"Time Machine" for backup software is a "suggestive" mark (no, that has nothing to do with porn). However, "Time Machine" for a machine which travels in time or allows users to travel in time, would be generic, and not eligible for trademarking.
At my interview I was asked a number of generic questions, then suddenly was asked a very specific question about approaches to e-mail spam filtering. I gave what in my opinion were some pretty good ideas based on my recent academic work in the area. The mid-20s semi-anonymous interviewer (semi-anonymous because Google interviewers never give you their last name or a business card, the arrogant jerks) took diligent notes, and I never heard from them again.
Obviously I don't know what happened in your case (someone should have called you back even if just to say that we'd decided not to hire you, but screwups happen), but I'm pretty sure no one at Google is interviewing you to steal your ideas. We'd want to hear some of your ideas in an interview to know if we want to hire you, of course.
Practically, it would be massively inefficient to interview every researcher we could find in the hope we could get a few good ideas for "free". If some researcher gave an idea that good during the interview, it'd be a lot more efficient to extend that person an offer, figuring where there's one good idea, there's others.
Nobody at this point actually thinks their pathetic handgun is going to protect them against tyranny by a government armed with SWAT teams, drones, and nuclear missiles, do they?
Even accepting your thesis, the handgun enables certain resistance tactics which are far more difficult without it.
You thought the protests against SOPA and PIPA were bad? Move against caffeine and they'll look like a walk in the park. It's not just geeks: pretty much every white collar profession (and more than a few blue collar ones) runs on caffeine. That includes lawyers and lobbyists. Just put the Federal Register down and back away slowly.
So University is more of a self-challenge to me. That's _learning_. Social manoeuvering is simply strategy, and lost when you are alone or in front of a mirror.
You're probably not at Harvard. At Harvard, social maneuvering is one of the major skills you're there to polish.
Barratry applies here, but it's not the only way to use the courts to commit wrongs against people. Copyright lawsuits for ruinous damages pursued against individuals aren't barratry, but they're still wrong. Suing small-time users of a device for patent violation when the device might actually violate the patent isn't barratry, but it's legal too. I could go on...
The whole point of a court system is so that we don't have to resort to violence to settle issues such as this.
It's not working. Basically in the current condition of the courts, if you're not a big company, if someone wrongs you, it will almost certainly be cost more to obtain redress through the courts than it will to simply accept the damage and move on. That is, the main practical effect of the courts is not to resolve disputes but to prevent their resolution. That's bad enough, but it turns out that the courts are also amenable to manipulation by those who make it their sole business, who then use the courts to commit wrongs against people.
Well, that's fine. The interns don't have any useful skills anyway, they're not even up to the level of entry-level fresh grad.
Fortunately that first part's not true. The second part isn't either, if you compare interns to average new grads. And not all interns are undergrads either; some interns are MS and Ph.D. students.
And 99.9% of them think programming is all about social apps or other web sites.
Well I guess if they're interning for Facebook that's a good thing.
If they're paying $70,000 a year, stop calling it an internship and call it a temp job
Why would these be mutually exclusive? A paid internship is a temp job.
Just because you don't understand the reason for a reg doesn't mean the reg is unreasonable. It was put there by someone who knows the issue better than you.
What, I'm just supposed to trust in my betters?
In this particular case you're making the same mistake that all the other critics are making. You;re assuming that this is about people putting fingers into the fans rather than what happens when larger fans break and fragment, and there's fly debris.
It has nothing to do with debris; that's just something you made up to justify an obvious over-reach. It's related to the likelyhood for the fan blades to cause pain or injury to someone sticking their finger into it, which is based on a function of mass, rotational speed, and radius. Notably missing is durability of the fan blade, a strong hint that it has nothing to do with debris.
Since I haven't upgraded thanks to Apple's removal of scroll arrows, I can still type "File:///" on my Mac all I want. However, I can't imagine why I would want to.
It would be funnier if merely RENDERING "File:///" would crash the Mac.
One thing that makes me better disposed to this case is that it wasn't a regulation pulled out of thin air by random government bureaucrats, but rather one drawn up by electrical engineers, from an independent standards body not controlled by the EU, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
The problem with organizations like this is that they start out doing things which make sense. But then at some point they've already rounded all the corners, marked all the high-voltage lines, prevented all the radiation leaks, etc. But they've still got to make regulations. So they start going batshit crazy with ever-increasing regulations with smaller and smaller gain. Ground fault circuit interruptors are good in wet locations.... let's put them EVERYWHERE. And add arc fault circuit interruptors too. Make every fan have a fan guard, inside and out. And make the fans automatically brake if a finger comes near, etc,etc.
