How do you protect your trademark without sending out C&Ds?
You can license it, but more importantly, you have to decide what infringes and what doesn't. If the name of the company was "SparkServ" or similar, then the standard of "is likely to create confusion in the marketplace" applies. Additionally, if there are other details in the use of "SparkFun" as a trademark that would cause confusion (ie: ripping off the look and feel of the registered mark) then you have a case.
This is like Darl McBride suing "Scope mouthwash" because the first three letters are "SCO". Ok, maybe not quite that bad, but we should never resist the urge to compare stupidity with Darl's previous actions.;)
Under certain circumstances -- when buyers and sellers meet with equal power, full knowledge, and no externalization of costs -- it can produce reduced costs and better goods and services for the consumer.
My understanding of free market capitalism is that under those circumstances, the end result isn't the lowest price, but instead the lowest PROFITABLE price, ie: best value for both the buyer and seller. Equallibrium, as the seller *must* make enough profit to cover their expenses, and the buyer expects to pay something in exchange for software that saves them time (= money) or provides entertainment value. Even "free as in beer" software works this way, as people who want to save money with the software often will pay for support/updates/features which add value. This assumes that distributing software that has already been "paid for" by previous support contracts actually costs $0 to the supplier.
On a side note, I also support the idea that companies product completely proprietary software for Free operating systems. I am not a purist when it comes to software, and have no problem paying for something of value. Some of the "radical" Free Software folks hate the idea of paying for "Quicken for Linux", but not only would this improve the variety of software available to run on Free operating systems, it expands the idea of "freedom". Developers should have the freedom to produce "free as in speech" or "completely closed" software, and I should have the freedom to decide myself what I want to use. Software patents are the real problem, not commercialized software.
Free software advocates that rail against closed source programs that run on Free operating systems shoot themselves in the foot. This is one reason Free software is seen as radical and not taken seriously by many in the corporate world, as some "advocates" feed into the FUD with their own well meaning but highly devisive declarations against any closed source software. It's a big old world, and there is room for all kinds of software licenses. The most important thing to be free is the operating system itself.
I can imagine the Mac vs PC commercials reversing very quickly if they start doing things (like this) to annoy the user.
We already have pop up advertising like this on PCs that run Windows, they are called "viruses" and "trojans". If Apple did this, surely someone would come up with an "antivirus" product that will rid of the ads.
Worse yet, someone would come up with an OS X virus that displayed pop up ads that promised to get rid of the Apple ads, and then you couldn't tell which ads were Apple, and which were virus. Of course, both would be equally irritating.
Once that happens then what will be the next generation anything? It will be a matter of small refinements, novelties and exclusiveness of titles.
Nope, interactive pr0n. Get super high resolution, let people scan/upload face pictures for the head and choose from a menu for the body, and you wouldn't build enough of them at $2000 each. Obviously, you would need some kinda of wireless control system that doesn't require two hands.
I don't get your point. That sounds just like required registration on most websites nowadays.
Like Slashdot? I'm guessing tkinnun0 isn't your real name, and pharmboy isn't mine. With proxy servers and/or anonymous email, it is trivial to comply with "required registration" and still be anonymous.
Jeesh, EVERYONE knows that it is Microsoft that made the first internet possible and accessible to everyone starting back with their first copy of Windows 95, right?;)
That is the key: He wants the traffic, and he wants Google to PAY him for driving the traffic to him. It is kinda like Google adwords, except they pay you to advertise. (there is a soviet russia joke somwhere in there)
If he wanted to disallow Google, adding two lines to robots.txt is all it takes. This is just a money grab by someone who appears to really not "get it" about how the interweb works, and how there is simply more supply than demand when it comes to internet content of all kinds.
Google could simply choose to exclude Fox News from any spidering for news, but then RM would be suing Google saying they exclude him because they are (insert reasons here, such as "conservative"). Again, it is just a money grab by an old man who thinks "reading on the internet is like reading a paper, someone should pay for the right to read it", and you can't equate the two. It is more than just the medium that has changed.
