I have signed two of these... one company let me include an attached amendment that said anything I do outside of worktime and unrelated to the company's business was okay.
The other wouldn't let me change one word and it was a very restrictive agreement. I'd suggest checking this site for some interesting info on this topic:
If the agreement is too restrictive it may not be enforceable should they sue you or the next company that hires you. A lot depends on your state's laws.
Bottom line, ask. It sounds like their documentation requests are reasonable... I guess it depends on if they intend to question everything you do or not.
>>Carly Fiorina, chief executive for >>Hewlett-Packard Co., said Wednesday.
>Hmmm, I wonder if Carly would care that >they can replace him for less than 1/10th >his salary and probably do as good of a job. >Let's outsource the executive staff overseas >first.
"News Flash: In a typical outsourcing language barrier gaffe, popular woman-CEO Carly Fiorina was replaced/outsourced by male CEO, Carlepak Fioripash."
> now apple is gunning to pick up the > people who wanted one but balked at > the price point. kinda like publishers > who put out the hardcover for the the > $30 crowd and then eight months later > release a paperback for the $7 folks.
Someone please figure out a straightforward way to get Outlook data (email, contact info, calendar info) into Evolution, or better yet have 1.6 provide direct import functionality. It is the only thing (aside form lack of an Outlook Notes equivilent in Evolution) keeping me on my Windows desktop.
Yeah I've tried comma-delimited files, porting mail to Netscape and then to Evolution, etc but nothing works completely right.
I'd love to move to Evolution, but I can't let ten years of legacy emails, contact info, etc go. I'd need to stick with Windows to access all that stuff.
After all the thieves and hax0rs warRFID'ing in the mall, manufacturing new RFIDs and running up my credit with black market tags, my arm will look like swiss cheese from all the replacements.
Another example of bitter young men growing up to be bitter old men.
Oh, and no solutions are provided in the article either, other than to replace the current swag of corrupt politicians with a new swag of corrupt politicians.
These multi-session discs with DRM-enabled content, videos, etc has got to be taking a toll on the actualt minutes of music you get on a disc. Or is it possible to downsample CD audio files to free up some room? Even without the protection issues, I think these "Extras" like videos aren't worth less music or lower-quality audio.
What's pathetic is the DVD and CD prices differences of like releases. Take Rush for example with their latest "Rush In Rio" live releases. 3-CD set and 2-DVD set are roughly the same price, even though the DVD set gives you a documentary, Dolby Digital audio, etc.
With a changein graphic processors, I wonder if Microsoft plans to not include backward-compatibility with the original (current) XBox.
One of PS2's main strengths was that consumers didn't have to throw away their PSOne game libraries or keep two consoles hooked up. Sega didn't do this with their hardware and suffered as a result. Nintendo did not do this with its consoles but _did_ with the GameBoy line, and look at which one is more successful.
If Microsoft wants to build a sustainable marketshare for XBox, it must keep consumer units "in the family" as Sony did with Playstation and Nintendo did with GameBoy.
In the print version of the Washington Post today, there is a picture of the signatures recommending Americans go back up to the station, and two dissenting ones (environmental control guy and health guy). Why, with the supposed new focus on safety at NASA, are we sending these people up when there are any dissenting signatures on that sheet? If some system fails and someone dies, what is NASA going to say? "Duh, we still haven't gotten the whole safety picture thing yet, we'll try to focus more on safety."
a bizarre new bill that would require companies that create certain types of software such as web browsers, instant messaging clients and e-mail utilities to add a warning that it 'could create a security and privacy risk.' How this would deter P2P activity is a bit of a mystery.
It is possible that this is meant in part to help RIAA attack users' machines through the P2P medium... if everyone accepts the risk, the RIAA could claim that this is a sort of consent to allow projected electronic damage by those running the software, or at least an acknowledgement that it may happen. I know it is a stretch, but why else would the RIAA push for this?
It will just a a "black budget" item... it's just no longer a public budget line item. If every black budget item was up for public debate those would meet the same fate.
RIAA lawyers are attempting to make the claim that downloading is in essence "making a copy" but that is simply a case they are making, and is far from having precedent.
Again, people are confused, so let me restate it as I have on many other./ threads on this issue.
RIAA is not suing people for their downloading. It is suing people for their making files available for uploading.
The RIAA has stated repeatedly they are targeting major abusers, who they define as those making hundreds and thousands of songs available from their computers.
