You can ask them anything you want, but just show them where the docs are. No one can or will memorize everything about any job. that's what books and Online reference material were designed for. The only thing they will have memorized are the things they worked on last.
No matter how low their slashdot ID and no matter what questions you ask, this (posting this on slashdot) won't end well.
Actually it's only the legalese that is incomprehensible. The description of the patent itself is quite clear and in fact must be "Clear enough that a user skilled in the art may be able to duplicate the device/software being patented"
and I find it to be so at least with my own patent because they (our patent attorneys) used my carefully written final functional specification to write the patent document. So given that spec if you knew how to write windows drivers and understood SNMP protocols you could duplicate what we did. I relly don't know why I bothered to reply to an anonymous coward who obviously know nothing about the patent system.
I find the key to keeping fan noise down is to wear noise canceling headphones and turn the pocket radio up slightly. Voila no fan noise and I can watch the game with a nice commentary to boot.
This even works to quiet wife noise and kid noise. No messy gels involved.
I had nearly the same problem. My boss asked me to do something that was questionably legal but quite unethical. I found a work around that was both legal and ethical within the parameters of what he wanted me to do but it was very inefficient. When I presented to him the completed work he told me "Next time do it my way" so I found another job, gave less than a week notice and left as quickly as I could. I felt no regrets at leaving and giving less notice than my "contract" required because they had me as a contractor and I was actually a statutory employee if they had tried to hold me to the "contract" I would have gone to the labor board and the IRS and they would have been screwed and they knew it. But you probably don't have that much leverage and my advice would be, if you can't find an ethical way to do it object to your boss and his boss simultaneously and if still ordered to do it publicly and noticeably retain a lawyer and let them fire you. I think in the end you are going to wind up leaving this company any way unless your boss is removed over this.
I would just like to point out that the stink of impropriety is just as bad as actual impropriety. The appearance of a conflict of interest is in fact a conflict of interest.
There is no excuse for these machines behaving like this period. It matters not who the mistake/error/perception of error favors. If it continues they should be taken off line and in fact should have been taken off line immediately when the first complaint happened. Sorry for the inconvenience but that is what should have happened.
Why are people so in love with convenience that they allow even the appearance of a conflict to persist.
Plain and simple he obviously has no clue why we work on open source projects. He has also never done community theater. When you can't afford to pay for something you write it. When you want something done differently you write it. When your entertainment choice is too expensive you do it yourself. Its really simple. I bring to mind the case of Argentina who went through an economic collapse in 2002 and where open source flourished because no one had money to buy the expensive enterprise software.
"She's had the same number for over 50 years and doesn't want to change it."
I had the same problem sort of. My cell phone number it turns out was the same number as the 800 number for a produce company. I live in the 805 area code and people see the 8 in the area code and stop reading. So at 4 in the morning on most 1st and 15ths of the month I get about a dozen calls from clueless restaurants wanting to order produce for the next 2 weeks. I don't speak Spanish very well and Chinese even less.
So sometimes I just took their orders and blew them off. Other times I took their orders and told them there was an $800 delivery fee. Well I told them, I have to find a produce company, get a truck, call in sick to work, and then figure out how I could drive 150 miles (usually the average distance to where the restaurant was from me) to deliver their produce by the hour they wanted it delivered. I told them it would probably be cheaper to call a produce company. The only reason I didn't change my phone number was the hassle of telling all your friends and all the people who have your number of the new number and you always miss a couple of those and then it was on my resume in about a dozen different places on various accounts and all my web addresses etc. and I only had it for 3 years, she's had it for 50 years.
Frankly I think we can find the company/companies that is/are trying to sell stuff using her number and cost them a WHOLE lot of money by just everybody and his brother filing suit against them for whatever strikes our fancy. sort of a denial of time to think attack. Oh and all of Slashdot can file BBB complaints every time they change their company name. Hey we have a lot of resources here and I'm sure there are many perfectly legal ways to harass these guys half to death. Let's put hour heads together and...
Oh, yeah this is Slashdot, anything that requires any action is well you know...
I tried to recover some electronics from a freinds house that had been merely dampened (not submerged) by the rain but not touched for about a week. After they had been dried thoroughly and cleaned with a dry cloth and q-tips) they simply did not work. The power supplies were trash and most of the boards in the chassis of the computers were fried. No power on when they got wet but after they dried...no go.
Likely your luck is about that good in this case as well.
Actually that's a 501(C3) not a 503(c)
Time is not deductible in any case. However any cash outlay you have in the course of providing that time is deductible.
You assume there is no metaphysical reason and you also assume that there is no religious reason. Talk about groundless assumptions. You try to apply intelligence to a problem that is not a puzzle that intelligence can solve. I'm not as a rule a religious person but your attitude begs that these assumptions be put into play.
