It's not that it's not a crime, it's that it's not "stealing". Stealing is when you take something that belongs to someone else, hence depriving them of having it. You cannot "steal" something by making a copy.
Because.. it's a trademark suit. Trademarks must be defended.
Now. those people actively using this trademark in their emails, do they have a contract with the trademark holder?
If not, what differentiates their use from a spammers use of the mark?
Yes, we know what the trademark holder INTENDS.. but remember, a tradmark is a mark identifying a product or service.. and they must be defeneded, and clearly indicated as a trademark.
Trademark does not give absolute power over a series of words.
Airlines want to know what percentage of people fly where, for how long, how often.
Look at these things that airlines do that should be downright unacceptable:
1 - Overbooking flights while selling non-refundable tickets.
2 - A round-trip ticket is often significantly LESS expensive than a one way ticket on the SAME EXACT OUTOGING FLIGHT. Not a joke. It's very common for people in the know to book return trips when they want one-way flights in order to get a cheaper rate. 3 - You buy a round-trip ticket, but don't show up for the outgoing leg, the return leg is automatically cancelled. What if I found alternate transportation one way? Nothing I can do.
4 - Non-transferrable tickets. This is real BS. If they are concerned about security, they should force the person whom the ticket is being transferred to to show identification and re-issue it at checkin.. but saying a ticket is not transferrable is absolutely rediculous.
5 - Non-stop PA system chatter through the first 2 hours of a flight. It's aggrivating. Safety instructions are read repeatedly, talk about the seatbelt signs are read repeatedly.. and it's impossible to get some sleep. Even worse is PA chatter that's both too loud, and trying to SELL STUFF.
Seriously.. air travel of any significant distance is a real pain in the ass these days.
where there are laws to forbid forcing people to give up information for simple commerce to take place.
Even now, as grocery stores (Which are in many ways an essential service to modern cities) require you to use a "courtesy card" in order to get cheaper prices, they have an unfair advantage over the community.
Yes, from a pure capitalist point of view, all's fair... but really.. forcing you to identify yourslef just to get a fair price? Rediculous.
This is something it's hard for many people to grasp; although there are things in cities in europe that would make Americans freak out as if it were a huge violation of their rights, overall, the people are more free of governmental interference, and free from unreasonable hassle from the government/law enforcement.
because for once we have a technology that's accessible to everyone, and doesn't cost a lot to roll out, and the spectrum is more or less open.
Yes, if everyone and their dog has their own wifi access points, we are going to get a lot of interference.
Yes, you might think it's unfair that companies are moving in where you thought private citizens should be.. but in the end, nobody has more right to that bandwidth than anyone eles.. and cooperation will be key. If the services an ISP offers via 802.11b saturate an area, but are convenient, people will likely use them. If people do their own grassroots stuff that's better, the ISP will suffer...things will natrually work out.
We are finally back to a point where we can rig up very useful communications between each other without having to pay the man for it.. as it should be.
- You can still violate the allowable power output with just an antenna...
- Deliberately interfering with their communications may still be illegal. It's possible this would no longer be interference, but an actual active attempt to distrupt their business.
Yes, there are features that IE is missing that people like.. but they are not features that will get people to move en-masse.. and the second microsoft detects people actually moving away from IE in any significant numbers, they will very quickly and easily add features to get them back, and will still have the edge in browser domination.
Webmasters have always known about standards; the situation is no different now than it was way back when; in fact, it's EASIER now to code for more standards than it used to be, and more sites work with all browsers than ever before.. but that doesn't change the fact that MS is king of the browser, for the foreseeable future.
it doens't have to have "valuable commercial application" at this time, or ever for that matter.
IT's something that was not precited by current science, and therefore, adds to our knowledge of the universe.. as we start figuring out why it happened, which can lead to more discoveries, etcetera.
Yes, angular velocity will increase if the motion is frictionless... that is implied.
Prepetual motion machine? What are you talking about? 'There is an external power source.. there is an electric charge being applied externally... nobody says it's creating energy.
