Perhaps not misleading, but almost utterly useless as a source of information.
It would have been no less misleading and very nearly as accurate to have said "SCO said some stuff in some courts and some judges banged their hammers all official and some things done got decided." Not technically wrong, but not what you'd expect from an ostensibly professional journalist doing their day job. I guess there's no performance metrics in journalism.
Ditto. Please sing out if you find any. At the moment we just have a single (very nearly) context-free report, echoed ad infinitum. The reasoning (if any) behind the ACCC and Magistrates' decisions are what will matter in the long term.
Excellent! Now, let's put them in the right places in the diagram. Since they're all totally notable and significant and stuff, that part should be trivial.
Shocking, isn't it? There's, what, 120 names on it? So, go on, name 120 notable 'non Western' scientists, and we'll fix it. It's OK, we'll wait while you do that.
Maybe we could tackle it by incarcerating them in some sort of Super Brutal Murderous Rapist Prison, to keep the other brutal murderous rapists safe in their Regular Brutal Murderous Rapist Prison.
Ah, God bless liberals. Always with the "There's a problem! Someone needs to do something about it!"
Here's the problem: non brutal murderous rapists getting brutally murdered and raped. Here's the solution: stop pretending that it's possible to "rehabilitate" brutal murderous rapists, and just eat the costs of keeping them away from people that actually deserve protection indefinitely. We could cut parole hearings and the parole service to save money, for starters.
Yes, "worrying" is for people who don't have $50 billion in the bank. MPEG LA are more than welcome to start a patent ass kicking contest with that 800lb gorilla. Did I mention that it has sixteen legs and no ass?
You know, this "Yeah, feature-foo is hard to learn, but if you put the time in you'll come to love it" cognitive dissonance bullshit is exactly why Linux is and never will be ready for the desktop. And I say that from the perspective of an all-Ubuntu household.
I know, it's just like my boyfriend. Everyone says I should leave him, but it's bullshit. He only beats me up two, maybe three times a week, and it's probably my fault anyway for not loving him enough.
Here's the bit that makes me laugh. Games company mouthwhores make a statement saying (paraphrased) "Fuck you, used games traders, you God damn thieves", Penny Arcade kicks of a debate to air the issues, it hits Slashdot and we slap our throbbing opinions on the table, and... 99% of used game traders don't give a Goddamn. 99% of them don't know we're talking about this, don't know there even is a debate, and wouldn't care even if they did know.
So, I guess "Fuck you, Sony" is the implicit position of 99% of traders, and there's not one damn thing Sony, or EA or Nintendo or anyone else can do about it. Not. One. Damn. Thing.
To be technically correct - the best kind of correct - USB-IF's preferred name for USB 2.0 is "Hi-speed", not "high". Presumably they came up with the name at a Drive-Thru.
Interesting that you should mention Aliens, since I think the special edition is inferior to the theatrical release. The added scenes slow it down without adding anything. These scenes are generally edited out for a good reason. There are exceptions - Bladerunner being notable - but often the theatrical cut remains the most enjoyable viewing experience.
Bitch, "Rogerborg" is a handle that I started using when I wrote a (cy)borg client for the Netrek game back when the intartubes was just Bianca Troll's Smut Shack, that one picture of Cindy Crawford in a bikini, and alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die. It's got nothing at all to do with Star Trek, except in as much as Netrek is a direct ripoff of Star Trek and... oh... fair point. I'll get my coat.
Good point, and if LucalFilm don't intent to pimp underage Star Wars themed hookers, then OfficialJediJailbailSlutsInYourZipCode.com doesn't infringe either.
The industry relies on grinding up graduates who don't know any better, paying them chicken feed until they've proved themselves by getting their name on a published title (or everyone above them has quit). You're always working to someone else's vision, to someone else's requirements, and to someone else's standards of quality - which may be higher or lower than your own.
My epiphany came when driving home after "only" putting in 7 hours one Saturday, I felt like I'd had a day off, and I suddenly thought: "Wait... what if I didn't have to work at all at the weekend?"
Don't get me wrong, it's a great first job, if only to teach you how not to develop software.
Jedi is a word that they made up, and which they clearly use and continue to use as a trademark (irrespective of whether it's registered as such).
Further, trademarks are use-them-or-lose-them: if they don't defend it from "Jedi Mind", then they'll lose the ability to stop OfficialJediJailbailSlutsInYourZipCode.com from appropriating it too.
I'm sure "Jedi Mind's" products are really neat, but if so, they can survive on their own merits, with their own original name, rather than piggybacking on Lucas' creation. Trademarks are not patents, and you don't break Wheaton's Law by having and defending them.
You seem like a very, very angry person. I guess I'd be pretty furious too if I'd blown my load on an iPhone 4 and then had to wrap it in a rubber before I could finger it.
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Nope, Yarro already (de facto) own the actual remaining assets: the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. He doesn't need or want the furniture.
Perhaps not misleading, but almost utterly useless as a source of information.