And Sony continues to show contempt for their own customers. Fortunately, this doesn't affect me as I haven't bought any Sony music, movies, hardware or consumer products since the whole "root kit" issue. Coincidently, people are still saying "oh get over it, that root kit thing was years ago". Yes, it was, and they still don't care about their customers. Why in doG's name would I buy anything from a company like that? I don't have to, and I don't. There are too many other companies out there that try to earn my hard earned money.
There is no reason for Windows to be so obtuse to require a clean install to fix it. There is no reason for Windows to be so obtuse to require a clean install to fix it.
You are so, so wrong. There *is* a very, VERY good reason why Windows is difficult to just clone over.
It is called "money".
I just got done reinstalling for the 3rd time on my wife's laptop, from the HP installed partition (bad idea, very slow). All started last saturday...You already know the rest, so I won't bore you with the details.
No one is advocating a one way trip TO die, only a one way trip UNTIL you die. Sending supplies isn't as hard as it may seem. Rockets run more cheaply to Mars if they aren't carrying humans and all the life support that goes with it.
I was thinking it was a good idea, not for saving money, but to simply get there NOW, instead of 20-30 years from now. That would seem to have some advantages. And anyone who went would have volunteered. No one is holding a gun to your head to go.
The first astronauts to go to the moon knew very well it might be a one way trip. Apollo 13 almost didn't get the one way.
Do you want to talk about evil? Don't talk about the people who put rootkits on CDs. Talk about the people who make it possible for a rootkit to install WITH OUT YOU KNOWING IT.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe Mythbusters showed how to make a cannon ball out of several objects, including a bowling ball. Then again, they showed how to make a flash bomb out of coffee creamer and an air tank, and yet another using one million match heads. They also have shown how easy it is to make your own thermite (wikipedia and google can get you the recipe, general knowlege and supplies in about 15 minutes). And there are dozens more examples.
If the 11 year old isn't blowing shit up after years of Mythbusters, then they likely don't have the predisposition to begin with.
You are making your assumptions on the base that just because you bought a 32-bit version of an application you will automatically receive the 64-bit version of it, free of charge.
I am not assuming anything. The vast majority of the apps I am running on my 64 bit version of Vista are 32 bit, NOT 64. I only have a few actual 64 bit programs (Half-Life 2, for instance). It seems you are assuming that you can't run 32 bit apps on a 64 bit platform. You can, and it is fully supported. Drivers, however, must be 64 bit.
That is not the case, as even Microsoft doesn't just give their 64-bit OS to those who bought the 32-bit one.
Yes they do. Go buy a new version of Windows, both versions are included on the disks. And Microsoft doesn't charge more for the 64 bit version of their operating system when you buy a new system either.
Go buy any computer with 4gb of RAM or more and it automatically comes with the 64 bit version, you don't get a choice. Other than a netbook or stripped down "email only" machine, I can't see why anyone would buy a new computer with less than 4gb, considering the price of RAM. Maybe a few years ago, because 64 bit driver support was lacking, but that isn't the case now.
The apps I am talking about are Windows 16 bit, not DOS. The virtualbox tip looks very interesting, and I will check into that for the laptops.
As a side note to those not familiar, VirtualPC is free "as in beer", but not "as in speech", *if* you are running the biz or ultimate version of windows.
Even when it does find something, often you just have to reinstall anyway.
Reinstall because of a single, or even multiple virii? I notice you said "a" computer you administered. If you had to admin a couple dozen computers, you wouldn't be reinstalling everytime someone got a virus, or else that is all you would be doing all day, Mac or Windows.
I agree that Norton (regardless of platform) is borderline malware, however, as it insists on dominating the computer, taking up more resources than many trojans/bots, and refusing to uninstall properly, requiring some hand tweaking. At least the last time I allowed Norton on a computer it did, which was admittedly a few years ago.
Windows 64 bit runs either 32 or 64 bit apps pretty seemlessly. The big disadvantage of being 64 bit is that Microsoft has dropped all 16 bit support in their 64 bit operating systems. For 99.5% of people, this is fine.
The other.5% are like me and still have some 16 bit software they are really old games from the Win 3.1 days I still love (sim tower and others), or old utilities from mid 90s that haven't been replaced simply because I am used to them and they work.
