I'm not trying to form an opinion about who was right in your wife's case, but wow, that's a really bogus interpretation of why a company would lay someone off.
Taking the employers pov...
Just because I don't have enough money to continue doing R&D, doesn't mean that my engineers don't possess valuable information that I already paid for and that is rightly my trade secret.
That being said...
Non-compete contracts are usually written in such an overly-broad manner that I consider them to be garbage. If a company has a legitimate cause of action against a former employee transferring proprietary info, then let them make the case and be subject to a penalty if they lose.
Really, Sun's only hope was to embrace the onslaught of OS. Cripes, their maiden products were built of it. They made Open Systems a reality. They were a phenomenal company. They did more innovating than MS will do in a thousand years.
Why did they have to unbundle the compiler and leave people with 1/2 a UNIX system? Why couldn't they save admins time by putting emacs and gcc on the tapes? Why did they fight CDE for so long? OK, CDE sucked, but it would have been better than forging ahead with OpenLook.
They could have been and should have been the next IBM. Now they're dogmeat. It's sad.
Sure, much of it looks like boilerplate that they probably use in any application of this type. So what?
I was also thinking that it might be just the word of someone he pissed off until I saw the DNS and DHCP evidence. If he didn't send the emails and create the web site, then someone is trying to make it look like he did.
Hey, did you happen to work for a laser company before you started the ISP? If you're the guy I'm thinking of, I worked in one of the cubes next to you.
I went to one of those gas stations that have big LCDs mounted atop the pumps. One of the ads it ran was for advertising on these screens. Among the benefits they listed was "captive audience".
Oh yeah? I shut the pump off before the tank was full and I left. I haven't been back ever since.
Obama's technical knowledge is unimportant. What matters is whether or not his DOJ will enforce laws against monopolists with more than a slap on the wrist.
I don't know if they will or won't, but any old deals have expired.
Here's a fun party trick. Use a picture of your ass as the biometric to lock a laptop. Then, amaze your friends as you unlock it with a picture of Steve Ballmer's face!
The cable companies have been using the February switchover as subterfuge for their own plans.
For about a year, Comcast have been advertising that their customers can "keep on watching their favorite shows" after the switch with no changes needed. Very recently, the wording of their ads changed. Now all they say is that if you use their set-top-box, then you're covered.
I decided to call them and ask for the real answer.
Me: I see that you've changed the wording in your ads. Will my service change in February?
Comcast: blah blah blah blah affected blah blah.
Me: Would you please repeat that?
Comcast: blah blah blah blah affected blah blah.
Me: Wait. Will I be affected, or will I not be affected?
Comcast: You will be affected.
Me: How?
Comcast: You will lose some channels.
Me: Really! Which ones?
Comcast: We don't know yet.
Me: Well, how many channels will I lose?
Comcast: Between 7 and 10.
Me: I see. For a year you've been lying to us and you still won't tell us the truth. By the way, why does the Comcast have to change anything?
My my, hey hey Rock and roll is here to stay It's better to burn out Than to fade away My my, hey hey.
Out of the blue and into the black They give you this, but you pay for that And once you're gone, you can never come back When you're out of the blue and into the black.
The king is gone but he's not forgotten This is the story of a Johnny Rotten It's better to burn out than it is to rust The king is gone but he's not forgotten.
Hey hey, my my Rock and roll can never die There's more to the picture Than meets the eye. Hey hey, my my.
They have it backwards. Instead of the government knowing everything about the citizens, we need to let the citizens know everything about the government.
Another problem is that even where information is available, the current administration chooses to ignore it. They knew that 9/11-style attacks were imminent, yet they failed to lock the cockpit doors. They knew our economy was headed for disaster, yet they failed to reign in the financiers. SEC, NSA, CIA, DOD, DOJ... all worse than useless in the last 8 years.
Yep. Nader is the man for you. He's the only one who's honest enough to say what a waste it is to incarcerate hundreds of thousands of small-time pot dealers.
That cell space would be better utilized if it were holding all the white-collar criminals who have screwed us out of trillions in the last decade.
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I'm not trying to form an opinion about who was right in your wife's case, but wow, that's a really bogus interpretation of why a company would lay someone off.
Taking the employers pov...
Just because I don't have enough money to continue doing R&D, doesn't mean that my engineers don't possess valuable information that I already paid for and that is rightly my trade secret.
That being said...
Non-compete contracts are usually written in such an overly-broad manner that I consider them to be garbage. If a company has a legitimate cause of action against a former employee transferring proprietary info, then let them make the case and be subject to a penalty if they lose.
Free, as in software, not as in soda pop.
Really, Sun's only hope was to embrace the onslaught of OS. Cripes, their maiden products were built of it. They made Open Systems a reality. They were a phenomenal company. They did more innovating than MS will do in a thousand years.
