Post-employment non-compete agreements without any compensation are completely unenforceable. I'm not a lawyer, but I've talked to plenty on this very subject. I work in an industry with very stiff non-competes - When I left my last job, they made me sit out (not do any competing work) for 3 months. But they had to pay me for the privilege. And I could have given up the money and moved on sooner. And claiming rights to your post-employment inventions? Crazy. They'd have to fight your next employer, who has a MUCH better claim. So feel free to sign - it's a bogus agreement.
Look at FE Warren AFB in Cheyenne WY for an example - all of the silos are to the east of the city - and notice that only low res imagery is available. Even for bases where the silo are LONG (40 + years) deactivated, like in upstate NY and vermont, it's the same. (look to the east and west of where there were Atlas silos, deactivated in the 1960s.)
or here, NE of sturgis, SD (part of the Sqdns assigned to Ellsworth AFB
though this area - part of the same vintage as the upstate NY/VT missles (Atlas') has higher res imagery: (this is a silo site that's a museum, south of Dyess AFB in Abeleine, TX)
Back in the day when AvWeek was fat with cold war coverage, that was their nickname - good to see that they're back! Boeing, Airbus, RJs & the airline bankruptcy du jour was getting a little boring.
What do they mean that they "pay"?????? I pay for those lines every month!!! Rarely do these articles mention that they ARE ALREADY GETTING PAID FOR THIS STUFF!!! Typical phone company cr*ppy customer service - they forget that me, the customer, is PAYING for a service: namely, unfiltered internet access. Could a customer sue if they started degrading the QOS for Google and others they can't extort money from? What am I thinking? They've alredy probably slipped something into the TOS that I "agreed" to that allows them to do it.
Not to replace all the dead tree books that I read, but primarily for the newspaper, blogs, newsgroups, some magazines, work trade rags. You can stuff any content you want on this thing (I've read about html & Pdf) - so I could read all the stuff that I currently read online but have to sit in front of a computer for, during my commute (I take the train or my wife drives). Not to mention all of the references that I'd love to carry. Forget e-books - the value of this thing is reading online content without being in front of a computer.
I read the WSJ online everyday. Not the whole paper mind you, but the bits I want, which are easy to extract becasue of their fantastic layout. Web Front page is configurable, but by default comes with "what's new" , much like the middle section of the dead tree Journal, Links & summaries to the stories that were on the dead tree Front page under that, and links to columns & opinion on the right. All stories and pages are layed out for the web. If you want a pdf of the paper, you have to go explicitly get it.
One click takes you to a text only table of contents for the day's paper. Most stories have a headline & a sentence or two on what it's about, making picking what you want to read easy.
Only complaint - RSS feeds were useless. ONLY headlines, no first couple of lines, made it very unusable.
Now remember - compared to the average local paper, the WSJ's content is like NPR compared to the local radio station news - in depth, and accurate. Don't go looking for a quickie roundup of the day's news. And, unlike NPR, though the editorial board of the WSJ is slightly right of Atilla the Hun, NONE of it comes through the stories. They are (truly) objective presentations of the facts. Yes, there is a business concentration to their choice of stories, but it the same paper when the editorials can compare unions to terrorists, they can present very balanced stories about unions striking.
"When asked about the possible ecological effects on marine life the military had no comment."
The big BOOM when the torpedo hits would be lot worse for the marine life, and a whole lot worse for THE PEOPLE involved. Pardon me for being speciesist, but I'd sacrifice a whole lot of fish to save A PERSON!!!!.
I worked in Nuclear Power and Aerospace for 7 years after leaving Uncle Sam's employ (USN). I now work for a financial company, in quantitative research, basically doing engineering analysis every day. I've worked in the financial world for 3 years. I MAKE OVER DOUBLE WHAT I WAS MAKING IN ENGINEERING WHEN I LEFT, AND I'M CONSIDERED A JUNIOR TO MID-LEVEL GUY (and I was fairly senior when I left the "engineerin" world). The work is no harder. The fact remains that engineering still requires relatively smart people, and, unlike 40 years ago, there are far more lucrative places to work for those guys. Every guy in my 20 person group is an "ex-"engineer, except for 3 econometricians and 2 mathematicians.
I agree, but unfortunately, sarcasim doesn't get action from your elected 'representatives.' You have to give them the ability to wrap themselves in the flag.
