The story continues that, after this, two women came to Solomon, dragging a man before the throne, and each said he married her daughter, then ran off. Solomon did the same thing; ordered the guy chopped in two. One woman protested, one said "go ahead". Solomon stopped the executioner, pointed at the second woman, and said "She wanted him killed. She is the true mother-in-law."
No favorite universe; there are lots of different books I like, from different worlds, and no one world is "the best". Individual books are more important to me than worlds.
I don't use it 100% of the time when I'm on vacation, but when I'm doing stuff, yeah, I use my PDA; it's my to-do list, and I sure can't keep that on paper.
Handera 330. Wonderful gizmo; I read books on it, because the "wide" orientation and higher resolution make it pretty practical to read. Baen free library has become my new favorite web site.
eBay has been exceptionally bad about honesty, historically. There's plenty of stories about their change to "we can spam you if we want" policies, and they didn't do a very good job of actually stopping spamming people who closed their accounts... I closed my account and got spam from them months later, despite multiple discussions with their official staff spin doctor about how I was closing my account because of the spam. His response? He claimed that "your account was closed back when you closed it, but we thought you'd like to know about the updates to our policies". Never mind that I'd just verified that, indeed, they'd kept my account active and flagged it for everything from spam to telemarketing. To the best of my knowledge, the man's official job is "lie to problems until they go away".
Second: Note that you can play at least the zcode games on pretty much ANYTHING. Windows. Mac. Palm. You name it... I have a game in the comp, and it has *one* problem on my Handera (PalmOS) PDA. Most of them probably work fine.
I think you're mistaking a subtle point. Yes, there are lots of other moral systems.
However, *YOU CANNOT SHOW ANY OF THEM TO BE TRUE OR RELEVANT*.
By accepting a moral system - any moral system - you are doing exactly what all the religious people do; you are making a blind assertion that can never be shown except in terms of other assertions.
I would argue that people have a pretty good inbuilt sense of morality. I don't care whether you call it an evolved set of rules, or God's law written on your heart. However, I think it's important to be intellectually honest and admit that we accept it because it feels right, not because of proofs.
To a certain extent, it's like showing up for an interview in "nice clothes", or any of a million other social niceties; it's not that the action is useful in and of itself, it's that it shows your willingness to act in a potentially inconvenient way to meet an external standard.
>Also, does this not go all the way back to the >first incarnations of NetScape? Maybe even >further? Why do they wait til now to bitch?
Presumably because, until the Mozilla project showed up as such, the name "mozilla" was not being *presented to the user*. And until 1.0, it wasn't being shoved at end-users as a thing to use.
"fair use" is a feature of copyright law, and refers to specific kinds of usage (not just "anything I feel like"). Trademark law doesn't have that; you can use the trademarked thing only to refer to the trademarked product. If you were "passing off", or trying to use the name to refer to something *else*, that would be considered a violation. So, for instance, you can make gas caps and say "compatible with Ford Explorer", because you're using their trademark to refer to their product. On the other hand, if you were to create cans of processed meat labeled "SPAN" in yellow letters on a blue background showing a plate of ham-like substance, you would probably be sued, and rightfully so.
'zilla' is a lot more like "Boyardee" than like "Chef". I certainly can't think of a lot of uses of it before Godzilla showed up.
Some marks are deemed "famous", such that they get to reserve the whole field. This may be a bad design, but it's how the laws are written.
Consider this: If I produce a candy called "Ford Bubblegum", no one is going to think it's a car, or that I'm doing it with a license from the car company.
On the other hand, if I sold kitchen aprons labeled "Boyardee", someone might figure that, while it's not soup, it was clearly trying to take advantage of their fame.
Here's the question: Would a typical user, confronted with a large dinosaur-like thing that walks on its back legs and has things down its back, and breathes fire, and has a name ending in "zilla", be likely to infer an association between that product and Godzilla?
Yes, the user would.
Thus, it's probably a violation.
IANAL, but for fuck's sake, people, *THINK*. This looks exactly like trying to take advantage of someone else's product name and reputation to make your own product look cooler; in this case, trying to take the "big unstoppable monster" aspect of Godzilla and apply it to a browser. It even shows the traditional fire-breathing thing in the splash screen!
The problem is that, with the copyright cases, right now, the company can ignore the fanfic, without losing control of their property.