For these, virtualPC is the only option to run them. It is a reasonable tradeoff to get 64 bit performance. Of course, it would be more reasonable if you could install VirtualPC on Vista Home Premium, as I have two laptops that run it (bought them used) and there is no technical reason they can't, except MS doesn't want them to.
As for "big apps" that use lots of memory and you don't want to replace: either they use more than 4gb and are already 64 bit or they use less than 4gb and will run fine on a 64 bit platform. Even on Linux 64bit, I don't have any problem getting 32 bit programs to run fine. On both platforms, the key is having 64 bit DRIVERS.
She lives in a remote hovel in South Africa. Her dad works in the city, and gets to come home once per month to give his family his wages. I'm pretty sure she didn't get wisked off to Beverly Hills to get her penis removed.
It may be an intersex issue, which still doesn't answer the question if she is "woman" enough to compete with other women. Intersex people often have to deal with these descriminations, and there are no easy answers. This is more complicated than being a Eunuch, which isn't a sexual developmental issue, but rather a choice, even if the recipient didn't make the choice themselves.
Assuming she is intersex they will likely take it away from her, just as they took participating in womens football away from her at 14. I'm guessing the outcome will not be pretty.
The octane reading isn't calculated the same in all countries. Wikipedia's Octane Rating article covers it fairly well. Also, if your country uses ethanol in their gas (pretty common, even in the US) then the octane reading would be higher as ethanol has a much higher resistance to knocking than regular petrol.
I'm trying to figure out why my "joke" about Starship Troopers was even modded up in that way. To me, the movie is 90210 meets Star Wars. I love the movie, but it borders on being campy and is more surreal than a look into the souls of humanity. That is why I added the *ducks* comment at the bottom. It was meant as a joke only.
Firefly was well known for use of lens flares and shaky cam, particularly in the outer space scenes, to make the effects much more realistic. They were the first to bring it back, but they did it on purpose. Google "shaky cam firely" and see for yourself.
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How do you protect your trademark without sending out C&Ds?
You can license it, but more importantly, you have to decide what infringes and what doesn't. If the name of the company was "SparkServ" or similar, then the standard of "is likely to create confusion in the marketplace" applies. Additionally, if there are other details in the use of "SparkFun" as a trademark that would cause confusion (ie: ripping off the look and feel of the registered mark) then you have a case.
This is like Darl McBride suing "Scope mouthwash" because the first three letters are "SCO". Ok, maybe not quite that bad, but we should never resist the urge to compare stupidity with Darl's previous actions. ;)
Under certain circumstances -- when buyers and sellers meet with equal power, full knowledge, and no externalization of costs -- it can produce reduced costs and better goods and services for the consumer.
My understanding of free market capitalism is that under those circumstances, the end result isn't the lowest price, but instead the lowest PROFITABLE price, ie: best value for both the buyer and seller. Equallibrium, as the seller *must* make enough profit to cover their expenses, and the buyer expects to pay something in exchange for software that saves them time (= money) or provides entertainment value. Even "free as in beer" software works this way, as people who want to save money with the software often will pay for support/updates/features which add value. This assumes that distributing software that has already been "paid for" by previous support contracts actually costs $0 to the supplier.
On a side note, I also support the idea that companies product completely proprietary software for Free operating systems. I am not a purist when it comes to software, and have no problem paying for something of value. Some of the "radical" Free Software folks hate the idea of paying for "Quicken for Linux", but not only would this improve the variety of software available to run on Free operating systems, it expands the idea of "freedom". Developers should have the freedom to produce "free as in speech" or "completely closed" software, and I should have the freedom to decide myself what I want to use. Software patents are the real problem, not commercialized software.
Free software advocates that rail against closed source programs that run on Free operating systems shoot themselves in the foot. This is one reason Free software is seen as radical and not taken seriously by many in the corporate world, as some "advocates" feed into the FUD with their own well meaning but highly devisive declarations against any closed source software. It's a big old world, and there is room for all kinds of software licenses. The most important thing to be free is the operating system itself.
I can imagine the Mac vs PC commercials reversing very quickly if they start doing things (like this) to annoy the user.
We already have pop up advertising like this on PCs that run Windows, they are called "viruses" and "trojans". If Apple did this, surely someone would come up with an "antivirus" product that will rid of the ads.
