To me, it sounds like she may have just been an overzealous I-can-do-what-I-want-and-you-can't-touch-me slightly naive college grad
Or she may have been an overzealous, hey-kids-look-I-have-a-myspace-page-and-put-stupid -pictures-of-myself-on-there-too-so-I'm-cool-and-y ou-can-be-my-friend naive college grad.
During two years of service with an SA DVR, we only had one issue, which turned was fixed by replacing a connector outside the house. I don't know how much better the TIVO interface is, but SA's performance and interface beats Motorola hands down.
and boy, do I wish that I could have brought the Time Warner box with me. The Motorola POS that Comcast uses has been a pain in the ass. We've had the service for about three weeks. Three times now it's stopped receiving the video signal (the interactive guide still works, but the video signal is black), we lost all our series recording settings. Motorola seems to have decided that having a simpler remote with fewer buttons would make up for having to push those buttons 20 times to do anything in the interface.
On the Scientific Atlanta box from Time Warner, hitting record while watching a show would save everything in the buffer for the current show - and you could change channels and the show would continue recording to the end. On the Motorola box, hitting record in the middle of a show will only save from when you push the button, and changing channel will stop the recording - unless you went three levels deep in the info menu to record.
It's a mess, and I have frequently felt the urge to just shoot the box and get it done with. So how much is satellite?
We had one user working with OpenOffice 1.1 to evaluate the practicalities of changing everyone over. She had a few documents going back and forth with clients and tracking changes. Simple changes were supported, but things like comments were not handled very well.
The biggest downfalls of OOo for us, though, were the poor chart formatting options (compared to Excel, at least) and the problems exchanging files with Office users. Converting any thing but simple charts from Excel was a joke, and the options for formatting the axes and positioning legends, etc., just didn't meet our needs.
I, personally, however, use OOo to layout our monthly newsletter, which is a task at which OOo beats the pants off of Word (though I still need to convert our Excel charts into images before putting them into the OOo files).
I remember a few Seinfeld episodes with exterior shots meant to be New York, but were clearly shot in downtown LA (and no, not the episodes where they go to LA).
Disney will send headhunters after lots of the people with "assistant" in their titles and offer them lead positions. They're sure to get a few bites from both Pixar and Dreamworks that way.
It's already been shifted a full quarter from the announcement. I wonder if EV1 has actually paid them any money yet. How long can companies defer revenue?
As far as the "6-figure" amount, I'm sure that's what will go on the books before the big "first-sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hbuyer" discount is applied.
Thanks to his foresight in negotiating for the licensing rights, Lucas is able to finance the productions himself. No studio is involved until it's time to talk distribution.
Lucas's original conception covered a broader range of the history of the Empire/Republic saga (not in the detail that's been presented so far, just the broad outline - rise and fall of the father, redemption through the son). Sort of a 100-years-in-space generational epic. Everyone he showed it to told him there was no way he could sell a movie like that, so he picked one of the bits in the middle that offered an opportunity to spin a good yarn without too much concern about the larger context. I'm not sure whether the original idea was meant to be an homage to the old scifi matinee serials, as the movie turned out to be, but he certainly pulled it off well, and its lack of self-awareness is one of the original movie's strengths.
After the financial and cultural success of the original trilogy and all the Campbell hagiography, though, he's gotten (figuratively and literally;p ) too big for his britches, and seems to have forgotten how to not take himself too seriously.
I seem to recall reading or hearing an interview with John Lasseter where he said that they weren't really interested in sequels as a general principle. They want to to fresh stories every time. Toy Story 2 was an exception, first because they were still early in their deal with Disney, who want nothing but sequels, and because they felt the story was good enough and distinct enough from the first movie.
The issue of knockoff sequels (like the direct-to-video Buzz Lightyear thing) was a major issue in the negotiations with Disney. Pixar wanted to get out early and take their next two films home, but Disney threatened to make up for the two movies by doing their own sequels to the earlier movies. I never saw what the final deal was.
Laches is recognized as an equitable defense available to defendants in patent infringement litigation under 35 U.S.C. Section 282 (1988). Laches enables the infringer to avoid liability if the patent holder delays too long before commencing litigation. The doctrine flows from the longstanding, fundamental legal principle that equity will not protect those who sleep on their rights.
