But of course. The problem is, they're not limiting the prohibition to PEZ as associated with candy. They don't want us using 'PEZ' in -any- connotation. The legal page says specifically:
You may not embed Metatags (hidden text used by web search engines to find websites) into your website using any of the registered or unregistered trademarks of Pez Candy, Inc. or its affiliates, in particular the PEZ® mark.
That last bit means 'PEZ' just by itself.
I think that their lawyers latched onto a trendy concept (let's ban metatags!), and didn't do any research whatsoever...
Hormel -did- get pissed off a year or two ago, but it was far too late for them to be able to enforce anything. Maybe if they'd done something 10-15 years ago... still probably wouldn't have mattered. It's like asking someone for a Kleenex. Or having a Xerox machine in the office. It just doesn't follow anymore that those actual brands are involved.
I can't imagine any colloquial uses for PEZ, but maybe that's the point - their lawyers may be trying to prevent PEZ from ending up like SPAM.
_A_ Linux swap file may have a limit of 128MB, but you can have _more than one_ swap file, which is probably on a completely different paradigm than that of the Microsoft developers.
And what the heck are groups for, if Linux security is all-or-nothing? Hehehe..
And I'm sure there's more, but I'm not qualified to debunk this crap properly. I'll be waiting for the line-by-line ripping.. =)
To the moderator who labelled Max's post 'Flamebait':
You are a moron and a shining example of the petty shite-headedness of the average web user. If there were justice in the world you would be consumed by cockroaches, but I suppose we'll have to wait for meta-moderation.
Actually, what I'm hoping is that I'll make you so mad you'll waste another point on me as well, and that's one fewer down-mod that someone else will have to suck on.
The moral: Disagreement with a poster is no reason to get spiteful with your moderator points.
Why not? They all did it too (I claim this land in the name..): Spain, England, France, Russia... to name but a few. Glass houses, etc.
We won the race; the medal, therefore, is ours. =)
We could make it the 51st state, just to piss off D.C.
Seriously, tho, I don't think a company would have advertising on the moon for long, before an 'unfortunate accident' rendered their machinery useless. That would just be too much of an advantage for a rival corporation to have.
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What it accomplishes is all kinds of secondary publicity in newspapers, TV shows (I can imagine Conan O'Brien riding this one to death), and the Web. The ad on the rocket won't even survive the trip, and they know it. That's entirely not the point of this whole situation.
Companies spend thousands of times more cash than that on 'regular' advertising each year. How is this one event so much more disgusting than the rest?
And exactly what would the 'betterment of society' entail? I wouldn't mind having a whine-filter to weed out non-thinkers like yourself, maybe it could have been spent on that.
Sorry to be crude here, but this is such a strange analogy, I have to make it:
Sure, NASA only immediately reports good news - you'd tell your friends the instant you got MCSE certified, but you wouldn't call them up and tell them you just shit your pants... but if you were forced to relay bad news like NASA ultimately is, you'd at least try to change pants first, right? So it wouldn't be totally humiliating...
NASA was trying to get the comm feed back, so no, they didn't trumpet their bad news instantaneously. That way lies a PR nightmare: We got it! We lost it! Nope, we got it again, wait, we lost it, nah, there it is, oh wait, gone, hang on, there it is!
Much better to say "We had some trouble, lost the feed, but we got it back again."
I haven't actually seen Pokemon cards, but I was wondering if WotC were the makers. I have a friend who owns a bookstore, and she sells out of their Pokemon allocation within an hour of getting it from the delivery truck.
It's insane. Hell, I work at a computer store, and we're only half-jokingly considering selling the damn things.
They branched into many other card games, and bought TSR, among other things. M:TG is not their only cash cow. TSR still sells to the kiddies. Hasbro would not have bought them if they weren't totally convinced that they'd make money from the deal, and corporations that large are not stupid about what they spend money on, regardless of what Joe Public (or anyone else) may think...
Adaptec EZ CD Creator... Try installing it to NT 4: no problems. Try installing it to NT 3.5: it won't even install.
There is a lack of compatibility for programs between versions of the SAME OS. As you say, this is not true of -every- program, but neither is it 'nearly perfect'...
Also, try running a random new 32-bit binary on Windows 3.1. Let's see how far you get... there is a certain point at which new binaries will no longer work on older framework, and vice-versa, for both camps. That's why having the source code is important, cos you can tweak and/or recompile that program to get working binaries for the given framework.
It's not like they dropped a Genesis Device on it.. the 'contamination' won't ever spread past that particular crater unless the following characteristics of the Moon change: no atmosphere, no wind, no erosion, no running fluids of any kind (not that close to the surface anyway). There's just nothing to pollute. Nothing to endanger. Nothing to make extinct. No Moon Owls to displace with mining equipment. Never mind the fact that the percentage of the Moon touched by humans to-date is minuscule. There's plenty to learn from the other 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999 percent of it. We can certainly do both at the same time.
And I would think that the 'Save the Earth' project should be large enough for you without also taking on the responsibilities of landlording for the Moon.. keep your own focus and let everyone else do the same.
