The first two certain wouldn'y really be a childs product. The third is either, even though the Chessmaster series of games is typically too much for a young kid to really deal with well. And the last one is almost certainly targetted at young adults/children.
"Community?" Well maybe not. But "consumers" sure thing bud. Even if the product is targetted at kids, it's still the parents who are buying.
Actually everybody has the right under law to make low power broadcasts in the commercial frequencies. Like 20 feet or something like that. Probably isn't related though.
Digital will pretty much always have an advantage of perfect serial copies. Each time you record analog to analog you introduce additional noise as well as pick up some signal degradation. No matter how good your equipment is, the real world physical limits prevent perfect copies using analog equipment.
On the other hand you could argue that the data stored on your HD is analog, since it's retrieved with basically the same pickups used to store data on cassette. You can look at and interpret the signal with analog equipment, etc.
Well obvious to me anyway, maybe not to lawyers. Just take your banana and out run the gorilla. Oh wait, that's the solution to another problem. No, the real solution is to check the referer. A more complex is to maintain sessions within your website. And return hard core goat sex with children porn for everything else.
They don't need to call award to make a change to their BIOS. Award basically "sells" a BIOS kit to the manufacturer. The manufacturer then select which options are appriopriate, writes whatever custom code is necessary and types 'make'. Then sends Award a check for each unit sold.
If the machine people get is the one that is advertised, then you get what you paid for. If the use you were going to put it was not the one they were advertising then it's your own problem if it turns out that you can't use it the way you intended.
That'd be like me buying an airplane and then suying Cesna because I can't go to the moon in it.
Nah. The ideal situation would be an ethernet spigot and allow us to customize the setup of the box. Just stick 200gigs or so of disk on a server somewhere in the house and then these tivo boxes on each tv and let you build up archives and such. Store it remotely. Plan a end of season Arliss party or something like that.
Leaving out harddrives, etc. would just slow you down. Extra load on your communications channels is not something you want in a distributed mp machine.
And this is registered under.ch which happens to not be the TLD for France (.fr). It's the TLD for Switzerland, where there are four official languages and French is not the most predominantly used. By your logic one could claim the 'slashdot.org' domain because 'slashdot' means something in Swahili.
Well, Zero-Cool my friend, when you're done 'h4ck-ing 7h3 p14n3t' you can go do some research and you'll find that indead Coca-Cola Corp. does indeed hold a trademark on 'Coke' in the US and most likely in every country where they do business.
Coca-Cola is a multinational. They do business, pay taxes, employ people, register trademarks, and sell product in dozens if not hundreds of different countries.
Umm, you work for 3dfx don't you? nVidia in trouble? Heh. It must suck for nVidia to be the market leader, I mean look at how much trouble they are in.
If their software works (ie. it filters the sites that are in the list) does it matter if little Johnny sees a list of sites? He can't reach them unless the software sucks at which point they sold you a defective prorgram and possibly contributed to harming your child. See when you installed SuckerPatrol(TM) you thought it would prevent your kid from viewing material you considered inappropriate. So now you spend less time discussing these issues, because you expect them to not arise. However your kid is out there getting all of his viewpoints from the web and people who advertise "hot, deep, wet, live action!" because that sells. All your kid knows is the basest for of the expression of human love. And you didn't spend any time parenting because you had that wonderful, Scientologist sponsored, SuckerPatrol(TM) software installed.
Aren't you glad you decided to let some total strangers massage the material that goes into your kids head?
It's not up to Mattel to decide if they have liability, that's the courts job. Statements like "...we assume no liability..." are just there in an attempt to discourage people from suing.
A site that was not blocked before and it is blocked now under such a wide range of categories most likely has clear cause to seek damages in a court of law. Especially if they can show that the only thing new is that they now carry a program/document that Mattel doesn't like. So there is a direct correlation between their critizing Mattel and Mattel's decision to actively indicate that they are carrying material under the various filtering categories, even though Mattel knows they are not carrying such material. Given the broad scope of the blocks (ie. every possible category) it truly seems clear that Mattel's only intent is to prevent people from seeing the contents of the pages rather than provide the service that their product is advertised to provide. It would also be interesting to see what could happen in places where disclaiming warranties/functionality are illegal.
If you want to sound like you have a clue, don't make facts up. I can't think of a single artist who makes less than a penny per CD. I know there are quite a few who make very little there are also quite a few (those with talent and staying power) who make a real living selling CDs.
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Well of the four products on the page:
1 - Quicken Family Lawyer
2 - Calendar Creator Deluxe
3 - Chessmaster 7000
4 - Compton's Learning astronomy
The first two certain wouldn'y really be a childs product. The third is either, even though the Chessmaster series of games is typically too much for a young kid to really deal with well. And the last one is almost certainly targetted at young adults/children.
"Community?" Well maybe not. But "consumers" sure thing bud. Even if the product is targetted at kids, it's still the parents who are buying.
Actually everybody has the right under law to make low power broadcasts in the commercial frequencies. Like 20 feet or something like that. Probably isn't related though.