This is what the./ crowd has been demanding since Napster... go after the illegal users, _not_ the P2P tools. The RIAA has finally (rightfuly) concluded that targeting owners of copyrighted material distribution points is the only way to go.
The article quotes the girl's mother as saying "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go"
The defense arguments will be interesting when they undoubtably say the clients didn't have the technical knowledge to understand that "download and listen" really means "download and provide." It's possible that users deleting the file transfer log line in Kaaza (erm, not that I know what that is or have ever seen it before) may have assumed the file was gone too. But lo, the hundreds of songs they "just listened to" were saved and now available for mass download from their machine by the whole world.
I'm in a mixed environment where we have some Dells that came with Small Business Edition (either SR1 or original), and other users who needed Access that we purchased Office 2000 Pro for. Because Microsoft requires the original CD, it really adds to the burden of updating because you have to figure out which friggin' disc to use on each individual station. If they would just let us run the damn patch without the CD verification it would be easier.
Plus, their order of updates is fux0r3d. They have the spell checker update listed as more recent than SP2, but when I run it I get an error message that the update only runs on SP1.
It's bad enough to need so many patches, but there are many basic things like the above that Microsoft could easily improve.
This isn't an issue because they are targeting users who share MP3's, ie make them available for upload. Though one can argue that downloading an MP3 is legal and fine if you already own a CD with that song on it, but it's hard to argue that it's legal for you to make that freely available for download on the assumption that whoever downloads it is doing so legally.
I don't know why anyone is complaining about this campaign... the./ crowd has said all along that the tools shouldn't be attacked, the violators should be attacked. That's what the RIAA is doing. They're not targeting downloaders (yet).
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With "Free Kevin" already on my bumper I'm running out of room... can we just have a "Free Hackerz" or "Free Lamerz" sticker for this one?
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I have signed two of these... one company let me include an attached amendment that said anything I do outside of worktime and unrelated to the company's business was okay.
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The other wouldn't let me change one word and it was a very restrictive agreement. I'd suggest checking this site for some interesting info on this topic:
http://www.prsa.org/_Resources/resources/ncClau
If the agreement is too restrictive it may not be enforceable should they sue you or the next company that hires you. A lot depends on your state's laws.
Bottom line, ask. It sounds like their documentation requests are reasonable... I guess it depends on if they intend to question everything you do or not.
No, it was non-English developer "ND" and "Andy" was the translated version.
Quick, turn in everyone with initials of "ND". Maybe Nicki Dial wrote this virus.
DVD X-Copy. http://www.web-deals.net/dvdxcopy.htm
"Hi, my name is Sally and I can't tell my friends I'm dating a guy named Micro, er Mike Rowe".
>>Carly Fiorina, chief executive for
>>Hewlett-Packard Co., said Wednesday.
>Hmmm, I wonder if Carly would care that
>they can replace him for less than 1/10th
>his salary and probably do as good of a job.
>Let's outsource the executive staff overseas
>first.
"News Flash: In a typical outsourcing language barrier gaffe, popular woman-CEO Carly Fiorina was replaced/outsourced by male CEO, Carlepak Fioripash."
> now apple is gunning to pick up the
> people who wanted one but balked at
> the price point. kinda like publishers
> who put out the hardcover for the the
> $30 crowd and then eight months later
> release a paperback for the $7 folks.
Which then gets OCR'd for the $0 folks.
But everything in Linux is copyrighted. The GPL doesn't eliminate copyright as SCO contends.
"This little one's not worth the effort. Now let me get you something."
- Ben Kinobi
Someone please figure out a straightforward way to get Outlook data (email, contact info, calendar info) into Evolution, or better yet have 1.6 provide direct import functionality. It is the only thing (aside form lack of an Outlook Notes equivilent in Evolution) keeping me on my Windows desktop.
Yeah I've tried comma-delimited files, porting mail to Netscape and then to Evolution, etc but nothing works completely right.
I'd love to move to Evolution, but I can't let ten years of legacy emails, contact info, etc go. I'd need to stick with Windows to access all that stuff.
We'll see if that one is a turned on its head...
After all the thieves and hax0rs warRFID'ing in the mall, manufacturing new RFIDs and running up my credit with black market tags, my arm will look like swiss cheese from all the replacements.
Yeah but the problem is my name is really Mariah Carey.
Another example of bitter young men growing up to be bitter old men.
Oh, and no solutions are provided in the article either, other than to replace the current swag of corrupt politicians with a new swag of corrupt politicians.
