Anything you do at work(or working @ home) while using your employers property is considered owned by your employer
Nonsense. If I scribble a haiku during my break using an company pen on company letterhead, I am the creator of that work, not the company, and the copyright on that work is mine, unless we've signed a contract otherwise.
The situation is no different than if I was visiting your house and grabbed a pen off your desk to write my poem - it's still my poem. The only claim you might have is to be reimbursed for the ink.
You are an employee, not a slave - even though our corporate feudalism is rapidly pushing us in that direction.
Limiting soft money is, without a doubt, limiting free speech...
There is, in fact, plenty of doubt about it.
Try slipping fifty bucks to a cop to get out of a speeding ticket and claiming you were only exercising your free speech rights. Ridiculous, right? What if instead you offered to buy fifty bucks worth of advertizing space to promote his favorite charity, or the small business he runs on the side? That's still bribery.
If the mayor knows that you want a proposed ordinance passed, and you "happen" to leave $1,000 on his desk, that's bribery. If a mayorial candiate knows that you would like him to press for a certain proposed ordinance, and you happen to leave $1,000 dollars on his desk, that's bribery. If you instead purchase $1,000 worth of campaign ads for him, that's still bribery.
Speech is speech. Money in expectation of special treatment - which is exactly what large contributors are giving for - is bribery. We can debate the exact terms of the law, but outlawing bribery should not be a controvertial stand...
I had a few sheets of bar codes that turned into games one you scanned them in with your phat light pen.
I had a book (on Turbo Pascal - that date this pretty well:-) ) that had all the sample programs in the same light-pen-scannable format. Pretty cool idea back in the day when floppies were expensive and fragile and CDs were a new format for music.
They claim that they're going to e-mail everyone about the "marketing preferences" thing, and:
Your new marketing preferences will not take effect until 60 days after the date the email is sent to you so you have plenty of time to decide what you want to receive and what you don't.
Please note that these new preference categories only relate to how Yahoo! communicates with you about Yahoo! products and services. Your Yahoo! Delivers preference, regarding special offers from our selected partners, remains as you selected it.
So it's not good, but not (yet) reason to start
a riot...
What made the biggest difference for me, actually, was learning to mouse with my left hand (suggested by the ergo guy at my last job).
Yes! I've been doing that way for ten years, since shortly after I starting using a box with an attached rodent on a regular basis. Helps enormously.
That, a mousepad with a built-in wrist rest, a simply keyboard wrist rest, and a cheap old "Suntouch" keyboard ($5 from the Goodwill!) with just the right action. (Most new keyboards are just too damn mushy, IMHO.)
And when I'm doing a lot of typing, I'll wear a pair of
SmartGloves for extra support; but I don't use them day-to-day.
head spokesbeing for the FoG, has urged the United Nations to pass a resolution banning the use of such ecologically unfriendly bullets in favor of bullets fashioned from naturally-occurring stores of driftwood or pebbles.
Depleted Uranium makes it hard for the daisies to grow.
Sarcasm noted. However, the object of all this fighting is to control the land in question; strewing toxic heavy metals all over the place kind of defeats the ultimate purpose of having your people live on the land you're fighting over.
Obfuscated code does not qualify as the "preferred" form; you can't give one version away and hold an unobfuscated version for your own use. This is a clear GPL violation.
Now, keep your hand raised if you believe that your company could offer the same software that you helped to create as a
free, open-source download and still keep you employed.
Remebering that free is libre, not gratis, and
that it's ok to sell free software - yes, my hand is still up.
I believe that every project I have been paid to develop over the past dozen years could have been GPLed, and I still could have gotten paid.
My first paying job was in-house software. No external distribution, no licencing issues.
Some jobs I've had were government projects - DARPA, NSA, NASA, Chinese and Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Some of these we gave source, some we certainly could have given it without affecting the bottom line. Copying wasn't an issue on any of these - they were either custom one-offs, or research projects.
Other jobs have been limited installation products: an internet firewall that ran on expensive trusted operating systems, a voice-dialing system (Sprint's "Voice Command") that runs on very very expensive hardware, etcetera.
We could have given our customers source, and set prices to account for them being allowed to make unlimited installations at their own sites. They sure wouldn't be giving the software away to their competitors (and even if they did, enough customization and support would be needed that those competitors would be better off buying from us), so that market would still be available to us.
The most interesting sorts of software can still profit under free software schemes. What's threatened is the shrinkwrapped stuff you see at Best Buy - which is crap anyway.
The biggest knock against progress in the city is crime, drugs, safety. It is not a safe town with lots of animosity between socio-economic groups in addition to the blind rage associated w/abject poverty.
All depends on what part of town you live in...areas like Federal Hill and Canton are being re-developed pretty successfully, and there are still upper-class enclaves within the city borders.
