And yet there's the trademark dispute over the Apple brand, the Beatles owning Apple Corps, and Jobs having Apple Computer.
When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed through Apple's legal department and they objected that the new system sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical", under the recent settlement. The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7 and the Macintosh Startup Sound, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that wouldn't pass legal's approval, he remarked "so sue me." After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"), telling the legal department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music.
I think my dad fell for something like this. As far as I can ascertain, he searched for Malwarebytes, and whatever page he got to, the most conspicuous "download" link was to the scam product. So really, I can't blame him for being fooled.
The software identified some issues, but said there were more, that it would charge him for removing. Some time later, he received a phone call about it. I don't know how they got his phone number, but we do have an unusual surname.
How common is "break up for the holidays" really?.
It's the predominant idiom in England and Wales; probably the rest of the UK; maybe other English speaking countries. Obviously not in the US, given responses here.
That makes the baseline assumption that condoms' primary function is prevent 'mess' as opposed to, you know, pregnancy. I wonder which it is?
You forgot STIs - a rather important function, since other forms of contraception don't provide it (*)
But since a condom does have the incidental property of containing the man's portion of the mess, the joke sort of works. It's not the greatest joke ever told -- and over-analysis does it no favours - but it works.
(* unless you count abstinence; screw that, if you'll excuse the choice of words)
Unless you actually showed up with them in hand, any woman who got embarrassed "has issues". What's to get embarrassed about?
Well, everyone else in the office is now gossiping about her. That was the whole point of delivering them to work. Does she "have issues" if she doesn't like that?
I guess you could say she does, but they're not the kind of "issues" that would put me off a girl.
Just to drive this home, if a British student (or teacher) probably wouldn't need to specify context, for "break up" to be interpreted as the school term ending. Around the start of December, you'd ask "When do you break up?"
Also British English speakers would more likely use "split up" for the end of a relationship, although "break up" would be understood.
Now, the American usage is probably more common on Facebook, but it remains the case there's a lot to be taken into account. Canajin56 hasn't experienced "break up" being used in the context of a school breaking up, but that's personal experience which for most of us is limited. I wonder if it's even consistent across the USA -- ever seen that map of where they use the words "pop", "soda", etc.?
I have never heard anybody talking about a holiday as a "breakup" with their school year. Nobody talks like that.
It's absolutely the phrase a British schoolchild or university student would use. "I can't wait for school to break up for Christmas". You're telling me that (I guess) American students don't use that phrase, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't used in some other English speaking countries. Australia?
If the curve was otherwise flat, that demographic would be enough to explain the peaks.
On the other hand, if it was the only factor, you'd probably expect equal peaks three times a year (before Christmas, before Easter, before the summer holiday) as well as smaller spikes for the half term breaks.
They probably used aggregate data from the relationship status as opposed to wall status. You can't really misconstrue the message between "Joe is in a relationship with Jane" to "Joe set his relationship status to single"
TFA is quite explicit "his methodology was to scrape Facebook updates that included phrases such as 'break up' or 'broken up'".
"Might I suggest that, immediately after Valentine's, some women might be casting men from their sight, appalled that their lovers could think of nothing more romantic than roses from the supermarket and dinner at Outback Steakhouse?"
If your Girl is that shallow.... It was a GOOD THING(tm) that she "dumped you".
Honestly, some guys cant afford more than that on a silly holiday created by a greeting card company. IF she wants Diamonds on Valentines day, Kick that gold digger to the curb pronto!
"Something more romantic than roses from the supermarket and dinner at Outback Steakhouse" doesn't have to be expensive. It even cost less money -- but probably more in terms of effort and imagination.
It could be there's Someone Else. Alice is officially with Bob, but Bob's seeing Carol on the side. Late November, Carol starts saying "if you break up with Alice, we could spend Christmas together"...
I should write soap operas...
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Oh absolutely. My experience is with Acorn User. There were programming articles -- but those were orthogonal to the type-in games.
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Two comments about the summary:
Programming today is easier than programming in the 80s, if you pick the right language. BASIC wasn't that easy -- although at least on most computers there was no installation step.
