Professional software rarely gives a price publicly. Look into real CAD packages, real EDA packages, RTOSes, compilers for non-PC systems, etc, etc, etc. You'll find that most of them require you to call your company rep to get a price.
Fundamentalist Judaism I admit, does not have an effect in the US. However, in Israel, where fundamentalist Jews make up a significant portion of the population, the numbers regarding belief in evolution are similar to the US numbers. I don't believe any such polls have been taken in areas of the Middle East dominated by fundamentalist Islam, but the numbers would probably be similarly bad there.
Fundamentalist Islam has a fair effect in Europe (Muslims form ~10% of France's population now), and the effect it has is growing. I'll bet on European attitudes changing before I bet on Muslim attitudes changing.
Now, Evangelicalism started in the UK; google "John Wesley" if you don't believe me. Fundamentalism, which is a slightly different issue, is often attributed to the US and Canada. However, doctrinally it is drawing from mainly European sources - fundamentalist evangelical movements bear more resemblance to the teachings of Calvin and Luther than Lutheranism and Calvinism do. Read about Calvin's Geneva before you accuse the US of instituting all the things that make fundamentalist Christianity bad; Calvin did most of them first.
Obviously you do not subscribe to the idea that Wahhabi Islam is a biblically literal/fundamentalist religion.
How about Judaism? Jewish literalists are almost never US-based, excepting a few who actually live in the US.
CoE is growing more and more conservative/literalist, so I think we can safely write off the UK. Wanna talk about Anglican Mainstream?
The truth is that most fundamentalist religions are *not* US based or particularly US influenced, we just get more publicity for ours because you guys on the other side of the pond can't seem to stop paying attention to us. Don't worry about Word of Christ; worry about the Vardy Foundation. Trust me, they're a lot more likely to trouble you than we are.
Please don't twist my words. I didn't say "If it gets better gas mileage, then it's worth doing." I said "If it's better than the existing Accord". You have any evidence regarding its manufacture or longevity that would suggest that either of your statements are even remotely close to true?
Unless it handles some fairly obscure instrument communication support packages, I think we'll stick with QBASIC. Fuck, we're going to stick with QBASIC anyway, no reason to switch.
I've refused to write new VB apps for the past 6 months. Instead, I force everyone to use MATLAB applications that I write (since I write almost entirely numerical analysis tools, this isn't as limiting as it sounds). I could care less about whether I can write new stuff, as long as the old stuff keeps running.
But we still run our QBASIC apps. I was just making the point that it isn't a totally dead language, is all.
Yes, but I'm not familiar with any religions that claim that nuclear power is the devil's work.
Well, unless you consider environmental extremism a religion.
(I.E. the reason that much of the US has issues with the theory of evolution is religious; opposition to nuclear power isn't. Religion is a powerful force.)
As I said, IP you control the rights to. Work for hire, which is what most of us do for our companies, does not qualify.
Given the choice between that contract and starving, I'd have signed it too, and then left the damn company the moment I could get away. My current employer has a contract regarding ideas developed on their time and on their equipment which I find quite reasonable.
I can think of a (probably) enforceable past works clause, though this particular one may or may not be.
Essentially, all you need is a contract stating "In consideration of our hiring you for X job, you have signed over all previous IP you currently control rights to." A contract like that may well be enforceable. However, it would not cover the GPL code he incorporated; his own modifications would be included, but not the source base.
You can't sign away rights, but you can sign away ownership. If his employment contract stated that work he does outside of work hours belongs to the company, then yes, it would belong to them.
However, submitter also mentioned that he *in the course of his job* made additional modifications. Those modifications are, without question, the company's, as he did them for the company's benefit.
Funny, we're talking about license and you're talking about criminal acts. When you talk about copyright and patent law, promissory estoppel (aka "I said it's okay") is an acceptable defense. In criminal matters, it may or may not be - in your example, if AC happened to own the bank, it would be fine.
Some bands give permission to tape and trade. Those bands, by giving their permission, have made it such that you cannot be successfully prosecuted for doing so. You remain an Anonymous Idiot, and should never, ever try to post about the law again.
If the band is giving open permission to do so (e.g. a notice at the venue or on the band's website), a signed letter isn't required under promissory estoppel-style doctrines. Even without a signed contract, any prosecution attempted would run into the "But you said it was okay!" defense.
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Oddly enough, the last time I had that conversation with a supplier, it went to everything except the last line.
Last line was
Sourcing department: Fine. We'll just buy your company and fire all the salespeople.
Then we did.
-funny +insightful
The real conversation is:
Customer: How much does X cost?
Salesman: How much do you have?
Customer: I have Y. But my company is so big, you are going to give it to me for Z (Z Y).
Salesman: OK.
Because when *all* the options are liars, you have to vote for a liar if you want to vote at all.
In other words, "he may be a sonuvabitch, but at least he's *my* sonuvabitch."
Professional software rarely gives a price publicly. Look into real CAD packages, real EDA packages, RTOSes, compilers for non-PC systems, etc, etc, etc. You'll find that most of them require you to call your company rep to get a price.
Fundamentalist Judaism I admit, does not have an effect in the US. However, in Israel, where fundamentalist Jews make up a significant portion of the population, the numbers regarding belief in evolution are similar to the US numbers. I don't believe any such polls have been taken in areas of the Middle East dominated by fundamentalist Islam, but the numbers would probably be similarly bad there.
