"If he's not serious enough about your future and his ability to provide for you by saving up two months salary, then you should question if he is right for you."
A fair enough statement on its own, but the reality is something along the lines of:...his ability to save up two months salary and then blow it all in one fell swoop on a bauble...
Trademarks, IIRC, are valid so long as you make a reasonable attempt to enforce them. "Reasonable" is vague, which is why things like this happen. They aren't evil; they're just worried their trademark will be ruled abandoned.
Replying to oneself is gauche, but I made a mistake and no one has called me on it. The *zilla case isn't about abandonment, but about generics. You can't trademark a generic term, so they're worried that if enough people start calling things Foozilla, then Godzilla becomes generic, and loses its value as a trademark.
For the sake of completeness, I should point out that there are a couple of other concepts within the rubric of IP: trademarks and trade secrets.
Trademarks, IIRC, are valid so long as you make a reasonable attempt to enforce them. "Reasonable" is vague, which is why things like this happen. They aren't evil; they're just worried their trademark will be ruled abandoned.
Trade secrets (such as in this case) are valid so long as they remain a secret. You can use contracts to allow some people to access them on the condition everything stays mum, but once a third party gains access to the data, you're up a creek.
...there's bound to be a way with even the best to steal books (in the Library I work in, it's called opening a window and chucking the book to a friend waiting below in the evening when our staffing is *real* low).
Ah, for the days of living in a community with a semi-secure library. I used to live in a city which put magnetic strips in the book spines (unthinkingly, I once wandered into a video store with a backpack full of library books; comedy ensued).
In my new hometown, we have self-checkout. Walk over to the dumb terminal, scan your library card, enter a PIN, and scan the books you want to check out. If you "forget" to scan one or two of the books, who's to know?
The difference is that you have to pay for the stuff you buy in a store, and they store is paying you (indirectly, by giving a very small discount) when you use the card.
In my experience this isn't so. Around here, prices jumped 50%-100% just after the cards were introduced; those with the cards kept paying the same prices they always had.
I resisted getting a card for months, but finally settled for getting one with the name and address of our fearless leader. I make it a point to always use cash at the grocery, so there's no way to cross-reference a credit card number (maybe I'm just paranoid about that bit).
Last night, though, something interesting happened: I had forgotten to bring any cash, so I pulled out a credit card and claimed to misplace my discount card. The lady at the register pulled out hers and swiped that one! She must do this all the time, because the receipt announced that she had saved over $20,000 so far by using her discount card.
Of course, now my credit card number is associated with the purchasing habits of everyone within a ten-mile radius.
My state taxes are roughly one half that of my federal taxes. If the situation were reversed, the federal gov't wouldn't have nearly as much power over the state governments.
Be careful what you wish for: your state may take you at your word and quadruple its taxes.
What kind of Econ-101 textbook did this come from? Maybe "exploiting economies of scale" is important to some business professor, but real businesses are in business for one reason: to make money. Lots of money.
Whence the term capital-ism?
In any event, I don't care about the motivations of the individual participants within capitalism, I'm talking about why capitalism works.
Using capital more efficiently is based on the idea that the business people are motivated by society's greater good.
No, you're thinking of community-ism (communism). Again, I'm talking practical application, not motivation.
While I don't particularly like greed, history has shown that the economic system based on greed has worked much better than the one based on society's greater good.
I'm a pragmatic individual: if being a money-grubbing bastard tends to improve society overall (and except for a few notable cases, it does), then go for it.
Uhh... yea, thats the whole point of running a business, you know? to make money?
It was my understanding that the point of business was to exploit economies of scale, and thereby use capital more efficiently; profit is just a sign that you've done so successfully.
Probably never occured to the bastards that a student or hobby programmer would be interested.
Au contraire. They specifically intend to eliminate hobbiest programming, because that's where a lot of GPL software comes from. As was pointed out repeatedly in various fora during the comment phase of the settlement, Microsoft wants to condition release of this sort of information on such criteria as whether the company is deemed (by Microsoft) to have a sound business plan.
"Sorry Red Hat, you just aren't profitable enough to see this."
The part that irks me most (and there are a lot of them) is that you can't even know the terms of the license until after you've signed the NDA. Fsck that!
