I was surprised when apple music didnt sue them when they first release itunes considering there was some lead time. Apple music certainly has a right to protect their trademark, all the people saying that "you can't confuse the two" have missed the mark.
If i release a mattress tomorrow named Linux, then u better believe it's within linus's right to fight it... but I'll win because i'm in a completly different' industry... now lets say that my mattresses's become very popular, so popular that everyone know's linux's means mattresses and i release a computerized mattress... well then i've jumped on the very hollowed ground that i won my first case on.
Apple promised after taking the Apple Music trademark that they'll never get in the music industry. they know that(sosueme sound) and they did it anyway.
The reaction on slashdot would be totally different if microsoft started selling music and there was a Microsoft Music label in existance before the 80's.
If you want to make an open sourced system just for the sake of it being open then you're going to have a hard time. I firmly believe that some things should be open sourced, but it's not always prudent to do so. Every situation is different and open source isn't always the answer. Companies need to make money, even the open source friendly companies release software closed source.
If you can get grant money based on the finished product then open source is a good idea, but if you need to provide a product that will be sold, i think companies will be a little more frugal handing you money to create something open.
Other new products soon to be released: Motorolla lender 3000 Microsoft refillable #2 Pencil Symmantic Hugh Pulp Orange Juice
What is it with companies expanding into unrelated industries...(ok, so they're both electronics) Shouldn't they be investing money in smaller companies or : invest it in making their own cell phones and equipment better?
It's hard and impractical to resell individual songs that we never envisioned needing the extra clause in the TOS. Please mull over how to transfer your songs while we add the clause. Thank you, Apple
Aaarrgghh... who am i supposed to hate more, RIAA or SCO... maybe i'll get lucky and a microsoft story will be up next and complete the slashdot axis of evil:)
Ok, so the RIAA offers amnesty to these people after they issue the subpeonas, so they already know who the are so what's with the photo id thing.
The name on the subpeona could be grandma who pays the cable bill but never used a computer anyways, so how would her saying she won't do it anymore help the situation.. wouldn't they have to get the grandson in the family who actually does it?(ok, assume he's over 18 for arguments sake) ei, there's the rub.
Finally, what good does amnesty from RIAA do anyways, considering it's the individual labels doing the suing. It says nothing in the article about the members individually offering amnesty, although one could say it's implied, it's not specific and i would seriously be questioning such offers.
I'm absolutly amazed at the replies regarding blackboard. A student/faculty collaboration program, no matter how good IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR A DOOR/VENDING ACCESS SYSTEM! Jees people, wake up.
>>"We are a company that is transitioning out of the organizer business and into the communicator business. At some point we will have transitioned out of the organizer business."
So let me get this straight, you're going to leave a market where you have a niche, ie: the Visor, and enter a market that's already saturated and run by Nokia, Ericson, and Motorola.
I think Qualcomm tried something similar, they should've stuck to making Eudora;)
It's actually pretty simple, you simply use lithography to create the pattern you want to etch, then by alternating etching and growing SiO2 you can pretty much create anything you want out of silicon. The real trick is in reducing the resolution to a few microns across.
Vincent doesn't have a leg to stand on because Apple "says" none of it's employees ever accept unsolicited ideas? This guy submitted his sketch to an independant website, and I'll bet someone from Apple on the development team saw it, and ran with it.
Suggestions to use PDF are retarded. Acrobat costs WAY more than word, and you want to talk about secret proprietary format... jees.
Replying to users telling them to put it in RTF or another format is perfectly acceptable. Replying to users ranting about free software is not.
I hate it when people send me attachments in.wpd format, but there's this nifty converter feature in MS Word, so I live with it. I don't reply saying "What are you doing, don't you know not everyone uses Wordperfect... what a dumbass user you are."
Get off your high opensource horse, there's bigger things in this world to complain about.
The article suggests microsoft employees circulated e-mail's containing a link to vote. That doesn't seem too dubious a practice, since I've seen many e-mails linking to polls and surveys. I do however, have a problem with them writing scripts to automate the responding.
I don't know where you come from, but the Dell Optiplex line is rock steady. Granted, they cost a bit more than the other lines, but the hardware has been tested for months to ensure that it is completly stable.
I have personally had problems with IBM desktops, they are poor performing and cost way too much. IBM needs to stick to making laptops which it does very, very well.
