Infringement, no. Dilution, yes. The idea of dilution is relatively new, and has nothing to do with the area of business or the product.
For instance, if Ford were to make a vehicle called the "Star Trek," you can be sure they would be sued for dilution right away. The reason is that "Star Trek" is a well-known mark.
The new dilution stuff, in theory, is to keep marks from going the way of the crescent wrench.
According to the plot summary for The Broken Bow, the Enterprise crew rescue a Klingon pilot and can't communicate with him. Does this mean that we finally get rid of that insane universal translator?
Eye shal endevver too bee moar cerrect inn teh fyewcher. Thnak ewe four yore innput.
By the way, did you notice my signature? Do you know who Mister Language Person is? That not withstanding, I daresay this is the first time I've been caught making an unintentional speling error. How disturbing...
"I" is actually very close to "E." You strike them both with your middle finger (one on the left, one on the right) when typing on a QWERTY keyboard. Take a note of those sorts of mistakes next time you try to differentiate between a spelling error and a typo. Capitalize your sentences. Put your punctuation on the inside of your quotation marks. Be a good conformist.
I hate people who pick on self-styled grammar fascists.
Have you ever heard of a concept called "negative feedback?" It happens all over the place in biological organisms and nature. What he is saying is that the cycle goes like this:
1) Ozone is depleted through natural or unnatural causes
2) More cosmic rays get through the ozone layer
3) Cosmic rays interact with O2, creating more ozone
The concept is not rediculous, nor is it unique. It's elementary chemistry and elementary biology. It's the process that keeps things at equilibrium. It's negative feedback processes like this that keep your body at a constant temperature and your chemical levels level. Do you think the Earth would have stayed around for as long as it has if it had no way of keeping itself in equilibrium? I didn't think so either.
...downloads from @Home's newsgroups, which are hosted on their own servers, hit 3-4Mbps.
I suppose the TCP window would only get big enough for you to clock a speed like that if you were downloading a...let's see...a large binary image? From a newsgroup?
And just where exactly have you been hanging out on this "Internet," young man?
The only problem is that most good sci-fi doesn't translate well into movies. Even if it could, it usually doesn't. (Nightfall, anyone?) They wouldn't have the budget for this. That leaves precious little in the way of movies for zero-G - hey wait! Pr0n!
In a surprise move today, Linus Torvalds announced that the next version of the Linux kernel will be released under the BSD license.
"I know I've said before that I'm a selfish bastard, but it's been starting to bother me that a software company can't use my code without corrupting their own," the ubergeek confessed. "I mean, there are some people in this world that I just can't share my new multi-threaded TCP stack with." When asked if he meant Microsoft, he only said, "Mostly."
But with the recent flurry of public flames between spokespersons from Microsoft Corporation and major figureheads in the open source movement, this move may not be much of a surprise. The GPL is, according to William H. Gates III, like "Pac-Man," gobbling up intellectual property like so many little round white pills.
"Also," said Torvalds, "[Transmeta] is starting to have serious issues about running Linux on my laptop." Obviously, they want to keep their secrets. "The GPL stifles innovation. And it's bad for business. Really, it is. RedHat or no. I can't have that on my conscience."
Richard Stallman, upon hearing the news, immediately assembled a group of hackers to fork the latest GPL'd version of the Linux kernel. "We can't have this [expletive]," he said. "It goes against every [expletive] thing so many of us [expletive] stand for." When asked what direction he planned to go with the kernel, he said, "I'd like to move it into a microkernel architecture. With any luck, we can have as much success with this as we have had with the Hurd."
When told this, Linus broke down and laughed until he cried.
Alan Cox has another theory. "He's always been the mediator when there was a big flame war on the kernel mailing list," he said. "He's always been the one to stop the arguments - kind of like a peacemaker. I think he may be trying to do the same thing now."
When we asked if he himself had ever been flamed by Linus, Alan got all stone-faced and said, "I have never had flaming relations with Linus Torvalds."
Now if I'm not mistaken DRI only works in 16 bit color...
Either you or I - I've run Quake III on 32-bit color on an XFree86/DRI/Radeon combo. (As a fun aside - it was faster than Windows on the same box with the same configuration! Go team!) I've never heard of that limitation. If you've seen it, it may just be some cards. I have no idea.
