Even if he did develop this idea during work hours, as long as he was also doing what the company asked him to do, they don't have exclusive rights to his idea untill it's in physical form.
You can not sign away your rights per-se. That is, you can not sign yourself into slavery. You can not sign away your right to be secure in your person. You can agree to put reasonable restrictions on these rights (i.e. Non-disclosure resricts your right to free speach).
In this case, the company is saying he signed away his right to be secure in his person (your thoughts are your own). Had he created an actual object, blue print, algorithm etc etc etc that would be one thing, but he developed a thought in his head.
Furthermore, it was an idea that he did not use company resources to develop. As I understand it (IANAL) one of the main things that these agreements protect is company investment. If he used company resources to develop this idea, that's one thing, the company invested, they have an interest. But the fact that this idea was developed during his free time does not give the company an interest in the idea.
Sure you could say that he was being paid by the company during this time, but if all he was doing for months was sitting and formulating ideas in his head and not showing any results to the company, that's their problem.
The fact that he was negotiating a contract with his employer for this new idea (developed off the clock or off the record any ways) has no berring on the company's rights. Furthermore the fact that when he did no sign the new contract they fired him, means that at the time they did not feel it fell under the current contract.
The whole feel I get from this is that the company got pissed, fired him and then tried to take his idea to reap the bennifits without paying him.
Personaly speaking, if you fire an employee, any (non developed) ideas that they had are free to the open market. If the company was too stupid to see the value of the idea, tough shit for them.
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I dunno, I've seen some pretty big returns off a suprise half dozen flowers and a nice dinner. And I don't mean returns in the way of inanimate objects.
Without even having to read the FAQ I could tell you that a good portion of the ribbon would burn up on it's way down. Consider, most space debris that "falls to earth" burns up in the atmosphere. We even need to take special percautions to make sure out shuttles don't burn up on re-entry. I would think a ribbon of cable, made mostly of carbon would have no problems burning up in air. Espesialy if, as you claim, it would fall faster than it's terminal velocity.
2) I would be willing to bet the people working on this have much more scientific knowledge than you do sitting at home with your TI-83. I'm sure they've considered such things and take them into account. Do you honestly think a project like this would ever go up if we weren't 99% sure it would work?
1) Ideology is something for people who have been screwed over by M$ one to many times. But, you want to use all free and open software, more power to you.
2) All or most of these can be installed for OS X. Not just emulated, the actual features can be installed. And if that doesn't float your boat, install and use Gnome or KDE as your primary GUI on Darwin. I don't know specificaly how to do it, but I know you can.
3) See 2
4) Never really had a problem waiting for the security update from apple (at worst 3 days after a hole is found). But again, your preference, not mine.
5) I'm fairly sure you could instal dlopen and whatever else your missing to Darwin. As for the layout, well, that's just something you'll have to deal with on your own. I personaly haven't seen a huge difference between OS X and Red Hat, but I never explored too deep. Just deep enough for what I needed.
6) Hoe the hell did you get a Ti for free and can I have it?
If all your doing is basic stuff, there was a nice (and fairly easy to use even without the manual) program out there called PhotoLine. It's shareware, but it works nicely for most of what I've tried. If worst comes to worst, reply to this with your email and I can send it to you, but it should be availible at macosxapps.com
Isn't that a great reason to buy mac. Time and time again it's been shown that macs have longer life than a PC counterpart. Suns have long life too. Buy mac, buy Sun.
Most linux users aren't using their boxes as real linux boxes. They just want something different, but are afraid to go mac (for whatever reason, I won't bother with that here).
Most PC users don't know what GUI is or that there are more than one either.
I would have downloaded and compiled source for my linux machine, but unfortunately, I couldn't get any of the distros I downloaded to install well. Even on the Sparc, we finaly gave in an ordered the commercial disk. But I did install OS X on my iBook, downloaded PVM, compiled, and ran it, in the Sparc network.
Here we go with a redudant post, but hey, maybe you'll read what I say, then I'll feel important.
1) Yeah, aint it great to have a nice OS preinstalled instead of having to erase your HD, format and start from scratch with a real OS.