Point is that this is a trait commonly only among American tourists, globally.. no other country travles and expects everyone to adhere to their way of doing things. Certainly not all americans are like this.. but of every nationality out there travelling around, only the Americans really act this way.
Much better how? My family still has no problem getting the information they need and the services they want using IE.. so how is another browser better?
Do you mean they are better because they can't render as many sites correctly? Yes, I realize that's an artifact of IE being the king.. but it's reality.
But your premise is false.... stepping up the voltage does not reduce the amount of power available.. it remains constant (barring loss due to to other stuff). And those high voltage transmission lines have a lot more power than the low voltage in your house, as they are later broken down into smaller, lower voltage, lower power chunks for different homes.
Uhh... transmission lines are AC.. even long distance high-tension lines... ESPECIALLY long distance, high tension lines.
There would indeed be some current in the bike. IF you actually used it, though, causing a power drain, you would be stealing power from the power company, and probably labeled a terrorist;)
What many are missing here is that the project will most likely NOT be the primary display.
If you have a secondary display, even if it's not configured as part of the desktop, and not a clone, WMP will display a fullscreen version of the video on teh secondary screen, regardless of what happens to the primary window... (as long as you don't close it). You can minimise it, work ont he computer, whatever.. and the video on the secondary plays just great.
I do wish WMP allowed more low level control of aspect ratios and whatnot... and I'm sure at some point someone will come out with some filters and tools that do.
Patented, yes... but nobody claimed patent infringement here.
We don't need a dfinite law: I purchased a SNES cartridge. I can now do whatever the heck I want with it, including fry it in the microwave, sell it, rip it apart, re-use the parts in my toy robot, or extract the digital information out of it.
The only IP law involved is copyright, which says that hte data on the thing is copyrighted, and that limits what I can do with it... I can't make copies and sell them, etc.
This isnt'a grey area thing... I can do what I want with hardware I own.
they aren't stupid, or missing the boat. They already own the browser market. At the point where enough people want other features, microsoft can *easily* add those features to IE. They just aren't wasting time doing it now.
Yes, mozilla is neat... yes, opera is neat... yes there are some products that are better than MS.. but they own the market now, and it takes more than bells and whistles to get them off it.
No.. the solution is not to issue overbroad patents.
One of the fundamental principles of a patent is that you DONT have to actively police it; it's a monopoloy granted by the state. The point of a patent was so an inventor would NOT have to expend huge legal resources just to keep his patent, as with trademark.
Trademark is like this because it only has value as long as it's commonly associated with your name; a patent is more akin to a copyright, and it can't just evaporate.
The point is, if you run a certain version, it will probably be quite stable, and not at all crash prone but the next version out may be VERY crash prone...
well, first, alterations of this type are banned by contract; he should have known better.
Second, he did insert elements into the picture that were not there originally....
There is a large difference between sharpening a picture, changing the contrast to reflect what you actually saw, and re-arranging the people in the picture to make it look better.
You mean you couldn't care less what color someone's skin is, as long as they haven't snuck under the border?
Where did you get the idea that everyone who comes to the US expects Americans to speak their language?
Having travelled a fair bit, I can honestly say that , above all other nationalities I've encountered while travelling, it is only the Americans who expect everyone to speak American English, and accept American dollars. Many times they seem very surprised when a local merchant does not want to accept dollars, and does not speak American English.
It's not vague at all. Changing the contrast, fixing the colors.. these are all things that film would do as well.. as there is no perfect way to capture an image.
Rearranging the scenery that was actually photographed, however, is clearly and totally different. Cropping out what someone is shooting at is not lying: You can look at the picture, and you don't konw what is being shot at.
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You missed the point.
It's not that it's not a crime, it's that it's not "stealing". Stealing is when you take something that belongs to someone else, hence depriving them of having it. You cannot "steal" something by making a copy.
In N. America, 1,000,000,000,000 is one trillion.
In Europe, it's one billion.
A N. American "billion" is "thousand million" in Europe.
