. ..he directed a trilogy of movies based on a literary landmark (which is very often sold in a boxed set), . . .
Remember, it isn't three separate moves, it is one movie split into three parts for easy viewing. Besides, it isn't like he didn't expect a box set, he just didn't know about this specific box set release.
This is way off topic, but it was in your signature line. I was listening to an interview with Matt Groening on Fresh Air (I think) and he explained this point. He was trying to make it a point that Bart hates his father but loves this clone that looks exactly like his father.
You can listen to the interview online. I may be remembering a different interview, but I am quite sure that the similarities between Homer and Krusty was intentional.
This technology / product is a very long time in the making. Way back in 1992 and 1994 there were some articles in Popular Science about this technology and its applications.
The tune really has not changed that much. At the time the speed and capasity estimates were very impressive. As a frame of reference I just got my top of the line 1 gigabyte SCSI hard drive for my 486. It would be nice if this technology actually hit the market this time. . . .
I have had similar experience to this before. A lot of times it will slip through the cracks. If they are diligent they may audit your employee file a few times while you work there, but they may not mention it until you are leaving.
There are certain laws in effect regardless of the contract signed or not signed. That depends on the state you work in. Again this would be a reason to consult a lawyer. You may get them to change it, only to find out that it doesn't make any difference and they still own your butt.
It is interesting that you would suggest this. A friend of mine was working for a computer company and did some computer consulting on the side.
He was installing a backup system for some big company, and didn't realize that the backup system was incompatible with their database. The result was he destroyed their entire database. Very bad situation. They were threatening to sue him.
He hadn't billed them, or presented any contract to them at this point. This company had actually purchased their PC's and some other services from his employer, so he let his freelance consulting services fall under services provided by his employer. His logic was that he would rather loose his job then pay the legal fees or damages. Since he had a similar (we own you) agreement with his employer that was the way it technically should have been.
Turns out the employer had a no-fault clause in a service contract this company signed, so they couldn't sue anyone. The whole situation just kind of went away. As far as I know his employer didn?t even reprimand him for it. Not sure how he worked it out, but he kept his job and got promoted a few times after.
I applied for a sales position at Radio Shack right out of high school, back in the 90s. They wanted me to sign an agreement that would give them everything. If I sold something on commission for someone else (like door to door encyclopedias) then they got the commission. If I wrote a book, wrote a program, sang a song, etc. I read the paper a few times and finally asked about it. They said that was the way it worked and that they had real problems with people violating it in the past, so they strictly enforced it. They said I could consider it over night.
I spoke with my Dad about it. He had worked for a University as a professor, and they had a similar agreement they wanted him to sign. He requested and received an exception for his side business ventures. For him he spelled out what his side business did and they gave the exception specifically for that business.
At the time I was doing a lot of computer work on the side, and when I asked them about changing that part they said "no-thanks" and hired someone else. Oh well, I don't guess I lost much.
Later I worked for a computer company and their agreement said only inventions pertaining to their business. They had a formal process that you would submit inventions and then they would pay you a few grand for it, or they had a process where they would award you ownership of it (unless they called it a trade secret instead). That was a pretty good deal. I made quite a bit of money with that program, in addition to my paycheck.
The fewer employees a plant has, the more highly skilled they need to be. In a non-automated plant there are many more employees, and they are for the most part unskilled. But in a highly automated plant all the unskilled jobs are replaced by the automation. The jobs that are left are the highly skilled ones, like maintaining and programming the automation.
So these jobs may not require a Ph.D, but they are highly skilled non-the-less.
I for one will sleep better at night knowing that Microsoft is out there looking out for our best interests and performing impartial research for which OS is better for us the consumer. With benevolent corporations like that we hardly need to research or even think for ourselves.
The suggestion to provide links to empower your users is a good one. I would also include links to firewalls (Kerio, Tiny, ZoneAlarm), virus scanners (www.grisoft.com, housecall.antivirus.com as well as Norton, McAfee, etc.) and maybe even GRC.net.
