Secure Digital and xD is just a proprietary as Memory Stick. Why does everyone blame SONY for disagreeing on formats?
Oh BTW, MiniDisc is a great recording format. It just never took off as a distribution format in the United States. Sony's previous market introduction was too successfull... the Compact Audio Disc.
Apple has lots of cash too, but I doubt you'll be seing anyone buying/merging with Sony at all.
1st it's a Japanese company, and I don't see those guys allowing Americans to come in and wreck their management structure. Second, years of losses does not necessarily equate to going under. Sony is a powerhouse consumer electronics giant that is arguably the leader in the field. GM has been posting record losses lately as well, but do you really think that anyone could buy GM?
Yes, Sony does have to get those Playstations out the door this year. And when they do, it will be an incredible success regardless of costing $150 more than a stripped down Xbox360. Sony has way too much mindshare out there and tons of fans waiting to buy the machines. Once the PS3 goes out the door the videogames get sold to those rabid fans and thats how Sony makes their money. Oh yeah... that and they sell all those blu-ray fabs and jump-start blu-ray way past the point where HD-DVD will ever be able to catch up.
The word "Coca-Cola" was not in the lexicon before Coca-Cola was created. It is a combination of words that is quite unique and has a lot of value that is distinct to a particular product.
The word "Apple" is not distinct. An apple is a piece of fruit. According to Etymology.com it has been a word since 1300. 770 years of common use pretty much makes the word "apple" up for grabs.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=apple&s earchmode=none apple Look up apple at Dictionary.com
O.E. æppel "apple," from P.Gmc. *ap(a)laz (cf. O.Fris., Du. appel, O.N. eple, O.H.G. apful, Ger. Apfel), from PIE *ab(e)l "apple" (cf. Gaul. avallo, O.Ir. ubull, Lith. obuolys, O.C.S. jabloko), but the exact relation and original sense of these is uncertain. Gk. melon and L. malum are probably from a pre-I.E. Mediterranean language. A generic term for all fruit, other than berries but including nuts, as late as 17c., hence its use for the unnamed "fruit of the forbidden tree" in Genesis. Cucumbers, in one O.E. work, are eoræppla, lit. "earth-apples" (cf. Fr. pomme de terre "potato," lit. "earth-apple;" see also melon). Fr. pomme is from L. pomum "fruit."
"A roted eppel amang e holen, make rotie e yzounde." ["Ayenbite of Inwit," 1340]
Apple of Discord (c.1400) was thrown into the wedding of Thetis and Peleus by Eris (goddess of chaos and discord), who had not been invited, and inscribed kallisti "To the Prettiest One." Paris, elected to choose which goddess should have it, gave it to Aphrodite, offending Hera and Athene, with consequences of the Trojan War, etc. Apple of one's eye (O.E.), symbol of what is most cherished, was the pupil, supposed to be a globular solid body. Apple-polisher "one who curries favor" first attested 1928 in student slang.
The agreement seems to cover recordings in the form of discs, tapes and filaments. I don't think that electrons moving over a wire and then transported into computer memory qualifies.
I'll bet that Apple Records will make a claim that since the music is ultimately stores on disc, than it covers. But the music is not DISTRIBUTED on disc, tape or filament. It's distributed over low resistance wires (a filament is a high resistance wire).
My association with Apple is fruit. And by similar standards, I think that the Washington Apple Grower's association should be suing both Apple Computers and Apple Music.
In order to prove trademark infrigement, you need to prove that someone is highjacking the popularity of your brand to promote their own. It's pretty clear that this has never been the case with Apple Computer any more than Apple music was trying to to harness the popularity of Apple's to sell music. It was just a name they picked out of the air and went with.
Apple would do well to put this issue to rest once and for all by: a) Buying Apple Comp... or b) Fighting it tooth and nail to the Supreme Court
Actually, I think that Apple Computer should countersue Apple Music for infringing on their digital distribution branding. When that agreement was signed, there was nothing but analog distribution avenues. There was tape and vinyl thats it. And since that was the music business at the time, that was what the agreement covered.
