read the comments at the end of the article, german law apparently permits this behavior (although he indicates they are abusing the original intent of the statute)
Adobe probably wouldn't find it worth their while to take any kind of legal action in this case. If the law firm was operating legally, they would then have to challenge the law in some higher German court, no?
Probably not worth the time/money. I like your first idea... write a check (and send a letter to the german law firm telling them off)
except in their innovative business model, they don't actually need clients. Adobe sure doesn't retain them. Under German law they are apparently free to send out letters to anyone who appears to infringe on someone else's copyright, even if they have no business dealings with the copyright holder (apparently, they don't even need permission).
They then turn around and charge a couple thousand DM to the recipient of the letter, even though the "infringer" immediately complied with their demands.
True, but spinning off into a separate unit (AT&T Wireless Services, AWE was done a long time ago, over a year, I think) is a big difference from selling off the assets and customer base to a totally different company.
Now that I've had a chance to read a few of the reports of this, the Comcast bid is unsolicited, which I read as AWS isn't (currently) in any talks, isn't shopping around for a buyout, and yes, it would surprise me if they were about to sell off the whole thing for 1/2 what they just paid to buy TCI (not to mention deals with Media One).
Just doesn't add up.
The cable company, which had been rumored to be eyeing AT&T Broadband, indicated that the two companies held talks for months, but were unable to agree.
So, Comcast tried to work out a deal, got the cold shoulder, and now is making an offer to the shareholders. I guess stranger things have happened, eh?
..is more than just the "cable modem unit". They also sell the fixed wireless service (local phone and high speed internet) as well.
This is pretty significant if AT&T is seriously contemplating this deal: Fixed Wireless (aka Digital Broadband) was AT&T's strategic move to bypass the local telcos and go direct to the residential consumer. Seems odd that they would cash out for 44 billion at this point.
You've overlooked one tiny detail in your critique! The sun uses fusion, not fission! Terrestrial fission reactors that generate electricity do so by an unnatural process of allowing fissionable material (uranium, etc) to generate heat/steam through a dangerous nuclear reaction.
The fusion furnace around which our planet orbits has been in operation for billions of years using only the most natural, economic and safe method of producing energy using an extremely safe and abundant fuel source (hydrogen).
This same technology is in use in countless fusion energy plants throughout our galaxy, and indeed the entire cosmos!
(yes, I know you were kidding... so am I. I just couldn't resist.)
Um, except he didn't mention anything about cost/energy to produce the panels, did he? He was addressing the non-polluting statement. I thought the same thing when I read the summary. Yeah, solar panels produce zero pollution while they are used to generate power, but what about the manufacturing process? Is that zero-pollution as well?
a redacted document in pdf? Hmmm... wonder if they did a better job than the CIA/NSA/FBI/whatever. Anyone recall the details of that one? I seem to remember it was a bunch of agent's names that were poorly hidden in a pdf document and someone discovered how to extract the info an put it up on the web or something, right?
Thought the same thing. This is a company that must make Million$ from their trademarked software. 2500EUR (k, how much is that in 'merican, anyway?) seems like a arbitrary, nominal amount.
I know it is a lot for a developer to cough up for a software project they don't even make money on. That's not what I'm trying to say.
Just that it seems that if Adobe really wanted to get them to stop using the name, they would have said "stop right now, hand over your firstborn son or we'll sue you into oblivion".
This seems (and having not read the letter from Adobe's Lawyers, I can only surmise) more like they said "well, we can't just let them go around using a similar-sounding name, but they really aren't doing us any harm... what, should we throw a letter over to them and ask for a couple grand or something?"
hmm, ya know... now that I think about it, I've always said just 'slash' unless I'm talking to a windows guy, then I say forwardslash to differentiate it from the backslash that they would otherwise type. I've never heard "frontslash".
>what about when you step on em and smear em, what causes the chemical to light, since obviously at that point the bug is dead.
Indeed. I remember when we were kids we would swat the bugs in mid air because they would then stay lit as they went bouncing off and dropped to the ground. As I remember, they weren't dead and would resume normal flashing after a few minutes.
Also, we would catch a bunch and put them in a jar, then shake the jar and watch them all light up for a few moments. I wonder how this behavior is explained by the nitric oxide trigger?
as much as I hate to reply to my own messages, I did manage to find a site that talks about this "miniscroll" script library, and has a (dead) link to the source:
one example they show would/might be actually practical. There they have a much smaller layer region that is scrollable. I might actually want to use something like this on a project I'm doing at work.
Implementing this as they do on the supercables site is pretty useless (scrolling a long pane of images and text from top to bottom of the page), but I can see where this might come in useful if you wanted to display a long-ish list of info in a small region on a page and not try to deal with frames to do it.
>Why would a determined pirate bother with hacking a TiVo?
Partly agree. The thing that makes this so attractive is the TiVo _service_ that automates the recording of the shows. I've been mumbling everytime I see a TiVo ad that I'd run out and get one if there was a way to burn DVDs out of the thing. If I could set it to record all of the episodes of my shows and then easily transfer them to DVD (sans commercials), that would be something _really_ worth having.
Determined pirate? No. Fat, lazy coder guy who wants to watch what he wants, when he wants for years and years? Ubetcha!
>It seems slashdot just gives an overall rating to the last mod a post recieved
Yep. What shows is the last moderation. Modding a post that appears to be serious as 'Funny' would seem to be more of an insult that calling it a troll or whatnot.
