Maybe they are now, I have no idea. The last CD I bought from them about a dozen years ago most assuredly was not. In fact, the word "fucked" still appeared in the lyrics sheet despite it being dubbed to "messed" in the song.
Why? The music I buy doesn't usually have any sort of sticker. The occasional four letter word doesn't really warrant that, but it's apparently too much for Wal-Mart. On the last CD I bought from Wal-Mart, probably a dozen years ago, the only swearing was the word "fucked" appearing three time in three successive sentences. Apparently that was too much for Wal-Mart since they changed it to "messed". It's not a big deal in the scheme of things, but the fact that they needed to lie about it (even the CD insert lyrics had the word fuck!) ensured I wouldn't buy CDs from them anymore.
That's an interesting assertion, do you have any evidence for it? Not even "everyone" on Slashdot seems to know, since it comes up nearly every time there's a related discussion here.
Well, it's not quite censorship, but it's not quite as innocent as you describe either. Wal-Mart only sells "radio friendly" CDs (I don't know about DVDs). A CD you buy at Wal-Mart may not be the same CD you buy at a local CD shop, despite identical packaging. Wal-Mart has the buying power to get labels to press special edited versions of their CDs for sale just in Wal-Mart. This isn't necessarily a problem in and of itelf. The problem is that Wal-Mart doesn't tell anyone about this.
Tivo noobs open a box and plug it in and are willing to accept a monthly fee. These are usually middle aged middle class people.
Wow. You have no clue as to the TiVo userbase, do you? (Rhetorical question. You don't) TiVo has barely broken out of the "early adopter" phase. Early adopters are technically inclined and savvy people who aren't afraid of technology and know how to use it. Sure, "middle aged middle class people" have more and more TiVos now, but mostly because they're related to or know early adopters who turned it on to them. If TiVo users were predominantly "noobs" there would be certainly no market for a book like this either.
The specs I saw said two, not three, but either way the reason for multiple ports is because it has a built in GigE router. Perhaps it's a two port router, which would make three total.
Oh and another possibility that seems more likely when I think about it is that a console will have an "acquisition mode" in which it's willing to accept new controllers. Probably something accessible from a Pause or System sort of menu so you can access it during a game.
I have no idea, that's up to the individual vendor implementation. I'd be willing to bet you couldn't connect an XBox to a PS3 net or vice versa even if you tried though. As for multiple systems of the same sort it will probably be a best guess sort of thing, maybe joining the net with fewest existing controllers, or maybe with a button to cycle nets but that's just a guess.
Yes, it's called Bluetooth. 79 frequencies available cycled 1600 times a second (23 frequencies in the Japanese spectrum). Once a piconet links up (which is what a given console and set of controllers will be) they cycle frequencies in sync. Unless you plan on having more than several dozen systems within about 10 meters there won't be a problem. Bluetooth was designed to be ubiquitous.
No, the laws regulating intersate firearms sales and shipments are Federal.
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Tell me please: Why should I, as an end user, download and use Apache's Harmony instead of using SUN's "real" Java.
Scenario 1: You as an end user wouldn't have to. It would be included with your operating system, which is not currently the case. If you have to seek one out you would probably seek out Sun's, but if your Linux distro came with Apache's you would just use it unless it was unsuitable in some way.
Scenario 2: You develop Java apps. Right now you have to direct end users to another website (Sun's) and follow instructions found there to download and install Java. You could instead offer an install package that already includes Harmony.
Scenario 3: You want to use Java on an unsupported machine. Right now you don't really have many options for running Java apps on PocketPCs, for example (Like my Jornada 568). An Open Source JVM would almost certainly be ported a wide variety of platforms (considering how many platforms have reimplementations like Waba attempted for them the demand is obviously there).
Puzzle Pirates itself is not Open Source. The Narya toolkit used to create it is. This is an important distinction. While you could potentially recreate Puzzle Pirates from the OSS tools, it's not the same as downloading and compiling something off, say SourceForge. Of course, lots of people have created other games with the toolkit.
Then we end up getting back to my other point. Trademarks are first and foremost to prevent consumer confusion. It's possible that someone, I used the example of the X Consortium before but now we can include Sun as well due to your example, would have had standing to contest the trademark twenty years ago when it was filed. They didn't, however, and that window of opportunity has long since passed and the trademark is quite valid.
Very close to the same time period. Windows 1.0 was 1985, X was 84-85 as well. Like X now, W stood for W Window System. Also interestingly, despite the X manual and site claming it's a registered trademark, I can't find it in TESS. I think that, based on how careful X is to specify how it should be referred to that the MS trademark is "valid enough" in that there may or may not have been a basis for protest at the time they started using Windows, but that was 20 years ago and that time is long since passed. The primary purpose of trademarks, above all, is to prevent confusion so at this point there's no real justification to come on the scene calling your product "Windows".
Except Apple's trademark is "Apple Computer". Not "Apple".
