yeah that 's all fine but I did not know in 1994 that there would be something like search engines, able to gather every little thing I have ever written under my kind of anonymous aliases. Let me add that while google gets a lot of press, the results for my nicknames on duckduckgo are of an accuracy that is plain scary.
... and what if your family add their own files and do not observe your directory rules? What if someone joins the household and bring their own 500GB of files with a different directory structure?
All these tips here on slashdot are much easier said than done, especially the "drop everything and go find a better job". In the circumstances presented by the OP, negotiating is the only way forward, either to reach an agreement, or to find that no suitable agreement is possible.
I'd say that the first important steps are to establish what your people are willing to do, how keen are they to avoid changing jobs and what they want to earn in exchange for their efforts. Then keep that information to yourself while you consider carefully what is the objective you want to achieve and what are the absolute minimum conditions you'd accept to sign the agreement. Keep your objectives and bare acceptable minimum to yourself.
The next stage would be to try and guide the expectations of the CEO/boss/owner. This involves explaining what you know for sure about loss of productivity and morale, what your team's experience is in relation to excessive hours, health consequences, etc. The key idea here is not to say yes or no, it is to say "some of what you suggested is very difficult/dangerous/risky and needs to be considered very carefully before anyone makes any decision. I would leave things as they are.". The idea is to talk the least possible and stall a bit. Let them feel they are the party with a need and a grievance, therefore the party who needs to make a proposal to overcome the obstacle and get the conversation progressing.
When it's time to actually discuss proposals, a few key ideas are:
1) train your mind to express yourself like this: "if you xxxx then I yyyy". In other words, train yourself to put a price on everything, including information and progress in talks. 2) What they have done is classical: offered vague terms in exchange for a very concrete concession. Working extra until the company is profitable is a disastrous start to your negotiation. Fight it. How?
3) Bearing in mind that a bad agreement is worse than no agreement, put an unreasonable price on unreasonable demands. ie: The pain must be shared if you want me to work extra hours. Therefore, Mr. CEO, you will not get a single cent from this company in any way, shape or form until the end of our agreement (until the company is profitable): your salary goes to an escrow account, there is no stock options, no bonuses, no revenue from selling stock, etc. Everything goes into the bank until the company is profitable, marking the end of this special work agreement. 4) Remember that this matter is important enough to warrant time to think. Don't expect to negotiate today and put things in practice tomorrow. If you don't like where the talks are going, stop them. Say "I need time to think about the new information you have provided." Adjourn and start afresh.
This "crunch time" negotiation is important enough to be formal and properly signed by all parties. If the result of negotiation is discovering that the CEO is looking for a way to get away with exploiting your people, then take that as the outcome of the negotiation and look for your way out. Do that without ever losing sight of your objectives and bare minimum and without agreeing to anything that may be disastrous for those who will work there in the future.
If it's more buttons you need, then Nokia touchscreen phones might be for you. I had a good look at that the N8 the other day and was surprised that it had so many, contrasting with the touchscreen way of doing things these days. I don;t know if any Android partner will build phones like that, but at least there's alternatives for different tastes.
Repent, the end is nigh, Elton John and his husband had a child on Christmas day and women dress without modesty in Liechtenstein, therefore we are all DOOOOOOOMED. Especially the fish and the birds in Arkansas, who were all gay and very keen on felching.
Discounted games of yesteryear may or may not work on your current hardware+OS combination. These Indie games are getting current support from developers and feedback from other users. I say the Humble Bundle initiative has an outstanding merit in terms of consumer "education".
I followed your link, replaced "slashdot" with "LOL" and realised that we are living in the happiest of times. The same search for "pwned" shows how writers must have been tremendously aggressive in the late 1800s.
I had some reservations about that but then saw in the video demo that there is a change in the UI once you flip from laptop to tablet mode. Instead of Windows Explorer, it changes into a simpler screen with half a dozen large buttons to start a different set of applications. Makes sense. Your word processor is best used with the keyboard and mouse, your photo album can be used comfortably with the touchscreen. I like this Dell a lot. I hope it is successful and they start making them with normal laptop components instead of the netbook specifications.
The pros and cons of Steam have been well explained already, and I think that the retailers know that it's inevitable that some business will be out of their reach because of Steam and similar outlets. Telling retailers to adapt or die, as it is typical of quick and simple solutions, does not cover all reasonable angles of their problem. The fact is that the product sold is complicated enough to require post-sales support. If you are reading slashdot you're probably a tech-guru and won't need it, but the vast majority who buys something in the shop that is linked in with Steam might at some point have a problem or grievance and will not be happy to get a trouble ticket # from Steam as the response. What that buyer will do is rush to the shop and demand real life tech support from the retailer. If nothing changes, Steam gets the long term customer while the retailer gets the 8% (?) margin from the boxed game, the overhead from the shop itself and from customer care. I don't know how far ahead the parties are in their negotiation if the retailers are threatening boycott, but it seems clear to me that if the subscription model is going to be forced upon the retailers, they should get a reasonable cut of recurring revenue, instead of getting all the hassle and none of the benefit.
