The letters "CD" and the words "Compact Disc" are not trademarkable (as the USPTO does have a rule that no trademark can be a description of the product.... compact discs are, well, round things that are, relatively speaking, compact). So Sony can call it a CD. But they can't claim that it meets the CDDA standard (as it doesn't) and they can't use the CDDA logo, since that logo is trademarked.
Actually, the labels aren't putting CD Digital Audio labels on the CD's. Philips has refused to license it for that purpose, and since they have the trademark on the CDDA logo, the labels basically have to suck Philips' cock on this issue. If they put the logo on, then all sorts of fun things could occur, such as being forced to pay for each infringing CD. I haven't seen sales figures on the Celine Dion CD, but if Sony's put the logo on, Philips could probably get upwards of $5 million dollars from that CD alone, which would wipe out much of Sony's profit on that particular CD.
Of course the fact that Switzerland may be the most Libertarian state on the face of the planet is not known by any of you.
Hell, they go beyond allowing anybody to buy a machine gun: by law, most households are required to have a government issued machine gun. This, of course, is part of why no one picks on Switzerland.
I seem to remember Dvorak theorizing that last autumn. Doesn't the XBox use a very x86-like CPU, anyway? If that's the case, then I'd suspect that, once the price of the PS2 drops to $150 or so, they'll match that on the consoles, but sell a $99 emulator for XP.
Dual-licensing is one of the great things about the GPL. It simultaneously helps the cause of advocacy (there's a company behind the software, which makes many corporate IT people less skittish) and is a nice way of getting those who do not like Open Source to foot the bill.
I'll buy a ticket for AOTC. I won't watch the film, but I have to see the teaser trailer for Bond 20: Die Another Day. I might stay around for the Matrix Reloaded trailer, also.
I'm kind of ashamed to admit it, but I was watching The Best Damn Sports Show, Period last night, and their interview with Iverson for an unpaid internship was priceless.
So you use GNU/Linux. However, most users of Linux on workstations are using X a significant amount of the time (and GUIs, where they exist, are often considered part of the OS. So, for those people, XFree86/GNU/Linux is an apt moniker.
My view is that Linux describes the family of operating systems that use the Linux kernel. GNU is the family of OS's that use the GNU tools. GNU does not imply Linux, nor does Linux imply GNU. If I wanted to, I could hack up my own libc, compiler, shell, text editor [cum OS;o) ], and analog to every GNU tool and run a GNU-free Linux system. And I can use the GNU tools on a non-Linux kernel. So Linux is fully valid as a family descriptor, as is GNU. GNU/Linux is the intersection of these families.
In other words, if you comment on the 16h00 - you're not going to be upset if the story has chenged at 18h00. But a story on a web - same url and no changelog - could create confusion in the way that two differing broadcasts wouldn't.
This is why CNN should randomly shuffle their urls, especially to foil those evil people that provide direct links to content. Remember, CNN is part of Turner (in turn part of AOLTW) and you're stealing ad impressions from Turner, which makes you a terrorist!
Any guy who sat through it with his SO deserves blowjobs from her every day for life. Even then, I'm not certain if that compensates for its unadulterated crappiness.
Because most other products in the world don't need laws to protect the companies from the consumer. ie: CBDTPA, DMCA, 100-year copyrights, you name it.
Uh, contract law?
You go buy a car. You sign a contract promising to pay the remaining $1500 within 6 months (I'm being very hypothetical here). What does the company do? They go after you for breach of contract.
That's basically what I was saying. They can't audit/fine US companies (they won't be able to get US courts to enforce them). But they can audit/fine any company that physically operates in the EU (such as Amazon, Yahoo, etc.). This is the same reason that Deutsche Bahn sued Google's German operation, but not the US corporation. The mistake that the French made was going after Yahoo! US, as opposed to Yahoo! France.
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What, you don't jack off whenever you see June Allyson?
The letters "CD" and the words "Compact Disc" are not trademarkable (as the USPTO does have a rule that no trademark can be a description of the product.... compact discs are, well, round things that are, relatively speaking, compact). So Sony can call it a CD. But they can't claim that it meets the CDDA standard (as it doesn't) and they can't use the CDDA logo, since that logo is trademarked.