Hey, they could have said that it doubles the amount of data! Sorry, but it is too much to expect the mainstream media to understand binary arithmetic, let alone translate that into something meaningful for their mostly non-technical audience.
Well, what you say is true, but I think he (ajs) was talking about the/. editors (Taco et all) and not the comment posters.
I agree completely that there is a _big_ difference between what CNN offers (perfect grammar and spelling, but not clue one) and what we have on/. (terrible "word-smithing" but they pretty much get it).
I'll laugh at CNN for their deficiencies and happily take/. with all the typos, thank you.
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*yes I know he meant the Mandrake team, but I wasn't able to resist.
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read the comments at the end of the article, german law apparently permits this behavior (although he indicates they are abusing the original intent of the statute)
Adobe probably wouldn't find it worth their while to take any kind of legal action in this case. If the law firm was operating legally, they would then have to challenge the law in some higher German court, no?
Probably not worth the time/money. I like your first idea... write a check (and send a letter to the german law firm telling them off)
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They then turn around and charge a couple thousand DM to the recipient of the letter, even though the "infringer" immediately complied with their demands.
Pretty nice, eh?
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I though Joe was married to "Mrs. Minivan-SoccerMom"
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Now that I've had a chance to read a few of the reports of this, the Comcast bid is unsolicited, which I read as AWS isn't (currently) in any talks, isn't shopping around for a buyout, and yes, it would surprise me if they were about to sell off the whole thing for 1/2 what they just paid to buy TCI (not to mention deals with Media One).
Just doesn't add up.
The cable company, which had been rumored to be eyeing AT&T Broadband, indicated that the two companies held talks for months, but were unable to agree.
So, Comcast tried to work out a deal, got the cold shoulder, and now is making an offer to the shareholders. I guess stranger things have happened, eh?
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This is pretty significant if AT&T is seriously contemplating this deal: Fixed Wireless (aka Digital Broadband) was AT&T's strategic move to bypass the local telcos and go direct to the residential consumer. Seems odd that they would cash out for 44 billion at this point.
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I thought that expression was "time immemorial".
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(guess my sarcasm wasn't as obvious as yours, eh?)
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You've overlooked one tiny detail in your critique! The sun uses fusion, not fission! Terrestrial fission reactors that generate electricity do so by an unnatural process of allowing fissionable material (uranium, etc) to generate heat/steam through a dangerous nuclear reaction.
The fusion furnace around which our planet orbits has been in operation for billions of years using only the most natural, economic and safe method of producing energy using an extremely safe and abundant fuel source (hydrogen).
This same technology is in use in countless fusion energy plants throughout our galaxy, and indeed the entire cosmos!
(yes, I know you were kidding... so am I. I just couldn't resist.)
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I only skimmed this before posting, but Free Electric Power from the Sun ? Is it oversold? appears to address this question.
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I know it is a lot for a developer to cough up for a software project they don't even make money on. That's not what I'm trying to say.
Just that it seems that if Adobe really wanted to get them to stop using the name, they would have said "stop right now, hand over your firstborn son or we'll sue you into oblivion".
This seems (and having not read the letter from Adobe's Lawyers, I can only surmise) more like they said "well, we can't just let them go around using a similar-sounding name, but they really aren't doing us any harm... what, should we throw a letter over to them and ask for a couple grand or something?"
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would that be back-slashdot?
(go ahead, mod me down for an OT post, I couldn't resist... I'm in a goofy mood tonight)
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Indeed. I remember when we were kids we would swat the bugs in mid air because they would then stay lit as they went bouncing off and dropped to the ground. As I remember, they weren't dead and would resume normal flashing after a few minutes.
Also, we would catch a bunch and put them in a jar, then shake the jar and watch them all light up for a few moments. I wonder how this behavior is explained by the nitric oxide trigger?
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one example they show would/might be actually practical. There they have a much smaller layer region that is scrollable. I might actually want to use something like this on a project I'm doing at work.
Implementing this as they do on the supercables site is pretty useless (scrolling a long pane of images and text from top to bottom of the page), but I can see where this might come in useful if you wanted to display a long-ish list of info in a small region on a page and not try to deal with frames to do it.
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appears to be a case of implementing something for its own sake, not because it is needed, apropriate or even moderately useful.
now, if I could just figure out how it works... boy would that wow them at the office tomorrow!
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Partly agree. The thing that makes this so attractive is the TiVo _service_ that automates the recording of the shows. I've been mumbling everytime I see a TiVo ad that I'd run out and get one if there was a way to burn DVDs out of the thing. If I could set it to record all of the episodes of my shows and then easily transfer them to DVD (sans commercials), that would be something _really_ worth having.
Determined pirate? No. Fat, lazy coder guy who wants to watch what he wants, when he wants for years and years? Ubetcha!
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The solution then is for women to quit their jobs and stay home with the kids, is it? Brilliant.
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Yep. What shows is the last moderation. Modding a post that appears to be serious as 'Funny' would seem to be more of an insult that calling it a troll or whatnot.
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I agree completely that there is a _big_ difference between what CNN offers (perfect grammar and spelling, but not clue one) and what we have on
I'll laugh at CNN for their deficiencies and happily take
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*yes I know he meant the Mandrake team, but I wasn't able to resist.
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