Most people who typed in games from magazines weren't doing it to learn -- they wanted to play the game, and printing the BASIC code on paper was more cost effective for the publishers than gluing a cassette to the magazine. Typically there would be no comments, no discussion of the techniques use, and towards the end of this practice's lifetime, it wasn't unusual for the program to be a small piece of BASIC for poking integers into memory, followed by several A4 pages of hex characters; the machine code for the game.
Things tend to be locked down fairly tight around here (Montgomery County, MD)...but I've NEVER encountered anything like this while going to the movies. Sure, I've seen people walk in during opening night to make sure no one is taping the damn thing, but you don't have to go through a security checkpoint or any of that nonsense.
Has anyone?
From TFA, this doesn't seem to be about security. It seems to be about measuring audience reactions, with a view to using the findings as guidance for future filmmaking.... which sounds like a recipe for awful, lowest-common-denominator, characterless films with no artistic vision.
Literally NONE of my friends go to the movies anymore. They all have Netflix accounts and Blu-Ray players and big screens.
I very seldom go any more, but I do miss the cinema. It's great to be part of a crowd that's laughing/sighing/cheering in the right places.
Sadly, the last few times I've been, it's been more likely that other people in the crowd have a loud conversation, ruining the film for everyone else.
Does Mark lead a campaign whenever a movie has characters drinking or using other drugs?
You have to bear in mind that "lead a campaign" here means "suggest on his radio programme that people do it, and read out emails from people who have done". It's not so much campaigning as filling airtime with wittertainment at its most wittertaining.
There are multiple justifications for covert snooping on children.
To protect the emotional well being of the child: a desire to have the child not feel oppressed every time they send a text message, or feel every word they type is being scrutinized and might get them in trouble.
Even though they *are* being oppressed, and every word they type *is* being scrutinised?
There are very good reasons for the snooping to be covert.
How would you feel about someone using the same rationale to snoop covertly on you?
If your mobile device is owned by your employer and provided to you for work purposes, they most certainly have a right to monitor all your SMS and other traffic.
I don't know about legal rights, but as far as moral rights go, if my employer tells me to treat the phone as a dual work/personal phone -- which I believe is pretty common -- then I would take that as a tacit assurance that they would not snoop.
If your point is that people shouldn't be allowed (or should at least be very ashamed) to purchase intentionally crippled goods because they perceive some safety in the 'crippling'--then this is going to be a long, long conversation with hundreds of counterexamples and you will end up looking stupid.
I don't think that is the point. I think the points are more often:
- "Given the choice between an open system and a walled garden, I myself would choose the open one" - "I don't think most consumers understand the tradeoffs they're making when they choose a walled garden"
I do think that would apply to microwaves. If it wasn't significantly more expensive, then sure, I'd prefer a microwave which could be programmed, just as I'd prefer an ADSL router I can install DD-WRT on, or a DVR I can install a web server onto.
There are devices you'd like to be tamperproof, such as ATMs, voting machines, airbags -- but that is not incompatible with openness.
A parent should be able to use this. A parent is responsible for know where a child is and what the child is doing.
This is morally murky. I've a lot of sympathy with the angle that a child has as much right to privacy as an adult. There are many legitimate reasons that a child might want to keep something secret from their parents (as a dramatic example, if a parent is abusive in some way).
If my daughter had a cell phone, I would use this to determine if she is working out some affair with a lecherous principal or teacher. Before you, and others, scoff, This happened recently in my county. A high school principal was having sexual encounters with a student and was discovered via a discovery made by the parent of incoming/outgoing texts made on the daughter cell phone.
Even this is morally murky. If I break into someone's home, and discover evidence that foils a murder plot, I'm still guilty of criminal trespass.
I think there are two ways you could ethically read your daughter's texts 1. In light of strong evidence from other sources that something was going on 2. As part of an overt arrangement, whereby you've agreed with her that she may have a cellphone on condition that you'll regularly review her texts in her company.
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And yet there's the trademark dispute over the Apple brand, the Beatles owning Apple Corps, and Jobs having Apple Computer.
When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed through Apple's legal department and they objected that the new system sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical", under the recent settlement. The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7 and the Macintosh Startup Sound, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on The Beatles' "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that wouldn't pass legal's approval, he remarked "so sue me." After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"), telling the legal department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music.
I think my dad fell for something like this. As far as I can ascertain, he searched for Malwarebytes, and whatever page he got to, the most conspicuous "download" link was to the scam product. So really, I can't blame him for being fooled.
The software identified some issues, but said there were more, that it would charge him for removing. Some time later, he received a phone call about it. I don't know how they got his phone number, but we do have an unusual surname.
How common is "break up for the holidays" really? .
It's the predominant idiom in England and Wales; probably the rest of the UK; maybe other English speaking countries. Obviously not in the US, given responses here.
That makes the baseline assumption that condoms' primary function is prevent 'mess' as opposed to, you know, pregnancy. I wonder which it is?
You forgot STIs - a rather important function, since other forms of contraception don't provide it (*)
But since a condom does have the incidental property of containing the man's portion of the mess, the joke sort of works. It's not the greatest joke ever told -- and over-analysis does it no favours - but it works.
(* unless you count abstinence; screw that, if you'll excuse the choice of words)
Unless you actually showed up with them in hand, any woman who got embarrassed "has issues". What's to get embarrassed about?
Well, everyone else in the office is now gossiping about her. That was the whole point of delivering them to work. Does she "have issues" if she doesn't like that?
I guess you could say she does, but they're not the kind of "issues" that would put me off a girl.
Following up my own post, bad form, but...
Just to drive this home, if a British student (or teacher) probably wouldn't need to specify context, for "break up" to be interpreted as the school term ending. Around the start of December, you'd ask "When do you break up?"
Also British English speakers would more likely use "split up" for the end of a relationship, although "break up" would be understood.
Now, the American usage is probably more common on Facebook, but it remains the case there's a lot to be taken into account. Canajin56 hasn't experienced "break up" being used in the context of a school breaking up, but that's personal experience which for most of us is limited. I wonder if it's even consistent across the USA -- ever seen that map of where they use the words "pop", "soda", etc.?
I have never heard anybody talking about a holiday as a "breakup" with their school year. Nobody talks like that.
It's absolutely the phrase a British schoolchild or university student would use. "I can't wait for school to break up for Christmas". You're telling me that (I guess) American students don't use that phrase, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't used in some other English speaking countries. Australia?
If the curve was otherwise flat, that demographic would be enough to explain the peaks.
On the other hand, if it was the only factor, you'd probably expect equal peaks three times a year (before Christmas, before Easter, before the summer holiday) as well as smaller spikes for the half term breaks.
They probably used aggregate data from the relationship status as opposed to wall status. You can't really misconstrue the message between "Joe is in a relationship with Jane" to "Joe set his relationship status to single"
TFA is quite explicit "his methodology was to scrape Facebook updates that included phrases such as 'break up' or 'broken up'".
Sir, you win. I'm a tad embarrassed not to have spotted it myself, but I'm obviously not alone.
Be very, very wary about generalising about what women want.
Some women would love to get an ostentatious bouquet of flowers at work. Others would be deeply embarrassed by it.
How to know? That's the tricky bit.
I believe Chilli's is the cool place for romantic meals nowadays.
"Might I suggest that, immediately after Valentine's, some women might be casting men from their sight, appalled that their lovers could think of nothing more romantic than roses from the supermarket and dinner at Outback Steakhouse?"
If your Girl is that shallow.... It was a GOOD THING(tm) that she "dumped you".
Honestly, some guys cant afford more than that on a silly holiday created by a greeting card company. IF she wants Diamonds on Valentines day, Kick that gold digger to the curb pronto!
"Something more romantic than roses from the supermarket and dinner at Outback Steakhouse" doesn't have to be expensive. It even cost less money -- but probably more in terms of effort and imagination.
Who wants to be alone on Christmas?
It could be there's Someone Else. Alice is officially with Bob, but Bob's seeing Carol on the side. Late November, Carol starts saying "if you break up with Alice, we could spend Christmas together"...
I should write soap operas...
Oh absolutely. My experience is with Acorn User. There were programming articles -- but those were orthogonal to the type-in games.
Two comments about the summary:
Programming today is easier than programming in the 80s, if you pick the right language. BASIC wasn't that easy -- although at least on most computers there was no installation step.