Since than, Apple has been a pioneer in creating digital content distribution. And now Apple Music comes along and starts making CDs... a DIGITAL medium. Clearly Apple Music is trying to take advantage of Apple Computers trademarks on digital media.
There are mutiple ways of looking at things. This is a nuisance lawsuit and there has NEVER been any chance of confusing Apple Computers with Apple Records. The fact that they haven't produced any original product in a LONG, LONG time tells me even more that this is just a nuisance.
When Apple starts a music label and distributing CDs with apple labels, then they will be in breach.
Then again, so many of these are dummy H1-B and LZ-1 ads that are meant to be impossible to fill. They are put down and left there to rot for twelve months so the company can bring in their foreigners. No Americans need apply.
The issue here is that American (and European) workers fought hard battles to CREATE those high wage standards. These are political and social institutions. The foreigners are "jumping the fence" and short-circuiting everything the labor movement fought hard to earn.
The answer is NOT the depression of wages in the first world. The answer is the ELEVATION of wages in the 3rd world. This is a POLITICAL issue, not a trade issue. You can trade until the cows come home, the bare facts of the matter is if you don't have the political clout to fight for decent working standards and your proper share of the spoils of your labor, you'll ALWAYS end up with crap.
We cannot make anyone in the world richer by making ourselves poorer. It's time to SCRAP free trade and put up preferential trade systems that reward countries that treat labor fairly and punish countries (through progessive tariff levels) that treat labor poorly (like China, China, China and... China). China is a country of a billion slaves. Their standards will NEVER rise so long as oligarchs hold all the power.
Ultimately labor IS the economy. What you perceive as the "economy" is just the greed of the investor class, most of whom never had to sweat for their revenue.
And where may I ask are those "high value items made"? Are the Nike's made in San Francisco. Is that GM assembled in America? And what about those computers.
No doubt that it's the suits in the US that are running the show right now. But it won't take long for the foreign suits to realize that they don't need the Americans. Furthermore, I'm not sure the American suits even CARE. By the time the American economy collapses, they will have made their tens of millions and have retired next to a golf course. Their golden years will be comfy with lots of cheap as dirt house labor from people desperate to eat.
My 2008 candidate... Russ Feingold. He ain't perfect, but he's the guy who's been consistently RIGHT about pretty much everything since 1990 from globalization to the Iraq War, Russ was right.
There are those (mostly the religious right) who would argue the world is not overpopulated. This is particularly true in America, where vast swaths of empty wasteland in the west provide the illusion that there's plenty of room in the world, while neglecting the fact that the resources of 100 square miles of arid desert is doing well to support a single family, and in many cases can't even support a single human being without importing resources from elsewhere.
There are also vast swaths of land in north central Africa, Northern Canada and Russia as well as an entirety of Antarctica that are unpopulated. Just because the land is empty, it doesn't mean you want to build your homestead there. The America West suffers from a profound lack of WATER. Out west, "gimme your water" is shootin' words.
It's not a question of real estate, it's a question of resources.
Lets put it this way, humans are not going to ever loose their pinky finger if modern society goes on the way it is.
I don't think you can expect any MAJOR changes in an evolutionary model that does not ELIMINATE unfavorable characterists. We live in society's in which pretty much everybody reproduces and most of those reproductions end up reproducing themself. For those who cannot cope with society, we have public assistance and jail.
If anything, I believe modern evolutionary pressure (the last three hundred years) is producing more of the genes from people who have poor family planning skills and just cannot grasp or accept birth control. I fear what this pattern may produce in 20,000 years where people with less cognitive skills have 3-4 times more children than those with more cognitive skills. That and the other pressure for religious fanatics to have more children than those who take rational views of the world. Those with deep intellect could be forced to create a "Zardoz" society to protect themselves.
