Jazan holds the trademark over "Carnival of Souls", and he has a legal obligation to legally defend it or lose it.
It may seem silly to sue review sites, but the legal duty of a trademark holder is to actively defend illegitimate use of the trademark or risk dilution.
It's slightly bewildering how the Pi has such a massive following. There are many other competing devices (many of which have cases and aren't just boards) which cost roughly the same price. And there are devices which are truly open, which the Pi is *not*.
Ultimately it comes down to marketing and PR... and Slashdot.. which loves the Pi.
But clearly you're going to get more bang for your buck with a product built outside the UK, where wages are some of the highest in the world. And you're going to have a hell of an easier time developing for a platform which uses truly open standards.
Touch screen-only phones will never make good business phones. When I see business people with iPhones (unless they're developers of course) I tend to think they're not very legitimate business people. If you're writing more than 50 or more emails a day -- you're just not going to use an iPhone.
Blackberry needs to produce thumb-board phones with larger sceens and touch-screen capability for certain apps. They can *still* win this fight IMHO with the right form factor. I'd like to see a taller phone with a full size high def screen and a full thumb-board.
The absolute *wrong* move is to try to beat Apple at Apple's game. A much smarter move would be to laugh at Apple and their "content consumption" design and make a phone for people who are actually doing business with their phones.
Yes, hadn't you heard? Apple has a design patent on Scandinavian minimalist furniture. Sweden and Denmark are currently scrambling as Apple's lawyers gear up to take on Scandinavia for design infringement.
Also, Apple has just filed a patent for the use of "tables". No store shall be allowed to use "tables" to display product without paying the Apple tax.
I'm not sure I share the same fear that Oracle will close-source MySQL. It's OpenSource, which means by definition that with every invisible line in the sand that they cross, more forks will appear.
Unless the version-enhancements that Oracle is adding are so great (um.. they're not) there's very little they can do to co-opt the technology without seeing it slip through their fingers.
Am I the only one who looks at this thing and thinks the whole "Jet" and "Plane" terminology is pentagon spin for what is really being built here?
Aside from the fact that it looks exactly like a missile -- which I understand is a matter of aerodynamics -- the ability to first strike is going to be enhanced enormously with this development. I can't help noticing that these "New York to London" metrics spouted by the Pentagon are carefully constructed "spin" to frame the X-51 in a "civilian transport" context.
The X-51 is decades away from transportation use. But it's probably usable in a much closer timeframe as a weaponized delivery system.
This "jet" is a *military* game-changer, IMHO. And it won't be changing the face of transportation any time soon.
Hacking corporate servers and maybe even a corporate satellite one day are widely seen by hackers as "sticking it to the man".
Hacking a scientific research satellite on Mars is basically "sticking it to all of humanity" (which includes the hacker himself).
I don't pretend to know the motivations behind every single hacker, be they organized criminals, spying governments or script kiddies -- but I think (or at least I hope) there's a common understanding that what's going on on Mars right now is "important" for everyone.
When someone hacks a bank, Facebook, a government system, a bitcoin server or a politician's website -- I don't lose much sleep (and in some cases, the thirteen-year-old inside me might even get a chuckle). But hacking a scientific research mission to another planet?
I know there are some assholes in the world. But I don't believe they're considering shitting on every man, woman and child on Earth.
Buffets charge a fixed price because (and only because) they assume you will eat a certain amount within and up to a certain limit.
But let's say a bulimic person goes into a buffet and eats / pukes / eats / pukes ad infinitum until he or she has clearly eaten 20x their expected capacity.
The buffet would absolutely ask you to leave. You could complain and make the claim that it's "your right", but it's also their right to protect their business.
I don't know anything about Korean law, but aren't they liable as well if they purchase goods that are stolen, or have a reasonable likelihood of being stolen?
If you're trying to figure out just how far down in search you are, http://digfer.com/ is a good utility to "dig" through all those people that are... well, more important than you.
There are many examples of this in the programming world. When AS3 was rolled out many coders thought it would change the web forever. It's an extremely viable, Java-like platform for web development. But it didn't fly. Most Flash developers stuck with the far more simplistic AS2 and ignored everything that came afterwards.
No, no. You completely misunderstood the post. These are ultrasonic soap films. These are beyond the range of human hearing which may make them acceptable to male audiences.
Yes, icons were originally designed to represent objects, but ultimately the shapes just convey meaning -- whether that meaning is recognized or learned. We have loads of shapes in our common lexicon that people "just understand" without knowing why.
For example: How many people know that the common ampersand is the French word "et"?
Most don't. But they understand the meaning because they have been taught to associate the shape with the function.
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Simple question: Why did Chrome's "Do Not Track" feature have to be done in conjunction with the White House and FTC?
Doesn't that tell you everything you need to know already?
Jazan holds the trademark over "Carnival of Souls", and he has a legal obligation to legally defend it or lose it.
It may seem silly to sue review sites, but the legal duty of a trademark holder is to actively defend illegitimate use of the trademark or risk dilution.
It's slightly bewildering how the Pi has such a massive following. There are many other competing devices (many of which have cases and aren't just boards) which cost roughly the same price. And there are devices which are truly open, which the Pi is *not*.
Ultimately it comes down to marketing and PR... and Slashdot.. which loves the Pi.
But clearly you're going to get more bang for your buck with a product built outside the UK, where wages are some of the highest in the world. And you're going to have a hell of an easier time developing for a platform which uses truly open standards.
At realistically attainable speeds, 100 years isn't going to cut it.
COMPLETELY agree with this.
