I wonder just what this guy was smoking when he did this. Did he honestly believe he could hide behind this UA?
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Read through those comments, some of them are just insane. Like one said they kept it in their pocket with a travel pak of tissues. The reply was "That would mark it no problem.... I think it is just something we will have to live with."
Another one says "I am not certain apple is responsible for that... freedom of choice"
My bet is that steve jobs could kill a baby with an ibook, and they'd defend him.
Yes, you are mis-understanding it. The plaintiff is objecting to Google offering it's name for sale. Adwords works by offering word up for bid. Google gives the words to the advertiser. You (The advertiser) put in Handbags, and adwords kicks out "Purse, Doonie, Louis Vitton, Wallet..etc etc." This is what Louis Vitton won on. This has nothing to do with advertisers' rights, or passing off as, or competitive comparison. Once you understand that you'll see why they won.
Google is using the trademark of Louis Vitton to make money.
Imagine the stores creating an Isle named Coke. The store advertises the isle as coke, plasters it all over the entrance to the isle. Then offers the isle up for sale. That's what's at issue here, the fact that Google offered up the trademarked name Louis Vitton for sale to the highest bidder.
I believe what is at issue is this: Google offered the words "Louis Vitton" for sale. It's not about the ads that were shown, It's not about searching, it was the fact that Google put up for bid the trademarked name "Louis Vitton". Since we are all fond of analogies, imagine if you will the telephone book offering for sale real estate in the yellow pages under a section called "Coke" and a section called "Wal Mart".
Yeah, except it's a republican Congress and the President is the head of the republican party. The argument that the president doesn't legislate is old. Of course the president legislates.
Why is it they use the arguement that the "President doesn't tax or spend money" but the president will be the first to take credit for the "Clean Air Act" or "No Child Left Behind"
I'm GLAD that those features aren't available in the US. I don't need the added worry that they guy in the car next to me is reading slashdot, or trying to keep up with the lyrics on some karaoke song!
People love you use this as a rebuttal to the "more use = more bugs" argument, but comeone people... you're comparing a service to an OS. like someone else said minesweeper doesn't have too many bugs reported.
How can you refute the fact that if someone wanted to cause harm to a lot of machines they'd code a virus/worm for windows?
If it was born in 1963, wouldn't it have turned 40 last year? Seems a little sloooowww, kinda like my Timex sinclair which irritated me because you could only use the basic command preprogrammed into the keyboard.
I sell and maintain Time and Attendance systems for my customers. Our software audits punches in a real simple manner. If the punch comes in from the clock it shows up on the employee time card in black. if it is edited or changed it changes to red. It's impossible to cheat the system. If you cheat there's an audit trail. This is how it's supposed to be done.
Now what i do see a problem with is rounding. A lot of places like to round punches in a very unfair manner. If you're 15 minutes early it rounds forward, and if you stay 15 minutes late it rounds back. This is VERY common, however illegal.
The law states that whatever rounding rules you apply at the start of the day must be the same rule you apply at the end of the day, so if your employer uses these techniques to cheat you, do something about it.
First off he said he's an attorney, not a lawfirm.. and second he said that he worked at a corporation, you were quick to trigger the troll card.
You may disagree with his statement, but this is something that isn't being discussed at all. I believe this whole SCO thing is having an impact on linux adoption, it's silly to believe otherwise. Corporations like stability (insert windows joke here). The volatility in linux's future right now is a turn off, whether it's warranted or not.
"They also often sign liberal agreements with stations (Pay us $x a month and you can play anything from our catalog). Dance clubs have to pay as well, as technically does the DJ who charges you to play at your Bat Mitzah"
That's wrong, it's technically up to the establishment the Bat Matzah is at that is required to have a license agreement. http://www.ascap.com/licensing/general faq.html
I spent a couple years doing contract/temp work and it was the absolute worst time of my life. Knowing that I have a job to go to everyday, that won't dissapear if i get sick is a great feeling. I don't make as much money now, but i have benefits and the feeling that i could loose my job tomorrow is gone.
I realize that companies can close and regular employees can loose their jobs just as fast, but with contract and temp work you KNOW that you will be let go and it's a whole different mentality....
Those online job sites are so filled with contract positions and work at home garbage that it's frustrating to do any kind of real search. The local newspaper uses career builder which is a little better because it's stocked with real classified ads that appear in the newspaper. Better to stick to something local than some national job search scam.
This is something all the companies should have been doing from the beginning(cough cough)IBM(cough cough). Companies like to have someone to point the finger to if something goes wrong, and HP just painted a huge target on themselves;-)
This isn't something new, they told us it was coming. What a crock of shit. I think this shows that there needs to be some sort of accountability in this business.
holy crap i hope you're kidding. So i name my kid Linux and he develops the mattress, same net result.
Are you saying that only synthetic(made up words) should be trademarkable? I'm sure Blockbuster Video, Pizza Hut, Advance Auto Parts, and Red Hat would have something to say about that.
So tomorrow i release a coffee maker and I call it CAMEL Coffee Maker. Then a little later i come out with coffee filters that double up as tobacco filters(ok stretching, but who knows).. do you not think that camel cigarretts should be able to come after me?
The fact is you can't trademark a common word with unless it's used in an uncommon setting like APPLE MUSIC. Name an apple from a tree that's called Music.. hmmm seems to me Apple Records was the first to correlate Apples to Music.... funny how that works.
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I wonder just what this guy was smoking when he did this. Did he honestly believe he could hide behind this UA?
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Imagine, a world where you could talk on your phone without wires.
Read through those comments, some of them are just insane. Like one said they kept it in their pocket with a travel pak of tissues. The reply was "That would mark it no problem.... I think it is just something we will have to live with."
