You can copyright, trademark, and register your project's name. Just go ask any attorney and they'll guide you down the path. For a fee.;)
And if any contender should come about who would seek to steal your mark, then this again would be an issue of attorneys and who is the more voracious and determined. You would certainly be in a far superior postition should you go to the effort of registering your trademark(s).
I certainly admire the tenacity of this guy.. Alas, this all to familiar a discussion thread with a big company.
You're going up against some lame middle manager who could care less about anything other than his or her political standing. The "Nike reserves the right.." (to decide what they'd like to print on their own products) bit pretty much says it. It's their product, their intellectual property, their marketing, and thus their decision whether or not to allow such a request.
And yes, there's a whole department probably dedicated to this very atomic task. Thanks to the sweatshops, Nike can afford the likely $500k annual budget of this said department.
.. It's between lawyers, now. The richest side will win. I have faith that eventually justice and right will prevail, although the number of bodies left behind in this endless struggle will be daunting.
So are all musical instruments. Fragile violins -- obsolete. Bulky pianos and gargantuan pipe organs -- relics. Trumpets, clarinets, cellos, viols.. All are legacy instruments. Incredibly difficult to learn to play well enough to even produce a somewhat pleasing note, bulky, expensive, delicate.. Clearly these need to all be phased out in favor of Casio keyboards, what with their rugged solid-state design, practically infinite expandability, etc.
Books are just another irritating reminder of our heritage and culture and must be stopped at whatever cost!
So you're saying they've taken and copied the functionality of emacs and cvs?
Oh god, you can't be serious.
Emacs and CVS are nice geeky tools and all, but comparing them to Exchange and Outlook for the corporate desktop is truly bizarre.
Remember, we're talking about something we can roll out to the desktops of admins, clerks, receptionists, and everybody else. Not just the hard core Unix geeks hiding out in the server room.
Nice, but you've been watching too many movies.
I for one would like to think that I would be able to persist and survive successfully and comfortably if the placating placebos of technology that we think we 'rely on' were to be removed. No more Internet, no more phone, no noisy smog generating cars to waste years of my life in sitting in traffic, no more electricity.. (well, okay, so I'd have to go invent a watermill generator;) Peace and quiet, if you ask me.
What this increase in comfort level does for us, in theory, is give us more time to spend in the 'pursuit of happiness', to take the phrase from the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The pursuit does not necessarily guarantee the attainment of happiness, as I've mentioned... nor is technological advancement altogether necessary for this pursuit.
Comfort ~= Contentment ~= Happiness.
And let us not forget that the framers of the Constitution did not enjoy such modern luxuries as electricity, telephones, or even indoor plumbing.
I repeat myself, although a bit differently -- go back in time and show me a 'primitive' man who is just so damned miserable because couches have not been invented yet.
Happiness, and thus misery, is directly related to our expectations. We can continue giving credit to 'technology' as the great boon to life, but we never seem to remember that we were just as relatively satisfied before the latest and greatest mousetrap was invented.
...would be to transplant my brain into a new copy of myself and get to enjoy youth all over again. Imagine being 17 and knowing then what you know now.
.. do the same with my beautiful wife and I'd be groovin.
for a clone of me? Couldn't I just get someone else (Natalie Portman comes to mind).
Since your Natalie Portman clone would be your child, this would qualify as incestual child molestation and you would go where you deserve to go -- prison. Enjoy your new daily rape by Dragon and Big D.
I personally have no ethical objections to anything of this sort as long as the 'clone' will grow up just like any other human child would (i.e., not in a lab and bonding with a single pair or parents). I think this is an absolute must for the scientific world to explore.
I think the religious people are so terrified of it because it will strongly suggest the lack of existance of a soul, since this 'creation of life' will be accomplished, at least in inception, by purely mechanical means.
Should be interesting to watch.
I wonder of the kid'll get beat up a lot at school. "hey LOONEY CLOONEY CLONE!! I'm gonna KICK YER FAG CLONEY ASS AFTER SCHOOL!!!!"
I'll admit that that sounds pretty clever, but do you have any statistics to back a statement like that up? Furthermore, even supposing that it is accurate, the poor of today have some luxuries and to some extent have a standard of living that could be had only by the ultra-rich of the past (obviously this applies mostly to first-world nations).
DYIDW.. Any psychologist will attest that a person no matter how rich or poor has about the same proportion of happiness and sadness in their lives as anyone else. This is also a fundamental theological argument. If happiness were directly related to the amount of technology you were exposed to, then why didn't our ancestors all kill themselves out of depression because they hadn't thought to invent the washing machine or cell phones?
And of course the rich get to enjoy new technologies before the poor do. To say that the poor are less poor (relatively speaking) than they were 50 years ago would be completely incorrect. In fact, as Ross Perot has proved any times, <g> the purchasing power of the middle and lower class has been diminished significantly in the past 50 years.
With big IS shop managers always wanking themselves off spending gobs for the biggest baddest servers they can get their hands on, I don't see why any of this is a problem. Exchange 2000 coupled with Active Directory is a mean solution. Yes, I think AD is the best implementation of LDAP I've seen yet.
