number one reason I stay where I am is the 401k. They don't match, rather they throw a chunk of money in for you even if you don't put in anything. That chunk is variable, based on the companies profits. Back in 96-99 it was almost 11% of your nominal pay, currently it's about 5% which is still damn good.
Add to that the 7% I throw in and I'll be fine when it's time to retire.
I've never worked a single job where there wasn't free coffee with only one exception. Round table Pizza: free coffee (and soda, beer, pizza) Retail chain: no coffee (sucky job too) Car Sales: Free coffee (had to lease my soul to the devil though) Retail electronics junk store: Free coffee (single coolest job I've ever had)*** Tech industry at two companies (one startup, one fortune 50): Free coffee
*** Ever here of HSC electronics? They buy overstock, old product, EOL/Obsolete equipment, surplus, whatever else. Resell it on-line and through three (now two) retail locations. For a geek who's been playing with electronics since I was three years old this was far from a kid in a candy store, more like a coke head in a crank refinery (or something like that). ended up working there for a few years, even after I was working at the tech company startup. Our VP came in one day and asked the manager "nB" still working here? I thought he got another job. Why do you keep him on for only one day a week? Manager replied that he couldn't fire me, because I spent my entire paycheck in the store.
It was good for my bank account when they finally closed that store. -nB
I was part of a recent double merger (where two companies split a division off their parent companies to form a third "independent" company). They flew damn near *all* the managers from one company over to see the other execs for a face to face.
One company in the US the other in Europe... The airfare alone could have paid my wages, healthcare, perks, etc. for two full years. The per-diam and hotel costs could have paid an additional year and change of the same.
Forgive me for being a little bitter that they laid me off (one of only two developers for an in-house designed test system).
In a twist of justice by karma, there were two different HR groups who were handling the "getting rid of people we can lose" work. One was handing out golden handshakes to get people to retire early, the other got rid of redundancies. Now, you see I was the primary owner for lab maintenance (but there were others that could do that job), and I was the backup for about half a dozen other functions closely related to the lab I maintained. Software development was one of those backups when our primary dev was on holiday, or out sick, or simply overloaded with too much work at one time (we seemed to have a feast or famine cycle that no one could figure out how to smooth out).
The other dev took a golden handshake, while I was redundified. I picked up a job with the parent company, in a lab, doing much the same kind of development work as before I started maintenance, with a manager I worked with years before in yet another division of the same company. (Lesson kids: never *ever* burn bridges unless you have no choice. Swallowing some pride now can save your bacon big time later).
When they realized that both their devs had been let go they tried to call either of us back. The senior dev declined, and I offered to provide contract assistance at a nearly extortionist rate (easily 3x what they were paying me). It was pointed out to me that I was unlikely to get hired if asking that much money, to which I replied "who said I wanted to be hired?"
Yeah, so I should stop rambling now... but your flight thing kind of triggered me. -nB
*send a URL as the subject of the e-mail to the server (may be mime encoded). *server gets url, embeds any images as mime, re-links all urls as mailtos with the url as a mime subject *saves page inside a zip file then punts it back
This is obviously broken for many applications, no web2.0/ajax/js/etc...
we currently have an anti-internet micromanager. While the corporate policy is covered by an 'acceptable use' that is fairly liberal this guy equates having an idle page open equivalent to not working. To that end he's having our IT dept. provide him usage data from all employees. As a counter I developed an http over e-mail application that seems to be working quite nicely. -nB
That may be true, I don't know as I don't have the source to the compiler.
But even if true, and even if it went so far as to actually take the absolute most conservative code path when not on an Intel CPU, it is the Intel Compiler, I would not expect it to run at all on a competing architecture. The point of the compiler is *not* for general purpose computing, the purpose is for highly optimized code on an Intel machine. If you want a GP compiler use Visual Studio or GCC...
I think the whole thing is a red herring. Furthermore it's funny that this suit, brought basically at behest of a company who does most of their manufacturing overseas is against a company that does tons of manufacturing inside the USA... So much for the Obamma administration stimulating jobs for Americans.