The laches doctrine assures that old grievances will some day be laid to rest, that litigation will be decided on the basis of evidence that remains reasonably accessible and that those against whom claims are presented will not be unduly prejudiced by delay in asserting them. Inevitably, it means that some potentially meritorious demands will not be entertained. But there is justice too in an end to conflict and in the quiet of peace.
The U.S. Supreme Court has long held the laches defense applicable to patent infringement cases. The defense contains two elements: # The patent holder delayed bringing suit and that delay was unreasonable and inexcusable; and # The alleged infringer suffered materially prejudicial harm from the delay.
Use page styles. As a simple case, where you want the first page to actually be numbered 1, but just not display the number in a footer or header, create a page style for the first page of the document. Set the header or footer to be off in the page style attributes. Apply the style to the first page. On the second page, make sure the page style is set to "Default". Select Insert->Footer->Default. Place your cursor in the footer on page 2, then select Insert->Fields->Page Number. The default is to have separate left/right footer settings, which will mean you'll also need to insert the page number in the footer on page 3. If you want the footers to be the same regardless of left/right orientation, go to Format->Page...->Footer and check "Same content left and right" for the Default page style.
Please don't do this until we've seen the actual complaint. In the conference call, SCO said that the shared libraries issue was just one part of the suit, and that the primary issue was, indeed, SCO's claim that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of SysV. Whether that's actually borne out by the complaint itself remains to be seen.
Oh, I certainly wasn't intending to give MS any credit for a patentable "invention" - I think the behavior of KDE's behavior should be close enough to challenge the patent application on the uniqueness/obviousness fronts.
KDE's pager requires selecting an item from a right-click context menu to pop up a small windowed pager, so it's not too far off of MS's pager behavior (one-click access, full-screen preview) to have the patent application challenged on a couple of points - like obviousness. Their desktop manager/pager is nifty enough for a Windows app, but it still doesn't make Windows and virtual desktops feel as natural a fit as other platforms.
Just now playing with KDE's pager applet for the first time, I think it's closest to what Microsoft's does. Imagine clicking "Launch pager..." and having it open full-screen instead of as a small window, and you'd have Microsoft's pager behavior. Though the KDE pager isn't very pretty when it's maximized, and doesn't show all of the desktop elements the way the XP virtual desktop manager does.
I think you're misunderstanding the way it works. XP's implementation doesn't actually show the desktop previews in the pager - it's more like Mac OS X's expose, with the desktop preview grid taking over the whole screen when you click a preview button or hit a key combination. The pager itself only has icons with numbers and a preview button. So to see the previews, you need to click on the preview button or use a keystroke. The entire display then becomes a grid of all of the desktops. Click on one, and that desktop becomes active and "fills" the screen.
Gnome's pager no longer shows full preview icons, but I believe KDE's can. And I'm pretty sure I recall that enlightenment's pager can show basically a full mini picture of the contents of each app window in a desktop.
I haven't read the patent, but I have installed the virtual desktop manager on my XP box, and the way it does previews is not in the pager itself (it just shows round icons with numbers for each desktop) but with a preview button. Click on the button, and the screen is divided into four preview images of your desktops. Click on the desktop you want, and it switches to that desktop. Sort of like expose for virtual desktops, I guess.
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What about their ability to make their ragged costumes appear to the bandits to be nice clean Amigos outfits?
And when those files are leaked to the press, and the staffers from the other party continue to go in and pick off the files for another year, there's no ethical issues there?
Especially from a party that claims to be trying to restore morality and character to the nation?
Doing one search on the most limited database in Lexis costs $10. One search on something pretty complex--like searching all federal cases--costs around a hundred bucks. And you need to do a lot of searches to do a case like this....
Yeah, but if you read SCO's filings, and notice the paucity of case citations, they don't seem to be doing many Lexis searches.
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To me, it sounds like she may have just been an overzealous I-can-do-what-I-want-and-you-can't-touch-me slightly naive college grad
d -pictures-of-myself-on-there-too-so-I'm-cool-and-y ou-can-be-my-friend naive college grad.