If you force them to choose, they'll sue, because that's the only way to retain the copyright, without which they can't make their money - they're publishers, after all. If you allow them to politely ignore some instances of copyright violation, you get the best of both worlds.
Gee, I wonder, when I make a free copy of a product, instead of buying it, do you think the people selling it don't get as much money as they would have otherwise?
When I wanted to get drivers written for a Linksys USB->802.11b adapter, they didn't *donate* drivers, but they offered to sell me a couple of units at their "employee discount" rate for development and testing. I'd call that fairly supportive.
It amazes me that the slashdot community is, on the whole, totally uninterested in sticking by the widely-asserted claim that MS's monopoly status is bad for us. Well, if MS is bad for us, *STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS*. Including the Xbox, and WinCE, and PocketPC... Buy alternatives, and tell vendors that you went with an alternative because you're not comfortable with a dependancy on Microsoft.
240W is the rated power on just about all my monitors. It may well be less... but I can't easily be sure, and I'm quite sure that it's well over, say, 60 or 100. Just feel the heat... There's a reason my cat likes to sit on 'em.
You should have seen her face the first time she tried to hop up on an LCD. (Luckily, it was my IPAQ IA-1, and it just folded back and dumped her on the desk behind it, no long-term damage to anything but her ego.)
My laptops have LCD displays. My IPAQ IA-1 has an LCD display. And we have an LCD display on the console switch for the servers, because, when the power is out, I want 24W on the UPS, not 240W.
That's it. For everything else, for now, CRT's are superior. The 19" monitor I'm working on right now displays 1600x1200 crisply, can go higher if I really want to, and yet, can produce 800x600 without artifacting.
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The story continues that, after this, two women came to Solomon, dragging a man before the throne, and each said he married her daughter, then ran off. Solomon did the same thing; ordered the guy chopped in two. One woman protested, one said "go ahead". Solomon stopped the executioner, pointed at the second woman, and said "She wanted him killed. She is the true mother-in-law."
Duh, of course!
Every lead you can give people that is false is one less possible true lead they'll have time to follow.
No favorite universe; there are lots of different books I like, from different worlds, and no one world is "the best". Individual books are more important to me than worlds.
I don't use it 100% of the time when I'm on vacation, but when I'm doing stuff, yeah, I use my PDA; it's my to-do list, and I sure can't keep that on paper.
Handera 330. Wonderful gizmo; I read books on it, because the "wide" orientation and higher resolution make it pretty practical to read. Baen free library has become my new favorite web site.
I got spam from Comdex, despite multiple complaints.
Dude!
eBay has been exceptionally bad about honesty, historically. There's plenty of stories about their change to "we can spam you if we want" policies, and they didn't do a very good job of actually stopping spamming people who closed their accounts... I closed my account and got spam from them months later, despite multiple discussions with their official staff spin doctor about how I was closing my account because of the spam. His response? He claimed that "your account was closed back when you closed it, but we thought you'd like to know about the updates to our policies". Never mind that I'd just verified that, indeed, they'd kept my account active and flagged it for everything from spam to telemarketing. To the best of my knowledge, the man's official job is "lie to problems until they go away".
Second: Note that you can play at least the zcode games on pretty much ANYTHING. Windows. Mac. Palm. You name it... I have a game in the comp, and it has *one* problem on my Handera (PalmOS) PDA. Most of them probably work fine.
I think you're mistaking a subtle point. Yes, there are lots of other moral systems.
However, *YOU CANNOT SHOW ANY OF THEM TO BE TRUE OR RELEVANT*.
By accepting a moral system - any moral system - you are doing exactly what all the religious people do; you are making a blind assertion that can never be shown except in terms of other assertions.
I would argue that people have a pretty good inbuilt sense of morality. I don't care whether you call it an evolved set of rules, or God's law written on your heart. However, I think it's important to be intellectually honest and admit that we accept it because it feels right, not because of proofs.
God is very good to me. You and I would see the same sunset... but would we appreciate it the same way?
To a certain extent, it's like showing up for an interview in "nice clothes", or any of a million other social niceties; it's not that the action is useful in and of itself, it's that it shows your willingness to act in a potentially inconvenient way to meet an external standard.
That said, the answer to your question is "No."
>Also, does this not go all the way back to the
>first incarnations of NetScape? Maybe even
>further? Why do they wait til now to bitch?
