Zenger claimed Google delayed Isys' trademark registration until it could launch its own Chromebooks last month, "thereafter demanding that Isys cease and desist using its ChromiumPC mark and abandon its application for registration".
Now, that's a bit different from the "Tiny launched bizarrely quixotic suit against Google hoping to make some fast bucks" implied by the headline, isn't it?
Hey, Mike Thingy of Whatever Games, how's Wratchet and Clank 5: The Milkening coming along? Had any new ideas or done anything original in the last half decade? Hmmmmmm?
Because if you're not in Congress, and I'm not in Congress, and neither of us can afford to buy a Representative or Senator, why are we fantasizing that our opinions matter?
Pssst, little word over here. You can't refute an accusation that Microsoft screws over developers by saying that developers who got screwed over by Microsoft were fools.
Does he really think that "consumers" are going to give a stuff what he says, in any significant numbers? eBooks are now outselling print books no Amazon, and that's not even including freebies. The tide is already up to his neckbeard.
And is he really labouring under the delusion that any device manufacturer can market a feature-equivalent device to a Nook or Kindle at competitive prices without the subsidy that those devices enjoy? In the UK, the Sony PRS pocket edition (5" screen) is currently GBP 149, compared to GBP 111 for a 6" Kindle. Why would my wife, brother, mother pay (exactly) 1/3 extra for less functionality?
I just can't see who he thinks his audience is. The choir is already singing along, but our long suffering siblings, parents and spouses just want to read their Sparkly Vampires in peace, without some smelly hippy yelling that their convenient, idiot proof device is, uh... ZOMFG-the-corporations-they're-all-corporationy.
Incidentally, the Kindle actually comes with instructions on how to get free (as in everything) books from Project Guttenberg. It's not like you have to use it to prop up the military-industrial junta.
Agreed, although I was going to say that Google suggests a solution: you don't ask permission, you just do it, and damn their eyes. Make "rights" holders bring the cases and show how much they've been "damaged".
With respect, I believe that Lessig also answered in abstract terms because he's a tenured professor with a strictly theoretical knowledge of the law, and (demonstrably) very little understanding of how courts and judges actually operate. Ultimately, his argument was reduced to "Aw, c'mon", and appropriately enough, his textbook knowledge has provided a textbook example of how not to argue a case.
Don't, whatever you do, take 30 seconds to read past the headline and find what the article is actually about, please. It really spoils the arm pumping action following a First Post.
To emphasise that, in 2002 Saddam Hussein stopped accepting US $$$ for Iraqi oil. 6 months later, he was hiding in a hole in the ground while his country burned down around him. If you're still asking "Why?", you really don't have to look any further than that.
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Because for every modest or major financial success like Sin City or 300 there's a modest or major flop like Watchmen or Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
Unless your source text has wizards, hobbits or sparkly vampires to draw a guaranteed audience, it's hellishly difficult to persuade a mogul to finance your "comic thing".
If the two were created in equal amounts, why is the universe we see mostly positive matter?
The universe should be soup anyway. Something went went wrong with the recipe, and it got lumpy. Given the essential improbability of our existence, I don't have a problem with all the extant matter being hither and all the extant antimatter yonder, on the galactic or galactic-cluster scale.
However, last year, the UK's wind farms produced around 22% of their maximum rated power. You know, the headline figure that's always trotted out for propaganda purposes, ignoring the real question: how much does fossil fuel use decrease as wind farms come online?
During a particularly windy day last week, Europe's largest onshore wind farm at Whitelee outside Glasgow had to feather its turbines and was drawing power from the grid so that Ecomentals could enjoy its visitor centre. Bless 'em.
Not so hasty, now. They'll also throw up even more PV panels and a few wind turbines to keep the Econmentals happy. As long as nobody tells them that the coal plant hidden in the next valley needs to keep burning as well for when the wind drops or a cloud covers the sun, they'll keep happily knitting yoghurt and voting for whichever party pretends to pander to them the most. Ignorance truly is bliss.
Please, whatever you do, nobody change the question from "How much more energy are we generating from dolphin-friendly sources" to "How much less fossil fuels are we burning". You might not like the answer very much.
My impression of Doctorow is that he's got so used to preaching to the choir from within the cloisters of BoingBoing that he has lost the stomach for listening to dissenting voices.
Rather what the eG8 is being accused of, now that I think about it.
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I'm just saying, being sober would come across as pretty suspicious.
Now, that's a bit different from the "Tiny launched bizarrely quixotic suit against Google hoping to make some fast bucks" implied by the headline, isn't it?
Hey, Mike Thingy of Whatever Games, how's Wratchet and Clank 5: The Milkening coming along? Had any new ideas or done anything original in the last half decade? Hmmmmmm?
