You would... if you got the name first, and proved that you were using it and not parking it.
Now, it may end up that you don't have the money to fight the battle to prove that, in which case, you may lose.
My gut feeling would be whoever had a better lawyer would get it. I've seen some ridiculous rulings when it comes to rights to use a name.
I remember a story about 10 years ago where there was an author who published a book under his real name.
By coincidence, there was a musician (whom I never heard of) that was using the same name as the author as his stage name. The musician heard about the book and sued the author.
Well, the author lost the case. The author was no longer allowed to publish books under his real name, because it happened to be the same as the one that the musician decided to take as a stage name.
Even though the musician wasn't publishing books and the author wasn't publishing music, and even though the author was born with the name first...
I suppose. For some strange reason, Mountain Dew appears to occupy a unusually prevalent place in both geek and redneck culture.
Personally, I think that Homer Simpson was spot on...
Homer: Now, what do you have to wash that awful taste out of my mouth? Khlav Kalash Vendor: Mountain Dew or Crab Juice. Homer: Blecch! Ew! Sheesh! I'll take a crab juice.
I know "US getting less sun than US" means "US getting less sunlight than US", but I still feel a little bit queasy when people substitute the word "Sun" for "Sunlight"
Maybe that's just me...
So, when people use the phrase, "fun in the sun", do you correct them with, "fun in the warmth and light of the Sun"? Do you tell people, "No, you are not getting some sun. You are receiving some sunlight!"
If only you had been around to prevent the Beatles from making fools of themselves by singing, "Here Comes the Sun", instead of, "Here Comes More Direct Sunlight".
Or maybe you are just a little too caught up in misplaced pedantry to notice the usage of the word "sun" has a common and accepted usage to denote the light or warmth of the sun.
Eh, I agree that a Portal movie seems rather weak. Portal is brilliant, and is a great game experience, but I just don't think a movie, novelization, comic book series, cartoon, would be an appropriate medium for it.
However, if you think that this is anyway the stupidest idea that Hollywood has ever come up with, then I envy your sheltered life.
The Half-Life series might could work as a movie... maybe. It would be a cheesy film horror action/adventure/horror movie, but I could see it working.
I'm reluctant to comment on Abrams, since I've only seen a fraction of his work. I loved Fringe and Super 8, never saw Lost, and I thought Star Trek was very uneven (a few great traits buried in over-the-top fan-service to the point that it was nearly a parody of itself).
While I will concede it IS important, it is helpful, and makes many things convenient these days...I seriously can't put up there with education. Internet access, while really cool and fun, is still in the category of luxury item. You can get by just fine without it. You won't starve, you won't go into convulsions, you won't die without it.
I don't think it is that much of a stretch to compare it to the importance of public education. The Internet is the modern library. It is becoming the modern newspaper. It is becoming the modern Postal Service. It's becoming the modern radio, modern television, and even the modern teacher for some.
The FCC has already taken the stand that all Americans should have access to wire and radio services, not completely unlike how the USPS has had the goal of providing their service for all Americans, and how we are now talking about providing wi-fi.
Sure, the many people use it for entertainment, consuming crap, and wasting time, but how is that different than television, radio, postal service, or public education?
Sure, I wouldn't want all wi-fi to be government run, but having an alternative to having kids needing to hang out at McDonald's in order to get internet access for them to do homework isn't a bad thing.
I think those are usually salaried employees and the reason for it is that it makes it a lot less complicated when there's a dispute over ownership. So, that people don't have to constantly log when they had various ideas and what led to the idea.
But, those folks are usually paid much better than teachers are and generally have funds to do their jobs in a way that teachers don't usually get funding.
Of course, it's the best thing for everyone. Why worry about those pesky nuances of when someone got an idea or created something, just assume the corporations own everything.
I remember when we called this sort of thing "cowboy coding."
Now I feel so old, I'm imagining there were actual cowboys.