What about painters, sculptors, writers, actors, and other artists... perhaps they should be complaining too that someone isn't providing them with a sustainable living.
They do, trust me on this one. Doesn't change a thing.
So, in other words, you would prefer to live in a world in which there are no professional musicians whatsoever? Have you stopped to think for a moment about what such a world might be like?
A lot QUIETER for one thing. No more people blasting their headphones so loud it annoys me three seats away on the train.
No more music company executives, a good thing in itself. And that would leave the movie industry to carry the torch for ever expanding copyright pretty much alone.
Hmm, this world without professional musicians is starting to sound better and better.
The Communist Party would be interested in who is leaking the details.
I'm going to guess they mostly came up empty-handed. I doubt reporters would keep such information on the Post's systems -- either because they're technophobic, or paranoid that someone else at the post would steal their sources, or perhaps in a few cases worried about the US government subpoenaing the information.
Where equipment is intended for maintenance by qualified service personnel only, then fan guards are not required.
Ah. So the next Mac Pro will likely contain 1) More warning stickers, 2) A notice that "equipment is intended for maintenance by qualified service personnel only, and 3) A screw with some sort of proprietary head securing the case and not doing much else, to "prove" they're serious about the qualified service personnel thing.
Yes, this will certainly be an advancement for safety.
Then why is it only the EU in which Apple feels compelled to (temporarily) withdraw the Mac Pro?
Don't know for sure, but most likely the new standards either 1) Aren't mandatory in the US (just because something is an ANSI standard doesn't mean products are required by law to comply) or 2) Only apply to new designs.
Few and far between are the people who will play fair, to their own potential detriment, when able to get away with it and competing against others who do not play fair.
Even fewer are those who will continue to do this after the first few times. After a while you begin to believe that the real rules and the stated ones have little to do with each other, and anyone following the stated rules isn't any more moral or ethical or in any way better; they're just a chump.
Just send the jackbooted thugs who are persecuting "terrorists" (with chemistry sets), "meth cookers" (with colds), and "hackers" (with wget), and the Reaper drones being used on random enemies of the state, and redirect them towards telemarketers.
I'll tell ya why they insist on that....Far Cry II. Anybody play that game? If you did you'd think a good 90% of the guns out there are made of garbage and fail because of how you can't even fire 2 clips through the damned things before the brand new gun JAMS UP on you, often getting your ass turned into a bullet pinata
They should just use Lorcin pistols for that. I think Lorcin's out of business anyway.
I would think the design for the Colt 1911, the AK-47, and any number of other military guns would be usable without worrying about trademarks (and you could probably even call them "1911" or "AK-47", but not "Colt"). After all, there are tons of unlicensed real-life design clones of them.
So all the oil dries up. These people want you to believe that humanity would just die out. What slugs I say to myself. Humanity would not die out, we would do exactly what we did before Oil boomed.
Humanity doesn't die out, but billions of humans die.
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"Time Machine" for backup software is a "suggestive" mark (no, that has nothing to do with porn). However, "Time Machine" for a machine which travels in time or allows users to travel in time, would be generic, and not eligible for trademarking.
Kim Jong-Un wrote Call of Duty himself, in an evening. Activision is the thief here, and they will feel the wrath of the Supreme Leader.
Obviously I don't know what happened in your case (someone should have called you back even if just to say that we'd decided not to hire you, but screwups happen), but I'm pretty sure no one at Google is interviewing you to steal your ideas. We'd want to hear some of your ideas in an interview to know if we want to hire you, of course.
Practically, it would be massively inefficient to interview every researcher we could find in the hope we could get a few good ideas for "free". If some researcher gave an idea that good during the interview, it'd be a lot more efficient to extend that person an offer, figuring where there's one good idea, there's others.
BTW, most of us don't have business cards.
Even accepting your thesis, the handgun enables certain resistance tactics which are far more difficult without it.
You thought the protests against SOPA and PIPA were bad? Move against caffeine and they'll look like a walk in the park. It's not just geeks: pretty much every white collar profession (and more than a few blue collar ones) runs on caffeine. That includes lawyers and lobbyists. Just put the Federal Register down and back away slowly.
