Which isn't true at all. The Rule specifically limits the right of renters to install satellite dishes to renters who have outside rental property where the renter has an exclusive use area, such as a balcony or patio.
Renters without balconies or patios do not have any rights under the Rule to install satellite dishes.
Non-competes are not enforceable against non-exempt workers (i.e., hourly, part-time, or independent contractors) in most states, but especially in blue states.
In some states, including California, non-competes are not even enforceable against full-time, fairly high-level employees.
You or the intern needs to talk to a lawyer, b/c it sounds like the NLRB should be having a chat with the potential employee's former employer.
Most RTS games, including Starcraft 2, only update the simulation every 100ms or more. Older RTS games like SC1 and AOE2 used "ticks" of 200-250ms. Essentially, every "tick", player input would be received by the server and distributed back to players after validation for processing or display on the next tick (depending on whether processing is done server-side or client-side). The lag is hidden by visual or auditory cues acknowledging the input (i.e., "Yes, sir!" or "For the Horde!").
This greatly reduces the bandwidth requirements because you have extra time to transmit the data to the user; you only send some of the unit data in each packet. Moreover, you can limit the data to units within X radius of the player/camera and simulate any ships outside of this radius, transmitting only major events like the destruction of a ship. (By simulate, I mean the game could just create random ships and explosions client-side to give the effect of a major battle without actually transmitting or receiving data about those ships; they would be eye-candy only.)
In Silicon Valley, perhaps. Everywhere else, acquisitions are business acquisitions of the target company's assets (usually, goodwill, cash, or other actual assets). In this regard, employees/founders are not considered assets.
Governments don't care if you use bitcoin or not. They can, and do, tax you based on whatever income you earn, in whatever currency it is denominated. Indeed, the US, Europe, and most of Asia already have tax laws for how to report income denominated in currencies other than the government's own currency.
Not reporting income denominated in bitcoin will simply result in prison time and financial penalties measured and payable in the government's currency.
The Dishwasher, Elysium [EDIT: actually called Dust: An Elysian Tale], Eufloria (the first version), Terraria, Magicka, Skulls of the Shogun, Bastion, Breath of Death VII, Weapon of Choice, Fez, Sol Survivor, and The Harvest, to name ones that I can remember off the top of my head.
This doesn't include games in the pipeline that are being built in XNA.
EDIT: Forgot Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 and 4 (forthcoming).
TBBT makes fun of being a nerd (or a geek) at the expense of nerds and geeks. The audience is never the nerd or geek themself; it's everyone else. TBBT does not intend for you to emphathise with the nerds, they are there for your enjoyment. Essentially, TBBT makes nerds into the new samba blacks.
There is nothing smart about the jokes; the punchline (and frequently, the entire joke) is usually [something vaguely nerdy sounding that most people don't know]. Basically, TBBT just randomly says "quantom superstring theory" and you are expected to laugh at it because the phrase sounds ridiculous; there usually isn't any more context to it than the utterance of the nerdy-sounding thing.
In contrast, Community takes the concept and builds into something substantial. They'll take "quantum superstring theory" and, for example, turn it into an episode where the vibrations of silly string perfectly predict events going on elsewhere on campus.
I'm going to point out that managed game programming is not dead for the XBox/PC. Remember that XNA was a replacement for Managed DirectX, which was killed off shortly before MS introduced XNA.
In other words, XNA is dying, but the C# and the managed game programming paradigm is not. It will be replaced by something, just not XNA.
Microsoft's Windows 8 game programming tutorials actually suggest using MonoGame, which is essentially an open-sourced clone of XNA that is nearly feature-complete.
1) What are your fees and fee arrangements? (Some firms accept equity or have special arrangements for accepting payment to accomodate startups.)
2) Who will be working on my issues? (I bring this up because larger firms usually have associates do the actual grunt work.)
3) Given my situation, and my goals [which you will describe to them], what is the best structure for my company for (a) legal purposes? and (b) tax purposes?
4) Same as 3a) and 3b), but for you.
5) Ask them about IP issues. (You haven't provided enough info to provide a sample question.)