Wrong. Apple Computer, Inc. is the name of the company, and is a registered trademark of course, but the company holds Live trademarks in several categories for the word "Apple" by itself. The numbers are: 78170383, 78548796, 76116541, 74527910, 73201697, 73120444, 74660120.
The following are the same, only Apple let them lapse and are now Dead: 75063858, 73441547, 73309003, 73307818, 73303403, 73300046.
Apple Corps, the music company, holds the following trademarks on the word "Apple" in different categories:74693839, 74693839.
Oh, and the apple with a bite out of it is trademarked, too.
What's your point? I brought that up in my reply to the poster writing about Apple being unable to trademark "System". However, "Windows" does not refer to any particular generic category of goods or services. It refers to one specific product in one specific category. No one refers to any other operating system as "Windows". The closest thing would be X11, which the trademark owners specifically request you refer to as "X Windows System" to avoid infringing that valid trademark that Microsoft holds.
So everyone should have to make up words for their company or product? Everything would be like the drug industry with mostly nonsense names that differ by one similar syllable. It's at the point where even doctors are getting confused.
Wasn't Microsoft turned down when they tried to trademark "Windows"?
No, Microsoft owns several trademarks on just the word "Windows" in various categories, the oldest active one being from 1992 (#74274174).
Apple couldn't trademark "System"
Most likely because it was already in use or just because the word "System" is a fairly integral part of what the product is. You couldn't trademark the term "truck" in relation to selling pick-up trucks because it's not a unique name for your product. At the time Windows was registered windowing operating systems certainly existed, but no one marketed/sold them as that until Microsoft did. Calling your operating system "Windows" was a unique idea. At the time Apple would have tried to trademark "System" people would have been selling items called operating systems for easily a decade or more and calling your product "system x" would not have adequately differentiated it.
Last time I checked, it was illegal to trademark generic terms and numbers.
No it's not and never has been. Numbers by themselves are not trademarkable, yes. As the USPTO FAQ states, a trademark is "any word used or intended to be used in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others."
A company cannot own a generic word
Yes, yes they can. Trademarks are owned in a particular context. The most famous example is probably Apple. The Beatles' label Apple Corps owns the trademark on "Apple" as it applies to music and Apple Computer owns "Apple" as it applies to computers. This has led to a great deal of legal action with Apple's move into the music world.
Try searching TESS for common words and you'll have lots and lots of hits.
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The next year, Brad relents and says that the costumer must pay the $6.
Sounds like a great deal to me, screw the wardrobe department.
Maybe they are now, I have no idea. The last CD I bought from them about a dozen years ago most assuredly was not. In fact, the word "fucked" still appeared in the lyrics sheet despite it being dubbed to "messed" in the song.
Why? The music I buy doesn't usually have any sort of sticker. The occasional four letter word doesn't really warrant that, but it's apparently too much for Wal-Mart. On the last CD I bought from Wal-Mart, probably a dozen years ago, the only swearing was the word "fucked" appearing three time in three successive sentences. Apparently that was too much for Wal-Mart since they changed it to "messed". It's not a big deal in the scheme of things, but the fact that they needed to lie about it (even the CD insert lyrics had the word fuck!) ensured I wouldn't buy CDs from them anymore.
You've basically described any movie shown on Cinemax (Skinemax) or Showtime after 10pm.
That's an interesting assertion, do you have any evidence for it? Not even "everyone" on Slashdot seems to know, since it comes up nearly every time there's a related discussion here.
Well, it's not quite censorship, but it's not quite as innocent as you describe either. Wal-Mart only sells "radio friendly" CDs (I don't know about DVDs). A CD you buy at Wal-Mart may not be the same CD you buy at a local CD shop, despite identical packaging. Wal-Mart has the buying power to get labels to press special edited versions of their CDs for sale just in Wal-Mart. This isn't necessarily a problem in and of itelf. The problem is that Wal-Mart doesn't tell anyone about this.
Wow. You have no clue as to the TiVo userbase, do you? (Rhetorical question. You don't) TiVo has barely broken out of the "early adopter" phase. Early adopters are technically inclined and savvy people who aren't afraid of technology and know how to use it. Sure, "middle aged middle class people" have more and more TiVos now, but mostly because they're related to or know early adopters who turned it on to them. If TiVo users were predominantly "noobs" there would be certainly no market for a book like this either.
It's not as if they couldn't evacuate in the attached Soyuz at any time. That's what it's there for.
The specs I saw said two, not three, but either way the reason for multiple ports is because it has a built in GigE router. Perhaps it's a two port router, which would make three total.
Oh and another possibility that seems more likely when I think about it is that a console will have an "acquisition mode" in which it's willing to accept new controllers. Probably something accessible from a Pause or System sort of menu so you can access it during a game.