That sax was already too big for the kid. If you gave her a bari, she would have tipped over. You might as well gave her a 5 valved tuba to play.
I understand switching the instrument. But it would have been nice if they'd given the young actress some saxophone lessons so she knew how to mime playing correctly.
Were you under the impression that there are no lighthouses on the Pacific coast??? I suppose navigation didn't occur on the west coast until the invention of radio.
Since there is no crime in heaven, British Bobbies are the natural choice. Either that or Canadian mounties.
In hell, I think I'd want the KGB.
The way I heard it was:
Hell: German Humor French Engineering English Food
Heaven: German Engineering English Humor French Food
To the hell list I would like to amend American single serving faux cheese and Wonderbread. The heaven amendments speak for themselves. I would also like to amend Cricket and Soccer to the hell list and Football (American) to the Heaven list. I would like to add baseball to the hell list, but I'm afraid the Chevy and Ford Truck partisans would finally find unity in wanting to run me over.
At the power plant, you can see Mr Burns checking his watch and Smithers in the background.
On the street, the guy you call Jaques seems spot on for Lenny to me. Why would the opening credits feature a character that was only in one episode. This isn't South Park;-)
The only guy I thought was "spot on" was the band director. How could you mistake a hairstyle like that. The other guy I easily recognized was Lenny walking down the street. Than I picked up on Bleeding Gums Murphy and what was probably SUPPOSED to be Chief Wiggum.
It would have been nice if their was actually something funny at the end like a typical Simpsons opening.
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Secure Digital and xD is just a proprietary as Memory Stick. Why does everyone blame SONY for disagreeing on formats?
Oh BTW, MiniDisc is a great recording format. It just never took off as a distribution format in the United States. Sony's previous market introduction was too successfull
Apple has lots of cash too, but I doubt you'll be seing anyone buying/merging with Sony at all.
1st it's a Japanese company, and I don't see those guys allowing Americans to come in and wreck their management structure. Second, years of losses does not necessarily equate to going under. Sony is a powerhouse consumer electronics giant that is arguably the leader in the field. GM has been posting record losses lately as well, but do you really think that anyone could buy GM?
Yes, Sony does have to get those Playstations out the door this year. And when they do, it will be an incredible success regardless of costing $150 more than a stripped down Xbox360. Sony has way too much mindshare out there and tons of fans waiting to buy the machines. Once the PS3 goes out the door the videogames get sold to those rabid fans and thats how Sony makes their money. Oh yeah
hehe ... funny ... ... But I think Satan or God may have first dibs on the tree of knowledge and it's forbidden fruit.
The word "Coca-Cola" was not in the lexicon before Coca-Cola was created. It is a combination of words that is quite unique and has a lot of value that is distinct to a particular product.
s earchmode=none
The word "Apple" is not distinct. An apple is a piece of fruit. According to Etymology.com it has been a word since 1300. 770 years of common use pretty much makes the word "apple" up for grabs.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=apple&
apple Look up apple at Dictionary.com
O.E. æppel "apple," from P.Gmc. *ap(a)laz (cf. O.Fris., Du. appel, O.N. eple, O.H.G. apful, Ger. Apfel), from PIE *ab(e)l "apple" (cf. Gaul. avallo, O.Ir. ubull, Lith. obuolys, O.C.S. jabloko), but the exact relation and original sense of these is uncertain. Gk. melon and L. malum are probably from a pre-I.E. Mediterranean language. A generic term for all fruit, other than berries but including nuts, as late as 17c., hence its use for the unnamed "fruit of the forbidden tree" in Genesis. Cucumbers, in one O.E. work, are eoræppla, lit. "earth-apples" (cf. Fr. pomme de terre "potato," lit. "earth-apple;" see also melon). Fr. pomme is from L. pomum "fruit."
