If MAME and it's logo has not been registered as a trademark, then Foley can apply to register it, regardless of how long it has been used by someone else. If he can slip this one past the TM Office, possibly by overwhelming the existing MAME folks with advertising and publicity, he will have the registered trademark for MAME.
HOWEVER, since the MAME folks have been using said name and logo for years, they will be protected BY LAW from being sued by Foley for their continued usage of the marks. This is one way that these particular intellectual property laws protect you from cretins like him:)
I am not a trademark attorney, but I do IT in an IP firm. This is not legal advice, blah, blah, blah. These laws apply at least in both US and Australia.
Answer: Redhat 8.0 installation (server setup) with automatic wiping of all existing partitions for security purposes. (wince) OK, it was in the small print when I went back and R'd the FM.
The idea of applying pressure on Linus to know for sure who contributed what code to the linux kernel is akin to making a list of people to round up later....
I think an important distinction about the great IP "land" grab is not that you won't be able to continue to do anything you used to, but that you will pay a "levy" to the current "landowner" for a "fief".
The idea is not to take everything from you, but to take as much as each company can, but still leaving you able to feed and clothe yourself and pay your dues.
In Australia, I heard that when two women were first included in a submarine tour, they were at each other's throats. They now put more than two on one sub (more like six because the bed compartments are in groups of six)
IP with respect to patents has been going on since the 1400s. Read "The Lunar Men" by Uglow(sp?) about how entrepeneurs in the 1700s went about protecting their R&D investments.
Law will always be exploited by greedy people. It is neither perfect nor complete. Holes will be exploited as well as new legislation.
I would guess and say that you do not want or expect to make a living from your own creativity (except for your work that your employer's will own) ?
When you are coding to a written API, you wouldn't be just getting your code to get the right answers out of a test suite. Your code will actually be testing the test suite's correlation to the written API.
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If MAME and it's logo has not been registered as a trademark, then Foley can apply to register it, regardless of how long it has been used by someone else. If he can slip this one past the TM Office, possibly by overwhelming the existing MAME folks with advertising and publicity, he will have the registered trademark for MAME.
:)
HOWEVER, since the MAME folks have been using said name and logo for years, they will be protected BY LAW from being sued by Foley for their continued usage of the marks. This is one way that these particular intellectual property laws protect you from cretins like him
I am not a trademark attorney, but I do IT in an IP firm. This is not legal advice, blah, blah, blah. These laws apply at least in both US and Australia.
who speak pimpin' english (NSFW (sometimes))
Wasn't he the Australian soldiers defence attorney in Breaker Morant? Look what happened to them.
Answer:
Redhat 8.0 installation (server setup) with automatic wiping of all existing partitions for security purposes. (wince) OK, it was in the small print when I went back and R'd the FM.
I replaced plastic products by shitting into moulds, made out of my shit.
I fart into my laptop's power supply, and use saliva to lubricate myself.
I shower in my own urine, and the water never comes out of the tap cold.
I'm totally 2050 already, but no-one will talk to me anymore.
The SSN upgrade process should point to places and people to start investigating.
Timing like that could be more than coincidental.
By the same token, it could be a coincidence that only one student in the Computer Security Fundamentals 101 course was passed by a hoary professor.
Getting them to not break the opponents legs and heads will be the tough part.
A fat person is anorexic because when they look in a mirror they really do see a fat person.
It is hard, but as a concientious programmer, if you are not the project manager repeat after me:
THE FAILURE OF THIS PROJECT IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY
There. You and your self-worth can sleep now, whether it works out or not. Took me five years to work that one out.
The idea of applying pressure on Linus to know for sure who contributed what code to the linux kernel is akin to making a list of people to round up later....
OT:
To simplify even more though:
If the west didn't dispossess over there, they wouldn't asplode here.
Religious belief is just another way for powerful people to channel and use common will.
The speedometer only went up to Mach 8
I think an important distinction about the great IP "land" grab is not that you won't be able to continue to do anything you used to, but that you will pay a "levy" to the current "landowner" for a "fief".
The idea is not to take everything from you, but to take as much as each company can, but still leaving you able to feed and clothe yourself and pay your dues.
Agreed. One of the things that we have come to expect from MMORPGs is in-game help for initiation.
http://www.iclod.com/info.aspx?section=help&subjec t=quickstart
Quickstart Tutorials are useful.
It says how to get a free room for the first night on the first page.
From the review:
"I'd rate it PG-13, for a rape scene, implied incest and other sexual references, as well as some mildly disturbing violence. Highly recommended."
Would you, as a parent, read it with your 13 year old child?
If there are less genes than we thought, the little buggers must be executing their comments.
On a little chalkboard, written with water resistant chalk, that can only be updated "manually"?
In Australia, I heard that when two women were first included in a submarine tour, they were at each other's throats. They now put more than two on one sub (more like six because the bed compartments are in groups of six)
so I can play pong against him online?
Quick apology for the apostrophe'. I didnt' stop it in ti'me.
IP with respect to patents has been going on since the 1400s. Read "The Lunar Men" by Uglow(sp?) about how entrepeneurs in the 1700s went about protecting their R&D investments.
Law will always be exploited by greedy people. It is neither perfect nor complete. Holes will be exploited as well as new legislation.
I would guess and say that you do not want or expect to make a living from your own creativity (except for your work that your employer's will own) ?
Were you around during the height of the popularity of alt.tasteless.hamster.duct_tape or alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork?
Those were the days. Anyone go to Level 17 on gopher?
When you are coding to a written API, you wouldn't be just getting your code to get the right answers out of a test suite. Your code will actually be testing the test suite's correlation to the written API.
Late comment, but wouldn't this be a great honeypot to catch baddies?