Don't ever agree to sign a non-compete clause. It's nothing more than an excuse for the company to bully and (try to) control you. I've never heard of a non-compete case won by a company over an individual. Real Companies(tm) don't require them anyway.
I don't use IEEE for health (my wife's an IBMer), but I do have term life, and just applied for disability. The rates on all their insurances are very low, and they offer almost all types of insurance (incl home and auto, I believe).
The journals (most available online now!) from IEEE are a good source of industry info and research, so you do get something else out of the yearly membership fee than cheap insurance.:-)
I don't use IEEE for health (my wife's an IBMer), but I do have term life, and just applied for disability. The rates on all their insurances are very low, and they offer almost all types of insurance.
The journals (most available online now!) from IEEE are also an awesome source of info, so you do get something else out of the yearly membership fee.:-)
I've yet to be a contributor to open source, unless buying RH distros counts (which it really shouldn't), but I have registered my RH5.2 installation and have also registered to access RH's bug tracking system (bugzilla?).
I received two notes from them about this: one to each of my primary email addrs (work and ISP), but don't remember which I used to register what.
I only remember being invited into one (one of the portal companies that I had an account on), and no, I didn't get into that one either.
FWIW, I wasn't 1 for ~10, my friend was. I'm O for ~10. I finally gave up trying.
I'm guessing that Preferred Customer status on E*Trade means at least 6 figures (to the left of the decimal point:-) in your account.
I'm also guessing that they wouldn't tell me what that means even if I asked.:-)
Anyway, I did sign up for one block (100 shares) just in case being invited actually means something this time. I didn't sign up for more because (1) I don't think it matters, and (2) I didn't want to be forced to have that much cash on hand at that time (i.e. either by selling stock I currently have or depositing more cash).
I read somewhere where the IPO share price they're currently shooting for is $12, but I know that will go up just before the day of reckoning.
It's not a farse and it's not a violation of the SEC code. I've received these offers before from companies IPOing through E*Trade. RedHat isn't the first and it's perfectly legal.
But good luck actually getting IPO stock from Etrade. Myself and two friends have been trying for six months now. The score? One of my friends got in on 1 out of 10 or so that he tried. The other didn't get in on any. I quit after being turned over and over and over.
E*Trade's IPO stock goes to their Preferred Customers (read: big $$ in their account) first and rarely are there any shares left for us peons.
I signed up for the RH one, but don't have any delusions about actually getting any.
... by spitting diet code all over when I read this!
The rest of you who are replying with arguments, where's your sense of humor?
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I'm currently on a contract at IBM in the Component Broker (CORBA-based middleware) development group. Many of the folks here came from the AIX/PS2 (or its successor) project.
From what they tell me, it died. That's too bad, because for a short time in late '89, I worked on that project. It wasn't a bad os, had some neat clustering technology, and at the time was one of the few Unixen available for the Intel architecture.
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you call me a snide, cynical smartass??!?!
go back and reread your comment.
pot kettle black.
on top of that, you don't even have the guts
to sign your name. pffft.
My condolescences if you live in an area where
you don't have a choice, or don't have the
negotiation skills to get out of signing one.
Look at http://www.flash.net/~cmiller/ctgweb.htm for a great example of how a company can (try to) use a non-compete to bully you.
But of course, CTG eventually lost.
The bad PR this case generated will probably cost CTG millions of dollars of lost business in the long run. Was it worth it?
IBM does not scan everything. That's crap.
How in the hell would someone at Microsoft
know that?
Nice try.
I don't use IEEE for health (my wife's an IBMer),
:-)
but I do have term life, and just applied for
disability. The rates on all their insurances
are very low, and they offer almost all types
of insurance (incl home and auto, I believe).
The journals (most available online now!) from
IEEE are a good source of industry info and
research, so you do get something else out of
the yearly membership fee than cheap insurance.
I don't use IEEE for health (my wife's an IBMer),
:-)
but I do have term life, and just applied for
disability. The rates on all their insurances
are very low, and they offer almost all types
of insurance.
The journals (most available online now!) from
IEEE are also an awesome source of info, so you
do get something else out of the yearly membership
fee.
I've yet to be a contributor to open source, unless buying RH distros counts (which it really shouldn't), but I have registered my RH5.2 installation and have also registered to access RH's bug tracking system (bugzilla?).
I received two notes from them about this: one to each of my primary email addrs (work and ISP), but don't remember which I used to register what.
I only remember being invited into one (one of the portal companies that I had an account on), and no, I didn't get into that one either.
:-) in your account.
:-)
FWIW, I wasn't 1 for ~10, my friend was. I'm O for ~10. I finally gave up trying.
I'm guessing that Preferred Customer status on E*Trade means at least 6 figures (to the left of the decimal point
I'm also guessing that they wouldn't tell me what that means even if I asked.
Anyway, I did sign up for one block (100 shares) just in case being invited actually means something this time. I didn't sign up for more because (1) I don't think it matters, and (2) I didn't want to be forced to have that much cash on hand at that time (i.e. either by selling stock I currently have or depositing more cash).
I read somewhere where the IPO share price they're currently shooting for is $12, but I know that will go up just before the day of reckoning.
It's not a farse and it's not a violation of the SEC code. I've received these offers before from companies IPOing through E*Trade. RedHat isn't the first and it's perfectly legal.
But good luck actually getting IPO stock from Etrade. Myself and two friends have been trying for six months now. The score? One of my friends got in on 1 out of 10 or so that he tried. The other didn't get in on any. I quit after being turned over and over and over.
E*Trade's IPO stock goes to their Preferred Customers (read: big $$ in their account) first and rarely are there any shares left for us peons.
I signed up for the RH one, but don't have any delusions about actually getting any.
... by spitting diet code all over when I read this!
The rest of you who are replying with arguments, where's your sense of humor?
I'm currently on a contract at IBM in the Component Broker (CORBA-based middleware) development group. Many of the folks here came from the AIX/PS2 (or its successor) project.
From what they tell me, it died. That's too bad, because for a short time in late '89, I worked on that project. It wasn't a bad os, had some neat clustering technology, and at the time was one of the few Unixen available for the Intel architecture.
The way I read the announcement, they're not just
announcing an initiative to build one, they're
announcing its availability *now*... Right?
Last time I checked, Quicken's on-line banking was
nothing more than an interface to Checkfree. Why
not ask Moneydance for the same?
I agree - any serious program needs to interface
to Checkfree and other on-line services.
I got burned by Checkfree a few years back and
gave it up, so I haven't looked into online
banking for a while.
As much as I depend on Quicken and would have a
hard time living w/o it, I find it to be very slow.
A Java version wouldn't be much slower.
The actions of a desperate company? An overly arrogant company?
Or both?
How hard could it be to port Quicken to Java?
....
They could run it on any operating system, and
even (legally) include the jre's along on
the CD.
Or maybe someone should start an open-source
project to create a home accounting package
in Java