The bit that annoys me, is that Google said MONTHS ago that they were making changes to hosted Gmail so that it WOULD be hosted in two geographically distinct datacentres so that in this sort of situation, the email would still be available for paid customers. Apparently, they meant "if we get around to it, and via POP3 only".
And to make it worse, their SLA is just a bit shit - for the several hour outage of EMAIL - a critical service to so many businesses these days, you get... 1 day free service, to a maximum of 15 days. Woopdeefuckingdoo.
Yes, because I trust figured from the EMA. Their sole goal is to annihilate workers rights and return us to a caste system, and I don't believe a word from them - just as much as I wouldn't believe similar figures from the EPMU or ASMP.
Also, the only way I can see that they could get them is from their members anyway - which don't represent all of the employers in the country. (And even if the figures did come from the authority, it's based on a very small sample anyway - so 75% even if it were the figure, which it is not since the figure in the article is 63%, represents maybe 300 out of 400 cases. Woohoo? More people got fired than 400 in the whole country, dipshit)
To confirm what 91degrees said, NZ is indeed loser pays. Also, we have a lot of companies which work on a "no win no fee" basis and take either a per hour, or percentage. For a $17,000 payout, she would have paid between $3000 and $6000. She still gets the majority though.
Besides, ProCare deserves it. You should see their consultation fee (they're a GP chain).
Usual tactic is to bully the fuck out of the employee, make their job a misery, after explaining - in such a way you can easily deny - that it's not going to get better until they hand in their notice.
I've seen my old boss put two people through that, it was horrible.
He's lucky he didn't get in shit for it - that's illegal too.
And for the second time: a) the statistics for employment tribunal cases aren't public (or even known to people working for the Department) so unless you're a Member of Parliament, you're making that figure up, b) the 90 day rule only applies to small employers c) you're not invincible at all - employers go to every effort to make sure employees stay ignorant of their rights
Interesting - I just checked with someone who works for the Department of Labour AND the Department of Labour website, and they don't publish statistics (or in fact apparently even keep track of them) about how many cases are found in whose favour. Where, pray tell, did you pull that figure from?
Also, the 90 day trial amendment only applies if the employer has less than 20 staff - so that might explain why no one uses it.
Gigabyte does mean 1,000,000,000 bytes. Giga means billion. It doesn't not mean 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes. Mega means million, kilo means thousand.
I can't understand why people are actually arguing that doing it wrong is right.
There are even proper units for the 1024 units. Kibi-, mebi-, gibi-, and so on.
People keep harping on about these "proper" units, but the reality is that there's no way in hell you'll ever get anyone but obsessive geeks (the kind that develop OSS software) to adopt prefixes that sound like something you feed your cat. Seriously, those "proper prefixes" suck.
My Treo was an easy way to keep my address book and calendar on my Mac synced with my Exchange data at work. This definitely would impact me if I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
Well then your problem is solved! Your Mac can now directly sync your Exchange data without that 70-year old Treo in the way.
Even worse is probably that knowing how to pretend to be an iPhone proves that they may have been digging into the internals of the iPhone filesystem which they probably want to keep secret.
No it doesn't. Pretending to be an iPhone would be as simple as: a) changing your USB device class and vendor ID to match Apple's b) monitoring what data is sent "over the wire" and working out how it matches to what so you can emulate it.
You don't need to look at the file system at all. Besides, you already know what the iPhone file system looks like. Open Finder on your Mac, bang. There's essentially a more fully featured version of the iPhone's OS - it's called MAC OS X.
The only thing more incriminating than coding the plugin and writing "I frequent less-than-reputable websites while at work" in its release-notes is including a contact email address in the AMO description which appears to be composed of ones real name.
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No, in the software world 10.0 to 10.1 is a MINOR update. 10.0 to 11.0 is a major update. 10.0.0 to 10.0.1 is however, considered a point update as you said (noone uses the "build/revision" syntax any more)
Hell.. Apple charged iPod touch users money for updating the firmware.
Really? Is that true? Hmmm.
Yes. $10 USD per firmware upgrade. So a 1st gen iPod Touch has costed $20 extra just in Firmware upgrades. Apple justifies this by claiming that Sarbanes-Oxley requires they charge for them because of deferred profits or something (which is funny, since Microsoft and Nokia don't)
Not really. Some governments do the work in advance to issue their own advice on this - for example, the New Zealand government issued an entire essay on the use of open source and distribution between departments. The same advice could be used by a private company without much if any modification.
On the other hand, Google wouldn't even care if I released a web search app for Android. Apps only get removed if they get flagged as inappropriate (ie porn)
On the other hand, how is that fair competition? I think Naughty America Inc might feel they're being unfairly prevented from releasing apps consumers (obviously) want.
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The bit that annoys me, is that Google said MONTHS ago that they were making changes to hosted Gmail so that it WOULD be hosted in two geographically distinct datacentres so that in this sort of situation, the email would still be available for paid customers. Apparently, they meant "if we get around to it, and via POP3 only".
And to make it worse, their SLA is just a bit shit - for the several hour outage of EMAIL - a critical service to so many businesses these days, you get... 1 day free service, to a maximum of 15 days. Woopdeefuckingdoo.