Here is what I sent - including a nice sound bite that anyone could use to attack the root of the MPAAs arguments, very simply.
As a constituent and a proponent of innovation, I'm registering my opposition to any Broadcast Flag amendment introduced in the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations subcommittee mark-up on Tuesday, or in full committee on Thursday.
If you read nothing else, I can summarize this letter with one sentence:
"Real American Companies Innovate, not Legislate."
The so-called Broadcast Flag is an abomination and needs to be rejected by the Senate. It will do nothing to stop large-scale piracy, and will only serve to limit the fair-use rights of American citizens to time shift television programs, save them for later viewing or view tv programs at a family member's home. Authorizing the broadcast flag will force innovative consumer electronics companies to ask for Hollywood permission before introducing new products. (Note how quickly the cable industry has approved "Cable Cards" for receiving digital cable, to enable digital-cable-ready TVs - After two years, there is exactly one approved.)
The history here is clear. Large sheet music companies tried to sue the nascent recording industry out of existence. Radio tried to stop TV. Large media companies tried to sue the VCR out of existence. Only after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of fair use did they realize the revenue stream available to them. They sued the first makers of MP3 players. They sued ReplayTV into bankruptcy because they dared to introduce an innovative product without the MPAA's permission. If the broadcast flag and similar legislative tools had been around for the last 100 years, we wouldn't have the record players, tape decks, television, VCR, iPods, TiVos or computer DVD recorders. These tools have helped democratize content creation, distribution & consumption by putting citizens/customers in charge of their home-made movies, music, and photographs. The media revolution IS the story of American Capitalism at it's best.
In addition, if recording off-the-air was forbidden, innovative teachers would have had substantially less material for thier class. Many routinely use clips from broadcast documentaries to enliven thier classes. All this would have to bow to the MPAA's desire to protect their old revenue stream.
Please vote against the Broadcast Flag. It is simply a power grab by the large media companies, intended to protect their current revenue stream, without having to innovate, like every other sucessful American company has to. Send them a message - "Real American Companies Innovate, not Legislate."
Now there are even fewer errors - new torahs from reputable sofers are computer checked. Each page is scanned and compared to a master - every error is flagged.
I work for one of the world's largest hedge funds and we're just about at the end of eliminating alot (100's) of Solaris boxen, including some Sun Fire E20K & E25K minis, for fewer Red Hat Linux on Dell. The kicker - it wasn't entirely a cost issue. We got tired of the Sun Boxes (including the Sun Fires) going down on hardware failures (CPU & Mem), and the Dells have better performance and are more easily and more cheaply upgraded.
The 9th circuit is often overturned at the Supreme Court (Yes, they handle more cases than any other circuit, and yes, normalized for that they still get overturned nearly the most frequently). That having been said, confirming a summary judgement at the district court, is certainly a good sign that the court system in this country, though slow, does eventually get it mostly right. Then Congress screws it all up.
Mostly, IBM uses it's patent portfolio defensively - just to allow it to do anything it wants without fear from some ridiculous lawsuit. Though I am sure they sue egregious offenders offensively, I don't think I've heard of any high-profile case like on-click or the like with IBM at the plantiff's table.
It's called an Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) and it's a 600 lb piece of spinning metal that uses the gyroscopic precession to force the station to turn (or not).
And if anyone had read the artical - it's apparently a problem with the breaker (called a Remote Power Controlller, or RPC) that turns it on and off, not the CMG itself.
What are you people whining about??? It's FREE. As in beer. If you are using a Hotmail/Yahoo/Gmail account for sensitive info, then you deserve to have it stolen/misused/abused. You get what you pay for. TANSTAAFL.
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The point is NOT that Manned space flight is more cost-efficient. The point can be summed up in one statement: "No Buck Rogers, No bucks."
Support for robotic exploration is limited. Can you say "JIMO" (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter)? Or Kuiper Express?
Even with the the success of Spirit/Opportunity, these valuable missions are endangered. (Kuiper is all but dead - it's on hold and the probablity of restart prior to a rapidly approaching launch window are slim to none. JIMO on life support and anti-nuclear Hysterics are yanking on the respirator plug.)
Only the presence of humans has the possibility of of sparking the imagination. No child dreams of growing up to be "Spirit." Plenty dream of being an astronaut.
The store theft detectors are not RFID scanners - they are highly "tuned" metal detectors. If it was the 20's setting it off, then it was probably the "USA $20" strip which has minute traces of metal.
