Comment Re:Location of van? (Score 1) 29
Lol good one! I am assuming you are referring to this.
Comment Re:A dream I had. (Score 1) 920
Its funny you mention this because the best food I ever had was in a dream too! My dream was about lobster, though.
Comment Re:Goodbye Flip? (Score 1) 521
True, I guess it all comes down to what is more important for people. I would venture a guess that its having convenient, easy-to-use video at your fingertips than having HD and better optics (if that was important, why not get a full-fledged HD video camera). So if you can get that on an iPod anyway people will take that over a dedicated camera. Just a guess.
Comment Goodbye Flip? (Score 5, Interesting) 521
I wonder how much the Flip's marketshare will be affected by the Nano getting a camera. Sure its not HD, but the original Flip was a huge seller and the Nano has that and a lot more while still retaining ease of use (though a single button to record is still probably a bit easier). I know if I were the founders of Pure Digital I am psyched Cisco acquired the company for $600 million a few months *before* this announcement! I wonder how much Cisco would acquire them for now?
Comment A different e-mail address for every purpose (Score 1) 481
A colleague of mine has his own domain and creates a separate e-mail address from that domain for each and every newsletter, internet site, etc. Basically any site that needs an e-mail, he creates a unique address for (i.e. worldofwarcraft@mydomain.com).
What this does is tell him *exactly* who has been selling his address. He has actually had several times where sites people would consider "legitimate" would deny that they sell the address but after he explained his system to them they admitted that they did. Another good thing about this is that you can disable an e-mail address if one of them is compromised.
Its a lot more work than just using a single e-mail for everything but it works well.
Submission + - Finding employment for a laid off team 1
Cheefachi writes: I am part of an entire team of Java/web developers and managers that have just recently been laid off a major technology corporation. We all joined via an acquisition that was based in an area (NYC) that the company does not have any development resources. While we have been part of the company for over 2 years and have become one of the most productive, innovative, and flexible teams in the division, the corporation in a cost cutting measure closed our office for various reasons but primarily because they wanted to consolidate their workers to established corporate campuses.
We are a close-knit team that works very well together and has repeatedly delivered under pressure. The core members of the team have been together for at least 7 years, with a few others that have been with us for around 3 years. We think of ourselves more as a family than as a "team", and we are sad that it looks like we'll be going our separate ways. But an entire, cohesive team of people becoming free at once does provide an opportunity that may not occur very often and so I wanted to ask the greater Slashdot community if they have seen any situations where an entire team (or most of one) can be hired by another company all at once. Would companies even consider this or is it just a pipe dream? I'd imagine that a huge advantage of hiring an almost complete team would be the ability to rapidly deploy that team on a problem, project, or product. But the disadvantage would be that the company would lose the flexibility to control everyone they hire and deploy as desired and would rather make individual offers than a blanket offer. Also the semantics of swallowing whole a team would be much more complex than just a single person here and there.
So have people heard of this before? Are there recruiters that specialize in placing entire teams? Any companies in the NYC area interested? :-) Or is this just not realistic?
Thanks!
We are a close-knit team that works very well together and has repeatedly delivered under pressure. The core members of the team have been together for at least 7 years, with a few others that have been with us for around 3 years. We think of ourselves more as a family than as a "team", and we are sad that it looks like we'll be going our separate ways. But an entire, cohesive team of people becoming free at once does provide an opportunity that may not occur very often and so I wanted to ask the greater Slashdot community if they have seen any situations where an entire team (or most of one) can be hired by another company all at once. Would companies even consider this or is it just a pipe dream? I'd imagine that a huge advantage of hiring an almost complete team would be the ability to rapidly deploy that team on a problem, project, or product. But the disadvantage would be that the company would lose the flexibility to control everyone they hire and deploy as desired and would rather make individual offers than a blanket offer. Also the semantics of swallowing whole a team would be much more complex than just a single person here and there.
So have people heard of this before? Are there recruiters that specialize in placing entire teams? Any companies in the NYC area interested?
Thanks!
Comment Come on - subway! (Score 1) 887
You telling me there is no significant readership of Slashdot in metro areas with subways or trains??
I guess us city folk need to choose "other"...
Comment Re:Use a desktop (Score 1) 668
Yes, my company (Fortune 100 tech company) also makes everyone get a laptop. As a developer, I prefer using 2 screens and we have the tall monitors (1600x1200) that are so much better than the widescreen ones since it lets us see more code vertically.
My big beef is that I prefer to use a Mac and I've been wanting to upgrade to a Macbook Pro to replace my G5 desktop and use it instead of my crappy company-provided Lenovo. The problem is that even the Pros don't support 2 external monitors like docking stations on the PC do. Sure I can use one extra monitor and the laptop screen but that is not ideal. Until then, I'll probably stick to my desktop.
