot to mention to them that they have a milestone deadline coming up tomorrow and you are still working with marketing to finialize the specs.
On the day after that, enjoy the peace and quiet you've earned yourself. You'll need it as you now no longer have a team to worry about.
Random factiod - standard USB and Mini-USB are designed to allow 500 insertion/removal cycles. Micro-USB however is designed for 10,000. I'm not sure which your machine should hope it has.
It may be in luck however, if it's equiped with "USB On The Go". This would allow it to switch roles of master and slave device on the fly as necessary.
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Ever watch Seinfeld? Would you like everyone to suddenly pull a "George"?
Conversely, they can ALWAYS find a reason to let you go with cause. ALWAYS. It's like traffic law.
Such a law would have such horrible unintended consequences that I would rather they simply outlaw or globally permit NC's before seeing that enacted.
And not one 'non-solicit' agreement I've ever seen uses that sort of definition and if a corporate lawyer of a company as large Motorola did, they'd deserve to join the laid off crew.
Almost every one of those type of agreements have some sort of clause in them counting people who had been employeed at all in the past X years (actively employeed or not) as employees.
As others have corrected you in the actualities of whose doing what, the one thing I would like to point out is that Motorola is already paying the unemployment for these people.
When employing someone in the US, you (the employer) are required to pay a certain amount into what is called unemployement insurance (each state runs their own, but it's almost all employer funded). When an employee leaves their job (voluntarily or involuntarily) they are able to apply for unemployment benefits off this account. The account you pull from is suppose to be the account of the company you last had 'substantial' employment from.
If the reasons for the ending of your employment warrant it, your previous company can dispute your claim. If they can prove certain things, then they 'keep' the money in their account to be used by the next person who applies.
Unfortunately being fired does not automaticly negate a signed contract. However, on the flip side, most noncompetes are so vauge, over reaching, and one sided that they are unenforceable from the get go, even assuming you don't live/work in a state such as California.
Regardless, if you lay someone off and aren't paying their wages, you shouldn't have claim to block them from picking up somewhere else. Regardless of your self serving plans to hire them back at a pay cut a couple of months later.
No one who is a paragon of "Capitalism" believes in "Free Market" regardless of the mouthings their PR tasked people make. The aim of any successful capitalist is to leverage yourself into the position of having all the capital and therefore controlling the market. The only time free market is observed as a "good thing" by true capitalists is when forcing their competitors into one gives the capitalist an advantage.
Economic theorists aside, only failed capitalists actually follow the theory of modern capitalism. In a way, it's much like Scientology in that respect. The initiates believe and the 'true believers' don't.
Of course if they did that, then they'd lose their own non-competes. Which, I doubt is something they are all that interested in.
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I buy "chocolate candy". I buy "Chicago style", "St Louis style", "New York style", and even "California-style" pizzas, depending on my mood.
Most of the cheese I consume is actually labeled "processed cheese".
I don't see why, had Cheddar been protected, we couldn't have called the 'knock offs' something different.
The idea there is this imaginary line which you can cross to change from being a child to being an adult is one of the most idiotic in this world. If there were one, it most certainly wouldn't be based on age as most 'adults' can quite conclusively be proven never to have crossed it.
There are teenagers out there that deserve the title "Young Adult" and just because someone pissed in your cereal this morning while you were out screaming at the locals to get off your lawn doesn't make you the arbitrator of that.
And that's calling a spade a spade.
A spade.
Don't worry, you aren't. You can't call yourself a geek and not read science fiction. It's like saying you are the one drop of water that isn't wet. :-P
And once people start buying the game, it stops being good. Haven't you ever heard the term "Sell out"?
More to the point, if it walks like a duck and looks like a duck, and I can use it to pick up pretty girls. Do I really care if it can quack like a duck?
I agree.
This most certainly is not a conspiracy to black out portions of your pathetic planet's communication network as we initiate the final phase of "Operation Terran Freedom".
