Anybody who works for a company or organization becomes an "agent of the company" legally. The actions of that individual represent the company, whether they were authorized to do it or not. The company can choose to terminate the employment of the individual, but they still have to live with their actions.
You agree to the TOS of the service by using the service. If you produce applications that use Youtube content, there is a click-through that you agree to that gives you the info so you can develop for it. In Youtube's case the TOS is also listed as a link on the bottom of every page. This is no different than any other service on the internet...
This is the same in that Google has the right to not serve content to W8 phone devices if they feel like it. It wouldn't be a smart move, but its a move they could do if they feel that their content is misused. Remember, this is how Youtube makes money, and is no different than Microsoft handing out guns and ski masks in front of a gas station.
Except... the apps still run on the desktop -- they are only distributed through the cloud. No need to RTFM, just go and assume Adobe made an HTML5 version of photoshop.
Every day at 8:45 my cell phone still has full bars, but can't place or receive phone calls. Turns out a train carrying 600 people is sitting right outside my window at the train stop. 20 minutes later, it get better when it moves on. Trust me, the explanation is often a lot easier if you look at it holistically.
It has nothing to do with a higher density of devices and people than what the system in the area was built for... Not at all. It has to mean that they are blocking and jamming the cell service. Yup.
Essentially, the client can request a bitmap representation of an element, or the native UI component. For example, common UI components are sent as UIElements and SkinParts. SkinParts can be sent as vector items (like gradients, lines, etc), or bitmaps themselves. So, for example if you run calc.exe, the client can request the app as a stack of UI elements (essentially, how the GDI plans on drawing the components to the screen). All the buttons, etc. are sent as a component package which describes how the element should look. If it uses a bitmap as a part of its chrome, it is sent as a separate SkinPart.
You can also get bitmap representations of components if the OS thinks it is too difficult to draw them (or the developer just threw a bunch of bitmaps together to represent common UI components). When this happens, calls into the GDI update the RDP server to let it know that a component of size X/Y at X/Y has updated. It's a lot smarter than VNC which has to watch the screen and updates the screen in a 1/x method.
X11 is a bit more primitive... It expects the UI components to be created and skinned by the client. This is really only useful/consistent if both the client and the server are running the same WM. Users of RDP get the same experience regardless of their client.
A few things :
- Microsoft RDP clients are pre-installed on every Windows based client since Windows XP/Server 2003. This means that a majority of non-slashdot-reading admins have all the tools they need to connect to it already installed.
- Microsoft RDP is a lot faster than VNC/X11 forwarding. For one, they do smart bitmap-caching. VNC is screen-shots only (using some sensing of what has changed on the screen to send the diffs), and X11 forwarding were pretty much just UI elements, which made interacting with certain applications difficult or ackward.
- Later RDP versions allow you to forward just specific applications, in addition to the entire workspace. I don't know if FreeRDP supports this feature yet, but it is built into the protocol.
Except, the APIs were not public until AFTER this entire kerfufle came out. No non-apple apps were allowed to use those hidden APIs, including competing video editing suites (Like Avid or Adobe's suite).
As soon as the APIs became available in 10.8, Adobe started using them. They decode encrypted traffic and then write them to the GPU buffers, like the API allows them. It is still slower than the Windows (and Linux) implementation, but it is what they have to use in order to use the PUBLIC APIs that Apple offered.
I went to school to learn. I did side projects and ran my own business at the same time to be creative. I would never have been successful in my own business had it not been for school.
If you don't go to school, you will forever rely on people who have been to do some very basic things (accounting? engineering?). Sure, you may be comfortable with a certain job, but you won't become a CEO who understands what is really going on.
All the guys that are sited for not having a college degree (Gates, Zucks, etc) all had taken at least SOME college. They got the basics. In fact, in all of their stories, they wouldn't have gotten where they were had it not been for the connections they made while in school.
