I am an eBay employee, and not a lawyer or a PR team member, so the following opinion is useless drivel with a decided slant in favor of my employer. [/disclaimer]
The two cases are quite similar, but the laws in France protect French companies almost as much as they attempt to screw non-French companies. Remember the anti-competitive suit against Apple for selling iPods & music to go on them?
The cases are similar in that both plaintiffs are luxury goods makers that don't like the fact that the gray market (legit goods being resold) is obscuring the counterfeit market. The companies' solution is to attack a (the) central point where the black and gray markets collide. In attempting to do so, they demonstrate their failing to understand (or unwillingness to admit) that the black market has and will always exist.
In the US, this case has shown that the burden of protecting a trademark falls on the trademark holder, especially when the market is as willing as eBay has been (right or wrong) to remove auctions that trademark holder's believe violate their trademark. France has determined that the burden falls on the marketplace to ensure that the trademark holder's trademark is protected. The French case has shown that not only is eBay responsible for preventing the sale of counterfeit goods, it is also responsible for preventing the resale of legitimate goods that the manufacturer opposes. From my comment on the French ruling:
What's especially stupid about this is that if LV winds up forcing eBay out of this category, 100 new markets will open up. This has already started with the counterfeit sellers who have been forced off of eBay.
Example: You can't buy a gun on eBay. I think it was after Columbine that eBay voluntarily exited the gun category. Since then there are a bunch of auction sites specifically for guns.
By keeping one big market, it will be far easier for LV, Tiffany, and others to manage the counterfit & legit gray market. This is basically another example of an old company failing to understand online commerce.
I've been a happy AVG Free user on my Windows machines at home for a few years. I noticed the same problems as others have noted when the 8.0 upgrade was enforced, but I have mostly gotten used to it.
What I'd like to know is if there's a comperable free antivirus that doesn't piss off the/. community (Linux is not what I'm looking for, as my wife sees no reason to relearn how to use her computer, and I still want to play COD4).
What's especially stupid about this is that if LV winds up forcing eBay out of this category, 100 new markets will open up. This has already started with the counterfeit sellers who have been forced off of eBay.
Example: You can't buy a gun on eBay. I think it was after Columbine that eBay voluntarily exited the gun category. Since then there are a bunch of auction sites specifically for guns.
By keeping one big market, it will be far easier for LV, Tiffany, and others to manage the counterfit & legit gray market. This is basically another example of an old company failing to understand online commerce.
This may fall more under a MIS degree than a CS degree, but the piece of paper you received is not as relevant as your skills are. The closest thing your degree will get you to a job is an interview. The things you are good at and enjoy doing are what you should look for in a job. Getting the hiring manager to like you is what will wind up landing you a job.
I, too, am a programming-adverse geek. I am good enough at understanding computer logic & business needs to translate between the people who know what needs to be done (business) and the people who know how to get it done (developers). There's a stunning lack of people who can ride the business/tech fence (at least at the multi-billion dollar.com where I work). While there is an element of taking the specs from the customers and bringing them down to the engineers to my job, I do generally find it satisfying for now. When non-tech business people try to define how software should work, they can't express their needs well enough receive acceptable software.
I got my start building Crystal reports & doing ad-hoc SQL queries. I used this to start understanding the objectives of the departments I supported, and when one of them needed a techie to administer software & define requirements to a vendor, I got the call. Maybe you can do something similar with your help desk/support position.
If I have this device, I can no longer blame my crappy game play on my crappy hardware. Now I lose because I'm stupid. Move along. Nothing to see here.
I wonder if US companies will honor this patent. While it's not clear from the article, it looks like this patent exists in Singapore. US companies with operations in Singapore may come under pressure.
IMHO, this will probably be struck down, as Singapore is generally friendly to businesses. Also, it is akin to patenting a method to exchange carbon dioxide in blood with oxygen in the air. With a patent like that, you could pretty much sue all animal life.
I don't imagine Apple-manufactured tanks, made of polycarbonate and brushed alumninum rolling into Eastern Europe. And I don't imagine Apple getting the bomb, or starving millions of people to death, or locking PC users into re-education camps where they are taught how to use a mouse with a single button. Still, the way Jobs and Apple appeal to people is oddly similar to the way totalitarian regimes do. Apple could market all of these pretty easily: iTank, iBomb, iStarvation & iCamp.