I gave up on privacy long ago. Now I plan to have such a large and confusing footprint that the bad stuff gets lost in the trivia and I'm leaving lots of trivia around. That and there are at least 35 people named exactly the same as me and the search services confuse us all the time. I look just like a famous Hollywood director/writer and resemble at least one science fiction author to point that I have been confused with them in the past. There is even a very opinionated animal writes lawyer with my name and I get e-mail intended for him occasionally.
so hey just so confusion as much as possible and that FBI profile I got in the late um early 1990s won't matter any more at all. I even held a top secret clearance once.
so have fun and don't worry about it. Privacy is overrated anyway. I prefer Cole Porter's way of looking at it. I've never been discreet it takes all the fun out of doing bad things.
I think I've sewn enough confusion here for now. Good luck re-joining society and sorry to hear bout your separation.
Apple has intimated such a change might cause a complete shutdown of the iTunes Music Store.
Finally! Then we can all go back to sharing music like we were intended to in the first place.
Ya know I get really tired of hearing this crap. You people are assholes! Pay the people what they are due and get over it. Did we not teach our kids that "There Aint No Such Thing as a Free Lunch"
well enough? You sound so stupid when you make statements like this. Grow up! It's not weven funny any more as sarcasm!
Now I happen to agree with Apple over this one. The cut they get of each track is a pittance. The music industry needs to stream line their costs and absorb the greater cut paid to the artists.
You are also a moron! The sentence should read and I misquote "I have never been more proud to be a republican THAN I have this week". PLEASE people at least get the english you know correct. BTW these REAL republicans were called Democrats the last time they thought like this, but that was when Reagan was a Democrat.
If you do this someone will hunt you down and kill you in your sleep.
I had to maintain code for a state machine for a disk platter verifier (old style 9" platter IBM monster fixed format) written in C and the moron programmer used 'i' as the state variable. The code was 35,000 lines just for the state machine.
Try finding every place 'i' gets changed by grepping for 'i'.
Oh and just for grins and giggles the code only ran on a modified 80186 SBC in a multi-bus embedded computer and the compiler was MS C 3.0 and the development system was across the street from the class 100 clean room that the only machine capable of running the code existed in.
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You can ask them anything you want, but just show them where the docs are. No one can or will memorize everything about any job. that's what books and Online reference material were designed for. The only thing they will have memorized are the things they worked on last.
No matter how low their slashdot ID and no matter what questions you ask, this (posting this on slashdot) won't end well.
A marked lack of Windows.
This was meant to be funny right?
Actually it's only the legalese that is incomprehensible. The description of the patent itself is quite clear and in fact must be "Clear enough that a user skilled in the art may be able to duplicate the device/software being patented" and I find it to be so at least with my own patent because they (our patent attorneys) used my carefully written final functional specification to write the patent document. So given that spec if you knew how to write windows drivers and understood SNMP protocols you could duplicate what we did. I relly don't know why I bothered to reply to an anonymous coward who obviously know nothing about the patent system.
>Larger slower fans are pretty much the key for noise to displacement ratio.
Much easier to outrun but they do more damage if they catch you.
I find the key to keeping fan noise down is to wear noise canceling headphones and turn the pocket radio up slightly. Voila no fan noise and I can watch the game with a nice commentary to boot. This even works to quiet wife noise and kid noise. No messy gels involved.
This sounds like a perfectly good way to make money...
The first dose is free...
Then take it closed when it's gotten popular.
This won't end well for any of us...
Can't get laid huh? must be tuff
The real sad thing about this is that he will probably still win his election.
I had nearly the same problem. My boss asked me to do something that was questionably legal but quite unethical. I found a work around that was both legal and ethical within the parameters of what he wanted me to do but it was very inefficient. When I presented to him the completed work he told me "Next time do it my way" so I found another job, gave less than a week notice and left as quickly as I could. I felt no regrets at leaving and giving less notice than my "contract" required because they had me as a contractor and I was actually a statutory employee if they had tried to hold me to the "contract" I would have gone to the labor board and the IRS and they would have been screwed and they knew it. But you probably don't have that much leverage and my advice would be, if you can't find an ethical way to do it object to your boss and his boss simultaneously and if still ordered to do it publicly and noticeably retain a lawyer and let them fire you. I think in the end you are going to wind up leaving this company any way unless your boss is removed over this.
I would just like to point out that the stink of impropriety is just as bad as actual impropriety. The appearance of a conflict of interest is in fact a conflict of interest.
There is no excuse for these machines behaving like this period. It matters not who the mistake/error/perception of error favors. If it continues they should be taken off line and in fact should have been taken off line immediately when the first complaint happened. Sorry for the inconvenience but that is what should have happened.
Why are people so in love with convenience that they allow even the appearance of a conflict to persist.
fetal! Try that position, it works for me when I want the world to go away!