Why did they have to unbundle the compiler and leave people with 1/2 a UNIX system? Why couldn't they save admins time by putting emacs and gcc on the tapes? Why did they fight CDE for so long? OK, CDE sucked, but it would have been better than forging ahead with OpenLook.
They could have been and should have been the next IBM. Now they're dogmeat. It's sad.
Sure, much of it looks like boilerplate that they probably use in any application of this type. So what?
I was also thinking that it might be just the word of someone he pissed off until I saw the DNS and DHCP evidence. If he didn't send the emails and create the web site, then someone is trying to make it look like he did.
Really? Have you read the warrant application?
It makes perfect sense. For every one million OpenOffice installations, a government department can buy zero copies of Microsoft.
http://www.hossflyinc.com/home.html
Hey, did you happen to work for a laser company before you started the ISP? If you're the guy I'm thinking of, I worked in one of the cubes next to you.
I went to one of those gas stations that have big LCDs mounted atop the pumps. One of the ads it ran was for advertising on these screens. Among the benefits they listed was "captive audience".
Oh yeah? I shut the pump off before the tank was full and I left. I haven't been back ever since.
You're a sick bastard for saying what everyone else was only thinking.
Obama's technical knowledge is unimportant. What matters is whether or not his DOJ will enforce laws against monopolists with more than a slap on the wrist.
I don't know if they will or won't, but any old deals have expired.
You hit the nail right on the head. The last administration let MS off the hook. Do they not realize that the new sheriff is near?
He/she could move it back to two weeks and then offer to make it three or four if it will let him leave on good terms.
If the boss won't accept that, he can walk down to HR and drop off his keys.
"TFS didn't say he invented it. It cited him as the inventor..."
WTF?
I once admired Bezos for being the first big mover in Internet commerce. And simplified transactions are cool too.
But this 1-click patent BS convinces me that he is nothing but a sniveling little NYC cunt.
ANY VENDOR should make it an opt-in when they're about to change the behavior of ANY existing software on the install target.
Adding/substituting a JVM plugin to something as ubiquitous as Firefox is a blatant example of this type of negligence/abuse.
Comparing this to the addition of unicode support in an OS library is just trolling, Mr. Score Whore.
Indeed.
Here's a fun party trick. Use a picture of your ass as the biometric to lock a laptop. Then, amaze your friends as you unlock it with a picture of Steve Ballmer's face!
The cable companies have been using the February switchover as subterfuge for their own plans.
For about a year, Comcast have been advertising that their customers can "keep on watching their favorite shows" after the switch with no changes needed. Very recently, the wording of their ads changed. Now all they say is that if you use their set-top-box, then you're covered.
I decided to call them and ask for the real answer.
Me: I see that you've changed the wording in your ads. Will my service change in February?
Comcast: blah blah blah blah affected blah blah.
Me: Would you please repeat that?
Comcast: blah blah blah blah affected blah blah.
Me: Wait. Will I be affected, or will I not be affected?
Comcast: You will be affected.
Me: How?
Comcast: You will lose some channels.
Me: Really! Which ones?
Comcast: We don't know yet.
Me: Well, how many channels will I lose?
Comcast: Between 7 and 10.
Me: I see. For a year you've been lying to us and you still won't tell us the truth. By the way, why does the Comcast have to change anything?
Comcast: We don't. The timing is coincidental.
Me: Fuck you!
Zunes are born from Ballmer's orifice. And people wonder why they're brown.
It's just a song this article made me think of. Draw your own philosophical conclusions.
My my, hey hey
Rock and roll is here to stay
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away
My my, hey hey.
Out of the blue and into the black
They give you this, but you pay for that
And once you're gone, you can never come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black.
The king is gone but he's not forgotten
This is the story of a Johnny Rotten
It's better to burn out than it is to rust
The king is gone but he's not forgotten.
Hey hey, my my
Rock and roll can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye.
Hey hey, my my.
Wrong. The correct answer is that UIDs should have been capped at 196329.
Just let us go back to 1950. 2050 is too damned scary.
QuantumC
There, I fixed that for you.
OK, Bud isn't the best tasting beer, but it's always decent. I've had too many skunked bottles of "premium" beers to continue being snobbish about it.
FWIW, my favorite beer of all time is Pete's Wicked Ale. I'll put Guinness, Grolsch and a few others close behind.
They have it backwards. Instead of the government knowing everything about the citizens, we need to let the citizens know everything about the government.
Another problem is that even where information is available, the current administration chooses to ignore it. They knew that 9/11-style attacks were imminent, yet they failed to lock the cockpit doors. They knew our economy was headed for disaster, yet they failed to reign in the financiers. SEC, NSA, CIA, DOD, DOJ... all worse than useless in the last 8 years.
Yep. Nader is the man for you. He's the only one who's honest enough to say what a waste it is to incarcerate hundreds of thousands of small-time pot dealers.
That cell space would be better utilized if it were holding all the white-collar criminals who have screwed us out of trillions in the last decade.