So basically that means, if you leave on your own accord, it may be enforceable.. But if you are fired or laid off, you cannot be held to a non-compete (In the state of Washington anyways), because by terminating your employment against your will, the company is admitting that you no longer possess anything of value to the company.
So, if bound by a non-compete per above logic; if I wanted to "leave" my job, I could just show up and read the newspaper all day until they fired me.
Except for folks who bought within their means and paid their mortgages on time. Sadly, they will now end up paying for everything else.
It was a lot worse during the depression when everyone HAD to pay their mortgages back. What happened was that, as soon as someone got a job, he/she would start paying the mortgage. This kept money out of local economies, which caused more job loss, which effectively hurt the responsible people even more. Even if the responsible people were able to keep their jobs, their wages decreased, effectively increasing the portion of income that had to go to the mortgage.
IMO, It's a lot better to bite the bullet now and use inflation to reduce the real value of responsible peoples' debt. Remember, when there's high inflation, the real value of debt goes down.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this observation. So, I think all commercials get a fair showing in most cases with DVR.
Actually, the TV stations learned from the mistakes that the Newspapers made in the 1800s when they realized that their readers could skip ads. In the 1800s, the Newspapers tried to use devices that glued peoples' eyeballs to the add.
Needless to say, these newspapers failed in the marketplace rather quickly.
I haven't had cable television in 7 years. I don't miss it. For the money I save, I
For the money *I* save, I bought a set of rabbit ears and an HDTV tuner for my computer. It allows me to watch American Idol and the Super Bowl in full 1080 glory. It turns out that the TV software has a great de-interlacer; so 1080i HDTV looks better using my computer then when I used a cable box.
So, I'm a fan of progressive rock. Progressive rock was very popular in the 70s, with bands like Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, ect, ect. You could say that Progressive Rock is analogous to hardcore games in that the music is often serious and requires a lot of time to listen to.
Progressive Rock isn't as popular today as it was in the 70s, yet there are plenty of new Progressive Rock bands. Instead of selling out stadiums, they sell out smaller venues that only hold a couple of thousand fans.
Trust me when I say this: Going to a sell-out show that has a couple thousand fans is a lot more fun then a stadium show.
As a result of the (*cough*) decline (*cough*) of hardcore gaming; I would expect that, within a few years, a few *excellent* studios cater to the hardcore crowd by producing *excellent* hardcore games. There's a lot to look forward to once the casual crowd has something to keep them distracted.
In a GUI with 20 pages of configuration with 20 options on each it's very difficult to find the current configuration state. Meanwhile on the commandline it's obvious which of the 400 options are being used.
GUI is best for the kind of things where you learn as you go.
You're right that the customer is always right. I'm telling you that the easiest way to get a real company to stop sending you e-mail is to use their opt-out or unsubscribe link. That's the distinction I'm trying educate people about.
I've never used the SPAM button. Frankly, I don't even know if it would work considering the variety of clients that I use.
I can sympathize with the recipient. Some times I get emails that require that I send a reply instead of using a web-based interface. These are very annoying because they are often sent to an alias, and I don't have an easy way to spoof my own emails. In another case, someone subscribed my super-secret personal email address to a mailing list, and I had to jump through a bunch of hoops in order to un-subscribe. In these situations, I can understand why someone will just punch the SPAM button until the emails go away.
HOWEVER, if you are receiving e-mail marketing you just don't want anymore--like say the daily deal e-mail from Expedia*--please use the opt-out link to cancel your subscription. Deleting them won't stop the flow, and marking them as spam hurts deliverability reputation, making it harder to get them to people who actually want them.
SPAM is any unwanted marketing email. Thus, the daily Expedia email is SPAM.
Remember, I, as the recipient / customer, am 100% right due to the phrase "the customer is always right." No business can change the definition of SPAM to legitimize their aggressive marketing techniques.
For example: A hotel that I made a reservation with signed me up for their mailing list, even though I told the person over the phone that I did not want SPAM. Their emails were unwanted, thus they were SPAM and I would be 100% justified in clicking the SPAM button.
Marketing is important; it's also important that email marketers understand that flooding peoples' inboxes with unwanted email is SPAM, even if it comes from legitimate businesses. My email account is not your billboard.
Say, for example, that someone has let a spare battery sit idle for some months, charges it up at home and, knowing it's rubbish now, goes off to the nearest fuel stop to change it. Automated process charges it, dispenses it. You get stuck on the freeway after only a few kilometres.
