"At the Family Assistance Center, New York Police Department personnel interviewed friends and family members of victims, taking buccal swabs from family members"
Now that just seems like a painful thing to have to do on top of everything else...
"DJ's generally HATE anything but vinyl. DJing is a community of luddites."
That's a gross generalization.
Your average radio dj wouldn't know vinyl from a donut.
Your average mobile dj would hate carrying around vinyl and have already switched over to CDs / mp3s almost unanimously.
Your average club dj on the other hand would be married to vinyl and their technics 1200 mk3 or m3d.
Scratch DJs are a totally different breed. A battle dj is focused on the feel of vinyl for cuttin. Vinyl is not the choice because of sound fidelity. So, if you get the feel of vinyl at the ease of and mp3, I don't think you'll see a huge upset. Record burn costs battle djs some serious coin.
It's easy to build a cartoon of a human but it is difficult to animate a real person that you can compare videos with.
Huh?! I work as a Sr. VFX guy, and CGI (Computer Generated Imaging) for facial animation is one of the most complex things to do!
Basically, there are so many muscles in the face and so many nuances that it is very difficult to emulate a realistic face. Chris Landreth is a director at Alias|wavefront with whom I had the "pleasure" of working with. His entire focus has mainly been with facial animation. And even with his talent, facial animation still doesn't look 100% realistic.
Check out the book: Computer Facial Animation to get a glimpse at the mathematics, anatomy, and other technical hurdles being overcome in this arena.
You know I think this hails the begining of the end for microsoft.
No matter how big you are you just cannot indefinately lose hundreds of dollars on consoles.
Uhh... Micro$oft has over $400 billion in cash!! That should probably allow them enough time in cash losing to take Nintendo and Sony out of the gaming biz. Worked for Home Depot...
It makes me sick how this campaign going on equates merger with Compaq as Death.
Carly Fiorina came up with HP Invent campaign and other motivational campaigns and probably saved a stagnant company. Now with a merger, the company should be stronger and produce more great products. HP is not about "cheap PCs" or "disposable printers" as other users have posted.
What about the new stuff they've given out, like the free HP Application Servers? What about all those chips in your cell phone that filter the reception so it isn't complete crap? HP Labs produces all sorts of great technology.
Maybe it was time for the "HP Way" to go, because the company was slowing down by the time Fiorina got there. This is probably the last battle needed to get rid of any career bueracrats (sp?) left in the organziation.
Look at it this way: If you saw just the domain lsulaw.com, what would you think the site was about? If you saw the domain lsulaw.org, would you think it was the same?
Ahem... you seem to ass-u-me that most users of the intenet know the difference. Your average user is not a slashdot geek, and couldn't case less if it was lsulaw.@!#% because the TLD is all greek to them. And with all the other TLDs out there like biz, cc, info... and on, and on. The TLD argument just doesn't hold up anymore.
Besides that, there is more than one LSU. Lousiana is not the only one with those initials. So, what do you propose about the other institutions?
You know... I never figured this out. After having recieved many cease-and-desist letters from companies hiring prominent attorneys during the 'net boom... one thing always shocked me.
Nobody seems to notice the word "TRADE" in TRADEmark. It's the root of the damn word. If there is no TRADE, then where the hell is the violation. TRADEmarks and SERVICEmarks are there to protect propietors from the dilution of their brand in trade. The argument being that they spent money on that brand.
Now, if somebody is using LMU for tires, and another is using LMU for law school, is LMU law school going to sue them the tire company? This guy is not using the mark in TRADE and hasn't openned up a law school or legal training, etc. Where's the confusion? Where's the trade? Where's the friggin case?
This is a common corporate tactic of going after the little guy who, in many cases, can't afford an expensive legal battle and is stonewalled into giving in. They have no intention of setting precedent, just getting the guy to shut down a site that may be critical of the school. It's the common practice of corporate bullying...
California has a slew of good consumer advocacy lawyers. What is shocking is that Nike is able to get this far with what is "misrepresentation". If I am selling a piece of land that is a hole in the ground and represent that it is a rolling hill, I am liable to being sued for misrepresenting the facts. just like selling something by saying it is made in America, when it is in fact made in Kerplekistan. INAL, but isn't this akin to fraud?
Uh... isn't this the Andromeda Strain argument, earily coming back. If you haven't seen it, a Martian virus comes back to earth on a fallen probe and then starts to spread and kill everything it's path. An old sci-fi flick, but an awesome one. The key is that the martian virus has a structure unlike any that is seen on earth, and thus is a total mystery. Therefore, nearly impossible to stop.