Because.. it's a trademark suit. Trademarks must be defended.
Now. those people actively using this trademark in their emails, do they have a contract with the trademark holder?
If not, what differentiates their use from a spammers use of the mark?
Yes, we know what the trademark holder INTENDS.. but remember, a tradmark is a mark identifying a product or service.. and they must be defeneded, and clearly indicated as a trademark.
Trademark does not give absolute power over a series of words.
If this wins, it could set bad precedent.
Airlines want to know what percentage of people fly where, for how long, how often.
Look at these things that airlines do that should be downright unacceptable:
1 - Overbooking flights while selling non-refundable tickets.
2 - A round-trip ticket is often significantly LESS expensive than a one way ticket on the SAME EXACT OUTOGING FLIGHT. Not a joke. It's very common for people in the know to book return trips when they want one-way flights in order to get a cheaper rate.
3 - You buy a round-trip ticket, but don't show up for the outgoing leg, the return leg is automatically cancelled. What if I found alternate transportation one way? Nothing I can do.
4 - Non-transferrable tickets. This is real BS. If they are concerned about security, they should force the person whom the ticket is being transferred to to show identification and re-issue it at checkin.. but saying a ticket is not transferrable is absolutely rediculous.
5 - Non-stop PA system chatter through the first 2 hours of a flight. It's aggrivating. Safety instructions are read repeatedly, talk about the seatbelt signs are read repeatedly.. and it's impossible to get some sleep. Even worse is PA chatter that's both too loud, and trying to SELL STUFF.
Seriously.. air travel of any significant distance is a real pain in the ass these days.
where there are laws to forbid forcing people to give up information for simple commerce to take place.
Even now, as grocery stores (Which are in many ways an essential service to modern cities) require you to use a "courtesy card" in order to get cheaper prices, they have an unfair advantage over the community.
Yes, from a pure capitalist point of view, all's fair... but really.. forcing you to identify yourslef just to get a fair price? Rediculous.
This is something it's hard for many people to grasp; although there are things in cities in europe that would make Americans freak out as if it were a huge violation of their rights, overall, the people are more free of governmental interference, and free from unreasonable hassle from the government/law enforcement.
because for once we have a technology that's accessible to everyone, and doesn't cost a lot to roll out, and the spectrum is more or less open.
Yes, if everyone and their dog has their own wifi access points, we are going to get a lot of interference.
Yes, you might think it's unfair that companies are moving in where you thought private citizens should be.. but in the end, nobody has more right to that bandwidth than anyone eles.. and cooperation will be key. If the services an ISP offers via 802.11b saturate an area, but are convenient, people will likely use them. If people do their own grassroots stuff that's better, the ISP will suffer...things will natrually work out.
We are finally back to a point where we can rig up very useful communications between each other without having to pay the man for it.. as it should be.
- You can still violate the allowable power output with just an antenna...
- Deliberately interfering with their communications may still be illegal. It's possible this would no longer be interference, but an actual active attempt to distrupt their business.
And again, that's not the point...
Yes, there are features that IE is missing that people like.. but they are not features that will get people to move en-masse.. and the second microsoft detects people actually moving away from IE in any significant numbers, they will very quickly and easily add features to get them back, and will still have the edge in browser domination.
Webmasters have always known about standards; the situation is no different now than it was way back when; in fact, it's EASIER now to code for more standards than it used to be, and more sites work with all browsers than ever before.. but that doesn't change the fact that MS is king of the browser, for the foreseeable future.
We can rotate things with dc now, yes.. but using magnetic forces. This is electrostatic.
it doens't have to have "valuable commercial application" at this time, or ever for that matter.
IT's something that was not precited by current science, and therefore, adds to our knowledge of the universe.. as we start figuring out why it happened, which can lead to more discoveries, etcetera.
Yes, angular velocity will increase if the motion is frictionless... that is implied.
Prepetual motion machine? What are you talking about? 'There is an external power source.. there is an electric charge being applied externally... nobody says it's creating energy.