It would have been no less misleading and very nearly as accurate to have said "SCO said some stuff in some courts and some judges banged their hammers all official and some things done got decided." Not technically wrong, but not what you'd expect from an ostensibly professional journalist doing their day job. I guess there's no performance metrics in journalism.
Ditto. Please sing out if you find any. At the moment we just have a single (very nearly) context-free report, echoed ad infinitum. The reasoning (if any) behind the ACCC and Magistrates' decisions are what will matter in the long term.
Excellent! Now, let's put them in the right places in the diagram. Since they're all totally notable and significant and stuff, that part should be trivial.
Shocking, isn't it? There's, what, 120 names on it? So, go on, name 120 notable 'non Western' scientists, and we'll fix it. It's OK, we'll wait while you do that.
Maybe we could tackle it by incarcerating them in some sort of Super Brutal Murderous Rapist Prison, to keep the other brutal murderous rapists safe in their Regular Brutal Murderous Rapist Prison.
Ah, God bless liberals. Always with the "There's a problem! Someone needs to do something about it!"
Here's the problem: non brutal murderous rapists getting brutally murdered and raped. Here's the solution: stop pretending that it's possible to "rehabilitate" brutal murderous rapists, and just eat the costs of keeping them away from people that actually deserve protection indefinitely. We could cut parole hearings and the parole service to save money, for starters.
Yes, that does tend to happen when you put all of the brutal murderous rapists in close proximity.
If you have some objection to it, then feel free to rehabilitate them at your house. Just let me know where you live so I can move to a safe distance.
Yes, "worrying" is for people who don't have $50 billion in the bank. MPEG LA are more than welcome to start a patent ass kicking contest with that 800lb gorilla. Did I mention that it has sixteen legs and no ass?
Being shot involves a "collision" with a "pebble size object". It's not the size, it's the energy.
You know, this "Yeah, feature-foo is hard to learn, but if you put the time in you'll come to love it" cognitive dissonance bullshit is exactly why Linux is and never will be ready for the desktop. And I say that from the perspective of an all-Ubuntu household.
You're either with the gargantuan effort to move the drinks cabinet six inches closer to Kandahar, or you're with the terrorists.
I know, it's just like my boyfriend. Everyone says I should leave him, but it's bullshit. He only beats me up two, maybe three times a week, and it's probably my fault anyway for not loving him enough.
So, I guess "Fuck you, Sony" is the implicit position of 99% of traders, and there's not one damn thing Sony, or EA or Nintendo or anyone else can do about it. Not. One. Damn. Thing.
I think he's going by "Justin" now.
And let's not forget: the cocaine nigger sure is hard to kill (aka the I CAN HAZ MOAR GUNZ? speech)
To be technically correct - the best kind of correct - USB-IF's preferred name for USB 2.0 is "Hi-speed", not "high". Presumably they came up with the name at a Drive-Thru.
I'm a lawyer! I'm just going to stand over there, and watch you. And wait. Carry on.
They can absorb up to 1000% more venture capitol before vanishing in an explosion that echoes away thusly "SUCKA.. sucka... sucka..."
Interesting that you should mention Aliens, since I think the special edition is inferior to the theatrical release. The added scenes slow it down without adding anything. These scenes are generally edited out for a good reason. There are exceptions - Bladerunner being notable - but often the theatrical cut remains the most enjoyable viewing experience.
Bitch, "Rogerborg" is a handle that I started using when I wrote a (cy)borg client for the Netrek game back when the intartubes was just Bianca Troll's Smut Shack, that one picture of Cindy Crawford in a bikini, and alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die. It's got nothing at all to do with Star Trek, except in as much as Netrek is a direct ripoff of Star Trek and... oh... fair point. I'll get my coat.
Good point, and if LucalFilm don't intent to pimp underage Star Wars themed hookers, then OfficialJediJailbailSlutsInYourZipCode.com doesn't infringe either.
Ditto to all of the above.
The industry relies on grinding up graduates who don't know any better, paying them chicken feed until they've proved themselves by getting their name on a published title (or everyone above them has quit). You're always working to someone else's vision, to someone else's requirements, and to someone else's standards of quality - which may be higher or lower than your own.
My epiphany came when driving home after "only" putting in 7 hours one Saturday, I felt like I'd had a day off, and I suddenly thought: "Wait... what if I didn't have to work at all at the weekend?"
Don't get me wrong, it's a great first job, if only to teach you how not to develop software.
Further, trademarks are use-them-or-lose-them: if they don't defend it from "Jedi Mind", then they'll lose the ability to stop OfficialJediJailbailSlutsInYourZipCode.com from appropriating it too.
I'm sure "Jedi Mind's" products are really neat, but if so, they can survive on their own merits, with their own original name, rather than piggybacking on Lucas' creation. Trademarks are not patents, and you don't break Wheaton's Law by having and defending them.
You seem like a very, very angry person. I guess I'd be pretty furious too if I'd blown my load on an iPhone 4 and then had to wrap it in a rubber before I could finger it.
Oh, was this a story about pen and paper D&D, rather than a computer game? I guess one of us got out of the retarded side of bed this morning.