Unfortunetally, he doesn't have very much legal ground to stand on. If you sign away your rights, it mean you don't have 'em anymore. Tough cookie. While it's not very nice of his employer, they were perfectly within their rights.
Trouble is, if he didn't sign the agreement, he never would have been hired.
Occam's Razor is not a "theory" in any sense of the word. It cannot and will not ever be proved. Physicists use it so much as a "divining rod" simply because of the fact that in so many cases, it's correct. IOW if they know that the answer they're looking for is one of 2 equations, they'll test the simpler one first.
Gravity is described as f = m(1)m(2)G/r^2. Einstein's theory of relativity is described as E = mc^2. F=ma, D = 1/2at^2 + vt + d(0), PV = nRT etc. etc... All seemingly complicated things described by very simple formulas. The vast majority of phenomena in physics are described by relatively simple equations. (major exceptions being any form of turbulence or a result of turbulence)
Then again, Occam's Razor doesn't apply very well to life sciences, which is what this is about.
Jumping from over 50 feet is ill-advised as it will almost certainaly break something other than your legs (spine) unless you hit at exactly the right angle.
The high-dive in the olympics is from ~96 feet. (30m)
There's a 100ft bridge where I live that people jump off of into the river below. People do it all the time, and it would be perfectly safe if people didn't have a disturbing tendancy to go straight through the 8 feet of water and get stuck in the mud at the bottom, and drown because they can't free themselves. Oops. They also have their arms stuck out when they hit the water, so they get the belly-flop effect on their under-arms only 30 times as bad. Big blood-blisters and stuff. Nasty.
Terminal velocity is 110-120 mph if you spread your arms and legs out a lot, and are wearing one of those baggy parachuter suits. 180 if you dive down head first.
Biggest dives people take is around 150 meters, and you have major problems with people blacking own when hitting the water, and then drowning. (bad thing) This is a huge, huge jump- close to 500 feet. This attracts the same sorta people than go over the Niagara Falls in wine barrels, with about the same results.
Assuming no atmosphere, you're going 54 m/s, 195 km/h, or 121 mph after a 150 meter free fall. Call it 80mph with that pesky "atmosphere" thing. You have over twice as much kinetic energy at 120mph than 80mph, (energy is a function of velocity squared) so I would say you ***might*** be able to survive a water impact at terminal velocity, but only if you fell into a deep swimming pool in the back of a hospital.
I've heard stories of people bailing out of planes w/out a parachute, landing on lots of snow-covered branches, then landing in a 15 foot fresh snowbank, but I've also heard stories of people waking up in a bathtub full of icewater with "call 911" written on their chest in red lipstick.
There isn't a quick and easy option for this like there is for everything else in mozilla because this isn't a live function. It doesn't have all the bugs worked out etc. Mozilla and Galeon in linux are actually much easier to configure via the preferences than ie in windows, but not for things like this that aren't fully live yet.
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Unfortunetally, he doesn't have very much legal ground to stand on. If you sign away your rights, it mean you don't have 'em anymore. Tough cookie. While it's not very nice of his employer, they were perfectly within their rights. Trouble is, if he didn't sign the agreement, he never would have been hired.
We already have it.
Gravity is described as f = m(1)m(2)G/r^2. Einstein's theory of relativity is described as E = mc^2. F=ma, D = 1/2at^2 + vt + d(0), PV = nRT etc. etc... All seemingly complicated things described by very simple formulas. The vast majority of phenomena in physics are described by relatively simple equations. (major exceptions being any form of turbulence or a result of turbulence)
Then again, Occam's Razor doesn't apply very well to life sciences, which is what this is about.
There's a 100ft bridge where I live that people jump off of into the river below. People do it all the time, and it would be perfectly safe if people didn't have a disturbing tendancy to go straight through the 8 feet of water and get stuck in the mud at the bottom, and drown because they can't free themselves. Oops. They also have their arms stuck out when they hit the water, so they get the belly-flop effect on their under-arms only 30 times as bad. Big blood-blisters and stuff. Nasty.
Terminal velocity is 110-120 mph if you spread your arms and legs out a lot, and are wearing one of those baggy parachuter suits. 180 if you dive down head first.
Biggest dives people take is around 150 meters, and you have major problems with people blacking own when hitting the water, and then drowning. (bad thing) This is a huge, huge jump- close to 500 feet. This attracts the same sorta people than go over the Niagara Falls in wine barrels, with about the same results.
Assuming no atmosphere, you're going 54 m/s, 195 km/h, or 121 mph after a 150 meter free fall. Call it 80mph with that pesky "atmosphere" thing. You have over twice as much kinetic energy at 120mph than 80mph, (energy is a function of velocity squared) so I would say you ***might*** be able to survive a water impact at terminal velocity, but only if you fell into a deep swimming pool in the back of a hospital.
I've heard stories of people bailing out of planes w/out a parachute, landing on lots of snow-covered branches, then landing in a 15 foot fresh snowbank, but I've also heard stories of people waking up in a bathtub full of icewater with "call 911" written on their chest in red lipstick.
There isn't a quick and easy option for this like there is for everything else in mozilla because this isn't a live function. It doesn't have all the bugs worked out etc. Mozilla and Galeon in linux are actually much easier to configure via the preferences than ie in windows, but not for things like this that aren't fully live yet.