6) Ask them about employees/labor law issues, especially as it relates to co-founders, hiring your first employee, and compensation. (You haven't provided enough info to provide a sample question.)
7) Ask them about compliance/paperwork/etc. associated with maintaining the structure you will use. (It can very from a little to a lot.)
Trying to overrule the constitution is just waiting for someone with deep pockets to make a federal case out of it.
Already happened, in the famous Quill case. Consequently, is permissible to impose a sales tax on out-of-state retailers if they have a "substantial nexus" with the taxing state.
Won't let me use Internet Explorer...even to simply view lesson plans, attachments, and discussions....even though the browser supports all of the required features.
That's a bummer, because this defeats the anywhere/anytime nature of Udacity's system if I can't log in an do a quick lesson during a free lunch hour.
In the future, all "space marines" will simply be "marines." In any plausible scenario in which we have "space marines," having a dedicated corpus of naval marines would be unnecessary.
Ergo, the solution is simply to let Games Workshop keep the silly moniker and just call your future super-soldiers what they would properly be called.
The point of the fair use doctrine is precisely to protect discourse of artistic works, i.e., by commentary on or criticism of such works. The depth and quality (or lack thereof) of such discourse is irrelevant.
Bad title on the part of Gamasutra, as that is not what the Bastion developers said...at all. The Bastion developers are actually strongly in favor of cross-platform development, and cite it for the success of the game.
They merely noted in this discussion that they restricted their design for mobile ports to be playable with one hand. Thus, the key to success was that their ports were truly "ported" to the target system including the target system's method of input (generally, touch/gestures) rather than just a superficial port with a semi-functional virtual gamepad.
One of the obligations Apple voluntarily accepted when it chose to go public, and which it continues to voluntarily accept as long as it remains public, is the fiduciary obligation to its shareholders.
Retaining cash without returning it to the shareholders is a violation of its fiduciary obligations to its shareholders. The fact that it could use the cash to fund R&D, etc., is irrelevant since Apple is clearly not doing so.
That being said, that is not why the hedge fund manager is suing Apple. He's suing to prevent Apple from eliminating preferred shares, which provide enhanced dividend and liquidation preferences.
saying that this is not a tragedy is a bit insensitive.
Compared to being robbed, raped, beaten, abused, starved, or murdered, I think that losing a luxury device to a non-violent theft is most definitely not a tragedy.
Careful, you're being dangerously logical about this situation. My primary account got hell-banned for saying stuff like this.
You're right about the need to address the structural issues before the personnel implementing the structure. If we just swap out the personnel, they'll conform to the system as it currently exists and we'll have the same problems...but with different people.
Agreed, I'm reminded of another SV billionaire, who emphatically chose not to donate to any causes until shortly before his death...and even then, only to causes which would have personally benefited him.
"Despite accumulating an estimated $8.3 billion fortune...there is no public record of Mr. Jobs giving money to charity..."
"in 1997, when Mr. Jobs returned to Apple, he closed the company’s philanthropic programs."
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-...
"And it wasn’t until after an unflattering media report about Jobs on the subject over the summer, that Apple in September initiated a “matching gifts” program, under which donations to philanthropies made by employees are matched by the company."
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-10-06/business/35277...
This was just the first 3 results of the google search. There are hundreds of more sources to choose from.
True, but the point of the Surface Pro and future ultratablets is that the user is willing to accept that it does not do either ultrabook or tablet as well as its competitors but can do both as the situation demands.
Every single article posted by techdog is an article from this blog, and every single one of these articles is factually and demonstrably wrong, written by someone who has very little understanding of statistical analysis or any of the specific topics the article purport to address.
I described the silly assumption I had made that Onenote might have a mode for transcribing handwritten notes as-you-write and she laughed at me.
OneNote, or more accurately, Office, does have this feature. I used it quite a bit in law school on my HP TouchSmart tm2 (a tablet/laptop hybrid that comes with a stylus and which predates the iPad). It's enabled in the Office Language Settings bar/menu.
OneNote also has an OCR function which can convert images into text (but not in realtime). It's only as good as the legibility of the image to be converted.