By providing these helpful links you empower your users while not taking the responsibility to support all these configurations.
Proxomitron is a proxy that provides that as well as many other features. Since it is a proxy you could put it on your servers and provide access only for your subscribers. Make it optional. Most good browsers offer easy switching between proxy and non-proxy mode.
Proxomitron offers more then just popup blocking, and also by letting them use the ISP as a proxy they have an additional level of anonymity.
You would need to configure Proxomitron to a useful, but not too invasive level, or offer multiple proxies at different levels of restrictiveness. Then the use can pick which one they want depending on their needs. Document it all really well on your support site.
My wife nudges me once and that is it. She got tired of dragging me out of bed. Now she will actually shut the alarm clock off for me if I don't get up quick enough. I guess it is teaching me to wake up sooner.
Although I found having kids a great way to get up. My son is up every morning at 7 AM, or earlier.
You might consider going to bed 8 - 9 hours before you set your alarm. I know personally that I don't always get sleepy at night, especially if I am programming away or playing a good game. Schedule your bed time just like you schedule your wake up time.
Also, there is something to be said for consistancy - go to bed and get up the same time every day. Occasional exceptions are ok, but the more regular you are the better.
Even if you find yourself laying in bed unable to go to sleep the first few times, set a regular bed time and stick with it. If you find that giving yourself 8 hours of sleep is too much (you wake up before the alarm) then shorten the time to 7.5 or 7.
Experiment and find the amount of sleep you need and make sure your get it. You may find that eventually you don't need an alarm clock.
Interesting idea, but most distributed computing tasks that run in the background run at low priority. Since this is running inside your browser (more or less) it will run at the priority of the browser. Unless your browser is running at low priority then this process will push all the lower priority processes out of process cycles.
So the question is, what if she got permission and the bar was closed. After hours is it a public place? Since it isn't open to the public at that point I would say it isn't, but IANAL.
"No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself . . "
Now IANAL, but that means that they won't force you to incriminate yourself, but if you volunteer they won't stop you.
Same thing with Search and Seizure in the fourth. If the police ask nicely and you allow them to search your car they will gladly. The point is you have the right to say no.
If the pictures were still on her roll of film in her car then that would be a different story.
I think she should have just taken the pictures fully clothed and then done a little digital editing to make it appear she was nude. Just do a studio shot to get the naked bits and past them on.
She should do the reverse (paste clothes on) and say if no one saw her naked then how do they know she didn't edit the photos. They can't prove otherwise, and they cannot force her to testify which was the real photos since that would violate her fifth amendment rights. Having not seen the pictures I don't know if there were in fact witnesses. They can be compelled to testify.
That reminds me of Blipverts from Max Headroom. They found they could compress more commercials into less time by playing them at high speed and consumers still were able to process the commercial content. Then it was unfortunate that they discovered that couch potatos would explode since they were exposed to too many Blipverts.
In the extended edition of LOTR:TTT when we are first introduced to Faramir he has just shot a bunch of "bad" guys and one of them lays dead as he gives a speech (which I don't completely remember) debating if this young man he just killed thought he was doing the right thing. (I am sure someone else can expance this dialog for me. It is not in the book or I would quote it from there.)
I always wonder that. Sure, we all thing SCO is a bunch of lying thieves, but does anyone at SCO think that? Does Darl? Maybe he has convinced himself that they are in they right. It is possible that he has convinced all his underlings of that as well.
Reminds me also of war crime tribunals where underlings say they were only following orders when they did such and such atrocity. Now they find out they are actually liable for their actions. People need to realize that it really all comes down to their own responsibility to do what is right and stop letting other people think for them.
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Remember, it isn't three separate moves, it is one movie split into three parts for easy viewing. Besides, it isn't like he didn't expect a box set, he just didn't know about this specific box set release.
I believe that even if you trademark the name someone could later challenge the trademark.
How come Homer and Krusty look like clones?
This is way off topic, but it was in your signature line. I was listening to an interview with Matt Groening on Fresh Air (I think) and he explained this point. He was trying to make it a point that Bart hates his father but loves this clone that looks exactly like his father.
