Just warm up the planet and then we won't have to worry about this "ice" stuff.
Already happening, but if anyone is really keen to swim in the lake that now exists on the North Pole they can charter a helicopter in Iqaluit rather than require an icebreaker. Coming soon to the Far North: cruise ships.
It depends on how closely the names are conceptually related within a fairly narrow field of use. For people in the UK, the "Sky" name is conceptually welded to the BSkyB entity in the field of consumer electronic services via network. No surprise MS got slapped.
This happened before with the XBox name. It is difficult to believe that a company like Microsoft, bolstered by batteries of lawyers with copyright, patent, and trademark expertise, could have pulled such a boneheaded move. Were they playing legal chicken with the Brits, or did they really, truly screw up?
From a Bloomberg article: 'U.S. Customs and Border Protection, after having secret meetings with Google, continued to let the Motorola Mobility mobile phones enter the country even though Google has done nothing to remove the feature at the heart of the ITC case, Microsoft said in the complaint. The case illustrates what Lexmark International Inc. (LXK) and Lutron Electronics Co. in May called an “increasingly ineffective and unpredictable enforcement” of import bans imposed by the trade agency.'
Employing bureaucratic shortcuts is apparently alive and well. Does this point to corruption, or is it simply a matter of poor information flow?
Archeologists find one of these pieces of quartz, and then researchers immediately discover their true properties and an enormous treasure-trove of human history is revealed. For the rest of the story, buy the novel.
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Since it is non-toxic then let's scoop it up and eat it. I had something like that one night in Hong Kong... I ordered the number 57 even though my hosts told me to never do that.
The big Irish ISP Eircom monitored subscribers at the behest of Big Media. After a complaint, a Commissioner determined that ISP customers had to consent to such monitoring, so it was halted. Big Media went crazy, took it to court, won a victory, faced an appeal, then the High Court found (on very narrow, legalistic terms) that the Commissioner had not given proper reasoning for WANTING TO PROTECT THE FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND PRIVACY OF EIRCOM CUSTOMERS, and so was therefore wrong. Big Media wins again.
This is going to take quite a few Giuinesses (and maybe quite a few Old Bushmills too) to rid Eircom customers of the bad taste.
Rod Trent over at http://windowsitpro.com/windows/dead-microsoft-technet speculates on the TechNet shutdown that "...in a Cloud world, this makes a lot of sense. Those wanting to test new software can simply spin-up a Microsoft Azure-hosted VM, completely configured for the application they want to try-out or through the use of TechNet Virtual Labs. These days, using Microsoft Azure, a testing lab can be setup and running in minutes with just a mouse click."
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Just warm up the planet and then we won't have to worry about this "ice" stuff.
Already happening, but if anyone is really keen to swim in the lake that now exists on the North Pole they can charter a helicopter in Iqaluit rather than require an icebreaker. Coming soon to the Far North: cruise ships.
Fixed that for you: I've posted a link elsewhere in these replies that welcomes you to September, 2012 on CBC TV's "The Nature Of Things".
There, that's better.
Watch Dr. David Suzuki's "The Nature Of Things" episode called "Smarty Plants: Uncovering the Secret World of Plant Behaviour":
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/smarty-plants-uncovering-the-secret-world-of-plant-behaviour.html
It depends on how closely the names are conceptually related within a fairly narrow field of use. For people in the UK, the "Sky" name is conceptually welded to the BSkyB entity in the field of consumer electronic services via network. No surprise MS got slapped.
This happened before with the XBox name. It is difficult to believe that a company like Microsoft, bolstered by batteries of lawyers with copyright, patent, and trademark expertise, could have pulled such a boneheaded move. Were they playing legal chicken with the Brits, or did they really, truly screw up?
Microsoft Security wants to make sure that anyone discussing such an issue as this is firmly, completely part of the hive-mind: https://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/collaboration/mapp/criteria.aspx
Microsoft whistles past the graveyard once again.
Whoooooooosh!
Stop chewing on your wife's best shoes and the dog will stop doing that too! Oh and also don't chew on the sofa cushions either.
Anyone have a spare Disk 8? Mine is corrupted.
Are you a man or a woman?
From a Bloomberg article: 'U.S. Customs and Border Protection, after having secret meetings with Google, continued to let the Motorola Mobility mobile phones enter the country even though Google has done nothing to remove the feature at the heart of the ITC case, Microsoft said in the complaint. The case illustrates what Lexmark International Inc. (LXK) and Lutron Electronics Co. in May called an “increasingly ineffective and unpredictable enforcement” of import bans imposed by the trade agency.'
Employing bureaucratic shortcuts is apparently alive and well. Does this point to corruption, or is it simply a matter of poor information flow?
The problems began when Boeing sent them the new, improved 787C version.
Seriously, how is this news?
It is news because the good 'ol days of handing politicians $5,000 in an envelope are clearly gone.
I think you just said "somebody set up us the bomb", right?
Archeologists find one of these pieces of quartz, and then researchers immediately discover their true properties and an enormous treasure-trove of human history is revealed. For the rest of the story, buy the novel.
A post-apocalypse society of autodidactic polymaths with eidetic mentation would make short work of figuring it out.
Who could ever need more than 4D?
Can't wait to use the new 046102 047111 005113 tag!
Either your expectations are too high, or your sense of wonder is too low, to get much out of this. Personally, I loved it.
Sigh... Louis C.K. was correct, "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy": http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8m5d0_everything-is-amazing-and-nobody-i_fun
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Since it is non-toxic then let's scoop it up and eat it. I had something like that one night in Hong Kong... I ordered the number 57 even though my hosts told me to never do that.
The big Irish ISP Eircom monitored subscribers at the behest of Big Media. After a complaint, a Commissioner determined that ISP customers had to consent to such monitoring, so it was halted. Big Media went crazy, took it to court, won a victory, faced an appeal, then the High Court found (on very narrow, legalistic terms) that the Commissioner had not given proper reasoning for WANTING TO PROTECT THE FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND PRIVACY OF EIRCOM CUSTOMERS, and so was therefore wrong. Big Media wins again.
This is going to take quite a few Giuinesses (and maybe quite a few Old Bushmills too) to rid Eircom customers of the bad taste.
The Burp Suite used by the investigator is a Java tool with a non-FOSS license. Blah.
This is all just a PR plan to have every third story on Slashdot be about Microsoft.
Rod Trent over at http://windowsitpro.com/windows/dead-microsoft-technet speculates on the TechNet shutdown that "...in a Cloud world, this makes a lot of sense. Those wanting to test new software can simply spin-up a Microsoft Azure-hosted VM, completely configured for the application they want to try-out or through the use of TechNet Virtual Labs. These days, using Microsoft Azure, a testing lab can be setup and running in minutes with just a mouse click."
Plausible, but risky if/when devs don't like it.