It shouldn't cost $1.00 to print a $1.00 bill, that would just be ridiculous. Just as an example, the US bureau of engraving and printing prints about 37 million notes a day. Even at 20 cents per chip, that adds 7.4 million dollars to the cost of printing PER DAY, 2.7 Billion dollars a year. That simply isn't going to happen.
(I know my figures are for US Currency, but I'm only using it to illustrate the absurdty of adding this cost)
The article said the chips cost between 20 and 100 cents. I can't fathom it being economically possible to put these in anything but the largest bills. I think it could have some uses, such tracking the very large bills reserve banks move, but to track the everyday transactions.. improbable.
Just from the pictures, I'm thinking a lot of crap could fall in those holes. Just the buildup of hair and potato chips could be enough to make cleaning it a daily chore. Oh, and I don't want my mouse vibrating and making noise like I'm sure that one does. I think a lower-tech solution is to remove your hand from the mouse once in a while, maybe wipe in on a t-shirt, or something.. jees...
I think that using anything but an expansion card would limit resolution and range tremendously. Not only would voltage resolution be low, but you wouldn't be able to pick up high frequencies. I can't think of a port on a standard PC that would allow you to pick up anything but small signals at low frequencies.
The expansion card that would be needed would have to be huge, the heatsink alone would be large compared to the card It would also think that it would have to connect directly to either the case powersupply or it's own. All in all, I think such an expansion card would be impractical. I'm sure you could design such a card that could operate in a small range, but one that could perform as a bench O-scope is impractical.
Semiconductor companies are constantly announcing "Breakthroughs". In my eyes, I don't see them as major breakthroughs, simply an evolutionary step. McDonalds constantly fixes it's processes, changes recipies, etc.. but they don't run a commercial unless they come up with a new sandwich. Develop new materials besides Si, and SiO2 and I might just buy some stock!
One or two record lables offering this kind of service doesn't interest me one bit. Until it becomes possible to get ANY song on this type of service, no matter how cheap, I'll continue to use my free p2p client of choice.
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I was surprised when apple music didnt sue them when they first release itunes considering there was some lead time. Apple music certainly has a right to protect their trademark, all the people saying that "you can't confuse the two" have missed the mark.
If i release a mattress tomorrow named Linux, then u better believe it's within linus's right to fight it... but I'll win because i'm in a completly different' industry... now lets say that my mattresses's become very popular, so popular that everyone know's linux's means mattresses and i release a computerized mattress... well then i've jumped on the very hollowed ground that i won my first case on.
Apple promised after taking the Apple Music trademark that they'll never get in the music industry. they know that(sosueme sound) and they did it anyway.
The reaction on slashdot would be totally different if microsoft started selling music and there was a Microsoft Music label in existance before the 80's.
If you want to make an open sourced system just for the sake of it being open then you're going to have a hard time. I firmly believe that some things should be open sourced, but it's not always prudent to do so. Every situation is different and open source isn't always the answer. Companies need to make money, even the open source friendly companies release software closed source.
If you can get grant money based on the finished product then open source is a good idea, but if you need to provide a product that will be sold, i think companies will be a little more frugal handing you money to create something open.
Other new products soon to be released:
Motorolla lender 3000
Microsoft refillable #2 Pencil
Symmantic Hugh Pulp Orange Juice
What is it with companies expanding into unrelated industries...(ok, so they're both electronics) Shouldn't they be investing money in smaller companies or : invest it in making their own cell phones and equipment better?
It's hard and impractical to resell individual songs that we never envisioned needing the extra clause in the TOS. Please mull over how to transfer your songs while we add the clause.
Thank you,
Apple
Aaarrgghh... who am i supposed to hate more, RIAA or SCO... maybe i'll get lucky and a microsoft story will be up next and complete the slashdot axis of evil :)
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Ok, so the RIAA offers amnesty to these people after they issue the subpeonas, so they already know who the are so what's with the photo id thing.
The name on the subpeona could be grandma who pays the cable bill but never used a computer anyways, so how would her saying she won't do it anymore help the situation.. wouldn't they have to get the grandson in the family who actually does it?(ok, assume he's over 18 for arguments sake) ei, there's the rub.
Finally, what good does amnesty from RIAA do anyways, considering it's the individual labels doing the suing. It says nothing in the article about the members individually offering amnesty, although one could say it's implied, it's not specific and i would seriously be questioning such offers.
thank you, that is all.
I use microsoft exchange, and it randomly deletes, my data and users so i don't have to worry about organizing it :)
Sorry, i'm frustrated... I'm setting up an exchange server right now.
