You are correct. Clauses in contracts that the give ownership of activities you do outside paid work related time are void in California.
I used to work for AMD a few years ago and they had a draconian contract like this ("anything you create or ever create is ours..."). I checked into it and discovered the clause was not enforceable in CA so I had no problem signing it.
However, for the film, he should have just ended the movie at Minas Tirith when everyone bowed down to the hobbits. He would have cut 30 min from the film and had all that for the extended version.
"smaller distributed systems" - I agree, if it is a very small system.
"System recovery time is simply a function of the commitment level of management" - it is a function of cost not management.
I was talking about a specific site (Real Life where we do DR tests).
Large mainframe shops have Geoplexes where if one site fails the others automatically take over the workload.
For instance, on 9/11 a company's datacenter located at the World Trade center was destroyed. Their customers didn't know it since all processing transferred seamlessly to another datacenter in New Jersey.
This is massively expensive so most shops don't do anything like this for DR. Just backup stuff to tape and restore at DR (as we do at this one shop).
Good Question. The mainframe where I work is the SMALLEST piece of equipment on the machine room floor.
The most space is taken up by huge racks of NT servers. The next most by a huge RS6000 complex.
The mainframe is dwarfed by comparision.
The biggest difference between a mainframe and a midrange box is IO. The mainframe IO is much different from PCI or SCSI that midranges use. On current mainframes, you can move 24 gig into or out of central memory every second (this is doubling in the next generation mainframe - the Z990). Try that on a RS6000.
All completely WRONG. Keep reading airplane magazines.
Distributed systems are 20+ years behind the mainframe in "scalability and reliability (e.g. redundancy, resource pooling, load balancing, etc)".
These are the WEAK POINTS of "distributed systems".
They are just starting the concept of LPARS (logical partitions) on midrange boxes. Something the mainframe been doing for many many years.
Don't even get me started on the inability of "distributed systems" to be secure or be recovered at Disaster Recovery.
One shop I work at, we have 6 different passwords to the various distributed systems they have implemented - everything from SAP/R3 to Peoplesoft.
They also had a study done from the Gartner Group about recovering all their new midrange distributed systems at a Disaster Recovery (this was post 9/11 because their plan prior to 9/11 was don't worry about DR). Gartner estimated that IF their systems could be recovered, it would take a minimum of 21 DAYS. What business will remain in business down a month?
The mainframe, of course, is recovered in less than 18 hours.
But that is the difference between the REAL WORLD and collegiate studies.
Paul
PS Would you rather pull a heavy wagon with a large horse or a hundred chickens?
A mainframe "sysadmin" is called a system programmer. I've been doing it for 20 years. I have my own consulting company and multiple clients. My hourly salary is many times what you just quoted.
Good try on attempting to justify Jackson's terrible rewrite of JRRT.
One of the writers of the screenplay (the one Jackson is not married to), said they "spiced" Faramir up because he was too boring a character.
The problem with your theory is that the ring was seen still on a HOBBIT! If the plan is to let Sauron think Aragorn has the ring in Gondor then WHY DOES A HOBBIT STILL HOLD THE RING??? Why wouldn't Aragorn already have taken the ring?
Also when hobbits are spotted in Minas Morgul (or are you saying they are going to rewrite JRRT again and remove them being captured?), it won't take a genius to put 2 and 2 together:
1. Hobbit spotted with RING at Osgilith.
2. Hobbit spotted at Minas Morgul.
Gee, I am Sauron, the most powerful creature in Middle Earth. I wonder what the hobbit is doing here...
I doubt this since Taxcut was marketed as being free of DRM. The ad I saw for it at Fry's had in big letters, no activation needed. It worked, and I bought it.
I think it is unlikely that they would market the 2002 tax year as free of DRM but be planning to add it to the 2003 tax year software.
Well, I am not in LA. I merely said LA is now doing data mining of tax returns. Two, according to the article I read, all LA wanted was the home based businesses to start paying their business license fees. These fees were changed recently to include home based businesses.
