Fine it isn't a patent. So can I say trademark the smell of mesquite on cooked cow? How about trademarking a smell on a product that is tough to produce without the smell, I can't think of one just now, but you get the idea.
Doesn't this story just smack of something Ray Bradbury might have written? It reminds me of one of the television episodes I saw years ago about a child that was given an IQ test, and then when the results were too high he was murdered. This stuff is scary as hell, and I have been out of high school for years.
You know, with all the legal sidestepping that everyone does these days (thanks to the US legal system), it seems like we need some sort of "reasonable person" clause. Something to the effect that any language used by a company in an official legal manner is only acceptable if a reasonable person would be able to read it, and be able to comprehend it.
This would certainly do away with the twenty pages of text that scroll by at the end of any commercial for a contest, if a reasonable person couldn't read it...
This would also help the average joe in understanding just how he is being screwed by a number of companies. If the company has to print out in clear language just exactly how they are going to stick it to you...
This may be oversimplifying things, but what if we were to compare him to a convicted jewel thief that just happened to have some sort of "super-vault" the feds couldn't open. Would we expect them to give it back without him opening it in that case?
I shudder to think of the number of holes that will be found once the solaris 8 source code is released to the general public. (possibly showing my ignorance if it already has...)
I think everyone is missing the point here, which really has nothing to do with the fact that the thing runs linux. The point is that my viewing habits are no longer dictated by someone else. I can watch whatever I want, when I want, and I don't have to watch the commercials to boot. I know you can do this with a VCR, but it is a bit of a pain. This box makes it effortless.
The neat thing is that this is just the first generation.
This is obviously not a "one size fits all" solution, but I can see where this would do very nicely. A school library for one. Think about it, no noisy fans, no clunky cases getting kicked around... The kids can walk in, sit down at a terminal, work on their paper or whatever, and walk out. Every terminal looks exactly alike, and you don't have to worry about some kid messing with anything on the client. Sounds like a pretty good fit to me.
I think its great personally. Being able to track what people are doing in a corporate setting is a good thing. It makes administration a lot easier, and can save lots of dollars.
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Fine it isn't a patent. So can I say trademark the smell of mesquite on cooked cow? How about trademarking a smell on a product that is tough to produce without the smell, I can't think of one just now, but you get the idea.
I think this is another case of a slippery slope.
Doesn't this story just smack of something Ray Bradbury might have written? It reminds me of one of the television episodes I saw years ago about a child that was given an IQ test, and then when the results were too high he was murdered. This stuff is scary as hell, and I have been out of high school for years.
You know, with all the legal sidestepping that everyone does these days (thanks to the US legal system), it seems like we need some sort of "reasonable person" clause. Something to the effect that any language used by a company in an official legal manner is only acceptable if a reasonable person would be able to read it, and be able to comprehend it.
This would certainly do away with the twenty pages of text that scroll by at the end of any commercial for a contest, if a reasonable person couldn't read it...
This would also help the average joe in understanding just how he is being screwed by a number of companies. If the company has to print out in clear language just exactly how they are going to stick it to you...
This may be oversimplifying things, but what if we were to compare him to a convicted jewel thief that just happened to have some sort of "super-vault" the feds couldn't open. Would we expect them to give it back without him opening it in that case?
I shudder to think of the number of holes that will be found once the solaris 8 source code is released to the general public. (possibly showing my ignorance if it already has...)
I wonder if it would be able to play mp3s on a writeable DVD disk?
I think everyone is missing the point here, which really has nothing to do with the fact that the thing runs linux. The point is that my viewing habits are no longer dictated by someone else. I can watch whatever I want, when I want, and I don't have to watch the commercials to boot. I know you can do this with a VCR, but it is a bit of a pain. This box makes it effortless.
The neat thing is that this is just the first generation.
This is obviously not a "one size fits all" solution, but I can see where this would do very nicely. A school library for one. Think about it, no noisy fans, no clunky cases getting kicked around... The kids can walk in, sit down at a terminal, work on their paper or whatever, and walk out. Every terminal looks exactly alike, and you don't have to worry about some kid messing with anything on the client. Sounds like a pretty good fit to me.
Well, I suppose we all just need to start writing
everything in cobol, that should make us way more
productive than everyone else. Right?
Don't SPARCs have serial numbers in them?
I think its great personally. Being able to track
what people are doing in a corporate setting is a
good thing. It makes administration a lot easier,
and can save lots of dollars.