There's a lot of discussion on this thread questioning whether this is a civil case or criminal case. Actually... software theft is both! Just like O.J. Simpson was tried in Criminal case and won, and a Civil case and lost. So, software theft is copyright infringement and illegal and you may be criminally prosecuted. Also, since it is a contract violation, and one side made consideration, whereas the other side was supposed to and did not, it is also a civil matter.
Note that the criminal case has different rules and standards than the civil one.
of course this is in the USA, each country has their own rules.
They are assuming you to be guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.
This is actually almost correct... the 'burden of proof' as they say, is not that the plaintif must show beyond "Reasonable Doubt" as we often see in capital cases.
Actually they still have a type of 'burden of proof', they must prove a "Proponderence of the Evidence" is against the defendant.
This means that even if they can't prove that they have done it in the case, the plaintiff can show that it is plausible that the defendant did it. But, the instructions the jury recieves are based on motions filed with the judge by presiding counsel.
yah know... the format is not the only important thing in making a purchase decision. The functionality of the portable device is also important.
One very cool thing about minidisc was the minidisc recorders. Digital input (fiber cable out and get master quality portable) -- admittably niche, but nice for building samples.
on another note, the copyright protection is being looked at in terms of music. How about software distributed on this medium? That would be interesting. Need a code to unlock the disc to install. As opposed to install and then unlock. (that could be interesting from M$ point of view)
I have only recently installed and used the.NET framework and C# on a project, so I am no expert. However, the entire marketing angle of C# seems to be more focused on it as more of a replacement for Visual Basic. There is a big push by M$ towards Web Services where XML is the glue between different languges (C#, C++, VB, etc.)
Maybe if M$ changes their angle, C# will be taken more seriously by Application and Product Developers.
However, Sun and Java have been pushing J2ME, and other uses for Java beyond windows applications and web services. The C# solution is more of a threat to J2EE than J2SE or J2ME. Not to say M$ doesn't have solutions that compete in those arenas. Just that C# doesn't seem to be the end-all-be-all language.
not mention that to those solutions tie you down to wintel, which will always limit the growth since Java is much more platform friendly.
If they're taking a page from the BSA then they should be sending out tons of letters to Small Businesses holding them liable as well. The BSA was offering deals to infringers who "cleaned up their act" within a certain time limit and offered a discount on the software.
the question is, will the RIAA offer a discount to music infringers. >:)
Remember: behind every sleazy lawyer there's a sleazy client.
Most/.ers probably don't realize that they're constantly praising lawyers... most of the staff at the EFF consists of lawyers. Fred von Lohmann, for example, is representing multiple clients against the RIAA.
We DO have the technology to provide everyone all the information they could want whenever they want to buy something, yet we don't. We make all the businesses compete for visual and auditory bandwidth, annoying the he!l out of everyone.
Uhhh... there is this whole industry of advertising that makes money of providing "memorable" campaigns. Nike paid big bucks to bombard you with "Just Do It!" so you would remember them over a Reebock.
Marketing is one of the biggest barriers to entry in business. In a free-trade economy you need competition, and advertising is a form of competitive edge.
The point of interruption based marketing is not to inform you of a product, but to help you remember the brand! (Although I do agree that Permission-based Marketing is always the best investment.) The actual product or service is only part of the formula.
Nice to know that they're going after a California Corporation. California Anti-Spam Laws are based on the fax spam laws. Doesn't seem that MoFo is trying to set precedence. Just make some dough...
the post should read:
Well... seeing as Sony is being sued over an addict to EverQuest who was so consumed with his online identity that he lost site of reality and finally committed suicide. Or so is being claimed by the plaintiff!
This may be bad news for the company right about now.:(
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"At the Family Assistance Center, New York Police Department personnel interviewed friends and family members of victims, taking buccal swabs from family members"
Now that just seems like a painful thing to have to do on top of everything else...
"DJ's generally HATE anything but vinyl. DJing is a community of luddites."
That's a gross generalization.
Your average radio dj wouldn't know vinyl from a donut.
Your average mobile dj would hate carrying around vinyl and have already switched over to CDs / mp3s almost unanimously.
Your average club dj on the other hand would be married to vinyl and their technics 1200 mk3 or m3d.
Scratch DJs are a totally different breed. A battle dj is focused on the feel of vinyl for cuttin. Vinyl is not the choice because of sound fidelity. So, if you get the feel of vinyl at the ease of and mp3, I don't think you'll see a huge upset. Record burn costs battle djs some serious coin.