The fact that Republicans got 161 amendments added to the health care bill and they still didn't vote for it doesn't indicate to me that they're interested in engaging with Democrats in any meaningful way.
It could also serve as a reminder that in a negotiation, there can be requirements that must be achieved, requirements that are nice to get and concessions that are unbearable. Perhaps the 161 amendments covered a lot of issues of varying importance but still did not remove something that was 100% unacceptable or did not include something that was a dealbreaker for the Republicans.
Ill will may be an explanation but there are others.
So: on the basis of inaccurate temperature data and ineffective models, what should we do? Should we commit trillions of dollars to drastic policies based on questionable science? Or should we, maybe, invest in a decent network of weather stations, invest in climate science, and *understand* what is going on?
I'd vote for yes. The scientists have made a warning, with the information they have today, with the knowledge they gathered for years. It might be right, it might be wrong. Now it's time for political decisions, some will be in attempt to prevent unbearable climate change, some for mitigating the effects of such change.
On this matter, the same as many others, we can always claim that the information is lacking, the knowledge is incomplete. There is no limit to the validity of that argument in theory. What happens in practice is that we all have to act on incomplete information, with risk associated to all decisions and risks associated with the timing of a decision and of its execution.
It could all be wrong. Maybe in the future a number of countries will be known for their wasteful use of resources in attempts to mitigate the effects of climate change and some others will keep their money for something else.
I believe I understand their reasons. If you switch the TV on on a channel or go to the website of the TV channel, you are still using and reinforcing the usefulness of the brand of that channel. If you fire up your computer, do some search for specific TV shows and watch them from within a google user interface, then the channel becomes less important, therefore less valuable for advertisers.
It might be a losing battle, but I understand why companies would fight it for as long as possible. It certainly seems better to be a good TV channel than to be one of the random websites where people land if they want to watch a TV show that has significant brand recognition and for that reason cost a lot of money for the channel to have the right to broadcast it.
Slashdot Mirror
Blame Canada! Blame Canada!
yeah that 's all fine but I did not know in 1994 that there would be something like search engines, able to gather every little thing I have ever written under my kind of anonymous aliases. Let me add that while google gets a lot of press, the results for my nicknames on duckduckgo are of an accuracy that is plain scary.
... and what if your family add their own files and do not observe your directory rules? What if someone joins the household and bring their own 500GB of files with a different directory structure?
I keep reading on the news that the bomb exploded in the arrivals area.
AKA Chris, the Unpronounceable!
More mod points for the parent there. More. more.
All these tips here on slashdot are much easier said than done, especially the "drop everything and go find a better job". In the circumstances presented by the OP, negotiating is the only way forward, either to reach an agreement, or to find that no suitable agreement is possible.
I'd say that the first important steps are to establish what your people are willing to do, how keen are they to avoid changing jobs and what they want to earn in exchange for their efforts. Then keep that information to yourself while you consider carefully what is the objective you want to achieve and what are the absolute minimum conditions you'd accept to sign the agreement. Keep your objectives and bare acceptable minimum to yourself.
The next stage would be to try and guide the expectations of the CEO/boss/owner. This involves explaining what you know for sure about loss of productivity and morale, what your team's experience is in relation to excessive hours, health consequences, etc.
The key idea here is not to say yes or no, it is to say "some of what you suggested is very difficult/dangerous/risky and needs to be considered very carefully before anyone makes any decision. I would leave things as they are.". The idea is to talk the least possible and stall a bit. Let them feel they are the party with a need and a grievance, therefore the party who needs to make a proposal to overcome the obstacle and get the conversation progressing.
When it's time to actually discuss proposals, a few key ideas are:
1) train your mind to express yourself like this: "if you xxxx then I yyyy". In other words, train yourself to put a price on everything, including information and progress in talks.
2) What they have done is classical: offered vague terms in exchange for a very concrete concession. Working extra until the company is profitable is a disastrous start to your negotiation. Fight it. How?
3) Bearing in mind that a bad agreement is worse than no agreement, put an unreasonable price on unreasonable demands. ie: The pain must be shared if you want me to work extra hours. Therefore, Mr. CEO, you will not get a single cent from this company in any way, shape or form until the end of our agreement (until the company is profitable): your salary goes to an escrow account, there is no stock options, no bonuses, no revenue from selling stock, etc. Everything goes into the bank until the company is profitable, marking the end of this special work agreement.
4) Remember that this matter is important enough to warrant time to think. Don't expect to negotiate today and put things in practice tomorrow. If you don't like where the talks are going, stop them. Say "I need time to think about the new information you have provided." Adjourn and start afresh.
