anyone who makes use of the public airwaves should sacrifice any claim to copyright for that priviledge. If someone wants to control their works through copyright, they should use controlled, private distribution.
I think that is too restrictive. You should automatically give up your copyright if you show you work to the public by any means.
Non-compete clauses generally do not apply to people who are laid off. The ones I have signed have only applied in the case where I choose to quit.
Just as an aside, when you are asked to sign something like this, make sure you read it. If you don't like it, talk to your potential employer and see if you can negotiate different wording. My current company tried to have me sign a very open-ended non-compete. The way it was worded, at least seemed to me (and my attorney) like I wouldn't be able to work at all for 2 years after leaving for any reason. I spoke with them and they agreed to change it so that it only applies if I quit (not if I'm laid off or fired) and only applies if I leave to take a job that directly competes with the specific thing I'm working on here, and the clause only lasts for 3 months instead of 2 years. And they were totally OK with changing it.
Intel does a lot of things that have very little to do with their core business of making microprocessors - consumer electronics and software that doesn't strategically support their core business. They can afford to cut back on things like that.
In another fifty years, if humans are still meat-based, I expect we'll at least have access to a nanotech gender-change booth. Walk in, swipe your card, and boom.
Yeah, women will be able to do this on the way to work, then again on the way home. Just don't let the booth be "out of order" when my wife stops by on her way home.
Sorry, but the facts are against you on this one: affirmative action programs set the acceptance criteria for the protected group lower than for other groups.
Not taking the initiative to include her could be interpreted as sexual harassment. This is because sexual harassment is defined as anything that makes someone feel harassed.
Really, the only safe thing to do is not hire women in the first place.
Seriously, if you get in a situation where you are working with a woman who has this kind of personality - you are screwed already.
If I'm interviewing someone and she seems like she might be this kind of woman, I just say something like, "geez, I'm not really sure about her" and it is usually enough to keep her from being hired.
The problem is that the law says that if someone thinks they are being sexually harassed, then they ARE being sexually harassed. It has nothing to do with anyone's specific behavior.
In order to keep this from happening, I just avoid hiring any women.
When my daughter, who has a Mac laptop AND a Mac desktop system, was asked to do something (it was PowerPoint), at school on their Windows computers, she didn't want to do it and so I wrote her a note to give to the teacher to the effect that using Windows was against her religious beliefs.
It was hillarious. They let her do the assignment on her iBook using Keynote.
The most effective thing the lady should do is immediately file a sexual harrassment complaint against one or more of the guys. This will break the ice with them and lead to acceptance.
I tried selling my Treo 600 and my wife's old Nokia on ebay. I got bids for both, but neither bidder paid and I ended up having to go through "dispute resolution" and still had to pay the ebay fees. I still have both phones. This has been typical of my experience selling on eBay. I won't do it anymore. eBay is a rip off.
This is true. However, there are digital watermarks that will survive being copied in this manner. It would be possible for the movie companies to watermark the film with a unique identifier that could identify specific copy. They could sell movies to you in a manner that requires you to identify yourself and take responsibility for any copies that turn up with your GUID in the watermark.
Personally, I would not buy any digital media under such a license, but it could be done.
By the end of the decade, the world will have exploded due to either the fall of meteorites or total nuclear war. There won't be nor electricity nor Apple nor Microsoft.
There is a difference between administrators and users. The GPP was talking about users.
Yes, if you already know how to administer Windows and don't know how to administer Mac, then obviously you would have to learn something new to administer the Mac that you would not have otherwise had to learn.
In the places I've worked, we expect the system administrator to keep the servers running, not do anything with a user's computer.
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anyone who makes use of the public airwaves should sacrifice any claim to copyright for that priviledge. If someone wants to control their works through copyright, they should use controlled, private distribution.
I think that is too restrictive. You should automatically give up your copyright if you show you work to the public by any means.
Non-compete clauses don't last forever.
Non-compete clauses generally do not apply to people who are laid off. The ones I have signed have only applied in the case where I choose to quit.