Worse yet, someone would come up with an OS X virus that displayed pop up ads that promised to get rid of the Apple ads, and then you couldn't tell which ads were Apple, and which were virus. Of course, both would be equally irritating.
Once that happens then what will be the next generation anything? It will be a matter of small refinements, novelties and exclusiveness of titles.
Nope, interactive pr0n. Get super high resolution, let people scan/upload face pictures for the head and choose from a menu for the body, and you wouldn't build enough of them at $2000 each. Obviously, you would need some kinda of wireless control system that doesn't require two hands.
So all internet traffic is equal, but some traffic *should* be more equal than others?
I don't get your point. That sounds just like required registration on most websites nowadays.
Like Slashdot? I'm guessing tkinnun0 isn't your real name, and pharmboy isn't mine. With proxy servers and/or anonymous email, it is trivial to comply with "required registration" and still be anonymous.
Jeesh, EVERYONE knows that it is Microsoft that made the first internet possible and accessible to everyone starting back with their first copy of Windows 95, right? ;)
That is the key: He wants the traffic, and he wants Google to PAY him for driving the traffic to him. It is kinda like Google adwords, except they pay you to advertise. (there is a soviet russia joke somwhere in there)
If he wanted to disallow Google, adding two lines to robots.txt is all it takes. This is just a money grab by someone who appears to really not "get it" about how the interweb works, and how there is simply more supply than demand when it comes to internet content of all kinds.
Google could simply choose to exclude Fox News from any spidering for news, but then RM would be suing Google saying they exclude him because they are (insert reasons here, such as "conservative"). Again, it is just a money grab by an old man who thinks "reading on the internet is like reading a paper, someone should pay for the right to read it", and you can't equate the two. It is more than just the medium that has changed.
And Sony continues to show contempt for their own customers. Fortunately, this doesn't affect me as I haven't bought any Sony music, movies, hardware or consumer products since the whole "root kit" issue. Coincidently, people are still saying "oh get over it, that root kit thing was years ago". Yes, it was, and they still don't care about their customers. Why in doG's name would I buy anything from a company like that? I don't have to, and I don't. There are too many other companies out there that try to earn my hard earned money.
...but he's feeling much better. He said he would like to go for a walk now.
There is no reason for Windows to be so obtuse to require a clean install to fix it. There is no reason for Windows to be so obtuse to require a clean install to fix it.
You are so, so wrong. There *is* a very, VERY good reason why Windows is difficult to just clone over.
It is called "money".
I just got done reinstalling for the 3rd time on my wife's laptop, from the HP installed partition (bad idea, very slow). All started last saturday...You already know the rest, so I won't bore you with the details.
No one is advocating a one way trip TO die, only a one way trip UNTIL you die. Sending supplies isn't as hard as it may seem. Rockets run more cheaply to Mars if they aren't carrying humans and all the life support that goes with it.
I was thinking it was a good idea, not for saving money, but to simply get there NOW, instead of 20-30 years from now. That would seem to have some advantages. And anyone who went would have volunteered. No one is holding a gun to your head to go.
The first astronauts to go to the moon knew very well it might be a one way trip. Apollo 13 almost didn't get the one way.
Do you want to talk about evil? Don't talk about the people who put rootkits on CDs. Talk about the people who make it possible for a rootkit to install WITH OUT YOU KNOWING IT.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe Mythbusters showed how to make a cannon ball out of several objects, including a bowling ball. Then again, they showed how to make a flash bomb out of coffee creamer and an air tank, and yet another using one million match heads. They also have shown how easy it is to make your own thermite (wikipedia and google can get you the recipe, general knowlege and supplies in about 15 minutes). And there are dozens more examples.
If the 11 year old isn't blowing shit up after years of Mythbusters, then they likely don't have the predisposition to begin with.
You are making your assumptions on the base that just because you bought a 32-bit version of an application you will automatically receive the 64-bit version of it, free of charge.
I am not assuming anything. The vast majority of the apps I am running on my 64 bit version of Vista are 32 bit, NOT 64. I only have a few actual 64 bit programs (Half-Life 2, for instance). It seems you are assuming that you can't run 32 bit apps on a 64 bit platform. You can, and it is fully supported. Drivers, however, must be 64 bit.
