What I do in my own time, whether fantasy or otherwise, should bear no impact on my work as long as said past time activities do not interfere with my professional conduct at work.
A joke on a website is a joke, made in jest. One could argue that the consumer of such joke that read and complained should also consider that her actions of viewing said website would lead to information that would not be factually correct and thus should not have been able to make the complaint in the first place.
That person should be fired for abuse of powers! I have one thing to say to the "holier than thou" brigade: STFU and piss in your own yard!
Having said all that, if the context of here being a problematic employee posted above is true, then the company would find any reason to enter the dismissal stage.
A demo is for me to evaluate a game prior to purchase. If I have to purchase the demo, then it's not a demo (short for demonstration). Call it what it is... X lite (replace X with name of game).
The only thing that has changed is that I can sue the rights holder if I am cut off the internet without justification. Now correct me if I am wrong, but to go through the process of finding a lawyer, communicating with said lawyer, getting forms and doing all the other things you do during a court case would be SERIOUSLY hampered by not having access to the internet. What if I can't afford a lawyer and have to read up on law...can't spend my whole life down in London at the British Library sifting through law books, I would need access to the internet to be able to do research. Also, how the hell am I supposed to check IP addresses and other such online sites I am supposed to have downloaded copyright material from without access?
I wouldn't want to do this down my local internet café really...
1. By enabling free and uncostly access to software without the huge costs, thereby saving millions of £ that can be pumped back into getting more drugs. 2. Free software would save costs for software so our troops can be paid better. 3. By making software copyright free, inventors will have a ball and chain lifted from fear of the courts, thereby stimulating the economy with cutting edge new inventions. 4. By making software free, the border guards will save millions in yearly software costs that they can re-introduce into more guards, boats etc. Same with DSS, they would be able to afford to change the system. 5. Giving youngsters access to free music, free software and the ability to invent without risk of being prosecuted would be a great first step into giving kids from falling foul of laws governing the restriction of such material. Imaging what they could do with it...DJing, Discos, net tournaments, backroom electronics...Oh year, and the savings in costs to the police could be re-introduced to the system to allow the police force to increase their beat numbers.
IT IS NOT FREE!!! I pay a yearly license fee that gets paid into the BBC to provide me with these programs...I PAY. I should receive...Murdoch just wants to make everyone else but him poor
I don't know where you learnt to drive, but unless you have 3 legs, this is already the natural case...you lift your foot off of the accelerator, hence cutting the power, to put that same foot onto the break...If you don't, you should be on a track, not the road...
God, the solution is simple...if you could get a large enough group of people to follow:
Stop buying music for a few months... If the record companies don't get money in, they can't pay the RIAA which in turn can't pay the lawyers...
The whole stack of cards comes tumbling down and consumers make a bold choice in how we are treated. The shops that sell CDs will fold, the online distribution channels will fail.
Once this is done, let the music moguls back in on OUR terms, not theirs!
This is consumerism, it is in our hand, but we don't do it...Why? Because the majority of us are not affected by this (and I mean non-slashdotters by that) and getting them to agree to a boycott is like asking blood from a stone...A movement to trigger a music revolution is the only way this will change, although this is a socialist idea and most of the US/UK would rather shoot themselves first...
I drive a 120,000mile Saab 9-5 late 01 MY02 Aero Estate Auto (Manual's were too rare thus expensive). It has 250BHP from a 2.3litre petrol engine. I love it. It is the best car I have had. I have treated it rough because I bought cheap second hand.
Nobody has mentioned the iconic cup holder...simple, elegant, functional... Nobody mentioned the dimming of the cockpit for night driving... How about the auto leveling suspension? How about the most comfortable seats of ANY car.
by means of any technology now known or later developed
So any future bionic would preclude me from the theatre. Any future technology at anytime in the future...Think about it...And it's
Not only that, but if you take the definition of (g) in the context of (a), you become a criminal even if you use a camera through the viewfinder without even having a tape to record in the machine!
Crazy wording, and I bet it wasn't written by a politician!