Speaking of interesting (and the GPL) - look what I found on The Registry:
LINUX LICENSE GOES WINDOWS-FRIENDLY
In a surprise move today, Linus Torvalds announced that the next version of the Linux kernel will be released under the BSD license.
"I know I've said before that I'm a selfish bastard, but it's been starting to bother me that a software company can't use my code without corrupting their own," the ubergeek confessed. "I mean, there are some people in this world that I just can't share my new multi-threaded TCP stack with." When asked if he meant Microsoft, he only said, "Mostly."
But with the recent flurry of public flames between spokespersons from Microsoft Corporation and major figureheads in the open source movement (along with some weird licensing and strange moves from Microsoft), this move may not be much of a surprise. The GPL is, according to William H. Gates III, like "Pac-Man," gobbling up intellectual property like so many little round white pills.
"Also," said Torvalds, "[Transmeta] is starting to have serious issues about running Linux on my laptop." Obviously, they want to keep their secrets. "The GPL stifles innovation. And it's bad for business. Really, it is. RedHat or no. I can't have that on my conscience."
Richard Stallman, upon hearing the news, immediately assembled a group of hackers to fork the latest GPL'd version of the Linux kernel. "We can't have this [expletive]," he said. "It goes against every [expletive] thing so many of us [expletive] stand for." When asked what direction he planned to go with the kernel, he said, "I'd like to move it into a microkernel architecture. With any luck, we can have as much success with this as we have had with the Hurd."
When told this, Linus broke down and laughed until he cried.
Alan Cox has another theory. "He's always been the mediator when there was a big flame war on the kernel mailing list," he said. "He's always been the one to stop the arguments - kind of like a peacemaker. I think he may be trying to do the same thing now."
When we asked if he himself had ever been flamed by Linus, Alan got all stone-faced and said, "I have never had flaming relations with Linus Torvalds."
FreeS/WAN doesn't do 40-bit DES. It never would have worked with Microsoft's setup. (And yes, I know it's in the RFC, but the good folks at FreeS/WAN have thrown it out in favor of security. I say good for them.)
confuse ...3 a: to make indistinct (stop confusing the issue) b: to mix indiscriminately c: to fail to differentiate from an often similar or related other (confuse money with comfort)
None of these definitions imply that the confuser is himself confused. Never argue with the Grammar Fascist.
If code is GPLed, you have the choice of whether to use it - and get contaminated - or not use it.
You only get "contaminated" if you modify and distribute it. And then, it's only your code that gets "contaminated."
Don't make the same mistake ("mistake?") Bill, Balmer and Co. are by assuming that everything that interoperates with GPL'd has to be GPL itself. That's the lie du jour.
According to Gates, GPLd software "makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work.
erm.. and in what aspect is that different from the stuff Mr Gates is making himself?
Absolutely nothing at all, unless you count the fact that it's actually possible to take GPL'd work and use it for yourself. The funky rules apply only to distribution.
The real problem here is that Bill is making a drastic generalization. He's confusing a "company" with a "software company." Make the proper substitution in his statement (and also change "impossible" to "very difficult") and it makes perfect sense.
(Tachyons are hypothetical particles that can only go faster than light, and the higher their energy, the slower they go, so that high-energy tachyons approach the speed of light from above.)
Tachyons also have a few other interesting properties:
They can detect cloaked Romulan ships
You can use them to sail in space
An "inverse tachyon beam" can probe and ultimately create a space-time anomaly (actually, you need three of them all in different time periods)
Slashdot Mirror
It's real. It's CG. AFAIK, it would be more difficult to put her head on a real photograph than to just render what they've got.
They've also got one of the male lead (I can't remember his name) in a swimsuit. They even got all the hair right. It's scary.
I think it should be TAFKAK:
The Application Formerly Known As KIllustrator.
Infringement, no. Dilution, yes. The idea of dilution is relatively new, and has nothing to do with the area of business or the product.
For instance, if Ford were to make a vehicle called the "Star Trek," you can be sure they would be sued for dilution right away. The reason is that "Star Trek" is a well-known mark.
