Free Market + Government Suggestion & Aid + Taxpayer Dollers = Working Economy
A "hey, we're probably going to have to sue you if you do this" seems equally like "suggestion" to me. This is part of how the contours of what's permissible and what's not get drawn, and companies in the future will look at this and say "Google and Yahoo went this far, but got warned off. To what extent is our deal like that one?"
Settle now. Pay the plaintiff's attorneys, pay the heads of the class action, and make the pedals available for, say, another year.
Almost by definition, it can't be much more expensive than fighting the lawsuit out, and it would make people feel a lot better about buying from the Rock Band franchise in the future.
Uh, what else? None of these have replaced the X11 standard.
True, but this isn't aiming to replace the X11 standard for all purposes, at least not for the moment. The article/interview seems to make it clear that the goal is to do lightweight sorts of things - login managers and screen savers first, remote desktop access later - that don't have necessarily complicated needs beyond being able to fire up quickly, not take up that much space, and hopefully look nice in the process.
"you may generally publicize your use of the Services" ==> you can have a "powered by EC2" blurb on your site or something.
"you may not issue any press release with respect to the Services or this Agreement" ==> you can't send out a PR saying "Now that we have the awesome power of AMAZON.COM behind us, with our awesome SLA, we can guarantee to our investors that the site will never stop working because AMAZON.COM is powering it!"
what part of that language captures published reviews?
Would you care to tell the overjoyed, newly freed Iraqi citizens who are throwing roses at our troops that we have no business there?
I thought our talking heads were always saying that Iraqi fighters were only trying to look pro-Saddam to improve their chances of not being killed by Saddam's regime.
Has nobody else thought that Iraqis celebrating the arrival of U.S. troops are just trying to look pro-American, to improve their chances of not being killed by U.S. forces?
Let's see how ordinary Iraqis feel about whether or not we have any business there after Saddam's been removed, and the war proper declared over...
It would seem to me that "public document" means things like city, county, state, and federal government documents: titles, public notices, restaurant licenses, land zoning lists, reports, laws, etc.
then take it back and demand a refund because it doesn't play properly on their equipment.
...until a DRM technology is mandated in every device via SSSCA/CBDTPA-style legislation, in which case merchants (especially chain consumer electronics stores) may find it more lucrative to take this route...
<Customer> I'd like to return this album, because it does not play in my computer.
<Clerk> How old is your computer?
<Customer> I bought it here back in 2001.
<Clerk, pointing at fine print on receipt> Sir, our store policy holds that you may not return any media items on the grounds of incompatibility, as we only endorse devices released after 2003. May I interest you in one of our new Integrated Media Stations? There's a 25% discount if you trade in any pre-2003 general-purpose PC.
<Customer> Er.. no thanks, I'm happy with what I have. So there's no way that I can return this?
<Clerk> No, but you can also have your old system overhauled by our technicians for a nominal fee. This includes labor, the cost of the new BIOS/DRM controller, and an upgrade to Microsoft.NET Workstation 2004...
Some might say that code beauty has much to do with the way it is read, or the way it looks, like this line of AppleScript which I thought up in about 3 seconds:
get the last word of "The day is at its end."
I don't find this beautiful... elegant, maybe. At this particular moment (which is tainted with fatigue and may not represent my usual thought process) I think that code beauty is about getting something done in an efficient way, taking every advantage available in the language and execution environment. Obfuscated code can be beautiful if it does what it does better than a more easily read version of said code can do.
Okay, enough of this for tonight... Eight hours of fluorescent light + 6 hours of staring at a CRT = a tired brain..
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Free Market + Government Intervention & Punishment + Taxpayers Dollers = LOLFAILWHALE ECONOMY
Free Market + Government Suggestion & Aid + Taxpayer Dollers = Working Economy
A "hey, we're probably going to have to sue you if you do this" seems equally like "suggestion" to me. This is part of how the contours of what's permissible and what's not get drawn, and companies in the future will look at this and say "Google and Yahoo went this far, but got warned off. To what extent is our deal like that one?"
Settle now. Pay the plaintiff's attorneys, pay the heads of the class action, and make the pedals available for, say, another year.
Almost by definition, it can't be much more expensive than fighting the lawsuit out, and it would make people feel a lot better about buying from the Rock Band franchise in the future.
Those of us who didn't have consoles as kids, and are enjoying these titles and genres for the first time!
A fellow bar patron put it best:
"BLUE TEAM WINS"
Uh, what else? None of these have replaced the X11 standard.
True, but this isn't aiming to replace the X11 standard for all purposes, at least not for the moment. The article/interview seems to make it clear that the goal is to do lightweight sorts of things - login managers and screen savers first, remote desktop access later - that don't have necessarily complicated needs beyond being able to fire up quickly, not take up that much space, and hopefully look nice in the process.
This isn't the New Linux Desktop. (unless it is.)
What?
"you may generally publicize your use of the Services" ==> you can have a "powered by EC2" blurb on your site or something.
"you may not issue any press release with respect to the Services or this Agreement" ==> you can't send out a PR saying "Now that we have the awesome power of AMAZON.COM behind us, with our awesome SLA, we can guarantee to our investors that the site will never stop working because AMAZON.COM is powering it!"
what part of that language captures published reviews?
Has nobody else thought that Iraqis celebrating the arrival of U.S. troops are just trying to look pro-American, to improve their chances of not being killed by U.S. forces?
Let's see how ordinary Iraqis feel about whether or not we have any business there after Saddam's been removed, and the war proper declared over...
It would seem to me that "public document" means things like city, county, state, and federal government documents: titles, public notices, restaurant licenses, land zoning lists, reports, laws, etc.
<Customer> I'd like to return this album, because it does not play in my computer.
<Clerk> How old is your computer?
<Customer> I bought it here back in 2001.
<Clerk, pointing at fine print on receipt> Sir, our store policy holds that you may not return any media items on the grounds of incompatibility, as we only endorse devices released after 2003. May I interest you in one of our new Integrated Media Stations? There's a 25% discount if you trade in any pre-2003 general-purpose PC.
<Customer> Er.. no thanks, I'm happy with what I have. So there's no way that I can return this?
<Clerk> No, but you can also have your old system overhauled by our technicians for a nominal fee. This includes labor, the cost of the new BIOS/DRM controller, and an upgrade to Microsoft .NET Workstation 2004...
get the last word of "The day is at its end."
I don't find this beautiful... elegant, maybe. At this particular moment (which is tainted with fatigue and may not represent my usual thought process) I think that code beauty is about getting something done in an efficient way, taking every advantage available in the language and execution environment. Obfuscated code can be beautiful if it does what it does better than a more easily read version of said code can do.
Okay, enough of this for tonight... Eight hours of fluorescent light + 6 hours of staring at a CRT = a tired brain..