junq316 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Life (Score 3, Interesting) 299

by junq316 on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:58AM (#43995049) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time?

As someone in a similar position as the original poster, I'm facing the same issues he does. I'm about to change jobs and will have a lot more freetime in the future compared to now. Going from a very demanding job working a minimum of 12h a day to a 9to5. And yes, if most of your waking hours are spent working and you sleep with one eye open in case an alarm goes off, you do tend to forget how to live. It won't be an easy transition, so best of luck to timothy on figuring this out. For me, I'm trying to find new hobbies that won't have me sitting at home infront of a screen but to actually go outside and meet & interact with people.

Submission + - Firefox arrives on Android (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @06:51AM

Barence writes: Mozilla has launched a "pre-Alpha" version of Firefox for Android smartphones. The mobile version of Firefox, codenamed Fennec, has until now been restricted to Maemo Linux handsets. But following a surge in developer effort, Mozilla has unveiled a build for handsets running Android 2.0 or above. Mozilla is making no guarantees about the browser's stability. "It will likely not eat your phone, but bugs might cause your phone to stop responding, requiring a reboot," writes Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukievi on his blog. "Memory usage of this build isn't great — in many ways it's a debug build, and we haven't really done a lot of optimisation yet. This could cause some problems with large pages, especially on low memory devices like the Droid."

Comment Armageddon? (Score -1, Redundant) 256

by junq316 on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @08:49AM (#31669082) Attached to: First Collisions At the LHC

Where are the (microscopic) Black Holes and why hasn't our Planet imploded yet? I'm disappointed.

Future Ubisoft Games To Require Constant Internet Access 497

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @07:46AM from the this-will-go-over-well dept.

Following up on our discussion yesterday of annoying game distribution platforms, Ubisoft has announced the details of their Online Services Platform, which they will use to distribute and administer future PC game releases. The platform will require internet access in order to play installed games, saved games will be stored remotely, and the game you're playing will even pause and try to reconnect if your connection is lost during play. Quoting Rock, Paper, Shotgun: "This seems like such a bizarre, bewildering backward step. Of course we haven't experienced it yet, but based on Ubi’s own description of the system so many concerns arise. Yes, certainly, most people have the internet all the time on their PCs. But not all people. So already a percentage of the audience is lost. Then comes those who own gaming laptops, who now will not be able to play games on trains, buses, in the park, or anywhere they may not be able to find a WiFi connection (something that’s rarely free in the UK, of course – fancy paying the £10/hour in the airport to play your Ubisoft game?). Then there's the day your internet is down, and the engineers can’t come out to fix it until tomorrow. No game for you. Or any of the dozens of other situations when the internet is not available to a player. But further, there are people who do not wish to let a publisher know their private gaming habits. People who do not wish to report in to a company they’ve no affiliation with, nor accountability to, whenever they play a game they’ve legally bought. People who don’t want their save data stored remotely. This new system renders all customers beholden to Ubisoft in perpetuity whenever they buy their games."

Submission + - Firefox 3 beta 1 is out, and it is good! (zdnet.com) 1

Submitted by DaMan on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @08:32AM

DaMan writes: Firefox 3 beta 1 has been reviewed by ZDnet and the verdict is that it is good. "Is Firefox 3.0 going to be better? Given what I'm seeing so far, I think so. Why? Because it looks like Mozilla have gone back to basics and worked on what really matters to users — security, speed and ease of use."

Speed has also been dramatically improved.

"Everything about Firefox 3.0 beta 1 is fast. The download package is small which means that it comes in fast, the installation is fast, the browser fires up fast, pages and tabs open fast, the browser shuts down fast, and the uninstall process is fast and painless."

Submission + - Non-Compete Agreements

Submitted by stellar7 on Sunday November 11, 2007 @01:55PM

stellar7 writes: I work in IT for a large company. They have recently asked me to sign a new non-compete and confidentiality agreement. I signed an agreement when I began employment, but now they want me to sign an updated agreement. Below are a few paragraphs from the new agreement. It states that the company has a royalty free license to _any_ "Invention" I create including up to six months after leaving (and the company fully owns any Invention that relates to the company in this same period). Has anyone signed a similar agreement that reaches beyond the end of employment and includes things not related to the business?

A. Employee shall promptly and fully disclose in writing to [Company] any inventions, improvements, discoveries, operating techniques, or "know-how", whether patentable or not (hereinafter referred to as "Inventions"), conceived or discovered by Employee, either solely or jointly with others, during the course of Employee's employment with [Company], or within six (6) months thereafter.

B. Employee shall, on the request of [Company], and hereby does, assign to [Company] all of Employee's right, title and interest in any of the Inventions which relate to, or are useful in connection with, any aspect of the business of [Company], as carried on or contemplated at the time the Invention is made, whether or not Employee's duties are directly related thereto. [Company] shall be the sole and absolute owner of any of the Inventions so assigned. Employee shall perform any further acts or execute any papers, at the expense of [Company], which it may consider necessary to secure for [Company] or its successors or assigns any and all rights relating to the Inventions, including patents in the United States and foreign countries.

C. [Company] shall be the sole judge as to whether the Inventions are related to or useful in connection with any aspect of the business of [Company] as earned on or contemplated at the time the Invention is made and as to whether patent applications should be filed in the United States or in foreign countries.

D. [Company] shall have the option of taking a permanent, royalty-free license to manufacture, use, and sell any of the Inventions conceived or discovered by Employee during the course of Employee's employment with [Company], or within six (6) months thereafter, that are not assigned to [Company] under paragraph B. of this Agreement.

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