Though I would add that this is a good one for Mythbusters!!!
I would agree that Directnic's free web hosting stinks, but what to you expect for FREE??
Their domain management tools are SUPERB. You have complete control via a web interface, they do mail aliases and small lists, and will even do pop mailboxes if you feel like it. Don't know about the bulk stuff, never done it.
It's a simple as that. A Radio license is not a right, but a priviledge, and knowing who holds them (and might be abusing them) is in the public interest.
In twenty years of working I've had one job like that. I lasted six months, and have never been happier to quit a job. Want to punch a clock? Get a real blue-collar job that pays real overtime.
Hell, even when I was in the Navy, nobody bitched about a minute or two here or there, as long as it didn't become a habit. Except for that one job I mentioned before, I've worked for places where as long as I was productive, the time didn't really matter. Most have had expectations that I would work a "normal" day, but the only times I was expected to hit perfectly were meetings with others, expecially customers.
I've also worked shiftwork where I was actually relieving someone, as part of a team. Even there, as long as you were prepared to assume the watch on time, it didn't matter if you were there an hour before or 5 minutes before. Go Find Another Job
Yes, they're not easy to come by, but the long-term effects of working at a job like yours SUCK!
I worked in aerospace for a long time, and you have to fill out timecards (not punch-in/out, just record the daily total). Even that Sucks. When I went to work as a lead at a very small company, the first thing we did was get rid of timecards, unless we were billing the customer by the hour. And even then, you didn't have to account for every hour of every day. But remember the flip side
In really god jobs like that, you won't need to take time off to head home early because of a sick kid. But you won't get paid for working Sunday because a big project is due. Overall, I like that trade. If you want to only work your 8 and go home come hell or high water, you've already got a clock-puncher mentality.
Do you want to truly be treated like a professional? Then demand it, and act like it. If the current job won't give it to you, move on!
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It's just a more accurate device for the guts of an Inertial Navigation system. .
Post-employment non-compete agreements without any compensation are completely unenforceable. I'm not a lawyer, but I've talked to plenty on this very subject. I work in an industry with very stiff non-competes - When I left my last job, they made me sit out (not do any competing work) for 3 months. But they had to pay me for the privilege. And I could have given up the money and moved on sooner. And claiming rights to your post-employment inventions? Crazy. They'd have to fight your next employer, who has a MUCH better claim. So feel free to sign - it's a bogus agreement.
Look at FE Warren AFB in Cheyenne WY for an example -
all of the silos are to the east of the city - and notice that only low res imagery is available. Even for bases where the silo are LONG (40 + years) deactivated, like in upstate NY and vermont, it's the same.
(look to the east and west of
where there were Atlas silos, deactivated in the 1960s.)
or here, NE of sturgis, SD (part of the Sqdns assigned to Ellsworth AFB
though this area - part of the same vintage as the upstate NY/VT missles (Atlas') has higher res imagery: (this is a silo site that's a museum, south of Dyess AFB in Abeleine, TX)
Back in the day when AvWeek was fat with cold war coverage, that was their nickname - good to see that they're back! Boeing, Airbus, RJs & the airline bankruptcy du jour was getting a little boring.
What do they mean that they "pay"?????? I pay for those lines every month!!! Rarely do these articles mention that they ARE ALREADY GETTING PAID FOR THIS STUFF!!! Typical phone company cr*ppy customer service - they forget that me, the customer, is PAYING for a service: namely, unfiltered internet access. Could a customer sue if they started degrading the QOS for Google and others they can't extort money from? What am I thinking? They've alredy probably slipped something into the TOS that I "agreed" to that allows them to do it.
Not to replace all the dead tree books that I read, but primarily for the newspaper, blogs, newsgroups, some magazines, work trade rags. You can stuff any content you want on this thing (I've read about html & Pdf) - so I could read all the stuff that I currently read online but have to sit in front of a computer for, during my commute (I take the train or my wife drives). Not to mention all of the references that I'd love to carry. Forget e-books - the value of this thing is reading online content without being in front of a computer.
