I inserted a clause in my contract that states specifically that my employer makes "no claim of ownership of interest in any intellectual property, including inventions, patents, papers, articles, books, documentation, tools, techniques, specific applications and software developed, created, or enhanced" by myself outside of the work I do for them.
Anyone know where to get the source anymore. Anyone have an old copy on a tk50?
Cosmic evaporated a few years ago and that version of NASTRAN, 30 years of development, is as far as I can tell no longer available.
If the government wants to promote free software, they should start with a review of old government software, like the Cosmic NASTRAN source, that is in real danger of becoming lost.
I lived with some guys in college who used to be into playing DnD.
I tried it a few times but could not stand it.
I did not like the idea that everything depends on chance - you could not rationally plan on anything.
I didn't say you were all farmers, but you can't deny that agriculture is big in KC.
Thats not a slam anyway - agriculture today is as high-tech and smart people intensive as any other major industry.
I'm just saying that Linux is such a small specialized subset of the computer show domain its probably not appropriate for a relativly small market like KC.
OTOH, I would bet that the farm equipment show in KC is probably a good one.
I don't remember explosions, chase scenes, or fights.
In fact, it seems that the whole point of the Mission Impossible as seen on TV was doing dangerous things and exicting missions Without using force but instead employing brains, reason, deception and cleverness.
1. I make a copy of a CD I own onto audio tape for my private use... Fair use.
2. I make an exact duplicate of a CD I own for backup or convienence for my own use... Fair use.
3. I make an MP3 from a CD I own and serve it over my home intranet for the purposes of conviencence and entirly for private use... Fair use.
4. I put that MP3 on my private internet server so that I can listen to it wherever I am... Fair use?
5. I use a public service for the same purpose...only they rip (most of) the CDs (even more convienence) and take reasonable steps to assure that I own them... Not fair use.
I think that as long as reasonable steps are taken to confirm ownership, there should be no problem with this type of service.
We already have this for free.
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No, because reverse engineering requires you to rebuild the entire system for handline some form of data yourself. In fact this takes just as much, if not more intellectual effort than writing from scratch.
This is much different from adding some feature to an existing program and then trying some scam to get around the GPL.
The thing that makes your program a derivitive product is the intellectual effort that you apply building on the intellectual effort of the original authors.
It is not the physical act of copying characters.
If you download my GPL program, build , study, learn, modify , and then make the product of your intellectual effort available then you work must then also be GPL.
If thats not the way it is legally, it certianly is the way it should be morally.
I think that this position is most consistent with the notion that Free Software == Free Speech as well.
Well, I travel with a little vial containing liquified butane with an attached, ready to use, miniturized combination gas valve and sparking mechanism with me on airplanes all the time and they dont seem to mind. I think those issues probably have good technical solutions.
I dont think it will include carrying glass vials of methanol and little plastic funnels.
Lets hope that this can be done with ethanol in the future anyway. That would make fueling up as easy as popping open one of those airline beefeater gin bottles...or two.
Download a copy of the power search page, modify it to your preferences, then put in on your gnome desktop. Up in the corner. Then you can simply drag in into netscape when you have a hankerin' and boom you are search ready.
The main purpose of quality certification is to have a piece of paper which your customer can look at which more of less proves that your company is capable of working with at least some level of organization and an ability to work within written processes.
"Oh, you have an ISO Q2001 certification so at least someone in your group must be at least a little competent at keeping track of things."
They are a sales tool.
The question of if you actually use these organizational skills and written processes to do actual work is another matter entirely.
The floor could be constructed like an air hockey table, and the user wears special shoes.
A control system linked into the shoes can adjust to vary the amount of friction with the floor by variably extending and retracting rubber rollers on the bottom of the shoes.
This works for simulating the accelleration of simulating the start of walking or running - or ice skating!
Finally, the floor can tilt so some extent in any direction.
This allows the position of the users to be controlled by sliding them around - and would be good for simulation of moving up or down slopes and doing real work.
I have a small hardshell case from sampsonite. I got it at a mall luggage shop for $70
If came with the half the case filled with the foam cube treatment, and with a soft bag that attaches inside the top cover.
This is cool because I can put the computer in the foam, and stick accesories in the bag, and just use the case, or if I need to haul more stuff, I put the computer in the soft bag and pack it in my mombo-hauling indigo bag.
Well, it could certianly kick its ass when it came to seeing who could swap the motherboard, powersupply, and disks fastest. 60 seconds vs. "you've got you case open!"
And if we want to remove the hard disk, and toss our systems down a flight of stairs (or maybe just push it off a tabletop) and then put the disk back in and see which one will boot, I'd put my money on the indigo there as well.
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I inserted a clause in my contract that states specifically that my employer makes "no claim of ownership of interest in any intellectual property, including inventions, patents, papers, articles, books, documentation, tools, techniques, specific applications and software developed, created, or enhanced" by myself outside of the work I do for them.
They had no problem with this.
You still did not explain how this removes the scambled eggs from the front of my sweater.
Not only that, but the damn thing totally screwed up my remote control-> very very cheap VCR communication.
I couldn't reliably turn on/off or change channels while the cat was on anywhere in the room.