And the suburbs are a different world - legally, as Baltimore City and Baltimore County are politically independant subdivisions. I'm quite happy with my cost/quality ratio in Catonsville - in Baltimore County, about twenty minutes away from downtown B-more.
There are plenty of techies around here - many commute from Baltimore to the D.C. area, or even (shudder) Northern Virginia. There's also been a lot of growth in nearby Howard County, which is now one of the richest counties in the U.S.
Yes, there are parts of the city where wise people do not go after dark. But that's true of any large city in the U.S. And anyone with kids who doesn't want to send them to private schools
(which around here are pretty much Catholic schools) should live outside the city line - the city's public school system is very troubled.
1.The world would be worse without homosexuals. Now I'm prepared to agree that the world would not be better, but it is not obvious that it would be somehow lacking.
Would the world be "worse" without left-handed people? Blue-eyed people? People who prefer fat lovers to thin ones? Would it somehow be lacking, and if not does that mean we should eradicate lefties, etcetera, from the genome?
His "duh" for gene-based homosexuality arises from the fact that an individual carrying such a trait is likely not have offspring, and that consequently, such genes render such individuals evolutionarily unfit.
Ah, but there's more to evolution than reproducing yourself. If, for example, there is a surplus of males, your genes are better off if you hook up with another guy and set your brother (who share a large chunk of your genome) up that that oh-so-evolutionarily-fit female, than if you and your brother kill each other fighting over the women.
genetic based (where your sexual attraction mechanism is backwards)...there is no question that it is a genetic defect to be attracted to the wrong sex (I mean, duh).
Uh, what do you mean by "wrong"?
Your assertatoin that there's "no question" that this is a defect is simply false.
Once again it has to be pointed out that closed mindedness of most sorts is bad
Such as labelling someone else's choice of lovers - for whatever reason - as "wrong"?
You mean CTRL-C, CTRL-V?
Ya, that can be pretty painful.:-)
Requiring a combination of mouse and keyboard actions to accomplish a simple task is wrong. (The alternative of requiring a drop-down menu to accomplish a simple task is also wrong.)
Trying to do this particular combination is you mouse left-handed is really wrong. (If you do a lot of text editing, and your right hand is working the curson control keys, it's better to mouse left. At least for me, as it keep my wrists from hurting.)
but is insanity-inducing if you're used to the simpler Windows model.
This is obviously some strange new usage of the work "simpler" that I've never encountered before... the gyrations I must undergo to accomplish the simple cut-and-paste of text on a Windows box is one of the great frustrations of having to use one of the damn things for e-mail at work. (We're stuck with Bloated Goats.)
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Nonsense. If I scribble a haiku during my break using an company pen on company letterhead, I am the creator of that work, not the company, and the copyright on that work is mine, unless we've signed a contract otherwise.
The situation is no different than if I was visiting your house and grabbed a pen off your desk to write my poem - it's still my poem. The only claim you might have is to be reimbursed for the ink.
You are an employee, not a slave - even though our corporate feudalism is rapidly pushing us in that direction.
There is, in fact, plenty of doubt about it.
Try slipping fifty bucks to a cop to get out of a speeding ticket and claiming you were only exercising your free speech rights. Ridiculous, right? What if instead you offered to buy fifty bucks worth of advertizing space to promote his favorite charity, or the small business he runs on the side? That's still bribery.
If the mayor knows that you want a proposed ordinance passed, and you "happen" to leave $1,000 on his desk, that's bribery. If a mayorial candiate knows that you would like him to press for a certain proposed ordinance, and you happen to leave $1,000 dollars on his desk, that's bribery. If you instead purchase $1,000 worth of campaign ads for him, that's still bribery.
Speech is speech. Money in expectation of special treatment - which is exactly what large contributors are giving for - is bribery. We can debate the exact terms of the law, but outlawing bribery should not be a controvertial stand...
I had a book (on Turbo Pascal - that date this pretty well :-) ) that had all the sample programs in the same light-pen-scannable format. Pretty cool idea back in the day when floppies were expensive and fragile and CDs were a new format for music.
So it's not good, but not (yet) reason to start a riot...
Yes! I've been doing that way for ten years, since shortly after I starting using a box with an attached rodent on a regular basis. Helps enormously.
That, a mousepad with a built-in wrist rest, a simply keyboard wrist rest, and a cheap old "Suntouch" keyboard ($5 from the Goodwill!) with just the right action. (Most new keyboards are just too damn mushy, IMHO.)
And when I'm doing a lot of typing, I'll wear a pair of SmartGloves for extra support; but I don't use them day-to-day.
In the 1600s, some European nations had the death penalty for tobacco possession.
In 1921, cigarettes were illegal in 14 states.
More drug prohibition history here.
Which probably should be taken as evidence that IDEs are a bad idea.
Building complex software with IDEs is like trying to build a house with a Swiss Army Knife, instead of picking the best tool from each category.