These multi-session discs with DRM-enabled content, videos, etc has got to be taking a toll on the actualt minutes of music you get on a disc. Or is it possible to downsample CD audio files to free up some room? Even without the protection issues, I think these "Extras" like videos aren't worth less music or lower-quality audio.
What's pathetic is the DVD and CD prices differences of like releases. Take Rush for example with their latest "Rush In Rio" live releases. 3-CD set and 2-DVD set are roughly the same price, even though the DVD set gives you a documentary, Dolby Digital audio, etc.
With a changein graphic processors, I wonder if Microsoft plans to not include backward-compatibility with the original (current) XBox.
One of PS2's main strengths was that consumers didn't have to throw away their PSOne game libraries or keep two consoles hooked up. Sega didn't do this with their hardware and suffered as a result. Nintendo did not do this with its consoles but _did_ with the GameBoy line, and look at which one is more successful.
If Microsoft wants to build a sustainable marketshare for XBox, it must keep consumer units "in the family" as Sony did with Playstation and Nintendo did with GameBoy.
Geez... even THEY should be able to calculate the security risks to the search engine if they buy Jeeves...
In the print version of the Washington Post today, there is a picture of the signatures recommending Americans go back up to the station, and two dissenting ones (environmental control guy and health guy). Why, with the supposed new focus on safety at NASA, are we sending these people up when there are any dissenting signatures on that sheet? If some system fails and someone dies, what is NASA going to say? "Duh, we still haven't gotten the whole safety picture thing yet, we'll try to focus more on safety."
a bizarre new bill that would require companies that create certain types of software such as web browsers, instant messaging clients and e-mail utilities to add a warning that it 'could create a security and privacy risk.' How this would deter P2P activity is a bit of a mystery.
It is possible that this is meant in part to help RIAA attack users' machines through the P2P medium... if everyone accepts the risk, the RIAA could claim that this is a sort of consent to allow projected electronic damage by those running the software, or at least an acknowledgement that it may happen. I know it is a stretch, but why else would the RIAA push for this?
It will just a a "black budget" item... it's just no longer a public budget line item. If every black budget item was up for public debate those would meet the same fate.
I heard last week the US was immune to Greenland's polar bear poaching laws... after this RIAA and Canada news, what could be _next_?
RIAA lawyers are attempting to make the claim that downloading is in essence "making a copy" but that is simply a case they are making, and is far from having precedent.
./ threads on this issue.
./ crowd has been demanding since Napster... go after the illegal users, _not_ the P2P tools. The RIAA has finally (rightfuly) concluded that targeting owners of copyrighted material distribution points is the only way to go.
Again, people are confused, so let me restate it as I have on many other
RIAA is not suing people for their downloading. It is suing people for their making files available for uploading.
The RIAA has stated repeatedly they are targeting major abusers, who they define as those making hundreds and thousands of songs available from their computers.
This is what the
The article quotes the girl's mother as saying "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go"
The defense arguments will be interesting when they undoubtably say the clients didn't have the technical knowledge to understand that "download and listen" really means "download and provide." It's possible that users deleting the file transfer log line in Kaaza (erm, not that I know what that is or have ever seen it before) may have assumed the file was gone too. But lo, the hundreds of songs they "just listened to" were saved and now available for mass download from their machine by the whole world.
Sheesh this is going to be fun!
I'm in a mixed environment where we have some Dells that came with Small Business Edition (either SR1 or original), and other users who needed Access that we purchased Office 2000 Pro for. Because Microsoft requires the original CD, it really adds to the burden of updating because you have to figure out which friggin' disc to use on each individual station. If they would just let us run the damn patch without the CD verification it would be easier.
.
Plus, their order of updates is fux0r3d. They have the spell checker update listed as more recent than SP2, but when I run it I get an error message that the update only runs on SP1
It's bad enough to need so many patches, but there are many basic things like the above that Microsoft could easily improve.
This isn't an issue because they are targeting users who share MP3's, ie make them available for upload. Though one can argue that downloading an MP3 is legal and fine if you already own a CD with that song on it, but it's hard to argue that it's legal for you to make that freely available for download on the assumption that whoever downloads it is doing so legally.
./ crowd has said all along that the tools shouldn't be attacked, the violators should be attacked. That's what the RIAA is doing. They're not targeting downloaders (yet).
I don't know why anyone is complaining about this campaign... the
With "Free Kevin" already on my bumper I'm running out of room... can we just have a "Free Hackerz" or "Free Lamerz" sticker for this one?
Hmm... any SCO code used in autotuners? Maybe we owe them $699 per CD player that plays these songs.