If your university tasks you to solve a problem and you write code to solve that problem, does your university own the code?
The answer likely depends on your answer to the following question: Are you self-employed, or are you an employee? This is a matter of fact and is determined by conditions of your contract.
If you are an employee, your goose is cooked.
If you are self employed, then you maintain code ownership.
When arranging future contracts with your university, you should ensure that you are self employed.
Here is a quick and dirty calculation you can do yourself the next time you are on the highway.
1) Choose a straight and level section of highway.
2) Get up to the speed limit and take a reading of your tachometer's RPMs.
3) Reduce speed by 10% and take a reading of your tachometer's RPMs.
4) Did your RPMs go down by more or less than 10%?
If your RPMs went down by more than 10%, then you have better fuel efficiency at the reduced speed.
If your RPM's went down by less than 10%, then you have better fuel efficiency at the higher speed.
Wind direction, open windows, and the presence of hills will all have effects on your efficiency. You should strive to eliminate such differences when taking your readings.
I've got 2 gigs of ram and 4 gigs of SSD on my 4G.
If I followed your maths, I'd have no SSD space for my OS.
Actually - I've got a 4 gig swap partition set up on an SD card. However, I never run any programs needing more RAM than what I've got. I suppose the purpose of my swap partition is to keep me from plugging other cards in my only SD slot.
Well this ought to change. My swap partition is going. Thanks for making me think a little.
We have a Rosetta Stone here with the same message repeated a number of times
Top - trinary
Bottom - binary (longer, less efficient than trinary)
MiddleBottom - three English characters translated as UFO
MiddleTop - a hint at how to read MiddleBottom (identifying an F)
Average Joe (fictitional) buys a new computer with the latest hardware and tries to get some Linux distribution to recognize everything. He fails - he would have to wait, say, a year for all of his drivers to be incorporated into the kernel. Well Windows seems to recognize everything - so he installs a Microsoft O/S and thinks he's on the top of the world. He figures it's $100 (or so) well spent because it gives him access to all of his toys.
Currently, hardware manufacturers release Microsoft drivers on release of their products. Until Joe can buy a new computer with a version of Linux recognizing the whole shebang, old Microsoft will maintain its O/S dominance on newly-purchased computers.
Year-old computers are fair game for Linux. It is just hard to get Joe to switch operating systems once he's started on the Microsoft path. I set my 67-year-old mother (not fictitional) up with a 1-year-old Linux box and she is perfectly happy. She does not want to switch to Microsoft because she is used to Linux.
Habits are hard to break. To get Joe on board with Linux, the hardware manufacturers would have to supply Linux drivers quickly. Who is going to get them all to do that?
I am trying - by only buying Linux-supported hardware.
There is now a non-poisonous method to get rid of bees.
Suppose you have a bees nest in the ground next to your house. To get rid of the bees, simply gab away on your cellphone. Make sure your children have cellphones, and ensure they are in constant communication with all of their friends. Ask your cellular service provider to install a communications tower/link (whaterver it's called) on your property.
One final word of advice: I suggest acting immediatley. With many of the world's bees in peril, it won't be long before laws are passed to protect your pest bees.
The pre-preamble contains the text: "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." The whole document uses "license" instead of "licence."
In my part of the world, "licence" is a noun and "license" is a verb (similar to practice (noun) and practise (verb)).
Can I disregard GPL2 because its use of the word "license" is incompatible with my grammar?
Allergy issues caused me to stop using shaving cream over a decade ago. A little hot water and a good razor are all I need.
The problem with most razors, when shaving cream is not in the mix, is that they clog up with hair too quickly. The easiest razor to use without shaving cream is the Bic Metal razor, which unfortunately is no longer available in Canada.
Simply putting a Bic Metal razor (it has a single blade and a black handle - not a white handle) under a small amount of running water for a fraction of a second cleans it out. Each razor lasts about twenty shaves.
Fortunately for me, I bought a lifetime supply of these razors when they were getting hard to find in stores. I hope my supply doesn't rust out.
I wonder if the advent of the multiple blade razor led to the demise of my favourite model.
If you ever install the Microsoft mouse driver from the CD that accompanies the mouse, you'll find that it too calls in each day. Why does a mouse driver need to call in daily?
A better question is: Why install the driver at all? Pretty well every version of Windows recognizes a Microsoft mouse with no need for drivers from the CD.
I picked up The Road to Reality last fall with the intent of refreshing my maths and learning some physics. You see, I had covered all the maths (and more) and some of the physics back in university. Having not kept up with my old studies and wishing that I had done so, this book looked like it was written just for me. I enjoy Penrose's writing style and his unashamed use of formulae.
After working through about a sixth of the tome, I discovered that I do not have the free time this text requires. The only other book I ever had to set down because of its length was "Don Quixote." I plan to finish both books in due time - which may have to wait until I retire.
The game of Scrabble by any other name is not as sweet. If the web site had used a different name, then it would not have drawn the same volume of players. The web site has enjoyed great success due to its name, a name it seemingly was not entitled to use.
What do you do with your print outs? Do they wind up in the filing cabinet, the shredder, the recycle bin, the trash?
I've seen many people trying to be green by chucking their papers in the big blue recycle bin.
I'm sure much of this blue-bin fodder should have been shredded.