I think this refers to something completely different... I have a lot of respect for some cowboy coders. I can't imagine having the same respect for a "brogrammer".
Watson still just seems like a fancy language parser that passes the query along to any number of plugged in databases, as far as I can tell. I don't feel nearly as impressed as I think everyone wants me to be.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."- Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Ability to unlock your phone" isn't critical to what I'd call "freedom."
Maybe you are right. However, the real problem is that the public feels this way about an increasing number of things.
Most people have been convinced that excessive punishments for hacking or file sharing aren't something worth worrying about. Most people have simply accepted the fact that in order to use software, that they have to "accept" long complex contracts that they don't have the time to read. Most people don't see the fights over copyright and patents as something important enough to take a stand on. Most people have been convinced that being violated and giving up your freedom and way of life at the airport is a small price to pay to protect you from terrorists that want to destroy your freedom and way of life. Most people don't think it is worth making a fuss over warrantless communication monitoring, if it protects America from terrorists, drug dealers, and sexual offenders.
Perhaps one could say that none of these things are critical. Perhaps they'd be right... but they add up.
Then again, maybe every freedom is critical, and we've lost sight of that.
With "exercises" of this nature, are you sure the gun nuts are so nuts after all?
Insightful? Really?
Unless the US outsources it's military, I don't think they are going to find many American soldiers that will go along with attacking US citizens on US Soil without a damn good reason.
Also... I forgot to mention. UED. That is the DOS text editor I configured for XTree to use. It wasn't until Notepad++ that I stopped using it... and there are a still a few things easier and faster to do in UED.
Features (copied form the above site):
- Ability to edit up to 9 files in memory at once
- Files as large as 1000 characters wide and 10,000 lines long
- File size is only limited by available memory
- Split screen editing
- Typeover and insert mode editing
- Search and replace (both case sensitive and insensitive)
- Cut and paste (three modes: line, range, and block)
- Escape to DOS
- Can load "piped" files
- Wildcard expansion of command line arguments
- Word wrap and paragraph reformat
- Smart indentation
When I saw this thread, the first thing I did was hit Ctrl+F, and search for XTree. I was amazed to only find these two comments on the software. It was one of the most useful and powerful utilities I've ever known.
That requirement is already easily circumvented, and the method is already in place.
HR departments frequently use applicant scanning software that (intentionally or unintentionally) is badly configured to make finding a qualified applicant near impossible. Sometimes they make impossible requirements, such as being a developer for languages and platforms for a number of years that exceeds their time in existence.
Not only might you need to have 100% of the desired skills, you sometimes have to guess the right keyword they use for that skill, and will get rejected if you use synonymous terms to describe that skill. You are also screwed if you happen to have a skill that is almost completely transferable to what they are looking for, but just not the exact skill.
Companies don't want to invest in training anymore. They want you to be trained by another company, who also likely have the same attitude towards training.
Companies don't want to hire someone unless they are already employed elsewhere. I recall reading that you have better odds of getting a job with a criminal record than if you are currently out of work. However, that doesn't mean that they are going to offer you enough to make it worth it to leave your current job.
The list goes on..
Maybe the reason they can't find the right people in the U.S. is because some are being unreasonable (and/or possibly idiotic) greedy assholes.
I had never heard of anyone considering the word "Oriental" as racist until a few weeks ago when I made an off-hand remark where I was referencing certain elements of eastern culture and style.
I was flabbergasted that people thought of this as offenseve. FFS, the word means Eastern. I'm baffled by the sensitivity of some people.
You always have to know the format of a file that you're going to use. Any file with 32-bit time fields will be known as only valid within the 31-bit range +/- January 1, 1970, any data stored with dates outside that range (and that already happens - from bank mortgages to climate change data over millenia) will use appropriate formats - in the same way that you don't store 32-bit image data in a GIF (8-bit colour index) file.
