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Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves 1153

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 07, 2008 @09:21AM from the waiting-for-a-jon-ives-designed-prison dept.

SwiftyNifty writes "Apple employees are putting together a class action lawsuit for not receiving overtime pay. A Lawsuit filed Monday in California seeks class action status alleging that Apple denied technical staffers required overtime pay and meal compensation in violation of state law. Filed in the US District Court for Southern California, the complaint claims that many Apple employees are routinely subjected to working conditions resembling indentured servitude, or 'modern day slaves,' for lack of better words."

Comment Wrong! (Score 1) 1806

by DaFork on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @10:21PM (#24395659) Attached to: How Do Geeks Exercise?

A more heavily muscled person doesn't burn any more calories at rest.

As a Certified Personal Trainer I can tell you that an increase in your lean body mass (LBM) does increase your metabolism. Just look at the formulas for calculating Basal Metabolic Rate.

Submission + - GUI Design Book Recommendations? 8

Submitted by jetpack on Monday December 31, 2007 @07:39PM

jetpack writes: I've always hated writing user interfaces, and graphical user interfaces in particular. However, I suspect that is largely because I have no clue how to write a *good* one. By this, I don't mean the technical aspects, like using the APIs and so on. I mean what are the issues in designing an interface that is clean, easy to understand and easy to use? What are things to be considered? What are things to be avoided? What are good over-all philosophies of UI design?

To this end, I'd like to pick up a book or two (or three) and get my learn on. I'd appreciate some book suggestions from the UI experts in the Slashdot crowd.

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