Note: there should be a lot more Zeros in that % I guess. I don't know astronimically speaking if your trying to view a planet from hundred light years away, and don't want to see its sun, you would be talking about an angle of 1E-100 something I assume. Anyone know?
This is actually more about the angle of light, say I want to capture all light in a very tight.005% angle. Unfortunatly there is a sun at the very very edge of my shot. Even though its technically out of the angle of my shot with conventional lenses the sun will glare through. This technology allows light at the edges of the lense to be spun off. It really has nothing to do with intensity.
Oh sure it sucks for professional serious applications, but say I'm trying to program a simply front-end its perfect. Though latly I've been moving to web based front ends and wondering if there is a good reason to bother with VB.
No he said if your a beginner to programming in general. I for instance have done a few small programs in C++ and even some Access Visual Basic, but I'm never really done anything with true VB. This book would be perfect for me.
Quote from http://www.gordonrees.com/pubs/pdf/ipnl031502.pdf (b) Suggestive Trademarks Suggestive marks, on the other hand, require the consumer to use his or her imagination in order to create an association between the trademark and the associated product. While suggestive trademarks may suggest a quality or feature of the product related to the mark, the suggestion is not one that is so obvious that the mark is merely descriptive of the product. Thus, suggestive trademarks may be granted trademark protection. The demarcation between what is a protected suggestive trademark and an unprotected descriptive term is often encountered by new businesses that wish for their trademark to at least partially identify the product the mark is associated with. The desire to adopt a brand name that identifies the associated product must be balanced against the need to create a strong trademark that the trademark owner can use to the exclusion of its competitors. The difference between "suggestive" and "descriptive" for a particular trademark is primarily relevant when the trademark is the subject of a federal trademark application.
They go on to descibe an application for a resturant called Golden Gourmet which gets denied and Golden Wok which gets approved. Because Gourmet is too descriptive. So I don't know there is a line there somewhere. But you also have to consider the common perception to a product name. When you talk about Windows many computer users associate it with MS Windows, but many computer professionals may also associate it with the physical windows of which MS wasn't the originator of. Of the list Taboo is probably the only one too descriptive to receive trademark protection..
Quick lookup at http://www.uspto.gov/ reveals Taboo to be a several trademarks but I don't see the game, while it appears as if Hasbroo has a trademark on Monopoly for everything from casino games to resturant services.
Lookup the term Abitrary Trademark, Quoting from a Intellectual property newsletter, but you can find many like this.
(c) Fanciful and Arbitrary Marks The strongest trademarks are those that are unique, fanciful or arbitrary, rather than merely descriptive or suggestive of the associated product. The strongest trademarks contain no commonly understood or recognizable word or picture elements, and have no meaning beyond the products with which they are associated. These are called fanciful marks. Fanciful trademarks are only limited by one's imagination, for example, EXXON, KODAK, and CISCO. The next strongest trademarks are arbitrary marks. Arbitrary trademarks consist of one or more common words or images that are used in such an arbitrary manner that there is no association between the trademark and the product it identifies. For example, APPLE (a real word, but arbitrarily used when associated with personal computer goods) may only be used by Apple Computer, Inc. as a trademark to identify certain computer hardware and software products.
Yes I'm double posting. As I already said you can get a trademark using common words IF the common word does not describe your product (RISK isn't a very good description, "World Map Game" on the other hand would be, just as Windows describes a windowing application) And then your common word trademark would only cover things that exactly resemble your product or buisness.
You forgot to the part about a non associated word. For example if I name my computer OS based on the concept of windowing, "windows" I don't nessesarly get trademark protection. But if I name it "lamp" I can receive a trademark that covers my exact market. Meaning I have trademark rights over any windowing OS but not nessesarly other applications. Hence if I named risk "World Map Game" I might have a hard time defending my trademark. On the other hand "Risk" is fairly an unobvious description.
You don't know what your talking about, let me tell you, I know someone who worked for Neilson.. and umm.. ok end of joke.
But seriously I do, he described how this new system worked a year ago (when they were debating rolling it out) basically as they can't get inside the DVR to track your info. The new system uses a special box that does a combination of pattern recognition and special closed caption style program information encoding. The preferable method obviously is for the program to include its own information on a digital piggyback (closed caption style) so that the Neilson box can read it (no matter when you actually watch it they know what you are watching and when it was supposed to be aired and can compare to current date/time). They also use some basic pattern recognition to local commerical and other small shows that are opting to include this information.