And even if it were, most certainly our advanced space fighters are falling in droves against your numerous defenses. In fact our troops are committing suicide in your streets right now.
Long live your pathetic human government! Long live your rulers!
If you are super lucky, you'll be like me and have registered for "My Nintendo" using a valid email address and be unable to convert the numerous games you've purchased to "Club Nintendo" because the only way to merge accounts is to provide the address you registered "My Nintendo" under and their new email validator is too stupid to realize it's been given a valid address.
It's not the resale market, as from what I understand the codes are unique per disk and thus one time use only. Most "points" programs have some sort of timeout on their points, I imagine it's partially to ensure they continue to get business and partially some sort of legal CYA.
He has a masters in readology. He really wasn't commenting on the article. Just his inability to read it.
As much as we'd like to believe that the lack of something existence proves it isn't needed, it's not always the case. Often it simply means that we've found measures that work in the interim that may or may not continue to serve us as the need grows.
There is a reason why they didn't have TV's in the 1800's. And it's not because people back in the 1800's wouldn't have enjoyed them.
Semantic "anything" hasn't taken off because as of yet we don't have the tools necessary to make something semantic in an easy, painless way.
Right now, I have to do it all by hand. And therefore I don't. The only people who do are a select handful of 'true believers'.
When I can take a picture and automatically have it stamped with the place name it was taken, the names of the identifiable people in it, and even the colors of the shirts and pants being worn. I guarantee you that people will use it. They might not use it to its full effect, any more than most people use Google to its full extent. But it will get traction.
That one I can answer.
Folders are only so useful at organizing things and we are rapidly approaching the point in our digital lives where we can accumulate far more than we'll ever realisticly be able to handle using the "folder" method.
The unfortunate part, as others have pointed out, is that without some sort of significant AI involvement, semantic anything is unlikely to ever reach critical mass.
If you have 25 gigs of family videos and pictures, it's highly unlikely that if you don't have the time to seperate and sort it into the individual folders most suited to each file, you definately don't have the time to intelligently analysis and tag each file with approrpiate values.
On the other hand, despite the horrible ad campaigns concerning racism and underage threesomes, or the outcry concering privacy, it sounds as if we are getting to the point where AI actually can make a useful contribution to the system.
Because we all know that in addition to being off the next, it should be encased in concrete, then placed in a faraday cage, then encased in epoxy, then buried in the mantle, and never ever turned on.
Duh.
That Spore is pretty good. You should try that.
First thing you need to do is establish yourself as the alpha geek. Walk into the room and fire the first one to make eye contact. Then expound for two hours on how crappy Java is and how all you really need is a copy of Ruby on Rails and a Red Bull to be able to cover everything they do.
The next day, show up with a box of Dilbert comics and pass them out, demand each team member identify five 'wrong thoughts' express by Dilbert and his coworkers and indicate how they actually should have acted in regards to their PHB. Emphasize that the PHB a highly paid executive and deserves their attention and respect. Dilbert's job is to make his bosses' ideas successful, not to mock him.
The next day, first the second person who makes eye contact with you. Encourage your team to ridicule them as they make the walk of shame from your office to the exit.
The day after that, ask them to participate in a team building session where everyone is armed with a nerf weapon and is allowed to act out their aggression. Bring your own baseball bat.
The day after that mention that you expect the team to put in manditory overtime. You forgot to mention to them that they have a milestone deadline coming up tomorrow and you are still working with marketing to finialize the specs.
On the day after that, enjoy the peace and quiet you've earned yourself. You'll need it as you now no longer have a team to worry about.
Random factiod - standard USB and Mini-USB are designed to allow 500 insertion/removal cycles. Micro-USB however is designed for 10,000. I'm not sure which your machine should hope it has.
It may be in luck however, if it's equiped with "USB On The Go". This would allow it to switch roles of master and slave device on the fly as necessary.