I can't wait till we make it to some of the other planets and moons and find all sorts of resources there.. how many people will complain that we're 'ruining our solar system', and that 'it's a fragile balance' or something equally ridiculous?
Imagine the slogans we'll see: Save the Europans! Attend MarsAid! Take Only Samples, Leave Only Ionized Gas!
Wonder how Greenpeace will manage to get a finger in the pie... mebbe we'll see them running shuttles back and forth in front of water tankers, or spiking asteroids..
Microsoft does it with some of their licenses (the VB5 CCE in a textbook being one of them), open the packaging and want to take it back? poof, it's your new Gucci albatross. TFBFY.
NSI has learned from the masters: whether it's enforceable or not, they're doing their best to delay the transition, those annual reg fees are lifeblood. They know someone will take them to court over this, and even so, win or lose, the court costs won't be coming out of the salary budget, that's for certain.
You'd think the yobbos at La Salle could have done a tiny bit more checking into the origins of the Mac they sold - like asking the guy who built it. Ah well... what's a few facts in the face of $40K?
First, yeah, that's a -really- good reason to not vote for someone.
Second, no.
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I think it's because they -have- been conditioned by Microsoft and a lot of other software entities. When commercial software gets released to a new version, there is usually a marked difference (notice I didn't say improvement) in the new product.
So when a 'new version' of anything Linux is released, the first reaction by people like Splatty is that of a sheep: "Baaa, must get new software, it's a new numbaaaa, it must be better. Wait. This is a minor patch! Whaaa!! You guys suck! Stop making me download this stuff!"
And they never consider the possibility of reading the changelogs FIRST, or learning that the third number in a Linux kernel version indicates a MINOR patch.
How some of these people ever managed to learn how to use Linux is a mystery to me.
Doh! I was thinking rounds per minute.. told ya it was sleep-deprived..
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It's not necessarily the -UF prank- that was funny, it's the reaction to it that we see from people like you. Agitated, indignant, self-righteous, and serious, for absolutely no reason; no one was murdered, tortured, or otherwise harmed, only duped and misled. We're laughing at -you-, the people who cannot stand to admit that you didn't figure out what was going on till it was too late.
That's what April Fool's Day is all about: the Fools.
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That last bit means 'PEZ' just by itself.
I think that their lawyers latched onto a trendy concept (let's ban metatags!), and didn't do any research whatsoever...
Hormel -did- get pissed off a year or two ago, but it was far too late for them to be able to enforce anything. Maybe if they'd done something 10-15 years ago ... still probably wouldn't have mattered. It's like asking someone for a Kleenex. Or having a Xerox machine in the office. It just doesn't follow anymore that those actual brands are involved.
I can't imagine any colloquial uses for PEZ, but maybe that's the point - their lawyers may be trying to prevent PEZ from ending up like SPAM.
It's not exactly tidy - it's not all true:
_A_ Linux swap file may have a limit of 128MB, but you can have _more than one_ swap file, which is probably on a completely different paradigm than that of the Microsoft developers.
And what the heck are groups for, if Linux security is all-or-nothing? Hehehe..
And I'm sure there's more, but I'm not qualified to debunk this crap properly. I'll be waiting for the line-by-line ripping.. =)
Good, someone booted it back up the food chain.
And there is a certain squalid irony in the fact that IE just crashed on me whilst reading your reply. Some people have all the luck... =)
To the moderator who labelled Max's post 'Flamebait':
You are a moron and a shining example of the petty shite-headedness of the average web user. If there were justice in the world you would be consumed by cockroaches, but I suppose we'll have to wait for meta-moderation.
Actually, what I'm hoping is that I'll make you so mad you'll waste another point on me as well, and that's one fewer down-mod that someone else will have to suck on.
The moral: Disagreement with a poster is no reason to get spiteful with your moderator points.
Shame on you.
Why not? They all did it too (I claim this land in the name..): Spain, England, France, Russia... to name but a few. Glass houses, etc.
We won the race; the medal, therefore, is ours. =)
We could make it the 51st state, just to piss off D.C.
Seriously, tho, I don't think a company would have advertising on the moon for long, before an 'unfortunate accident' rendered their machinery useless. That would just be too much of an advantage for a rival corporation to have.
[Warning: not for consumption by the humor-impaired]
What it accomplishes is all kinds of secondary publicity in newspapers, TV shows (I can imagine Conan O'Brien riding this one to death), and the Web. The ad on the rocket won't even survive the trip, and they know it. That's entirely not the point of this whole situation.
Companies spend thousands of times more cash than that on 'regular' advertising each year. How is this one event so much more disgusting than the rest?
And exactly what would the 'betterment of society' entail? I wouldn't mind having a whine-filter to weed out non-thinkers like yourself, maybe it could have been spent on that.
57 satellites and I still can't get the dad-blasted Playboy Channel! Yow!