The thing is, technology is not likely to 'go away'. To begin with, it's a gross personification to treat technology as a thing with a will of its own. It can seem that way, to be sure... but every unforseen result of technology can be traced to a human-made decision, or series of decisions.
I belive it is an aspect of human nature to experiment, to explore, and to create. In a way, Philosophy, Art, Science, and Engineering are all efforts to fulfill a fundamental human impulse. I am attending school to become an Engineer... but at the same time, I consider myself a part-time Philosopher, Artist, and Scientist.
The 'solution' proposed by most antitechnologists does involve deliberately changing human nature. But such proposals are dangerous. How do we know that we are not 'dehumanizing' ourselves even further?
Clearly, the evolution of art has been directly related to the evolution of technology. Without technology we would not be able to experience the bliss of the works of the many great artists of the last few hundred years, as we'd all be banging on hollow logs and drawing on rocks with charcoal.
However, Bach doesn't consume ungodly amounts of natural beauty, create urban sprawl, or enslave the population to working 60 hour weeks just to pay for a crappy car and a crappy house with no end in sight.
True, technology has reduced infant mortality, done a great deal to eliminate many devestating plagues, and many other unarguable benefits to human existance.
However, the threats of old have not disappeared, they have merely evolved with the times alongside everything else. We no longer have wandering war parties raping and pillaging our little villages, or do we? Genocidal massacres are still happening all the time and all over the world. Plagues have evolved, and are even linked directly to our technological advancements (super viruses, AIDS, cancer, etc).
I liken Western Civilization to any other superpower in history -- the Egyptians, Romans, Macedonians, British Empire, etc. We enjoy relative luxury to the under-priveleged, except now the distinctions are more global than local in basis. Tyrants still reign supreme in much of the world. Suffering continues.
In short, we are on a treadmill and surely for each technological cure we find for our ills, there will be another escalated ill to contend with just around the corner. The cycle will continue until we reach critical mass with our ability to exist on this world, and then for all our technology, we will fscked.
Some final thoughts: The relative happiness and suffering ratio of any given segment of any population has remained constant throughout the ages.
So, in the last 100 years we have succeeded in engineering one of the greatest mass-extinctions of all history and are teetering on the edge of shutting down the North Atlantic heat pump and creating a whole new ice age, all thanks to our wonderful happy technology and this is all okay with you.
This wonderful technology windfall that has resulted in many of us enjoying six figure salaries before we're even 30 is certainly grand and wonderful for those of us on the take, but let's take a look around and see what it has done to the rest of the world around us. In every hi-tech city (The Valley, Austin, Atlanta, SoCal, et al) land-prices have skyrocketed while median incomes have stayed below $30k. For everyone of us who can afford to survive in the 'new economy', there are dozens and dozens just barely scraping by.
We whine about how bad Microsoft is and how Linux will 'save the world' and how the future exists entirely around the 'Net and blah blah blah but *reality check* people, most of the US and the world's population could care less about MS, Linux, the Net, and whatever else is being spouted on about on/. as the answer to all the world's ills.
I'm sick of technology. I wish it would go away, sometimes. I really do. It's kewl and fun and all that but it's a cancer on our world. It's wiped out entire civilizations and thousands of animal species, it has dehumanized the remaining cultures, it has trashed and polluted the environment, and it has made our lives incredibly complicated and demanding.
The whole point is to enhance safety by having no humans underground, and to boost productivity by saving the time to travel underground and have one driver controlling a whole fleet.
... and, of course, to reduce jobs by eliminating the need for them. Fine and dandy if you're lucky enough to be a smart programmer, not too damned good if you're just a blue collar joe trying to feed your five kids and keep a roof over their heads.
Well, China is the only choice left for the "big bad superpower enemy".. Makes for good grand melodrama, but I agree, is probably not very correct.
My prediction is that the next major war will be fought against a number of united Arabian and African countries. Fundamentalist Islam purely hates the US. The Chinese just want to sell us crappy toys.
We need to be more concerned with providing "poor kids" adequate health care, food, education, clothing, shelter, and all sorts of other fundamental necessities of life. Computers are NOT necessities of life.
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And if any contender should come about who would seek to steal your mark, then this again would be an issue of attorneys and who is the more voracious and determined. You would certainly be in a far superior postition should you go to the effort of registering your trademark(s).
You're going up against some lame middle manager who could care less about anything other than his or her political standing. The "Nike reserves the right.." (to decide what they'd like to print on their own products) bit pretty much says it. It's their product, their intellectual property, their marketing, and thus their decision whether or not to allow such a request.
And yes, there's a whole department probably dedicated to this very atomic task. Thanks to the sweatshops, Nike can afford the likely $500k annual budget of this said department.
HTH HAND
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Not to worry, it's yeast that create the CO2 that carbonates your beer and champagne.
.. It's between lawyers, now. The richest side will win. I have faith that eventually justice and right will prevail, although the number of bodies left behind in this endless struggle will be daunting.
Books are just another irritating reminder of our heritage and culture and must be stopped at whatever cost!
Oh god, you can't be serious.