2) I thought the fs structure between UNIX and Linux was more or less the same. I never saw any significant differences. And you would buy the mac because not only could you have a cool OS, but you would have a cool computer too.
3) Sometimes, espesialy if your trying to convince your boss or someone else to buy the machine, having commercial software that he/she is already fammiliar with makes it worlds easier.
4) emacs? great! last I checked, OS X had emacs and if not, you can install it. It also has vi and for a more simpified interface, pico.
5) The plus side is, the OS X community incorporates not only the PPC Linux community but also the Educated Linux community. You get all the resources.
a) So take your old mous and plug it into the mac (it was a USB mouse right?) POOF! you have a multi button mac. BTW, for most apps, click and hold == right mouse. Ctrl-click also == right mouse.
b) There are plenty of customizations to the GUI, plus someone on slashdot was saying you can install your own GUI and set that for default and still be able to run your mac apps. Personaly though, most other interfaces I've seen are worse. There are places were OS X could improve but it's a big step up from the last GNOME I used.
c) Actualy, when you think about it, this method makes more sence. You can leave an app running (say a picture viewer or a music player) while you go through a collection and not have to wait for the program to start everytime you open a new file, realize it's not the right one and close it. And sometimes, you just want to close all the windows and start over from scratch. Do that in windows and you have to wait for the program to start again. Trust me, you get used to it, and it works out much better.
d) Check the options again, look for "Connect on TCP/IP" or something like that.
Since when did you have to be a Gen Xer to be a geek? My first and only computer till 1996 was a Comodore 64 (God I loved that computer). My school was packed with old Apples (the ones that ran ProDos too). I recall days of 5 inch REAL floppy disks, and I remember having to load programs from the command line. Hell I remember my friend (who's dad worked for GE so he got the cool stuff) loaded his programs in DOS. Granted, I have no idea what grok is, but I would consider myself a geek.
If by clusters you mean something like PVM and shared processing, the answer (AFAIK) is yes. I believe the program is called "Apple Seed" and if I recall, it's basicaly drag and drop clustering. Search for it on google, you should be able to find it.
Steve does have a monopoly... over the macintosh. The difference is, other than x86 users and a handful of people, no one else is complaining. Steve already said, M$ won the desktop war. Currently his plan (in so far as I can tell) involve bettering the macintosh line. With NeXT he started his interest into OpenSource, now he has the chance to make that interest a commercial reality. So you want to run Gnome, that's great, if you look at some of the previous posts, you will find that there is a way to run Gnome as the default window manager in OS X.
But it's not just the boxes. The sun workstations i've used (the Sparcs) all have proprietary monitor connectors for proprietary monitors. Now this isn't so bad, those 21 inch monitors we have are great, but when we broke the cable on one and went to order a replacement, we found it was going to cost us nearly $200, and that was just in parts. Sun is generaly more expensive. But they're nice machines, just like Apple. It's all a matter or taste and preference now.
And then the christians made guns. Boom, dead lion. Then the christians (occasionaly) worked with other to create sprawling cities and giant corporations which are accused of decimating the homelands of the lions and killing them off quickly.
They probably also don't want to have to wait for ports for Mac OSX of their favourite commandline utilities.
Wasn't the big selling point for open source *NIX software was there was no need for porting, just take the code, recompile on your machine and poof, your own version? Did they lie to us?
When people who are obnoxious and have nothing to say of intelligence generaly post garbage (yes, there are stupid people on slashdot), so it seems natural that they would favour switching the sides of and agument in a copy cut and paste. In the reall world, a person like this would get his lights punched out. Works for me. This just saves me time and aggrivation. More power to them, silenced morons are ALWAYS good.
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Lets see you quit your job, sit in the mountains for 3 months and still support yourself.
Even if he did develop this idea during work hours, as long as he was also doing what the company asked him to do, they don't have exclusive rights to his idea untill it's in physical form.
sign away your rights
You can not sign away your rights per-se. That is, you can not sign yourself into slavery. You can not sign away your right to be secure in your person. You can agree to put reasonable restrictions on these rights (i.e. Non-disclosure resricts your right to free speach).
