It's worse than that. If you _sell_ fake white powder to an undercover agent, while telling them it's cocaine, the same thing happens. Well, actually it's worse than that. Basically you get busted for BOTH selling cocaine AND fraud. Sucks to be a criminal, eh?:)
You're correct more than you know. By nature, turbochargers, blowers, and the like all _increase_ fuel efficiency precisely _because_ they get their additional power out of a more effective burn.
Err, actually it _does_ apply. If you sell a product that you _claim_ does an illegal thing, you are responsible for that illegal thing. Kind of stinks for the criminal who thinks he's clever, actually.:)
People that think Hydrogen is "dangerous" (when compared to, say, gasoline) just crack me up. If the Hindemburg had been filled up with vaporized gasoline, it probably would have killed every single person for a half mile around it...
As it were, there were *survivors*. The Hindenburg really only burned. It didn't *explode*. Hydrogen is really quite safe.
With all due respect, perhaps you should find out how it's done *now*. You just described, more or less, the process one goes through in the US to get a patent.
The problem is that these web searches and other techniques aren't really very fruitful. Patents are *complicated*.
As a senior technical consultant for my company, I do not generally recognize any the Authority of any person, outside of the Customer, to specify which programming language I shall use. If the manager types think they know so well, I ask, why aren't they writing code?
Leave the technical decisions to those most closely coupled to the technical problem. Perhaps a few companies should learn a bit from Demming.
An agreement between two parties cannot bind a third party. As an employee of your company, you cannot bind your company to a contract, unless you are a lawfully vested agent of that company. In short, any EULA you may agree to can only bind you.
The employer's right to cease at-will employment with you does not include a right to do so in response to a labor dispute. In fact, in every state I know of this is specifically illegal. Of course, there is the pragmatic issue of proving this and the more pragmatic issue of taking it through the courts.
A GPL'd library can not be used in non-GPL software...
A GPL'd library cannot be distributed by someone who uses it without agreeing to its terms. The GPL cannot restrict rights other than those restricted by actual law. To understand what the GPL can or can't do, one has to examine the impact of disagreeing with the license. If one disagrees with the license, distribution of the library is a copyright violation. If, however, one does not distribute the library, the original copyright holder has little say in the matter. Ultimately, agreeing to the GPL is to acquire rights to distribute. That's what copyright is all about.
As for GPL's more restrictive definition of derivative work, well, GPL is free to define things how it likes, but until and unless the law itself defines derivative work for software more clearly, GPL has no say in the definition for those who do not agree with its license.
I don't know when they started providing. They ended during the Power Crisis. Think that was early 2001, maybe. Or late 2000. I had them for a year or two. Funny part was, I couldn't get our office "environmental nut" to get them. The power cost about the same, but it was _cleaner_. No go. Friggin' hypocrit.
Anyway, the short lesson is: if you're a company firing someone with privileges, pay them the two weeks or whatever but don't let them back on site.
My company has decided that the sort of behavior your recommend is insensitive and damages the moral of the employees who remain. We give everyone a one month notice, during which they are paid, have full access to their office and accounts, and aren't required to work at all. Instead, their office is a base for finding new work.
Yeah, I agree. On unix systems, to kowtow to individual responsibility, I simply put "Managed by [Full Name]" in the free text field. E.g., backupacct, "Managed by John Smith".
At my place of work, if you are given a termination notice, you continue to be paid for a month, and have access to your office and electronic accounts the entire time. You aren't expected to conduct company work during this time. Instead, you have free use of your office to hunt for another job.
No, I don't think you get it. Green Mountain Power was an alternative clean power company. California's regulatory climate put the only accessible environmentally conscious power company available in southern california out of the direct power business. Wierd, eh?
I used to get Green Mountain Power, but California did something to the legal climate that made them fold up shop. How this is categorized as "self righteously green" I can't imagine.
If it runs out by end of the decade that's still an increase of around 32X - and unless we suddenly have a need to become amateur weather forecasters, it's difficult to see any obvious applications.
Current on-die memory is about 512KB. 512KB x 32 = 16MB. I can see a use for that, especially for memory bandwidth intensive operations, most especially in scientific computing. In fact, I can see a use for a whole lot more.
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It's worse than that. If you _sell_ fake white powder to an undercover agent, while telling them it's cocaine, the same thing happens. Well, actually it's worse than that. Basically you get busted for BOTH selling cocaine AND fraud. Sucks to be a criminal, eh? :)
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You're correct more than you know. By nature, turbochargers, blowers, and the like all _increase_ fuel efficiency precisely _because_ they get their additional power out of a more effective burn.
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Err, actually it _does_ apply. If you sell a product that you _claim_ does an illegal thing, you are responsible for that illegal thing. Kind of stinks for the criminal who thinks he's clever, actually. :)
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I just figured he had, you know, a THING for Stallions.