Just as an aside, when you are asked to sign something like this, make sure you read it. If you don't like it, talk to your potential employer and see if you can negotiate different wording. My current company tried to have me sign a very open-ended non-compete. The way it was worded, at least seemed to me (and my attorney) like I wouldn't be able to work at all for 2 years after leaving for any reason. I spoke with them and they agreed to change it so that it only applies if I quit (not if I'm laid off or fired) and only applies if I leave to take a job that directly competes with the specific thing I'm working on here, and the clause only lasts for 3 months instead of 2 years. And they were totally OK with changing it.
Intel does a lot of things that have very little to do with their core business of making microprocessors - consumer electronics and software that doesn't strategically support their core business. They can afford to cut back on things like that.
and take off your shirt.
yeah, since it is the IT department, you won't even have the biggest boobs.
In another fifty years, if humans are still meat-based, I expect we'll at least have access to a nanotech gender-change booth. Walk in, swipe your card, and boom.
Yeah, women will be able to do this on the way to work, then again on the way home. Just don't let the booth be "out of order" when my wife stops by on her way home.
Sorry, but the facts are against you on this one: affirmative action programs set the acceptance criteria for the protected group lower than for other groups.
I have to wonder about someone who thinks American Idol is better for kids than glue sniffing...
Not taking the initiative to include her could be interpreted as sexual harassment. This is because sexual harassment is defined as anything that makes someone feel harassed.
Really, the only safe thing to do is not hire women in the first place.
Seriously, if you get in a situation where you are working with a woman who has this kind of personality - you are screwed already.
If I'm interviewing someone and she seems like she might be this kind of woman, I just say something like, "geez, I'm not really sure about her" and it is usually enough to keep her from being hired.
The problem is that the law says that if someone thinks they are being sexually harassed, then they ARE being sexually harassed. It has nothing to do with anyone's specific behavior.
In order to keep this from happening, I just avoid hiring any women.
When my daughter, who has a Mac laptop AND a Mac desktop system, was asked to do something (it was PowerPoint), at school on their Windows computers, she didn't want to do it and so I wrote her a note to give to the teacher to the effect that using Windows was against her religious beliefs.
It was hillarious. They let her do the assignment on her iBook using Keynote.
The most effective thing the lady should do is immediately file a sexual harrassment complaint against one or more of the guys. This will break the ice with them and lead to acceptance.
I have to disagree. I find this game to be extremely disturbing.
I'd much rather have a GP2X.
I tried selling my Treo 600 and my wife's old Nokia on ebay. I got bids for both, but neither bidder paid and I ended up having to go through "dispute resolution" and still had to pay the ebay fees. I still have both phones. This has been typical of my experience selling on eBay. I won't do it anymore. eBay is a rip off.
>>you still have mega-corporations who accidentally release sensitive data like a good smelly fart.
Even when they don't release it publically, they lack both the competence or will to keep it to themselves.
That's funny - my wife says the same thing about me farting and I'm not even a corporation!
Apple should buy a cellular provider.
I just checked and found out that OpenSSL isn't GPL'd in the first place, so that was a bad example.
One question I've wondered about the GPL. If I write a program that links to a shared library that is GPL'd, do I need to GPL my application as well?
For example, if I write an application that makes a call into something like OpenSSL, does my app have to be GPL'd?
all of us non-wackos have to pay TOLLS to cross it!
I used to cross Tacoma narrows pretty regularly (2001 - 2004) and I never had to pay a toll. Is this a new thing?
My application currently has twelve threads.
No, no, no! I mean that it is nuts to want to tear down existing dams.
If you can play it, it can be duplicated, period.
This is true. However, there are digital watermarks that will survive being copied in this manner. It would be possible for the movie companies to watermark the film with a unique identifier that could identify specific copy. They could sell movies to you in a manner that requires you to identify yourself and take responsibility for any copies that turn up with your GUID in the watermark.
Personally, I would not buy any digital media under such a license, but it could be done.
By the end of the decade, the world will have exploded due to either the fall of meteorites or total nuclear war.
There won't be nor electricity nor Apple nor Microsoft.
Really?
There is a difference between administrators and users. The GPP was talking about users.
Yes, if you already know how to administer Windows and don't know how to administer Mac, then obviously you would have to learn something new to administer the Mac that you would not have otherwise had to learn.
In the places I've worked, we expect the system administrator to keep the servers running, not do anything with a user's computer.