The new dilution stuff, in theory, is to keep marks from going the way of the crescent wrench.
According to the plot summary for The Broken Bow, the Enterprise crew rescue a Klingon pilot and can't communicate with him. Does this mean that we finally get rid of that insane universal translator?
Eye shal endevver too bee moar cerrect inn teh fyewcher. Thnak ewe four yore innput.
By the way, did you notice my signature? Do you know who Mister Language Person is? That not withstanding, I daresay this is the first time I've been caught making an unintentional speling error. How disturbing...
"I" is actually very close to "E." You strike them both with your middle finger (one on the left, one on the right) when typing on a QWERTY keyboard. Take a note of those sorts of mistakes next time you try to differentiate between a spelling error and a typo. Capitalize your sentences. Put your punctuation on the inside of your quotation marks. Be a good conformist.
I hate people who pick on self-styled grammar fascists.
Have you ever heard of a concept called "negative feedback?" It happens all over the place in biological organisms and nature. What he is saying is that the cycle goes like this:
1) Ozone is depleted through natural or unnatural causes
2) More cosmic rays get through the ozone layer
3) Cosmic rays interact with O2, creating more ozone
The concept is not rediculous, nor is it unique. It's elementary chemistry and elementary biology. It's the process that keeps things at equilibrium. It's negative feedback processes like this that keep your body at a constant temperature and your chemical levels level. Do you think the Earth would have stayed around for as long as it has if it had no way of keeping itself in equilibrium? I didn't think so either.
Alternatively, he could have done something intelligent and used the Word 97/200 Viewer.
Wild tangent - your remark makes me wonder, though: why hasn't the Kompany created a new language and called it "K?"
...downloads from @Home's newsgroups, which are hosted on their own servers, hit 3-4Mbps.
I suppose the TCP window would only get big enough for you to clock a speed like that if you were downloading a...let's see...a large binary image? From a newsgroup?
And just where exactly have you been hanging out on this "Internet," young man?
The only problem is that most good sci-fi doesn't translate well into movies. Even if it could, it usually doesn't. (Nightfall, anyone?) They wouldn't have the budget for this. That leaves precious little in the way of movies for zero-G - hey wait! Pr0n!
*gag*
You'll know that the system crashed when your laundry comes out bright blue and covered in silly numbers!
Crashed? It'll do that as a matter of course! And I just can't wait to get all those lovely MSN butterflies all over my clothes!
Here's a link to some information about the new Battlestar Galactica series.
LINUX LICENSE GOES MICROSOFT-FRIENDLY
In a surprise move today, Linus Torvalds announced that the next version of the Linux kernel will be released under the BSD license.
"I know I've said before that I'm a selfish bastard, but it's been starting to bother me that a software company can't use my code without corrupting their own," the ubergeek confessed. "I mean, there are some people in this world that I just can't share my new multi-threaded TCP stack with." When asked if he meant Microsoft, he only said, "Mostly."
But with the recent flurry of public flames between spokespersons from Microsoft Corporation and major figureheads in the open source movement, this move may not be much of a surprise. The GPL is, according to William H. Gates III, like "Pac-Man," gobbling up intellectual property like so many little round white pills.
"Also," said Torvalds, "[Transmeta] is starting to have serious issues about running Linux on my laptop." Obviously, they want to keep their secrets. "The GPL stifles innovation. And it's bad for business. Really, it is. RedHat or no. I can't have that on my conscience."
Richard Stallman, upon hearing the news, immediately assembled a group of hackers to fork the latest GPL'd version of the Linux kernel. "We can't have this [expletive]," he said. "It goes against every [expletive] thing so many of us [expletive] stand for." When asked what direction he planned to go with the kernel, he said, "I'd like to move it into a microkernel architecture. With any luck, we can have as much success with this as we have had with the Hurd."
When told this, Linus broke down and laughed until he cried.
Alan Cox has another theory. "He's always been the mediator when there was a big flame war on the kernel mailing list," he said. "He's always been the one to stop the arguments - kind of like a peacemaker. I think he may be trying to do the same thing now."
When we asked if he himself had ever been flamed by Linus, Alan got all stone-faced and said, "I have never had flaming relations with Linus Torvalds."