My organization got sued just last year because we passed over a lovely african american women who thought she was entitled to the job (she claimed that being in a protected class and a little bit of experience is all she needed to get the job). She didn't have a chance because we practice a very objective way of paring down our candidates (with paperwork to back it) and very clear documentation as to who we hired from those we interviewed. She didn't happen to have half the experience of the person we did hire.
Lucky I didn't have to spend the time in court (our HR rep did), and she didn't win. Had we not had paperwork to back it up, we could have been in trouble.
It happens. Lucky it doesn't happen often, but it does. Some people think that is an easy way to get a pay day. Especially from a large. billion dollar organization.
Sorry, but if your wife was a genius in her field, she would be known by the employers already. People and businesses would seek her out. Geniuses are the people that are known, and known well in the field. These are the people who take their spare time and write books, do lectures, teach others, etc.
I'm not saying she isn't good at her job -- but chances are she is equally as good as somebody else. The thing that sets her aside from the somebody else is she hasn't done the job in a few years. The other person is fresh and most likely knows it better.
The reason why having a hole in her resume is a red flag is because it leaves lots of questions. Why did she leave the last job? Did she get fired? Did she burn out? Was it because she was in jail during that time? Being able to fill those void with things like "ran a consulting business" or "dedicated my time doing running my etsy shop" answer those questions and make those holes palatable. If she sat in front of the couch the entire time then she will reek of laziness and may not be ready to enter the job market again.
Stop blaming the system and learn to work with it. Don't blame others or "the system". Fix it.
I work for an organization that employs 12,000 people. At any given time, we have about 100 postings. We have 20 HR people who's sole job is to interact with applicants. For legal reasons, I can't do the first filter (most of the jobs I hire for are under utilized for minorities and women). How do I help the HR people cut down the number of applicants to a manageable number so I can process them in a reasonable time? 100 resumes I can process. More than that I can't even make it through.
If you lined 100 people up, how would you sort them? Ask them who is the smartest? Ask who would be best for the job? You HAVE to come up with a way to find the best person out of the mix. Looking for those who are at least motivated enough to do SOME education that the state didn't force onto them is one way.
Why waste the time for those 10 seconds then? Why not let a computer throw those out?
The last job I just hired for (2 weeks ago), netted > 150 resumes AFTER the filters I setup. Had I not setup those filters, I would have thrown out them out anyway because those were the first things I would have sorted on.
Completing college is one way to say that you are not a complete idiot. You were at least smart enough to pass some basic math, science, and reading classes.
The last time I didn't filter on a college degree, I had a dozen people walk through the door who couldn't read a basic technical document. They needed help with a writing sample. These are things that they managed to get away with while graduating high school. College IS the new high-school. You apparently can graduate HS without learning to read, write or speak English.
I'm also a professor where I teach telecommunications topics. What I find is that my "online-only" students rarely dedicate enough time for the class. It is often "squeezed in" with the rest of their regular activities. For example, most of my online-only choose that path because they had a 40-hour a week job plus other responsibilities so they couldn't attend my 5pm - 9pm class one day a week. Rarely do they set aside enough time to do the out-of-class assignments properly either.
This leads to the students being less prepared, or trying to squeeze more time out of the lectures (skipping forward through the lectures and missing important content, or not doing ALL the readings). The thing with the in-class students -- they go to a place and focus their attention to the subject for at least 4 hours a week. They then have to do the other assignments, which may not have their full attention but they do get it done.
Its a lot about time management. Some people are good at it, most are not. The other thing is it is easy to make excuses to the computer or a person you've never met online, but to do it in person it takes a lot more guts...
