P2P is no more a threat to the entertainment industries than the VCR and cassette were.
But the "VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone"!!! Jack Valenti told us that, and he wouldn't lie, would he?
the companies that were making clones banded together and standardized on a new open architecture (the ISA bus, IIRC)
No, the ISA bus was already out there (it was the 16-bit AT bus). The So-called "Gang of Nine" created the EISA bus, which was also backwards compatible with ISA cards.
Try working a touchscreen while wearing arctic gloves. When I was working on a touchscreen based product for the Army, I made sure to bring my ski gloves in as a "unit test". Not as fat as arctic gloves, but still a reasonable test.
As far as I can see, most of these areas would probably relate to evidence that was excluded by the judge before the trial even began -- during the discovery phase.
Hell, we had a "Name That Task" contest... and this was at a defense contractor! The winning entry was "BOMBED".
My boss told me about the time that he wrote a fire unit check routine, and was told to rename it (think about it). They also had a debug flag named SEXBUG, and there was a routine named BANANA. Because the original names was ACCES, and there was already an ACCESS routine. BANANA stood for "By Any Name ACCES Not ACCESS".
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And when you decide to move? The entire neighborhood goes to hell in a handbasket.
I'm not sure whether to mod you +1 funny or -1 troll.
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I believe GP was referring to the fact that in the US, DVD playback software can't be shipped on a box without a license from the DVDCCA. Thank you so much for the DMCA, Congress.
A huge settlement won by an ISP's customer for participation in such kangaroo proceedings would go a long way in halting their cooperation with such proceedings
A huge settlement won by an ISP's customer for participation in such kangaroo proceedings would go a long way in getting the law changed so they can legally mess with our packets.
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4GB should be enough for anybody!
How could this possibly be off-topic?
P2P is no more a threat to the entertainment industries than the VCR and cassette were.
But the "VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone"!!! Jack Valenti told us that, and he wouldn't lie, would he?
Could have been worse. She could have been named "Seigfried".
[yeah, I know Roy is her last name]
NH is "Live Free or Die!", which is even better.
the companies that were making clones banded together and standardized on a new open architecture (the ISA bus, IIRC)
No, the ISA bus was already out there (it was the 16-bit AT bus). The So-called "Gang of Nine" created the EISA bus, which was also backwards compatible with ISA cards.
Precisely, Sloppy.
MS has a vested interest in Apple winning this one.
Haven't we all seen the stories of MS insisting you can't move your OEM copy of Windows to new hardware -- that it's tied to one computer only?
If Psystar wins, that goes out the window.
No, it's the BSG equivalent of the \i{Star Wars Holiday Special}.
Military.
Try working a touchscreen while wearing arctic gloves. When I was working on a touchscreen based product for the Army, I made sure to bring my ski gloves in as a "unit test". Not as fat as arctic gloves, but still a reasonable test.
Oh, I don't know....
When I was in college, we (the students) were pushing for the CIS department to offer a course in...
wait for it...
VAX assembly.
That's real useful now, isn't it?
Or, to quote Asimov:
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new ...'
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny
As far as I can see, most of these areas would probably relate to evidence that was excluded by the judge before the trial even began -- during the discovery phase.
Except that was mostly in IBM, not Novell.
Really? I thought it was "Getting Hit on the Head" lessons! Hwaaagh!
Business method patents were legal until last month. Bilski pretty much drove the nail in the coffin.
Doesn't the Bilski decision make Amazon's chances on appeal/re-exam pretty much dead?
I mean, even Captain Kirk went to Outer Space to get away from Iowa!
When I was at a defense contractor, I put an easter egg into some code that was internal use only -- between us and our system test group.
Once they decided to try to sell it to actual customers, the easter egg went away very quickly.
Too bad, it was fun... a curses-based easter egg.
Damn, somebody has no sense of humor.
Hell, we had a "Name That Task" contest... and this was at a defense contractor! The winning entry was "BOMBED".
My boss told me about the time that he wrote a fire unit check routine, and was told to rename it (think about it).
They also had a debug flag named SEXBUG, and there was a routine named BANANA. Because the original names was ACCES, and there was already an ACCESS routine. BANANA stood for "By Any Name ACCES Not ACCESS".
And when you decide to move? The entire neighborhood goes to hell in a handbasket.
I was kind of thinking about the new-series Cybermen. They seem to be more drone-like than the older ones.
Hey, I live in LA as well, and yeah, the stinger about LA could be marked insightful, but I was referring to the paranoid conpsiracy theory(tm).
I'm not sure whether to mod you +1 funny or -1 troll.
I believe GP was referring to the fact that in the US, DVD playback software can't be shipped on a box without a license from the DVDCCA. Thank you so much for the DMCA, Congress.
A huge settlement won by an ISP's customer for participation in such kangaroo proceedings would go a long way in halting their cooperation with such proceedings
A huge settlement won by an ISP's customer for participation in such kangaroo proceedings would go a long way in getting the law changed so they can legally mess with our packets.
There. Corrected that for you.
Depends on which quagmire you're referring too... Giggety, giggety.
[Yes, I know you were talking about "harbinger" as your big word.]