Or she may have been an overzealous, hey-kids-look-I-have-a-myspace-page-and-put-stupi
During two years of service with an SA DVR, we only had one issue, which turned was fixed by replacing a connector outside the house. I don't know how much better the TIVO interface is, but SA's performance and interface beats Motorola hands down.
and boy, do I wish that I could have brought the Time Warner box with me. The Motorola POS that Comcast uses has been a pain in the ass. We've had the service for about three weeks. Three times now it's stopped receiving the video signal (the interactive guide still works, but the video signal is black), we lost all our series recording settings. Motorola seems to have decided that having a simpler remote with fewer buttons would make up for having to push those buttons 20 times to do anything in the interface.
On the Scientific Atlanta box from Time Warner, hitting record while watching a show would save everything in the buffer for the current show - and you could change channels and the show would continue recording to the end. On the Motorola box, hitting record in the middle of a show will only save from when you push the button, and changing channel will stop the recording - unless you went three levels deep in the info menu to record.
It's a mess, and I have frequently felt the urge to just shoot the box and get it done with. So how much is satellite?
We had one user working with OpenOffice 1.1 to evaluate the practicalities of changing everyone over. She had a few documents going back and forth with clients and tracking changes. Simple changes were supported, but things like comments were not handled very well.
The biggest downfalls of OOo for us, though, were the poor chart formatting options (compared to Excel, at least) and the problems exchanging files with Office users. Converting any thing but simple charts from Excel was a joke, and the options for formatting the axes and positioning legends, etc., just didn't meet our needs.
I, personally, however, use OOo to layout our monthly newsletter, which is a task at which OOo beats the pants off of Word (though I still need to convert our Excel charts into images before putting them into the OOo files).
I remember a few Seinfeld episodes with exterior shots meant to be New York, but were clearly shot in downtown LA (and no, not the episodes where they go to LA).
Disney will send headhunters after lots of the people with "assistant" in their titles and offer them lead positions. They're sure to get a few bites from both Pixar and Dreamworks that way.
Hey, my 4-year-old *loves* his Buzz Lightyear pull-ups! ;op
"He voted for the Iraq war"
But W said that that wasn't a vote for war, but a vote for peace. Was W lying?
I think freerepublic.com is where Ann Coulter gets most of her talking points.
It's already been shifted a full quarter from the announcement. I wonder if EV1 has actually paid them any money yet. How long can companies defer revenue?
As far as the "6-figure" amount, I'm sure that's what will go on the books before the big "first-sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hbuyer" discount is applied.
Thanks to his foresight in negotiating for the licensing rights, Lucas is able to finance the productions himself. No studio is involved until it's time to talk distribution.
Lucas's original conception covered a broader range of the history of the Empire/Republic saga (not in the detail that's been presented so far, just the broad outline - rise and fall of the father, redemption through the son). Sort of a 100-years-in-space generational epic. Everyone he showed it to told him there was no way he could sell a movie like that, so he picked one of the bits in the middle that offered an opportunity to spin a good yarn without too much concern about the larger context. I'm not sure whether the original idea was meant to be an homage to the old scifi matinee serials, as the movie turned out to be, but he certainly pulled it off well, and its lack of self-awareness is one of the original movie's strengths.
;p ) too big for his britches, and seems to have forgotten how to not take himself too seriously.
After the financial and cultural success of the original trilogy and all the Campbell hagiography, though, he's gotten (figuratively and literally
Hell, George even WROTE the first novel himself.
Not:
http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWfoster.html
I seem to recall reading or hearing an interview with John Lasseter where he said that they weren't really interested in sequels as a general principle. They want to to fresh stories every time. Toy Story 2 was an exception, first because they were still early in their deal with Disney, who want nothing but sequels, and because they felt the story was good enough and distinct enough from the first movie.
The issue of knockoff sequels (like the direct-to-video Buzz Lightyear thing) was a major issue in the negotiations with Disney. Pixar wanted to get out early and take their next two films home, but Disney threatened to make up for the two movies by doing their own sequels to the earlier movies. I never saw what the final deal was.
There is no concept as patent defense.
Not true. It is possible in certain cases to defend against a patent claim by arguing the doctrine of laches.