This "crunch time" negotiation is important enough to be formal and properly signed by all parties. If the result of negotiation is discovering that the CEO is looking for a way to get away with exploiting your people, then take that as the outcome of the negotiation and look for your way out. Do that without ever losing sight of your objectives and bare minimum and without agreeing to anything that may be disastrous for those who will work there in the future.
If it's more buttons you need, then Nokia touchscreen phones might be for you. I had a good look at that the N8 the other day and was surprised that it had so many, contrasting with the touchscreen way of doing things these days. I don;t know if any Android partner will build phones like that, but at least there's alternatives for different tastes.
What if it's a really weak sun?
Making up words? There's an app for that.
Repent, the end is nigh, Elton John and his husband had a child on Christmas day and women dress without modesty in Liechtenstein, therefore we are all DOOOOOOOMED. Especially the fish and the birds in Arkansas, who were all gay and very keen on felching.
They also contribute generously to the Met's collection of photos of people wearing hoods.
Discounted games of yesteryear may or may not work on your current hardware+OS combination. These Indie games are getting current support from developers and feedback from other users. I say the Humble Bundle initiative has an outstanding merit in terms of consumer "education".
For my car it will definitely be the "mahna mahna" song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhuyv-2GhNI
I followed your link, replaced "slashdot" with "LOL" and realised that we are living in the happiest of times. The same search for "pwned" shows how writers must have been tremendously aggressive in the late 1800s.
Advent Vega?
http://www.slashgear.com/advent-vega-review-07118007/
Point taken, I just doubt that this is the simple way to do it instead of using improved applications and a hardware slot for a 2nd SIM card.
I will buy it an rename it HMS Failboat.
I had some reservations about that but then saw in the video demo that there is a change in the UI once you flip from laptop to tablet mode. Instead of Windows Explorer, it changes into a simpler screen with half a dozen large buttons to start a different set of applications. Makes sense. Your word processor is best used with the keyboard and mouse, your photo album can be used comfortably with the touchscreen.
I like this Dell a lot. I hope it is successful and they start making them with normal laptop components instead of the netbook specifications.
Kudos for that. Extra kudos if you do go to Mars and end up playing golf over there :)
The pros and cons of Steam have been well explained already, and I think that the retailers know that it's inevitable that some business will be out of their reach because of Steam and similar outlets.
Telling retailers to adapt or die, as it is typical of quick and simple solutions, does not cover all reasonable angles of their problem. The fact is that the product sold is complicated enough to require post-sales support. If you are reading slashdot you're probably a tech-guru and won't need it, but the vast majority who buys something in the shop that is linked in with Steam might at some point have a problem or grievance and will not be happy to get a trouble ticket # from Steam as the response. What that buyer will do is rush to the shop and demand real life tech support from the retailer. If nothing changes, Steam gets the long term customer while the retailer gets the 8% (?) margin from the boxed game, the overhead from the shop itself and from customer care.
I don't know how far ahead the parties are in their negotiation if the retailers are threatening boycott, but it seems clear to me that if the subscription model is going to be forced upon the retailers, they should get a reasonable cut of recurring revenue, instead of getting all the hassle and none of the benefit.
You seem to be comparing UK (60M people) stats when TFA clearly is about England (50M).
tweaking registry keys?!... that's how we see that Windows is not yet ready for the desktop... ;)
The fact that Republicans got 161 amendments added to the health care bill and they still didn't vote for it doesn't indicate to me that they're interested in engaging with Democrats in any meaningful way.
It could also serve as a reminder that in a negotiation, there can be requirements that must be achieved, requirements that are nice to get and concessions that are unbearable. Perhaps the 161 amendments covered a lot of issues of varying importance but still did not remove something that was 100% unacceptable or did not include something that was a dealbreaker for the Republicans.
Ill will may be an explanation but there are others.
So: on the basis of inaccurate temperature data and ineffective models, what should we do? Should we commit trillions of dollars to drastic policies based on questionable science? Or should we, maybe, invest in a decent network of weather stations, invest in climate science, and *understand* what is going on?
I'd vote for yes. The scientists have made a warning, with the information they have today, with the knowledge they gathered for years. It might be right, it might be wrong. Now it's time for political decisions, some will be in attempt to prevent unbearable climate change, some for mitigating the effects of such change.
On this matter, the same as many others, we can always claim that the information is lacking, the knowledge is incomplete. There is no limit to the validity of that argument in theory. What happens in practice is that we all have to act on incomplete information, with risk associated to all decisions and risks associated with the timing of a decision and of its execution.
It could all be wrong. Maybe in the future a number of countries will be known for their wasteful use of resources in attempts to mitigate the effects of climate change and some others will keep their money for something else.
It might be a losing battle, but I understand why companies would fight it for as long as possible. It certainly seems better to be a good TV channel than to be one of the random websites where people land if they want to watch a TV show that has significant brand recognition and for that reason cost a lot of money for the channel to have the right to broadcast it.