London Tate Gallery British Museum British Library British Science Museum British Natural History Museum London Dungeons London Eye London Aquarium Madame Tussauds SOHO (just roaming around late at night) Wembley Stadium for a match or gig if one is on. River Thames Boat trip. The Tower of London Visit the Houses of Parliament Shakespear Globe tour Royal Opera House National Gallery National Maritime Museum
Just a word of advice, if you are going for 2 weeks and are relying on the underground, look into getting an Oyster card. This will save you money on using the tube: https://oyster.tfl.gov.uk/oyster/entry.do
1) Reformat and re-install everything 2) Install a firewall. 3) Install an anti-virus. 4) Install an anti-spam 5) Make users users, not administrators. 6) Take a snapshot backup. 7) After 1 month, verify for virus' and or malware...Take a snapshot (for personal files and bookmarks).
1. Why? R&D costs will hurt their shareholders...It is far better for them to keep them as low as possible...And they would need to be able to prove those costs. Secondly, if they did do this then the only thing they are evidently trying to do is prevent their medication from reaching those who really need it...this would be proof of that.
2. This is fine, you could add an "upper" time limit to the patent system. However, this has to come in the same vain as simpler and more transparent accounting practices, agreed.
3. Again, there needs to be changes in accounting and patent/R&D for my ideas to work, agreed.
It would be up to the company to keep the records of costs, not the USPTO...The USPTO could request those records and the company would need to supply them.
It's not like company don't record their R&D costs now anyway!
Well, the assumption here is that the backlog of the patent system is not reduced due to the fact that patent trolls no longer have an interest. So I would say that step 3 would be reduced to 3-6 months.
So:
1) Company starts working on developing new product on Jan. 1, 2000. 2) Company finishes development on Jan 1, 2002 (2 years R&D, and, say, $1 million in costs) 3) Company gets patent after reasonable time for examination/search/etc. on June 1, 2002. 4) Company markets product and makes $1 million in profits over 5 years, causing patent to expire on June 1, 2007.
Company has broken even...It's now up to them to keep the momentum going to stay ahead of the game...keep them innovating or move out of the sector and let someone who can innovate in, not lock them out...
I am curious to know why you think that a company should be allowed to endlessly sit and block human innovation...I believe that the patent system has stiffled not only our innovation for fear of being sued, but also our evolution into new technologies. For example, if a company found a way of reducing to 0 the CO2 emissions from a car but sat there on a patent and charged $10,000 per car, no car would have it and the planet can go to hell...
The solution to the never ending patent rubbish that is coming out is:
1) All R&D needs to be logged (in terms of cost). 2) All patents are protected and valid until the net profit of selling any item has reached the level of costs, or 1 year if no progress on the the patent has been made to monetize anything. 3) After R&D costs are covered, the patent becomes public knowledge and usable in any capacity by anyone. 4) Any litigation from a patent holder can only be back tracked 1 year prior to the declaration of accusation. No, oh you've been abusing my patent since 1985, cough up Billions please...
This will help innovation of new products based on older patents by opening them up as soon as they become viable. This will stop people sitting on patents (trolls).
You may ask about well, if on the day the patent opens some foreign firm floods the market in cheap XYZ drug...Well, no...Because said company may not develop until the patent has been released...Thus, the lawyers will be happy because they can still litigate companies who abuse this rule, patent holders will have a lead time to get profits, future innovators can innovate still and the whole world will advance much much quicker...
And no, I have not thought through everything and I am sure there are some holes in this that a eagle-eyed slashdotter will notice...but it could be a good starting point.
1) We all had free, unrestricted and unlimited fast Internet links... 2) Our GPU could pull on the idle processing power of all GPUs in the world... 3) Everyone in the world got on with each other...(ok ok, off-topic here)...
Seriously though, there is no way that one could support the network requirements of this...How many Nvidia GPUs are sold a year? F***ing eh...multiply that by the bandwidth require for 25-50fps for a 1080p image...the number is frightening.
Considering that a mobile phone is always in your pocket and being moved around, isn't there a way to tap the kinetic energy to send small recharges to the battery throughout the day. This won't be enough to never have to charge, but may delay the time between charges enough to make it worthwhile...
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Doesn't the passing of my details to a third party without my consent breach the data protection act of 1999?
What I do in my own time, whether fantasy or otherwise, should bear no impact on my work as long as said past time activities do not interfere with my professional conduct at work.
A joke on a website is a joke, made in jest. One could argue that the consumer of such joke that read and complained should also consider that her actions of viewing said website would lead to information that would not be factually correct and thus should not have been able to make the complaint in the first place.
That person should be fired for abuse of powers! I have one thing to say to the "holier than thou" brigade: STFU and piss in your own yard!