Well bittorrent has many uses. One of which is for an individual to distribute a file to many people (AKA 3dgamers downloads for example) lets say that the main distribution point is sending the files bit by bit in order in a multicast style setup, and you join in during the middle of a cast, you simply start downloading from the middle (because bittorrent is designed to handle mixed up pieces downloaded out of order) till then end, from there you can either wait for the cast to restart or download the missing peices from everyone else. This would mean two things, the upload for the initial seeder/caster would need to be set at a reasonable rate. Sure your network neighbor won't be able to get the file at 1Gb/s but if you pushed it at that speed the routers would be expected to hold the entire file and I'm sure they would dissagree (whats the max timetolive for a multicast packet?? anyone know?).
Human being with an auto-aim gun.. definatly.. See its the combination.. call it bionic if you wish. That really will win the war. Let the humans make the decisions use computers to enhance our reaction and investigation (props to "bloodhound" poster) skills.
To be perfectly fair, many things require copyright. But as you mentioned it started out at a 7 year protection, and I have yet to see an example where 7 years wouldn't be enough.
Sorry but the DCMA has already stood up in court, and it will continue to do so. Best to fight for amendments and such, honestly not everything in the DCMA is wrong, but it could definatly use some work.
Apparently there have been some serious studies concerning this "loss of revenue" of course the results always depend upon whos paying for the studies. But most of the independant studies show that loss of revenue is mainly due to economic trends, then secondly due to less new albums being produced. I read somewhere how in one year the industry released X% less albums that year than normal and had a less than X% sales loss (this was in a year of stable economic trends) and actually had a slight gain in the sales per album ratio. Of course the industry screamed and hollered that year as well.
I always thought it would probably be better to allow them to keep their.com and just require them to forward the traffic to the.xxx before serving content. This would allow for filtering and avoid problems with porn sites declaring they are losing buisness because people can't find them.
Of course you must realize that the canned automatic responce is.. Macs are no more secure, just simply more obscure I have myself suggested buying a Mac for the same purpose. I only worry at what point will this backfire. If the non-clued start buying Macs for this very reason simply because they can't handle viruses themselves, they make a prime target for virus writers. I'm still wondering why you don't see more Mac viruses, most likly its a vector thing, i.e even if you do make a good Mac virus there simply are not enough machines out there that you can ensure a complete spread.
I once had my credit information stolen, person bought a lot of porn online as well as paying for some web hosting and some long distance calls. Had absolutly no problems with the porn or web hosting sites all of which reversed the charges with a simple call. the long distance company on the other hand after dozens of calls I eventually had to file a claim against the charge to visa to get it removed.. Shows who is the more responsible company hu?
Not nessesarly there is a good chance that given simply the ability to have all their domains on.xxx with the encouragement of making the.com a forward, you would find that a large percent of porn sites would adopt this on thier own. Make it a law and they would fight it of course.
Reasons it would be self adopted. 1) They could say "Hey we are self regulating.. You don't need to censor us!" 2) It helps search engines find them.
Cons (from the porn industry point of view) 1) Buisnesses would block.xxx entirly meaning no more surfing porn from work.
And believe it or not the parental blocking would not bother most respectible porn sites as they prefer not to encounter such problems as blocked pay from credit card companies when mommy finds you stole her visa.
Hu?.xxx pros 1) It makes porn easier to find 2) It makes porn easier to filter 3) It makes porn easier to index.xxx cons 1) see pros 1 and 3 from the anti porn prospective 2) it can EASILY be worked around. 3) no porn industry is willing to give up their.com address
None of these cons make.xxx a BAD thing, it just makes it partially useless, but so what..
Now if you want it partially useful, allow porn sites to keep their.com but legally require them to redirect everything to their.xxx so that filters can reliably work. Of course nothing stops one from using ip addressing though direct ip addressing is possible on the server side if the server requires a proper domain reference.
Legislating this and expecting it to be followed on the other hand is another ball of wax.
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No he is saying NAT (Network Address Translation) makes conneting to a client without a constant open connection virtually impossible.
RICO requires extortion.. The legal definition of extortion is.
The term "extortion" means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
So any threatening of something fearful will do, as well as pretending to be an official, (ie pretending to be a police officer or court official of some sort). I believe that in some of their early legal threats they crossed that line as well from what I recall.
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Note: there should be a lot more Zeros in that % I guess. I don't know astronimically speaking if your trying to view a planet from hundred light years away, and don't want to see its sun, you would be talking about an angle of 1E-100 something I assume. Anyone know?