Yes, because I trust figured from the EMA. Their sole goal is to annihilate workers rights and return us to a caste system, and I don't believe a word from them - just as much as I wouldn't believe similar figures from the EPMU or ASMP.
Also, the only way I can see that they could get them is from their members anyway - which don't represent all of the employers in the country. (And even if the figures did come from the authority, it's based on a very small sample anyway - so 75% even if it were the figure, which it is not since the figure in the article is 63%, represents maybe 300 out of 400 cases. Woohoo? More people got fired than 400 in the whole country, dipshit)
No, there are no naps.
To confirm what 91degrees said, NZ is indeed loser pays. Also, we have a lot of companies which work on a "no win no fee" basis and take either a per hour, or percentage. For a $17,000 payout, she would have paid between $3000 and $6000. She still gets the majority though.
Besides, ProCare deserves it. You should see their consultation fee (they're a GP chain).
Or if for some unlikely reason it is an COTS product but the program you describe hardly ever is.
You've clearly never seen the crap that passes for healthcare software here. There's three vendors, and they're all terrible.
Usual tactic is to bully the fuck out of the employee, make their job a misery, after explaining - in such a way you can easily deny - that it's not going to get better until they hand in their notice.
I've seen my old boss put two people through that, it was horrible.
He's lucky he didn't get in shit for it - that's illegal too.
And for the second time:
a) the statistics for employment tribunal cases aren't public (or even known to people working for the Department) so unless you're a Member of Parliament, you're making that figure up,
b) the 90 day rule only applies to small employers
c) you're not invincible at all - employers go to every effort to make sure employees stay ignorant of their rights
Well, they don't have the internet after getting caught downloading from BitTorrent, anyway.
According to the Australian Constitution, it is.
Interesting - I just checked with someone who works for the Department of Labour AND the Department of Labour website, and they don't publish statistics (or in fact apparently even keep track of them) about how many cases are found in whose favour. Where, pray tell, did you pull that figure from?
Also, the 90 day trial amendment only applies if the employer has less than 20 staff - so that might explain why no one uses it.
They might fit better in the Epson or the HP.
For some reason though, it wont let us negate it with "!story"
Sounds very Apple-y
Gigabyte does mean 1,000,000,000 bytes. Giga means billion. It doesn't not mean 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes. Mega means million, kilo means thousand.
I can't understand why people are actually arguing that doing it wrong is right.
There are even proper units for the 1024 units. Kibi-, mebi-, gibi-, and so on.
People keep harping on about these "proper" units, but the reality is that there's no way in hell you'll ever get anyone but obsessive geeks (the kind that develop OSS software) to adopt prefixes that sound like something you feed your cat. Seriously, those "proper prefixes" suck.
My Treo was an easy way to keep my address book and calendar on my Mac synced with my Exchange data at work. This definitely would impact me if I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
Well then your problem is solved! Your Mac can now directly sync your Exchange data without that 70-year old Treo in the way.
Even worse is probably that knowing how to pretend to be an iPhone proves that they may have been digging into the internals of the iPhone filesystem which they probably want to keep secret.
No it doesn't. Pretending to be an iPhone would be as simple as:
a) changing your USB device class and vendor ID to match Apple's
b) monitoring what data is sent "over the wire" and working out how it matches to what so you can emulate it.
You don't need to look at the file system at all. Besides, you already know what the iPhone file system looks like. Open Finder on your Mac, bang. There's essentially a more fully featured version of the iPhone's OS - it's called MAC OS X.
The only thing more incriminating than coding the plugin and writing "I frequent less-than-reputable websites while at work" in its release-notes is including a contact email address in the AMO description which appears to be composed of ones real name.
No, you can't:
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No, in the software world 10.0 to 10.1 is a MINOR update. 10.0 to 11.0 is a major update. 10.0.0 to 10.0.1 is however, considered a point update as you said (noone uses the "build/revision" syntax any more)
What sort of lame ass company expects the applicant to pay for return postage? I wouldn't even APPLY to your cheap asses.
Hell.. Apple charged iPod touch users money for updating the firmware.
Really? Is that true? Hmmm.
Yes. $10 USD per firmware upgrade. So a 1st gen iPod Touch has costed $20 extra just in Firmware upgrades. Apple justifies this by claiming that Sarbanes-Oxley requires they charge for them because of deferred profits or something (which is funny, since Microsoft and Nokia don't)
All cats are like that.
Personally, I'll buy it just for the box (well, and the 6GB, no - 9GB, no - 7GB I'll get back)
Not really. Some governments do the work in advance to issue their own advice on this - for example, the New Zealand government issued an entire essay on the use of open source and distribution between departments. The same advice could be used by a private company without much if any modification.
Did you calculate that with a 60MHz Pentium?
On the other hand, Google wouldn't even care if I released a web search app for Android. Apps only get removed if they get flagged as inappropriate (ie porn)
On the other hand, how is that fair competition? I think Naughty America Inc might feel they're being unfairly prevented from releasing apps consumers (obviously) want.
That's because Wilson are evil.
But then, anyone in Singapore can attest to that same fact even better than we can, I've heard.