Of course. I was pointing out that data structures don't exclusively reside in memory, and that "just recompile it!" is oversimplifying the solution.
Sometimes these data structures are stored, and sometimes they are dumped straight to a file. Changing the size of an element of a structure that is written to a file will of course change the record sizes and offsets. If you simply "recompile for 64 bit", you may end up reading and writing your data incorrectly.
I'm sorry, but I'm just not sure how this got modded insightful... This post, like many others, seems to completely ignore the fact that data is stored.
TODAY 32 bit UNIX systems are legacy. both in hardware and software. There are 64 bit drop in solutions for just about everything. The way TIME works in UNIX, a simple recompile against 64 bit libraries with a 64 bit system clock will fix the program.
It isn't simply a recompile. You still have to deal with your data, however it is stored. It might be a relatively simple migration, or it might involve data on tapes or other historical data archives, or interoperating with other devices/systems that aren't 64-bit and can't simply recompile (such as embedded systems), or it still might communicate with other computers using protocols that have not yet been updated, etc.
There are other factors to consider here beyond simply recompiling it with a 64-bit compiler, especially dealing with existing stored data.
2. Airplanes generally retire after around 10 years. There is no reason to expect 25 year old airplanes sitll flying, without of course many many many major overhauls, to include electronics.
Paper documents and records are still sometimes referenced for decades, or even more than a century. The usefulness of data can outlive the systems that they reside on.
Please note, mainframes and most mini computers went 64 bit in the 1990s. x86 and ARM are the last to do so.
Many mainframes still work with data that is very old, and just because the systems supported 64-bit does not mean that they instantly changed all of their data. I worked in a mainframe environment about 10 years ago that still worked with data stored on tape drives which originally was entered by punch-cards in the 70's, and that still ran programs that hadn't been modified in 15 to 20 years before I touched them.
WWF has different letter scores and different positions for the double/triple letter/word score blocks.
Of course the layout is different.
To novice players, it's not a huge deal. To expert players, it is because a lot of strategy involves
The exact same is true regarding the layout of Scrabble. The difference is that I think Scrabble has a more balanced layout. Maybe the lack of balance was intentional, but I personally felt like it was because they just threw it together to be different from Scrabble, without strong consideration for balance.
Someone else commented that it allows for more casual players to make a comeback against a more skilled player, but that is nonsense. A skilled player is more likely to use the board to their advantage and totally dominate the game.
The only advantage that an unskilled player has is that they played on a device that has access to the internet and tools to help them find words.
I tried WWF briefly, and I quit after it became obvious that people were cheating.
When Christmas shopping, I saw a "Words with Friends" board game. I turned to my girlfriend and said, "It's like the board game Scrabble, but online, and then taken offline and made into a board game."
Your keyword "deadline" didn't really get the emphasis it deserved. I know that I've been guilty of writing some pretty shitty code (and fully realizing it) because I simply did not have the luxury of the time to "do it right".
Sometimes this is because I made a bad assumption early on. Sometimes there was a surprise change in the specs that didn't mesh well with the design. At times, it is because I'm working in unfamiliar territory and still learning about some aspect of the project. Sometimes it is because I am working with existing bad code someone else wrote (possibly because of one or more of the same previously given reasons), and I have to do my best to work within an existing bad implementation.
In the real world, sometimes you have to make the choice of doing things right, or actually getting them done.
It's my impression that Police culture, much like Military culture, heavily frowns on ratting out another member of your group, even if you know they did something wrong... especially if they do something wrong.
Perhaps having a collective group whose mission is to take out bad guys, and seeing bad guys constantly, creates a very stong "us" and "them" driven ethos.
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I was going to mod you, but I couldn't find +1 Sad.
You would... if you got the name first, and proved that you were using it and not parking it.
Now, it may end up that you don't have the money to fight the battle to prove that, in which case, you may lose.