You can listen to the interview online. I may be remembering a different interview, but I am quite sure that the similarities between Homer and Krusty was intentional.
So greenhouse gases cause global warming which melt the ice caps and then releases greenhouse gases?
They did a series about it on Userfriendly.org a bit ago.
Full text of original articles:
- August 1992 article
- December 1994 article
The tune really has not changed that much. At the time the speed and capasity estimates were very impressive. As a frame of reference I just got my top of the line 1 gigabyte SCSI hard drive for my 486. It would be nice if this technology actually hit the market this time. . . .I have had similar experience to this before. A lot of times it will slip through the cracks. If they are diligent they may audit your employee file a few times while you work there, but they may not mention it until you are leaving.
There are certain laws in effect regardless of the contract signed or not signed. That depends on the state you work in. Again this would be a reason to consult a lawyer. You may get them to change it, only to find out that it doesn't make any difference and they still own your butt.
It is interesting that you would suggest this. A friend of mine was working for a computer company and did some computer consulting on the side.
He was installing a backup system for some big company, and didn't realize that the backup system was incompatible with their database. The result was he destroyed their entire database. Very bad situation. They were threatening to sue him.
He hadn't billed them, or presented any contract to them at this point. This company had actually purchased their PC's and some other services from his employer, so he let his freelance consulting services fall under services provided by his employer. His logic was that he would rather loose his job then pay the legal fees or damages. Since he had a similar (we own you) agreement with his employer that was the way it technically should have been.
Turns out the employer had a no-fault clause in a service contract this company signed, so they couldn't sue anyone. The whole situation just kind of went away. As far as I know his employer didn?t even reprimand him for it. Not sure how he worked it out, but he kept his job and got promoted a few times after.
I applied for a sales position at Radio Shack right out of high school, back in the 90s. They wanted me to sign an agreement that would give them everything. If I sold something on commission for someone else (like door to door encyclopedias) then they got the commission. If I wrote a book, wrote a program, sang a song, etc. I read the paper a few times and finally asked about it. They said that was the way it worked and that they had real problems with people violating it in the past, so they strictly enforced it. They said I could consider it over night.
I spoke with my Dad about it. He had worked for a University as a professor, and they had a similar agreement they wanted him to sign. He requested and received an exception for his side business ventures. For him he spelled out what his side business did and they gave the exception specifically for that business.
At the time I was doing a lot of computer work on the side, and when I asked them about changing that part they said "no-thanks" and hired someone else. Oh well, I don't guess I lost much.
Later I worked for a computer company and their agreement said only inventions pertaining to their business. They had a formal process that you would submit inventions and then they would pay you a few grand for it, or they had a process where they would award you ownership of it (unless they called it a trade secret instead). That was a pretty good deal. I made quite a bit of money with that program, in addition to my paycheck.
The fewer employees a plant has, the more highly skilled they need to be. In a non-automated plant there are many more employees, and they are for the most part unskilled. But in a highly automated plant all the unskilled jobs are replaced by the automation. The jobs that are left are the highly skilled ones, like maintaining and programming the automation.
So these jobs may not require a Ph.D, but they are highly skilled non-the-less.
I for one will sleep better at night knowing that Microsoft is out there looking out for our best interests and performing impartial research for which OS is better for us the consumer. With benevolent corporations like that we hardly need to research or even think for ourselves.
I'm not sure the Proxomitron scales well enough. . .
That wouldn't surprise me. I also noticed that the Proxomitron projects is listed as dead.
So use that idea with another proxy server - either off the shelf, or write your own. They are pretty simple really.
Sorry, grc.COM, not .net. Maybe I should go home and get some sleep.
The suggestion to provide links to empower your users is a good one. I would also include links to firewalls (Kerio, Tiny, ZoneAlarm), virus scanners (www.grisoft.com, housecall.antivirus.com as well as Norton, McAfee, etc.) and maybe even GRC.net.