Having said all that, if the context of here being a problematic employee posted above is true, then the company would find any reason to enter the dismissal stage.
A demo is for me to evaluate a game prior to purchase. If I have to purchase the demo, then it's not a demo (short for demonstration).
Call it what it is... X lite (replace X with name of game).
The only thing that has changed is that I can sue the rights holder if I am cut off the internet without justification. Now correct me if I am wrong, but to go through the process of finding a lawyer, communicating with said lawyer, getting forms and doing all the other things you do during a court case would be SERIOUSLY hampered by not having access to the internet. What if I can't afford a lawyer and have to read up on law...can't spend my whole life down in London at the British Library sifting through law books, I would need access to the internet to be able to do research. Also, how the hell am I supposed to check IP addresses and other such online sites I am supposed to have downloaded copyright material from without access?
I wouldn't want to do this down my local internet café really...
I say no to iPad and iPhone...
who lost?
not me...I have an alternative...
Sorry, but you "nice" interface and flat sleek look are not enough...I need something that fits the way I work, not the way you want me to work...
Party response:
1. By enabling free and uncostly access to software without the huge costs, thereby saving millions of £ that can be pumped back into getting more drugs.
2. Free software would save costs for software so our troops can be paid better.
3. By making software copyright free, inventors will have a ball and chain lifted from fear of the courts, thereby stimulating the economy with cutting edge new inventions.
4. By making software free, the border guards will save millions in yearly software costs that they can re-introduce into more guards, boats etc. Same with DSS, they would be able to afford to change the system.
5. Giving youngsters access to free music, free software and the ability to invent without risk of being prosecuted would be a great first step into giving kids from falling foul of laws governing the restriction of such material. Imaging what they could do with it...DJing, Discos, net tournaments, backroom electronics...Oh year, and the savings in costs to the police could be re-introduced to the system to allow the police force to increase their beat numbers.
(ditto)
4432. Dunno.
Hi,
Please do tell where I can get Far Cry 3....Unless bittorrent has seriously moved into time travel of course...
Ok, let's clarify this...
IT IS NOT FREE!!! I pay a yearly license fee that gets paid into the BBC to provide me with these programs...I PAY. I should receive...Murdoch just wants to make everyone else but him poor
I don't know where you learnt to drive, but unless you have 3 legs, this is already the natural case...you lift your foot off of the accelerator, hence cutting the power, to put that same foot onto the break...If you don't, you should be on a track, not the road...
God, the solution is simple...if you could get a large enough group of people to follow:
Stop buying music for a few months...
If the record companies don't get money in, they can't pay the RIAA which in turn can't pay the lawyers...
The whole stack of cards comes tumbling down and consumers make a bold choice in how we are treated.
The shops that sell CDs will fold, the online distribution channels will fail.
Once this is done, let the music moguls back in on OUR terms, not theirs!
This is consumerism, it is in our hand, but we don't do it...Why? Because the majority of us are not affected by this (and I mean non-slashdotters by that) and getting them to agree to a boycott is like asking blood from a stone...A movement to trigger a music revolution is the only way this will change, although this is a socialist idea and most of the US/UK would rather shoot themselves first...
Karem
I drive a 120,000mile Saab 9-5 late 01 MY02 Aero Estate Auto (Manual's were too rare thus expensive). It has 250BHP from a 2.3litre petrol engine. I love it. It is the best car I have had. I have treated it rough because I bought cheap second hand.
Nobody has mentioned the iconic cup holder...simple, elegant, functional...
Nobody mentioned the dimming of the cockpit for night driving...
How about the auto leveling suspension?
How about the most comfortable seats of ANY car.
I long and hope for Saab's return...
Karem
It's worse than that...Read section (g) again:
by means of any technology now known or later developed
So any future bionic would preclude me from the theatre. Any future technology at anytime in the future...Think about it...And it's
Not only that, but if you take the definition of (g) in the context of (a), you become a criminal even if you use a camera through the viewfinder without even having a tape to record in the machine!
Crazy wording, and I bet it wasn't written by a politician!
Wake me up when the processor is $100
This should be marked funny...
You have:
London Tate Gallery
British Museum
British Library
British Science Museum
British Natural History Museum
London Dungeons
London Eye
London Aquarium
Madame Tussauds
SOHO (just roaming around late at night)
Wembley Stadium for a match or gig if one is on.