I read the WSJ online everyday. Not the whole paper mind you, but the bits I want, which are easy to extract becasue of their fantastic layout. Web Front page is configurable, but by default comes with "what's new" , much like the middle section of the dead tree Journal, Links & summaries to the stories that were on the dead tree Front page under that, and links to columns & opinion on the right. All stories and pages are layed out for the web. If you want a pdf of the paper, you have to go explicitly get it. One click takes you to a text only table of contents for the day's paper. Most stories have a headline & a sentence or two on what it's about, making picking what you want to read easy. Only complaint - RSS feeds were useless. ONLY headlines, no first couple of lines, made it very unusable. Now remember - compared to the average local paper, the WSJ's content is like NPR compared to the local radio station news - in depth, and accurate. Don't go looking for a quickie roundup of the day's news. And, unlike NPR, though the editorial board of the WSJ is slightly right of Atilla the Hun, NONE of it comes through the stories. They are (truly) objective presentations of the facts. Yes, there is a business concentration to their choice of stories, but it the same paper when the editorials can compare unions to terrorists, they can present very balanced stories about unions striking.
"When asked about the possible ecological effects on marine life the military had no comment."
The big BOOM when the torpedo hits would be lot worse for the marine life, and a whole lot worse for THE PEOPLE involved. Pardon me for being speciesist, but I'd sacrifice a whole lot of fish to save A PERSON!!!!.
I worked in Nuclear Power and Aerospace for 7 years after leaving Uncle Sam's employ (USN). I now work for a financial company, in quantitative research, basically doing engineering analysis every day. I've worked in the financial world for 3 years. I MAKE OVER DOUBLE WHAT I WAS MAKING IN ENGINEERING WHEN I LEFT, AND I'M CONSIDERED A JUNIOR TO MID-LEVEL GUY (and I was fairly senior when I left the "engineerin" world). The work is no harder. The fact remains that engineering still requires relatively smart people, and, unlike 40 years ago, there are far more lucrative places to work for those guys. Every guy in my 20 person group is an "ex-"engineer, except for 3 econometricians and 2 mathematicians.
I agree, but unfortunately, sarcasim doesn't get action from your elected 'representatives.' You have to give them the ability to wrap themselves in the flag.
Here is what I sent - including a nice sound bite that anyone could use to attack the root of the MPAAs arguments, very simply. As a constituent and a proponent of innovation, I'm registering my opposition to any Broadcast Flag amendment introduced in the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations subcommittee mark-up on Tuesday, or in full committee on Thursday.
If you read nothing else, I can summarize this letter with one sentence:
"Real American Companies Innovate, not Legislate."
The so-called Broadcast Flag is an abomination and needs to be rejected by the Senate. It will do nothing to stop large-scale piracy, and will only serve to limit the fair-use rights of American citizens to time shift television programs, save them for later viewing or view tv programs at a family member's home. Authorizing the broadcast flag will force innovative consumer electronics companies to ask for Hollywood permission before introducing new products. (Note how quickly the cable industry has approved "Cable Cards" for receiving digital cable, to enable digital-cable-ready TVs - After two years, there is exactly one approved.)
The history here is clear. Large sheet music companies tried to sue the nascent recording industry out of existence. Radio tried to stop TV. Large media companies tried to sue the VCR out of existence. Only after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of fair use did they realize the revenue stream available to them. They sued the first makers of MP3 players. They sued ReplayTV into bankruptcy because they dared to introduce an innovative product without the MPAA's permission. If the broadcast flag and similar legislative tools had been around for the last 100 years, we wouldn't have the record players, tape decks, television, VCR, iPods, TiVos or computer DVD recorders. These tools have helped democratize content creation, distribution & consumption by putting citizens/customers in charge of their home-made movies, music, and photographs. The media revolution IS the story of American Capitalism at it's best.
In addition, if recording off-the-air was forbidden, innovative teachers would have had substantially less material for thier class. Many routinely use clips from broadcast documentaries to enliven thier classes. All this would have to bow to the MPAA's desire to protect their old revenue stream.
Please vote against the Broadcast Flag. It is simply a power grab by the large media companies, intended to protect their current revenue stream, without having to innovate, like every other sucessful American company has to. Send them a message - "Real American Companies Innovate, not Legislate."
The problem is that to check it later, you'd have to scrape some off. That's intentionally damaging it, which is forbidden.
Obviously you didn't read the article. Maton Ot, the second registry, does this very thing.
Now there are even fewer errors - new torahs from reputable sofers are computer checked. Each page is scanned and compared to a master - every error is flagged.
I work for one of the world's largest hedge funds and we're just about at the end of eliminating alot (100's) of Solaris boxen, including some Sun Fire E20K & E25K minis, for fewer Red Hat Linux on Dell. The kicker - it wasn't entirely a cost issue. We got tired of the Sun Boxes (including the Sun Fires) going down on hardware failures (CPU & Mem), and the Dells have better performance and are more easily and more cheaply upgraded.
The 9th circuit is often overturned at the Supreme Court (Yes, they handle more cases than any other circuit, and yes, normalized for that they still get overturned nearly the most frequently). That having been said, confirming a summary judgement at the district court, is certainly a good sign that the court system in this country, though slow, does eventually get it mostly right. Then Congress screws it all up.
Mostly, IBM uses it's patent portfolio defensively - just to allow it to do anything it wants without fear from some ridiculous lawsuit. Though I am sure they sue egregious offenders offensively, I don't think I've heard of any high-profile case like on-click or the like with IBM at the plantiff's table.
Marc
It's called an Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) and it's a 600 lb piece of spinning metal that uses the gyroscopic precession to force the station to turn (or not).
And if anyone had read the artical - it's apparently a problem with the breaker (called a Remote Power Controlller, or RPC) that turns it on and off, not the CMG itself.
What are you people whining about??? It's FREE. As in beer. If you are using a Hotmail/Yahoo/Gmail account for sensitive info, then you deserve to have it stolen/misused/abused. You get what you pay for. TANSTAAFL.
The point is NOT that Manned space flight is more cost-efficient. The point can be summed up in one statement:
"No Buck Rogers, No bucks."
Support for robotic exploration is limited. Can you say "JIMO" (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter)? Or Kuiper Express?
Even with the the success of Spirit/Opportunity, these valuable missions are endangered. (Kuiper is all but dead - it's on hold and the probablity of restart prior to a rapidly approaching launch window are slim to none. JIMO on life support and anti-nuclear Hysterics are yanking on the respirator plug.)
Only the presence of humans has the possibility of of sparking the imagination. No child dreams of growing up to be "Spirit." Plenty dream of being an astronaut.
The store theft detectors are not RFID scanners - they are highly "tuned" metal detectors. If it was the 20's setting it off, then it was probably the "USA $20" strip which has minute traces of metal.
Though I would add that this is a good one for Mythbusters!!!
Power One:
Finance, Scientific, Graphing flavors.
Infinity Softworks
Alot like the HP, TI power scientific calcs. Has Pocket PC & Palm versions
CmplxCalcPro:
Has a powerful programming capability, but the UI is a bit rough. Only Palm, I think.
ADACS
I would agree that Directnic's free web hosting stinks, but what to you expect for FREE??
Their domain management tools are SUPERB. You have complete control via a web interface, they do mail aliases and small lists, and will even do pop mailboxes if you feel like it. Don't know about the bulk stuff, never done it.
It's a simple as that. A Radio license is not a right, but a priviledge, and knowing who holds them (and might be abusing them) is in the public interest.
In twenty years of working I've had one job like that. I lasted six months, and have never been happier to quit a job. Want to punch a clock? Get a real blue-collar job that pays real overtime.
Hell, even when I was in the Navy, nobody bitched about a minute or two here or there, as long as it didn't become a habit. Except for that one job I mentioned before, I've worked for places where as long as I was productive, the time didn't really matter. Most have had expectations that I would work a "normal" day, but the only times I was expected to hit perfectly were meetings with others, expecially customers.
I've also worked shiftwork where I was actually relieving someone, as part of a team. Even there, as long as you were prepared to assume the watch on time, it didn't matter if you were there an hour before or 5 minutes before.
Go Find Another Job
Yes, they're not easy to come by, but the long-term effects of working at a job like yours SUCK!
I worked in aerospace for a long time, and you have to fill out timecards (not punch-in/out, just record the daily total). Even that Sucks. When I went to work as a lead at a very small company, the first thing we did was get rid of timecards, unless we were billing the customer by the hour. And even then, you didn't have to account for every hour of every day.
But remember the flip side
In really god jobs like that, you won't need to take time off to head home early because of a sick kid. But you won't get paid for working Sunday because a big project is due. Overall, I like that trade. If you want to only work your 8 and go home come hell or high water, you've already got a clock-puncher mentality.
Do you want to truly be treated like a professional? Then demand it, and act like it. If the current job won't give it to you, move on!