I also base my software company out of my home. I didn't notify anyone. In fact, notifying the city your in will probably just lead to more taxes for you to pay.
I read an article in the LA Times awhile back that some cities are now doing data mining on tax returns to go after home businesses so they can pay all the local taxes. Los Angeles is now doing this.
Your biggest choice is what kind of company are you going to be? I chose to be a LLC. Go to Nolo books to get any legal books you need (I incorporated myself rather than pay 500 bucks to some lawyers). If you don't incorporate then your going to have to post a fictious business notice in the paper.
You need to really investigate the home office deduction. Right now when you sell your home you can take 250,000 dollars out of it tax free. But if any portion of your home was used as a home office deduction, you must pro-rate the 250K by the amount of space of the office compared to the total square footage.
I do run a software company out of my house and decided against the home office deduction because of the above - plus a home office deduction is a redflag to the IRS.
> If secret service agents watching a chat room >(and at the same time the library) couldnt >figure out right off the bat they were dealing >with a non-threat then we are all in trouble
Hmm, most likely the secret service "agents" watching were an automated program that merely looks for certain keywords.
I remember this law well and fought to get the amendment ($41/hr or greater is exempt from it) passed. I make far more than 41/hr but my employer was starting to do exactly what you described - forbidding all overtime, etc. Since I am oncall for problems this became an issue - ie I work 40hrs normally then am called on a weekend for a problem. If this happened then I had to take off enough time the following week to balance the books on the overtime (real hell with carpooling!). Also the HR dept devised about a dozen new forms you had to fill out each time you went over 40 hrs (long explainations of why plus bunches of signatures required). It was a complete stupid nightmare. Thankfully my letters (and donations) to the right congressmen got the stupid law amended to exempt those of us making 41+ dollars per hour. It also helped that most large companies (Microsoft, etc) also lobbied for the change.
This law came about because of NURSES not programmers. Their union complained about no overtime for them and got congressmen to amend the overtime law to include previously exempt groups. Thus adding programmers into the great law by our stupid congressmen.
Paul
PS One company I do some consulting at recently announced all application programming moving to India. So your right, laws like this one will simply drive companies offshore quicker.
IBM switched from OS/2 to Windows NT a few years ago. Don't know why they would continue having new versions if they don't even use it.
That said, my companies new Z900 (1.2 million dollar machine), comes with a OS/2 box to manage it.
Paul
My brother and I got into an arguement about this. He claimed that in the movie aliens were feeding off the life force of the humans. I told him there were no aliens, those were AI not Aliens. He said that would make no sense then...Duh!
The Human as battery is, of course, complete nonsense. The real crazy part is I didn't mind this. The Matrix was a movie to experience not to think about.
Paul
One of the writers (not Jackson or his wife, the other one), said in an interview that they changed Faramir because he was too boring in the book. He was like Superman with no flaws so they thought to make him more interesting.
IMHO, a big mistake to rethink JRRT
Yes. I went to an IBM presentation on OS/2 many years ago at SHARE (IBM user group). IBM was giving out free copies of OS/2 to those that attended the OS/2 seminar.
Brought it home, 30 disks later, it was installed.
Was so slow on my PC that I had to fall back to DOS/Win 3.1. Doing anything seemed to take forwever. I remember being especially upset that it took 3+ minutes to shut itself down.
I think it was released too soon - prior to the hardware needed to run it.
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>but the comment that most SciFi sucks, IMHO is >going overboard. OK, perhaps 30% is lousy Don't forget. 90% of EVERYTHING is crap.
You are correct. Clauses in contracts that the give ownership of activities you do outside paid work related time are void in California. I used to work for AMD a few years ago and they had a draconian contract like this ("anything you create or ever create is ours..."). I checked into it and discovered the clause was not enforceable in CA so I had no problem signing it.
BOLO - Keith Laumer.
Just a matter of time now...
Right!
They should have made the DVD so you could EAT IT after you were done with it!