I have no idea, that's up to the individual vendor implementation. I'd be willing to bet you couldn't connect an XBox to a PS3 net or vice versa even if you tried though. As for multiple systems of the same sort it will probably be a best guess sort of thing, maybe joining the net with fewest existing controllers, or maybe with a button to cycle nets but that's just a guess.
Yes, it's called Bluetooth. 79 frequencies available cycled 1600 times a second (23 frequencies in the Japanese spectrum). Once a piconet links up (which is what a given console and set of controllers will be) they cycle frequencies in sync. Unless you plan on having more than several dozen systems within about 10 meters there won't be a problem. Bluetooth was designed to be ubiquitous.
No, the laws regulating intersate firearms sales and shipments are Federal.
Scenario 1: You as an end user wouldn't have to. It would be included with your operating system, which is not currently the case. If you have to seek one out you would probably seek out Sun's, but if your Linux distro came with Apache's you would just use it unless it was unsuitable in some way.
Scenario 2: You develop Java apps. Right now you have to direct end users to another website (Sun's) and follow instructions found there to download and install Java. You could instead offer an install package that already includes Harmony.
Scenario 3: You want to use Java on an unsupported machine. Right now you don't really have many options for running Java apps on PocketPCs, for example (Like my Jornada 568). An Open Source JVM would almost certainly be ported a wide variety of platforms (considering how many platforms have reimplementations like Waba attempted for them the demand is obviously there).
Puzzle Pirates itself is not Open Source. The Narya toolkit used to create it is. This is an important distinction. While you could potentially recreate Puzzle Pirates from the OSS tools, it's not the same as downloading and compiling something off, say SourceForge. Of course, lots of people have created other games with the toolkit.
Since when is SUSE not free? Like many distros they heavily push their paid options, but the free ones are easily accessible as well.
You might want to check TiVo's USB WiFi compatibility.
Yes. TiVo sells a Humax made one.
Then we end up getting back to my other point. Trademarks are first and foremost to prevent consumer confusion. It's possible that someone, I used the example of the X Consortium before but now we can include Sun as well due to your example, would have had standing to contest the trademark twenty years ago when it was filed. They didn't, however, and that window of opportunity has long since passed and the trademark is quite valid.
Very close to the same time period. Windows 1.0 was 1985, X was 84-85 as well. Like X now, W stood for W Window System. Also interestingly, despite the X manual and site claming it's a registered trademark, I can't find it in TESS. I think that, based on how careful X is to specify how it should be referred to that the MS trademark is "valid enough" in that there may or may not have been a basis for protest at the time they started using Windows, but that was 20 years ago and that time is long since passed. The primary purpose of trademarks, above all, is to prevent confusion so at this point there's no real justification to come on the scene calling your product "Windows".
Wrong. Apple Computer, Inc. is the name of the company, and is a registered trademark of course, but the company holds Live trademarks in several categories for the word "Apple" by itself. The numbers are: 78170383, 78548796, 76116541, 74527910, 73201697, 73120444, 74660120.
The following are the same, only Apple let them lapse and are now Dead: 75063858, 73441547, 73309003, 73307818, 73303403, 73300046.
Apple Corps, the music company, holds the following trademarks on the word "Apple" in different categories:74693839, 74693839.
Oh, and the apple with a bite out of it is trademarked, too.
Of course, 78155196.
What's your point? I brought that up in my reply to the poster writing about Apple being unable to trademark "System". However, "Windows" does not refer to any particular generic category of goods or services. It refers to one specific product in one specific category. No one refers to any other operating system as "Windows". The closest thing would be X11, which the trademark owners specifically request you refer to as "X Windows System" to avoid infringing that valid trademark that Microsoft holds.
So everyone should have to make up words for their company or product? Everything would be like the drug industry with mostly nonsense names that differ by one similar syllable. It's at the point where even doctors are getting confused.
No, Microsoft owns several trademarks on just the word "Windows" in various categories, the oldest active one being from 1992 (#74274174).
Apple couldn't trademark "System"
Most likely because it was already in use or just because the word "System" is a fairly integral part of what the product is. You couldn't trademark the term "truck" in relation to selling pick-up trucks because it's not a unique name for your product. At the time Windows was registered windowing operating systems certainly existed, but no one marketed/sold them as that until Microsoft did. Calling your operating system "Windows" was a unique idea. At the time Apple would have tried to trademark "System" people would have been selling items called operating systems for easily a decade or more and calling your product "system x" would not have adequately differentiated it.
No it's not and never has been. Numbers by themselves are not trademarkable, yes. As the USPTO FAQ states, a trademark is "any word used or intended to be used in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others."
A company cannot own a generic word
Yes, yes they can. Trademarks are owned in a particular context. The most famous example is probably Apple. The Beatles' label Apple Corps owns the trademark on "Apple" as it applies to music and Apple Computer owns "Apple" as it applies to computers. This has led to a great deal of legal action with Apple's move into the music world.
Try searching TESS for common words and you'll have lots and lots of hits.