*BLAM*
Sorry to be crude here, but this is such a strange analogy, I have to make it:
Sure, NASA only immediately reports good news - you'd tell your friends the instant you got MCSE certified, but you wouldn't call them up and tell them you just shit your pants... but if you were forced to relay bad news like NASA ultimately is, you'd at least try to change pants first, right? So it wouldn't be totally humiliating...
NASA was trying to get the comm feed back, so no, they didn't trumpet their bad news instantaneously. That way lies a PR nightmare: We got it! We lost it! Nope, we got it again, wait, we lost it, nah, there it is, oh wait, gone, hang on, there it is!
Much better to say "We had some trouble, lost the feed, but we got it back again."
I haven't actually seen Pokemon cards, but I was wondering if WotC were the makers. I have a friend who owns a bookstore, and she sells out of their Pokemon allocation within an hour of getting it from the delivery truck.
It's insane. Hell, I work at a computer store, and we're only half-jokingly considering selling the damn things.
They branched into many other card games, and bought TSR, among other things. M:TG is not their only cash cow. TSR still sells to the kiddies. Hasbro would not have bought them if they weren't totally convinced that they'd make money from the deal, and corporations that large are not stupid about what they spend money on, regardless of what Joe Public (or anyone else) may think...
It's the small island nation of TinyFugue =)
Adaptec EZ CD Creator... Try installing it to NT 4: no problems. Try installing it to NT 3.5: it won't even install.
There is a lack of compatibility for programs between versions of the SAME OS. As you say, this is not true of -every- program, but neither is it 'nearly perfect'...
Also, try running a random new 32-bit binary on Windows 3.1. Let's see how far you get... there is a certain point at which new binaries will no longer work on older framework, and vice-versa, for both camps. That's why having the source code is important, cos you can tweak and/or recompile that program to get working binaries for the given framework.
It's not like they dropped a Genesis Device on it.. the 'contamination' won't ever spread past that particular crater unless the following characteristics of the Moon change: no atmosphere, no wind, no erosion, no running fluids of any kind (not that close to the surface anyway). There's just nothing to pollute. Nothing to endanger. Nothing to make extinct. No Moon Owls to displace with mining equipment. Never mind the fact that the percentage of the Moon touched by humans to-date is minuscule. There's plenty to learn from the other 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999 percent of it. We can certainly do both at the same time.
And I would think that the 'Save the Earth' project should be large enough for you without also taking on the responsibilities of landlording for the Moon.. keep your own focus and let everyone else do the same.
I can't wait till we make it to some of the other planets and moons and find all sorts of resources there.. how many people will complain that we're 'ruining our solar system', and that 'it's a fragile balance' or something equally ridiculous?
Imagine the slogans we'll see: Save the Europans! Attend MarsAid! Take Only Samples, Leave Only Ionized Gas!
Wonder how Greenpeace will manage to get a finger in the pie... mebbe we'll see them running shuttles back and forth in front of water tankers, or spiking asteroids..
Heh, pretty good =)
But it's Cyberdyne, and SKYNET...
Never!! Prepare the escape pod, Maximillian!
Microsoft does it with some of their licenses (the VB5 CCE in a textbook being one of them), open the packaging and want to take it back? poof, it's your new Gucci albatross. TFBFY.
NSI has learned from the masters: whether it's enforceable or not, they're doing their best to delay the transition, those annual reg fees are lifeblood. They know someone will take them to court over this, and even so, win or lose, the court costs won't be coming out of the salary budget, that's for certain.
That is assuming, of course, that they know the difference.
Guys, 'old technology' as a descriptive term is fine. Just don't use it to describe obsolete technology and everything will be fine.
You'd think the yobbos at La Salle could have done a tiny bit more checking into the origins of the Mac they sold - like asking the guy who built it. Ah well... what's a few facts in the face of $40K?
First, yeah, that's a -really- good reason to not vote for someone.
Second, no.
I think it's because they -have- been conditioned by Microsoft and a lot of other software entities. When commercial software gets released to a new version, there is usually a marked difference (notice I didn't say improvement) in the new product.
So when a 'new version' of anything Linux is released, the first reaction by people like Splatty is that of a sheep: "Baaa, must get new software, it's a new numbaaaa, it must be better. Wait. This is a minor patch! Whaaa!! You guys suck! Stop making me download this stuff!"
And they never consider the possibility of reading the changelogs FIRST, or learning that the third number in a Linux kernel version indicates a MINOR patch.
How some of these people ever managed to learn how to use Linux is a mystery to me.
Great, now the kids will have something to match their blinking, glowing tennis shoes.
Doh! I was thinking rounds per minute.. told ya it was sleep-deprived..
It's not necessarily the -UF prank- that was funny, it's the reaction to it that we see from people like you. Agitated, indignant, self-righteous, and serious, for absolutely no reason; no one was murdered, tortured, or otherwise harmed, only duped and misled. We're laughing at -you-, the people who cannot stand to admit that you didn't figure out what was going on till it was too late.
That's what April Fool's Day is all about: the Fools.
Just wait till next year, Charlie Brown!