I bought my 90MHz Pentium in 1997 and installed RH 4.2 on it.
I just put in a 166Mhz mobo and upgraded to RH7.2. Works well enough with fvwm for my housemate to have a surfing box, maybe even run AbiWord.
Sarcasm noted. However, there is a serious effort underway to replace lead with less toxic materials. Keeping not just battlefields (on which people will eventually live and work), but training grounds, free of toxic heavy metals is a good thing.
Sarcasm noted. However, the object of all this fighting is to control the land in question; strewing toxic heavy metals all over the place kind of defeats the ultimate purpose of having your people live on the land you're fighting over.
The Orange Book / TCSEC. The Rainbow Series. The Common Criteria. The FIPS PUBS.
Pick up the relevant O'Reilly book, Practical Computer Security, and spend some time with everyone's friend Google.
Ah, so blurry text is an "aesthetic result"?
"Anti-aliasing" just means blurring, and is in general not a good thing. And this particular hack turns off hinting, to make it every blurrier.
Like headaches? Install this.
As usual, this "problem" can be solved by actually reading the damn GPL:
Obfuscated code does not qualify as the "preferred" form; you can't give one version away and hold an unobfuscated version for your own use. This is a clear GPL violation.
The first computer I owned was a TRS Color Computer. 6809 CPU. I think it had the 16k ram upgrade. No floppy - it had a cassette tape player.
Remebering that free is libre, not gratis, and that it's ok to sell free software - yes, my hand is still up.
I believe that every project I have been paid to develop over the past dozen years could have been GPLed, and I still could have gotten paid.
My first paying job was in-house software. No external distribution, no licencing issues.
Some jobs I've had were government projects - DARPA, NSA, NASA, Chinese and Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Some of these we gave source, some we certainly could have given it without affecting the bottom line. Copying wasn't an issue on any of these - they were either custom one-offs, or research projects.
Other jobs have been limited installation products: an internet firewall that ran on expensive trusted operating systems, a voice-dialing system (Sprint's "Voice Command") that runs on very very expensive hardware, etcetera.
We could have given our customers source, and set prices to account for them being allowed to make unlimited installations at their own sites. They sure wouldn't be giving the software away to their competitors (and even if they did, enough customization and support would be needed that those competitors would be better off buying from us), so that market would still be available to us.
The most interesting sorts of software can still profit under free software schemes. What's threatened is the shrinkwrapped stuff you see at Best Buy - which is crap anyway.
Yeah, radical companies like IBM...
Ferret out the zealots! Begin the inquisition! Are you now or have you ever been a user of free software?
Jeez, guy. Relax.
All depends on what part of town you live in...areas like Federal Hill and Canton are being re-developed pretty successfully, and there are still upper-class enclaves within the city borders.
And the suburbs are a different world - legally, as Baltimore City and Baltimore County are politically independant subdivisions. I'm quite happy with my cost/quality ratio in Catonsville - in Baltimore County, about twenty minutes away from downtown B-more.
There are plenty of techies around here - many commute from Baltimore to the D.C. area, or even (shudder) Northern Virginia. There's also been a lot of growth in nearby Howard County, which is now one of the richest counties in the U.S.
Yes, there are parts of the city where wise people do not go after dark. But that's true of any large city in the U.S. And anyone with kids who doesn't want to send them to private schools (which around here are pretty much Catholic schools) should live outside the city line - the city's public school system is very troubled.
Would the world be "worse" without left-handed people? Blue-eyed people? People who prefer fat lovers to thin ones? Would it somehow be lacking, and if not does that mean we should eradicate lefties, etcetera, from the genome?
Diversity is good.
Ah, but there's more to evolution than reproducing yourself. If, for example, there is a surplus of males, your genes are better off if you hook up with another guy and set your brother (who share a large chunk of your genome) up that that oh-so-evolutionarily-fit female, than if you and your brother kill each other fighting over the women.
Uh, what do you mean by "wrong"?
Your assertatoin that there's "no question" that this is a defect is simply false.
Such as labelling someone else's choice of lovers - for whatever reason - as "wrong"?
And what do we consider a disease?
Recall that not that long ago in the U.S., homosexuality was offically considered a "disease".
And the aerospace market. And the telecom market.
Requiring a combination of mouse and keyboard actions to accomplish a simple task is wrong. (The alternative of requiring a drop-down menu to accomplish a simple task is also wrong.)
Trying to do this particular combination is you mouse left-handed is really wrong. (If you do a lot of text editing, and your right hand is working the curson control keys, it's better to mouse left. At least for me, as it keep my wrists from hurting.)
This is obviously some strange new usage of the work "simpler" that I've never encountered before... the gyrations I must undergo to accomplish the simple cut-and-paste of text on a Windows box is one of the great frustrations of having to use one of the damn things for e-mail at work. (We're stuck with Bloated Goats.)