Point is that this is a trait commonly only among American tourists, globally.. no other country travles and expects everyone to adhere to their way of doing things. Certainly not all americans are like this.. but of every nationality out there travelling around, only the Americans really act this way.
Well, and the British...
Hmm.
Much better how?
My family still has no problem getting the information they need and the services they want using IE.. so how is another browser better?
Do you mean they are better because they can't render as many sites correctly? Yes, I realize that's an artifact of IE being the king.. but it's reality.
Your numbers work out....
.005A = 1000W
200kV @
12V @ 200A = 2400W
But your premise is false.... stepping up the voltage does not reduce the amount of power available.. it remains constant (barring loss due to to other stuff). And those high voltage transmission lines have a lot more power than the low voltage in your house, as they are later broken down into smaller, lower voltage, lower power chunks for different homes.
Uhh... transmission lines are AC.. even long distance high-tension lines... ESPECIALLY long distance, high tension lines.
;)
There would indeed be some current in the bike. IF you actually used it, though, causing a power drain, you would be stealing power from the power company, and probably labeled a terrorist
What many are missing here is that the project will most likely NOT be the primary display.
If you have a secondary display, even if it's not configured as part of the desktop, and not a clone, WMP will display a fullscreen version of the video on teh secondary screen, regardless of what happens to the primary window... (as long as you don't close it).
You can minimise it, work ont he computer, whatever.. and the video on the secondary plays just great.
I do wish WMP allowed more low level control of aspect ratios and whatnot... and I'm sure at some point someone will come out with some filters and tools that do.
Patented, yes... but nobody claimed patent infringement here.
We don't need a dfinite law: I purchased a SNES cartridge. I can now do whatever the heck I want with it, including fry it in the microwave, sell it, rip it apart, re-use the parts in my toy robot, or extract the digital information out of it.
The only IP law involved is copyright, which says that hte data on the thing is copyrighted, and that limits what I can do with it... I can't make copies and sell them, etc.
This isnt'a grey area thing... I can do what I want with hardware I own.
The only exception to this rule is the DMCA
they aren't stupid, or missing the boat. They already own the browser market.
At the point where enough people want other features, microsoft can *easily* add those features to IE. They just aren't wasting time doing it now.
Yes, mozilla is neat... yes, opera is neat... yes there are some products that are better than MS.. but they own the market now, and it takes more than bells and whistles to get them off it.
No.. the solution is not to issue overbroad patents.
One of the fundamental principles of a patent is that you DONT have to actively police it; it's a monopoloy granted by the state. The point of a patent was so an inventor would NOT have to expend huge legal resources just to keep his patent, as with trademark.
Trademark is like this because it only has value as long as it's commonly associated with your name; a patent is more akin to a copyright, and it can't just evaporate.
The point is, if you run a certain version, it will probably be quite stable, and not at all crash prone
but the next version out may be VERY crash prone...
because it's a devlopment kernel.
well, first, alterations of this type are banned by contract; he should have known better.
Second, he did insert elements into the picture that were not there originally....
There is a large difference between sharpening a picture, changing the contrast to reflect what you actually saw, and re-arranging the people in the picture to make it look better.
You would need a separate OTP for each picture taken; if you re-use an OTP, it becomes useless quickly.
You mean you couldn't care less what color someone's skin is, as long as they haven't snuck under the border? Where did you get the idea that everyone who comes to the US expects Americans to speak their language? Having travelled a fair bit, I can honestly say that , above all other nationalities I've encountered while travelling, it is only the Americans who expect everyone to speak American English, and accept American dollars. Many times they seem very surprised when a local merchant does not want to accept dollars, and does not speak American English.
It's not vague at all. Changing the contrast, fixing the colors.. these are all things that film would do as well.. as there is no perfect way to capture an image.
Rearranging the scenery that was actually photographed, however, is clearly and totally different.
Cropping out what someone is shooting at is not lying: You can look at the picture, and you don't konw what is being shot at.
Moving things around is atrocious.