In this case, the company is saying he signed away his right to be secure in his person (your thoughts are your own). Had he created an actual object, blue print, algorithm etc etc etc that would be one thing, but he developed a thought in his head.
Furthermore, it was an idea that he did not use company resources to develop. As I understand it (IANAL) one of the main things that these agreements protect is company investment. If he used company resources to develop this idea, that's one thing, the company invested, they have an interest. But the fact that this idea was developed during his free time does not give the company an interest in the idea.
Sure you could say that he was being paid by the company during this time, but if all he was doing for months was sitting and formulating ideas in his head and not showing any results to the company, that's their problem.
The fact that he was negotiating a contract with his employer for this new idea (developed off the clock or off the record any ways) has no berring on the company's rights. Furthermore the fact that when he did no sign the new contract they fired him, means that at the time they did not feel it fell under the current contract.
The whole feel I get from this is that the company got pissed, fired him and then tried to take his idea to reap the bennifits without paying him.
Personaly speaking, if you fire an employee, any (non developed) ideas that they had are free to the open market. If the company was too stupid to see the value of the idea, tough shit for them.
Though I haven't tried myself (no need), I'm almost positive that there was an ability to import winamp lists in iTunes
Everything you need to know about getting the iPod to work under linux.
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I wonder if that could work.....
Sounds like you may have been doing more than just fucking tradition.
*rimshot*
No, but 70 years from now she might be being visited in the nursing home by the product of those 3 weeks
I dunno, I've seen some pretty big returns off a suprise half dozen flowers and a nice dinner. And I don't mean returns in the way of inanimate objects.
as Genom doesn't get a hold of this, we should be all set.
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Without even having to read the FAQ I could tell you that a good portion of the ribbon would burn up on it's way down. Consider, most space debris that "falls to earth" burns up in the atmosphere. We even need to take special percautions to make sure out shuttles don't burn up on re-entry. I would think a ribbon of cable, made mostly of carbon would have no problems burning up in air. Espesialy if, as you claim, it would fall faster than it's terminal velocity.
2) I would be willing to bet the people working on this have much more scientific knowledge than you do sitting at home with your TI-83. I'm sure they've considered such things and take them into account. Do you honestly think a project like this would ever go up if we weren't 99% sure it would work?
1) Ideology is something for people who have been screwed over by M$ one to many times. But, you want to use all free and open software, more power to you.
2) All or most of these can be installed for OS X. Not just emulated, the actual features can be installed. And if that doesn't float your boat, install and use Gnome or KDE as your primary GUI on Darwin. I don't know specificaly how to do it, but I know you can.
3) See 2
4) Never really had a problem waiting for the security update from apple (at worst 3 days after a hole is found). But again, your preference, not mine.
5) I'm fairly sure you could instal dlopen and whatever else your missing to Darwin. As for the layout, well, that's just something you'll have to deal with on your own. I personaly haven't seen a huge difference between OS X and Red Hat, but I never explored too deep. Just deep enough for what I needed.
6) Hoe the hell did you get a Ti for free and can I have it?
If all your doing is basic stuff, there was a nice (and fairly easy to use even without the manual) program out there called PhotoLine. It's shareware, but it works nicely for most of what I've tried. If worst comes to worst, reply to this with your email and I can send it to you, but it should be availible at macosxapps.com
AFAIK the GUI is Aqua. The graphics layer is what is called quartz. In other words, Quartz is a component of Aqua
machines are in service for up to 5 years
Isn't that a great reason to buy mac. Time and time again it's been shown that macs have longer life than a PC counterpart. Suns have long life too. Buy mac, buy Sun.
Most linux users aren't using their boxes as real linux boxes. They just want something different, but are afraid to go mac (for whatever reason, I won't bother with that here).
Most PC users don't know what GUI is or that there are more than one either.
I would have downloaded and compiled source for my linux machine, but unfortunately, I couldn't get any of the distros I downloaded to install well. Even on the Sparc, we finaly gave in an ordered the commercial disk. But I did install OS X on my iBook, downloaded PVM, compiled, and ran it, in the Sparc network.