House or Senate?
Because if you're not in Congress, and I'm not in Congress, and neither of us can afford to buy a Representative or Senator, why are we fantasizing that our opinions matter?
Sorry nerds, some of us really are sexual tyrannosaurs.
Beats me. That's a dealbreaker. Switching from IE to Chrome, OK, I can see that. But from Firefox? I just don't get it.
Of course, I'm posting this from Lynx (for realsies) so I may not be representative even of Slashtards.
Pssst, little word over here. You can't refute an accusation that Microsoft screws over developers by saying that developers who got screwed over by Microsoft were fools.
Good point. I score "Funny" as -1, because chuckleheads always be chucklin'.
That's nice. How much has their use of fossil fuels decreased?
Does he really think that "consumers" are going to give a stuff what he says, in any significant numbers? eBooks are now outselling print books no Amazon, and that's not even including freebies. The tide is already up to his neckbeard.
And is he really labouring under the delusion that any device manufacturer can market a feature-equivalent device to a Nook or Kindle at competitive prices without the subsidy that those devices enjoy? In the UK, the Sony PRS pocket edition (5" screen) is currently GBP 149, compared to GBP 111 for a 6" Kindle. Why would my wife, brother, mother pay (exactly) 1/3 extra for less functionality?
I just can't see who he thinks his audience is. The choir is already singing along, but our long suffering siblings, parents and spouses just want to read their Sparkly Vampires in peace, without some smelly hippy yelling that their convenient, idiot proof device is, uh... ZOMFG-the-corporations-they're-all-corporationy.
Incidentally, the Kindle actually comes with instructions on how to get free (as in everything) books from Project Guttenberg. It's not like you have to use it to prop up the military-industrial junta.
Agreed, although I was going to say that Google suggests a solution: you don't ask permission, you just do it, and damn their eyes. Make "rights" holders bring the cases and show how much they've been "damaged".
With respect, I believe that Lessig also answered in abstract terms because he's a tenured professor with a strictly theoretical knowledge of the law, and (demonstrably) very little understanding of how courts and judges actually operate. Ultimately, his argument was reduced to "Aw, c'mon", and appropriately enough, his textbook knowledge has provided a textbook example of how not to argue a case.
:rolls eyes, sighs.
Don't, whatever you do, take 30 seconds to read past the headline and find what the article is actually about, please. It really spoils the arm pumping action following a First Post.
To emphasise that, in 2002 Saddam Hussein stopped accepting US $$$ for Iraqi oil. 6 months later, he was hiding in a hole in the ground while his country burned down around him. If you're still asking "Why?", you really don't have to look any further than that.
Because for every modest or major financial success like Sin City or 300 there's a modest or major flop like Watchmen or Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
Unless your source text has wizards, hobbits or sparkly vampires to draw a guaranteed audience, it's hellishly difficult to persuade a mogul to finance your "comic thing".
Fixed that for you. No charge; us... uh... "Ivory" Leaguers just love to help out the disadvantaged.
The universe should be soup anyway. Something went went wrong with the recipe, and it got lumpy. Given the essential improbability of our existence, I don't have a problem with all the extant matter being hither and all the extant antimatter yonder, on the galactic or galactic-cluster scale.
Weaponised bananas? You know it's only a matter of time until the damn dirty apes get their stinking paws on them, right?
Mmm, if you say so.
However, last year, the UK's wind farms produced around 22% of their maximum rated power. You know, the headline figure that's always trotted out for propaganda purposes, ignoring the real question: how much does fossil fuel use decrease as wind farms come online?
During a particularly windy day last week, Europe's largest onshore wind farm at Whitelee outside Glasgow had to feather its turbines and was drawing power from the grid so that Ecomentals could enjoy its visitor centre. Bless 'em.
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If you're going to add some bullshit controversy to get your story posted on Slashdot, at least compare them to Apple zealots.
You'd have to be nearly omniscient to know that.
MeccOS.
Not so hasty, now. They'll also throw up even more PV panels and a few wind turbines to keep the Econmentals happy. As long as nobody tells them that the coal plant hidden in the next valley needs to keep burning as well for when the wind drops or a cloud covers the sun, they'll keep happily knitting yoghurt and voting for whichever party pretends to pander to them the most. Ignorance truly is bliss.
Please, whatever you do, nobody change the question from "How much more energy are we generating from dolphin-friendly sources" to "How much less fossil fuels are we burning". You might not like the answer very much.
My impression of Doctorow is that he's got so used to preaching to the choir from within the cloisters of BoingBoing that he has lost the stomach for listening to dissenting voices.
Rather what the eG8 is being accused of, now that I think about it.
But they have built the ultimate robotic buggy whip.