Comment Re:threatened (Score 1) 24
It's more that this is the group that is the most curious about it and that also may have questions where you can't easily google the answers.
It's more that this is the group that is the most curious about it and that also may have questions where you can't easily google the answers.
Is there a way to opt out of this protection racket?
Is it illegal in the UK to spy on the US?
If not, what exact reason would there be to extradite him? Even the accusation is rubbish.
Well, ok.
If it's just yet another key that you have to pay a premium for a keyboard where you can turn it off so you don't accidentally press it, no thanks.
"You're welcome. Just
Quite simple: "Hey, competitor? The guy you shanghaied from us? Yeah, allow me to let you in on a secret, that guy bailed and stiffed us with the training costs. Just a heads up in case you plan to qualify them..."
1. It's less a lack of ambition and initiative, if my company doesn't want to invest in me, why the hell should I be invested in my company? Because if I train on my dime, I'll get the training I want that will provide me with the skills that I need to go somewhere else for greener pastures. If my company trains me, they can decide what they think will be useful for them and choose the training depending on their needs.
2. I dare say it's not more cost effective to hire outside. Yes, a better trained employee will want more money. But the key difference is that the existing employee already knows your company and the people in it. I know that C-Levels think that people are fungible and that they're plug and play, but they are not. Depending on the complexity of the job and the company business red tape, it can take months until a new hire is up to speed with company processes and procedures, both official and inofficial ones.
Zero carbon?
Dude, flat beer is the worst!
You have no idea how many horses you just offended...
There are ways to ensure a person has to stay for a while when you train them, it's all a matter of contracts. Mine stipulates that if my employer pays for my training, I have to stay around for 3-5 years (depending on how expensive it is) or I have to refund them.
Sure, one could argue that refunding may be financially more interesting than staying, but I guess that means that you should pay your workers more because if they can command a salary difference higher than the training cost, you would not have kept them either way.
This right there.
It's amazing how often I got hired for what I know (and learned on my own), for a multiple of what it would have costed to train someone who already existed. For some weird reason they have no problem hiring someone for six figures when training an existing person for four would do.
Different user bases. I'm a Linux fan, a couple Linux projects have my name in it. All my servers are Debian. But my notebook and desktop are Macs. Because when I need to get desktop things done, that's the platform that works best.
I waited a decade for the Linux desktop to get there and it didn't. Then I stopped waiting and started being productive.
Would I want to have a Linux desktop and application choices equal to what I have on the Mac? Absolutely. Do I expect it'll happen anytime soon? Absolutely not.
The decision to make its Affinity applications a one-time-purchase with no ongoing subscription fees has earned it a loyal fanbase
That is putting it mildly.
I am an occasional user. Once or twice a year I create something that needs proper DTP software. To pay for a subscription is complete nonsense, so for the past decade or so I made do with an ancient version of InDesign purchased before they switched everything to subscription. Obviously, that's not working too well anymore.
So I use the 30-day trial of Affinity Publisher, found it does 95% of what I did with InDesign and most of it equally well and some things even better. I'll find workarounds for the missing 5% (or I'll figure out that it does them after all, just hidden away somewhere, such as cross-document references).
The fact that it's a one-time purchase was the #1 deciding factor. Adobe's business model simply doesn't work for me. And certainly for thousands of people who are in similar positions. It might work well for those whose everyday professional tool is one or more Adobe products, but not for occasional users.
Not tech and anyone who follows the Ukraine war has better sources by far than this place, for example Telegram channels etc where there are fewer useless middlemen.
I don't expect literacy of any sports worshipper.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.