For once, the/. article summary says nearly as much as the linked-to articles themselves. It's funny, no matter how hard I try to challenge preconceived notions I have, there's always one more "well-known fact" I forget to look into.
No...because then you'd need multiple inheritance again.
Whoops! I missed that part of the comment. I've been interviewing candidates for an entry-level Java position, and "Tell me about the difference between an interface and an abstract class" is one of my staples. I guess I have that question on the brain.
My GeForce 2 has 32 meg; my PC has 256 meg. I've been thinking about it, and I suspect that part of it is that since I use Linux for all my day-to-day stuff, my Windows partition is nigh empty. I don't have anything installed except the game. Does that make sense?
You mentioned DirectX. As it so happens, I have this weird thing that my PC does: whenever I play GTA3, the next reboot into Windows gives me a "Please wait while Setup cleans up" message or some such. I suspect DirectX, because the same thing happened with Black & White.
GTA3 is already a very system-intensive game. People with 1.8 GHz machines complain about how jerky it is.
What the Hell is wrong with their systems? I have 550 MHz machine w/a GeForce 2, game options turned all the way up, and game performance only degrades when it rains (and just slightly at that).
FYI: This hasn't been true for a while. In 1997, Pepsi decided that it would have an easier time selling its cola to fast-food joints if it didn't appear to be a direct competitor, so it spun off Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut into something called Tricon Global Restaurants.
I actually installed spamassassin last week and it's caught over 200 messages in the past 4 days.
Holy moly! You have my sympathies. Among my three main e-mail addresses (two of which are on Yahoo!), I only receive 2-3 pieces of spam per day. I thought that was annoying. I guess I'll just sit down and shut up.
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"If he's not serious enough about your future and his ability to provide for you by saving up two months salary, then you should question if he is right for you."
A fair enough statement on its own, but the reality is something along the lines of: ...his ability to save up two months salary and then blow it all in one fell swoop on a bauble...
Not exactly my idea of a sound fiscal strategy.
"It would be wrong to say that we cannot learn from tradition, but to be practical, we must not let it be an all-encompassing authority."
--Ed Parker's Infinite Insights into Kenpo Volume 2: Physical Analyzation I
Um, dude, this century started last year.
Trademarks, IIRC, are valid so long as you make a reasonable attempt to enforce them. "Reasonable" is vague, which is why things like this happen. They aren't evil; they're just worried their trademark will be ruled abandoned.
Replying to oneself is gauche, but I made a mistake and no one has called me on it. The *zilla case isn't about abandonment, but about generics. You can't trademark a generic term, so they're worried that if enough people start calling things Foozilla, then Godzilla becomes generic, and loses its value as a trademark.
For the sake of completeness, I should point out that there are a couple of other concepts within the rubric of IP: trademarks and trade secrets.
Trademarks, IIRC, are valid so long as you make a reasonable attempt to enforce them. "Reasonable" is vague, which is why things like this happen. They aren't evil; they're just worried their trademark will be ruled abandoned.
Trade secrets (such as in this case) are valid so long as they remain a secret. You can use contracts to allow some people to access them on the condition everything stays mum, but once a third party gains access to the data, you're up a creek.
True, but I spent something like $40,000 on my education. I'd like to see a return on my investment, as it were.
Ah, for the days of living in a community with a semi-secure library. I used to live in a city which put magnetic strips in the book spines (unthinkingly, I once wandered into a video store with a backpack full of library books; comedy ensued).
In my new hometown, we have self-checkout. Walk over to the dumb terminal, scan your library card, enter a PIN, and scan the books you want to check out. If you "forget" to scan one or two of the books, who's to know?
The difference is that you have to pay for the stuff you buy in a store, and they store is paying you (indirectly, by giving a very small discount) when you use the card.
In my experience this isn't so. Around here, prices jumped 50%-100% just after the cards were introduced; those with the cards kept paying the same prices they always had.
I resisted getting a card for months, but finally settled for getting one with the name and address of our fearless leader. I make it a point to always use cash at the grocery, so there's no way to cross-reference a credit card number (maybe I'm just paranoid about that bit).
Last night, though, something interesting happened: I had forgotten to bring any cash, so I pulled out a credit card and claimed to misplace my discount card. The lady at the register pulled out hers and swiped that one! She must do this all the time, because the receipt announced that she had saved over $20,000 so far by using her discount card.