Most people who typed in games from magazines weren't doing it to learn -- they wanted to play the game, and printing the BASIC code on paper was more cost effective for the publishers than gluing a cassette to the magazine. Typically there would be no comments, no discussion of the techniques use, and towards the end of this practice's lifetime, it wasn't unusual for the program to be a small piece of BASIC for poking integers into memory, followed by several A4 pages of hex characters; the machine code for the game.
Things tend to be locked down fairly tight around here (Montgomery County, MD)...but I've NEVER encountered anything like this while going to the movies. Sure, I've seen people walk in during opening night to make sure no one is taping the damn thing, but you don't have to go through a security checkpoint or any of that nonsense.
Has anyone?
From TFA, this doesn't seem to be about security. It seems to be about measuring audience reactions, with a view to using the findings as guidance for future filmmaking. ... which sounds like a recipe for awful, lowest-common-denominator, characterless films with no artistic vision.
Literally NONE of my friends go to the movies anymore. They all have Netflix accounts and Blu-Ray players and big screens.
I very seldom go any more, but I do miss the cinema. It's great to be part of a crowd that's laughing/sighing/cheering in the right places.
Sadly, the last few times I've been, it's been more likely that other people in the crowd have a loud conversation, ruining the film for everyone else.
Does Mark lead a campaign whenever a movie has characters drinking or using other drugs?
You have to bear in mind that "lead a campaign" here means "suggest on his radio programme that people do it, and read out emails from people who have done". It's not so much campaigning as filling airtime with wittertainment at its most wittertaining.
There are multiple justifications for covert snooping on children.
To protect the emotional well being of the child: a desire to have the child not feel oppressed every time they send a text message, or feel every word they type is being scrutinized and might get them in trouble.
Even though they *are* being oppressed, and every word they type *is* being scrutinised?
There are very good reasons for the snooping to be covert.
How would you feel about someone using the same rationale to snoop covertly on you?
This thing is doing the equivalent of hiding itself from 'ps'.
If your mobile device is owned by your employer and provided to you for work purposes, they most certainly have a right to monitor all your SMS and other traffic.
I don't know about legal rights, but as far as moral rights go, if my employer tells me to treat the phone as a dual work/personal phone -- which I believe is pretty common -- then I would take that as a tacit assurance that they would not snoop.
If your point is that people shouldn't be allowed (or should at least be very ashamed) to purchase intentionally crippled goods because they perceive some safety in the 'crippling'--then this is going to be a long, long conversation with hundreds of counterexamples and you will end up looking stupid.
I don't think that is the point. I think the points are more often:
- "Given the choice between an open system and a walled garden, I myself would choose the open one"
- "I don't think most consumers understand the tradeoffs they're making when they choose a walled garden"
I do think that would apply to microwaves. If it wasn't significantly more expensive, then sure, I'd prefer a microwave which could be programmed, just as I'd prefer an ADSL router I can install DD-WRT on, or a DVR I can install a web server onto.
There are devices you'd like to be tamperproof, such as ATMs, voting machines, airbags -- but that is not incompatible with openness.
"doveryai, no proveryai" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
A phrase to be used when overtly verifying, not as a justification for covert snooping.
A parent should be able to use this. A parent is responsible for know where a child is and what the child is doing.
This is morally murky. I've a lot of sympathy with the angle that a child has as much right to privacy as an adult. There are many legitimate reasons that a child might want to keep something secret from their parents (as a dramatic example, if a parent is abusive in some way).
If my daughter had a cell phone, I would use this to determine if she is working out some affair with a lecherous principal or teacher. Before you, and others, scoff, This happened recently in my county. A high school principal was having sexual encounters with a student and was discovered via a discovery made by the parent of incoming/outgoing texts made on the daughter cell phone.
Even this is morally murky. If I break into someone's home, and discover evidence that foils a murder plot, I'm still guilty of criminal trespass.
I think there are two ways you could ethically read your daughter's texts
1. In light of strong evidence from other sources that something was going on
2. As part of an overt arrangement, whereby you've agreed with her that she may have a cellphone on condition that you'll regularly review her texts in her company.
Simple answer: don't install the app, and if you're feeling particularly proactive, email the developer to say why.
They might remove the requirement, or they might decide they don't need your custom. Either way, everything's OK.