My gut feeling would be whoever had a better lawyer would get it. I've seen some ridiculous rulings when it comes to rights to use a name.
I remember a story about 10 years ago where there was an author who published a book under his real name.
By coincidence, there was a musician (whom I never heard of) that was using the same name as the author as his stage name. The musician heard about the book and sued the author.
Well, the author lost the case. The author was no longer allowed to publish books under his real name, because it happened to be the same as the one that the musician decided to take as a stage name.
Even though the musician wasn't publishing books and the author wasn't publishing music, and even though the author was born with the name first...
Ummm...it involves Mountain Dew. Sooooo...nerds?
I suppose. For some strange reason, Mountain Dew appears to occupy a unusually prevalent place in both geek and redneck culture.
Personally, I think that Homer Simpson was spot on...
Homer: Now, what do you have to wash that awful taste out of my mouth?
Khlav Kalash Vendor: Mountain Dew or Crab Juice.
Homer: Blecch! Ew! Sheesh! I'll take a crab juice.
This is not meant to nickpick
I know "US getting less sun than US" means "US getting less sunlight than US", but I still feel a little bit queasy when people substitute the word "Sun" for "Sunlight"
Maybe that's just me ...
So, when people use the phrase, "fun in the sun", do you correct them with, "fun in the warmth and light of the Sun"? Do you tell people, "No, you are not getting some sun. You are receiving some sunlight!"
If only you had been around to prevent the Beatles from making fools of themselves by singing, "Here Comes the Sun", instead of, "Here Comes More Direct Sunlight".
Or maybe you are just a little too caught up in misplaced pedantry to notice the usage of the word "sun" has a common and accepted usage to denote the light or warmth of the sun.
Merriam-Webster.com: sun"
Eh, I agree that a Portal movie seems rather weak. Portal is brilliant, and is a great game experience, but I just don't think a movie, novelization, comic book series, cartoon, would be an appropriate medium for it.
However, if you think that this is anyway the stupidest idea that Hollywood has ever come up with, then I envy your sheltered life.
The Half-Life series might could work as a movie... maybe. It would be a cheesy film horror action/adventure/horror movie, but I could see it working.
I'm reluctant to comment on Abrams, since I've only seen a fraction of his work. I loved Fringe and Super 8, never saw Lost, and I thought Star Trek was very uneven (a few great traits buried in over-the-top fan-service to the point that it was nearly a parody of itself).
Are you suggesting Slashdot intentionally facilitates idiocy?
I like that idea, but it will never work. Executives will always try to maintain plausible denial, and send an underling down the river instead.
While I will concede it IS important, it is helpful, and makes many things convenient these days...I seriously can't put up there with education. Internet access, while really cool and fun, is still in the category of luxury item. You can get by just fine without it. You won't starve, you won't go into convulsions, you won't die without it.
I don't think it is that much of a stretch to compare it to the importance of public education. The Internet is the modern library. It is becoming the modern newspaper. It is becoming the modern Postal Service. It's becoming the modern radio, modern television, and even the modern teacher for some.
The FCC has already taken the stand that all Americans should have access to wire and radio services, not completely unlike how the USPS has had the goal of providing their service for all Americans, and how we are now talking about providing wi-fi.
Sure, the many people use it for entertainment, consuming crap, and wasting time, but how is that different than television, radio, postal service, or public education?
Sure, I wouldn't want all wi-fi to be government run, but having an alternative to having kids needing to hang out at McDonald's in order to get internet access for them to do homework isn't a bad thing.
I think those are usually salaried employees and the reason for it is that it makes it a lot less complicated when there's a dispute over ownership. So, that people don't have to constantly log when they had various ideas and what led to the idea.
But, those folks are usually paid much better than teachers are and generally have funds to do their jobs in a way that teachers don't usually get funding.
Of course, it's the best thing for everyone. Why worry about those pesky nuances of when someone got an idea or created something, just assume the corporations own everything.