This is actually more about the angle of light, say I want to capture all light in a very tight .005% angle. Unfortunatly there is a sun at the very very edge of my shot. Even though its technically out of the angle of my shot with conventional lenses the sun will glare through. This technology allows light at the edges of the lense to be spun off. It really has nothing to do with intensity.
Oh sure it sucks for professional serious applications, but say I'm trying to program a simply front-end its perfect. Though latly I've been moving to web based front ends and wondering if there is a good reason to bother with VB.
No he said if your a beginner to programming in general. I for instance have done a few small programs in C++ and even some Access Visual Basic, but I'm never really done anything with true VB. This book would be perfect for me.
Quote from http://www.gordonrees.com/pubs/pdf/ipnl031502.pdf
(b) Suggestive Trademarks
Suggestive marks, on the other hand, require the
consumer to use his or her
imagination in order to
create an association
between the trademark and
the associated product.
While suggestive
trademarks may suggest a
quality or feature of the
product related to the mark,
the suggestion is not one
that is so obvious that the mark is merely
descriptive of the product. Thus, suggestive
trademarks may be granted trademark protection.
The demarcation between what is a protected
suggestive trademark and an unprotected
descriptive term is often encountered by new
businesses that wish for their trademark to at
least partially identify the product the mark is
associated with. The desire to adopt a brand
name that identifies the associated product must
be balanced against the need to create a strong
trademark that the trademark owner can use to
the exclusion of its competitors. The difference
between "suggestive" and "descriptive" for a
particular trademark is primarily relevant when
the trademark is the subject of a federal
trademark application.
They go on to descibe an application for a resturant called Golden Gourmet which gets denied and Golden Wok which gets approved. Because Gourmet is too descriptive. So I don't know there is a line there somewhere. But you also have to consider the common perception to a product name. When you talk about Windows many computer users associate it with MS Windows, but many computer professionals may also associate it with the physical windows of which MS wasn't the originator of. Of the list Taboo is probably the only one too descriptive to receive trademark protection..
Quick lookup at http://www.uspto.gov/ reveals Taboo to be a several trademarks but I don't see the game, while it appears as if Hasbroo has a trademark on Monopoly for everything from casino games to resturant services.
Lookup the term Abitrary Trademark, Quoting from a Intellectual property newsletter, but you can find many like this.
(c) Fanciful and Arbitrary Marks
The strongest trademarks are those that are
unique, fanciful or
arbitrary, rather than
merely descriptive or
suggestive of the
associated product.
The strongest
trademarks contain
no commonly
understood or
recognizable word or
picture elements,
and have no meaning beyond the products with
which they are associated. These are called
fanciful marks. Fanciful trademarks are only
limited by one's imagination, for example,
EXXON, KODAK, and CISCO.
The next strongest trademarks are arbitrary
marks. Arbitrary trademarks consist of one or
more common words or images that are used in
such an arbitrary manner that there is no
association between the trademark and the
product it identifies. For example, APPLE (a real
word, but arbitrarily used when associated with
personal computer goods) may only be used by
Apple Computer, Inc. as a trademark to identify
certain computer hardware and software
products.
Yes I'm double posting. As I already said you can get a trademark using common words IF the common word does not describe your product (RISK isn't a very good description, "World Map Game" on the other hand would be, just as Windows describes a windowing application) And then your common word trademark would only cover things that exactly resemble your product or buisness.
You forgot to the part about a non associated word. For example if I name my computer OS based on the concept of windowing, "windows" I don't nessesarly get trademark protection. But if I name it "lamp" I can receive a trademark that covers my exact market. Meaning I have trademark rights over any windowing OS but not nessesarly other applications. Hence if I named risk "World Map Game" I might have a hard time defending my trademark. On the other hand "Risk" is fairly an unobvious description.
Where can I get a job in your office!
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They also use some basic pattern recognition for local commerical and other small shows that are not opting to include this information.
You don't know what your talking about, let me tell you, I know someone who worked for Neilson.. and umm.. ok end of joke.
But seriously I do, he described how this new system worked a year ago (when they were debating rolling it out) basically as they can't get inside the DVR to track your info. The new system uses a special box that does a combination of pattern recognition and special closed caption style program information encoding. The preferable method obviously is for the program to include its own information on a digital piggyback (closed caption style) so that the Neilson box can read it (no matter when you actually watch it they know what you are watching and when it was supposed to be aired and can compare to current date/time). They also use some basic pattern recognition to local commerical and other small shows that are opting to include this information.