Now if I'm not mistaken DRI only works in 16 bit color...
Either you or I - I've run Quake III on 32-bit color on an XFree86/DRI/Radeon combo. (As a fun aside - it was faster than Windows on the same box with the same configuration! Go team!) I've never heard of that limitation. If you've seen it, it may just be some cards. I have no idea.
...all those 3733t h4x0r5 out there who use something like "733t"? Does that count as "cryptic", or is it "family" (for being a nickname)?
I'd call that "self-obsessed." Also in that category are "womanizer," "stud," and "2kewl4u."
I just want it in a toaster. Everybody's been telling me that one day I'll have an Internet-enabled toaster, and I want one.
I wonder if Google is planning on selling or licensing their anti-porn tech? It seems better than the rest.
Speaking of interesting (and the GPL) - look what I found on The Registry:
LINUX LICENSE GOES WINDOWS-FRIENDLY
In a surprise move today, Linus Torvalds announced that the next version of the Linux kernel will be released under the BSD license.
"I know I've said before that I'm a selfish bastard, but it's been starting to bother me that a software company can't use my code without corrupting their own," the ubergeek confessed. "I mean, there are some people in this world that I just can't share my new multi-threaded TCP stack with." When asked if he meant Microsoft, he only said, "Mostly."
But with the recent flurry of public flames between spokespersons from Microsoft Corporation and major figureheads in the open source movement (along with some weird licensing and strange moves from Microsoft), this move may not be much of a surprise. The GPL is, according to William H. Gates III, like "Pac-Man," gobbling up intellectual property like so many little round white pills.
"Also," said Torvalds, "[Transmeta] is starting to have serious issues about running Linux on my laptop." Obviously, they want to keep their secrets. "The GPL stifles innovation. And it's bad for business. Really, it is. RedHat or no. I can't have that on my conscience."
Richard Stallman, upon hearing the news, immediately assembled a group of hackers to fork the latest GPL'd version of the Linux kernel. "We can't have this [expletive]," he said. "It goes against every [expletive] thing so many of us [expletive] stand for." When asked what direction he planned to go with the kernel, he said, "I'd like to move it into a microkernel architecture. With any luck, we can have as much success with this as we have had with the Hurd."
When told this, Linus broke down and laughed until he cried.
Alan Cox has another theory. "He's always been the mediator when there was a big flame war on the kernel mailing list," he said. "He's always been the one to stop the arguments - kind of like a peacemaker. I think he may be trying to do the same thing now."
When we asked if he himself had ever been flamed by Linus, Alan got all stone-faced and said, "I have never had flaming relations with Linus Torvalds."
Umm, what makes you think that someone making illegal software for stealing is going to obey the GPL?
Further, by law, copyright cannot protect any intellectual property which is deemed illegal.
FreeS/WAN doesn't do 40-bit DES. It never would have worked with Microsoft's setup. (And yes, I know it's in the RFC, but the good folks at FreeS/WAN have thrown it out in favor of security. I say good for them.)
confuse
...3 a: to make indistinct (stop confusing the issue) b: to mix indiscriminately c: to fail to differentiate from an often similar or related other (confuse money with comfort)
None of these definitions imply that the confuser is himself confused. Never argue with the Grammar Fascist.
If code is GPLed, you have the choice of whether to use it - and get contaminated - or not use it.
You only get "contaminated" if you modify and distribute it. And then, it's only your code that gets "contaminated."
Don't make the same mistake ("mistake?") Bill, Balmer and Co. are by assuming that everything that interoperates with GPL'd has to be GPL itself. That's the lie du jour.
According to Gates, GPLd software "makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work.
erm.. and in what aspect is that different from the stuff Mr Gates is making himself?
Absolutely nothing at all, unless you count the fact that it's actually possible to take GPL'd work and use it for yourself. The funky rules apply only to distribution.
The real problem here is that Bill is making a drastic generalization. He's confusing a "company" with a "software company." Make the proper substitution in his statement (and also change "impossible" to "very difficult") and it makes perfect sense.
Almost all images are static. It's not just the HTML that has to be loaded to render a page.
Tachyons also have a few other interesting properties: