About 15 years ago, I knew one engineer at the Johnson Space Center area who accepted early retirement from IBM division there and accepted a job with another NASA contractor on a project that was not in competition with IBM. The terms of his early retirement agreement specified that he could not work for another company in competition with IBM.
IBM nixed that about two weeks after his retirement and before he started at the other job. Their reasoning was that they might want to bid on that contract later and he would then be violating the terms of his agreement.
A lawsuit with IBM to enforce his rights would have ended his retirement plan with IBM as well.
It really left him in a bind for quite a while.
A solution like yours would have helped him enormously.
WA has one of the most zealous state highway patrol forces in the nation. Just don't exceed 10 over the limit here.
For what it's worth, I got a speeding ticket on Highway 83 about three miles north of Aspermont, Texas one Christmas Eve for doing 1 mph over the speed limit.
My spedometer didn't work and so I had no idea how fast I was going. It really thew me when he said I was doing 56 in a 55.
Fortunately, it was issued as a warning and didn't cost me any money.
It would be more interesting to return to the days when 12 m (noon) meant the sun was at the meridien.
One big change would be on those occasional news shows where they show a line of clocks showing the time in various locations. The minute hand is completely wasted because only the hour hand is different.
Mine all have a normal layout. The backspace key is where it should be.
Well, kind of normal, any way.
One is completely normal and the other two have a windoze key on each side and some little key that I have no idea what it does. My IBM keyboards have the same key layout including that unknown key.
What I like about the keyboards is they actually have enough weight to feel comfortable and because of the rock solid key action. I've never used another keyboard that worked so well.
I really like the Compaq keyboards of a few years ago. I have three that I know of and they are all in use.
One thing they didn't list, but should have listed, is three button mice. I finally gave up trying to find a three button optical mouse last week and ordered a couple of the modern version of three button mice consisting of two buttons and a mouse wheel. I would have much preferred three real mouse buttons.
My suggestion would be to make backups but store at least one recent off-site in a safety deposit box in a bank.
My preference is that the bank be at least 20 miles away, preferably more. In Florida, that 20 or more miles would be in a direction away from the ocean or likely flooding areas.
The next logical step is to represent themselves as 419 scam artists who have received enormous amounts of money from the scams and need to move large amounts of cash out of the country. In return for them transferring the money, say $20,000,000, to your bank account, you will be able to keep 25%.
I was referring to the last book that was released. Not the last book of the series that hasn't even been written yet as far as I know. And not the next book to be released, which will be at 12:01 am Saturday morning.
And it was the real book, not fan fiction. If it had been fan fiction, I would not have thought it worth mentioning.
A little after noon (Central Standard Time) on the Saturday of the last book release, I made a comment elsewhere that I figured it would be on the Internet within three days.
Someone else posted a comment that it was likely already available.
So I went to Usenet and looked and there it was in pdf, Microsoft Reader (lit), and text formats.
I was all ready to buy one of those until I saw the price.
If I tried one and I liked it, I might pay for it, but not just on the chance that it might be worthwhile.
If it did work, the real question would be whether or not to replace all 6 keyboards in my office with them. I wonder how it would work to link KVM switches to KVM switches (a KVM switch tree?) and reduce the number of keyboards to one.
The only computer thief I know probably doesn't have the vaguest idea how to spell "firewall".
The punk can't even pass in the easiest school they could find for him to go to 200 miles from home. He turns 18 in a month and you can bet he'll never step foot in another school building unless it is as a janitor or something.
Most of his friends are equally brilliant.
However, if it does pass through a dozen hands, it might still be recoverable even if they can't identify the original thief. It doesn't matter if the person who ends up with it thought he bought it in an honest transaction -- it is still stolen and returnable to its rightful owner.
Whether or not it ever makes it back to the owner is another story even if it is siezed by the police. I have the impression that they often don't make that big an effort to return it to the owner.
From what I understand, it's not uncommon in crowded apartment complexes for people using wireless cards to have rotten connections because of all the radio noise from their neighbors using wireless.
In some cases, the only way to use their wireless is to shut off their AP and use a neighbor's instead.
On a much smaller scale, I know a guy (via the Internet) who was supposed to buy a box of envelopes for his office. He accidentally bought several cartons of envelopes instead.
He kept his job and they have enough envelopes to last for years.
I am curious whether or not SCO can/will use this as a reason to delay the IBM suit.
If the IBM suit depends at all on who does own the copyrights, what do you bet SCO will ask the court to delay until after their lawsuit against Novell is decided.
If this were a copyright lawsuit, you would be correct.
But it is not a copyright lawsuit. It is a slander of title lawsuit.
For SCO to win, they must prove several things including that they own the copyrights and that Novell knew that SCO owned those copyrights when they made their statements that they owned them.
Thus, if Novell's belief that they own the copyrights is reasonable, then as far as this lawsuit goes, Novell should win regardless of whether or not they own the copyrights.
I hope that any patents that exist, or will exist, controlling any of the new architecture will have expired before it is adopted into general use.
Of course, we won't see that. This is Microsoft's opportunity to own the Internet. Watch them patent everything they can that has anything to do with network architecture, no matter how far out.
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My gut feeling is that the end result will be to make spyware easier to install and harder to get rid of.
I'm buying my Gulf Coast beach front property near Abilene, Texas while it's cheap.
That sounds like a great approach.
About 15 years ago, I knew one engineer at the Johnson Space Center area who accepted early retirement from IBM division there and accepted a job with another NASA contractor on a project that was not in competition with IBM. The terms of his early retirement agreement specified that he could not work for another company in competition with IBM.
IBM nixed that about two weeks after his retirement and before he started at the other job. Their reasoning was that they might want to bid on that contract later and he would then be violating the terms of his agreement.
A lawsuit with IBM to enforce his rights would have ended his retirement plan with IBM as well.
It really left him in a bind for quite a while.
A solution like yours would have helped him enormously.
I don't think so.
My understanding is that when you are sentenced to X months at a federal facility, you spend X months there. There are no early releases or paroles.
That assumes, of course, that he doesn't have a smart lawyer trying to overturn it.
For what it's worth, I got a speeding ticket on Highway 83 about three miles north of Aspermont, Texas one Christmas Eve for doing 1 mph over the speed limit.
My spedometer didn't work and so I had no idea how fast I was going. It really thew me when he said I was doing 56 in a 55.
Fortunately, it was issued as a warning and didn't cost me any money.
It would be more interesting to return to the days when 12 m (noon) meant the sun was at the meridien.
One big change would be on those occasional news shows where they show a line of clocks showing the time in various locations. The minute hand is completely wasted because only the hour hand is different.
Mine all have a normal layout. The backspace key is where it should be.
Well, kind of normal, any way.
One is completely normal and the other two have a windoze key on each side and some little key that I have no idea what it does. My IBM keyboards have the same key layout including that unknown key.
What I like about the keyboards is they actually have enough weight to feel comfortable and because of the rock solid key action. I've never used another keyboard that worked so well.
I really like the Compaq keyboards of a few years ago. I have three that I know of and they are all in use.
One thing they didn't list, but should have listed, is three button mice. I finally gave up trying to find a three button optical mouse last week and ordered a couple of the modern version of three button mice consisting of two buttons and a mouse wheel. I would have much preferred three real mouse buttons.
From Opera 8.01 on Suse Linux 9.3, it makes for a rather useless, do-nothing homepage
Yeah, but Microsoft Windows FU might be a more appropriate name.
In some cases, failing to make a timely objection may result in the loss of a winnable case.
I have no idea if it would apply in this particular instance.
My suggestion would be to make backups but store at least one recent off-site in a safety deposit box in a bank.
My preference is that the bank be at least 20 miles away, preferably more. In Florida, that 20 or more miles would be in a direction away from the ocean or likely flooding areas.
The next logical step is to represent themselves as 419 scam artists who have received enormous amounts of money from the scams and need to move large amounts of cash out of the country. In return for them transferring the money, say $20,000,000, to your bank account, you will be able to keep 25%.
Those without arms will have to go to other amusement parks.
I was referring to the last book that was released. Not the last book of the series that hasn't even been written yet as far as I know. And not the next book to be released, which will be at 12:01 am Saturday morning.
And it was the real book, not fan fiction. If it had been fan fiction, I would not have thought it worth mentioning.
A little after noon (Central Standard Time) on the Saturday of the last book release, I made a comment elsewhere that I figured it would be on the Internet within three days.
Someone else posted a comment that it was likely already available.
So I went to Usenet and looked and there it was in pdf, Microsoft Reader (lit), and text formats.
I was all ready to buy one of those until I saw the price.
If I tried one and I liked it, I might pay for it, but not just on the chance that it might be worthwhile.
If it did work, the real question would be whether or not to replace all 6 keyboards in my office with them. I wonder how it would work to link KVM switches to KVM switches (a KVM switch tree?) and reduce the number of keyboards to one.
The only computer thief I know probably doesn't have the vaguest idea how to spell "firewall".
The punk can't even pass in the easiest school they could find for him to go to 200 miles from home. He turns 18 in a month and you can bet he'll never step foot in another school building unless it is as a janitor or something.
Most of his friends are equally brilliant.
However, if it does pass through a dozen hands, it might still be recoverable even if they can't identify the original thief. It doesn't matter if the person who ends up with it thought he bought it in an honest transaction -- it is still stolen and returnable to its rightful owner.
Whether or not it ever makes it back to the owner is another story even if it is siezed by the police. I have the impression that they often don't make that big an effort to return it to the owner.
From what I understand, it's not uncommon in crowded apartment complexes for people using wireless cards to have rotten connections because of all the radio noise from their neighbors using wireless.
In some cases, the only way to use their wireless is to shut off their AP and use a neighbor's instead.
From "softwear" to "software"?
On a much smaller scale, I know a guy (via the Internet) who was supposed to buy a box of envelopes for his office. He accidentally bought several cartons of envelopes instead.
He kept his job and they have enough envelopes to last for years.
We'll never let him forget it, though.
One other thing.
I am curious whether or not SCO can/will use this as a reason to delay the IBM suit.
If the IBM suit depends at all on who does own the copyrights, what do you bet SCO will ask the court to delay until after their lawsuit against Novell is decided.
If this were a copyright lawsuit, you would be correct.
But it is not a copyright lawsuit. It is a slander of title lawsuit.
For SCO to win, they must prove several things including that they own the copyrights and that Novell knew that SCO owned those copyrights when they made their statements that they owned them.
Thus, if Novell's belief that they own the copyrights is reasonable, then as far as this lawsuit goes, Novell should win regardless of whether or not they own the copyrights.
I hope that any patents that exist, or will exist, controlling any of the new architecture will have expired before it is adopted into general use.
Of course, we won't see that. This is Microsoft's opportunity to own the Internet. Watch them patent everything they can that has anything to do with network architecture, no matter how far out.
I know one family who bought themselves a tv in the mid 60s.
They watched it about a week, got tired of what was on it, and put it away in the attic.
They haven't brought it down or replaced it since then.