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I dislike having to borrow a Windows box every time I want to update my TomTom.
The answer likely depends on your answer to the following question: Are you self-employed, or are you an employee? This is a matter of fact and is determined by conditions of your contract.
If you are an employee, your goose is cooked.
If you are self employed, then you maintain code ownership.
When arranging future contracts with your university, you should ensure that you are self employed.
1) Choose a straight and level section of highway.
2) Get up to the speed limit and take a reading of your tachometer's RPMs.
3) Reduce speed by 10% and take a reading of your tachometer's RPMs.
4) Did your RPMs go down by more or less than 10%?
If your RPMs went down by more than 10%, then you have better fuel efficiency at the reduced speed.
If your RPM's went down by less than 10%, then you have better fuel efficiency at the higher speed.
Wind direction, open windows, and the presence of hills will all have effects on your efficiency. You should strive to eliminate such differences when taking your readings.
Actually - I've got a 4 gig swap partition set up on an SD card. However, I never run any programs needing more RAM than what I've got. I suppose the purpose of my swap partition is to keep me from plugging other cards in my only SD slot.
Well this ought to change. My swap partition is going. Thanks for making me think a little.
We have a Rosetta Stone here with the same message repeated a number of times Top - trinary Bottom - binary (longer, less efficient than trinary) MiddleBottom - three English characters translated as UFO MiddleTop - a hint at how to read MiddleBottom (identifying an F)
Average Joe (fictitional) buys a new computer with the latest hardware and tries to get some Linux distribution to recognize everything.
He fails - he would have to wait, say, a year for all of his drivers to be incorporated into the kernel.
Well Windows seems to recognize everything - so he installs a Microsoft O/S and thinks he's on the top of the world.
He figures it's $100 (or so) well spent because it gives him access to all of his toys.
Currently, hardware manufacturers release Microsoft drivers on release of their products.
Until Joe can buy a new computer with a version of Linux recognizing the whole shebang, old Microsoft will maintain its O/S dominance on newly-purchased computers.
Year-old computers are fair game for Linux.
It is just hard to get Joe to switch operating systems once he's started on the Microsoft path.
I set my 67-year-old mother (not fictitional) up with a 1-year-old Linux box and she is perfectly happy.
She does not want to switch to Microsoft because she is used to Linux.
Habits are hard to break.
To get Joe on board with Linux, the hardware manufacturers would have to supply Linux drivers quickly.
Who is going to get them all to do that?
I am trying - by only buying Linux-supported hardware.
There is now a non-poisonous method to get rid of bees.
Suppose you have a bees nest in the ground next to your house.
To get rid of the bees, simply gab away on your cellphone.
Make sure your children have cellphones, and ensure they are in constant communication with all of their friends.
Ask your cellular service provider to install a communications tower/link (whaterver it's called) on your property.
One final word of advice: I suggest acting immediatley.
With many of the world's bees in peril, it won't be long before laws are passed to protect your pest bees.
The Canada Revenue Agency sets up security rules here in Canada for third-party e-filers:n f
http://www.efile.cra.gc.ca/eol-security-e.html#co
The article didn't mention what sort of security rules are enforced in the US.
Does the IRS have similar rules to what we have in Canada?
Sorry all - wrong post - was meant for an earlier article
Anyone looking for the GNU 2 licence may find it at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
The pre-preamble contains the text:
"Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."
The whole document uses "license" instead of "licence."
In my part of the world, "licence" is a noun and "license" is a verb
(similar to practice (noun) and practise (verb)).
Can I disregard GPL2 because its use of the word "license" is incompatible with my grammar?
The problem with most razors, when shaving cream is not in the mix, is that they clog up with hair too quickly. The easiest razor to use without shaving cream is the Bic Metal razor, which unfortunately is no longer available in Canada.
Simply putting a Bic Metal razor (it has a single blade and a black handle - not a white handle) under a small amount of running water for a fraction of a second cleans it out. Each razor lasts about twenty shaves.
Fortunately for me, I bought a lifetime supply of these razors when they were getting hard to find in stores. I hope my supply doesn't rust out.
I wonder if the advent of the multiple blade razor led to the demise of my favourite model.
If you ever install the Microsoft mouse driver from the CD that accompanies the mouse, you'll find that it too calls in each day.
Why does a mouse driver need to call in daily?
A better question is: Why install the driver at all?
Pretty well every version of Windows recognizes a Microsoft mouse with no need for drivers from the CD.
If 8,000 barges work this year, how many will be needed next year, and the year after that? I wonder what sort of mathematical progression is planned.
At the following link you can see a picture of the man (at least I think it's him).
? person_id=336;mode=contact
http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/display/index.html
After working through about a sixth of the tome, I discovered that I do not have the free time this text requires. The only other book I ever had to set down because of its length was "Don Quixote." I plan to finish both books in due time - which may have to wait until I retire.
The game of Scrabble by any other name is not as sweet. If the web site had used a different name, then it would not have drawn the same volume of players. The web site has enjoyed great success due to its name, a name it seemingly was not entitled to use.
What do you do with your print outs? Do they wind up in the filing cabinet, the shredder, the recycle bin, the trash? I've seen many people trying to be green by chucking their papers in the big blue recycle bin. I'm sure much of this blue-bin fodder should have been shredded.