Actually, that's part of the purpose of the battery exchange program. You pay by the mile instead of owning the battery. When I listened to the Project Better Place guy give a talk, he seemed to indicate that the battery exchange program would be used to gradually upgrade the batteries as they improved.
it would be trivial to get someone to slip a piece of data into an auto-update for a specific customer.
How would that help them in a case like this where they didn't know who that specific customer was?
Simple: Microsoft, Mozilla, McAfee, ect, ect, could slip a security hole into an update; and then fix it a few weeks later.
Now if you excuse me, I need to take my medication before the aliens give me another anal probe!
A flaw in the article is that is assumes that people would go to The Pirate Bay for indie music. When I get indie music, I either download it for free from the artists' web site; or I pay for it. The Pirate Bay really is useless for indie music when the artists are willing to give their recordings away for free or sell them without DRM.
I tend to boycott Apple MP3 players mainly because of their proprietary formats and hardware lock-in.
AAC is an open format that can sound better then MP3 if produced and encoded correctly.
I have a friend who was car shopping and rejected one car because it had an iPod connector.
Yeah that's understandable, although I've seen $20 adapters that turn an iPod connector into a standard RCA-in. They might not work if the car uses some kind of digital interface. Did the car have options for line-in or iPod integration? I think the Prius lets you have a standard line-in, and you can also get true iPod integration if you want to control the iPod from the dashboard.
Most of the after market stereos that I looked at use a standard USB connector for iPods; I wonder if there is some kind of a standard for USB -> car stereo that the iPod works with.
So, when I first saw this headline, I searched for "Thikal" on Amazon and the rather controversial book showed up in the search results. After clicking around a bit, I came across a review for "Practical Methamphetamine Manufacturing" that indicated that the book accidentally showed up in a search for Pryex.
The customer seemed shocked that Amazon would include such a book in a search for a household kitchen item.
Actually, it was probably the other way around: men formalized marriage in an effort to stop women sleeping around.
I have a feeling that our sexual habits are what differentiated the species. For example, I suspect that Chimpanzees became immune to AIDS, but we became more monogamous. Marriage is such an emotional thing that I suspect it's primarily instinctual; and the formalization is just a way that we express what we're programmed to do.
Bottom line is, in the digital age how can you keep the people who write the stories that you and I are discussing employed?
I don't think that's the issue.
Back when I used to read the paper, about half of the articles in my local paper came from the associated press. Now these articles can all be posted on a single website.
Think of all of the jobs that essentially were editing and distributing hundreds of local newspapers that just carried slight variations on articles from the associated press.
Those jobs had very little to do with writing the stories that we're discussing. Entire careers are just obsolete.
Just imagine if we had welfare for movie theater organists and unemployed paperboys!
The idiots are facing bankruptcy, living off taxpayer bailouts and here they are toying with one of the century's worst failures in venture capital backed technology.
There's a lot of buzz about robotic cars in Silicon Valley. I have a feeling these might end up being robotic taxis to ferry the drunks home at 2AM.
Latency, if you have all your data centre's located in essentially a single part of the USA (lets ignore the rest of the world for this.. regardless that there are no deserts in Europe for example) won't that increase latency quite a bit to the more further away places that want the search results?
I don't think latency is an issue at this point, even for something in the middle of the desert. No one will notice if it takes an extra 50 milliseconds to returns a search results page or buffer a YouTube video.
BTW, take a look at the "ul" tag. It's how to make bullet points on Slashdot.
The pricing of Macs is really pretty simple to explain: Apple doesn't make cheap computers. That's "cheap" in the sense of "low price" and in the sense of "low quality". The have a wide range of performance specs available, but none of them are built like crap, which puts a floor on the product pricing. But at just about every level of quality, the price is pretty comparable to equal machines from the competition.
That might be true, but there is clearly market demand for a lower-cost version of Apple laptops. For example, they could have a 17" model in the Macbook line in addition to the 17" model in the MacbookPro line. Furthermore, there are a lot of people who find the 13" Macbook fine, except for its tiny monitor. There's no reason that they should have to shell out over $1000 more just to have a larger screen.
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Usually, getting fired for gross misconduct is excluded.
It's days like these that make me happy I live and work in California instead of Massachusetts.
Kind of hard on folks on a fixed income though - elderly folks, etc. Any savings that they scraped together gets eroded.
I agree; although I think it's a solvable problem.
So basically that means, if you leave on your own accord, it may be enforceable.. But if you are fired or laid off, you cannot be held to a non-compete (In the state of Washington anyways), because by terminating your employment against your will, the company is admitting that you no longer possess anything of value to the company.