Digital will pretty much always have an advantage of perfect serial copies. Each time you record analog to analog you introduce additional noise as well as pick up some signal degradation. No matter how good your equipment is, the real world physical limits prevent perfect copies using analog equipment.
On the other hand you could argue that the data stored on your HD is analog, since it's retrieved with basically the same pickups used to store data on cassette. You can look at and interpret the signal with analog equipment, etc.
Well obvious to me anyway, maybe not to lawyers. Just take your banana and out run the gorilla. Oh wait, that's the solution to another problem. No, the real solution is to check the referer. A more complex is to maintain sessions within your website. And return hard core goat sex with children porn for everything else.
No, there might be a test of whether a no cost licensing is revocable. Not a test of the GPL.
Mattel is in the computer business. Go to www.shopmattel.com if you don't believe. Four computer products shown on the front page.
I should mention that there is a fifth postulated force of nature, the repulive force.
Which can be observed any time Rosanne Barr enters a club.
...but they certainly can't sue the city for having a street there for me to scream in.
And yet we still have the tobacco and gun lawsuits.
Unless you can find a use that will recover/save hundreds of millions of dollars every year, it is much better to burn the mofos up.
They don't need to call award to make a change to their BIOS. Award basically "sells" a BIOS kit to the manufacturer. The manufacturer then select which options are appriopriate, writes whatever custom code is necessary and types 'make'. Then sends Award a check for each unit sold.
Loss leader. So your $100 * 1000 - ($350 * 1000) = -$250,000. Yeah that's how I want to run my business.
If the machine people get is the one that is advertised, then you get what you paid for. If the use you were going to put it was not the one they were advertising then it's your own problem if it turns out that you can't use it the way you intended.
That'd be like me buying an airplane and then suying Cesna because I can't go to the moon in it.
Um, so you violate their terms and conditions? What can they do, turn off your access to their ISP service? Woo.
Nah. The ideal situation would be an ethernet spigot and allow us to customize the setup of the box. Just stick 200gigs or so of disk on a server somewhere in the house and then these tivo boxes on each tv and let you build up archives and such. Store it remotely. Plan a end of season Arliss party or something like that.
Leaving out harddrives, etc. would just slow you down. Extra load on your communications channels is not something you want in a distributed mp machine.
Or in typical slashdot fashion clustering+linux=beowulf, regardless of the realities of the situation.
All the US needs to do to put the screws to Taiwan is to do nothing. Just tell China "Hey we don't care. Do what you will, we're staying out of it."
Um. Yet you aren't seeing any corps, individuals registering under .gov either are you? They're controlling at the gate.
And this is registered under .ch which happens to not be the TLD for France (.fr). It's the TLD for Switzerland, where there are four official languages and French is not the most predominantly used. By your logic one could claim the 'slashdot.org' domain because 'slashdot' means something in Swahili.
Well, Zero-Cool my friend, when you're done 'h4ck-ing 7h3 p14n3t' you can go do some research and you'll find that indead Coca-Cola Corp. does indeed hold a trademark on 'Coke' in the US and most likely in every country where they do business.
Coca-Cola is a multinational. They do business, pay taxes, employ people, register trademarks, and sell product in dozens if not hundreds of different countries.
Umm, you work for 3dfx don't you? nVidia in trouble? Heh. It must suck for nVidia to be the market leader, I mean look at how much trouble they are in.
If their software works (ie. it filters the sites that are in the list) does it matter if little Johnny sees a list of sites? He can't reach them unless the software sucks at which point they sold you a defective prorgram and possibly contributed to harming your child. See when you installed SuckerPatrol(TM) you thought it would prevent your kid from viewing material you considered inappropriate. So now you spend less time discussing these issues, because you expect them to not arise. However your kid is out there getting all of his viewpoints from the web and people who advertise "hot, deep, wet, live action!" because that sells. All your kid knows is the basest for of the expression of human love. And you didn't spend any time parenting because you had that wonderful, Scientologist sponsored, SuckerPatrol(TM) software installed.
Aren't you glad you decided to let some total strangers massage the material that goes into your kids head?
It's not up to Mattel to decide if they have liability, that's the courts job. Statements like "...we assume no liability..." are just there in an attempt to discourage people from suing.
A site that was not blocked before and it is blocked now under such a wide range of categories most likely has clear cause to seek damages in a court of law. Especially if they can show that the only thing new is that they now carry a program/document that Mattel doesn't like. So there is a direct correlation between their critizing Mattel and Mattel's decision to actively indicate that they are carrying material under the various filtering categories, even though Mattel knows they are not carrying such material. Given the broad scope of the blocks (ie. every possible category) it truly seems clear that Mattel's only intent is to prevent people from seeing the contents of the pages rather than provide the service that their product is advertised to provide. It would also be interesting to see what could happen in places where disclaiming warranties/functionality are illegal.
If you want to sound like you have a clue, don't make facts up. I can't think of a single artist who makes less than a penny per CD. I know there are quite a few who make very little there are also quite a few (those with talent and staying power) who make a real living selling CDs.