Different flavors - Lets see, I want Cinderella in Vanilla Please!
The robot is actually constructed from the Ring Metal material that can shapeshift called T2000... Oh wait.
This is how the book ended.
However, for the film, he should have just ended the movie at Minas Tirith when everyone bowed down to the hobbits. He would have cut 30 min from the film and had all that for the extended version.
Your right. I liked Fotr (both regular and extended editions). He cut a lot but what was there was JRRT.
TTT is another matter with all his made up scenes and character changes. I didn't like it much.
The advantage of the DVD is that you can skip all the PJ shit easily.
"...they'll be made into toilet paper"
For use in the new ILOO.
"smaller distributed systems" - I agree, if it is a very small system. "System recovery time is simply a function of the commitment level of management" - it is a function of cost not management. I was talking about a specific site (Real Life where we do DR tests). Large mainframe shops have Geoplexes where if one site fails the others automatically take over the workload. For instance, on 9/11 a company's datacenter located at the World Trade center was destroyed. Their customers didn't know it since all processing transferred seamlessly to another datacenter in New Jersey. This is massively expensive so most shops don't do anything like this for DR. Just backup stuff to tape and restore at DR (as we do at this one shop).
Good Question. The mainframe where I work is the SMALLEST piece of equipment on the machine room floor. The most space is taken up by huge racks of NT servers. The next most by a huge RS6000 complex. The mainframe is dwarfed by comparision. The biggest difference between a mainframe and a midrange box is IO. The mainframe IO is much different from PCI or SCSI that midranges use. On current mainframes, you can move 24 gig into or out of central memory every second (this is doubling in the next generation mainframe - the Z990). Try that on a RS6000.
All completely WRONG. Keep reading airplane magazines.
Distributed systems are 20+ years behind the mainframe in "scalability and reliability (e.g. redundancy, resource pooling, load balancing, etc)".
These are the WEAK POINTS of "distributed systems".
They are just starting the concept of LPARS (logical partitions) on midrange boxes. Something the mainframe been doing for many many years.
Don't even get me started on the inability of "distributed systems" to be secure or be recovered at Disaster Recovery.
One shop I work at, we have 6 different passwords to the various distributed systems they have implemented - everything from SAP/R3 to Peoplesoft.
They also had a study done from the Gartner Group about recovering all their new midrange distributed systems at a Disaster Recovery (this was post 9/11 because their plan prior to 9/11 was don't worry about DR). Gartner estimated that IF their systems could be recovered, it would take a minimum of 21 DAYS. What business will remain in business down a month?
The mainframe, of course, is recovered in less than 18 hours.
But that is the difference between the REAL WORLD and collegiate studies.
Paul
PS Would you rather pull a heavy wagon with a large horse or a hundred chickens?
A mainframe "sysadmin" is called a system programmer. I've been doing it for 20 years. I have my own consulting company and multiple clients. My hourly salary is many times what you just quoted.
The knowledge is esoteric but profitable.
Good try on attempting to justify Jackson's terrible rewrite of JRRT. One of the writers of the screenplay (the one Jackson is not married to), said they "spiced" Faramir up because he was too boring a character. The problem with your theory is that the ring was seen still on a HOBBIT! If the plan is to let Sauron think Aragorn has the ring in Gondor then WHY DOES A HOBBIT STILL HOLD THE RING??? Why wouldn't Aragorn already have taken the ring? Also when hobbits are spotted in Minas Morgul (or are you saying they are going to rewrite JRRT again and remove them being captured?), it won't take a genius to put 2 and 2 together: 1. Hobbit spotted with RING at Osgilith. 2. Hobbit spotted at Minas Morgul. Gee, I am Sauron, the most powerful creature in Middle Earth. I wonder what the hobbit is doing here...
I doubt this since Taxcut was marketed as being free of DRM. The ad I saw for it at Fry's had in big letters, no activation needed. It worked, and I bought it.
