nope, not in the USA. In Michigan employers are not required to offer any vacation time at all. If they didn't, though, they would not keep many employees. Even then, they usually are careful to keep the specifics out of the "contract" (that's why they're employment "agreements" now) and offered as "work rules" which the Department of Labor leaves at THEIR sole discretion.
I don't like companies that want you to use your OWN money for traveling and training up front then get reimbursed. I would guess it's common in traveling jobs so you can manage your own funds, but making it common practice for "office" workers seems kind of tacky, especially when the expenses are more than your take home pay.
but any employer that doesn't understand the difference between "work to live" and "live to work" isn't being realistic either. Most families are two-worker now, so that means BOTH parents need to step in to help with school, Dr visits, sick kids, etc. Unless they're paying a really fantastic salary (nearing 6 figures) then they have to get with the times.
Frankly, people that have "plans", people to seen, and things to do on their weekends tend to work harder DURING working hours than people with nothing better to do than work 60 hours a week. They need to get their bosses work done so they can get to their own priorities! I understand in some jobs like IT work must be done after-hours and weekends because we maintain the tools the rest of the business uses during normal hours... it's part of the job. Somewhere along the line OT went from being a "punishment" for employers wasting employees time, to a "favor" employers graciously grant to the plebs working for them. That your employer has so much "extra" money to burn on OT means you're WAY undervalued in the first place!
in my experience the "young single" people tend to work less overtime than the "parents" because they have nothing better to do on the weekends than plan the next getaway with their buddies.. and they buy up tickets/reservations 2 weeks ahead of when they see OT coming so they're "losing money" if they have to work... opposed to parents that are going home for the weekend to "just" mow the lawn, fix up house, and play with the kids (all that stuff's "free") so they're really not doing anything "important" over the weekend and they can work.
because KHTML was the ORIGINAL engine Apple and Google derived their cool new browsers from that was around 5 years before safari. WebKit is the Apple specific name for the changes they made to the original engine.
Firefox or Opera is no bigger a download than Flash or Silverlight... get users in the idea of downloading something to surf like they do for everything else and it's not that big of a deal.
most retail users are used to paying for "extended warranties" that are also "damage insurance" if they're paying $300 for it. With Apple's higher prices you only get the 1 year warrant and the extra money adds ONLY warranty and support... they offer no option at all for damage insurance.
Even with the iPhone they didn't allow AT&T to offer the standard insurance plan per month charge every other phone carries.
Apple really doesn't want to repair things. That's partly a way to keep business inventories down by always pushing the new stuff, but they also step on outside repairs by making things have many non-standard parts so the only way to repair is to cannibalize other broken devices because nobody else makes parts that quite fit.
That said, I'd say macbooks are probably the most populous machines out there except for Dell business laptops. Except that there's too many small variations in model years unlike in the Dells so you can only "transplant" parts from the exact same model year rather than a 2-3 year line.
I'd venture most of the LAN games are in places like Korea where people have cool phones and gadgets but go to internet cafes for fast PC gaming. This forces internet cafes to pay up to Blizzard for casual internal LAN games.
being as the last Starcraft was released in 1999 I'd say they've had plenty of time.... they should take a page from Apple and not announce or demo stuff until it's really done. The waiting game is bad marketing/management no matter how good the game is. It's just tacky and selfish.
so the "moral" people taxed the "bad" people to pay for stuff for everybody? The state didn't distribute the burden equally, they picked a group and gouged them.
I wonder what happens when the tobacco companies actually stop selling smokes!
they SHOULD be ramping up the property taxes from that big real estate boom during the same time Property going from desert to having 10,000 extra luxury houses should net the state a tidy tax reserve. But the people moved there precisely because the state DIDN'T do that.
retireees are the worst at "demanding" their state payments. They worked for decades in OTHER states but want their benefits to come from their new home. I laugh my ass off because these are the same people that used to go to Florida for the lack of income and property tax... and expect "young vacationers" taking their families on holiday to pay enough hotel and sales tax to fund their benefits.
Retirees and company owners don't want to pay for schools.. they'll import people from other states for their companies... remember "propertyless" IP and financial companies are the new hotness which is why the North has lots of ways to capture tax revenue the Southern states are just starting to realize they're chumps.
sure but Yahoo or Walmart or Microsoft is surely not going out of business, just out of THAT business.
Most of the terms have something about 30/60/90 day notice which might be acceptable to the law. The key, like others point out, is that you didn't click "RENT" you clicked "BUY".