I remember when we called this sort of thing "cowboy coding."
Now I feel so old, I'm imagining there were actual cowboys.
I think this refers to something completely different... I have a lot of respect for some cowboy coders. I can't imagine having the same respect for a "brogrammer".
Watson still just seems like a fancy language parser that passes the query along to any number of plugged in databases, as far as I can tell. I don't feel nearly as impressed as I think everyone wants me to be.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."- Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Ability to unlock your phone" isn't critical to what I'd call "freedom."
Maybe you are right. However, the real problem is that the public feels this way about an increasing number of things.
Most people have been convinced that excessive punishments for hacking or file sharing aren't something worth worrying about. Most people have simply accepted the fact that in order to use software, that they have to "accept" long complex contracts that they don't have the time to read. Most people don't see the fights over copyright and patents as something important enough to take a stand on. Most people have been convinced that being violated and giving up your freedom and way of life at the airport is a small price to pay to protect you from terrorists that want to destroy your freedom and way of life. Most people don't think it is worth making a fuss over warrantless communication monitoring, if it protects America from terrorists, drug dealers, and sexual offenders.
Perhaps one could say that none of these things are critical. Perhaps they'd be right... but they add up.
Then again, maybe every freedom is critical, and we've lost sight of that.
Well there is a difference between theory and practice
At least in theory.
With "exercises" of this nature, are you sure the gun nuts are so nuts after all?
Insightful? Really?
Unless the US outsources it's military, I don't think they are going to find many American soldiers that will go along with attacking US citizens on US Soil without a damn good reason.
Also... I forgot to mention. UED. That is the DOS text editor I configured for XTree to use. It wasn't until Notepad++ that I stopped using it... and there are a still a few things easier and faster to do in UED.
Features (copied form the above site):
- Ability to edit up to 9 files in memory at once
- Files as large as 1000 characters wide and 10,000 lines long
- File size is only limited by available memory
- Split screen editing
- Typeover and insert mode editing
- Search and replace (both case sensitive and insensitive)
- Cut and paste (three modes: line, range, and block)
- Escape to DOS
- Can load "piped" files
- Wildcard expansion of command line arguments
- Word wrap and paragraph reformat
- Smart indentation
When I saw this thread, the first thing I did was hit Ctrl+F, and search for XTree. I was amazed to only find these two comments on the software. It was one of the most useful and powerful utilities I've ever known.
That requirement is already easily circumvented, and the method is already in place.
HR departments frequently use applicant scanning software that (intentionally or unintentionally) is badly configured to make finding a qualified applicant near impossible. Sometimes they make impossible requirements, such as being a developer for languages and platforms for a number of years that exceeds their time in existence.
Not only might you need to have 100% of the desired skills, you sometimes have to guess the right keyword they use for that skill, and will get rejected if you use synonymous terms to describe that skill. You are also screwed if you happen to have a skill that is almost completely transferable to what they are looking for, but just not the exact skill.
Companies don't want to invest in training anymore. They want you to be trained by another company, who also likely have the same attitude towards training.
Companies don't want to hire someone unless they are already employed elsewhere. I recall reading that you have better odds of getting a job with a criminal record than if you are currently out of work. However, that doesn't mean that they are going to offer you enough to make it worth it to leave your current job.
The list goes on..
Maybe the reason they can't find the right people in the U.S. is because some are being unreasonable (and/or possibly idiotic) greedy assholes.
I had never heard of anyone considering the word "Oriental" as racist until a few weeks ago when I made an off-hand remark where I was referencing certain elements of eastern culture and style.
I was flabbergasted that people thought of this as offenseve. FFS, the word means Eastern. I'm baffled by the sensitivity of some people.
You always have to know the format of a file that you're going to use. Any file with 32-bit time fields will be known as only valid within the 31-bit range +/- January 1, 1970, any data stored with dates outside that range (and that already happens - from bank mortgages to climate change data over millenia) will use appropriate formats - in the same way that you don't store 32-bit image data in a GIF (8-bit colour index) file.