Having just two letters that represented the digits was just a transition from manual operators to a step-switch. Back when, people knew the name of their central office... for example, mine was Carriage Acres, plus a 5 digit number (95985). Shortly before we got that number, many only had three digit numbers -- Carriage Acres plus a 3 digit. When they started moving towards automated switching, they replaced our phones with the notifier (arm that you cranked) with phones that had the rotary dial and the letters on the numbers (first time we'd seen that). We still had to contact the operator to go outside our area for a while (or when we needed help finding somebody's number), but eventually they came up with area codes. People then forgot their exchange names, and started with just the two letters. Then the letters went away and we started with the long string of 7 digits (plus the area code). Then they took my nice rotary dial phone away and put in a crappy 2500. A year later, they replaced our 2500 with one that had the * and # on it. Then they broke up.
It is not quite like replacing your browser. Oracle decided to remove hundreds of APIs, rename hundreds and cause weird incompatibilities with even more. They have always had the mentality of "Build your app for Java 1.X, and upgrade your app to run on Java 1.x+1" Backward compatibility has not been in their dictionary. They even break compatibility between updates and sub-major versions.
It would be like if IE8 dropped support for the because
is better. Sure, that's fine for new sites/apps, but what about the hundreds of existing stuff out there that takes a LONG time to get an upgrade ("enterprise stuff") or stuff that wont get upgraded because the dev is no longer there, doesn't care, wont get paid to upgrade it.
According to their report, they were encrypted with different salt. But given enough time and computing resources. I imagine that they would go after the better known celebrities first, but you never know who would be caught in the crossfire. Expiring the passwords was a good move since even if the passwords are decrypted, they can't get into your twitter account.
In short, yes. SCO was already gearing up with cease-and-desist letters on their presumptive win in court. Heck, it doesn't have to one company going after the entire Linux IP stack, it could be some company simply going after one piece of software that is deemed critical to your business. A cease and desist is the worst case, but it could easily be a company who lays claim to a project could now demand all users of the project sign some sort of support contract in order to keep using it.
That is where foundations like Apache really help out. They force committers to verify that the code is theirs before it is committed in. Not all projects are nearly as diligent and there is always that possibility that a helpful copy/paste coder took code from a place that they didn't understand the license for.
Better than in Michigan. To pay any state fee (including our DMV), they take only one type of credit card or checks. They change the credit card type every other year or so, depending on who gives them the best rate. Last year it was Discover. This year I think it is Master Card. No Visa, Amex, or debit cards of any kind..
I had my debit card number stolen about two years ago. My credit union went above and beyond. Visa called asking about the weird purchases. I told them they were fraudulent and they canceled the card right there (and reported it stolen). I got transferred to the CU's 24-hour service and they offered to write me a short-term loan in the amount of the fraudulent charges, with a 0% rate for 60 days. I had the charge-backs taken care of in about two weeks, paid off the loan and all was good in the world.
I'm sure if I would have been through any "normal bank", I would have been screwed two ways from Sunday.
No. Most likely you will need to wait for somebody with a licensed frequency, and long-haul gear to come in and help you. This is all for consumer-grade, in-the-home-or-office stuff.
HTML5 will solve this for us. HTML5 will solve all of our problems for us. That hipster on the interwebs told me. And they can't lie on the internet -- another hipster told me so.
It all depends... If he was working on the project as a directive of his job at VMWare, then the project was done as a work-for-hire contract, and the copyright could belong to VMWare. If he was doing it in his free time, and VMWare simply used it, then it becomes muddier.
If he had it in his contract that any IP generated by him while employed at VMWare, that could shift the copyright to VMWare. If his contract says they get an automatic license to any IP generated then he owns the copyright. If it is not in his contract at all, then it is for the courts to figure out -- but generally they would assume that he retains the rights for the IP.
I just went through this with my employer and some contributions I made to Apache. I made my employer sign an agreement where I keep the rights to my own IP before I submitted anything to them (as required by the Apache by-laws).
I'm sure you get more free meals at Subway than I do too. Every industry does this -- some the perks are a free 6" sub -- some of them are a free flight. My favorite are a free place to stay for a few days while on holiday.
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Anybody who works for a company or organization becomes an "agent of the company" legally. The actions of that individual represent the company, whether they were authorized to do it or not. The company can choose to terminate the employment of the individual, but they still have to live with their actions.