"A roted eppel amang e holen, make rotie e yzounde." ["Ayenbite of Inwit," 1340]
Apple of Discord (c.1400) was thrown into the wedding of Thetis and Peleus by Eris (goddess of chaos and discord), who had not been invited, and inscribed kallisti "To the Prettiest One." Paris, elected to choose which goddess should have it, gave it to Aphrodite, offending Hera and Athene, with consequences of the Trojan War, etc. Apple of one's eye (O.E.), symbol of what is most cherished, was the pupil, supposed to be a globular solid body. Apple-polisher "one who curries favor" first attested 1928 in student slang.
The agreement seems to cover recordings in the form of discs, tapes and filaments. I don't think that electrons moving over a wire and then transported into computer memory qualifies.
I'll bet that Apple Records will make a claim that since the music is ultimately stores on disc, than it covers. But the music is not DISTRIBUTED on disc, tape or filament. It's distributed over low resistance wires (a filament is a high resistance wire).
Michael is having cash problems. I would not be surprised if he sells the Beatles catalog to get the Neverland molestation farm up and running again.
My association with Apple is fruit. And by similar standards, I think that the Washington Apple Grower's association should be suing both Apple Computers and Apple Music.
In order to prove trademark infrigement, you need to prove that someone is highjacking the popularity of your brand to promote their own. It's pretty clear that this has never been the case with Apple Computer any more than Apple music was trying to to harness the popularity of Apple's to sell music. It was just a name they picked out of the air and went with.
Apple would do well to put this issue to rest once and for all by:
a) Buying Apple Comp
b) Fighting it tooth and nail to the Supreme Court
Actually, I think that Apple Computer should countersue Apple Music for infringing on their digital distribution branding. When that agreement was signed, there was nothing but analog distribution avenues. There was tape and vinyl thats it. And since that was the music business at the time, that was what the agreement covered.
Since than, Apple has been a pioneer in creating digital content distribution. And now Apple Music comes along and starts making CDs
There are mutiple ways of looking at things. This is a nuisance lawsuit and there has NEVER been any chance of confusing Apple Computers with Apple Records. The fact that they haven't produced any original product in a LONG, LONG time tells me even more that this is just a nuisance.
When Apple starts a music label and distributing CDs with apple labels, then they will be in breach.
Then again, so many of these are dummy H1-B and LZ-1 ads that are meant to be impossible to fill. They are put down and left there to rot for twelve months so the company can bring in their foreigners. No Americans need apply.
The issue here is that American (and European) workers fought hard battles to CREATE those high wage standards. These are political and social institutions. The foreigners are "jumping the fence" and short-circuiting everything the labor movement fought hard to earn.
The answer is NOT the depression of wages in the first world. The answer is the ELEVATION of wages in the 3rd world. This is a POLITICAL issue, not a trade issue. You can trade until the cows come home, the bare facts of the matter is if you don't have the political clout to fight for decent working standards and your proper share of the spoils of your labor, you'll ALWAYS end up with crap.
We cannot make anyone in the world richer by making ourselves poorer. It's time to SCRAP free trade and put up preferential trade systems that reward countries that treat labor fairly and punish countries (through progessive tariff levels) that treat labor poorly (like China, China, China and
Ultimately labor IS the economy. What you perceive as the "economy" is just the greed of the investor class, most of whom never had to sweat for their revenue.
And where may I ask are those "high value items made"? Are the Nike's made in San Francisco. Is that GM assembled in America? And what about those computers.
No doubt that it's the suits in the US that are running the show right now. But it won't take long for the foreign suits to realize that they don't need the Americans. Furthermore, I'm not sure the American suits even CARE. By the time the American economy collapses, they will have made their tens of millions and have retired next to a golf course. Their golden years will be comfy with lots of cheap as dirt house labor from people desperate to eat.
Thank You, you've saved me some typing.
... Russ Feingold. He ain't perfect, but he's the guy who's been consistently RIGHT about pretty much everything since 1990 from globalization to the Iraq War, Russ was right.