Emacs and CVS are nice geeky tools and all, but comparing them to Exchange and Outlook for the corporate desktop is truly bizarre.
Remember, we're talking about something we can roll out to the desktops of admins, clerks, receptionists, and everybody else. Not just the hard core Unix geeks hiding out in the server room.
Nice, but you've been watching too many movies. I for one would like to think that I would be able to persist and survive successfully and comfortably if the placating placebos of technology that we think we 'rely on' were to be removed. No more Internet, no more phone, no noisy smog generating cars to waste years of my life in sitting in traffic, no more electricity.. (well, okay, so I'd have to go invent a watermill generator ;) Peace and quiet, if you ask me.
I know Solaris does... I think W2K Datacenter Server supports it as well.
Spell laming poltroon.-AnaLfacE
And let us not forget that the framers of the Constitution did not enjoy such modern luxuries as electricity, telephones, or even indoor plumbing.
I repeat myself, although a bit differently -- go back in time and show me a 'primitive' man who is just so damned miserable because couches have not been invented yet.
Happiness, and thus misery, is directly related to our expectations. We can continue giving credit to 'technology' as the great boon to life, but we never seem to remember that we were just as relatively satisfied before the latest and greatest mousetrap was invented.
Technology is a trap!!!!!!!
...would be to transplant my brain into a new copy of myself and get to enjoy youth all over again. Imagine being 17 and knowing then what you know now.
.. do the same with my beautiful wife and I'd be groovin.
Not quite the same thing as cloning, but that's only a minor technical detail to be added, technology and legalities permitting.
I personally have no ethical objections to anything of this sort as long as the 'clone' will grow up just like any other human child would (i.e., not in a lab and bonding with a single pair or parents). I think this is an absolute must for the scientific world to explore.
I think the religious people are so terrified of it because it will strongly suggest the lack of existance of a soul, since this 'creation of life' will be accomplished, at least in inception, by purely mechanical means.
Should be interesting to watch.
I wonder of the kid'll get beat up a lot at school. "hey LOONEY CLOONEY CLONE!! I'm gonna KICK YER FAG CLONEY ASS AFTER SCHOOL!!!!"
And of course the rich get to enjoy new technologies before the poor do. To say that the poor are less poor (relatively speaking) than they were 50 years ago would be completely incorrect. In fact, as Ross Perot has proved any times, <g> the purchasing power of the middle and lower class has been diminished significantly in the past 50 years.
With big IS shop managers always wanking themselves off spending gobs for the biggest baddest servers they can get their hands on, I don't see why any of this is a problem. Exchange 2000 coupled with Active Directory is a mean solution. Yes, I think AD is the best implementation of LDAP I've seen yet.
However, Bach doesn't consume ungodly amounts of natural beauty, create urban sprawl, or enslave the population to working 60 hour weeks just to pay for a crappy car and a crappy house with no end in sight.
True, technology has reduced infant mortality, done a great deal to eliminate many devestating plagues, and many other unarguable benefits to human existance.
However, the threats of old have not disappeared, they have merely evolved with the times alongside everything else. We no longer have wandering war parties raping and pillaging our little villages, or do we? Genocidal massacres are still happening all the time and all over the world. Plagues have evolved, and are even linked directly to our technological advancements (super viruses, AIDS, cancer, etc).
I liken Western Civilization to any other superpower in history -- the Egyptians, Romans, Macedonians, British Empire, etc. We enjoy relative luxury to the under-priveleged, except now the distinctions are more global than local in basis. Tyrants still reign supreme in much of the world. Suffering continues.
In short, we are on a treadmill and surely for each technological cure we find for our ills, there will be another escalated ill to contend with just around the corner. The cycle will continue until we reach critical mass with our ability to exist on this world, and then for all our technology, we will fscked.
Some final thoughts: The relative happiness and suffering ratio of any given segment of any population has remained constant throughout the ages.
So, in the last 100 years we have succeeded in engineering one of the greatest mass-extinctions of all history and are teetering on the edge of shutting down the North Atlantic heat pump and creating a whole new ice age, all thanks to our wonderful happy technology and this is all okay with you.
We whine about how bad Microsoft is and how Linux will 'save the world' and how the future exists entirely around the 'Net and blah blah blah but *reality check* people, most of the US and the world's population could care less about MS, Linux, the Net, and whatever else is being spouted on about on /. as the answer to all the world's ills.
I'm sick of technology. I wish it would go away, sometimes. I really do. It's kewl and fun and all that but it's a cancer on our world. It's wiped out entire civilizations and thousands of animal species, it has dehumanized the remaining cultures, it has trashed and polluted the environment, and it has made our lives incredibly complicated and demanding.
Well, China is the only choice left for the "big bad superpower enemy".. Makes for good grand melodrama, but I agree, is probably not very correct.
My prediction is that the next major war will be fought against a number of united Arabian and African countries. Fundamentalist Islam purely hates the US. The Chinese just want to sell us crappy toys.
We need to be more concerned with providing "poor kids" adequate health care, food, education, clothing, shelter, and all sorts of other fundamental necessities of life. Computers are NOT necessities of life.
Fuckhead.