Your analogy is wrong. Applying for the trademark application is more like developing weapons technology, not using it. You then have the option to use those weapons if you need to, but also have the option to negotiate if you choose. Walmart should both challenge the trademark application and at the same time make a specific application for their version of the smiley face (which is somewhat unique to Walmart). There is no reason for Walmart to commit to one type of action... just as you can develop weapons technology while holding talks with your enemies. This isn't a mutually exclusive decision.
Yes, these vendors are stating a fact. A new security system will mean a rewrite of the code that was dependant on the old system. That's to be expected. But what they're really doing here is starting the opening salvo in their justification for new versions of their software that they'll foist on the enterprise customers and no doubt make a nice profit. They'll reduce features and blame it on rewriting for Vista. Their will be bugs... and every one of them is going to be, as much as is possible, blamed on Vista. Vista's a scapegoat that the vendors are going to use to shift blame and scrutiny away from themselves and their products.
Thou shant quote from comic books and expect to be taken seriously anywhere other than/. (Put that one in your pocket and take it with you young man).
This one's for stupid ghey fanbois
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Seriously, this is only going to piss users off. They'll think your site is broken and only works with some browser they have to go install. If they've never heard of Firefox... maybe they'll think it's spyware. If they know what Firefox is they'll most likely be pissed that you're so arrogant as to monitor which browser they're using and either try to push your idiotic ideas on them.
Stick with the Firefox logos and sharing the browser with friends. People who load this script on their sites are only trying to impress their fanboi friends.
Ah yes, the old "their rich their bad" argument. Anything can be written about "the rich" and it's ok, but if they dare to defend themselves against false statements or act in a lawful and fair way then we can't have that now can we. Did Walmart buy the Wikipedia and shut it down? Are they paying hackers to destroy the service? Is there actually anything more then speculation about Walmart's involvement? People don't like Walmart for various reasons, many of them are idiotic or are only levied against Walmart because their big and successful. It's hip to hate Walmart... and you my dear are just another stupid stinking useless hippie. I can almost smell the stink of your anonymous hands on your post.
titled, Hippies ware on Walmart co-ops Wiki and my paranoid ramblings about Walmart's response. I guess it doesn't really roll off of the tounge. What is wrong with people who support Walmart excercising their rights to add/edit/remove and sort content on an open forum like Wikipedia? Are we only in favor of people who agree with whatever view you have adding information? So that the content can become extremely one-sided and skewed? A corporation works mostly because they pay people... so if they have to pay people to protect their image, and correct information on a public form acting within the guidelines of that forum is that wrong? Nope... well I guess it is if you're a conspiracy theory loving hippie.
Or are the bad guys also only working 40 hour weeks?
Yeah, actually according to union policy we can only work 40 hours per week without recieving overtime compensation. Also if you work after hours we're to recieve an extra 50% on our normal hourly rate. Unfortunately for us this has created a real problem because most evil organizations prefer to use bad guys in Iraq, Pakistan, or other low cost locations around the world we're non-unionized bad guys will work for a promise of a harem of virgins in the after life. We just can't compete. So I'm not really surprised that Amazon is taking advantage of a bad situation.
Most people don't care about DRM at all. They care about getting their content cheap and easy. They don't mind paying $2 for an episode of Lost even if they can only watch it on 5 computers. Big deal... they got the episode of Lost they missed. I think this is the mainstream. Obviously, it's not everyone... some people hate DRM... some people know where to get copies of this stuff for free and don't mind dealing with the legal consequences. I think as legal, affordable, alternatives to free illegal content is made available people will begin to use it... of course the content owners are going to have to keep fighting the illegal or quasi-legal alternatives (w/ legit legal cases or FUD... either way they confuse the public).
Right now, DRM doesn't entirely prevent music from showing up in the P2P space. It's too easy to copy an unprotected CD or break the DRM. Give it 10 years though and I doubt that will be the case. The media companies are going to keep pushing and pushing for hardware-based DRM and technologies that limit what can be copied. That's going to be an uphill battle for them, but I think in the end we'll see a much more DRMed environment in the next 10 years than we do today. DRM will still be circumvented, but it will be a lot harder to do, and will most likely be very obvious that the non-DRMed media is an illegal copy.
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Ha ha. That's funny... everyone knows the best of both worlds is here.
Yes! I've been saying the same thing about CP/M and DOS 6.1 for years now.
Well if you use Gentoo already then you're a prime candidate for using BSD, because like BSD, Gentoo is following BSD down the path to oblivion.
Is it possible to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Your analogy is wrong. Applying for the trademark application is more like developing weapons technology, not using it. You then have the option to use those weapons if you need to, but also have the option to negotiate if you choose. Walmart should both challenge the trademark application and at the same time make a specific application for their version of the smiley face (which is somewhat unique to Walmart). There is no reason for Walmart to commit to one type of action... just as you can develop weapons technology while holding talks with your enemies. This isn't a mutually exclusive decision.
