The fact the milky way is a normal spiral is a fundamental tenet of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and this new evidenc is just a theory. I demand that people continue to teach my older (wrong) alternative theory.
They are only doing it becasue they know Olympic is pretty damn generic
But the words not older than "Apple", and yet there's a law that tells me I can't call my computer company "Apple Computers".
FFS people, is it really so hard to understand that this bill does not prohibit you from saying "London" or "2012", but it does stop you branding your product "London 2012", because thats a mark denoting the 2012 London Olympics.
But they probably ban neither "super" nor "bowl" but only the combination
And thus we get to the RTFA crunch. (Don't be embarrassed, none of the other people read it either).
But the new bill will make it illegal to combine words like "games", "medals", "gold", "2012", "sponsor" or "summer" in any form of advertising.
So... in effect this is exactly the same. You can use those words... any of them... isolation. What you can't do is use any combination of them that means the compound refers to the Olympics. Exactly like the Super Bowl.
... is shit. The $10 figure is almost certainly a coke-fuelled[0] invention of some lazy-ass semi-literate tech-journalist needing desperately to fill space, who's noticed that such a patent exists (probably read it on some other tech news site, but felt the story needed spicing up). Until MS or Apple actually make a statement on it, this is just moronic conjecture.
The point of a trademark, actually, is to protect the PUBLIC
Bingo. And if I type "Geico" into a search engine, I do not want to get linked to Dave's Insurance Hut, just because they've paid Google the most money.
I type "cheap insurance" then I deserve what I get, but if I ask for Geico, I've a reasonable expectation that Google direct me to Geico.
Why shouldn't they have the right to display what they want depending on the word you type in
Because you're not allowed to leverage other people's trademarks to sell your service. That's the point of trademarks. You might as well ask "Why can't I put innocuous words like `Armani' on the shirts I make".
It was the Beeb that put up the fake article about a fake dead pop star. Its that the BBC did it.
A BBC employee did it. That's not the same thing as "The BBC" doing it, or the suggestion that it was BBC policy. (Do you really want to go back to the time where everyones email had "Not speaking for my employers" pasted into the signature)
So that answers why they were having so much trouble with StarOffice
That, and the fact that StarOffice simply isn't that great. Sure, it's cool that its free and all, but its demands for CPU and memory are at least as bad as MSOffice.
If you mean governments, which at least in the Anglo-American
Blair may have been a snivelling wretch over Iraq, but he has been one of the most vociferous campaigners on climate change. It's not his fault that Bush is more loyal to his financiers than his friends (or though that does bring TB's judgement about his into even more serious questions).
The axe you gave me did certain things, chopping wood, etc, under the GPL I am free to extend the capabilities of your axe to include murder
Sorry, the analogy is clearly unclear. I meant murder as metaphor. You're right, the GPL does allow me to add tactical thermonuclear capability to emacs, even though RMS would probably be against.
The morally repugnant behaviour that I symbolised by "murder" would be (say) a convicted monopoly using my BSD code as the foundation, and then embracing and extending that code to lock people into their new propreitory protocols. (And I'd be locked out of those protocols even though they're based on my work).
Translation : If you're obliged to make a deal with someone with very low moral standards, you'd be well advised to keep as great a distance as possible.
Am I trying to help everyone, regardless of their motive, or am I trying to promote the common good.
I've got an GPL licensed axe. I'll lend it to you if you want to build a log cabin, or cut firewood for yourself, or if you want to make a better axe that we can all share, you may borrow it.
If you want to use it for something I consider morally wrong (say, murder) then you can get your own fucking axe.
Similarly, I've got a GPL house. If you need shelter, you can come in. But if you want to use it to turn tricks, or sell crack, get your own fucking house.
a record company would be neglecting their duty to promote sales of the artist
Record companies have no such duty. There are innumerable albums (usually experimental to some degree or other) that have sat in record company vaults because they can't be bothered to release and promote them. And usually there's very little the artists can do about it.
Hell, in the 1980s Geffen sued Neil Young for failing to produce records to its liking, and those they did release got negligible promotion (and, with the exception of "Trans", they were largely right. The records were shit. Especially "Everybody's Rocking).
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The fact the milky way is a normal spiral is a fundamental tenet of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and this new evidenc is just a theory. I demand that people continue to teach my older (wrong) alternative theory.
I ... want to thank you,
For giving us the best post,
In this thread.
FFS people, is it really so hard to understand that this bill does not prohibit you from saying "London" or "2012", but it does stop you branding your product "London 2012", because thats a mark denoting the 2012 London Olympics.
Jesus, some people are dumb.
Jesus.
... is shit. The $10 figure is almost certainly a coke-fuelled[0] invention of some lazy-ass semi-literate tech-journalist needing desperately to fill space, who's noticed that such a patent exists (probably read it on some other tech news site, but felt the story needed spicing up). Until MS or Apple actually make a statement on it, this is just moronic conjecture.
[0] I mean Coca-Cola, obviously.
Well, I would ... except Flash won't actually run on my AMD_64 machine, so that's all a bit of a moot point.
The "Allow Cookies For Session", along with the Allow Persistent Cookie Exceptions in Firefox solve all my problems. Along with AdBlock and BugMeNot.
I guess that makes me a bad person.
I type "cheap insurance" then I deserve what I get, but if I ask for Geico, I've a reasonable expectation that Google direct me to Geico.
No. It's like Calvin Klein paying Macy's employees to send them to the CK shirts whenever customers ask for Armani...
Sheesh.
The remains of the hull of the USS Merrimack.
Happens all the time, and has done to a greater or lesser extent since 2001.
It'll be clear in about a week, which is how long wikipedia's processes (and there are plenty of applicable processes) tend to take.
Nothing to see here...
Do you really not understand the difference between a closed interface, and a closed implementation of an open interface?
The morally repugnant behaviour that I symbolised by "murder" would be (say) a convicted monopoly using my BSD code as the foundation, and then embracing and extending that code to lock people into their new propreitory protocols. (And I'd be locked out of those protocols even though they're based on my work).
<Shatner>I can't get behind that.</Shatner>
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I've got an GPL licensed axe. I'll lend it to you if you want to build a log cabin, or cut firewood for yourself, or if you want to make a better axe that we can all share, you may borrow it.
If you want to use it for something I consider morally wrong (say, murder) then you can get your own fucking axe.
Similarly, I've got a GPL house. If you need shelter, you can come in. But if you want to use it to turn tricks, or sell crack, get your own fucking house.
Hell, in the 1980s Geffen sued Neil Young for failing to produce records to its liking, and those they did release got negligible promotion (and, with the exception of "Trans", they were largely right. The records were shit. Especially "Everybody's Rocking).
"Man breaks contract" makes the news.
"Man exerts rights" doesn't.