Intel put more effort into making their compiler perform poorly on non-Intel platforms
Actually, no, they didn't.
if (intelCPU) {optimize} else {use default x86 ISA}
It's that simple. They detect if the CPU is theirs, then enable their optimizations, otherwise they don't so as to maintain the best compatibility with: AMD VIA Transmetta Virtual x86 on Power etc.
He has a very clear request from his management that they requested the passwords. What they do with them from that point on is solely their responsibility.
Sadly this is not the case. If 'they' fscked the routers and dumped the route table, causing a broadcast storm, and thus an outage, just at the time payroll was being processed for example, the admin would be fired for incompetence. Doesn't matter that it's not his fault. That is the reality of the world.
I got stiffed on a contract job. Nothing big, ~$600 for install and config of 6 XP machines in an R&D lab.
They decided not to pay, and it wasn't worth fighting for it (I'd lose more money in time spent fighting them than had I simply worked another job), soooo I filed a 1099 for lost income with the IRS and called it good. Basically the way the law is written, by declaring they owed me the money, then forgiving the debt I could use that $600 to offset $600 earned elsewhere and not pay taxes on it. The flip side is that their required to claim that $600 as income, and since they likely won't I have the satisfaction of them going through an audit. -nB
Yeah, sorry about that. I voted on that issue... I had just turned 18/graduated/etc.
If it's any consolation, in the intervening years I've gone from a young starry-eyed liberal democrat through a "damn wasteful people" republican, to a cynical "I'm really tired of this bullshit" Libertarian. -nB
sure it *can* be, but for most it is not. I haven't been to a casino in quite a while (having kids strains the pocket book, and that was the first thing to go). When I did go to the casinos it was simple: You suspend disbelief even though part of you knows better. That part keeps vigilant and when you've spent enough money it kicks in and says "hey, let's go home".
My shortest night was 5 minutes. I burned $50 in that 5 minutes, the tables were all $10.00 and up, and it was obvious that I was not going to have a fun night. So I took the other half of my planned $100 play money and the (now wife) and I went to a nice restaurant instead of the buffet.
The folks that have problems are the ones that either lack that little part of the brain that watches over them, or they tell it to "shut-up I have to get back to even". IIRC the casinos actually don't want those people because they cause more problems then their money is worth. They usually don't have all that much, and tend to be problematic when their run is cut short by lack of funds. -nB
Hi I'm from Chip-Co, I'd like to remind you that we support the FlatFee metering model. If you want more value from your time license then obviously you should buy our 80 core AdNausium CPU. -nB
prior to expiring you should have used Matlab to brute force the algorithm for generating keys... But you forgot to do that, so you had to go and retrieve that e-mail. How silly.
As the above poster mentioned, small claims court. Sue for the cost of the console and filing fees. I'm relatively sure no one will show to contest the suit, as that would cost more than the default judgment.
Don't sue for replacement unit, sue for replacement cost, thus you can keep your old unit for parts and such. -nB
beta would be believable though (as opposed to alpha).
I tend to agree thermal might be the culprit, specifically the delta T not the absolute T. It is the act of changing temperature that harms PCs the most, not the temp that they settle at. As the temperature changes different materials (FR4, lead/tin solder, copper, plastic) expand/contract at different rates. This change causes poor signal connections, and as RAM is likely the most sensitive (socketed rather than soldered) this would explain the bit errors. -nB
That's why I'm making sure (trying to anyway) anything I design will be understandable in basic concepts by the teachers, with the hope then that they can explain it. What I'm really scared to death of (besides over complexity) is the grown-ups not simply saying "I don't know" and asking me for clarification to be given to the student (and appended to the materials for the future).
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number one reason I stay where I am is the 401k.
They don't match, rather they throw a chunk of money in for you even if you don't put in anything. That chunk is variable, based on the companies profits. Back in 96-99 it was almost 11% of your nominal pay, currently it's about 5% which is still damn good.
Add to that the 7% I throw in and I'll be fine when it's time to retire.
I've never worked a single job where there wasn't free coffee with only one exception.
