Comment Re:Check the logs? (Score 1) 297
Whoops; Sorry, I didn't realize my earlier post went through.
Whoops; Sorry, I didn't realize my earlier post went through.
Well, you don't make the big bucks solving problems that you find before you hand it over to the customer...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871451033784579.html
Well, you don't make the big bucks solving problems before you hand it over to the customer...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871451033784579.html
If you said Quebec, then tell him to remember that that won't be true anymore if he becomes a senior manager.
If you said New Brunswick, then tell him to consider being a manager somewhere where they pay more than $14.25 an hour. =)
"I tell my boss that, he is a manager, he figures he doesn't get overtime, but that isn't true, he is entitled the same as everyone else."
Are you in Quebec, New Brunswick, or Newfoundland and Labrador, or Prince Edward Island? =)
"cannot be paid overtime" - No, they can be paid overtime, it's just not required by law (or rather by that law).
Also, about that high tech exemption: "a person employed to provide basic operational technical support" is excluded from the exemption.
I'm curious, Slashdot: Is a server admin "a person employed to provide basic operational technical support"? Ok, now is there a way to explain why or why not to a judge?
http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/11_396_95#section37.8 (the exemption)
http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/00_96113_01#part4 (the part 4 that the exemption is referring to)
I'm amazed at how crazy HP's PR handling has been about their transition in general (~ "we're going to jump ship a few miles from the destination to swim into uncharted waters") and this part in particular (~ "we couldn't sell it with a tiny discount off our insane pricing, so we'll just give them away instead"). It's nice to have a demonstration of the Osborne effect every once in a while.
Either HP's competence at marketing and pricing is similar to their competence at creating printer drivers, or there are some seriously perverse accounting needs and internal corporate politics at play here.
Aside, while I'm being cranky: Hey
Hey, take it easy buddy. You've got your work cut out for you just convincing those crazy people who made your netbook to put the apostrophe on the home row instead of that pesky waste-of-a-key semi-colon. While you work on that, I'll investigate this "over-sized iPod Touches for people with bad eyesight and big wallets" thing by heading for Starbucks to see if I can find some blondes.
Oh noes! Not on
I think they have some time to deal with it. The only thing I can find that substantiates this is an old post:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2822
I think I can speak for all software developers in expressing a certain amount of disappointment that we were practically one guy-hit-by-a-bus away from switching everyone to UTC once and for all and we missed our chance. =)
Ah, the "investigative" "reporting" from morons type post.
A while back, I planned to stop reading Slashdot, but it obviously didn't "take". Now it's time to remove the link from my bookmark bar.
Anyone with an updated list of alternatives?
The Bayesian network that now performs all Slashdot editing has come to associate "Australia" with the "Your Rights Online" category, due to what I will call "poor quality training data" from Australian lawmakers.
I can't imagine why the authorities would actually want or need to let anyone that they're authorized to monitor know that they're being monitored.
Sounds like someone with a spare answering machine / asterisk box who is trying out new strategies for getting the telemarketers off of their back, e.g.:
- Scaring them away (they're risk averse and sometimes gullible), or
- Getting a free expenses paid vacation to a place where they won't need to worry about answering any annoying phone calls (once someone tells the _real_ DOHS what they're doing).
-AT
"Finally, Gou's company hired the New York firm Burson-Marsteller to help devise a formal public-relations strategy, its first in more than 35 years of existence."
The concept of a company with almost 1M people without a PR strategy is refreshing, but reflecting a little bit more, what that also means is: now anything that we say about the employee suicides, even this, is being carefully managed.
LOL.. So, the most significant way schools distinguish themselves from jail is the decor? This represents a shift in thinking; traditionally, the main difference was that you had to commit a crime to be sent to jail, but you got sent to school for merely existing. Homeschooling: "It's not just for scary religious people anymore."
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.