I'm absolutly amazed at the replies regarding blackboard. A student/faculty collaboration program, no matter how good IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR A DOOR/VENDING ACCESS SYSTEM! Jees people, wake up.
Great, games that can now charge you 99 cents a minute.. I'm screwed!
>>"We are a company that is transitioning out of the organizer business and into the communicator business. At some point we will have transitioned out of the organizer business."
;)
So let me get this straight, you're going to leave a market where you have a niche, ie: the Visor, and enter a market that's already saturated and run by Nokia, Ericson, and Motorola.
I think Qualcomm tried something similar, they should've stuck to making Eudora
It's actually pretty simple, you simply use lithography to create the pattern you want to etch, then by alternating etching and growing SiO2 you can pretty much create anything you want out of silicon. The real trick is in reducing the resolution to a few microns across.
Slashdotted in 4 minutes... those .gov servers blow ;)
My apologies, I missed that line in the wired article about e-mailing Jobs. What a dumbass that guy was ;)
Vincent doesn't have a leg to stand on because Apple "says" none of it's employees ever accept unsolicited ideas? This guy submitted his sketch to an independant website, and I'll bet someone from Apple on the development team saw it, and ran with it.
If it quacks like a duck....
Penn State recently capped downloads. There's and article here. The interesting thing is the fact that 247 students(1.6%) use 46% of the bandwidth.
Suggestions to use PDF are retarded. Acrobat costs WAY more than word, and you want to talk about secret proprietary format... jees.
.wpd format, but there's this nifty converter feature in MS Word, so I live with it. I don't reply saying "What are you doing, don't you know not everyone uses Wordperfect... what a dumbass user you are."
Replying to users telling them to put it in RTF or another format is perfectly acceptable. Replying to users ranting about free software is not.
I hate it when people send me attachments in
Get off your high opensource horse, there's bigger things in this world to complain about.
The article suggests microsoft employees circulated e-mail's containing a link to vote. That doesn't seem too dubious a practice, since I've seen many e-mails linking to polls and surveys. I do however, have a problem with them writing scripts to automate the responding.
I don't know where you come from, but the Dell Optiplex line is rock steady. Granted, they cost a bit more than the other lines, but the hardware has been tested for months to ensure that it is completly stable.
I have personally had problems with IBM desktops, they are poor performing and cost way too much. IBM needs to stick to making laptops which it does very, very well.
It shouldn't cost $1.00 to print a $1.00 bill, that would just be ridiculous. Just as an example, the US bureau of engraving and printing prints about 37 million notes a day. Even at 20 cents per chip, that adds 7.4 million dollars to the cost of printing PER DAY, 2.7 Billion dollars a year. That simply isn't going to happen.
(I know my figures are for US Currency, but I'm only using it to illustrate the absurdty of adding this cost)
The article said the chips cost between 20 and 100 cents. I can't fathom it being economically possible to put these in anything but the largest bills. I think it could have some uses, such tracking the very large bills reserve banks move, but to track the everyday transactions.. improbable.
just my 2cents
JC
Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD!
Just from the pictures, I'm thinking a lot of crap could fall in those holes. Just the buildup of hair and potato chips could be enough to make cleaning it a daily chore. Oh, and I don't want my mouse vibrating and making noise like I'm sure that one does. I think a lower-tech solution is to remove your hand from the mouse once in a while, maybe wipe in on a t-shirt, or something.. jees...
JC
Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD.
I think that using anything but an expansion card would limit resolution and range tremendously. Not only would voltage resolution be low, but you wouldn't be able to pick up high frequencies. I can't think of a port on a standard PC that would allow you to pick up anything but small signals at low frequencies.
The expansion card that would be needed would have to be huge, the heatsink alone would be large compared to the card It would also think that it would have to connect directly to either the case powersupply or it's own. All in all, I think such an expansion card would be impractical. I'm sure you could design such a card that could operate in a small range, but one that could perform as a bench O-scope is impractical.
Semiconductor companies are constantly announcing "Breakthroughs". In my eyes, I don't see them as major breakthroughs, simply an evolutionary step. McDonalds constantly fixes it's processes, changes recipies, etc.. but they don't run a commercial unless they come up with a new sandwich. Develop new materials besides Si, and SiO2 and I might just buy some stock!
One or two record lables offering this kind of service doesn't interest me one bit. Until it becomes possible to get ANY song on this type of service, no matter how cheap, I'll continue to use my free p2p client of choice.