Of course, now my credit card number is associated with the purchasing habits of everyone within a ten-mile radius.
My state taxes are roughly one half that of my federal taxes. If the situation were reversed, the federal gov't wouldn't have nearly as much power over the state governments.
Be careful what you wish for: your state may take you at your word and quadruple its taxes.
No, he's talking about the other turn of the century (the 2000 election in Florida).
(Sorry, bad joke.)
What kind of Econ-101 textbook did this come from? Maybe "exploiting economies of scale" is important to some business professor, but real businesses are in business for one reason: to make money. Lots of money.
Whence the term capital-ism?
In any event, I don't care about the motivations of the individual participants within capitalism, I'm talking about why capitalism works.
Using capital more efficiently is based on the idea that the business people are motivated by society's greater good.
No, you're thinking of community-ism (communism). Again, I'm talking practical application, not motivation.
While I don't particularly like greed, history has shown that the economic system based on greed has worked much better than the one based on society's greater good.
I'm a pragmatic individual: if being a money-grubbing bastard tends to improve society overall (and except for a few notable cases, it does), then go for it.
Uhh... yea, thats the whole point of running a business, you know? to make money?
It was my understanding that the point of business was to exploit economies of scale, and thereby use capital more efficiently; profit is just a sign that you've done so successfully.
Yes, fine, then Dmitry is a criminal, the DMCA is valid, and DRM is a good idea.
Sorry, no. We're talking about court rulings here. Of the three you mentioned, only validation of the DMCA has occurred in a court of law.
Probably never occured to the bastards that a student or hobby programmer would be interested.
Au contraire. They specifically intend to eliminate hobbiest programming, because that's where a lot of GPL software comes from. As was pointed out repeatedly in various fora during the comment phase of the settlement, Microsoft wants to condition release of this sort of information on such criteria as whether the company is deemed (by Microsoft) to have a sound business plan.
"Sorry Red Hat, you just aren't profitable enough to see this."
The part that irks me most (and there are a lot of them) is that you can't even know the terms of the license until after you've signed the NDA. Fsck that!
For once, the /. article summary says nearly as much as the linked-to articles themselves. It's funny, no matter how hard I try to challenge preconceived notions I have, there's always one more "well-known fact" I forget to look into.
2) Educate all your friends and relatives about free enterprise ^H^H^H^H^H^H spammers.
I'm sorry, what does "free enter spammers" mean? :-)
No...because then you'd need multiple inheritance again.
Whoops! I missed that part of the comment. I've been interviewing candidates for an entry-level Java position, and "Tell me about the difference between an interface and an abstract class" is one of my staples. I guess I have that question on the brain.
I would like to be able to provide a default implementation for interface methods.
What you want is an abstract class.
Just as an FYI: the one and only time one of my submissions was accepted, the headline was changed by an editor.
My GeForce 2 has 32 meg; my PC has 256 meg. I've been thinking about it, and I suspect that part of it is that since I use Linux for all my day-to-day stuff, my Windows partition is nigh empty. I don't have anything installed except the game. Does that make sense?
You mentioned DirectX. As it so happens, I have this weird thing that my PC does: whenever I play GTA3, the next reboot into Windows gives me a "Please wait while Setup cleans up" message or some such. I suspect DirectX, because the same thing happened with Black & White.
GTA3 is already a very system-intensive game. People with 1.8 GHz machines complain about how jerky it is.
What the Hell is wrong with their systems? I have 550 MHz machine w/a GeForce 2, game options turned all the way up, and game performance only degrades when it rains (and just slightly at that).
Slashdot apparently slashed my citation. Is that why they call Linux a Unix work-a-like?
Would you mind explaining this statement? If it's a joke, I don't get it.
FYI: This hasn't been true for a while. In 1997, Pepsi decided that it would have an easier time selling its cola to fast-food joints if it didn't appear to be a direct competitor, so it spun off Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut into something called Tricon Global Restaurants.
I actually installed spamassassin last week and it's caught over 200 messages in the past 4 days.
Holy moly! You have my sympathies. Among my three main e-mail addresses (two of which are on Yahoo!), I only receive 2-3 pieces of spam per day. I thought that was annoying. I guess I'll just sit down and shut up.
What the Hell is "obitrary"?
This is exactly why we have spelling and grammar rules: I can't figure what you're trying to say.