I call bullsh*t on *this*. I've been with a large variety of corporations, from 2 to 200,000 people, and 95% of the time managers think they're better served with the 3 junior programmers they can afford for the price of one senior programmer. Or with the 8-10 offshore developers, for that matter. Just because your company, or rather your part of your company, values experience doesn't change the basic business landscape - managers think in terms of Gannt charts, and it's better to fill as "Programmer X" slots as possible with the funds you have.
IANAL, but I strongly suspect that the answer depends on too many variables to contend with here: with whether a particular employer has a patent for the IP, how many lawyers the employer is subsidizing, how stupid the judges are,...
However, there is a valid (related) concern: we should all make sure that our employment contracts don't cede the rights to any and all our works to our employers. It's amazing how draconian the standard employment contract is, and how easy it is to get it changed.
I have been revising the standard employment contract that companies try to foist on me with some boilerplate about how I own my inventions, ideas, discoveries, etc. that I create outside work.
This has worked with 10 person startups, and with Fortune 50 companies. I don't ever expect to win a real test of lawyers with my company (where they can win by bleeding me to death), but this is a nice dis-incentive for them to try.
It's been a while (a *long* while) since I read a comic, and I haven't seen the movie, but I agree with one point - how could Raimi drop Gwen? Her death is as important to the development of Peter Parker's ethos as the death of Uncle... umm... Ben(?).
I saw an interview with Raimi, and he talked about how closely he followed the original comics, except for two remnants of the earlier treatment by Cameron - no web-shooters & gene-spliced, non-radioactive spider. How could he fail to include Gwen?
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I call bullsh*t on *this*. I've been with a large variety of corporations, from 2 to 200,000 people, and 95% of the time managers think they're better served with the 3 junior programmers they can afford for the price of one senior programmer. Or with the 8-10 offshore developers, for that matter. Just because your company, or rather your part of your company, values experience doesn't change the basic business landscape - managers think in terms of Gannt charts, and it's better to fill as "Programmer X" slots as possible with the funds you have.
Better not, that name is SCO IP.
Yeah, yeah - why not, it's April 1st, anyway.
Which can you make a better Beowulf cluster from?
I think he meant fool cells
IANAL, but I strongly suspect that the answer depends on too many variables to contend with here: with whether a particular employer has a patent for the IP, how many lawyers the employer is subsidizing, how stupid the judges are, ...
However, there is a valid (related) concern: we should all make sure that our employment contracts don't cede the rights to any and all our works to our employers. It's amazing how draconian the standard employment contract is, and how easy it is to get it changed.
I have been revising the standard employment contract that companies try to foist on me with some boilerplate about how I own my inventions, ideas, discoveries, etc. that I create outside work.
This has worked with 10 person startups, and with Fortune 50 companies. I don't ever expect to win a real test of lawyers with my company (where they can win by bleeding me to death), but this is a nice dis-incentive for them to try.
It's been a while (a *long* while) since I read a comic, and I haven't seen the movie, but I agree with one point - how could Raimi drop Gwen? Her death is as important to the development of Peter Parker's ethos as the death of Uncle... umm... Ben(?).
I saw an interview with Raimi, and he talked about how closely he followed the original comics, except for two remnants of the earlier treatment by Cameron - no web-shooters & gene-spliced, non-radioactive spider. How could he fail to include Gwen?
I can't wait 'till I achieve Trinity status, then Morpheus... and then I start wracking up the frequent flyer miles. :)