Actually, the labels aren't putting CD Digital Audio labels on the CD's. Philips has refused to license it for that purpose, and since they have the trademark on the CDDA logo, the labels basically have to suck Philips' cock on this issue. If they put the logo on, then all sorts of fun things could occur, such as being forced to pay for each infringing CD. I haven't seen sales figures on the Celine Dion CD, but if Sony's put the logo on, Philips could probably get upwards of $5 million dollars from that CD alone, which would wipe out much of Sony's profit on that particular CD.
Come to think of it, that sounds like a good way to fight these frivolous patents: DDoS their servers...
Their site doesn't go into any detail because it's thoroughly slashdotted.
Really drives home the point, don't it? They patent web commerce and they can't keep their own servers from getting slashdotted. Pathetic.
Of course the fact that Switzerland may be the most Libertarian state on the face of the planet is not known by any of you.
Hell, they go beyond allowing anybody to buy a machine gun: by law, most households are required to have a government issued machine gun. This, of course, is part of why no one picks on Switzerland.
You are a moron.
Free and Open Source software is distributed under a contract. The only software that's not distributed under a contract is public domain software.
Plus, all sorts of evil groups like the Templars and Skull and Bones have used them!
About 10 years ago, my younger sister ruined a VCR when she put a pb&j sandwich in it.
I seem to remember Dvorak theorizing that last autumn. Doesn't the XBox use a very x86-like CPU, anyway? If that's the case, then I'd suspect that, once the price of the PS2 drops to $150 or so, they'll match that on the consoles, but sell a $99 emulator for XP.
Mod parent up.
Dual-licensing is one of the great things about the GPL. It simultaneously helps the cause of advocacy (there's a company behind the software, which makes many corporate IT people less skittish) and is a nice way of getting those who do not like Open Source to foot the bill.
Gotta give props to Tom Lehrer....
I'll buy a ticket for AOTC. I won't watch the film, but I have to see the teaser trailer for Bond 20: Die Another Day . I might stay around for the Matrix Reloaded trailer, also.
It took me a second to get it....
I'm kind of ashamed to admit it, but I was watching The Best Damn Sports Show, Period last night, and their interview with Iverson for an unpaid internship was priceless.
GO CELTICS!
Or, for those of you using RPM, download an SRPM and do rpm --rebuild my.srd.rpm
ROTFLMAO!
For those Slashdotters who do not follow US Sports, Allen Iverson is a guard for the Philadelphia 76ers.
So you use GNU/Linux. However, most users of Linux on workstations are using X a significant amount of the time (and GUIs, where they exist, are often considered part of the OS. So, for those people, XFree86/GNU/Linux is an apt moniker.
My view is that Linux describes the family of operating systems that use the Linux kernel. GNU is the family of OS's that use the GNU tools. GNU does not imply Linux, nor does Linux imply GNU. If I wanted to, I could hack up my own libc, compiler, shell, text editor [cum OS ;o) ], and analog to every GNU tool and run a GNU-free Linux system. And I can use the GNU tools on a non-Linux kernel. So Linux is fully valid as a family descriptor, as is GNU. GNU/Linux is the intersection of these families.
Uh, that text appears nowhere in the Constitution.
This is why CNN should randomly shuffle their urls, especially to foil those evil people that provide direct links to content. Remember, CNN is part of Turner (in turn part of AOLTW) and you're stealing ad impressions from Turner, which makes you a terrorist!
God, what a bad movie they made of that crap.
Any guy who sat through it with his SO deserves blowjobs from her every day for life. Even then, I'm not certain if that compensates for its unadulterated crappiness.
[I'm assuming that the systems were running OS X and XP, respectively]
How much could OS overhead play a part in the results? Does XP eat up an equivalent number of CPU cycles to OS X?
I couldn't find it in the article, but is AfterEffects AltiVec and/or 3DNow! optimized?
Uh, contract law?
You go buy a car. You sign a contract promising to pay the remaining $1500 within 6 months (I'm being very hypothetical here). What does the company do? They go after you for breach of contract.
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Isn't TRU64 the current name? née is used to refer to something's original name. It translates from French as "born", IIRC.
</pedant>That's basically what I was saying. They can't audit/fine US companies (they won't be able to get US courts to enforce them). But they can audit/fine any company that physically operates in the EU (such as Amazon, Yahoo, etc.). This is the same reason that Deutsche Bahn sued Google's German operation, but not the US corporation. The mistake that the French made was going after Yahoo! US, as opposed to Yahoo! France.