Ah, yes, I agree. Assuming it was designed to learn from new games that it played, and not just from a fixed database of games that were initially programmed into it.
Oh? They know what the law says, and they know that management will be in trouble if comes to light that they're working you 8 hours straight with no lunch break. Even if everyone claims you liked it that way. It's illegal.
All it really takes is one disgruntled guy who doesn't care that you work through lunch and thinks you shouldn't be allowed to skip lunches and go home early. Because technically, the law says he's right.
Short, controlled interactions with small groups are where I excel so I play on that; I make a point of getting all my interaction out of the way during the rest of the day because some of the people I work with would burst if they didn't get a chance to hear how my night went. I hunt all those extroverts down in the first 15 minutes I'm at the office, have a good chat and some laughs then put on the blinders for a few hours.
It's not that I hate being around people, it's just tiring even if I enjoy it. I love to hang out in small coffee shops or have unilateral interactions with large audiences, like giving impromptu speeches at Toastmasters, but I do go to parties if a friend really wants me to.
Hear hear. Granted, I don't do Toastmasters, but I've spoken in front of groups plenty of times as part of my job. And at parties I generally feel hopelessly out-of-place. Short, controlled interactions are the key.
I don't think Amazon's got a leg to stand on, it's clear that they're out to lazily infringe on Apple's trade mark and marketing.
Between copyright, trademark, and patents, you can't just blatantly rip off someone's idea; but if an idea isn't a process that can be patented, anyone else is free to use it. Your implementation can be copyrighted, but they can still design their own implementation. That leaves trademarks as the only thing left to allow you to come up with a distinctive name that sets you apart from the competition, but a trademark has to be distinctive; "app store" is descriptive, not distinctive.
Pretty clever, compared to say, Ovi Store.:) (in Finnish, ovi means door.) Or Media Mall, or whatever AT&T was trying to bundle, or VCast, or....
I can't figure out what any of those are from their names alone. Except maybe "Ovi Store" and that's only because you told me that Ovi means "door" in Finnish...
When it comes to an "app store", it's pretty blatantly obvious what it is.
First, this is not between you and other employees, but between you and your employer.
It becomes between you and other employees when they want to know why you get to leave an hour early every day.
Coworkers are easily taken care of: if they say something, you worked during lunch, point. They'll usually understand... if not join them for lunch, sit at their table, don't eat, don't say a word, do nothing at all and preferably look very annoyed. You'll see how long they'll accept you in their round. I'll give them a week, max, before they tell you "please, do whatever you want, just don't sit here spoiling the mood".
But they still won't want you leaving an hour earlier than they can.
Second, you can also make sure you come in first. If you do, nobody can check whether you arrived at 8h30 or 7h30. If everybody comes in at 9h, you have free reign.
That only works if you're able to come and go at whatever hours you please if it adds up to 8 hours a day. Typically you'd have to get special approval to work different hours from the rest of the office.
Laws dictate that employers cannot make you work 8 hours without giving you the OPTION of taking a lunch break, but I don't believe there are laws REQUIRING employees to take them, or face being fired.
And what's it going to look like when it turns out that the employee was "voluntarily" not taking a lunch break because everyone else worked through lunch and he/she didn't want to look like a slacker next time things got tight and management was looking for someone to cut loose?
How clever is "app store"? It's a store that sells apps. And Amazon's is called Amazon AppStore so it can't possibly be confused with the iTunes App Store, just like a QuikTrip gas station can't be confused with a Shell gas station. They're both app stores, but operated by different companies. It's that simple.
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Prior to the iPhone's app store, I can't think of one instance where that term was ubiquitous among non-techheads. Actually, come to think of it, I can't think of any instance where it was ubiquitous among techheads.
What - the word "app"? or the phrase which means "a store which sells apps"? Because the one was certainly in common use, and the other is obviously no more or less than descriptive, and so obvious that Apple wasn't even the first to use it.
Where you lunched may be unknown to your coworkers, but it's harder to claim that you arrived before you actually did or to leave earlier than everyone else. People would be inclined to notice.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.
Sure, it's possible that they just happened to notice that their debit cards were charged with several-hundred-dollar purchases right after this data breach by sheer coincidence...
I'm not big on the social aspect, but I really, really like food. That sort of makes the decision easy for me when it comes to taking part in those sort of things...