Touch screen-only phones will never make good business phones. When I see business people with iPhones (unless they're developers of course) I tend to think they're not very legitimate business people. If you're writing more than 50 or more emails a day -- you're just not going to use an iPhone.
Blackberry needs to produce thumb-board phones with larger sceens and touch-screen capability for certain apps. They can *still* win this fight IMHO with the right form factor. I'd like to see a taller phone with a full size high def screen and a full thumb-board.
The absolute *wrong* move is to try to beat Apple at Apple's game. A much smarter move would be to laugh at Apple and their "content consumption" design and make a phone for people who are actually doing business with their phones.
This poor deprived soul knows nothing of curly fries.
It's a cool technology, but the iPod shuffle can run for a billion years plugged into a potato. Can we get some actual performance data please?
Meh... it's all about Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition... on the iPad :D
All the historical records claim that Dodo's were delicious, and easy to raise.
There actually *is* a good reason to bring them back. Not the least of which is that we caused them to go extinct to begin with.
If you need a VPN, pay a couple bucks a month. This is just adware crap.
Yes, hadn't you heard? Apple has a design patent on Scandinavian minimalist furniture. Sweden and Denmark are currently scrambling as Apple's lawyers gear up to take on Scandinavia for design infringement.
Also, Apple has just filed a patent for the use of "tables". No store shall be allowed to use "tables" to display product without paying the Apple tax.
There are loads of "candidate" stars that could do the job. Fortunately it's an exceedingly rare event.
And a giant asteroid can absolutely not be ruled out.
One should note that both of the above extinction events have most likely already occurred on Earth at one time or another.
Sorry, but that's the oddest set of "Apocalypse" categories I've ever seen.
"Population"?
No war? No giant asteroid? No gamma ray pulse from a nearby star going nova?
I'm not sure I share the same fear that Oracle will close-source MySQL. It's OpenSource, which means by definition that with every invisible line in the sand that they cross, more forks will appear.
Unless the version-enhancements that Oracle is adding are so great (um.. they're not) there's very little they can do to co-opt the technology without seeing it slip through their fingers.
Am I the only one who looks at this thing and thinks the whole "Jet" and "Plane" terminology is pentagon spin for what is really being built here?
Aside from the fact that it looks exactly like a missile -- which I understand is a matter of aerodynamics -- the ability to first strike is going to be enhanced enormously with this development. I can't help noticing that these "New York to London" metrics spouted by the Pentagon are carefully constructed "spin" to frame the X-51 in a "civilian transport" context.
The X-51 is decades away from transportation use. But it's probably usable in a much closer timeframe as a weaponized delivery system.
This "jet" is a *military* game-changer, IMHO. And it won't be changing the face of transportation any time soon.
I may be wrong about this, but I hope I'm not.
Hacking corporate servers and maybe even a corporate satellite one day are widely seen by hackers as "sticking it to the man".
Hacking a scientific research satellite on Mars is basically "sticking it to all of humanity" (which includes the hacker himself).
I don't pretend to know the motivations behind every single hacker, be they organized criminals, spying governments or script kiddies -- but I think (or at least I hope) there's a common understanding that what's going on on Mars right now is "important" for everyone.
When someone hacks a bank, Facebook, a government system, a bitcoin server or a politician's website -- I don't lose much sleep (and in some cases, the thirteen-year-old inside me might even get a chuckle). But hacking a scientific research mission to another planet?
I know there are some assholes in the world. But I don't believe they're considering shitting on every man, woman and child on Earth.
Or maybe I'm just being optimistic...
Actually the buffet is a perfect example.
Buffets charge a fixed price because (and only because) they assume you will eat a certain amount within and up to a certain limit.
But let's say a bulimic person goes into a buffet and eats / pukes / eats / pukes ad infinitum until he or she has clearly eaten 20x their expected capacity.
The buffet would absolutely ask you to leave. You could complain and make the claim that it's "your right", but it's also their right to protect their business.
I don't know anything about Korean law, but aren't they liable as well if they purchase goods that are stolen, or have a reasonable likelihood of being stolen?
If you're trying to figure out just how far down in search you are, http://digfer.com/ is a good utility to "dig" through all those people that are... well, more important than you.
And half the electronics brands in Japan from the 1960's should be sued for trying to sound like Western brands?
True story for those who don't know it: Ricoh is a homonym for Leica in Japanese.
There are hundreds of others..
Wow. Did she really just justify US policy-making by making a "majority of nations" argument???
There are 87 UN member states that are full-fledged democracies or "fully free" according to Freedom House. There are a total of 193 UN member states.
Which means that even in the United Nations (which doesn't contain all autonomous national entities) ONLY 45% ARE EVEN DEMOCRACIES.
Dear Stephanie, if policy makers used the "most countries in the world" argument to justify policy decisions, the WORLD would be broken.
There are many examples of this in the programming world. When AS3 was rolled out many coders thought it would change the web forever. It's an extremely viable, Java-like platform for web development. But it didn't fly. Most Flash developers stuck with the far more simplistic AS2 and ignored everything that came afterwards.
No, no. You completely misunderstood the post. These are ultrasonic soap films. These are beyond the range of human hearing which may make them acceptable to male audiences.
Yes, icons were originally designed to represent objects, but ultimately the shapes just convey meaning -- whether that meaning is recognized or learned. We have loads of shapes in our common lexicon that people "just understand" without knowing why.
For example: How many people know that the common ampersand is the French word "et"?
Most don't. But they understand the meaning because they have been taught to associate the shape with the function.
I'm deeply suspicious whenever a new unproven methodologies yield wildly different data than previous methodologies.
Was the methodology itself tested against known quantities?