XMLHttpRequest is not a hack. It was deliberately developed by Microsoft as part of Internet Explorer to enable desktop-like functionality in Outlook Web Access. [http://www.alexhopmann.com/xmlhttp.htm]. It was then copied by Netscape, and it spread from there.
CraigsList doesn't care if other websites use the same data to power their own services, as long as those other websites obtain the data directly from the source (i.e., the user) and not by scraping Craiglist.
It's a lot easier for 17 million people to live in (relative) privilege than it is for 300+ million. Scale matters when dealing with tangible requirements.
He's saving roughly $720 yearly by switching to DO. Most high-end smartphones retail off-contract for roughly $600 (which you would pay if you have a grandfathered unlimited data plan on Verizon or AT&T).
Also, you're suggesting that if two criminal activities were well conducted, the inventor will lose a civil case? If this criminal activity is revealed, it invalidates the patent and subjects the executives and lawyers responsible to criminal sanctions and massive civil liabilities, including forfeiting all profits derived from the fraudulent patent and treble damages (i.e., 3x the actual damages the true inventor suffered). It's simply not ever worth the business risk to pursue this path.
You still have a year after publishing to file a patent. During that year, you only lose out on the patent if other innovations are made and published with regards to the subject matter of your patent and your application includes those other innovations. (You can still receive a patent if you restrict yourself to the invention described in your publication, but threading the needle in such a fashion could be difficult.)
Commercial sales by competitors are not subject to patent during that interim period, and they can continue such sales after the patent application is filed, but once the patent application is filed they can only continue to sell without a license the exact same products they sold before the application. So if the competitor changes the product sold, they could be subject to the patent (assuming the patent is granted).
As for your specific example: algorithms can't be patented; they are trade secrets. Specific software implementations of algorithms possibly can be patented. The difficulty, of course, is that deep pockets Paapo can always engineer around the specific software implementation you specify in your application.
Text of the Copyright Clause: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
The first-to-file system merely states that the first inventor to file, out of a group of multiple simultaneous independent inventors, gets the patent.
So, for example: you have Inventor X and Paperpusher Y. X invents but delays filing for a patent. Y comes across X's invention, realizes it has not been patentend, and files the patent application immediately. Y cannot and will not ever get the patent, because Y cannot prove invention. If Y were to steal X's notes and other junk and try to use those to "prove" invention, Y would be committing fraud and would be subject to civil and criminal liabilities, including jailtime. X may still have the opportunity to file for the patent application, but it depends on whether other parties (i.e., Z) have independently made the same discovery during the period X did not file.
In other words, people least familar with the idiosyncracies of U.S. grammar, spelling, and linguistic differences...
This site is probably still worth it if you are aiming for international English, but it's useless if your audience reads and expects U.S. English.
Note that if you are U.S.-based, and your audience will primarily be U.S.-based, you can probably get better quality proofing and editing for not much more by posting Help Wanted's in your local college's student newspaper.
Edit: Just so that we're clear, I think the dogfooded blog post demonstrates poor proofing in both U.S. and International (U.K.) English.
One constant I’ve recognized in my writing is how much feedback I like to have.
The constant is not in your writing, but in your writing process. Alternatively, choose a more appropriate preposition, such as "about." This is a subtle error, but one that a US college graduate would have caught.
I’ll write an email, and I’ll send a draft to a colleague to see if it’s right. I’ll write an application to something, and get feedback from friends to see if it makes sense. I’ll write a blog post, and send it to my wife.
While this is technically correct, it is poor writing. The second phrase in each sentence is logically connected to the first as a continuation of action, so the second phrases should not be set apart as independent clauses. Either eliminate the ", and I'll..." or make them separate sentences.
But being a solo entrepreneur and working alone at home, I often find myself stuck, not being able to get a friend to look at my work.
It is permissible but not proper to start a sentence with "But" when you are discussing the immediately preceding sentence. It is not okay to start a paragraph with "But." Use "However" or "In contrast" or some such similar word or phrase. Alternatively, move the sentence to the preceding paragraph.
My wife can only take so much.
A single sentence is not a paragraph.
Especially not when it is logically part of the previous paragraph.
Unless you are doing it for emphasis.
But you already had a single-sentence paragraph, so the emphasis is lost.
