This section I read from the judgment sounds to me as if his idea was exactly what he was supposed to be working on (thanks to Google's cache, and the bold is mine):
B. The Status of the Solution
Brown repeatedly claims there is a fact issue that the Solution was not an invention, or even a conception falling under the terms of the employment agreement. However, he claimed in his April 1996 memo to management, I have developed a method of converting machine executable binary code into high level source code form using logic and data abstractions. . . . Brown has not presented any other credible evidence to contradict this assertion.
Brown also claims Alcatel was not in the business of designing software, but was in the telecommunications business. Thus, the employment agreement is not applicable to the Solution. However, the evidence in the record establishes that Brown managed the group at Alcatel charged with maintaining and developing automated conversion tools for converting high-level code to low- level code. The record further shows that one of Brown's job functions was to manually convert Alcatel's existing low-level code to high-level code. The evidence shows Alcatel twice investigated automated conversion tools in 1993 and 1995. In addition, in 1993, Brown managed the employee charged with investigating the low-level to high-level automated code conversion process and received a status report on his research on October 18, 1993.
We do not believe the court below erred in concluding Alcatel, pursuant to the employment agreement, owns full legal right, title and interest to the process and/or method that is known as the Solution. We overrule Brown's first issue in its entirety.
I was tired of all the noise from my machine and bought one of the HUSH ATX machines from Hush Technologies (from Logic Supply) and I'm very happy with it. It's extremely quiet; the only noise I can ever hear is a very slight one from the hard drive occasionaly. No fans at all.
This sounds like a good topic for a poll. I'm pretty sure that there was one on this topic a year or so ago, but since things change it would be worth re-running. I'd include at least standard keyboards, the MS Natural (and lookalikes), Kinesis, Maltron, Happy Hacking, chording keyboards, and one-handed ones.
This sounds like it would be great for a desktop display; I really like the LCD displays, but with a 21" monitor at work and a 17" at home, I'm not willing to give up the screen real estate for one.
Get the cost on something like this down to $1000, though, and I'd probably have to have one.
The DC265 is reportedly significantly faster. I bought one a couple of months ago (it's the third digital camera I've owned), and I'm very happy with it. The only real flaw is the *very* slow updating of the LCD if you use that "live" while taking pictures, but that doesn't bother me since I very rarely use that.
> but you may as well forget about... getting > another picture out of it for at least 10 > seconds after you snap one @ medium resolution
With the DC265, I only use high resolution and the maximum quality (compression) setting, and I've never had to wait. The camera has enough RAM to buffer two or three pictures, so the only time you'd have to wait on one to be completely stored is if you're taking more than three pictures in less than, say, 20 seconds.
> Im more than serious about designing things properly... >as for the original poster, If you dont design you deserve what you get (and if you worked for me it would be the sack)
I didn't see that he said anything about not doing design; I interpreted the question as "Is it worth it to spend so much time writing it out in prose and polishing the form of the document?".
In my experience, the answer is "no". The documents are frequently copied-and-pasted to fit the form and meet the [the letter of] the document requirement, but rarely get updated.
And just because I don't write it in prose doesn't mean that I don't do design.
I agree with an earlier comment that diagrams on a whiteboard are likely to be far more useful than a formal design document.
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I was tired of all the noise from my machine and bought one of the HUSH ATX machines from Hush Technologies (from Logic Supply) and I'm very happy with it. It's extremely quiet; the only noise I can ever hear is a very slight one from the hard drive occasionaly. No fans at all.
This sounds like a good topic for a poll. I'm pretty sure that there was one on this topic a year or so ago, but since things change it would be worth re-running. I'd include at least standard keyboards, the MS Natural (and lookalikes), Kinesis, Maltron, Happy Hacking, chording keyboards, and one-handed ones.
This sounds like it would be great for a desktop display; I really like the LCD displays, but with a 21" monitor at work and a 17" at home, I'm not willing to give up the screen real estate for one.
Get the cost on something like this down to $1000, though, and I'd probably have to have one.
> I use a DC260 at work and it sucks.
... getting
The DC265 is reportedly significantly faster. I bought one a couple of months ago (it's the third digital camera I've owned), and I'm very happy with it. The only real flaw is the *very* slow updating of the LCD if you use that "live" while taking pictures, but that doesn't bother me since I very rarely use that.
> but you may as well forget about
> another picture out of it for at least 10
> seconds after you snap one @ medium resolution
With the DC265, I only use high resolution and the maximum quality (compression) setting, and I've never had to wait. The camera has enough RAM to buffer two or three pictures, so the only time you'd have to wait on one to be completely stored is if you're taking more than three pictures in less than, say, 20 seconds.
> Im more than serious about designing things properly...
>as for the original poster, If you dont design you deserve what you get (and if you worked for me it would be the sack)
I didn't see that he said anything about not doing design; I interpreted the question as "Is it worth it to spend so much time writing it out in prose and polishing the form of the document?".
In my experience, the answer is "no". The documents are frequently copied-and-pasted to fit the form and meet the [the letter of] the document requirement, but rarely get updated.
And just because I don't write it in prose doesn't mean that I don't do design.
I agree with an earlier comment that diagrams on a whiteboard are likely to be far more useful than a formal design document.