Stop me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Beatles and Lennon/McCartney some of the last music to be electronically available due to obstructionism from *both* the original group and the label.
It's almost like Saul being converted on the way to Damascus.
As I understand it Testdriven.net is a package which you pay for using a free Microsoft release as its core. Now if Microsoft had released the core package under the GPL, you would be able to hear the screams of a million users crying out in outrage at the perfidious actions of Testdriven.Net, plus vows to amend the GPL......
As far as I can tell, Apple is upset over the copying of the advert, not so much the device itself.
A recent UK Court of Appeal case has significantly narrowed the scope of Trademark protection, essentially stating that the public are savvy enough to recognise that the use of the same trademark in two different markets is not "passing off". However, this defense may be slightly scuppered by the ad, which does attempt a form of "passing off" and association.
The main complaint really seems to be blatant copying of the ad, and is therefore a Copyright issue. As others have stated, parody is not (officially) a defense in UK Copyright law, but taking the mickey has long been recognised unofficially. A classic example was the "Made In Wales" series of adverts which was parodied by the "Not the Nine O'Clock News" comedy show. The parody was so good , that it was alleged the Welsh Development Agency showed them to real potential clients alongside the original adverts. Also the term "Fair Use" does exist in UK law, and this may perhaps be construed to include parody.
I don't get the impression he was indulging in extortion. He'd put a lot of work into a site and generated a lot of interest. They wanted him out, so he named a reasonable figure.
If he'd just hijecked the name and put no effort in, then you'd be right. The quoted figure of $49k (about 6 months pay for an IT consultant) was not unreasonable
Thanks for replying, I'd mod informative if I had mod points.
The wikipedia article you link to has a graph of skin depth, and since most frequencies concerned are in the MHz or GHz range, skin depth for any material is much less than 0.1mm. As long as your tin-foil hat uses good foil, your brain will be safe from the alien thought waves:-).
So we're going to be putting our trust in a system to which we don't have the source code and which is infamous for the instability of its applications, and the ability of viruses to corrupt. I do grant that the system is likely to be "hardened", but we all know how hardened Windows really is, don't we?
Also, being Windows 2K, there is unlikely to be an easy, inexpensive upgrade path. It'll still be there in about 15 years and look as obsolete as the stuff the article complains about now. Since Windows '98 was obsoleted recently, I can't imagine support for Win 2k continuing for ever, can you?
If ever there was a set of systems that would benefit from a custom Linux or Unix release, this would be it.
I remember t' day when you could ask a stupid question on a newsgroup and get at least 5 answers for free, and all you had to do was decide which 4 were wrong. Now you have to pay (virtually or not) for the privilege...
IANAL, but from Law studies I seem to remember the following:
I'm sure US law is similar, but any advertised price is what is called an "Invitation to Treat" and is not binding. Only when something is offered and accepted for something else is there a contract.
Since Amazon actually received nothing, I'm not sure it got "consideration" for the goods. The story may be different if Amazon recieved even 1c, because then it got consideration. Of course, Amazon may have also got P&P, which may be a form of consideration.
Of course, I can see an entertaining Class Action arguing the other way, and they may even be correct....
Legally, if you have a receipt and paid the agreed upon amount on the reciept, then the store is under no legal obligation to fulfil its "2-for-1" deal. Offers are not legally binding, they're invitations to negotiate a price (or "invitations to treat").Morally, of course, it probably will accept that it screwed up.
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Stop me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Beatles and Lennon/McCartney some of the last music to be electronically available due to obstructionism from *both* the original group and the label.
It's almost like Saul being converted on the way to Damascus.
I'm not using Ion Drives until the TIE fighter goes into production.
As I understand it Testdriven.net is a package which you pay for using a free Microsoft release as its core. Now if Microsoft had released the core package under the GPL, you would be able to hear the screams of a million users crying out in outrage at the perfidious actions of Testdriven.Net, plus vows to amend the GPL......
A rational follow on to the previous post is whether LOTR is going to encourage the independently developed add-on/plug-ins that WoW has done.
Do you have any plans to deal with Gold Farming?
I would doubt it, after all its a racial characteristic of Dwarves and Dragons.
You can only mine fish if you're Gollum
It must be true, the paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch....
As far as I can tell, Apple is upset over the copying of the advert, not so much the device itself.