Interesting, but at what point do you need to install line amplification? I ask because I know that satellite signal over a long (100 meter) distance definately needs some help getting there. Depending on how low your low voltage cable signal is, this may not be so simple.
They are going to have to put in a chip in every single piece of hardware shipping out of every single manufacturer.
The feasibility of this is reduced even more when you consider how much hardware is being shipped out of China. If you're the Air Force, do you want Chinese factories to have your designs? It didn't work out too well for Cisco.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/24/1819200
The lawyers.
If the settlement is approved, plaintiffs' counsel will apply for an award of attorneys' fees and expenses not to exceed $900,000, Also ran: A$$hole plantiffs who were either too dumb or too ignorant to bother to understand industry standards.
plus incentive awards for the two representative plaintiffs in the amount of $5,000 each, to be paid separately from and in addition to the relief available to plaintiff class members. Also also ran: Creative for settling a class action lawsuit in such a way that they may actually increase their revenue.
In addition, if you submit a valid claim, you will receive either a 50% discount off the price of a new 1 GB MP3 player, or a discount certificate good for 20% off the price of any single item purchased at www.us.creative.com.
Or was it by chance that these spy sattelites were pointed to these areas?
Probably not 'by chance'. In case you haven't heard, there are some US troops in the region. The US government, at least on some level, may actually be interested in protecting the lives of these soldiers. One of the results of this is a concentration of spy satellites to help keep tabs on the situation. Chances are that the images we're seeing are not from the precise moment that the cables were cut, but given external data, such as the origin and destination of ships in the area, the spooks could track down who was responsible.
This revelation nearly blew my tinfoil hat right off my head. I mean come on, if the government can read the newspaper sitting on my sidewalk, what's to prevent them from being totally evil? Maybe they're just regular folks doing the best that they can.
This is scary from an artistic point of view - one melody can be accompanied by a wide variety of modal harmonies. The decision is the artist's. Handing over the decision to a piece of well-written software kills that aspect of the art and replaces it with science. The idea of replacing human thought with mechanical decisions conjures thoughts of Skynet & the Matrix.
The good news is that it will take well-written software, and this terrible idea is being developed by M$. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Going purely on title - not content - Final Fantasy sequels have to be the most retarded titles in existence.
Each new iteration negates all previous ones by virtue of the fact that they weren't final. The tagline is going to have to be "Final Fantasy XIV - this time we mean it! No more fantasies from here on out. Maybe. OK, one more after this." Followed by Final "Fantasty XV - It's a full blown addiction. We just don't know how to stop ourselves. Please Help."
But so far, no one has shown direct, only indirect benefits..... not job creation (save for nebulous 'tech' jobs) or anything else than infrastructure maintenance positions
Silence, you!!! There's no reason to let 'facts' or lack thereof get in the way of a report that faster internet connections = good - we need all the support we can get in the fight against the ISPs ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/19/2048219 ), even if it sucks. It's our FUD vs. theirs!
If one person leaving company X for company Y and it causes causes company X's bread and butter product to suck, it's not company Y's fault. Company X should have invested in business continuity. BCP is boring, but what if instead of being hired away, he was hit by a bus or (arguably similar to the deal he got at Amazon) wins the lottery? A company 1/10th the size of Microsoft shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket.
Is to post as many suicide-encouraging comments now, before it's illegal to do so.
Seriously though - while tragic, this kid's death shouldn't be blamed on the words somebody posted online. Would the Crocidile Hunter's memory be honored by eradicating all sting rays? Attaching the cause of suicide on anything other than the fact that someone seriously needed some help that they weren't getting is simple - and irresponsible.
Anybody who has seen an episode of Law and Order knows that filing charges against a person is ofte the equivalent to initiating a negotiation. The inflated charges lead to a plea to a lesser charge. Those of us who pay taxes don't mind this, as the bad guys still get punished (although usually not as severely as they might), and we don't have to pay all the overtime to the DA, public defender, judge, baliffs, etc.
No kidding! What would such a warning label look like?
Surgeon General's Warning: The likelihood of a psychological addiction to this device is approximately equal to your own tendency to become psychologically addicted to stuff.