So, if bound by a non-compete per above logic; if I wanted to "leave" my job, I could just show up and read the newspaper all day until they fired me.
Except for folks who bought within their means and paid their mortgages on time. Sadly, they will now end up paying for everything else.
It was a lot worse during the depression when everyone HAD to pay their mortgages back. What happened was that, as soon as someone got a job, he/she would start paying the mortgage. This kept money out of local economies, which caused more job loss, which effectively hurt the responsible people even more. Even if the responsible people were able to keep their jobs, their wages decreased, effectively increasing the portion of income that had to go to the mortgage.
IMO, It's a lot better to bite the bullet now and use inflation to reduce the real value of responsible peoples' debt. Remember, when there's high inflation, the real value of debt goes down.
There's plenty of blame to go around, anyone who claims one group is responsible is pushing an agenda or very short sighted.
Well... Someone selling investments that he/she knows are going to fail can't exactly hide behind the "I was just following orders" excuse.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this observation. So, I think all commercials get a fair showing in most cases with DVR.
Actually, the TV stations learned from the mistakes that the Newspapers made in the 1800s when they realized that their readers could skip ads. In the 1800s, the Newspapers tried to use devices that glued peoples' eyeballs to the add.
Needless to say, these newspapers failed in the marketplace rather quickly.
I haven't had cable television in 7 years. I don't miss it. For the money I save, I
For the money *I* save, I bought a set of rabbit ears and an HDTV tuner for my computer. It allows me to watch American Idol and the Super Bowl in full 1080 glory. It turns out that the TV software has a great de-interlacer; so 1080i HDTV looks better using my computer then when I used a cable box.
So, I'm a fan of progressive rock. Progressive rock was very popular in the 70s, with bands like Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, ect, ect. You could say that Progressive Rock is analogous to hardcore games in that the music is often serious and requires a lot of time to listen to.
Progressive Rock isn't as popular today as it was in the 70s, yet there are plenty of new Progressive Rock bands. Instead of selling out stadiums, they sell out smaller venues that only hold a couple of thousand fans.
Trust me when I say this: Going to a sell-out show that has a couple thousand fans is a lot more fun then a stadium show.
As a result of the (*cough*) decline (*cough*) of hardcore gaming; I would expect that, within a few years, a few *excellent* studios cater to the hardcore crowd by producing *excellent* hardcore games. There's a lot to look forward to once the casual crowd has something to keep them distracted.
In a GUI with 20 pages of configuration with 20 options on each it's very difficult to find the current configuration state. Meanwhile on the commandline it's obvious which of the 400 options are being used.
GUI is best for the kind of things where you learn as you go.
You're right that the customer is always right. I'm telling you that the easiest way to get a real company to stop sending you e-mail is to use their opt-out or unsubscribe link. That's the distinction I'm trying educate people about.
I've never used the SPAM button. Frankly, I don't even know if it would work considering the variety of clients that I use.
I can sympathize with the recipient. Some times I get emails that require that I send a reply instead of using a web-based interface. These are very annoying because they are often sent to an alias, and I don't have an easy way to spoof my own emails. In another case, someone subscribed my super-secret personal email address to a mailing list, and I had to jump through a bunch of hoops in order to un-subscribe. In these situations, I can understand why someone will just punch the SPAM button until the emails go away.
HOWEVER, if you are receiving e-mail marketing you just don't want anymore--like say the daily deal e-mail from Expedia*--please use the opt-out link to cancel your subscription. Deleting them won't stop the flow, and marking them as spam hurts deliverability reputation, making it harder to get them to people who actually want them.
SPAM is any unwanted marketing email. Thus, the daily Expedia email is SPAM.
Remember, I, as the recipient / customer, am 100% right due to the phrase "the customer is always right." No business can change the definition of SPAM to legitimize their aggressive marketing techniques.
For example: A hotel that I made a reservation with signed me up for their mailing list, even though I told the person over the phone that I did not want SPAM. Their emails were unwanted, thus they were SPAM and I would be 100% justified in clicking the SPAM button.
Marketing is important; it's also important that email marketers understand that flooding peoples' inboxes with unwanted email is SPAM, even if it comes from legitimate businesses. My email account is not your billboard.
Say, for example, that someone has let a spare battery sit idle for some months, charges it up at home and, knowing it's rubbish now, goes off to the nearest fuel stop to change it. Automated process charges it, dispenses it. You get stuck on the freeway after only a few kilometres.