So there.
Here we go with a redudant post, but hey, maybe you'll read what I say, then I'll feel important.
1) Yeah, aint it great to have a nice OS preinstalled instead of having to erase your HD, format and start from scratch with a real OS.
2) I thought the fs structure between UNIX and Linux was more or less the same. I never saw any significant differences. And you would buy the mac because not only could you have a cool OS, but you would have a cool computer too.
3) Sometimes, espesialy if your trying to convince your boss or someone else to buy the machine, having commercial software that he/she is already fammiliar with makes it worlds easier.
4) emacs? great! last I checked, OS X had emacs and if not, you can install it. It also has vi and for a more simpified interface, pico.
5) The plus side is, the OS X community incorporates not only the PPC Linux community but also the Educated Linux community. You get all the resources.
a) So take your old mous and plug it into the mac (it was a USB mouse right?) POOF! you have a multi button mac. BTW, for most apps, click and hold == right mouse. Ctrl-click also == right mouse.
b) There are plenty of customizations to the GUI, plus someone on slashdot was saying you can install your own GUI and set that for default and still be able to run your mac apps. Personaly though, most other interfaces I've seen are worse. There are places were OS X could improve but it's a big step up from the last GNOME I used.
c) Actualy, when you think about it, this method makes more sence. You can leave an app running (say a picture viewer or a music player) while you go through a collection and not have to wait for the program to start everytime you open a new file, realize it's not the right one and close it. And sometimes, you just want to close all the windows and start over from scratch. Do that in windows and you have to wait for the program to start again. Trust me, you get used to it, and it works out much better.
d) Check the options again, look for "Connect on TCP/IP" or something like that.
Use the system before you criticize.
Since when did you have to be a Gen Xer to be a geek? My first and only computer till 1996 was a Comodore 64 (God I loved that computer). My school was packed with old Apples (the ones that ran ProDos too). I recall days of 5 inch REAL floppy disks, and I remember having to load programs from the command line. Hell I remember my friend (who's dad worked for GE so he got the cool stuff) loaded his programs in DOS. Granted, I have no idea what grok is, but I would consider myself a geek.
If by clusters you mean something like PVM and shared processing, the answer (AFAIK) is yes. I believe the program is called "Apple Seed" and if I recall, it's basicaly drag and drop clustering. Search for it on google, you should be able to find it.
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Start here I guess
http://exodus.physics.ucla.edu/appleseed/apples
Steve does have a monopoly... over the macintosh. The difference is, other than x86 users and a handful of people, no one else is complaining. Steve already said, M$ won the desktop war. Currently his plan (in so far as I can tell) involve bettering the macintosh line. With NeXT he started his interest into OpenSource, now he has the chance to make that interest a commercial reality. So you want to run Gnome, that's great, if you look at some of the previous posts, you will find that there is a way to run Gnome as the default window manager in OS X.
But it's not just the boxes. The sun workstations i've used (the Sparcs) all have proprietary monitor connectors for proprietary monitors. Now this isn't so bad, those 21 inch monitors we have are great, but when we broke the cable on one and went to order a replacement, we found it was going to cost us nearly $200, and that was just in parts. Sun is generaly more expensive. But they're nice machines, just like Apple. It's all a matter or taste and preference now.
And then the christians made guns. Boom, dead lion. Then the christians (occasionaly) worked with other to create sprawling cities and giant corporations which are accused of decimating the homelands of the lions and killing them off quickly.
Boy that's a grim outlook for Intel and AMD
They probably also don't want to have to wait for ports for Mac OSX of their favourite commandline utilities.
Wasn't the big selling point for open source *NIX software was there was no need for porting, just take the code, recompile on your machine and poof, your own version? Did they lie to us?
When people who are obnoxious and have nothing to say of intelligence generaly post garbage (yes, there are stupid people on slashdot), so it seems natural that they would favour switching the sides of and agument in a copy cut and paste. In the reall world, a person like this would get his lights punched out. Works for me. This just saves me time and aggrivation. More power to them, silenced morons are ALWAYS good.
[I may get moded down for this, but god it felt good]