Of course. I was pointing out that data structures don't exclusively reside in memory, and that "just recompile it!" is oversimplifying the solution.
Sometimes these data structures are stored, and sometimes they are dumped straight to a file. Changing the size of an element of a structure that is written to a file will of course change the record sizes and offsets. If you simply "recompile for 64 bit", you may end up reading and writing your data incorrectly.
I'm sorry, but I'm just not sure how this got modded insightful... This post, like many others, seems to completely ignore the fact that data is stored.
TODAY 32 bit UNIX systems are legacy. both in hardware and software. There are 64 bit drop in solutions for just about everything. The way TIME works in UNIX, a simple recompile against 64 bit libraries with a 64 bit system clock will fix the program.
It isn't simply a recompile. You still have to deal with your data, however it is stored. It might be a relatively simple migration, or it might involve data on tapes or other historical data archives, or interoperating with other devices/systems that aren't 64-bit and can't simply recompile (such as embedded systems), or it still might communicate with other computers using protocols that have not yet been updated, etc.
There are other factors to consider here beyond simply recompiling it with a 64-bit compiler, especially dealing with existing stored data.
2. Airplanes generally retire after around 10 years. There is no reason to expect 25 year old airplanes sitll flying, without of course many many many major overhauls, to include electronics.
Paper documents and records are still sometimes referenced for decades, or even more than a century. The usefulness of data can outlive the systems that they reside on.
Please note, mainframes and most mini computers went 64 bit in the 1990s. x86 and ARM are the last to do so.
Many mainframes still work with data that is very old, and just because the systems supported 64-bit does not mean that they instantly changed all of their data. I worked in a mainframe environment about 10 years ago that still worked with data stored on tape drives which originally was entered by punch-cards in the 70's, and that still ran programs that hadn't been modified in 15 to 20 years before I touched them.
just like MADD will never stop their crusade, even if there were 0 driving deaths in a year.
0 Deaths is still too many!
WWF has different letter scores and different positions for the double/triple letter/word score blocks.
Of course the layout is different.
To novice players, it's not a huge deal. To expert players, it is because a lot of strategy involves
The exact same is true regarding the layout of Scrabble. The difference is that I think Scrabble has a more balanced layout. Maybe the lack of balance was intentional, but I personally felt like it was because they just threw it together to be different from Scrabble, without strong consideration for balance.
Someone else commented that it allows for more casual players to make a comeback against a more skilled player, but that is nonsense. A skilled player is more likely to use the board to their advantage and totally dominate the game.
The only advantage that an unskilled player has is that they played on a device that has access to the internet and tools to help them find words.
I tried WWF briefly, and I quit after it became obvious that people were cheating.
When Christmas shopping, I saw a "Words with Friends" board game. I turned to my girlfriend and said, "It's like the board game Scrabble, but online, and then taken offline and made into a board game."
Good answer.
Your keyword "deadline" didn't really get the emphasis it deserved. I know that I've been guilty of writing some pretty shitty code (and fully realizing it) because I simply did not have the luxury of the time to "do it right".
Sometimes this is because I made a bad assumption early on. Sometimes there was a surprise change in the specs that didn't mesh well with the design. At times, it is because I'm working in unfamiliar territory and still learning about some aspect of the project. Sometimes it is because I am working with existing bad code someone else wrote (possibly because of one or more of the same previously given reasons), and I have to do my best to work within an existing bad implementation.
In the real world, sometimes you have to make the choice of doing things right, or actually getting them done.
It's my impression that Police culture, much like Military culture, heavily frowns on ratting out another member of your group, even if you know they did something wrong... especially if they do something wrong.
Perhaps having a collective group whose mission is to take out bad guys, and seeing bad guys constantly, creates a very stong "us" and "them" driven ethos.