That is not the case, as even Microsoft doesn't just give their 64-bit OS to those who bought the 32-bit one.
Yes they do. Go buy a new version of Windows, both versions are included on the disks. And Microsoft doesn't charge more for the 64 bit version of their operating system when you buy a new system either.
Go buy any computer with 4gb of RAM or more and it automatically comes with the 64 bit version, you don't get a choice. Other than a netbook or stripped down "email only" machine, I can't see why anyone would buy a new computer with less than 4gb, considering the price of RAM. Maybe a few years ago, because 64 bit driver support was lacking, but that isn't the case now.
The apps I am talking about are Windows 16 bit, not DOS. The virtualbox tip looks very interesting, and I will check into that for the laptops.
As a side note to those not familiar, VirtualPC is free "as in beer", but not "as in speech", *if* you are running the biz or ultimate version of windows.
Even when it does find something, often you just have to reinstall anyway.
Reinstall because of a single, or even multiple virii? I notice you said "a" computer you administered. If you had to admin a couple dozen computers, you wouldn't be reinstalling everytime someone got a virus, or else that is all you would be doing all day, Mac or Windows.
I agree that Norton (regardless of platform) is borderline malware, however, as it insists on dominating the computer, taking up more resources than many trojans/bots, and refusing to uninstall properly, requiring some hand tweaking. At least the last time I allowed Norton on a computer it did, which was admittedly a few years ago.
Windows 64 bit runs either 32 or 64 bit apps pretty seemlessly. The big disadvantage of being 64 bit is that Microsoft has dropped all 16 bit support in their 64 bit operating systems. For 99.5% of people, this is fine.
The other .5% are like me and still have some 16 bit software they are really old games from the Win 3.1 days I still love (sim tower and others), or old utilities from mid 90s that haven't been replaced simply because I am used to them and they work.
For these, virtualPC is the only option to run them. It is a reasonable tradeoff to get 64 bit performance. Of course, it would be more reasonable if you could install VirtualPC on Vista Home Premium, as I have two laptops that run it (bought them used) and there is no technical reason they can't, except MS doesn't want them to.
As for "big apps" that use lots of memory and you don't want to replace: either they use more than 4gb and are already 64 bit or they use less than 4gb and will run fine on a 64 bit platform. Even on Linux 64bit, I don't have any problem getting 32 bit programs to run fine. On both platforms, the key is having 64 bit DRIVERS.
It always cracks me up when Americans invent bad neologisms because they were unaware that better words already existed.
Glad you enjoyed that funny that he happified you with.
She lives in a remote hovel in South Africa. Her dad works in the city, and gets to come home once per month to give his family his wages. I'm pretty sure she didn't get wisked off to Beverly Hills to get her penis removed.
It may be an intersex issue, which still doesn't answer the question if she is "woman" enough to compete with other women. Intersex people often have to deal with these descriminations, and there are no easy answers. This is more complicated than being a Eunuch, which isn't a sexual developmental issue, but rather a choice, even if the recipient didn't make the choice themselves.
Assuming she is intersex they will likely take it away from her, just as they took participating in womens football away from her at 14. I'm guessing the outcome will not be pretty.
The octane reading isn't calculated the same in all countries. Wikipedia's Octane Rating article covers it fairly well. Also, if your country uses ethanol in their gas (pretty common, even in the US) then the octane reading would be higher as ethanol has a much higher resistance to knocking than regular petrol.
But does it come in AMERICAN English?
Maybe I can buy a downloadable upgrade, and run through a brit proxy to download it....
I'm trying to figure out why my "joke" about Starship Troopers was even modded up in that way. To me, the movie is 90210 meets Star Wars. I love the movie, but it borders on being campy and is more surreal than a look into the souls of humanity. That is why I added the *ducks* comment at the bottom. It was meant as a joke only.
Firefly was well known for use of lens flares and shaky cam, particularly in the outer space scenes, to make the effects much more realistic. They were the first to bring it back, but they did it on purpose. Google "shaky cam firely" and see for yourself.