Round table Pizza: free coffee (and soda, beer, pizza)
Retail chain: no coffee (sucky job too)
Car Sales: Free coffee (had to lease my soul to the devil though)
Retail electronics junk store: Free coffee (single coolest job I've ever had)***
Tech industry at two companies (one startup, one fortune 50): Free coffee
***
Ever here of HSC electronics? They buy overstock, old product, EOL/Obsolete equipment, surplus, whatever else. Resell it on-line and through three (now two) retail locations. For a geek who's been playing with electronics since I was three years old this was far from a kid in a candy store, more like a coke head in a crank refinery (or something like that). ended up working there for a few years, even after I was working at the tech company startup. Our VP came in one day and asked the manager "nB" still working here? I thought he got another job. Why do you keep him on for only one day a week? Manager replied that he couldn't fire me, because I spent my entire paycheck in the store.
It was good for my bank account when they finally closed that store.
-nB
I was part of a recent double merger (where two companies split a division off their parent companies to form a third "independent" company).
They flew damn near *all* the managers from one company over to see the other execs for a face to face.
One company in the US the other in Europe...
The airfare alone could have paid my wages, healthcare, perks, etc. for two full years. The per-diam and hotel costs could have paid an additional year and change of the same.
Forgive me for being a little bitter that they laid me off (one of only two developers for an in-house designed test system).
In a twist of justice by karma, there were two different HR groups who were handling the "getting rid of people we can lose" work. One was handing out golden handshakes to get people to retire early, the other got rid of redundancies. Now, you see I was the primary owner for lab maintenance (but there were others that could do that job), and I was the backup for about half a dozen other functions closely related to the lab I maintained. Software development was one of those backups when our primary dev was on holiday, or out sick, or simply overloaded with too much work at one time (we seemed to have a feast or famine cycle that no one could figure out how to smooth out).
The other dev took a golden handshake, while I was redundified. I picked up a job with the parent company, in a lab, doing much the same kind of development work as before I started maintenance, with a manager I worked with years before in yet another division of the same company. (Lesson kids: never *ever* burn bridges unless you have no choice. Swallowing some pride now can save your bacon big time later).
When they realized that both their devs had been let go they tried to call either of us back. The senior dev declined, and I offered to provide contract assistance at a nearly extortionist rate (easily 3x what they were paying me). It was pointed out to me that I was unlikely to get hired if asking that much money, to which I replied "who said I wanted to be hired?"
Yeah, so I should stop rambling now... but your flight thing kind of triggered me.
-nB
*send a URL as the subject of the e-mail to the server (may be mime encoded).
*server gets url, embeds any images as mime, re-links all urls as mailtos with the url as a mime subject
*saves page inside a zip file then punts it back
This is obviously broken for many applications, no web2.0/ajax/js/etc...
forms sorta work (badly).
-nB
and here I rolled my own...
I'll have to check that out.
thanks,
-nB
we currently have an anti-internet micromanager.
While the corporate policy is covered by an 'acceptable use' that is fairly liberal this guy equates having an idle page open equivalent to not working. To that end he's having our IT dept. provide him usage data from all employees. As a counter I developed an http over e-mail application that seems to be working quite nicely.
-nB
That may be true, I don't know as I don't have the source to the compiler.
But even if true, and even if it went so far as to actually take the absolute most conservative code path when not on an Intel CPU, it is the Intel Compiler, I would not expect it to run at all on a competing architecture. The point of the compiler is *not* for general purpose computing, the purpose is for highly optimized code on an Intel machine. If you want a GP compiler use Visual Studio or GCC...
I think the whole thing is a red herring. Furthermore it's funny that this suit, brought basically at behest of a company who does most of their manufacturing overseas is against a company that does tons of manufacturing inside the USA...
So much for the Obamma administration stimulating jobs for Americans.
Intel put more effort into making their compiler perform poorly on non-Intel platforms
Actually, no, they didn't.
if (intelCPU) {optimize}
else {use default x86 ISA}
It's that simple. They detect if the CPU is theirs, then enable their optimizations, otherwise they don't so as to maintain the best compatibility with:
AMD
VIA
Transmetta
Virtual x86 on Power
etc.