:)
Hee haw!
People that think Hydrogen is "dangerous" (when compared to, say, gasoline) just crack me up. If the Hindemburg had been filled up with vaporized gasoline, it probably would have killed every single person for a half mile around it...
As it were, there were *survivors*. The Hindenburg really only burned. It didn't *explode*. Hydrogen is really quite safe.
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They probably currently make at least twice as much as most of the US Patent Office lackeys. *HA HA*.
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With all due respect, perhaps you should find out how it's done *now*. You just described, more or less, the process one goes through in the US to get a patent.
The problem is that these web searches and other techniques aren't really very fruitful. Patents are *complicated*.
I should know. I've written two, and read many.
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As a senior technical consultant for my company, I do not generally recognize any the Authority of any person, outside of the Customer, to specify which programming language I shall use. If the manager types think they know so well, I ask, why aren't they writing code?
Leave the technical decisions to those most closely coupled to the technical problem. Perhaps a few companies should learn a bit from Demming.
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The company is liable for any software that is installed on their machines.
... you are acting as an agent of the company
Liable, perhaps, but not bound to any contract pertaining thereto. The employee cannot enter the company into contracts.
any time you are
Absolutely incorrect.
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*shrug*
An agreement between two parties cannot bind a third party. As an employee of your company, you cannot bind your company to a contract, unless you are a lawfully vested agent of that company. In short, any EULA you may agree to can only bind you.
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The employer's right to cease at-will employment with you does not include a right to do so in response to a labor dispute. In fact, in every state I know of this is specifically illegal. Of course, there is the pragmatic issue of proving this and the more pragmatic issue of taking it through the courts.
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>Boot disk when the system fails...
Bootable CD, dude. Ever try to boot a recent
full Windows off floppy? No way, man. That's
torture.
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A GPL'd library can not be used in non-GPL software...
A GPL'd library cannot be distributed by someone who uses it without agreeing to its terms. The GPL cannot restrict rights other than those restricted by actual law. To understand what the GPL can or can't do, one has to examine the impact of disagreeing with the license. If one disagrees with the license, distribution of the library is a copyright violation. If, however, one does not distribute the library, the original copyright holder has little say in the matter. Ultimately, agreeing to the GPL is to acquire rights to distribute. That's what copyright is all about.
As for GPL's more restrictive definition of derivative work, well, GPL is free to define things how it likes, but until and unless the law itself defines derivative work for software more clearly, GPL has no say in the definition for those who do not agree with its license.
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You're a felon at heart? Interesting admission. Perhaps you should get counseling?
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I don't know when they started providing. They ended during the Power Crisis. Think that was early 2001, maybe. Or late 2000. I had them for a year or two. Funny part was, I couldn't get our office "environmental nut" to get them. The power cost about the same, but it was _cleaner_. No go. Friggin' hypocrit.
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BBN Technologies.
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Anyway, the short lesson is: if you're a company firing someone with privileges, pay them the two weeks or whatever but don't let them back on site.
My company has decided that the sort of behavior your recommend is insensitive and damages the moral of the employees who remain. We give everyone a one month notice, during which they are paid, have full access to their office and accounts, and aren't required to work at all. Instead, their office is a base for finding new work.
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Yeah, I agree. On unix systems, to kowtow to individual responsibility, I simply put "Managed by [Full Name]" in the free text field. E.g., backupacct, "Managed by John Smith".
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At my place of work, if you are given a termination notice, you continue to be paid for a month, and have access to your office and electronic accounts the entire time. You aren't expected to conduct company work during this time. Instead, you have free use of your office to hunt for another job.
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No, I don't think you get it. Green Mountain Power was an alternative clean power company. California's regulatory climate put the only accessible environmentally conscious power company available in southern california out of the direct power business. Wierd, eh?
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I used to get Green Mountain Power, but California did something to the legal climate that made them fold up shop. How this is categorized as "self righteously green" I can't imagine.
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teach you grammer (SIC!)
:-)
And spelling!
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If it runs out by end of the decade that's still an increase of around 32X - and unless we suddenly have a need to become amateur weather forecasters, it's difficult to see any obvious applications.
Current on-die memory is about 512KB. 512KB x 32 = 16MB. I can see a use for that, especially for memory bandwidth intensive operations, most especially in scientific computing. In fact, I can see a use for a whole lot more.
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Slashdot repeating the commentary of an idiot pundit is one thing, but Andy Grove is head of Intel and should truly be ashamed of himself.
:)
Perhaps Andy is finally starting to feel dejected over Itanic's errors.
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That would depend on one's employment contract, now wouldn't it?
No, it would not.
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