Presumably because, until the Mozilla project showed up as such, the name "mozilla" was not being *presented to the user*. And until 1.0, it wasn't being shoved at end-users as a thing to use.
"fair use" is a feature of copyright law, and refers to specific kinds of usage (not just "anything I feel like"). Trademark law doesn't have that; you can use the trademarked thing only to refer to the trademarked product. If you were "passing off", or trying to use the name to refer to something *else*, that would be considered a violation. So, for instance, you can make gas caps and say "compatible with Ford Explorer", because you're using their trademark to refer to their product. On the other hand, if you were to create cans of processed meat labeled "SPAN" in yellow letters on a blue background showing a plate of ham-like substance, you would probably be sued, and rightfully so.
'zilla' is a lot more like "Boyardee" than like "Chef". I certainly can't think of a lot of uses of it before Godzilla showed up.
Some marks are deemed "famous", such that they get to reserve the whole field. This may be a bad design, but it's how the laws are written.
Consider this: If I produce a candy called "Ford Bubblegum", no one is going to think it's a car, or that I'm doing it with a license from the car company.
On the other hand, if I sold kitchen aprons labeled "Boyardee", someone might figure that, while it's not soup, it was clearly trying to take advantage of their fame.
Here's the question: Would a typical user, confronted with a large dinosaur-like thing that walks on its back legs and has things down its back, and breathes fire, and has a name ending in "zilla", be likely to infer an association between that product and Godzilla?
Yes, the user would.
Thus, it's probably a violation.
IANAL, but for fuck's sake, people, *THINK*. This looks exactly like trying to take advantage of someone else's product name and reputation to make your own product look cooler; in this case, trying to take the "big unstoppable monster" aspect of Godzilla and apply it to a browser. It even shows the traditional fire-breathing thing in the splash screen!
I have regularly had to use them for BIOS updates. Yeah, I could probably get by with only a couple in the house... but it's a bit late for that.
The problem is that, with the copyright cases, right now, the company can ignore the fanfic, without losing control of their property.
If you force them to choose, they'll sue, because that's the only way to retain the copyright, without which they can't make their money - they're publishers, after all. If you allow them to politely ignore some instances of copyright violation, you get the best of both worlds.
Yes, they really *are* different. Maybe they shouldn't be, but they *are*.
Be glad the IP laws are different - otherwise, the owners of books and movies *WOULD* be legally obliged to sue fanfic writers.
My insight was around $18k with A/C and everything; I've seen them around $15k in lots of places.
The insight may not be quite as efficient as the best of the best diesel... but which line of research would you rather support?
Gee, I wonder, when I make a free copy of a product, instead of buying it, do you think the people selling it don't get as much money as they would have otherwise?
When I wanted to get drivers written for a Linksys USB->802.11b adapter, they didn't *donate* drivers, but they offered to sell me a couple of units at their "employee discount" rate for development and testing. I'd call that fairly supportive.
I see. It's "flamebait" to say that, if a company starts changing policies, I won't use them anymore.
Turns out there's a simple solution to Yahoo!'s decision to opt me in to everything. There's a "delete account" button.
I used my.yahoo.com as a home page for a good five years, I'd guess. Maybe it was time to seek another.
This is funny coming after they killed their cow during job cuts.
But we can hope!
It amazes me that the slashdot community is, on the whole, totally uninterested in sticking by the widely-asserted claim that MS's monopoly status is bad for us. Well, if MS is bad for us, *STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS*. Including the Xbox, and WinCE, and PocketPC... Buy alternatives, and tell vendors that you went with an alternative because you're not comfortable with a dependancy on Microsoft.
240W is the rated power on just about all my monitors. It may well be less... but I can't easily be sure, and I'm quite sure that it's well over, say, 60 or 100. Just feel the heat... There's a reason my cat likes to sit on 'em.
You should have seen her face the first time she tried to hop up on an LCD. (Luckily, it was my IPAQ IA-1, and it just folded back and dumped her on the desk behind it, no long-term damage to anything but her ego.)
My laptops have LCD displays. My IPAQ IA-1 has an LCD display. And we have an LCD display on the console switch for the servers, because, when the power is out, I want 24W on the UPS, not 240W.
That's it. For everything else, for now, CRT's are superior. The 19" monitor I'm working on right now displays 1600x1200 crisply, can go higher if I really want to, and yet, can produce 800x600 without artifacting.