Yes, these vendors are stating a fact. A new security system will mean a rewrite of the code that was dependant on the old system. That's to be expected. But what they're really doing here is starting the opening salvo in their justification for new versions of their software that they'll foist on the enterprise customers and no doubt make a nice profit. They'll reduce features and blame it on rewriting for Vista. Their will be bugs... and every one of them is going to be, as much as is possible, blamed on Vista. Vista's a scapegoat that the vendors are going to use to shift blame and scrutiny away from themselves and their products.
Does anyone here every feel like you might be a human version of Pavlov's famous canine friend.
/. editor posts story: blah blah blah Microsoft blah.
/.er: foams at the mouth
The hero's spaceship in Battle Beyond the Stars was shaped like a set of boobs. What more could you ask for?
Real boobs.
Is it as good as Robot Jox?
Thou shant quote from comic books and expect to be taken seriously anywhere other than /. (Put that one in your pocket and take it with you young man).
Seriously, this is only going to piss users off. They'll think your site is broken and only works with some browser they have to go install. If they've never heard of Firefox... maybe they'll think it's spyware. If they know what Firefox is they'll most likely be pissed that you're so arrogant as to monitor which browser they're using and either try to push your idiotic ideas on them.
Stick with the Firefox logos and sharing the browser with friends. People who load this script on their sites are only trying to impress their fanboi friends.
Ah yes, the old "their rich their bad" argument. Anything can be written about "the rich" and it's ok, but if they dare to defend themselves against false statements or act in a lawful and fair way then we can't have that now can we. Did Walmart buy the Wikipedia and shut it down? Are they paying hackers to destroy the service? Is there actually anything more then speculation about Walmart's involvement? People don't like Walmart for various reasons, many of them are idiotic or are only levied against Walmart because their big and successful. It's hip to hate Walmart... and you my dear are just another stupid stinking useless hippie. I can almost smell the stink of your anonymous hands on your post.
titled, Hippies ware on Walmart co-ops Wiki and my paranoid ramblings about Walmart's response. I guess it doesn't really roll off of the tounge. What is wrong with people who support Walmart excercising their rights to add/edit/remove and sort content on an open forum like Wikipedia? Are we only in favor of people who agree with whatever view you have adding information? So that the content can become extremely one-sided and skewed? A corporation works mostly because they pay people... so if they have to pay people to protect their image, and correct information on a public form acting within the guidelines of that forum is that wrong? Nope... well I guess it is if you're a conspiracy theory loving hippie.
House of the Dead
Bad acting, bad special effects, mind numbing dialog, stupid plot, clips of the actual video game spliced into the movie. This wasn't even campy fun.
And apparently they've made a sequal.
save the date, August 26th 2006, for he McNeally-Fiorina wedding.
eBooks are also easier to change... it so hard to remember if we've always been fighting Eurasia or Eastasia.
and apparently the Internet is flucuating between horny and pretty creepy.
Or are the bad guys also only working 40 hour weeks?
Yeah, actually according to union policy we can only work 40 hours per week without recieving overtime compensation. Also if you work after hours we're to recieve an extra 50% on our normal hourly rate. Unfortunately for us this has created a real problem because most evil organizations prefer to use bad guys in Iraq, Pakistan, or other low cost locations around the world we're non-unionized bad guys will work for a promise of a harem of virgins in the after life. We just can't compete. So I'm not really surprised that Amazon is taking advantage of a bad situation.
I buy all of my tickets for $0.25 through a cool quasi-legal Russian website. Take that music industry!
I can't wait for AllMyConcertMerch.com to give us cool concert merchandise for $2 to $4 per shirt and $5-$7 for a hoodie.
10,000 monkeys with 10,000 typewriters...
You just haven't been to the right MySpace pages. Check out mine
This can help you, the end-user secure your data, but is also a necessary component of a DRM hardware solution.
he would open up the NYSE stock listing, close his eyes, randomly pick a company and buy it only to shut it down. Awesome!
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Dirty Hippies: 0
Most people don't care about DRM at all. They care about getting their content cheap and easy. They don't mind paying $2 for an episode of Lost even if they can only watch it on 5 computers. Big deal... they got the episode of Lost they missed. I think this is the mainstream. Obviously, it's not everyone... some people hate DRM... some people know where to get copies of this stuff for free and don't mind dealing with the legal consequences. I think as legal, affordable, alternatives to free illegal content is made available people will begin to use it... of course the content owners are going to have to keep fighting the illegal or quasi-legal alternatives (w/ legit legal cases or FUD... either way they confuse the public).
Right now, DRM doesn't entirely prevent music from showing up in the P2P space. It's too easy to copy an unprotected CD or break the DRM. Give it 10 years though and I doubt that will be the case. The media companies are going to keep pushing and pushing for hardware-based DRM and technologies that limit what can be copied. That's going to be an uphill battle for them, but I think in the end we'll see a much more DRMed environment in the next 10 years than we do today. DRM will still be circumvented, but it will be a lot harder to do, and will most likely be very obvious that the non-DRMed media is an illegal copy.