Another one says "I am not certain apple is responsible for that... freedom of choice"
My bet is that steve jobs could kill a baby with an ibook, and they'd defend him.
Only in America would someone be too poor to evacuate, but be worried about their cell phone coverage.
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It doesn't matter what security microsoft integrates. It will be defeated with a simple email attachment, or a popup saying "click here for hot girlz"
Yes, you are mis-understanding it. The plaintiff is objecting to Google offering it's name for sale. Adwords works by offering word up for bid. Google gives the words to the advertiser. You (The advertiser) put in Handbags, and adwords kicks out "Purse, Doonie, Louis Vitton, Wallet..etc etc." This is what Louis Vitton won on. This has nothing to do with advertisers' rights, or passing off as, or competitive comparison. Once you understand that you'll see why they won. Google is using the trademark of Louis Vitton to make money.
Imagine the stores creating an Isle named Coke. The store advertises the isle as coke, plasters it all over the entrance to the isle. Then offers the isle up for sale. That's what's at issue here, the fact that Google offered up the trademarked name Louis Vitton for sale to the highest bidder.
I believe what is at issue is this: Google offered the words "Louis Vitton" for sale. It's not about the ads that were shown, It's not about searching, it was the fact that Google put up for bid the trademarked name "Louis Vitton". Since we are all fond of analogies, imagine if you will the telephone book offering for sale real estate in the yellow pages under a section called "Coke" and a section called "Wal Mart".
It wouldn't fly.
Yeah, except it's a republican Congress and the President is the head of the republican party. The argument that the president doesn't legislate is old. Of course the president legislates.
Why is it they use the arguement that the "President doesn't tax or spend money" but the president will be the first to take credit for the "Clean Air Act" or "No Child Left Behind"
I'm GLAD that those features aren't available in the US. I don't need the added worry that they guy in the car next to me is reading slashdot, or trying to keep up with the lyrics on some karaoke song!
The 09364U I have says made in Thailand. I guess they make these all over the place.
Surprising thing was none of the screenshots were of solitaire crashing
People love you use this as a rebuttal to the "more use = more bugs" argument, but comeone people... you're comparing a service to an OS. like someone else said minesweeper doesn't have too many bugs reported.
How can you refute the fact that if someone wanted to cause harm to a lot of machines they'd code a virus/worm for windows?
If it was born in 1963, wouldn't it have turned 40 last year? Seems a little sloooowww, kinda like my Timex sinclair which irritated me because you could only use the basic command preprogrammed into the keyboard.
I sell and maintain Time and Attendance systems for my customers. Our software audits punches in a real simple manner. If the punch comes in from the clock it shows up on the employee time card in black. if it is edited or changed it changes to red. It's impossible to cheat the system. If you cheat there's an audit trail. This is how it's supposed to be done.
Now what i do see a problem with is rounding. A lot of places like to round punches in a very unfair manner. If you're 15 minutes early it rounds forward, and if you stay 15 minutes late it rounds back. This is VERY common, however illegal.
The law states that whatever rounding rules you apply at the start of the day must be the same rule you apply at the end of the day, so if your employer uses these techniques to cheat you, do something about it.
First off he said he's an attorney, not a lawfirm.. and second he said that he worked at a corporation, you were quick to trigger the troll card.
You may disagree with his statement, but this is something that isn't being discussed at all. I believe this whole SCO thing is having an impact on linux adoption, it's silly to believe otherwise. Corporations like stability (insert windows joke here). The volatility in linux's future right now is a turn off, whether it's warranted or not.
"They also often sign liberal agreements with stations (Pay us $x a month and you can play anything from our catalog). Dance clubs have to pay as well, as technically does the DJ who charges you to play at your Bat Mitzah"
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That's wrong, it's technically up to the establishment the Bat Matzah is at that is required to have a license agreement.
http://www.ascap.com/licensing/genera
I spent a couple years doing contract/temp work and it was the absolute worst time of my life. Knowing that I have a job to go to everyday, that won't dissapear if i get sick is a great feeling. I don't make as much money now, but i have benefits and the feeling that i could loose my job tomorrow is gone.
I realize that companies can close and regular employees can loose their jobs just as fast, but with contract and temp work you KNOW that you will be let go and it's a whole different mentality....
at least for me.
Those online job sites are so filled with contract positions and work at home garbage that it's frustrating to do any kind of real search. The local newspaper uses career builder which is a little better because it's stocked with real classified ads that appear in the newspaper. Better to stick to something local than some national job search scam.
well what is it, are they dumb, evil, or good?? Soo many storys, maybe we should rename this to slashdot.NET :)
This is something all the companies should have been doing from the beginning(cough cough)IBM(cough cough). Companies like to have someone to point the finger to if something goes wrong, and HP just painted a huge target on themselves ;-)
This isn't something new, they told us it was coming. What a crock of shit. I think this shows that there needs to be some sort of accountability in this business.
Finally something Lotus Notes is good at.... but given it's history of doing everything very poorly, it'll probably fail at being good prior art too.
holy crap i hope you're kidding. So i name my kid Linux and he develops the mattress, same net result.
Are you saying that only synthetic(made up words) should be trademarkable? I'm sure Blockbuster Video, Pizza Hut, Advance Auto Parts, and Red Hat would have something to say about that.
So tomorrow i release a coffee maker and I call it CAMEL Coffee Maker. Then a little later i come out with coffee filters that double up as tobacco filters(ok stretching, but who knows).. do you not think that camel cigarretts should be able to come after me?
The fact is you can't trademark a common word with unless it's used in an uncommon setting like APPLE MUSIC. Name an apple from a tree that's called Music.. hmmm seems to me Apple Records was the first to correlate Apples to Music.... funny how that works.