Well bittorrent has many uses. One of which is for an individual to distribute a file to many people (AKA 3dgamers downloads for example) lets say that the main distribution point is sending the files bit by bit in order in a multicast style setup, and you join in during the middle of a cast, you simply start downloading from the middle (because bittorrent is designed to handle mixed up pieces downloaded out of order) till then end, from there you can either wait for the cast to restart or download the missing peices from everyone else. This would mean two things, the upload for the initial seeder/caster would need to be set at a reasonable rate. Sure your network neighbor won't be able to get the file at 1Gb/s but if you pushed it at that speed the routers would be expected to hold the entire file and I'm sure they would dissagree (whats the max timetolive for a multicast packet?? anyone know?).
Human being with an auto-aim gun.. definatly.. See its the combination.. call it bionic if you wish. That really will win the war. Let the humans make the decisions use computers to enhance our reaction and investigation (props to "bloodhound" poster) skills.
To be perfectly fair, many things require copyright. But as you mentioned it started out at a 7 year protection, and I have yet to see an example where 7 years wouldn't be enough.
Sorry but the DCMA has already stood up in court, and it will continue to do so. Best to fight for amendments and such, honestly not everything in the DCMA is wrong, but it could definatly use some work.
Get behind me satan!
And lets form a congo line!
Apparently there have been some serious studies concerning this "loss of revenue" of course the results always depend upon whos paying for the studies. But most of the independant studies show that loss of revenue is mainly due to economic trends, then secondly due to less new albums being produced. I read somewhere how in one year the industry released X% less albums that year than normal and had a less than X% sales loss (this was in a year of stable economic trends) and actually had a slight gain in the sales per album ratio. Of course the industry screamed and hollered that year as well.
I always thought it would probably be better to allow them to keep their .com and just require them to forward the traffic to the .xxx before serving content. This would allow for filtering and avoid problems with porn sites declaring they are losing buisness because people can't find them.
Of course you must realize that the canned automatic responce is.. Macs are no more secure, just simply more obscure
I have myself suggested buying a Mac for the same purpose. I only worry at what point will this backfire.
If the non-clued start buying Macs for this very reason simply because they can't handle viruses themselves, they make a prime target for virus writers.
I'm still wondering why you don't see more Mac viruses, most likly its a vector thing, i.e even if you do make a good Mac virus there simply are not enough machines out there that you can ensure a complete spread.
On a side note personal story.
I once had my credit information stolen, person bought a lot of porn online as well as paying for some web hosting and some long distance calls.
Had absolutly no problems with the porn or web hosting sites all of which reversed the charges with a simple call. the long distance company on the other hand after dozens of calls I eventually had to file a claim against the charge to visa to get it removed.. Shows who is the more responsible company hu?
Not nessesarly there is a good chance that given simply the ability to have all their domains on .xxx with the encouragement of making the .com a forward, you would find that a large percent of porn sites would adopt this on thier own. Make it a law and they would fight it of course.
.xxx entirly meaning no more surfing porn from work.
Reasons it would be self adopted.
1) They could say "Hey we are self regulating.. You don't need to censor us!"
2) It helps search engines find them.
Cons (from the porn industry point of view)
1) Buisnesses would block
And believe it or not the parental blocking would not bother most respectible porn sites as they prefer not to encounter such problems as blocked pay from credit card companies when mommy finds you stole her visa.
Hu? .xxx pros .xxx cons .com address
.xxx a BAD thing, it just makes it partially useless, but so what..
.com but legally require them to redirect everything to their .xxx so that filters can reliably work. Of course nothing stops one from using ip addressing though direct ip addressing is possible on the server side if the server requires a proper domain reference.
1) It makes porn easier to find
2) It makes porn easier to filter
3) It makes porn easier to index
1) see pros 1 and 3 from the anti porn prospective
2) it can EASILY be worked around.
3) no porn industry is willing to give up their
None of these cons make
Now if you want it partially useful, allow porn sites to keep their
Legislating this and expecting it to be followed on the other hand is another ball of wax.
No he is saying NAT (Network Address Translation) makes conneting to a client without a constant open connection virtually impossible.
RICO requires extortion.. The legal definition of extortion is.
The term "extortion" means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
So any threatening of something fearful will do, as well as pretending to be an official, (ie pretending to be a police officer or court official of some sort). I believe that in some of their early legal threats they crossed that line as well from what I recall.
From what I understand is that Sony built this rootkit themselfes though they did steal GPL code on the way.