A recent UK Court of Appeal case has significantly narrowed the scope of Trademark protection, essentially stating that the public are savvy enough to recognise that the use of the same trademark in two different markets is not "passing off". However, this defense may be slightly scuppered by the ad, which does attempt a form of "passing off" and association.
The main complaint really seems to be blatant copying of the ad, and is therefore a Copyright issue. As others have stated, parody is not (officially) a defense in UK Copyright law, but taking the mickey has long been recognised unofficially. A classic example was the "Made In Wales" series of adverts which was parodied by the "Not the Nine O'Clock News" comedy show. The parody was so good , that it was alleged the Welsh Development Agency showed them to real potential clients alongside the original adverts. Also the term "Fair Use" does exist in UK law, and this may perhaps be construed to include parody.
Because from experience I've found that Gold doesn't really shift in the markets.
Copper, Bronze and Silver (if you can get your hands on it) are great. Also being green and recycling End of Life magical items through disenchanting.
I buy my ore from the AH, and resell it at a suitably extortionate price.
Design bomb which triggers a few secs after a call is broken. You know the president will be less than 50yds away.
Back in 198x, I was working for an aircraft electronics manufacturer on their prototype flight management computers.
Unfortunately resetting them involved touching a wire to a ground pin....which was near to a 48V avionics supply pin.... as I found out....twice.
Burning out the only two systems in existence did not make me popular.
Latency on World of Warcraft might be a bit of a problem
I don't get the impression he was indulging in extortion. He'd put a lot of work into a site and generated a lot of interest. They wanted him out, so he named a reasonable figure.
If he'd just hijecked the name and put no effort in, then you'd be right. The quoted figure of $49k (about 6 months pay for an IT consultant) was not unreasonable
The answers are surely a mix of the refrain from party trips abroad and Bloodhoungd Gang lyrics:
a) What happens on tour stays on the tour
b) We ain't nuffin but mammals so let the do it like on the Discovery channel.
Thanks for replying, I'd mod informative if I had mod points.
:-).
The wikipedia article you link to has a graph of skin depth, and since most frequencies concerned are in the MHz or GHz range, skin depth for any material is much less than 0.1mm. As long as your tin-foil hat uses good foil, your brain will be safe from the alien thought waves
As long as you make it the right shape, there's no reason why a tinfoil dish wouldn't do the job too.
You should see how thin some dishes on real satellites are.
As well as crashing planes into buildings, it seems "Debt of Honor" is getting good at being an oracle of modern times.
So we're going to be putting our trust in a system to which we don't have the source code and which is infamous for the instability of its applications, and the ability of viruses to corrupt. I do grant that the system is likely to be "hardened", but we all know how hardened Windows really is, don't we?
Also, being Windows 2K, there is unlikely to be an easy, inexpensive upgrade path. It'll still be there in about 15 years and look as obsolete as the stuff the article complains about now. Since Windows '98 was obsoleted recently, I can't imagine support for Win 2k continuing for ever, can you?
If ever there was a set of systems that would benefit from a custom Linux or Unix release, this would be it.
Now if only they'd had this in 1692. Pirates of the Caribbean would still have a home base.
I was going to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, but I lost my microscope
Bring back newsgroups, I tell ya!
I remember t' day when you could ask a stupid question on a newsgroup and get at least 5 answers for free, and all you had to do was decide which 4 were wrong. Now you have to pay (virtually or not) for the privilege...
plus ca change,....
Sounds like a game played on flying broomsticks...
IANAL, but from Law studies I seem to remember the following:
I'm sure US law is similar, but any advertised price is what is called an "Invitation to Treat" and is not binding. Only when something is offered and accepted for something else is there a contract.
Since Amazon actually received nothing, I'm not sure it got "consideration" for the goods. The story may be different if Amazon recieved even 1c, because then it got consideration. Of course, Amazon may have also got P&P, which may be a form of consideration.
Of course, I can see an entertaining Class Action arguing the other way, and they may even be correct....
Legally, if you have a receipt and paid the agreed upon amount on the reciept, then the store is under no legal obligation to fulfil its "2-for-1" deal. Offers are not legally binding, they're invitations to negotiate a price (or "invitations to treat").Morally, of course, it probably will accept that it screwed up.
No chance of a "Gone With The Wind" remake then?