Okay - that's a bit over-simplified; other valid inputs would be the names of both players. This way it could be fed games between two humans so that it could "study" their game and it would be able to use this to plan its strategy against them if it ever faced them. You might also want to utilize true randomness as an input.
If a person is telling the chess-playing computer what moves to make, the computer is getting outside help, therefore cheating. The only inputs to a chess-playing computer should be the chess board and its programming; the only outputs should be its move when it's its turn.
Yeah - even if the project itself was canned, they'd still hope to make use of the underlying patented processes. And if the project itself was canned for any good reason, hobbyists would probably be more interested in the technology underneath anyway. In other words, the hobbyists and company would both want the same thing for the same reason: it's still valuable.
Premise: Trojans try to make themselves really obvious so I can easily spot them and remove them. Observation: I've never noticed a trojan in my system. Conclusion: I've never had a trojan in my system.
I think the saddest thing about all this, is that if I started a store that sold apples (the fruit), I couldn't call it an apple store without being sued. Apple Store, no. Apple Mart, no. Apple Shop, no.
Anyone notice all the Apple ads that reference the "Appstore" ("If you dont have an iPhone, then you don't have the AppStore...")? Well, that's exactly how anyone can "cordon off words from the natural language wordspace and treat them as private "property".
That sounds very similar to the Duncan campaign "If it's not a Duncan, it's not a yo-yo". Incidentally, Duncan lost their "Yo-yo" trademark because the court ruled that the name of the toy had entered general use. Trying to "cordon off words" doesn't always mean you'll succeed.
Um, I'm pretty sure that most of even the least-technical users would know that iPhones and Androids have different apps, even if you get them both from the "app store". Buying an app for the Mac OS at Micro Center doesn't always mean that you can buy the same app for the Windows OS from Micro Center; why should you be able to buy the same app for two different phones just because both phones have "app stores"?
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Same here (Windows). As of Firefox 4.0 it's a standard feature.
Oh... fucking.
Prior to Apple's foray into mobile applications, there were no stores using the term, "App store."
Incorrect. I already posted the link; go back up and find it.
Ah, yes, I agree. Assuming it was designed to learn from new games that it played, and not just from a fixed database of games that were initially programmed into it.
You worked over lunch, that's why.
So? You're not allowed to.
They don't have anything to say about that.
Oh? They know what the law says, and they know that management will be in trouble if comes to light that they're working you 8 hours straight with no lunch break. Even if everyone claims you liked it that way. It's illegal.
All it really takes is one disgruntled guy who doesn't care that you work through lunch and thinks you shouldn't be allowed to skip lunches and go home early. Because technically, the law says he's right.
Not sure I followed you there...
Short, controlled interactions with small groups are where I excel so I play on that; I make a point of getting all my interaction out of the way during the rest of the day because some of the people I work with would burst if they didn't get a chance to hear how my night went. I hunt all those extroverts down in the first 15 minutes I'm at the office, have a good chat and some laughs then put on the blinders for a few hours.
It's not that I hate being around people, it's just tiring even if I enjoy it. I love to hang out in small coffee shops or have unilateral interactions with large audiences, like giving impromptu speeches at Toastmasters, but I do go to parties if a friend really wants me to.
Hear hear. Granted, I don't do Toastmasters, but I've spoken in front of groups plenty of times as part of my job. And at parties I generally feel hopelessly out-of-place. Short, controlled interactions are the key.
I don't think Amazon's got a leg to stand on, it's clear that they're out to lazily infringe on Apple's trade mark and marketing.
Between copyright, trademark, and patents, you can't just blatantly rip off someone's idea; but if an idea isn't a process that can be patented, anyone else is free to use it. Your implementation can be copyrighted, but they can still design their own implementation. That leaves trademarks as the only thing left to allow you to come up with a distinctive name that sets you apart from the competition, but a trademark has to be distinctive; "app store" is descriptive, not distinctive.
Pretty clever, compared to say, Ovi Store. :)
(in Finnish, ovi means door.) Or Media Mall, or whatever AT&T was trying to bundle, or VCast, or....
I can't figure out what any of those are from their names alone. Except maybe "Ovi Store" and that's only because you told me that Ovi means "door" in Finnish...