Actually, that's part of the purpose of the battery exchange program. You pay by the mile instead of owning the battery. When I listened to the Project Better Place guy give a talk, he seemed to indicate that the battery exchange program would be used to gradually upgrade the batteries as they improved.
it would be trivial to get someone to slip a piece of data into an auto-update for a specific customer. How would that help them in a case like this where they didn't know who that specific customer was?
Simple: Microsoft, Mozilla, McAfee, ect, ect, could slip a security hole into an update; and then fix it a few weeks later.
Now if you excuse me, I need to take my medication before the aliens give me another anal probe!
A flaw in the article is that is assumes that people would go to The Pirate Bay for indie music. When I get indie music, I either download it for free from the artists' web site; or I pay for it. The Pirate Bay really is useless for indie music when the artists are willing to give their recordings away for free or sell them without DRM.
I tend to boycott Apple MP3 players mainly because of their proprietary formats and hardware lock-in.
AAC is an open format that can sound better then MP3 if produced and encoded correctly.
I have a friend who was car shopping and rejected one car because it had an iPod connector.
Yeah that's understandable, although I've seen $20 adapters that turn an iPod connector into a standard RCA-in. They might not work if the car uses some kind of digital interface. Did the car have options for line-in or iPod integration? I think the Prius lets you have a standard line-in, and you can also get true iPod integration if you want to control the iPod from the dashboard.
Most of the after market stereos that I looked at use a standard USB connector for iPods; I wonder if there is some kind of a standard for USB -> car stereo that the iPod works with.
So, when I first saw this headline, I searched for "Thikal" on Amazon and the rather controversial book showed up in the search results. After clicking around a bit, I came across a review for "Practical Methamphetamine Manufacturing" that indicated that the book accidentally showed up in a search for Pryex.
The customer seemed shocked that Amazon would include such a book in a search for a household kitchen item.
I wonder what the 50's and 60's will be like.
Viagra
Actually, it was probably the other way around: men formalized marriage in an effort to stop women sleeping around.
I have a feeling that our sexual habits are what differentiated the species. For example, I suspect that Chimpanzees became immune to AIDS, but we became more monogamous. Marriage is such an emotional thing that I suspect it's primarily instinctual; and the formalization is just a way that we express what we're programmed to do.
Bottom line is, in the digital age how can you keep the people who write the stories that you and I are discussing employed?
I don't think that's the issue.
Back when I used to read the paper, about half of the articles in my local paper came from the associated press. Now these articles can all be posted on a single website.
Think of all of the jobs that essentially were editing and distributing hundreds of local newspapers that just carried slight variations on articles from the associated press.
Those jobs had very little to do with writing the stories that we're discussing. Entire careers are just obsolete.
Just imagine if we had welfare for movie theater organists and unemployed paperboys!
The idiots are facing bankruptcy, living off taxpayer bailouts and here they are toying with one of the century's worst failures in venture capital backed technology.
There's a lot of buzz about robotic cars in Silicon Valley. I have a feeling these might end up being robotic taxis to ferry the drunks home at 2AM.
Where do I put the groceries?
wow the quality of the comments from the 99 article are better then todays comments they have grammar complete sentences and paragraphs
I don't expect you'd see anything, since even light would be pulled into the center. No grid at all, nothing on which to gauge the distortions.
Well, wouldn't you see the light coming in, assuming that the gravity hadn't torn your body to bits?
What I find interesting is the weird pattern of light that appeared towards the end.
Latency, if you have all your data centre's located in essentially a single part of the USA (lets ignore the rest of the world for this.. regardless that there are no deserts in Europe for example) won't that increase latency quite a bit to the more further away places that want the search results?
I don't think latency is an issue at this point, even for something in the middle of the desert. No one will notice if it takes an extra 50 milliseconds to returns a search results page or buffer a YouTube video.
BTW, take a look at the "ul" tag. It's how to make bullet points on Slashdot.
The pricing of Macs is really pretty simple to explain: Apple doesn't make cheap computers. That's "cheap" in the sense of "low price" and in the sense of "low quality". The have a wide range of performance specs available, but none of them are built like crap, which puts a floor on the product pricing. But at just about every level of quality, the price is pretty comparable to equal machines from the competition.
That might be true, but there is clearly market demand for a lower-cost version of Apple laptops. For example, they could have a 17" model in the Macbook line in addition to the 17" model in the MacbookPro line. Furthermore, there are a lot of people who find the 13" Macbook fine, except for its tiny monitor. There's no reason that they should have to shell out over $1000 more just to have a larger screen.