I work in a place where they hand out blackberries like they're candy on Halloween. IMHO, people don't get 'addicted' to their blackberries, they become addicted to making it look like they're doing something important. Either way it's pathetic, and no warning label will fix it.
The report suggests the techniques could be useful for controlling crowds or in negotiations. "Do what we say & we'll turn off the voices. Thank you for your continued cooperation."
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The two cases are quite similar, but the laws in France protect French companies almost as much as they attempt to screw non-French companies. Remember the anti-competitive suit against Apple for selling iPods & music to go on them?
The cases are similar in that both plaintiffs are luxury goods makers that don't like the fact that the gray market (legit goods being resold) is obscuring the counterfeit market. The companies' solution is to attack a (the) central point where the black and gray markets collide. In attempting to do so, they demonstrate their failing to understand (or unwillingness to admit) that the black market has and will always exist.
In the US, this case has shown that the burden of protecting a trademark falls on the trademark holder, especially when the market is as willing as eBay has been (right or wrong) to remove auctions that trademark holder's believe violate their trademark. France has determined that the burden falls on the marketplace to ensure that the trademark holder's trademark is protected. The French case has shown that not only is eBay responsible for preventing the sale of counterfeit goods, it is also responsible for preventing the resale of legitimate goods that the manufacturer opposes. From my comment on the French ruling:
What's especially stupid about this is that if LV winds up forcing eBay out of this category, 100 new markets will open up. This has already started with the counterfeit sellers who have been forced off of eBay. Example: You can't buy a gun on eBay. I think it was after Columbine that eBay voluntarily exited the gun category. Since then there are a bunch of auction sites specifically for guns. By keeping one big market, it will be far easier for LV, Tiffany, and others to manage the counterfit & legit gray market. This is basically another example of an old company failing to understand online commerce.
I guess it's time to update my /. profile.
Now what's my real name again?
I've been a happy AVG Free user on my Windows machines at home for a few years. I noticed the same problems as others have noted when the 8.0 upgrade was enforced, but I have mostly gotten used to it.
/. community (Linux is not what I'm looking for, as my wife sees no reason to relearn how to use her computer, and I still want to play COD4).
What I'd like to know is if there's a comperable free antivirus that doesn't piss off the
What's especially stupid about this is that if LV winds up forcing eBay out of this category, 100 new markets will open up. This has already started with the counterfeit sellers who have been forced off of eBay.
Example: You can't buy a gun on eBay. I think it was after Columbine that eBay voluntarily exited the gun category. Since then there are a bunch of auction sites specifically for guns.
By keeping one big market, it will be far easier for LV, Tiffany, and others to manage the counterfit & legit gray market. This is basically another example of an old company failing to understand online commerce.
This may fall more under a MIS degree than a CS degree, but the piece of paper you received is not as relevant as your skills are. The closest thing your degree will get you to a job is an interview. The things you are good at and enjoy doing are what you should look for in a job. Getting the hiring manager to like you is what will wind up landing you a job.
.com where I work). While there is an element of taking the specs from the customers and bringing them down to the engineers to my job, I do generally find it satisfying for now. When non-tech business people try to define how software should work, they can't express their needs well enough receive acceptable software.
/2cents
I, too, am a programming-adverse geek. I am good enough at understanding computer logic & business needs to translate between the people who know what needs to be done (business) and the people who know how to get it done (developers). There's a stunning lack of people who can ride the business/tech fence (at least at the multi-billion dollar
I got my start building Crystal reports & doing ad-hoc SQL queries. I used this to start understanding the objectives of the departments I supported, and when one of them needed a techie to administer software & define requirements to a vendor, I got the call. Maybe you can do something similar with your help desk/support position.
If I have this device, I can no longer blame my crappy game play on my crappy hardware. Now I lose because I'm stupid. Move along. Nothing to see here.
IMHO, this will probably be struck down, as Singapore is generally friendly to businesses. Also, it is akin to patenting a method to exchange carbon dioxide in blood with oxygen in the air. With a patent like that, you could pretty much sue all animal life.
Now where's that patent application?
Screw technology. I'm getting into marketing.
Interesting, but at what point do you need to install line amplification? I ask because I know that satellite signal over a long (100 meter) distance definately needs some help getting there. Depending on how low your low voltage cable signal is, this may not be so simple.