When it comes to an "app store", it's pretty blatantly obvious what it is.
First, this is not between you and other employees, but between you and your employer.
It becomes between you and other employees when they want to know why you get to leave an hour early every day.
Coworkers are easily taken care of: if they say something, you worked during lunch, point. They'll usually understand... if not join them for lunch, sit at their table, don't eat, don't say a word, do nothing at all and preferably look very annoyed. You'll see how long they'll accept you in their round. I'll give them a week, max, before they tell you "please, do whatever you want, just don't sit here spoiling the mood".
But they still won't want you leaving an hour earlier than they can.
Second, you can also make sure you come in first. If you do, nobody can check whether you arrived at 8h30 or 7h30. If everybody comes in at 9h, you have free reign.
That only works if you're able to come and go at whatever hours you please if it adds up to 8 hours a day. Typically you'd have to get special approval to work different hours from the rest of the office.
Laws dictate that employers cannot make you work 8 hours without giving you the OPTION of taking a lunch break, but I don't believe there are laws REQUIRING employees to take them, or face being fired.
And what's it going to look like when it turns out that the employee was "voluntarily" not taking a lunch break because everyone else worked through lunch and he/she didn't want to look like a slacker next time things got tight and management was looking for someone to cut loose?
How clever is "app store"? It's a store that sells apps. And Amazon's is called Amazon AppStore so it can't possibly be confused with the iTunes App Store, just like a QuikTrip gas station can't be confused with a Shell gas station. They're both app stores, but operated by different companies. It's that simple.
Dentistry?
Prior to the iPhone's app store, I can't think of one instance where that term was ubiquitous among non-techheads. Actually, come to think of it, I can't think of any instance where it was ubiquitous among techheads.
What - the word "app"? or the phrase which means "a store which sells apps"? Because the one was certainly in common use, and the other is obviously no more or less than descriptive, and so obvious that Apple wasn't even the first to use it.
Where you lunched may be unknown to your coworkers, but it's harder to claim that you arrived before you actually did or to leave earlier than everyone else. People would be inclined to notice.
That might get you out of the mandatory lunch, but it probably won't get you out of the office an hour early every day.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.
Sure, it's possible that they just happened to notice that their debit cards were charged with several-hundred-dollar purchases right after this data breach by sheer coincidence...
I'm not big on the social aspect, but I really, really like food. That sort of makes the decision easy for me when it comes to taking part in those sort of things...
Okay - that's a bit over-simplified; other valid inputs would be the names of both players. This way it could be fed games between two humans so that it could "study" their game and it would be able to use this to plan its strategy against them if it ever faced them. You might also want to utilize true randomness as an input.
If a person is telling the chess-playing computer what moves to make, the computer is getting outside help, therefore cheating. The only inputs to a chess-playing computer should be the chess board and its programming; the only outputs should be its move when it's its turn.
Yeah - even if the project itself was canned, they'd still hope to make use of the underlying patented processes. And if the project itself was canned for any good reason, hobbyists would probably be more interested in the technology underneath anyway. In other words, the hobbyists and company would both want the same thing for the same reason: it's still valuable.
Premise: Trojans try to make themselves really obvious so I can easily spot them and remove them.
Observation: I've never noticed a trojan in my system.
Conclusion: I've never had a trojan in my system.
I think the saddest thing about all this, is that if I started a store that sold apples (the fruit), I couldn't call it an apple store without being sued.
Apple Store, no. Apple Mart, no. Apple Shop, no.
Apple Market, yes...
Anyone notice all the Apple ads that reference the "Appstore" ("If you dont have an iPhone, then you don't have the AppStore...")? Well, that's exactly how anyone can "cordon off words from the natural language wordspace and treat them as private "property".
That sounds very similar to the Duncan campaign "If it's not a Duncan, it's not a yo-yo". Incidentally, Duncan lost their "Yo-yo" trademark because the court ruled that the name of the toy had entered general use. Trying to "cordon off words" doesn't always mean you'll succeed.
Um, I'm pretty sure that most of even the least-technical users would know that iPhones and Androids have different apps, even if you get them both from the "app store". Buying an app for the Mac OS at Micro Center doesn't always mean that you can buy the same app for the Windows OS from Micro Center; why should you be able to buy the same app for two different phones just because both phones have "app stores"?