From http://www.converium.com/2103.asp:
Laches is recognized as an equitable defense available to defendants in patent infringement litigation under 35 U.S.C. Section 282 (1988). Laches enables the infringer to avoid liability if the patent holder delays too long before commencing litigation. The doctrine flows from the longstanding, fundamental legal principle that equity will not protect those who sleep on their rights.
The laches doctrine assures that old grievances will some day be laid to rest, that litigation will be decided on the basis of evidence that remains reasonably accessible and that those against whom claims are presented will not be unduly prejudiced by delay in asserting them. Inevitably, it means that some potentially meritorious demands will not be entertained. But there is justice too in an end to conflict and in the quiet of peace.
The U.S. Supreme Court has long held the laches defense applicable to patent infringement cases. The defense contains two elements:
# The patent holder delayed bringing suit and that delay was unreasonable and inexcusable; and
# The alleged infringer suffered materially prejudicial harm from the delay.
Use page styles. As a simple case, where you want the first page to actually be numbered 1, but just not display the number in a footer or header, create a page style for the first page of the document. Set the header or footer to be off in the page style attributes. Apply the style to the first page. On the second page, make sure the page style is set to "Default". Select Insert->Footer->Default. Place your cursor in the footer on page 2, then select Insert->Fields->Page Number. The default is to have separate left/right footer settings, which will mean you'll also need to insert the page number in the footer on page 3. If you want the footers to be the same regardless of left/right orientation, go to Format->Page...->Footer and check "Same content left and right" for the Default page style.
Some tutorials for OpenOffice.org are here.
I'd also recommend any of the OpenOffice.org/StarOffice books co-authored by Solveig Haugland.
Please don't do this until we've seen the actual complaint. In the conference call, SCO said that the shared libraries issue was just one part of the suit, and that the primary issue was, indeed, SCO's claim that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of SysV. Whether that's actually borne out by the complaint itself remains to be seen.
Oh, I certainly wasn't intending to give MS any credit for a patentable "invention" - I think the behavior of KDE's behavior should be close enough to challenge the patent application on the uniqueness/obviousness fronts.
KDE's pager requires selecting an item from a right-click context menu to pop up a small windowed pager, so it's not too far off of MS's pager behavior (one-click access, full-screen preview) to have the patent application challenged on a couple of points - like obviousness. Their desktop manager/pager is nifty enough for a Windows app, but it still doesn't make Windows and virtual desktops feel as natural a fit as other platforms.
Just now playing with KDE's pager applet for the first time, I think it's closest to what Microsoft's does. Imagine clicking "Launch pager..." and having it open full-screen instead of as a small window, and you'd have Microsoft's pager behavior. Though the KDE pager isn't very pretty when it's maximized, and doesn't show all of the desktop elements the way the XP virtual desktop manager does.
I think you're misunderstanding the way it works. XP's implementation doesn't actually show the desktop previews in the pager - it's more like Mac OS X's expose, with the desktop preview grid taking over the whole screen when you click a preview button or hit a key combination. The pager itself only has icons with numbers and a preview button. So to see the previews, you need to click on the preview button or use a keystroke. The entire display then becomes a grid of all of the desktops. Click on one, and that desktop becomes active and "fills" the screen.
Gnome's pager no longer shows full preview icons, but I believe KDE's can. And I'm pretty sure I recall that enlightenment's pager can show basically a full mini picture of the contents of each app window in a desktop.
I haven't read the patent, but I have installed the virtual desktop manager on my XP box, and the way it does previews is not in the pager itself (it just shows round icons with numbers for each desktop) but with a preview button. Click on the button, and the screen is divided into four preview images of your desktops. Click on the desktop you want, and it switches to that desktop. Sort of like expose for virtual desktops, I guess.
What about their ability to make their ragged costumes appear to the bandits to be nice clean Amigos outfits?
And when those files are leaked to the press, and the staffers from the other party continue to go in and pick off the files for another year, there's no ethical issues there?
Especially from a party that claims to be trying to restore morality and character to the nation?
Doing one search on the most limited database in Lexis costs $10. One search on something pretty complex--like searching all federal cases--costs around a hundred bucks. And you need to do a lot of searches to do a case like this....
Yeah, but if you read SCO's filings, and notice the paucity of case citations, they don't seem to be doing many Lexis searches.