By providing these helpful links you empower your users while not taking the responsibility to support all these configurations.
http://www.proxomitron.info/ I forgot to make that url a link. Sorry.
http://www.proxomitron.info/
Proxomitron is a proxy that provides that as well as many other features. Since it is a proxy you could put it on your servers and provide access only for your subscribers. Make it optional. Most good browsers offer easy switching between proxy and non-proxy mode.
Proxomitron offers more then just popup blocking, and also by letting them use the ISP as a proxy they have an additional level of anonymity.
You would need to configure Proxomitron to a useful, but not too invasive level, or offer multiple proxies at different levels of restrictiveness. Then the use can pick which one they want depending on their needs. Document it all really well on your support site.
My wife nudges me once and that is it. She got tired of dragging me out of bed. Now she will actually shut the alarm clock off for me if I don't get up quick enough. I guess it is teaching me to wake up sooner.
Although I found having kids a great way to get up. My son is up every morning at 7 AM, or earlier.
You might consider going to bed 8 - 9 hours before you set your alarm. I know personally that I don't always get sleepy at night, especially if I am programming away or playing a good game. Schedule your bed time just like you schedule your wake up time.
Also, there is something to be said for consistancy - go to bed and get up the same time every day. Occasional exceptions are ok, but the more regular you are the better.
Even if you find yourself laying in bed unable to go to sleep the first few times, set a regular bed time and stick with it. If you find that giving yourself 8 hours of sleep is too much (you wake up before the alarm) then shorten the time to 7.5 or 7.
Experiment and find the amount of sleep you need and make sure your get it. You may find that eventually you don't need an alarm clock.
Interesting idea, but most distributed computing tasks that run in the background run at low priority. Since this is running inside your browser (more or less) it will run at the priority of the browser. Unless your browser is running at low priority then this process will push all the lower priority processes out of process cycles.
This could prevent contact with ET!
Well, she could have used a tripod and self timer. Or maybe the photographer is blind and can only make out vauge shapes.
Amen! Justice is blind - no preferential treatment for the hot or those who are not hot.
So the question is, what if she got permission and the bar was closed. After hours is it a public place? Since it isn't open to the public at that point I would say it isn't, but IANAL.
The Fifth Amendment says
"No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself . . "
Now IANAL, but that means that they won't force you to incriminate yourself, but if you volunteer they won't stop you.
Same thing with Search and Seizure in the fourth. If the police ask nicely and you allow them to search your car they will gladly. The point is you have the right to say no.
If the pictures were still on her roll of film in her car then that would be a different story.
I think she should have just taken the pictures fully clothed and then done a little digital editing to make it appear she was nude. Just do a studio shot to get the naked bits and past them on.
She should do the reverse (paste clothes on) and say if no one saw her naked then how do they know she didn't edit the photos. They can't prove otherwise, and they cannot force her to testify which was the real photos since that would violate her fifth amendment rights. Having not seen the pictures I don't know if there were in fact witnesses. They can be compelled to testify.
Again, IANAL, but I play one on TV.
That reminds me of Blipverts from Max Headroom. They found they could compress more commercials into less time by playing them at high speed and consumers still were able to process the commercial content. Then it was unfortunate that they discovered that couch potatos would explode since they were exposed to too many Blipverts.
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That was a trip down memory lane. .
In the extended edition of LOTR:TTT when we are first introduced to Faramir he has just shot a bunch of "bad" guys and one of them lays dead as he gives a speech (which I don't completely remember) debating if this young man he just killed thought he was doing the right thing. (I am sure someone else can expance this dialog for me. It is not in the book or I would quote it from there.)
I always wonder that. Sure, we all thing SCO is a bunch of lying thieves, but does anyone at SCO think that? Does Darl? Maybe he has convinced himself that they are in they right. It is possible that he has convinced all his underlings of that as well.
Reminds me also of war crime tribunals where underlings say they were only following orders when they did such and such atrocity. Now they find out they are actually liable for their actions. People need to realize that it really all comes down to their own responsibility to do what is right and stop letting other people think for them.