Plain and simple he obviously has no clue why we work on open source projects. He has also never done community theater. When you can't afford to pay for something you write it. When you want something done differently you write it. When your entertainment choice is too expensive you do it yourself. Its really simple. I bring to mind the case of Argentina who went through an economic collapse in 2002 and where open source flourished because no one had money to buy the expensive enterprise software.
"She's had the same number for over 50 years and doesn't want to change it."
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I had the same problem sort of. My cell phone number it turns out was the same number as the 800 number for a produce company. I live in the 805 area code and people see the 8 in the area code and stop reading. So at 4 in the morning on most 1st and 15ths of the month I get about a dozen calls from clueless restaurants wanting to order produce for the next 2 weeks. I don't speak Spanish very well and Chinese even less.
So sometimes I just took their orders and blew them off. Other times I took their orders and told them there was an $800 delivery fee. Well I told them, I have to find a produce company, get a truck, call in sick to work, and then figure out how I could drive 150 miles (usually the average distance to where the restaurant was from me) to deliver their produce by the hour they wanted it delivered. I told them it would probably be cheaper to call a produce company. The only reason I didn't change my phone number was the hassle of telling all your friends and all the people who have your number of the new number and you always miss a couple of those and then it was on my resume in about a dozen different places on various accounts and all my web addresses etc. and I only had it for 3 years, she's had it for 50 years.
Frankly I think we can find the company/companies that is/are trying to sell stuff using her number and cost them a WHOLE lot of money by just everybody and his brother filing suit against them for whatever strikes our fancy. sort of a denial of time to think attack. Oh and all of Slashdot can file BBB complaints every time they change their company name. Hey we have a lot of resources here and I'm sure there are many perfectly legal ways to harass these guys half to death. Let's put hour heads together and
Oh, yeah this is Slashdot, anything that requires any action is well you know...
never mind
I tried to recover some electronics from a freinds house that had been merely dampened (not submerged) by the rain but not touched for about a week. After they had been dried thoroughly and cleaned with a dry cloth and q-tips) they simply did not work. The power supplies were trash and most of the boards in the chassis of the computers were fried. No power on when they got wet but after they dried...no go. Likely your luck is about that good in this case as well.
Actually that's a 501(C3) not a 503(c) Time is not deductible in any case. However any cash outlay you have in the course of providing that time is deductible.
You assume there is no metaphysical reason and you also assume that there is no religious reason. Talk about groundless assumptions. You try to apply intelligence to a problem that is not a puzzle that intelligence can solve. I'm not as a rule a religious person but your attitude begs that these assumptions be put into play.
I gave up on privacy long ago. Now I plan to have such a large and confusing footprint that the bad stuff gets lost in the trivia and I'm leaving lots of trivia around. That and there are at least 35 people named exactly the same as me and the search services confuse us all the time. I look just like a famous Hollywood director/writer and resemble at least one science fiction author to point that I have been confused with them in the past. There is even a very opinionated animal writes lawyer with my name and I get e-mail intended for him occasionally. so hey just so confusion as much as possible and that FBI profile I got in the late um early 1990s won't matter any more at all. I even held a top secret clearance once. so have fun and don't worry about it. Privacy is overrated anyway. I prefer Cole Porter's way of looking at it. I've never been discreet it takes all the fun out of doing bad things. I think I've sewn enough confusion here for now. Good luck re-joining society and sorry to hear bout your separation.
Finally! Then we can all go back to sharing music like we were intended to in the first place.
Ya know I get really tired of hearing this crap. You people are assholes! Pay the people what they are due and get over it. Did we not teach our kids that "There Aint No Such Thing as a Free Lunch" well enough? You sound so stupid when you make statements like this. Grow up! It's not weven funny any more as sarcasm!
Now I happen to agree with Apple over this one. The cut they get of each track is a pittance. The music industry needs to stream line their costs and absorb the greater cut paid to the artists.
The word is "lose"; if you loose interest you are setting it free not misplacing it.
You are also a moron! The sentence should read and I misquote "I have never been more proud to be a republican THAN I have this week". PLEASE people at least get the english you know correct. BTW these REAL republicans were called Democrats the last time they thought like this, but that was when Reagan was a Democrat.
If you do this someone will hunt you down and kill you in your sleep.
I had to maintain code for a state machine for a disk platter verifier (old style 9" platter IBM monster fixed format) written in C and the moron programmer used 'i' as the state variable. The code was 35,000 lines just for the state machine.
Try finding every place 'i' gets changed by grepping for 'i'.
Oh and just for grins and giggles the code only ran on a modified 80186 SBC in a multi-bus embedded computer and the compiler was MS C 3.0 and the development system was across the street from the class 100 clean room that the only machine capable of running the code existed in.
Ask San Francisco how doing it the other way worked out!
Pompous asshat much!