River Thames Boat trip.
The Tower of London
Visit the Houses of Parliament
Shakespear Globe tour
Royal Opera House
National Gallery
National Maritime Museum
The list goes on: http://www.visitlondon.com/
Just a word of advice, if you are going for 2 weeks and are relying on the underground, look into getting an Oyster card. This will save you money on using the tube: https://oyster.tfl.gov.uk/oyster/entry.do
1) Reformat and re-install everything
2) Install a firewall.
3) Install an anti-virus.
4) Install an anti-spam
5) Make users users, not administrators.
6) Take a snapshot backup.
7) After 1 month, verify for virus' and or malware...Take a snapshot (for personal files and bookmarks).
If the compute stops, restore step 7)
Steps 1-7 can be replaced with:
1) Install linux. any...
One begins with F and the other with O
1. Why? R&D costs will hurt their shareholders...It is far better for them to keep them as low as possible...And they would need to be able to prove those costs. Secondly, if they did do this then the only thing they are evidently trying to do is prevent their medication from reaching those who really need it...this would be proof of that.
2. This is fine, you could add an "upper" time limit to the patent system. However, this has to come in the same vain as simpler and more transparent accounting practices, agreed.
3. Again, there needs to be changes in accounting and patent/R&D for my ideas to work, agreed.
It would be up to the company to keep the records of costs, not the USPTO...The USPTO could request those records and the company would need to supply them.
It's not like company don't record their R&D costs now anyway!
Well, the assumption here is that the backlog of the patent system is not reduced due to the fact that patent trolls no longer have an interest. So I would say that step 3 would be reduced to 3-6 months.
So:
1) Company starts working on developing new product on Jan. 1, 2000.
2) Company finishes development on Jan 1, 2002 (2 years R&D, and, say, $1 million in costs)
3) Company gets patent after reasonable time for examination/search/etc. on June 1, 2002.
4) Company markets product and makes $1 million in profits over 5 years, causing patent to expire on June 1, 2007.
Company has broken even...It's now up to them to keep the momentum going to stay ahead of the game...keep them innovating or move out of the sector and let someone who can innovate in, not lock them out...
I am curious to know why you think that a company should be allowed to endlessly sit and block human innovation...I believe that the patent system has stiffled not only our innovation for fear of being sued, but also our evolution into new technologies. For example, if a company found a way of reducing to 0 the CO2 emissions from a car but sat there on a patent and charged $10,000 per car, no car would have it and the planet can go to hell...
Sure, but when you wish upon a star...
Oh, and lobbying should be banned...The government is for the people, not the lobbying of interest groups and corporations...
Well, then the idea is not viable...
The solution to the never ending patent rubbish that is coming out is:
1) All R&D needs to be logged (in terms of cost).
2) All patents are protected and valid until the net profit of selling any item has reached the level of costs, or 1 year if no progress on the the patent has been made to monetize anything.
3) After R&D costs are covered, the patent becomes public knowledge and usable in any capacity by anyone.
4) Any litigation from a patent holder can only be back tracked 1 year prior to the declaration of accusation. No, oh you've been abusing my patent since 1985, cough up Billions please...
This will help innovation of new products based on older patents by opening them up as soon as they become viable.
This will stop people sitting on patents (trolls).
You may ask about well, if on the day the patent opens some foreign firm floods the market in cheap XYZ drug...Well, no...Because said company may not develop until the patent has been released...Thus, the lawyers will be happy because they can still litigate companies who abuse this rule, patent holders will have a lead time to get profits, future innovators can innovate still and the whole world will advance much much quicker...
And no, I have not thought through everything and I am sure there are some holes in this that a eagle-eyed slashdotter will notice...but it could be a good starting point.
1) We all had free, unrestricted and unlimited fast Internet links...
2) Our GPU could pull on the idle processing power of all GPUs in the world...
3) Everyone in the world got on with each other...(ok ok, off-topic here)...
Seriously though, there is no way that one could support the network requirements of this...How many Nvidia GPUs are sold a year? F***ing eh...multiply that by the bandwidth require for 25-50fps for a 1080p image...the number is frightening.
Considering that a mobile phone is always in your pocket and being moved around, isn't there a way to tap the kinetic energy to send small recharges to the battery throughout the day. This won't be enough to never have to charge, but may delay the time between charges enough to make it worthwhile...
Like Rolex watches or something.