I would say, print whatever offer they gave you and tell whoever is your boss that you have been offered X more money in Y company BUT that you REALLY REALLY REALLY prefer to stay with this company (because it is cool), although your family REALLY needs the extra cash... basically ask them to give you a raise with the extra offer.
A lot of times people do job hunting only to have leverage for their own job. Maybe they wont match the other salary, but they might increase it just enough to convince you to stay:).
Let me start observing that I am not an American (I am just a random Mexican). But the fact that every time there is an attack to the USA, the countries involved say "it is not us, it is the terrorists in our country" is starting to sound like a lame justification. It was not Pakistan, it was Al-qaeda, it was not Lybia. Really?
Putting blame in "terrorists" is getting old, being it the USA or other countries who do not want to appease their people.
Hey man, Jon Katz and SCO are gone in one way or another (and Ballmer managed to make Microsoft irrelevant). Weve got to have someone to hate over here... Thats why lately we get to bash Apple and Google.
That remind me of an old quote I read somewhere that wondered why people lose like 40 IQ points as soon as they got in front of a computer.
Whom in his right mind would agree to that description you quoted, if a man knocked on their door telling them "give me your money and I'll give you 7% more next week... oh, and I won't tell you who am I nor what I'll do with it".
I have seen a problem in that in the time I have done pair programming.
When I am the 'seasoned vet' I get quickly frustrated by the slowness of the person who is writing. On the other hand, when the writer is more senior than I am, oftentimes I just cannot follow what he is doing, if he goes too fast (like when doing Vi-editing).
This maybe except with one particular very good senior who was saying out loud what he was doing *as* he was doing it.
Sorry, I can only compare with Germany and the UK (England) as those are the only places where I have used the health system. Indeed in Germany there seem not to be a waiting area for patients with an emergency.
You are the only person with a more or less infomed post related to the article; I take that you are from Mexico too.
What they do not show in the article is that Mexican hospitals IMSS and ISSSTE are a disgrace. Terrible waiting times for emergency rooms (yes, there even is a seating area were people with a *go-to-the-hospital* emergency have to sit down to wait until they are attended... *if* they are attended), amazingly tiring bureucracy (it is a governmental institution after all) and 'you-dont-wanna-know' hospitalisation infrastructure.
But yeah, the advantage is that anyone can opt for private health care, and that even the poorest can have *some* healthcare. Of course the "simi" type doctors (now available in almost every pharmacy including Farmacias Guadalajara) provide a very cheap (sometimes free!) doctor for most people.
In my opinion, the Mexican government should increase taxes (and remove corruption... but that is impossible in Mexico) to improve the social health system (IMSS and ISSSTE). But I think this because I lived 7 years in Germany and the UK, two countries with socialized medicine which is really REALLY good.
I remember in the days when SCO went crazy (about 9 years ago) that there was something like a "patent pool" or "patent society" by several companies (including) which had A LOT of patents which could be used by any company which was a member of said "patent society" in case they were sued by someone else.
Nowadays, It would be really good if such patent pool was used to stop Apple senseless lawsuits. Everybody should sue Apple for all the patents they have 'infringed'. I am sure they have infringed one of the thousands of IBM's patents.
Interesting, while living in the UK (for about 4 yeras) I always wondered what the "this does not violate your statutory rights" meant. I always wanted to know what my "statutory rights" were, but could never find them.
Just use Keepass. Allows you to remember just one password. I use LastPass, but of course it is not for the super-paranoid (it could be hacked with all my passwords on it).
Yeah, from what I have seen the culprits of all stolen Bitcoins stories was that a haxor hacked a Bitcoin exchanged that was setup by some kid who just learned webdeving to put his Bitcoin market.
I am sure if Visa or Mastercard (or NYSE or Ameritrade) or any bank set up a real Bitcoin exchange, they would not have those problems. Instead we have MtGox which was a WoW guy trying to play banker...
ReRam, similarly to holographic disks are (and will be) always "showing up next year". I've been waiting for them for about 7 years and the "next year" never arrives:(
You are partially wrong, it was iRex the ones who filed for bankrupcy . Nevertheless, I agree on the Plastic Logic vaporware thing. I even remember they took pre-orders. At that time i was deciding which eReader to get.
Wouldn't it be possible to create a "Metro app" that works as a launcher for some other software? that way you can place the icon in the dashboard and set it up to launch whatever normal application you want.
Well, GP was a douche with his comment. But there is some truth. IIRC Doctors suggested Jobs to operate when they first discovered his cancer. However he decided to go with the Shamanesque "medicine" and later it was too late to use real medicine. This, against the recommendation of his doctor and own wife.
So wait, you'd rather people in china go back to being subsistence farmers with a 44 year life expectancy (that was by the way, 1960), with no education, so you can feel good about giving extra money to your neighbour who's going to go out and spend more on lunch than someone in china would have made in a week? That's the argument against what is happening in china today.
Typical slashdot exageration and way to completely miss the point. Given that GP only wrote:
I'm not rich, but I have no objection to paying a little extra for stuff that's not made by indentured servants. But most of the time I don't even get that choice.