They don't have to support the DRM servers "forever". Just for as long as they add the dumb restrictions management to the files. If they removed the DRM, then the files would be under normal copyright just like CDs or Records and the user could maintain their own copy... something Apple is being very careful to move to. Ultimately, if they insist on DRM for the life of the copyright purchasers insist on using their media for the life of the copyright... seems fair!
So what they're really saying is that THEY want copyrights "forever" but it's to much work to maintain the records of who's the customer "forever" to allow restricted access
it's the same game broadcom plays with FCC "power requirements" for Wireless card drivers under Linux. Much like when "winmodems" hit the scene and could only operate with the manufactures spam-filled drivers.
The Phone function code COULD be a separate rom from the operating system firmware and the SIM account firmware, but then they couldn't lock the phone to a vendor or lock applications out. Bundle the pieces in one big executable and then they gain protection under "telecommunications" hacking laws and not just normal copyright. It's quite clever and judges aren't quite smart enough to grasp that it didn't USED to be done this way because that's work done by "highly trained" engineers.
This is one of those cases where an individual customer is smart, an OEM is slightly smarter, but "customers" are sheep.
If an OEM chooses to move THEIR support structure to Firefox or Chrome they could install it on on all the PCs and just tell people to use it for support. Except that the "customer" gets to choose... so OEMS would have to "officially" support only one of the browsers because that's what "customers" as a herd will pick. It won't be a non-IE browser because too many middle managers are involved that won't move and OEMs won't have leverage to get "their" flock to move because they'd be different than the other "flocks". So the status stays "quo".
of course the EU did this thinking they were helping the end customer, but in reality they just played to Microsoft's hand as OEMS get ZERO choice and it's all back to what the EU makes Microsoft offer... leaving it up to the "customer" who's a sheep. (if only they'd all get a disease from all the sheep fucking!)
Microsoft lives to turn the trick like that. The US settlement was much the same way leaving Microsoft to deal with just one committee that reduces the influence of it's actual OEM customers concerns... it's the same game utilities play because it's "government" making the decision so it's "more legal" now.
of course they're most likely "astroturfers" (smart young coders are slightly stupid about politics) paid to throw the standards committee into taking longer to agree and promising the moon and pie from the spec while at the same time the company management has no intention of ever USING the specs and has already cut their side deals. I think the W3C has become the "distraction" that's served it's purpose and the big companies have grown tired of playing.
The game companies like IBM, Adobe, Microsoft are playing is against each other and "standards" are just ways to lock out the wannabe sheep.
but an "unpublished work" is subject to change whenever you want... therefore it's a moving target to when copyright STARTS on it. Anybody actually having a copy has a "stolen" copy as in illegally taken from somebody's office. So copyright or not nobody can have it.
Second, while something being in "pubic domain" is a known thing for something 100 years old, even Wikipedia on their Public Domain page says it's hard to "put" something into Public Domain with certainty that you created right now. There's no legal mechanism in the law for "opting out" of your protections, let alone claims that others (employers, co-creators) might have. YOU can get your mom to write a note saying you promised to put something in PD, but it's not something actually in the law, just something courts have honored.
As for abuse of trade secrets.... welcome to software patents! That's exactly what they are, as well as pre-packaged video games where you are sold a "binary recording" of code, not a copy of the ACTUAL copyrighted material. It's against the DMCA to use decompilers on things like Xbox games, and it's against the DMCA to crack the encryption to get the media assets as well, so effectively they're "trade secret" as seeing them is an illegal act, so transmitting them is not under copyright but "passing stolen goods" so they're not "published".
Anybody seriously grabbing "random" profile pictures for any kind of advertising from Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, etc, is setting themselves up for serious legal trouble... there's a lot of questionable stuff up there and if you are taking the time to vet the poor snapshots and the underage photos you might as well spend another 15 minutes to do the legal legwork. These sites should make opt-in photo sharing for people's pics and a revenue sharing model with posters. Say allow users to select pictures for advertisers to look at and if they're chosen for advertising use fill out a form and get $5 (and $5 for facebook) Put it in some kind of blind auction so you approve or deny use of the picture, but not necessarily the exact company using it (so everybody's not holding up big companies for money).. but so YOU get notified for EVERY image used before the use happens.
You're just writing the wrong language! There are plenty of other languages that go right-to-left, or vertically, or even right-AND-left to share the pain!
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nope, not in the USA. In Michigan employers are not required to offer any vacation time at all. If they didn't, though, they would not keep many employees. Even then, they usually are careful to keep the specifics out of the "contract" (that's why they're employment "agreements" now) and offered as "work rules" which the Department of Labor leaves at THEIR sole discretion.