The feasibility of this is reduced even more when you consider how much hardware is being shipped out of China. If you're the Air Force, do you want Chinese factories to have your designs? It didn't work out too well for Cisco. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/24/1819200
If the settlement is approved, plaintiffs' counsel will apply for an award of attorneys' fees and expenses not to exceed $900,000, Also ran: A$$hole plantiffs who were either too dumb or too ignorant to bother to understand industry standards.
plus incentive awards for the two representative plaintiffs in the amount of $5,000 each, to be paid separately from and in addition to the relief available to plaintiff class members. Also also ran: Creative for settling a class action lawsuit in such a way that they may actually increase their revenue.
In addition, if you submit a valid claim, you will receive either a 50% discount off the price of a new 1 GB MP3 player, or a discount certificate good for 20% off the price of any single item purchased at www.us.creative.com.
Probably not 'by chance'. In case you haven't heard, there are some US troops in the region. The US government, at least on some level, may actually be interested in protecting the lives of these soldiers. One of the results of this is a concentration of spy satellites to help keep tabs on the situation. Chances are that the images we're seeing are not from the precise moment that the cables were cut, but given external data, such as the origin and destination of ships in the area, the spooks could track down who was responsible.
This revelation nearly blew my tinfoil hat right off my head. I mean come on, if the government can read the newspaper sitting on my sidewalk, what's to prevent them from being totally evil? Maybe they're just regular folks doing the best that they can.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
How can we blame this on Microsoft?
This is scary from an artistic point of view - one melody can be accompanied by a wide variety of modal harmonies. The decision is the artist's. Handing over the decision to a piece of well-written software kills that aspect of the art and replaces it with science. The idea of replacing human thought with mechanical decisions conjures thoughts of Skynet & the Matrix.
The good news is that it will take well-written software, and this terrible idea is being developed by M$. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Going purely on title - not content - Final Fantasy sequels have to be the most retarded titles in existence.
Each new iteration negates all previous ones by virtue of the fact that they weren't final. The tagline is going to have to be "Final Fantasy XIV - this time we mean it! No more fantasies from here on out. Maybe. OK, one more after this." Followed by Final "Fantasty XV - It's a full blown addiction. We just don't know how to stop ourselves. Please Help."
Water is wet!!!
Have there been a ridiculously large number of Skynet references lately on /.? This must either be,
1. a result of the new Terminator series on TV or
2. we really have something to worry about.
Silence, you!!! There's no reason to let 'facts' or lack thereof get in the way of a report that faster internet connections = good - we need all the support we can get in the fight against the ISPs ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/19/2048219 ), even if it sucks. It's our FUD vs. theirs!
If one person leaving company X for company Y and it causes causes company X's bread and butter product to suck, it's not company Y's fault. Company X should have invested in business continuity. BCP is boring, but what if instead of being hired away, he was hit by a bus or (arguably similar to the deal he got at Amazon) wins the lottery? A company 1/10th the size of Microsoft shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket.
Is to post as many suicide-encouraging comments now, before it's illegal to do so.
Seriously though - while tragic, this kid's death shouldn't be blamed on the words somebody posted online. Would the Crocidile Hunter's memory be honored by eradicating all sting rays? Attaching the cause of suicide on anything other than the fact that someone seriously needed some help that they weren't getting is simple - and irresponsible.
Anybody who has seen an episode of Law and Order knows that filing charges against a person is ofte the equivalent to initiating a negotiation. The inflated charges lead to a plea to a lesser charge. Those of us who pay taxes don't mind this, as the bad guys still get punished (although usually not as severely as they might), and we don't have to pay all the overtime to the DA, public defender, judge, baliffs, etc.
No kidding! What would such a warning label look like?
Surgeon General's Warning: The likelihood of a psychological addiction to this device is approximately equal to your own tendency to become psychologically addicted to stuff.
I work in a place where they hand out blackberries like they're candy on Halloween. IMHO, people don't get 'addicted' to their blackberries, they become addicted to making it look like they're doing something important. Either way it's pathetic, and no warning label will fix it.
That runs on Linux! http://picasa.google.com/linux/
Not that I've tried it in Linux, but this is not what's keeping me from making the switch - DirectX is.