If you look at programs such as Fair-trade you will see that the idea is increaes the quality of living for those workers in the developping countries. It means paying *them* a better wage for their labour. It does not (directly) mean getting the same manufacturing labour back to developped countries (like USA).
Believe it or not, all these exploited workers in china are living the great dream. That their children and childrens children won't have to go through this.
I wonder then, why several persons wanted out of their great dream.
I understand your general point, living conditions for people working in manufacturing can be better than those living in rural areas. That is true to a certain degree, but it is also true that the living conditions of people in manufacturing are *still* terrible.
If consumers starting giving preference (with their money) to "fair trade" electronics, they would benefit those sweatshop workers and indirectly they would benefit *their own* economies, as local companies would be able to compete in price once again.
What GP was saying is that currently there is *no real option*. So as someone put it before, the only option is to avoid buying those electronics. The problem with that approach is that the only statement people achieve is saying "I do not like your product", whereas if there was a "fair trade" option, people could choose to buy that to "state" that "I want products that are produced in fair conditions".
No, I actually think it is a good issue to start rising. You know, in thte last two years there has been an increasing interest in so called fair trade electronics. I think it is a concept that in the future will be increasingly popular.
Nowadays, there is a push for fair-trade products (at least here in Europe). It is logical to think that Electronics manufacturers will start fair-trade programs. I think Apple is going to be one of the first ones (and as far as I know, it is the one that is *starting* to go that way). The reason is mainly because Apple's success is in the "face" it provides for their products which is seen as an "added value". So, apple (or maybe Sony) would be the perfect company to create a new series of products (that are a bit more expensive) with a "fair-trade" certification and which people will buy (just because they are fair trade).
I can comment on that... at the beginning of my last project (3 year European project with 11 universities) I looked for the avilable options. There are actually a handful of potential replacements for Microsoft Project:
- OpenProj (as it was commented) - GantProject - OpenWorkbench - dotProject (online alternative)
The problem with all those is that they all lack one or two things. I think I used GanttProject at the end, but still I would have preffered Microsoft Project (which unfortunately was no available at my institution).
I have made a simlar comparison of the visio alternatives (dia, kivio, etc) and it is in the same state. Finally, mindmapping software is in a similar situation (xmarks, freemind, freeplane), although these programs are better.
Slashdot Mirror
. They purchased an Israeli company that was making a new CPU based on the old P-III coppermine core
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Could you expand on that? maybe provide a link? I am really curious about that story.
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I would say, print whatever offer they gave you and tell whoever is your boss that you have been offered X more money in Y company BUT that you REALLY REALLY REALLY prefer to stay with this company (because it is cool), although your family REALLY needs the extra cash... basically ask them to give you a raise with the extra offer.
A lot of times people do job hunting only to have leverage for their own job. Maybe they wont match the other salary, but they might increase it just enough to convince you to stay :).
Ok, this just makes me very angry.
Let me start observing that I am not an American (I am just a random Mexican). But the fact that every time there is an attack to the USA, the countries involved say "it is not us, it is the terrorists in our country" is starting to sound like a lame justification. It was not Pakistan, it was Al-qaeda, it was not Lybia. Really?
Putting blame in "terrorists" is getting old, being it the USA or other countries who do not want to appease their people.
Wow... for 10% of the price you could have bought one of these
Hey man, Jon Katz and SCO are gone in one way or another (and Ballmer managed to make Microsoft irrelevant). Weve got to have someone to hate over here... Thats why lately we get to bash Apple and Google.
That remind me of an old quote I read somewhere that wondered why people lose like 40 IQ points as soon as they got in front of a computer.
Whom in his right mind would agree to that description you quoted, if a man knocked on their door telling them "give me your money and I'll give you 7% more next week... oh, and I won't tell you who am I nor what I'll do with it".
Crazy shit...
I have seen a problem in that in the time I have done pair programming.
When I am the 'seasoned vet' I get quickly frustrated by the slowness of the person who is writing. On the other hand, when the writer is more senior than I am, oftentimes I just cannot follow what he is doing, if he goes too fast (like when doing Vi-editing).
This maybe except with one particular very good senior who was saying out loud what he was doing *as* he was doing it.
Sorry, I can only compare with Germany and the UK (England) as those are the only places where I have used the health system. Indeed in Germany there seem not to be a waiting area for patients with an emergency.
You are the only person with a more or less infomed post related to the article; I take that you are from Mexico too.
What they do not show in the article is that Mexican hospitals IMSS and ISSSTE are a disgrace. Terrible waiting times for emergency rooms (yes, there even is a seating area were people with a *go-to-the-hospital* emergency have to sit down to wait until they are attended... *if* they are attended), amazingly tiring bureucracy (it is a governmental institution after all) and 'you-dont-wanna-know' hospitalisation infrastructure.
But yeah, the advantage is that anyone can opt for private health care, and that even the poorest can have *some* healthcare. Of course the "simi" type doctors (now available in almost every pharmacy including Farmacias Guadalajara) provide a very cheap (sometimes free!) doctor for most people.