You agree to the TOS of the service by using the service. If you produce applications that use Youtube content, there is a click-through that you agree to that gives you the info so you can develop for it. In Youtube's case the TOS is also listed as a link on the bottom of every page. This is no different than any other service on the internet...
This is the same in that Google has the right to not serve content to W8 phone devices if they feel like it. It wouldn't be a smart move, but its a move they could do if they feel that their content is misused. Remember, this is how Youtube makes money, and is no different than Microsoft handing out guns and ski masks in front of a gas station.
Except... the apps still run on the desktop -- they are only distributed through the cloud. No need to RTFM, just go and assume Adobe made an HTML5 version of photoshop.
Every day at 8:45 my cell phone still has full bars, but can't place or receive phone calls. Turns out a train carrying 600 people is sitting right outside my window at the train stop. 20 minutes later, it get better when it moves on. Trust me, the explanation is often a lot easier if you look at it holistically.
It has nothing to do with a higher density of devices and people than what the system in the area was built for... Not at all. It has to mean that they are blocking and jamming the cell service. Yup.
Essentially, the client can request a bitmap representation of an element, or the native UI component. For example, common UI components are sent as UIElements and SkinParts. SkinParts can be sent as vector items (like gradients, lines, etc), or bitmaps themselves. So, for example if you run calc.exe, the client can request the app as a stack of UI elements (essentially, how the GDI plans on drawing the components to the screen). All the buttons, etc. are sent as a component package which describes how the element should look. If it uses a bitmap as a part of its chrome, it is sent as a separate SkinPart.
You can also get bitmap representations of components if the OS thinks it is too difficult to draw them (or the developer just threw a bunch of bitmaps together to represent common UI components). When this happens, calls into the GDI update the RDP server to let it know that a component of size X/Y at X/Y has updated. It's a lot smarter than VNC which has to watch the screen and updates the screen in a 1/x method.
X11 is a bit more primitive... It expects the UI components to be created and skinned by the client. This is really only useful/consistent if both the client and the server are running the same WM. Users of RDP get the same experience regardless of their client.
A few things :
- Microsoft RDP clients are pre-installed on every Windows based client since Windows XP/Server 2003. This means that a majority of non-slashdot-reading admins have all the tools they need to connect to it already installed.
- Microsoft RDP is a lot faster than VNC/X11 forwarding. For one, they do smart bitmap-caching. VNC is screen-shots only (using some sensing of what has changed on the screen to send the diffs), and X11 forwarding were pretty much just UI elements, which made interacting with certain applications difficult or ackward.
- Later RDP versions allow you to forward just specific applications, in addition to the entire workspace. I don't know if FreeRDP supports this feature yet, but it is built into the protocol.
Except, the APIs were not public until AFTER this entire kerfufle came out. No non-apple apps were allowed to use those hidden APIs, including competing video editing suites (Like Avid or Adobe's suite).
As soon as the APIs became available in 10.8, Adobe started using them. They decode encrypted traffic and then write them to the GPU buffers, like the API allows them. It is still slower than the Windows (and Linux) implementation, but it is what they have to use in order to use the PUBLIC APIs that Apple offered.
-Nick
And you can't advance yourself from a $10/hr job in those 20 years, it would be a real, crying shame.
I went to school to learn. I did side projects and ran my own business at the same time to be creative. I would never have been successful in my own business had it not been for school.
If you don't go to school, you will forever rely on people who have been to do some very basic things (accounting? engineering?). Sure, you may be comfortable with a certain job, but you won't become a CEO who understands what is really going on.
All the guys that are sited for not having a college degree (Gates, Zucks, etc) all had taken at least SOME college. They got the basics. In fact, in all of their stories, they wouldn't have gotten where they were had it not been for the connections they made while in school.
Genius doesn't get you the basics of business.