I think it is unlikely that they would market the 2002 tax year as free of DRM but be planning to add it to the 2003 tax year software.
You should consider switching to Taxcut. I was lucky and didn't buy Turbotax until after I heard about their stupid activation crap.
I bought Taxcut instead. It imported my Turbotax file from last year and was just as easy to use.
I'm sticking with Taxcut.
Well, I am not in LA. I merely said LA is now doing data mining of tax returns. Two, according to the article I read, all LA wanted was the home based businesses to start paying their business license fees. These fees were changed recently to include home based businesses.
I also base my software company out of my home. I didn't notify anyone. In fact, notifying the city your in will probably just lead to more taxes for you to pay.
I read an article in the LA Times awhile back that some cities are now doing data mining on tax returns to go after home businesses so they can pay all the local taxes. Los Angeles is now doing this.
Your biggest choice is what kind of company are you going to be? I chose to be a LLC. Go to Nolo books to get any legal books you need (I incorporated myself rather than pay 500 bucks to some lawyers). If you don't incorporate then your going to have to post a fictious business notice in the paper.
You need to really investigate the home office deduction. Right now when you sell your home you can take 250,000 dollars out of it tax free. But if any portion of your home was used as a home office deduction, you must pro-rate the 250K by the amount of space of the office compared to the total square footage.
I do run a software company out of my house and decided against the home office deduction because of the above - plus a home office deduction is a redflag to the IRS.
Your just confirming Sturgeons law.
Sturgeons Law: 90% of everything is crap.
> If secret service agents watching a chat room
>(and at the same time the library) couldnt
>figure out right off the bat they were dealing
>with a non-threat then we are all in trouble
Hmm, most likely the secret service "agents" watching were an automated program that merely looks for certain keywords.
I remember this law well and fought to get the amendment ($41/hr or greater is exempt from it) passed. I make far more than 41/hr but my employer was starting to do exactly what you described - forbidding all overtime, etc. Since I am oncall for problems this became an issue - ie I work 40hrs normally then am called on a weekend for a problem. If this happened then I had to take off enough time the following week to balance the books on the overtime (real hell with carpooling!). Also the HR dept devised about a dozen new forms you had to fill out each time you went over 40 hrs (long explainations of why plus bunches of signatures required). It was a complete stupid nightmare. Thankfully my letters (and donations) to the right congressmen got the stupid law amended to exempt those of us making 41+ dollars per hour. It also helped that most large companies (Microsoft, etc) also lobbied for the change. This law came about because of NURSES not programmers. Their union complained about no overtime for them and got congressmen to amend the overtime law to include previously exempt groups. Thus adding programmers into the great law by our stupid congressmen. Paul PS One company I do some consulting at recently announced all application programming moving to India. So your right, laws like this one will simply drive companies offshore quicker.
IBM switched from OS/2 to Windows NT a few years ago. Don't know why they would continue having new versions if they don't even use it. That said, my companies new Z900 (1.2 million dollar machine), comes with a OS/2 box to manage it. Paul
My brother and I got into an arguement about this. He claimed that in the movie aliens were feeding off the life force of the humans. I told him there were no aliens, those were AI not Aliens. He said that would make no sense then...Duh! The Human as battery is, of course, complete nonsense. The real crazy part is I didn't mind this. The Matrix was a movie to experience not to think about. Paul
One of the writers (not Jackson or his wife, the other one), said in an interview that they changed Faramir because he was too boring in the book. He was like Superman with no flaws so they thought to make him more interesting. IMHO, a big mistake to rethink JRRT
Yes. I went to an IBM presentation on OS/2 many years ago at SHARE (IBM user group). IBM was giving out free copies of OS/2 to those that attended the OS/2 seminar. Brought it home, 30 disks later, it was installed. Was so slow on my PC that I had to fall back to DOS/Win 3.1. Doing anything seemed to take forwever. I remember being especially upset that it took 3+ minutes to shut itself down. I think it was released too soon - prior to the hardware needed to run it.