In my opinion, the Mexican government should increase taxes (and remove corruption... but that is impossible in Mexico) to improve the social health system (IMSS and ISSSTE). But I think this because I lived 7 years in Germany and the UK, two countries with socialized medicine which is really REALLY good.
En fin...
I remember in the days when SCO went crazy (about 9 years ago) that there was something like a "patent pool" or "patent society" by several companies (including) which had A LOT of patents which could be used by any company which was a member of said "patent society" in case they were sued by someone else.
Nowadays, It would be really good if such patent pool was used to stop Apple senseless lawsuits. Everybody should sue Apple for all the patents they have 'infringed'. I am sure they have infringed one of the thousands of IBM's patents.
mhmm, maybe we should remind Microsoft of this video.
Interesting, while living in the UK (for about 4 yeras) I always wondered what the "this does not violate your statutory rights" meant. I always wanted to know what my "statutory rights" were, but could never find them.
Just use Keepass. Allows you to remember just one password. I use LastPass, but of course it is not for the super-paranoid (it could be hacked with all my passwords on it).
Yeah, from what I have seen the culprits of all stolen Bitcoins stories was that a haxor hacked a Bitcoin exchanged that was setup by some kid who just learned webdeving to put his Bitcoin market.
I am sure if Visa or Mastercard (or NYSE or Ameritrade) or any bank set up a real Bitcoin exchange, they would not have those problems. Instead we have MtGox which was a WoW guy trying to play banker...
ReRam, similarly to holographic disks are (and will be) always "showing up next year". I've been waiting for them for about 7 years and the "next year" never arrives :(
You are partially wrong, it was iRex the ones who filed for bankrupcy . Nevertheless, I agree on the Plastic Logic vaporware thing. I even remember they took pre-orders. At that time i was deciding which eReader to get.
Amazing stuff... So, do people still think Hugo Chavez's talk about the "arrogance and selfishness of the american imperialism" talk is crazy?
Wouldn't it be possible to create a "Metro app" that works as a launcher for some other software? that way you can place the icon in the dashboard and set it up to launch whatever normal application you want.
Hey, I've been re-watching X-Men and it is not that bad.
We effect change by the vote,
Ooohh you are so cute!
Keep behaving well and Santa will bring you your toys next christmas!
Well, GP was a douche with his comment. But there is some truth. IIRC Doctors suggested Jobs to operate when they first discovered his cancer. However he decided to go with the Shamanesque "medicine" and later it was too late to use real medicine. This, against the recommendation of his doctor and own wife.
So wait, you'd rather people in china go back to being subsistence farmers with a 44 year life expectancy (that was by the way, 1960), with no education, so you can feel good about giving extra money to your neighbour who's going to go out and spend more on lunch than someone in china would have made in a week? That's the argument against what is happening in china today.
Typical slashdot exageration and way to completely miss the point. Given that GP only wrote:
I'm not rich, but I have no objection to paying a little extra for stuff that's not made by indentured servants. But most of the time I don't even get that choice.
If you look at programs such as Fair-trade you will see that the idea is increaes the quality of living for those workers in the developping countries. It means paying *them* a better wage for their labour. It does not (directly) mean getting the same manufacturing labour back to developped countries (like USA).
Believe it or not, all these exploited workers in china are living the great dream. That their children and childrens children won't have to go through this.
I wonder then, why several persons wanted out of their great dream.
I understand your general point, living conditions for people working in manufacturing can be better than those living in rural areas. That is true to a certain degree, but it is also true that the living conditions of people in manufacturing are *still* terrible.
If consumers starting giving preference (with their money) to "fair trade" electronics, they would benefit those sweatshop workers and indirectly they would benefit *their own* economies, as local companies would be able to compete in price once again.
What GP was saying is that currently there is *no real option*. So as someone put it before, the only option is to avoid buying those electronics. The problem with that approach is that the only statement people achieve is saying "I do not like your product", whereas if there was a "fair trade" option, people could choose to buy that to "state" that "I want products that are produced in fair conditions".
No, I actually think it is a good issue to start rising. You know, in thte last two years there has been an increasing interest in so called fair trade electronics. I think it is a concept that in the future will be increasingly popular.
Nowadays, there is a push for fair-trade products (at least here in Europe). It is logical to think that Electronics manufacturers will start fair-trade programs. I think Apple is going to be one of the first ones (and as far as I know, it is the one that is *starting* to go that way). The reason is mainly because Apple's success is in the "face" it provides for their products which is seen as an "added value". So, apple (or maybe Sony) would be the perfect company to create a new series of products (that are a bit more expensive) with a "fair-trade" certification and which people will buy (just because they are fair trade).
I can comment on that... at the beginning of my last project (3 year European project with 11 universities) I looked for the avilable options. There are actually a handful of potential replacements for Microsoft Project:
- OpenProj (as it was commented)
- GantProject
- OpenWorkbench
- dotProject (online alternative)
The problem with all those is that they all lack one or two things. I think I used GanttProject at the end, but still I would have preffered Microsoft Project (which unfortunately was no available at my institution).
I have made a simlar comparison of the visio alternatives (dia, kivio, etc) and it is in the same state. Finally, mindmapping software is in a similar situation (xmarks, freemind, freeplane), although these programs are better.