My organization got sued just last year because we passed over a lovely african american women who thought she was entitled to the job (she claimed that being in a protected class and a little bit of experience is all she needed to get the job). She didn't have a chance because we practice a very objective way of paring down our candidates (with paperwork to back it) and very clear documentation as to who we hired from those we interviewed. She didn't happen to have half the experience of the person we did hire.
Lucky I didn't have to spend the time in court (our HR rep did), and she didn't win. Had we not had paperwork to back it up, we could have been in trouble.
It happens. Lucky it doesn't happen often, but it does. Some people think that is an easy way to get a pay day. Especially from a large. billion dollar organization.
Sorry, but if your wife was a genius in her field, she would be known by the employers already. People and businesses would seek her out. Geniuses are the people that are known, and known well in the field. These are the people who take their spare time and write books, do lectures, teach others, etc.
I'm not saying she isn't good at her job -- but chances are she is equally as good as somebody else. The thing that sets her aside from the somebody else is she hasn't done the job in a few years. The other person is fresh and most likely knows it better.
The reason why having a hole in her resume is a red flag is because it leaves lots of questions. Why did she leave the last job? Did she get fired? Did she burn out? Was it because she was in jail during that time? Being able to fill those void with things like "ran a consulting business" or "dedicated my time doing running my etsy shop" answer those questions and make those holes palatable. If she sat in front of the couch the entire time then she will reek of laziness and may not be ready to enter the job market again.
Stop blaming the system and learn to work with it. Don't blame others or "the system". Fix it.
I work for an organization that employs 12,000 people. At any given time, we have about 100 postings. We have 20 HR people who's sole job is to interact with applicants. For legal reasons, I can't do the first filter (most of the jobs I hire for are under utilized for minorities and women). How do I help the HR people cut down the number of applicants to a manageable number so I can process them in a reasonable time? 100 resumes I can process. More than that I can't even make it through.
If you lined 100 people up, how would you sort them? Ask them who is the smartest? Ask who would be best for the job? You HAVE to come up with a way to find the best person out of the mix. Looking for those who are at least motivated enough to do SOME education that the state didn't force onto them is one way.
Why waste the time for those 10 seconds then? Why not let a computer throw those out?
The last job I just hired for (2 weeks ago), netted > 150 resumes AFTER the filters I setup. Had I not setup those filters, I would have thrown out them out anyway because those were the first things I would have sorted on.
Completing college is one way to say that you are not a complete idiot. You were at least smart enough to pass some basic math, science, and reading classes.
The last time I didn't filter on a college degree, I had a dozen people walk through the door who couldn't read a basic technical document. They needed help with a writing sample. These are things that they managed to get away with while graduating high school. College IS the new high-school. You apparently can graduate HS without learning to read, write or speak English.
I'm also a professor where I teach telecommunications topics. What I find is that my "online-only" students rarely dedicate enough time for the class. It is often "squeezed in" with the rest of their regular activities. For example, most of my online-only choose that path because they had a 40-hour a week job plus other responsibilities so they couldn't attend my 5pm - 9pm class one day a week. Rarely do they set aside enough time to do the out-of-class assignments properly either.
This leads to the students being less prepared, or trying to squeeze more time out of the lectures (skipping forward through the lectures and missing important content, or not doing ALL the readings). The thing with the in-class students -- they go to a place and focus their attention to the subject for at least 4 hours a week. They then have to do the other assignments, which may not have their full attention but they do get it done.
Its a lot about time management. Some people are good at it, most are not. The other thing is it is easy to make excuses to the computer or a person you've never met online, but to do it in person it takes a lot more guts...