I don't like companies that want you to use your OWN money for traveling and training up front then get reimbursed. I would guess it's common in traveling jobs so you can manage your own funds, but making it common practice for "office" workers seems kind of tacky, especially when the expenses are more than your take home pay.
but any employer that doesn't understand the difference between "work to live" and "live to work" isn't being realistic either. Most families are two-worker now, so that means BOTH parents need to step in to help with school, Dr visits, sick kids, etc. Unless they're paying a really fantastic salary (nearing 6 figures) then they have to get with the times.
Frankly, people that have "plans", people to seen, and things to do on their weekends tend to work harder DURING working hours than people with nothing better to do than work 60 hours a week. They need to get their bosses work done so they can get to their own priorities! I understand in some jobs like IT work must be done after-hours and weekends because we maintain the tools the rest of the business uses during normal hours... it's part of the job. Somewhere along the line OT went from being a "punishment" for employers wasting employees time, to a "favor" employers graciously grant to the plebs working for them. That your employer has so much "extra" money to burn on OT means you're WAY undervalued in the first place!
in my experience the "young single" people tend to work less overtime than the "parents" because they have nothing better to do on the weekends than plan the next getaway with their buddies.. and they buy up tickets/reservations 2 weeks ahead of when they see OT coming so they're "losing money" if they have to work... opposed to parents that are going home for the weekend to "just" mow the lawn, fix up house, and play with the kids (all that stuff's "free") so they're really not doing anything "important" over the weekend and they can work.
exactly, I don't do drugs personally, and TV cop shows are always 6-9 months behind the street names.... don't want to get any trick questions.
because KHTML was the ORIGINAL engine Apple and Google derived their cool new browsers from that was around 5 years before safari. WebKit is the Apple specific name for the changes they made to the original engine.
Firefox or Opera is no bigger a download than Flash or Silverlight... get users in the idea of downloading something to surf like they do for everything else and it's not that big of a deal.
combine with built in webcams and Mics I bet you could use the keyboard feedback to REALLY piss users off!
Apple was developing detectors for "user abuse" of hardware.... this could help CAUSE user abuse!!
I would have thought the secret sensor would signal when the RDF was below minimum requiring a new shiny purchase to maintain fanboi status.
most retail users are used to paying for "extended warranties" that are also "damage insurance" if they're paying $300 for it. With Apple's higher prices you only get the 1 year warrant and the extra money adds ONLY warranty and support... they offer no option at all for damage insurance.
Even with the iPhone they didn't allow AT&T to offer the standard insurance plan per month charge every other phone carries.
Apple really doesn't want to repair things. That's partly a way to keep business inventories down by always pushing the new stuff, but they also step on outside repairs by making things have many non-standard parts so the only way to repair is to cannibalize other broken devices because nobody else makes parts that quite fit.
That said, I'd say macbooks are probably the most populous machines out there except for Dell business laptops. Except that there's too many small variations in model years unlike in the Dells so you can only "transplant" parts from the exact same model year rather than a 2-3 year line.
They're losing profit margin on each customer... but they'll make it up in VOLUME!!
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I'd venture most of the LAN games are in places like Korea where people have cool phones and gadgets but go to internet cafes for fast PC gaming. This forces internet cafes to pay up to Blizzard for casual internal LAN games.
being as the last Starcraft was released in 1999 I'd say they've had plenty of time.... they should take a page from Apple and not announce or demo stuff until it's really done. The waiting game is bad marketing/management no matter how good the game is. It's just tacky and selfish.
"I'm in charge of the nation and it affects MY job security.... so 'national security' applies!"
so the "moral" people taxed the "bad" people to pay for stuff for everybody? The state didn't distribute the burden equally, they picked a group and gouged them.
I wonder what happens when the tobacco companies actually stop selling smokes!
they SHOULD be ramping up the property taxes from that big real estate boom during the same time Property going from desert to having 10,000 extra luxury houses should net the state a tidy tax reserve. But the people moved there precisely because the state DIDN'T do that.
retireees are the worst at "demanding" their state payments. They worked for decades in OTHER states but want their benefits to come from their new home. I laugh my ass off because these are the same people that used to go to Florida for the lack of income and property tax... and expect "young vacationers" taking their families on holiday to pay enough hotel and sales tax to fund their benefits.
Retirees and company owners don't want to pay for schools.. they'll import people from other states for their companies... remember "propertyless" IP and financial companies are the new hotness which is why the North has lots of ways to capture tax revenue the Southern states are just starting to realize they're chumps.
sure but Yahoo or Walmart or Microsoft is surely not going out of business, just out of THAT business.