Fundamentalist Islam has a fair effect in Europe (Muslims form ~10% of France's population now), and the effect it has is growing. I'll bet on European attitudes changing before I bet on Muslim attitudes changing.
Now, Evangelicalism started in the UK; google "John Wesley" if you don't believe me. Fundamentalism, which is a slightly different issue, is often attributed to the US and Canada. However, doctrinally it is drawing from mainly European sources - fundamentalist evangelical movements bear more resemblance to the teachings of Calvin and Luther than Lutheranism and Calvinism do. Read about Calvin's Geneva before you accuse the US of instituting all the things that make fundamentalist Christianity bad; Calvin did most of them first.
I don't know. In Chicago, a top speed of 25 seems to be about all you'd need on the highways most days.
Obviously you do not subscribe to the idea that Wahhabi Islam is a biblically literal/fundamentalist religion.
How about Judaism? Jewish literalists are almost never US-based, excepting a few who actually live in the US.
CoE is growing more and more conservative/literalist, so I think we can safely write off the UK. Wanna talk about Anglican Mainstream?
The truth is that most fundamentalist religions are *not* US based or particularly US influenced, we just get more publicity for ours because you guys on the other side of the pond can't seem to stop paying attention to us. Don't worry about Word of Christ; worry about the Vardy Foundation. Trust me, they're a lot more likely to trouble you than we are.
Then it isn't actually better, now is it?
Please don't twist my words. I didn't say "If it gets better gas mileage, then it's worth doing." I said "If it's better than the existing Accord". You have any evidence regarding its manufacture or longevity that would suggest that either of your statements are even remotely close to true?
Yes, but educating someone is a lot easier when there's no elderly man with a white beard looking down disapprovingly.
Unless it handles some fairly obscure instrument communication support packages, I think we'll stick with QBASIC. Fuck, we're going to stick with QBASIC anyway, no reason to switch.
We don't write *new* stuff in QBASIC.
Pluto has an atmosphere; the atmosphere actually freezes when Pluto is distant from the sun and thaws when it gets closer again.
"However, it also contains significant quantities of aerosols and organic compounds (hydrocarbons), including methane and ethane."
"Interestingly, there are also trace amounts of at least a dozen other organic compounds (i.e. ethane, hydrogen cyanide, carbon dioxide) and water. The organics are formed as methane, which dominates in Titan's upper atmosphere, is destroyed by sunlight. The result is similar to the smog found over large cities, but much thicker. In many ways, this is similar to the conditions on Earth early in its history when life was first getting started. But it is this thick hazy atmosphere that makes it so hard to see Titan's surface."
I've refused to write new VB apps for the past 6 months. Instead, I force everyone to use MATLAB applications that I write (since I write almost entirely numerical analysis tools, this isn't as limiting as it sounds). I could care less about whether I can write new stuff, as long as the old stuff keeps running.
But we still run our QBASIC apps. I was just making the point that it isn't a totally dead language, is all.
And a little further into the future, there is real-world (as opposed to academic) research into per-cylinder activation.
If it's better than the existing Accord, then it's still worth doing.
Yes, but I'm not familiar with any religions that claim that nuclear power is the devil's work.
Well, unless you consider environmental extremism a religion.
(I.E. the reason that much of the US has issues with the theory of evolution is religious; opposition to nuclear power isn't. Religion is a powerful force.)
You joke, but we still use a P-166 running a custom QBASIC app to do certain verification tests on some of our older ICs.
As I said, IP you control the rights to. Work for hire, which is what most of us do for our companies, does not qualify.
Given the choice between that contract and starving, I'd have signed it too, and then left the damn company the moment I could get away. My current employer has a contract regarding ideas developed on their time and on their equipment which I find quite reasonable.
I can think of a (probably) enforceable past works clause, though this particular one may or may not be.
Essentially, all you need is a contract stating "In consideration of our hiring you for X job, you have signed over all previous IP you currently control rights to." A contract like that may well be enforceable. However, it would not cover the GPL code he incorporated; his own modifications would be included, but not the source base.
You can't sign away rights, but you can sign away ownership. If his employment contract stated that work he does outside of work hours belongs to the company, then yes, it would belong to them.
However, submitter also mentioned that he *in the course of his job* made additional modifications. Those modifications are, without question, the company's, as he did them for the company's benefit.
Funny, we're talking about license and you're talking about criminal acts. When you talk about copyright and patent law, promissory estoppel (aka "I said it's okay") is an acceptable defense. In criminal matters, it may or may not be - in your example, if AC happened to own the bank, it would be fine.
Some bands give permission to tape and trade. Those bands, by giving their permission, have made it such that you cannot be successfully prosecuted for doing so. You remain an Anonymous Idiot, and should never, ever try to post about the law again.
If the band is giving open permission to do so (e.g. a notice at the venue or on the band's website), a signed letter isn't required under promissory estoppel-style doctrines. Even without a signed contract, any prosecution attempted would run into the "But you said it was okay!" defense.
Using a custom client built to disable uploading is leeching in a BT network.
Cute. Enjoying life as an unemployed java developer, are you?
For what it's worth, if you buy a car in the next 8 years or so, odds are it'll use technology I helped develop.
Reconfigurable hardware is rarely enough of a benefit to outweigh the large cost differential between an ASIC and an FPGA.
(I work for an ASIC design team for a living, so yes, I do know what I'm talking about.)