Having just two letters that represented the digits was just a transition from manual operators to a step-switch. Back when, people knew the name of their central office... for example, mine was Carriage Acres, plus a 5 digit number (95985). Shortly before we got that number, many only had three digit numbers -- Carriage Acres plus a 3 digit. When they started moving towards automated switching, they replaced our phones with the notifier (arm that you cranked) with phones that had the rotary dial and the letters on the numbers (first time we'd seen that). We still had to contact the operator to go outside our area for a while (or when we needed help finding somebody's number), but eventually they came up with area codes. People then forgot their exchange names, and started with just the two letters. Then the letters went away and we started with the long string of 7 digits (plus the area code). Then they took my nice rotary dial phone away and put in a crappy 2500. A year later, they replaced our 2500 with one that had the * and # on it. Then they broke up.
It is not quite like replacing your browser. Oracle decided to remove hundreds of APIs, rename hundreds and cause weird incompatibilities with even more. They have always had the mentality of "Build your app for Java 1.X, and upgrade your app to run on Java 1.x+1" Backward compatibility has not been in their dictionary. They even break compatibility between updates and sub-major versions.
It would be like if IE8 dropped support for the because
is better. Sure, that's fine for new sites/apps, but what about the hundreds of existing stuff out there that takes a LONG time to get an upgrade ("enterprise stuff") or stuff that wont get upgraded because the dev is no longer there, doesn't care, wont get paid to upgrade it.
According to their report, they were encrypted with different salt. But given enough time and computing resources. I imagine that they would go after the better known celebrities first, but you never know who would be caught in the crossfire. Expiring the passwords was a good move since even if the passwords are decrypted, they can't get into your twitter account.
Maybe the hackers just wanted to read the news before it was re-written for Chinese consumption...
In short, yes. SCO was already gearing up with cease-and-desist letters on their presumptive win in court. Heck, it doesn't have to one company going after the entire Linux IP stack, it could be some company simply going after one piece of software that is deemed critical to your business. A cease and desist is the worst case, but it could easily be a company who lays claim to a project could now demand all users of the project sign some sort of support contract in order to keep using it.
That is where foundations like Apache really help out. They force committers to verify that the code is theirs before it is committed in. Not all projects are nearly as diligent and there is always that possibility that a helpful copy/paste coder took code from a place that they didn't understand the license for.
Better than in Michigan. To pay any state fee (including our DMV), they take only one type of credit card or checks. They change the credit card type every other year or so, depending on who gives them the best rate. Last year it was Discover. This year I think it is Master Card. No Visa, Amex, or debit cards of any kind..
I had my debit card number stolen about two years ago. My credit union went above and beyond. Visa called asking about the weird purchases. I told them they were fraudulent and they canceled the card right there (and reported it stolen). I got transferred to the CU's 24-hour service and they offered to write me a short-term loan in the amount of the fraudulent charges, with a 0% rate for 60 days. I had the charge-backs taken care of in about two weeks, paid off the loan and all was good in the world.
I'm sure if I would have been through any "normal bank", I would have been screwed two ways from Sunday.
No. Most likely you will need to wait for somebody with a licensed frequency, and long-haul gear to come in and help you. This is all for consumer-grade, in-the-home-or-office stuff.
HTML5 will solve this for us. HTML5 will solve all of our problems for us. That hipster on the interwebs told me. And they can't lie on the internet -- another hipster told me so.
It all depends... If he was working on the project as a directive of his job at VMWare, then the project was done as a work-for-hire contract, and the copyright could belong to VMWare. If he was doing it in his free time, and VMWare simply used it, then it becomes muddier.
If he had it in his contract that any IP generated by him while employed at VMWare, that could shift the copyright to VMWare. If his contract says they get an automatic license to any IP generated then he owns the copyright. If it is not in his contract at all, then it is for the courts to figure out -- but generally they would assume that he retains the rights for the IP.
I just went through this with my employer and some contributions I made to Apache. I made my employer sign an agreement where I keep the rights to my own IP before I submitted anything to them (as required by the Apache by-laws).
I'm sure you get more free meals at Subway than I do too. Every industry does this -- some the perks are a free 6" sub -- some of them are a free flight. My favorite are a free place to stay for a few days while on holiday.