Finally I pulled the plug and the problems went away.
Anyone know where to get the source anymore. Anyone have an old copy on a tk50? Cosmic evaporated a few years ago and that version of NASTRAN, 30 years of development, is as far as I can tell no longer available. If the government wants to promote free software, they should start with a review of old government software, like the Cosmic NASTRAN source, that is in real danger of becoming lost.
Hey! Is this the guy Scotty gave the recipe to transparent aluminum to?
I lived with some guys in college who used to be into playing DnD. I tried it a few times but could not stand it. I did not like the idea that everything depends on chance - you could not rationally plan on anything.
Thats not a slam anyway - agriculture today is as high-tech and smart people intensive as any other major industry.
I'm just saying that Linux is such a small specialized subset of the computer show domain its probably not appropriate for a relativly small market like KC.
OTOH, I would bet that the farm equipment show in KC is probably a good one.
Thats why Linus was banned from the Las Vegas casinos then!
No offense to the nice folks in Kansas City, but this does not seem to be an optimal location for a Linux show.
Farm equipment, yes, but Linux?... you are on the wrong coast.
I remember Mission Impossible the TV show.
I don't remember explosions, chase scenes, or fights.
In fact, it seems that the whole point of the Mission Impossible as seen on TV was doing dangerous things and exicting missions Without using force but instead employing brains, reason, deception and cleverness.
I like the TV show.
I have heard birdcalls in the background at times when I listen to the BBC morning news on 5975 khz.
somebody else must have noticed these? Tell me I'm not halucinating.
I always wonder what kind of information one might be able to transmit in birdcalls.
Because these machines are administratable remotely.
How much it will cost a corporate customer who wants to turn scripting ON over 500 desktops?
And Pity the poor SE who has to go to each and every box over 3 days and change the settings.
How about mounting it to the shower wall, so I can code while waiting for the conditioner to condition.
Don't you mean "Visualize World Police" ?
1. I make a copy of a CD I own onto audio tape for my private use... Fair use.
2. I make an exact duplicate of a CD I own for backup or convienence for my own use... Fair use.
3. I make an MP3 from a CD I own and serve it over my home intranet for the purposes of conviencence and entirly for private use... Fair use.
4. I put that MP3 on my private internet server so that I can listen to it wherever I am... Fair use?
5. I use a public service for the same purpose...only they rip (most of) the CDs (even more convienence) and take reasonable steps to assure that I own them... Not fair use.
I think that as long as reasonable steps are taken to confirm ownership, there should be no problem with this type of service.
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Pretty good too!.
No, because reverse engineering requires you to rebuild the entire system for handline some form of data yourself. In fact this takes just as much, if not more intellectual effort than writing from scratch.
This is much different from adding some feature to an existing program and then trying some scam to get around the GPL.
The thing that makes your program a derivitive product is the intellectual effort that you apply building on the intellectual effort of the original authors.
It is not the physical act of copying characters.
If you download my GPL program, build , study, learn, modify , and then make the product of your intellectual effort available then you work must then also be GPL.
If thats not the way it is legally, it certianly is the way it should be morally.
I think that this position is most consistent with the notion that Free Software == Free Speech as well.
cliff
Well, I travel with a little vial containing liquified butane with an attached, ready to use, miniturized combination gas valve and sparking mechanism with me on airplanes all the time and they dont seem to mind. I think those issues probably have good technical solutions.
I dont think it will include carrying glass vials of methanol and little plastic funnels.
Lets hope that this can be done with ethanol in the future anyway. That would make fueling up as easy as popping open one of those airline beefeater gin bottles...or two.
Download a copy of the power search page, modify it to your preferences, then put in on your gnome desktop. Up in the corner. Then you can simply drag in into netscape when you have a hankerin' and boom you are search ready.
"Oh, you have an ISO Q2001 certification so at least someone in your group must be at least a little competent at keeping track of things."
They are a sales tool.
The question of if you actually use these organizational skills and written processes to do actual work is another matter entirely.
The floor could be constructed like an air hockey table, and the user wears special shoes.
A control system linked into the shoes can adjust to vary the amount of friction with the floor by variably extending and retracting rubber rollers on the bottom of the shoes.
This works for simulating the accelleration of simulating the start of walking or running - or ice skating!
Finally, the floor can tilt so some extent in any direction.
This allows the position of the users to be controlled by sliding them around - and would be good for simulation of moving up or down slopes and doing real work.
I have a small hardshell case from sampsonite. I got it at a mall luggage shop for $70
If came with the half the case filled with the foam cube treatment, and with a soft bag that attaches inside the top cover.
This is cool because I can put the computer in the foam, and stick accesories in the bag, and just use the case, or if I need to haul more stuff, I put the computer in the soft bag and pack it in my mombo-hauling indigo bag.
Well, it could certianly kick its ass when
it came to seeing who could swap the motherboard,
powersupply, and disks fastest. 60 seconds vs.
"you've got you case open!"
And if we want to remove the hard disk, and
toss our systems down a flight of stairs (or maybe just push it off a tabletop) and then put the disk back in and see which one will boot, I'd put my money on the indigo there as well.
cliff