You seriously have to wonder what were they thinking when they named it the iPhone without an agreement in place. One can only speculate that they planned to change the name all along but they needed to get the news out there about it and this was the best way. Apple has no chance if this does make it to court... The fact that they've been trying to license the name for years proves that they acknowledge Cisco's trademark as valid.
Dual format players are NOT good for the consumer. They are more expensive and the ones who really benefit from them are the ones holding their nice shiny license agreements
Read the fine print... most of those cheapo printers usually only come with half-capacity ink cartridges as 1: a means of cutting costs and 2: to prevent people who are willing to just toss the perfectly good printer just because of cheaper cartridge costs.
sowhat... That's really the most appropriate tag for this story and I'm glad people put it there. What they had at E3 was still a working model, and it makes no difference to me if they put it in a gamecube case or if they put it in a pink elephant case as long as it works and does everything as advertised. This really seems like the most innovative console in a long time. Cheers to Nintendo to not worrying so much about the bleeding edge graphics and focusing more on great gameplay.
If you are running the customize google firefox extension these new features will work very poorly or not at all depending on what preferences you have set. Just an FYI for anyone having problems.
This just further proves that the RIAA/MPA are going after the wrong people. The supremes have basically now set in stone what makers of p2p software need to do, or rather what not to do in order to avoid legal heat. It may seem like a big kick in the face to the RIAA/MPA but really it's just saying, hey, you tried it with betamax and you lost, you are going to lose here as well. I'm glad we can put this behind us now and the RIAA/MPA can go back to suing the actual infringers, you know... the 7 year old girls and 89 year old grandparents's.
1. Grokster/Streamcast use ads to generate revenue, more p2p traffic means more revenue. 2. Knowing #1, the companies promoted their software as a "Napster alternative" to get more people to use it knowing full well that Napster was ruled illegal.
That's strike 1; promoting your product for illegal use.
3. Grokster/Streamcast are aware that users employ their software primarily to download copyrighted files, although the decentralized networks do not reveal which files are copied, and when. Grokster/Streamcast have sometimes learned about the infringement directly when users have e-mailed questions regarding copyrighted works, and Grokster/Streamcast have replied with guidance.
The nail in the coffin: Providing tech support on how to infringe on copyrights.
While at work, outlook never closes and I have notifications on my screen every time a new email comes in which is pretty often. It's a part of my job. When I leave my desk my blackberry comes with me so I can see any email that I'm missing while I'm not there... but am I addicted? I'd say no. I just do my job. When 5:00 rolls around I check my home email sometime after dinner and don't really touch the computer after that. I think those of us that are forced to do it as part of our daily routine in fact don't even like email.
Only $550,000 was actually awarded out of a total pool of $1mn (mn? wtf?): The winning projects were: Shift2Ingres, submitted by Harsh Azad, Rohit Gaddi, Achal Rastogi, Geetanjali Bahuguna and Ashutosh Upadhyay of New Delhi, India, won the largest prize of $400,000; EzyMigrate, submitted by Danes John and Varghese Jacob of Kerala, India, was awarded a prize of $100,000; and DbConverter, submitted by Bipin Prasad of New York, was awarded a prize of $50,000.
It is worth noting that this is still an early beta. I installed it this morning and had frequent crashes so I switched back to the regular 5.9 version.
Here's a select quote from the betanews forums: "Why is it that so many small or independent developers give us so much quality software, often without reward, and huge companies like AOL can only spit out this bloated garbage?"
I know there have been a ton of posts saying how the wire only holds 10 million bits and that's only 10 megs, but if you go back and rtfa again they have updated it, it now reads: "The researchers calculate that a 10 cm long microwire can carry out 10 million [editor's note: Elhuyar Fundazioa made a mistake here, should be billion] divisions or cells and in each one of these a byte can be stored. In order to store the byte, each one of these cells is magnetised in one orientation or the other."
I'm a vonage user, after logging into the website I'm greeted with this, coincidence?:
Service Announcements
Customers may be experiencing an issue with receiving inbound calls and placing outbound calls due to a network issue. This problem is also impacting availability of our web site.
Our engineers are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.
...is that there is still going to be a case. The judges statement was in response to IBM's request for a summary judgement which would have put an end to all this. The simple fact that the judge denied IBM's request means that this case is far from over.
TheRegister gives a more newsworthy story here: http://www.theregister.com/2005/02/10/sco_d odges_b ullte/
I have the 7100t from t-mobile. I started out on this one so I don't really have anything to compare it to but after about a week of using it I got used to the predictive text and it doesn't really bother me at all.
As for what they were thinking...they wanted to make it smaller and closer to a phone than a pda.
First off, why did they decide to single out the blackberry among all phones/pdas?
Secondly, I would like to know the difference between the older blackberry's and the newer 7100 series which uses a kind of predictive text input but on a smaller keypad.
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The NYCL aka Ray Beckerman gives his thoughts on these new developments over on ARS...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080313-andersen-attorney-on-riaa-suit-they-cant-run-now.html
You seriously have to wonder what were they thinking when they named it the iPhone without an agreement in place. One can only speculate that they planned to change the name all along but they needed to get the news out there about it and this was the best way.
Apple has no chance if this does make it to court... The fact that they've been trying to license the name for years proves that they acknowledge Cisco's trademark as valid.
