What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said:
Google turned up a hit about them having a 4 TB SSD for $500 at CES? Hot damn!
I've been meaning to ask if anyone knew of a good 4TB SSD as that's exactly what I need for an update to my gaming rig. It has a 1TB internal spinner and I have added 2TB external and I've overrun it all and can't even begin to download everything that we have. Going to a single 4TB would use a lot less power, be more portable and use less power while storing things more efficiently. And then the speed, the current system takes five minutes to index the games every time that it starts!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Google turned up a hit about them having a 4 TB SSD for $500 at CES? Hot damn!
I've been meaning to ask if anyone knew of a good 4TB SSD as that's exactly what I need for an update to my gaming rig. It has a 1TB internal spinner and I have added 2TB external and I've overrun it all and can't even begin to download everything that we have. Going to a single 4TB would use a lot less power, be more portable and use less power while storing things more efficiently. And then the speed, the current system takes five minutes to index the games every time that it starts!
I personally love OCZ's SSD's
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Do they have a 4TB or will they by this summer?
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I return from the US to Europe right from MangoCon, so if I am going to upgrade my drive it needs to be done before mid-September.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I return from the US to Europe right from MangoCon, so if I am going to upgrade my drive it needs to be done before mid-September.
Oh I see. I read that OCZ will be coming out with them but I don't have a date for you. Sorry!
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Hmmm wonder why the NAS isn't responding all of a sudden....
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Ya think?
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Back in work. Time to think what i'm doing this week
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Just sorted ID Tags for 3 new starters, installed some visual studio updates and extensions for someone else, had breakfast, and now back at my desk
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Getting the family ready for a run to the store.
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Good morning everyone. Off to work down in Auburn NY today with @Mike-Davis
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Got my quarterly reminder email that I'm forbidden to work in the USofA this morning. Every three months they send one to me just to remind me how corrupt the US legal system is and how I'm forbidden to be employed in my home country. Lovely.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Got my quarterly reminder email that I'm forbidden to work in the USofA this morning. Every three months they send one to me just to remind me how corrupt the US legal system is and how I'm forbidden to be employed in my home country. Lovely.
o.O
What?!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Got my quarterly reminder email that I'm forbidden to work in the USofA this morning. Every three months they send one to me just to remind me how corrupt the US legal system is and how I'm forbidden to be employed in my home country. Lovely.
wat
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@NattNatt said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Got my quarterly reminder email that I'm forbidden to work in the USofA this morning. Every three months they send one to me just to remind me how corrupt the US legal system is and how I'm forbidden to be employed in my home country. Lovely.
o.O
What?!
Yeah, that's why we left the US when we did. We wanted to anyway, have been planning to move to Europe for years, but when I left my last banking job they threatened to destroy our lives and to destroy any company that employed me in the US for two years. My attorney said we would eat them alive in court and estimated a win of about $30 million USD (they blocked me from taking a seven figure job with a UK bank with these threats) but that with their money we would be tied up in litigation for over a decade with no way for me to work. So my family would lose our houses, have no income and probably be unable to pay the lawyers and keep up the lawsuit and therefore, lose it and my kids would spend their entire childhoods with us penniless and in court hoping that some day, when they were adults, that it would pay off. We were almost certain to win, but the cost of winning would devastate a huge portion of our lives. So not worth the fight, even with the hope of a $30m payoff sometime down the road.
And you wonder why I'd be so quick to leave the country that enables that.
And yes, they directly told me that even moving across the country and bagging groceries fora living they wouldn't allow!
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Holy crap - they wanted you to work for them so badly that they would basically make it impossible for you to work elsewhere.
What could you do so awesomely that couldn't be replaced, even if it did take 10 people?
And why would they think they could trust you for even one second after threatening you in such a way?
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@Dashrender said:
Holy crap - they wanted you to work for them so badly that they would basically make it impossible for you to work elsewhere.
What could you do so awesomely that couldn't be replaced, even if it did take 10 people?
And why would they think they could trust you for even one second after threatening you in such a way?
It probably degraded into that once they realized he wouldn't be staying regardless of what they offered
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@Dashrender said:
And why would they think they could trust you for even one second after threatening you in such a way?
I mentioned that, actually, when they tried to force me to stay and work in the office while threatening me. I pointed to their own policies and said that, in good conscious, I couldn't violate policy by staying under a threat because that would violate internal security protocol. A bunch of people were like jaw dropping at that one, including my lead. They were like "that's the craziest, inappropriate, over the top thing ever." I literally made my lead walk to my desk, made him watch me blow away my own access and walk me out the front door through security to show that I was never alone in the office, never had access without being observed and could not get back in.
Believe it or not, when I was escorted back in for a meeting with the higher ups, they actually praised me for exactly following protocol and doing exactly what I should have done. I absolutely could not be trusted under such an adversarial situation. And it turns out they had been ready to walk me out and had already cut my access but no one had been told - they wanted to see if I would try to keep working or if I would force their hand. So it was an "ethics test" of sorts and I passed 100%.
They would have used that against me in court had I done anything else. Luckily I knew how to behave because not one non-manager in the office could believe it and thought I was nuts.
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@wirestyle22 said:
It probably degraded into that once they realized he wouldn't be staying regardless of what they offered
Well, they started getting crazy, like offering me a fraction of my offer from the UK bank and acting like it was a good offer.
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@Dashrender said:
Holy crap - they wanted you to work for them so badly that they would basically make it impossible for you to work elsewhere.
Most important things that they could not let happen:
- Let it be publicly known that after they touted their "highest in the industry pay rates* that I was walking out for a 500% increase.
- Let it be known that the "new guy" beat out everyone else in the department, including the head of engineering, for the job.
- Let it be known that everyone in the department was out looking for other work and finding it.
- Let it be known that quitting was an option, because the department might do it en masse.