You should have gone into data center operations. Most of those skills could have come in handy from time to time.
You're probably not at Harvard. At Harvard, social maneuvering is one of the major skills you're there to polish.
Barratry applies here, but it's not the only way to use the courts to commit wrongs against people. Copyright lawsuits for ruinous damages pursued against individuals aren't barratry, but they're still wrong. Suing small-time users of a device for patent violation when the device might actually violate the patent isn't barratry, but it's legal too. I could go on...
Not so. Even the executive hookers need at least a bachelor's degree nowadays, in addition to the usual qualifications. The job market is TOUGH.
It's not working. Basically in the current condition of the courts, if you're not a big company, if someone wrongs you, it will almost certainly be cost more to obtain redress through the courts than it will to simply accept the damage and move on. That is, the main practical effect of the courts is not to resolve disputes but to prevent their resolution. That's bad enough, but it turns out that the courts are also amenable to manipulation by those who make it their sole business, who then use the courts to commit wrongs against people.
Fortunately that first part's not true. The second part isn't either, if you compare interns to average new grads. And not all interns are undergrads either; some interns are MS and Ph.D. students.
Well I guess if they're interning for Facebook that's a good thing.
Why would these be mutually exclusive? A paid internship is a temp job.
What, I'm just supposed to trust in my betters?
It has nothing to do with debris; that's just something you made up to justify an obvious over-reach. It's related to the likelyhood for the fan blades to cause pain or injury to someone sticking their finger into it, which is based on a function of mass, rotational speed, and radius. Notably missing is durability of the fan blade, a strong hint that it has nothing to do with debris.
Since I haven't upgraded thanks to Apple's removal of scroll arrows, I can still type "File:///" on my Mac all I want. However, I can't imagine why I would want to.
It would be funnier if merely RENDERING "File:///" would crash the Mac.
The problem with organizations like this is that they start out doing things which make sense. But then at some point they've already rounded all the corners, marked all the high-voltage lines, prevented all the radiation leaks, etc. But they've still got to make regulations. So they start going batshit crazy with ever-increasing regulations with smaller and smaller gain. Ground fault circuit interruptors are good in wet locations.... let's put them EVERYWHERE. And add arc fault circuit interruptors too. Make every fan have a fan guard, inside and out. And make the fans automatically brake if a finger comes near, etc,etc.
They do, trust me on this one. Doesn't change a thing.
A lot QUIETER for one thing. No more people blasting their headphones so loud it annoys me three seats away on the train.
No more music company executives, a good thing in itself. And that would leave the movie industry to carry the torch for ever expanding copyright pretty much alone.
Hmm, this world without professional musicians is starting to sound better and better.
I'm going to guess they mostly came up empty-handed. I doubt reporters would keep such information on the Post's systems -- either because they're technophobic, or paranoid that someone else at the post would steal their sources, or perhaps in a few cases worried about the US government subpoenaing the information.
Ah. So the next Mac Pro will likely contain
1) More warning stickers,
2) A notice that "equipment is intended for maintenance by qualified service personnel only, and
3) A screw with some sort of proprietary head securing the case and not doing much else, to "prove" they're serious about the qualified service personnel thing.
Yes, this will certainly be an advancement for safety.
You forgot about Google's self-driving car.
You see advertisements on news.google.com? I think you've got some malware, because there aren't any.
(There are other Google links)
Don't know for sure, but most likely the new standards either
1) Aren't mandatory in the US (just because something is an ANSI standard doesn't mean products are required by law to comply) or
2) Only apply to new designs.
Even fewer are those who will continue to do this after the first few times. After a while you begin to believe that the real rules and the stated ones have little to do with each other, and anyone following the stated rules isn't any more moral or ethical or in any way better; they're just a chump.
Just send the jackbooted thugs who are persecuting "terrorists" (with chemistry sets), "meth cookers" (with colds), and "hackers" (with wget), and the Reaper drones being used on random enemies of the state, and redirect them towards telemarketers.
They should just use Lorcin pistols for that. I think Lorcin's out of business anyway.
I would think the design for the Colt 1911, the AK-47, and any number of other military guns would be usable without worrying about trademarks (and you could probably even call them "1911" or "AK-47", but not "Colt"). After all, there are tons of unlicensed real-life design clones of them.
Humanity doesn't die out, but billions of humans die.