Dual format players are NOT good for the consumer. They are more expensive and the ones who really benefit from them are the ones holding their nice shiny license agreements
FYI the weather and news don't work for anyone at this point.
Those Wii channels officially launch on 12/20 and 1/27 respectively.
Read the fine print... most of those cheapo printers usually only come with half-capacity ink cartridges as 1: a means of cutting costs and 2: to prevent people who are willing to just toss the perfectly good printer just because of cheaper cartridge costs.
sowhat... That's really the most appropriate tag for this story and I'm glad people put it there. What they had at E3 was still a working model, and it makes no difference to me if they put it in a gamecube case or if they put it in a pink elephant case as long as it works and does everything as advertised. This really seems like the most innovative console in a long time. Cheers to Nintendo to not worrying so much about the bleeding edge graphics and focusing more on great gameplay.
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http://www.wiishlist.com
Seriously... interupting Family guy should be considered an impeachable offense.
If you are running the customize google firefox extension these new features will work very poorly or not at all depending on what preferences you have set. Just an FYI for anyone having problems.
...right. Seems like someone doesn't know their left from their right.
How about RTFA again.
He explains that he uses a proxima ovation lcd panel for this project which light can pass through
Here's a pic of it
This just further proves that the RIAA/MPA are going after the wrong people.
The supremes have basically now set in stone what makers of p2p software need to do, or rather what not to do in order to avoid legal heat. It may seem like a big kick in the face to the RIAA/MPA but really it's just saying, hey, you tried it with betamax and you lost, you are going to lose here as well. I'm glad we can put this behind us now and the RIAA/MPA can go back to suing the actual infringers, you know... the 7 year old girls and 89 year old grandparents's.
1. Grokster/Streamcast use ads to generate revenue, more p2p traffic means more revenue.
2. Knowing #1, the companies promoted their software as a "Napster alternative" to get more people to use it knowing full well that Napster was ruled illegal.
That's strike 1; promoting your product for illegal use.
3. Grokster/Streamcast are aware that users employ their software primarily to download copyrighted files, although the decentralized networks do not reveal which files are copied, and when. Grokster/Streamcast have sometimes learned about the infringement directly when users have e-mailed questions regarding copyrighted works, and Grokster/Streamcast have replied with guidance.
The nail in the coffin: Providing tech support on how to infringe on copyrights.
While at work, outlook never closes and I have notifications on my screen every time a new email comes in which is pretty often. It's a part of my job. When I leave my desk my blackberry comes with me so I can see any email that I'm missing while I'm not there... but am I addicted? I'd say no. I just do my job. When 5:00 rolls around I check my home email sometime after dinner and don't really touch the computer after that. I think those of us that are forced to do it as part of our daily routine in fact don't even like email.
Only $550,000 was actually awarded out of a total pool of $1mn (mn? wtf?):
The winning projects were: Shift2Ingres, submitted by Harsh Azad, Rohit Gaddi, Achal Rastogi, Geetanjali Bahuguna and Ashutosh Upadhyay of New Delhi, India, won the largest prize of $400,000; EzyMigrate, submitted by Danes John and Varghese Jacob of Kerala, India, was awarded a prize of $100,000; and DbConverter, submitted by Bipin Prasad of New York, was awarded a prize of $50,000.
Here's links to the winning projects:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/shift2ingres
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ezymigrate
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dbcvt
Does this apply to beer as well?
I'll believe IIS6 is secure when I can see the code, until then their security is merely based on obscurity to me.
It is worth noting that this is still an early beta.
I installed it this morning and had frequent crashes so I switched back to the regular 5.9 version.
Here's a select quote from the betanews forums:
"Why is it that so many small or independent developers give us so much quality software, often without reward, and huge companies like AOL can only spit out this bloated garbage?"
Did it seriously take him 40 years to realize what everyone else has known for quite some time?
I'm just surprised it's lasted as long as it has.
I know there have been a ton of posts saying how the wire only holds 10 million bits and that's only 10 megs, but if you go back and rtfa again they have updated it, it now reads:
"The researchers calculate that a 10 cm long microwire can carry out 10 million [editor's note: Elhuyar Fundazioa made a mistake here, should be billion] divisions or cells and in each one of these a byte can be stored. In order to store the byte, each one of these cells is magnetised in one orientation or the other."
I'm a vonage user, after logging into the website I'm greeted with this, coincidence?:
Service Announcements
Customers may be experiencing an issue with receiving inbound calls and placing outbound calls due to a network issue. This problem is also impacting availability of our web site.
Our engineers are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Damage to the floor of the indian ocean?
How about damage to this poor website after posting a 38MB powerpoint on slashdot!
...is that there is still going to be a case. The judges statement was in response to IBM's request for a summary judgement which would have put an end to all this. The simple fact that the judge denied IBM's request means that this case is far from over.
d odges_b ullte/
TheRegister gives a more newsworthy story here:
http://www.theregister.com/2005/02/10/sco_
Since the site was slashdotted before it was even posted to non-subscribers you can go here if you want to download it:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4222.html
I have the 7100t from t-mobile. I started out on this one so I don't really have anything to compare it to but after about a week of using it I got used to the predictive text and it doesn't really bother me at all.
As for what they were thinking...they wanted to make it smaller and closer to a phone than a pda.
First off, why did they decide to single out the blackberry among all phones/pdas?
Secondly, I would like to know the difference between the older blackberry's and the newer 7100 series which uses a kind of predictive text input but on a smaller keypad.