He has a very clear request from his management that they requested the passwords. What they do with them from that point on is solely their responsibility.
Sadly this is not the case. If 'they' fscked the routers and dumped the route table, causing a broadcast storm, and thus an outage, just at the time payroll was being processed for example, the admin would be fired for incompetence. Doesn't matter that it's not his fault. That is the reality of the world.
I got stiffed on a contract job. Nothing big, ~$600 for install and config of 6 XP machines in an R&D lab.
They decided not to pay, and it wasn't worth fighting for it (I'd lose more money in time spent fighting them than had I simply worked another job), soooo I filed a 1099 for lost income with the IRS and called it good. Basically the way the law is written, by declaring they owed me the money, then forgiving the debt I could use that $600 to offset $600 earned elsewhere and not pay taxes on it.
The flip side is that their required to claim that $600 as income, and since they likely won't I have the satisfaction of them going through an audit.
-nB
Then we'll go with young-stupid-naive. That applies as much as anything else did then...
Yeah, sorry about that. I voted on that issue... I had just turned 18/graduated/etc.
If it's any consolation, in the intervening years I've gone from a young starry-eyed liberal democrat through a "damn wasteful people" republican, to a cynical "I'm really tired of this bullshit" Libertarian.
-nB
The Spanish Inquisition!
Bet you didn't expect that, HA!
And in the book margins you could write your own alternate book once you've bought it. This is no different.
-nB
I tried to learn COBOL. Ow.
I found ADA and LISP less painful.
sure it *can* be, but for most it is not.
I haven't been to a casino in quite a while (having kids strains the pocket book, and that was the first thing to go). When I did go to the casinos it was simple:
You suspend disbelief even though part of you knows better. That part keeps vigilant and when you've spent enough money it kicks in and says "hey, let's go home".
My shortest night was 5 minutes. I burned $50 in that 5 minutes, the tables were all $10.00 and up, and it was obvious that I was not going to have a fun night. So I took the other half of my planned $100 play money and the (now wife) and I went to a nice restaurant instead of the buffet.
The folks that have problems are the ones that either lack that little part of the brain that watches over them, or they tell it to "shut-up I have to get back to even". IIRC the casinos actually don't want those people because they cause more problems then their money is worth. They usually don't have all that much, and tend to be problematic when their run is cut short by lack of funds.
-nB
Hi I'm from Chip-Co, I'd like to remind you that we support the FlatFee metering model. If you want more value from your time license then obviously you should buy our 80 core AdNausium CPU.
-nB
prior to expiring you should have used Matlab to brute force the algorithm for generating keys...
But you forgot to do that, so you had to go and retrieve that e-mail. How silly.
Any chance of capturing this thing and mining it for things like indium?
-nB
As the above poster mentioned, small claims court.
Sue for the cost of the console and filing fees.
I'm relatively sure no one will show to contest the suit, as that would cost more than the default judgment.
Don't sue for replacement unit, sue for replacement cost, thus you can keep your old unit for parts and such.
-nB
That's completely different and you know it.
beta would be believable though (as opposed to alpha).
I tend to agree thermal might be the culprit, specifically the delta T not the absolute T. It is the act of changing temperature that harms PCs the most, not the temp that they settle at. As the temperature changes different materials (FR4, lead/tin solder, copper, plastic) expand/contract at different rates. This change causes poor signal connections, and as RAM is likely the most sensitive (socketed rather than soldered) this would explain the bit errors.
-nB
you mean like /.?
Yes, I know, my inner geek is um... enthusiastic.
That's why I'm making sure (trying to anyway) anything I design will be understandable in basic concepts by the teachers, with the hope then that they can explain it. What I'm really scared to death of (besides over complexity) is the grown-ups not simply saying "I don't know" and asking me for clarification to be given to the student (and appended to the materials for the future).
-nB
May not be legal. It is on school property, the guns will have to go :(
-nB