I got bored of proofing the blog post after that, but it definitely gets worse from that point on and if I were to continue I would have further edits for every single sentence remaining in the post. The level of proofing is perfectly acceptable for a personal blog where you aren't too worried about it being read professionally...but why would you bother pay to have a personal post proofed? If this is the level of quality that can be expected from Draft, it is simply not adequate for any professional purpose.
You would contact your Wifi product manufacturer about the lawsuit threat. If you are sued by the troll, you would then implead said manufacturer as a co-defendant or third-party defendant to the lawsuit.
The point of the TSA is that its use is in providing the charade of security because it is the only tangible proof of increased security that most people will see/experience.
There are numerous other measures in place to actually increase security, i.e., fortified cabin doors, armed air marshals on all domestic flights, anti-hijacking procedures, terrorist-wary passengers, crew training, etc., all of which have prevented terrorist activities to some degree or another.
You're right, I assumed Kontny was dogfooding too.
Some thoughts on the actual MobileWorks blog:
Here’s an idea. What if the network of disruptive startups being created in Silicon Valley could band together to disrupt unemployment itself, right here in the US? Today, we’re announcing a new experiment to try and do exactly that.
After "idea" there should be a semicolon. Also, in the U.S., formal abbreviations such as U.S. and U.S.A. are always punctuated in professional writing (see, e.g., the NY Times). Bloggers and commenters get away with not punctuating because they are not expected to be professional, but that is not an excuse a proofreading service should make. Note that this is exactly what I was referring to originally, as the standard convention in most European countries is that formal abbreviations in English are not capitalized, i.e. UK rather than U.K.
pick up the last few slots" should be "fill up...", as slots cannot be picked up.
It's a chance* should be "This is a chance" because they are referring to WFA, not the project work, unless they truly are referring to the project work and not WFA.
The list has improper punctuation. Each item should end with a semi colon; the third item should not have a period; there should be a conjunctive or disjunctive joinder after the third item or the "and more" shold be made its own separate item.
participants will be able to take skills learned working on Silicon Valley’s projects with them as they're placed
As written, it means that participants' skills will only be useful in the initial stages of job-hunting rather than useful in the jobs in which they are placed; it should say something like "Participants will learn skills working on Silicon Valley projects. They can take these skills with them to full-time..."
There are more, but you get the idea. This service is decent but pointless for non-professional writing and not up-to-par for professional writing.
YCombinator does not solve the credentials trap, it simply replaces one arbitrary set of credentials (i.e., test scores) with another (social hacking skills).
That is, after all, the point of credentials--having credentials indicates a safer risk but it does not guarantee the likelihood of success.
VFA requires a college transcript (though an unofficial transcript is acceptable if an official transcript is not available). http://ventureforamerica.org/faqs/. Ergo, it is using credentials as a weeding mechanism.
VFA selects the startups their fellows work for based on recommendations of people they know. Ergo, they are using credentials as a weeding mechanism.
VFA may be doing something commendable, but it is most definitely not eliminating the credentials problem.
EDIT: Furthermore, VFA requires a bachelor's degree (or more advanced), a 3.0 GPA or higher in college (but grad school does not count), and green card or residency status. Unlike the factors originally discussed (pre-edit), these are mandatory requirements. All of these are standard credentials filters for companies hiring students straight out of college.
YC solves that problem since it's now a huge brand and people tell you in the first sentence that they are YC alumni but actually any angel or VC who invests in you (or even cofounders) is gradually solving your credential trap.
For those without the YC credentials, this description of YC is exactly the credentials problem in a nutshell. In fact, it sounds exactly like the "old boy's club" mentality that still pervades companies run by Ivy league graduates. In both cases, once you've acquired the credentials your string of success (or failures) is not meaningfully taken into account because people are willing to accept the credentials (rather than your actual track record) as a proxy your chance of success.
Also unexplained, ignored, or deliberately misrepresented by Tesla is the state of the car when it was being towed. The towing company itself verified that the Model S was "completely dead" when it came to pick the car up, and moreover that the car couldn't easily be moved because the electrical emergency brake was stuck in place.
Edit: see fatdog's comment for why.