My 2008 candidate
Russ is for US!!!!
I've become a big fan of One Note. I record lectures and then my sparse notes effectively becomes an index for an audio recording.
This is truly the value of traditional note taking, it's a way of indexing your thoughts and memories.
I was lamenting a current trend of societies while being sarcastic at the same time. Lighten up.
We'll grow a 6th finger as a species if future law determines all political and legal outcomes based on piano competitions.
There are those (mostly the religious right) who would argue the world is not overpopulated. This is particularly true in America, where vast swaths of empty wasteland in the west provide the illusion that there's plenty of room in the world, while neglecting the fact that the resources of 100 square miles of arid desert is doing well to support a single family, and in many cases can't even support a single human being without importing resources from elsewhere.
There are also vast swaths of land in north central Africa, Northern Canada and Russia as well as an entirety of Antarctica that are unpopulated. Just because the land is empty, it doesn't mean you want to build your homestead there. The America West suffers from a profound lack of WATER. Out west, "gimme your water" is shootin' words.
It's not a question of real estate, it's a question of resources.
Lets put it this way, humans are not going to ever loose their pinky finger if modern society goes on the way it is.
I don't think you can expect any MAJOR changes in an evolutionary model that does not ELIMINATE unfavorable characterists. We live in society's in which pretty much everybody reproduces and most of those reproductions end up reproducing themself. For those who cannot cope with society, we have public assistance and jail.
If anything, I believe modern evolutionary pressure (the last three hundred years) is producing more of the genes from people who have poor family planning skills and just cannot grasp or accept birth control. I fear what this pattern may produce in 20,000 years where people with less cognitive skills have 3-4 times more children than those with more cognitive skills. That and the other pressure for religious fanatics to have more children than those who take rational views of the world. Those with deep intellect could be forced to create a "Zardoz" society to protect themselves.
That sax was already too big for the kid. If you gave her a bari, she would have tipped over. You might as well gave her a 5 valved tuba to play.
I understand switching the instrument. But it would have been nice if they'd given the young actress some saxophone lessons so she knew how to mime playing correctly.
Were you under the impression that there are no lighthouses on the Pacific coast??? I suppose navigation didn't occur on the west coast until the invention of radio.
Well, if you were to assume that Springfield is based on a REAL city
a) Springfield is next to an ocean.
b) Springfield is adjacent to a VERY large mountain (Mt. Springfield)
The Pacific Northwest is the only place where you will find the Ocean in near proximity to mountains.
But it's all fictional, made up and based on nothing but Americana so all the arguments are effectively moot.
Since there is no crime in heaven, British Bobbies are the natural choice. Either that or Canadian mounties.
In hell, I think I'd want the KGB.
The way I heard it was:
Hell:
German Humor
French Engineering
English Food
Heaven:
German Engineering
English Humor
French Food
To the hell list I would like to amend American single serving faux cheese and Wonderbread. The heaven amendments speak for themselves. I would also like to amend Cricket and Soccer to the hell list and Football (American) to the Heaven list. I would like to add baseball to the hell list, but I'm afraid the Chevy and Ford Truck partisans would finally find unity in wanting to run me over.
Comic Book Guy was not wearing shorts, nor was his belly hanging out of his shirt. And wow, we wasn't NEARLY fat enough.
At the power plant, you can see Mr Burns checking his watch and Smithers in the background.
On the street, the guy you call Jaques seems spot on for Lenny to me. Why would the opening credits feature a character that was only in one episode. This isn't South Park
The only guy I thought was "spot on" was the band director. How could you mistake a hairstyle like that. The other guy I easily recognized was Lenny walking down the street. Than I picked up on Bleeding Gums Murphy and what was probably SUPPOSED to be Chief Wiggum.
It would have been nice if their was actually something funny at the end like a typical Simpsons opening.