Most of the terms have something about 30/60/90 day notice which might be acceptable to the law. The key, like others point out, is that you didn't click "RENT" you clicked "BUY".
They don't have to support the DRM servers "forever". Just for as long as they add the dumb restrictions management to the files. If they removed the DRM, then the files would be under normal copyright just like CDs or Records and the user could maintain their own copy... something Apple is being very careful to move to. Ultimately, if they insist on DRM for the life of the copyright purchasers insist on using their media for the life of the copyright... seems fair!
So what they're really saying is that THEY want copyrights "forever" but it's to much work to maintain the records of who's the customer "forever" to allow restricted access
it's the same game broadcom plays with FCC "power requirements" for Wireless card drivers under Linux. Much like when "winmodems" hit the scene and could only operate with the manufactures spam-filled drivers.
The Phone function code COULD be a separate rom from the operating system firmware and the SIM account firmware, but then they couldn't lock the phone to a vendor or lock applications out. Bundle the pieces in one big executable and then they gain protection under "telecommunications" hacking laws and not just normal copyright. It's quite clever and judges aren't quite smart enough to grasp that it didn't USED to be done this way because that's work done by "highly trained" engineers.
This is one of those cases where an individual customer is smart, an OEM is slightly smarter, but "customers" are sheep.
If an OEM chooses to move THEIR support structure to Firefox or Chrome they could install it on on all the PCs and just tell people to use it for support. Except that the "customer" gets to choose... so OEMS would have to "officially" support only one of the browsers because that's what "customers" as a herd will pick. It won't be a non-IE browser because too many middle managers are involved that won't move and OEMs won't have leverage to get "their" flock to move because they'd be different than the other "flocks". So the status stays "quo".
of course the EU did this thinking they were helping the end customer, but in reality they just played to Microsoft's hand as OEMS get ZERO choice and it's all back to what the EU makes Microsoft offer... leaving it up to the "customer" who's a sheep. (if only they'd all get a disease from all the sheep fucking!)
Microsoft lives to turn the trick like that. The US settlement was much the same way leaving Microsoft to deal with just one committee that reduces the influence of it's actual OEM customers concerns... it's the same game utilities play because it's "government" making the decision so it's "more legal" now.
of course they're most likely "astroturfers" (smart young coders are slightly stupid about politics) paid to throw the standards committee into taking longer to agree and promising the moon and pie from the spec while at the same time the company management has no intention of ever USING the specs and has already cut their side deals. I think the W3C has become the "distraction" that's served it's purpose and the big companies have grown tired of playing.
The game companies like IBM, Adobe, Microsoft are playing is against each other and "standards" are just ways to lock out the wannabe sheep.
but an "unpublished work" is subject to change whenever you want... therefore it's a moving target to when copyright STARTS on it. Anybody actually having a copy has a "stolen" copy as in illegally taken from somebody's office. So copyright or not nobody can have it.
Second, while something being in "pubic domain" is a known thing for something 100 years old, even Wikipedia on their Public Domain page says it's hard to "put" something into Public Domain with certainty that you created right now. There's no legal mechanism in the law for "opting out" of your protections, let alone claims that others (employers, co-creators) might have. YOU can get your mom to write a note saying you promised to put something in PD, but it's not something actually in the law, just something courts have honored.
As for abuse of trade secrets.... welcome to software patents! That's exactly what they are, as well as pre-packaged video games where you are sold a "binary recording" of code, not a copy of the ACTUAL copyrighted material. It's against the DMCA to use decompilers on things like Xbox games, and it's against the DMCA to crack the encryption to get the media assets as well, so effectively they're "trade secret" as seeing them is an illegal act, so transmitting them is not under copyright but "passing stolen goods" so they're not "published".
Anybody seriously grabbing "random" profile pictures for any kind of advertising from Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, etc, is setting themselves up for serious legal trouble... there's a lot of questionable stuff up there and if you are taking the time to vet the poor snapshots and the underage photos you might as well spend another 15 minutes to do the legal legwork. These sites should make opt-in photo sharing for people's pics and a revenue sharing model with posters. Say allow users to select pictures for advertisers to look at and if they're chosen for advertising use fill out a form and get $5 (and $5 for facebook) Put it in some kind of blind auction so you approve or deny use of the picture, but not necessarily the exact company using it (so everybody's not holding up big companies for money).. but so YOU get notified for EVERY image used before the use happens.
You're just writing the wrong language! There are plenty of other languages that go right-to-left, or vertically, or even right-AND-left to share the pain!