"When they get tired of being stuck in their own sandbox"
Uh yeah... that'll get a country like China that wants to control the press and keep it's citizens from accessing the outside world to turnover.
"unless its customers paid their bills in full immediately."
Fat chance that will ever happen. People in the US can't even their bill payment service bills on time. =)
"I'm holding the Forgotten Realms hostage for $1,000,000,000 dollars!!! muhahahaha."
"ha... ha.. ha..."
"Uhh... Dr. Evil..."
"What too low??"
"Uhh... the state of inflation in the future might be a little different than today"
"Oh... I see..."
"I'm creating a new Forgotten Realms for $100,000 dollars..."
It's easy to build a cartoon of a human but it is difficult to animate a real person that you can compare videos with.
Huh?! I work as a Sr. VFX guy, and CGI (Computer Generated Imaging) for facial animation is one of the most complex things to do!
Basically, there are so many muscles in the face and so many nuances that it is very difficult to emulate a realistic face. Chris Landreth is a director at Alias|wavefront with whom I had the "pleasure" of working with. His entire focus has mainly been with facial animation. And even with his talent, facial animation still doesn't look 100% realistic.
Check out the book: Computer Facial Animation to get a glimpse at the mathematics, anatomy, and other technical hurdles being overcome in this arena.
You know I think this hails the begining of the end for microsoft. No matter how big you are you just cannot indefinately lose hundreds of dollars on consoles.
Uhh... Micro$oft has over $400 billion in cash!! That should probably allow them enough time in cash losing to take Nintendo and Sony out of the gaming biz. Worked for Home Depot...
It makes me sick how this campaign going on equates merger with Compaq as Death.
Carly Fiorina came up with HP Invent campaign and other motivational campaigns and probably saved a stagnant company. Now with a merger, the company should be stronger and produce more great products. HP is not about "cheap PCs" or "disposable printers" as other users have posted.
What about the new stuff they've given out, like the free HP Application Servers? What about all those chips in your cell phone that filter the reception so it isn't complete crap? HP Labs produces all sorts of great technology.
Maybe it was time for the "HP Way" to go, because the company was slowing down by the time Fiorina got there. This is probably the last battle needed to get rid of any career bueracrats (sp?) left in the organziation.
Look at it this way: If you saw just the domain lsulaw.com, what would you think the site was about? If you saw the domain lsulaw.org, would you think it was the same?
Ahem... you seem to ass-u-me that most users of the intenet know the difference. Your average user is not a slashdot geek, and couldn't case less if it was lsulaw.@!#% because the TLD is all greek to them. And with all the other TLDs out there like biz, cc, info... and on, and on. The TLD argument just doesn't hold up anymore.
Besides that, there is more than one LSU. Lousiana is not the only one with those initials. So, what do you propose about the other institutions?
You know... I never figured this out. After having recieved many cease-and-desist letters from companies hiring prominent attorneys during the 'net boom... one thing always shocked me.
Nobody seems to notice the word "TRADE" in TRADEmark. It's the root of the damn word. If there is no TRADE, then where the hell is the violation. TRADEmarks and SERVICEmarks are there to protect propietors from the dilution of their brand in trade. The argument being that they spent money on that brand.
Now, if somebody is using LMU for tires, and another is using LMU for law school, is LMU law school going to sue them the tire company? This guy is not using the mark in TRADE and hasn't openned up a law school or legal training, etc. Where's the confusion? Where's the trade? Where's the friggin case?
This is a common corporate tactic of going after the little guy who, in many cases, can't afford an expensive legal battle and is stonewalled into giving in. They have no intention of setting precedent, just getting the guy to shut down a site that may be critical of the school. It's the common practice of corporate bullying...
California has a slew of good consumer advocacy lawyers. What is shocking is that Nike is able to get this far with what is "misrepresentation". If I am selling a piece of land that is a hole in the ground and represent that it is a rolling hill, I am liable to being sued for misrepresenting the facts. just like selling something by saying it is made in America, when it is in fact made in Kerplekistan. INAL, but isn't this akin to fraud?
Wait-a-minute.... nobody brought anything back in Species/Species II!!! The martian dna spliced on earth from a transmission from outerspace.
not that I have anything against bringing natasha hendstridge back to my place. =)
Uh... isn't this the Andromeda Strain argument, earily coming back. If you haven't seen it, a Martian virus comes back to earth on a fallen probe and then starts to spread and kill everything it's path. An old sci-fi flick, but an awesome one. The key is that the martian virus has a structure unlike any that is seen on earth, and thus is a total mystery. Therefore, nearly impossible to stop.
One can only wonder what the FBI will do.
probably the same thing they've always done... intercept the transmission after it's been recieved (or in some cases before its been sent).
there is no such thing as fbi-proof. the message has to be decrypted at some point, otherwise, it isn't a very useful communication, is it?
There's a lot of discussion on this thread questioning whether this is a civil case or criminal case. Actually... software theft is both! Just like O.J. Simpson was tried in Criminal case and won, and a Civil case and lost. So, software theft is copyright infringement and illegal and you may be criminally prosecuted. Also, since it is a contract violation, and one side made consideration, whereas the other side was supposed to and did not, it is also a civil matter.
Note that the criminal case has different rules and standards than the civil one.
of course this is in the USA, each country has their own rules.
They are assuming you to be guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.
This is actually almost correct... the 'burden of proof' as they say, is not that the plaintif must show beyond "Reasonable Doubt" as we often see in capital cases.
Actually they still have a type of 'burden of proof', they must prove a "Proponderence of the Evidence" is against the defendant.
This means that even if they can't prove that they have done it in the case, the plaintiff can show that it is plausible that the defendant did it. But, the instructions the jury recieves are based on motions filed with the judge by presiding counsel.
yah know... the format is not the only important thing in making a purchase decision. The functionality of the portable device is also important.
One very cool thing about minidisc was the minidisc recorders. Digital input (fiber cable out and get master quality portable) -- admittably niche, but nice for building samples.
on another note, the copyright protection is being looked at in terms of music. How about software distributed on this medium? That would be interesting. Need a code to unlock the disc to install. As opposed to install and then unlock. (that could be interesting from M$ point of view)
I have only recently installed and used the .NET framework and C# on a project, so I am no expert. However, the entire marketing angle of C# seems to be more focused on it as more of a replacement for Visual Basic. There is a big push by M$ towards Web Services where XML is the glue between different languges (C#, C++, VB, etc.)
Maybe if M$ changes their angle, C# will be taken more seriously by Application and Product Developers.
However, Sun and Java have been pushing J2ME, and other uses for Java beyond windows applications and web services. The C# solution is more of a threat to J2EE than J2SE or J2ME. Not to say M$ doesn't have solutions that compete in those arenas. Just that C# doesn't seem to be the end-all-be-all language.
not mention that to those solutions tie you down to wintel, which will always limit the growth since Java is much more platform friendly.
Uhhhh, this really is no fun without a simulated punch-card reader so you can mess with the poor dufus who has to feed the cards.
If they're taking a page from the BSA then they should be sending out tons of letters to Small Businesses holding them liable as well. The BSA was offering deals to infringers who "cleaned up their act" within a certain time limit and offered a discount on the software.
the question is, will the RIAA offer a discount to music infringers. >:)
Remember: behind every sleazy lawyer there's a sleazy client.
/.ers probably don't realize that they're constantly praising lawyers... most of the staff at the EFF consists of lawyers. Fred von Lohmann, for example, is representing multiple clients against the RIAA.
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It's time to buy some Anti-sleaze.
We DO have the technology to provide everyone all the information they could want whenever they want to buy something, yet we don't. We make all the businesses compete for visual and auditory bandwidth, annoying the he!l out of everyone.
Uhhh... there is this whole industry of advertising that makes money of providing "memorable" campaigns. Nike paid big bucks to bombard you with "Just Do It!" so you would remember them over a Reebock.
Marketing is one of the biggest barriers to entry in business. In a free-trade economy you need competition, and advertising is a form of competitive edge.
The point of interruption based marketing is not to inform you of a product, but to help you remember the brand! (Although I do agree that Permission-based Marketing is always the best investment.) The actual product or service is only part of the formula.
Nice to know that they're going after a California Corporation. California Anti-Spam Laws are based on the fax spam laws. Doesn't seem that MoFo is trying to set precedence. Just make some dough...
damn submit button so close to preview... >:)
:(
the post should read:
Well... seeing as Sony is being sued over an addict to EverQuest who was so consumed with his online identity that he lost site of reality and finally committed suicide. Or so is being claimed by the plaintiff!
This may be bad news for the company right about now.
Well... seeing as over an addict to EverQuest who was so consumed with his online identity that he lost site of reality and finally committed suicide. Or so is being claimed by the plaintiff!
:(
This may be bad news for the company right about now.